Restoring Healthy Forests and Preventing Dangerous Wildfires

The Yavapai County Community Health Services department is announcing that smoke from the Doce fire has caused air quality in Chino Valley to reach dangerous levels. Click here to read Read more »

he first major Arizona wildfire of the year continues to threaten homes outside Prescott, Arizona.Click here to read Read more »

Prescott National Forest officials say 600 acres have burned near Iron Springs Road and mile marker 8, close to Skull Valley.Click here to read Read more »

A wildfire east of Bylas has forced a lane closure on US 70 between mileposts 298-300, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation. Click here to read Read more »

Firefighters are currently in the mop-up stage of a 30 acre fire that broke out six miles northeast of Young, Arizona Monday afternoon. Click here to read Read more »

Proponents of a bill to let ranchers and loggers operate more freely on federal land said last week that changes are needed to give the U.S. Forest Service help clearing forests before wildfires can break out. “We have to start something or we are going to suffer consequences,” said Rep. Paul Gosar, R-PrescottClick here to read Read more »

About 125 southwest wildfire workers from Arizona and New Mexico were sent over the last five days to help with Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. Click here to read Read more »

Firefighters Sunday were battling a 100-acre blaze burning twomiles from the Tonto Fish Hatchery in the Big Canyon area of the Tonto National Forest, officials said Sunday. The "Big Canyon Fire" was reported about 10:30 a.m. Sunday about 14 miles east of Payson in a rough and remote area of the forest, according to David Albo, Tonto National Forest spokesman. Click here to read Read more »

A just-released report by CoreLogic, a provider of data analytics and business services, identified more than 740,000 residences across 13 states in the western United States currently at high or very high risk for wildfire damage in 2012.Click here to read Read more »

When this summer’s monsoons hit, officials from the Prescott National Forest worried. In May, the Gladiator Fire, near Crown King, destroyed a good part of the Forest. And the loss of vegetation can cause soil erosion. But Forest officials have been managing the burnt area to keep possible flooding down. And they’ve been having some success.Click here to read Read more »