• Pipe Spring National Monument

    Pipe Spring

    National Monument Arizona

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Pipe Spring National Monument sits at about 5000 feet in elevation. High-desert grasses once covered the range around the monument as far as the eye could see. Then in the 1860s thousands of sheep and cattle were put on the range to take advantage of this sea of grass. Scarce rain and snow, combined with overgrazing, changed all the lives that had depended on the good grass—for the worse.

Did You Know?

Tissandier drawing of Winsor Castle

Did You Know that Albert Tissandier, a Frenchman, sketched the first recorded image of Winsor Castle at Pipe Spring in 1885?