As with many localities in Arizona, miners viewed the Chiricahua Mountains as a potential mineral investment. Some sources claim that even the Apache chief Cochise had a secret gold mining ...

The first recorded mining claim in the Chiricahua Mountains was the Hidden Treasure, worked by Jack Dunn in early 1881. It later became part of the Hilltop Mine, the largest and most profitable ...

The Phoenix Zoo recently released 1,000 tadpoles into the Tonto National Forest, part of a program to save the threatened Chiricahua leopard frog. The zoo collects eggs every year, and those eggs ...

Rhyolite rock formations at Chiricahua National Monument, southeast of Willcox, Arizona, in front of the Dos Cabezas Mountains in 2009. David Wallace/The Republic ...