By Matthew Brown An area of towering rock spires in southeastern Arizona known among Native Americans as the Land of Standing-Up Rocks is poised to become the nation’s newest national park. Legislation to create Chiricahua National Park is expected to be sent to the White House in coming days for President Donald Trump’s signature. It passed Congress with bipartisan backing and would be the 64th U.S. national park. The 19-square-mile (49-square kilometer) site is within the historical territory of the Chiricahua Apache tribes. It was designated a national monument in the 1920s to preserve hundreds of pinnacle-shaped rocks formed from an ancient volcanic eruption. “We’re the Grand Canyon state, so we know about this kind of landscape,” Arizona Rep. Juan Ciscomani, the Republican sponsor of the Chiricahua National Park Act,…
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