This is the second part of a four-part story on the recent meeting of the Yavapai Cattle Growers’ Association. Multiple panelists at the Yavapai Cattle Growers’ Association’s Sept. 7 meeting in Cottonwood described the U.S. Forest Service’s insufficient staffing levels...

This is the first part of a four-part story on the recent meeting of the Yavapai Cattle Growers’ Association. Following the signing of a new memorandum of understanding between the Yavapai Cattle Growers’ Association, the U.S. Forest Service and several...

Amid extreme fire danger, multiple active fires and official forest closures, U.S. Forest Service offi­cials have largely emptied the now-closed Coconino and Kaibab National Forests, but somewhere on the Colorado Plateau above Sedona, a 1-year-old endan­gered male Mexican wolf...

Tourist tributes to love, like Disney star Vanessa Hudgens’ unwelcomed contribution in 2016, and etchings memorializing a person or group’s visitation constitute the majority of the red rock-related vandalism that the Red Rock Ranger District deals with. In mid-October to...