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Escudilla Mountain, a high peak in eastern Arizona’s White Mountains near the New Mexico line, is the highest point in the Escudilla Wilderness within the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest and the third-highest peak in the state. Its prominence in Arizona geography is matched by its environmental and literary significance. The surrounding area was badly affected by the Wallow Fire in 2011, one of the region’s major wildfires. Escudilla also holds an important place in Aldo Leopold’s writing, as the mountain he identified in A Sand County Almanac with the killing of Arizona’s last grizzly bear in 1936, tying it to the broader history of wildlife loss in the American Southwest.
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Nutrioso, Arizona · United States