Excerpt from Plant Ecology and Vegetation Mapping at Coronado National Memorial, Cochise County, Arizona The southern Huachuca Mountains in Arizona offer good visitor accessibility to a primarily interpretive site overlooking the probable route of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's expedition into the present-day United States. Coronado's expedition initiated the beginning of Spanish influence in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, and the region's Hispanic heritage is directly attributable to this event. In 1952, Congress established Coronado National Memorial (coro), a -a area administered by the National Park Service (nps), to commemorate, interpret, and symbolize the Coronado Entrada. It also promotes international amity and cultural understanding with Mexico and Spain. Ruffner Associates was contracted by the Southern Arizona Group Office of the nps to analyze biotic communities of coro. Specific objectives of the project were to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.