Prescott AMA Land Ownership

Private

• 55.0% of the land is private; the largest percentage of any of the AMA basins.
• Land uses include domestic, commercial, agriculture and grazing.

National Forest

• 21.9% of the land is federally owned and managed by the United States Forest Service (USFS) as the Prescott National Forest. 
• The AMA contains 1,411 acres of the 5,553-acre Woodchute Wilderness along the east central border of the AMA north of Highway 89A (See Figure 8.0-13).
• Land uses include recreation, grazing and timber production.

State Trust Land

• 21.2% of the land is held in trust for the public schools and other beneficiaries under the State Trust Land system.
• Primary land use is grazing.

U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

• 1.1% of the land is federally owned and managed by the Hassayampa Field Office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
• Primary land use is grazing.

Indian Reservation

• 0.4% of the land is under ownership of the Yavapai-Prescott Tribe.
• Land uses include domestic and commercial.

Other (Game and Fish, County and Bureau of Reclamation Lands)

• 0.2% of the land is owned and managed by local or regional governments, principally Pioneer Park.
• Primary land use is recreation.

U.S. Military

• 0.1% of the land is federally owned by the U.S. Military
• Originally the site of Fort Whipple, these lands are now the location of Yavapai Community College and Veterans Administration Medical Center.

Figure 8.3-2 Prescott AMA Land Ownership

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