Salome Wilderness

The Salome Wilderness of Tonto National Forest is a protected area in the rim country of the southwestern US. The Salome Wilderness lies within the Sierra Ancha mountain range in Gila County, Arizona.

Ecology[edit]

Prominent perennial streams within this wilderness area are Workman Creek and Salome Creek.^[1] The region has a diverse flora and fauna. Within this part of the Sierra Ancha Range there are notable disjunctive populations of Coastal woodfern, Dryopteris arguta;^[2] this fern is otherwise common in areas nearer the Pacific coast.

References[edit]

• Tom Dollar and Jerry Sieve. 1999. Guide to Arizona's Wilderness Areas, Big Earth Publishing, ISBN 1-56579-280-7, 304 pages
• C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Coastal Woodfern (Dryopteris arguta), GlobalTwitcher, ed. N. Stromberg
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Salome Wilderness

33°50′20″N 111°03′59″W / 33.83889°N 111.06639°W / 33.83889; -111.06639