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 | 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 | 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....
by Web Editor | Apr 19, 2017 | News, News/PR
It was risky, Paul Summerfelt concedes, to ask voters for an unprecedented $10 million bond issue for forest and watershed restoration. But the greater risk was to do nothing – to wait for the inevitable wildfire that damaged, or destroyed, the city of Flagstaff’s...
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...