It is Arizona’s cautionary tale. We suppressed low-intensity forest fires for decades and killed off a functional logging industry, creating a ponderosa pine forest so full of fuel that any ...

Officials have turned the lightning-caused Basin Fire near Flagstaff into a tool to clean up local forests and prevent ...

On June 18, 2002, the pine forest stretching roughly from Forest Lakes to Show Low along and below the Mogollon Rim looked like a lot of northern Arizona’s woods: clogged with spindly pines that ...

With sprawling pine forests and temperatures that never hit triple digits, people flock to the forests around Flagstaff.

Arizona’s High Country is home to the largest ponderosa pine forest in the world, but managing such a large area presents ...

According to a letter sent by a group of Senators and Representatives, 3,400 employees from the U.S. Forest Service are part of that layoff. Gov. Katie Hobbs joined other Arizona officials on ...

One of the biggest wildfires ever in Arizona grew even larger Sunday and ... and wind blew smoke from the burning pine forest well into nearby New Mexico and Colorado. Crews have zero containment ...

The project is a multiyear, multi-million dollar effort by the Arizona ... in Pine Lake. By clearing out shrubs and small trees that can fuel the spread of fires along the forest floor, the ...

In fact, the USDA Forest Service earmarked nearly $7 million for the cause, according to the Arizona Department of ... a large-scale prevention project in Pine Lake and the Hualapais in Mohave ...