Site evaluation
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Diamond Mountain Site Evaluation
The main goal of Diamond Mountain is to serve every being, and we start with the ones that are closest to us. If we use wisdom as we develop, we will be able to create a harmonious, healthy, comfortable environment that supports the lives of people, animals, and plants. There is potential for a great number of animal and plant species to flourish here if we develop with caution. To do that, we need to learn as much as we can about the natural history--the ecology, the geology, the rainfall patterns, the pattern of the winds, the path of the sun, the aquifers, the run-off patterns of the rain, the animals that live here, the plant food species that they eat, the history of the land itself and the patterns of ecological changes, the plants and what they indicate, the paths of migration through this property of birds, animals, and humans. If we develop carelessly or without knowledge of these systems, we run the risk of making errors that are costly both in terms of ill-conceived or inappropriate construction, and worse, in destroying the very environment we came here to enjoy. The online site evaluation is a place for us to share the knowledge we have gathered about this land, so that we will all be better informed and better able to care for and enhance our home.
Please help by contributing whatever information you have gathered about our land.
Local permaculture links (http://www.sonoranpermaculture.org/resrce.html)
Range management and restoration practices at Fort Bowie
Local geology (http://www.azgs.az.gov/Fall2001.htm)
Chiricahua mountains fire history (http://walter.arizona.edu/overview/study_areas/chiricahua_fire_hist.asp)
Southwest sky island ecosystems (http://biology.usgs.gov/s+t/noframe/r119.htm)
Fire management plan (http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:4QYLCyTTUM4J:data2.itc.nps.gov/parks/chir/ppdocuments/ACF2B77.pdf+natural+history+chiricahuas+grasses&hl=en&client=safari) for Chiricahua National Monument (our neighbor)
Plants confused with cactus (http://www.eduscapes.com/nature/notcacti/index1.htm) many of which are on our land
