The Bear Wallow Wilderness is an

wilderness area Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural), are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally re ...

in eastern

Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...

in the

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. The wilderness, located in the

Apache National Forest Apache National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Arizona and New Mexico on July 1, 1908, with from portions of Black Mesa National Forest. In 1974 the entire forest was administratively combined with Sitgreaves National For ...

, is managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The area has been severely affected by the

Wallow Fire The Wallow Fire, named for the Bear Wallow Wilderness area where the fire originated, was a massive wildfire that started in the White Mountains near Alpine, Arizona on May 29, 2011. The fire eventually spread across the stateline into wester ...

of June 2011 which originated here. Bear Wallow Creek provides a habitat for the

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...

and

threatened Threatened species are any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future. Species that are threatened are sometimes characterised by the population dynamics measure of ''critical depensa ...

Apache trout The Apache trout, ''Oncorhynchus apache'', is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family (biology), family (family Salmonidae) of order (biology), order Salmoniformes. It is one of the Pacific trouts. Description The Apache trout measur ...

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{{reflist Wilderness areas of Arizona Protected areas of Greenlee County, Arizona Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests Protected areas established in 1984 1984 establishments in Arizona

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