by Web Editor | Jan 8, 2018 | News, News/PR
Mexican spotted owls apparently love the canyons and pockets of big old trees on the watershed of the C.C. Cragin Reservoir — Payson’s crucial future water supply. The dozens of potential nesting territories for these small, deep-forest-loving owls has complicated and...
by Web Editor | Oct 16, 2017 | News, News/PR
Overgrown Arizona forests have fueled unprecedented fires, burning bigger and hotter. “Forests that once had 40 to 50 trees per acre, now have 500 to a thousand trees per acre,” said Patrick Graham, director of the Arizona Nature Conservancy, at a news...
by Web Editor | Sep 8, 2017 | News, News/PR
Tree removal has begun on a 1,039-acre project on the Williams Ranger District of the Kaibab National Forest associated with the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI). The Community Tank Timber Sale area is located about 11 miles north of Parks just south of...
by Web Editor | Mar 29, 2017 | News, News/PR
U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today sent a letter to U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell expressing concern about the slow pace of wildfire prevention efforts in Arizona. In the letter, Senator McCain identifies one Forest Service contractor in particular, Good...
by Web Editor | Nov 18, 2015 | News, News/PR
As of October, Good Earth Power AZ had thinned 5,142 acres of trees across northern Arizona since it acquired the 300,000-acre Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) phase one contract in 2013. That’s compared to the company’s initial projections that by 2015 it...