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Saving Sunset Crater from Hollywood
In the 1920s, a Hollywood director wanted to blow up the side of Sunset Crater for a movie avalanche scene. Flagstaff residents immediately objected.
As climate warms, Arizona’s deserts, forests, cities face uncertain futures
A dwindling Saguaro National Park in the Sonoran Desert outside Tucson suffocated by an invasive grass. Baren prairies where pine forests once thrived near Flagstaff. The Colorado River run dry, leading to desalinated ocean water as drinking water for the state. These are just a few of the possibilities that experts offered for how Arizona’s forests, deserts and major metropolitan areas might[...]
Future being mapped for Coconino National Forest
Officials with the Coconino National Forest are rewriting a 23-year-old blueprint for the forest and attempting to address some big problems, like climate change and water pollution.
Trash piling up in Arizona’s forests
Trash is piling up in forests around Arizona as officials say sloppy hikers, campers and other people are using the land as a dumping ground and workers don't have the time or the staff to keep up with it.
Coconino forest supervisor leaving for D.C.
FLAGSTAFF - The Coconino National Forest's supervisor is leaving her post after six years to take a job in Washington, D.C.
