The San Francisco Peaks
north of Flagstaff, Arizona
United States - North America

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Weather/Climate

• Weather station at 11,500 feet on Agassiz (includes wind speed and direction) more info
• Area forecast discussion National Weather Service
• Provisional SNOTEL data courtesy of the Natural Resourses Conservation Service (updated once per hour)
  • Snowslide Canyon (9730 feet)
  • Fort Valley (7350 feet)
• Climate History of Flagstaff, Arizona - 1950-2007 Floods, droughts and long-term warming.
• Reconstructed Temperature And Precipitation On A Millennial Timescale From Tree-Rings In The Southern Colorado Plateau, U.S.A. Matthew W. Salzer And Kurt F. Kipfmueller. 2005.
• Climate of Flagstaff, Arizona, NOAA Tech. Memo. NWS WR-95 (4mb Acrobat pdf)

Images of The Peaks

• Enchanting photograph of the peaks and night sky
• Southside repeat photography, 1910 and 2008 views showing vegetation changes
• Images of the peaks from Northern Arizona University Special Collections
• Images of the peaks from American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: University of Chicago Library
  • [On] Agassiz Peak, San Francisco Mountain, Arizona, 1903
  • View [of] the peaks, San Francisco Mountain, Arizona
  • View from the west, San Francisco Mountain, Arizona
• Images of the peaks from the Rocky Mountain Research Station image database.
  • Inner Basin, 1918
  • Inner Basin, 1928
  • Mosaic following Leroux fire, 2001
• Search Google for images of the peaks
• A neat rendering of the peaks from NASA's Earth Observatory
• Perspective renderings of the Peaks

Perspectives and History

• To California and Back by C. A Higgins - 1899.
• Land Use History of the San Francisco Peaks
• Information about the Peaks from Harrison Lapahie Jr. Includes Navajo, Hopi and Havasupai names for the mountain.
• The Peaks on Wikipedia

Flora

• Visit the Deaver Herbarium for a comprehensive list of the Vascular Plants of the San Francisco Peaks Area.
• NAZ Flora A catalog of vascular plants of Northern Arizona.
• Information on the San Francisco Peaks groundsel. A threatened plant on the peaks.

Geology

• Geology of the Peaks and other volcanic features of Arizona

Recreation

• Recreation on the Peaks District - Coconino National Forest
• Flagstaff Nordic Center
• Arizona Snowbowl
  • Is Snowbowl 1% of the Peaks?
  • Snowbowl proposed development laid over Google Earth
• Kachina Peaks Avalanche Center

Other Stuff

• Camp Colton- A great educational experience for Flagstaff students. The school tax credit program can help you help Camp Colton at no net cost to you!
• Clinton Hart Merriam wikipedia page
• C Hart Merriam Life Zone Concept
• Results of a Biological Survey of the San Francisco Mountain Region and Desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona C. Hart Merriam 1890.
• Forest Service primary base series maps for the area Combines USGS topo with Forest Service road numbers, property lines, etc. TIFFs (and world files) compressed in TAR format.
• Search Google Scholar for "san francisco peaks"

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