Santa Cruz AMA Land Ownership

Private

• 42.6% of the land is private.
• Land uses include domestic, commercial, agriculture and grazing.

National Forest

• 35.7% of the land is federally owned and by the United States Forest Service (USFS) as the Coronado National Forest. 
• The AMA contains 5,540 acres of the 15,860-acre Mt. Wrightson Wilderness in the northeast corner (See Figure 8.0-13).
• Land uses include resource conservation, recreation and grazing.

State Trust Land

• 21.3% 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)

• 0.2% of the land is federally owned and managed by the Tucson Field Office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
• Primary land use is grazing.

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

• 0.1% of the land is owned and managed by Arizona State Parks as Patagonia State Park and Tubac Presidio State Historic Park.
• Primary land use is recreation.

Figure 8.4-2 Santa Cruz AMA Land Ownership

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