Pine Creek-Above Hwy 87 | Arizona Wildlife Conservation Strategy

Pine Creek-Above Hwy 87 COA

Pine Creek is a medium-priority management unit. The approximately two miles of perennial water and existing self-sustaining rainbow trout population suggest various possibilities for native establishment in this section of Pine Creek, with details to be investigated based on habitat surveys. Maintaining the rainbow trout population is important and is seen as compatible with management primarily for natives in this management unit, and in the section of Pine Creek downstream of Highway 87. Most of the Pine Creek perennial water section is on National Forest land, with the streambed below Camp Lo Mia and through the town of Pine typically dry, largely as a result of municipal water diversions and pumping.