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Crews close over 100 social trails in Oak Creek Canyon

Last week, trail crews with the Arizona Conservation Corps wrapped up a fall season of closing and improving trails in Oak Creek Canyon, part of a multiyear effort to bring order to the chaos of improvised footpaths running from...

USFS seeks comment on Sedona trailhead shuttles

The American people will have the oppor­tunity to weigh in on Sedona’s plan to begin trailhead shuttle service in the spring of 2022. On Wednesday, Oct. 20, the Coconino National Forest announced a 30-day public comment period on proposed USFS...

Sedona backcountry rescues up this year

The Sedona Fire District has responded to more back­country calls in 2021 than it has in any of the previous five years, surpassing the 2020 figure with more than three months left in 2021. As of Sept. 24, when SFD...

Sedona-area UTV rollovers caught on camera

Save Bear Mountain, a group advocating for changes to motorized recreation on Coconino National Forest lands west of Sedona, has produced of video capturing Utility Terrain Vehicle, aka side by side, rollovers during a three-day period between Sept. 30...

USFS, Chamber work to mitigate OHVs

With Northern Arizona’s wildfire season finally at a close, the Coconino National Forest is focusing again on off-highway vehicle management, and the agency is balancing two competing philosophies to protecting forest resources: Hard closures vs. softer touch measures like...

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Hobbs outlines 2025 wildfire season

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management Officer John Truett held a press...

Ukrainian exchange students reflect on their year in Sedona

Ukrainian exchange students Milana “Mila” Ovcharenko, 17, and Svitlana Shatrukova, 16, are scheduled to return home next month after...
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