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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Feds make Oak Creek a ‘critical’ snake habitat

When a group of Arizona Conservation Corps workers were performing trail maintenance in upper Oak Creek Canyon last month, they came upon a rare sight next to an unofficial trail: Five olive gray snakes with faint reddish spots intertwined...

Mexican gray wolf Anubis is back on the howl

Anubis, a wide-ranging Mexican gray wolf, has returned to the Flagstaff-Sedona area after wildlife officials captured him outside Flagstaff in August and then released him in far eastern Arizona. In May, the yearling male wolf traveled over 400 miles from...

Sedona pilot flies Mexican wolves again

This spring, Sedona pilot Mike Schroeder flew from the Sedona Airport to the Spirit of St. Louis Airport in St. Louis. He checked into a hotel to get some sleep, because his St. Louis passengers — five 11-day-old Mexican...

Feds deem Verde critical for cuckoos

On April 20, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service desig­nated 298,845 acres across seven Western states as critical habitat for the western yellow-billed cuckoo. The designa­tion includes several rivers and streams in the Verde Valley, including Oak Creek, the...

Sedona pilot flies rare cargo

In April, Sedona resident Mike Schroeder departed Sedona Airport in his 10-seat King Air Turbo Prop, landed in St. Louis, picked up a black duffel bag, then flew to a remote airport in eastern Arizona. After landing, state and...

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JCSVV celebrates building a ‘tabernacle in the desert’

“When you come together as a community, there’s something special that happens when you review a life with each...

City council contemplates climate, carbon, capture

The Sedona City Council’s fiscal year 2025 budget work session on April 17 included an update on the city’s...
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