footprints of the past and present already mark the Mogollon Wildway.
We can pick out the Mogollon Rim in satellite images, making a great diagonal wild edge across Arizona from northwest to southeast. The rock bones of the land beneath us bend our geography, history, and the flow of life to this same course.
This is a terrestrial pathway from Grand Canyon to New Mexico’s Gila country, for wildlife and for wilderness lovers.
In light of a rapidly changing federal paradigm for wilderness and wildlife habitat protection we must think of innovative ways to protect key passages of conductivity. To bring both grassroots awareness and some formalized protection, Wild Arizona is leading a coalition of five member organizations set on preserving this key habitat corridor that stretches from the Gila Wilderness all the way to the Grand Canyon eco-region, the Mogollon Wildway.
We are currently proposing a 120+ mile National Recreation Trail on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest that features some of the most pristine riparian areas of the state as well as natural historical landmarks including the Greenfire Site of Aldo Leopold, one of the last known sites of an endemic female jaguar in the US and the mountainous reaches of the Mt Baldy Wilderness that overlooks the grasslands and mountains that the last Arizona grizzlies called home all while remaining in an area of great Dark Sky value.
tread this trail with a wild heart.
Human-powered recreation in glorious scenery meets conservation of wild places and wildlife as part of our nationally recognized trails and here in Mogollon Rim country.
help bring to life the trails upon which lobo’s walk.
- Protect and highlight ecological, scenic, and cultural values.
- Support opportunity for design of a story trail with Indigenous leadership and multicultural interpretation.
- Support opportunity to create an Indigenous led trail association.
- Preserve the direct experience of moving along a regional wildlife corridor, on the paws of wildlife on the move, engage trail users in greater awareness and stewardship of the deeper story.
- Support the opportunites to create reciprocal healing; recreation and restoration economy; job training and leadership for Indigenous communities; and diversity in the wild outdoors.
take action.
