Arizona Borderlands
Madrean oak community straddling the border. View to east past Nogales to the Patagonia Mountains.
Location: Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Year Complete: 2023
Project Lead: Recon Environmental
Client: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol
Wilder completed a multi-week survey within the Atascosa mountains of the Arizona borderlands. The Wilder team surveyed over 16 miles of proposed new roads and roads to be decommissioned, mapping vegetation communities and the presence of federally listed / USFS Sensitive plant species.
Grazing (left side of fenceline) leaves its mark on all public lands in Arizona
Saguaro oak woodland community
Santa Cruz striped agave (Agave parviflora)
Desert hibiscus (Hibiscus coulteri)
Macdougal pincushion (Mammillaria macdougalii)
Unusual yellow flowered fairy duster (Calliandra eriophylla)
Rare plants: Left Santa Cruz beehive (Coryphantha recurvata), right Bartram stonecrop (Graptopetalum bartramii)