by Web Editor | Nov 29, 2018 | News, News/PR
The Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) is made up of many different and diverse groups that came together to help restore Arizona’s forests and reduce the threat of wildfires. There has been lots of controversy and criticism over the years, mostly about the...
by Web Editor | Dec 11, 2017 | News, News/PR
There was never enough wood. Despite all the ponderosa pines clogging northern Arizona’s forests with fire hazards, and despite all the cries for the government to remove enough of those trees to restore natural conditions, too few trucks dumped too few logs at a...
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 | Aug 18, 2017 | News, News/PR
For the next four and a half months, the sounds of feller-bunchers, processors and log trucks will be a common one around the lower Dry Lake Hills and the base of Mount Elden. This week, loggers are getting into full swing on the thinning of 642 acres of forest north...
by Web Editor | Jun 2, 2017 | News, News/PR
In 2009, an out of control wildfire that led to the evacuation of 64 residences along with closures of schools, businesses and streets on the western edge of Williams, was a wake-up call to the town’s 3,500 residents. Labelled the Twin Fire, the fire began as a U.S....