>>2770769AZ (about 30k sq mi) has twice the forest area of NV (about 16k sq mi), they can't even be compared climatically either because even the lower Sonoran desert gets 2-4 times the annual rainfall of the wettest locations in the low and high elevation deserts of NV, and the upland areas of AZ are the wettest areas (thousands of sq mi of continuous land with average precipitation greater than 20 inches, some areas above 40 inches) of the entire SW in the warm season bar only Utah, parts of NM and parts of California. There are at least 8 different natural forest types in Arizona, the largest type by area is upland non-riparian mixed pine-oak forest (roughly 70/30 conifer to deciduous). Arizona was also one of at least 6 US states that got measurable snowfall in August 2024 (CO, WY, MT, ID, AK, AZ), by getting 0.5 inches above 11,500 ft on August 31, 2024. There some places in central AZ mountains that do not see humans walking on their surface for more than a decade (principally inventoried roadless areas and wilderness in mountains), even parts of the eastern Superstition mountains (the wilderness and forested areas of that range with little known ancient stone henges and 200 ft waterfalls).
