Forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow.
Before civilization began the pine tree had not yet been felled on the mountainside. When the Bronze Age replaced stone and bone culture, trees became the principal fuel and building material for over 5000 years. One such place is populated by tall ponderosa pines with the year-round Sapillo Creek running through after descending from Lake Roberts and rushing toward the Gila River. This special unspoiled forest place is the private Heart Bar Ranch surviving in the midst of 3.3 million acres of public lands. After 18 months effort with regulatory entities, Heart Bar Ranch now may offer for sale five large, rare, unspoiled, secluded parcels.