WILLCOX — Two human bones have been found in a remote area of the Coronado National Forest in the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona and that a search is planned for any more items, authorities say.
The bones were found last week and no additional information is immediately available, Cochise County sheriff spokeswoman Carol Capas said Saturday.
The search will resume Monday and visitors to the mountain should expect intermittent road closures, the office said Sunday.
There is no indication "at this time" that the discovery is linked to the 1980 disappearance of Paul Fugate, a Chiricahua National Monument ranger, she said.
Forest officials earlier Saturday advised visitors to avoid the Rustler Park area in the Chiricahuas and said there may be temporary closures to provide "a safe environment" for "a search and recovery effort."
The forest's website says Rustlers Park was used around 120 years ago by livestock rustlers.
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A balancing rock silhouetted agains the sky and a stretch of other sculpted rocks on the Echo Canyon Trail at the Chiricahua National Monument, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016,
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A view west into the Sulphur Springs Valley between the Chiricahua and the Dragoon mountains over a stretch of the the geologic formations at Massai Point at the Chiricahua National Monument, Sept. 28, 2016.
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The manmade vista point over looking the rock formations at Massai Point at the Chiricahua National Monument, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016.
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The Faraway Ranch house at the Chiricahua National Monument.
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Neil Erickson on a ledge overlooking Bonita Canyon and Stafford Cabin and Faraway Ranch c.1900's. Neil and Emma Erickson homesteaded the 160-acre ranch. Neil, a carpenter, built the home. In 1903, he become the first ranger for the Chiricahua Forest Reserve.
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Faraway Ranch, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ Historic American Buildings Survey, ca 1930s
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A rattler, probably a black-tailed, caught crossing on the Bonita Canyon Drive at Massai Point in the Chiricahua National Monument.
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A buck wanders the forest land along the lower stretches of Bonita Canyon Drive at the Chiricahua National Monument, Sept. 28, 2016.
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Camping deluxe in 1958! This couple from Chicago own two trailers. This large one they use in areas like Chiricahua National Monument -- a smaller one is used for more inaccessible areas.
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A panorama from the summit of Sugarloaf Mountain with the historic fire lookout station at the Chiricahua National Monument on Sept. 28, 2016.
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An aligator juniper, left, frames a large stone made of rhyolite, one of thousands of rock columns in the Chiricahua National Monument southeast of Willcox in 2008.
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A tunnel cut by the Civilian Conservation Corps on the Sugarloaf Mountain Trail at the Chiricahua National Monument on Sept. 28, 2016.
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A panorama of the geologic formations from along the Echo Canyon Trail at the Chiricahua National Monument on Sept. 28, 2016.
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Undated historic photo of a woman feeding deer outside the Faraway Ranch, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ
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The Belli family from Bern Switzerland climb onto some rhyolite fromations for a spectacular view on the Heart of Rocks Trail in the Chiricahua National Monument in 1999.
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Emma and Neil Erickson in front of board and batten main house at Faraway Ranch, c.1908.
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Building the preceded the bunkhouse at Faraway Ranch, covered in snow, c.1920.
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Undated historic photo of Faraway Ranch and Stafford orchard, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ
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Massachusetts residents Mike Byrne and his wife Sue Byrne along with their son Nathan Byrne, 11, take photos as they drive through Chiricahua National Monument southeast of Willcox in 2008.
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Juniper branches at right and rhyolite stone formations at left watch the setting sun from Massai Point in Chiricahua National Monument in 2008.
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A fire crew from Lassen National Forest clears away dry grasses from a transformer near the entrance to the Chiricahua National Monument on June 9, 2011, during the Horse Shoe 2 Fire.
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Clouds surround a backfire blackened Sugarloaf Mountain and its still operating and intact fire lookout at the Chiricahua National Monument in the aftermath of the Horseshoe 2 Wildfire. July 26, 2011.
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Undated photo of riders in front of the cottage at Faraway Ranch, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ
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Chiricahua National Monument in 1956.
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Chiricahua National Monument in 1956.
