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The greater Flagstaff community is mourning the unexpected and untimely loss of two prominent residents. Yeon-Su Kim and Corey Allen were lost at sea Thanksgiving Day when strong winds blew their kayaks away from the beach in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. Their sudden loss has created a far-reaching ripple effect of grief.
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Foresters are aggressively trying to understand the effects of an invasive insect known as oystershell scale that’s expanded at an alarming rate in recent years and is threatening northern Arizona's iconic quaking aspen groves.
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Prescott National Forest officials say bark beetles have infested thousands of acres of ponderosa pines in the area.There’s been a ten-fold increase in…
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A forest health institute at Northern Arizona University has a new executive director. Andrew Sánchez Meador starts in the role Wednesday overseeing the…
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The main architect of northern Arizona’s Four Forest Restoration Initiative is set to retire later this month. Wally Covington, a forestry professor at…
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Large-scale forest restoration in northern Arizona is behind schedule. One of the major hurdles is that there are very few places for low-value logs and…
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Sending kids to Camp Colton at the base of the San Francisco Peaks has been a local tradition since the seventies. Thousands of sixth grade students have…
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Ten miles north of Flagstaff is the oldest experimental forest in the United States. It was established more than 100 years ago at a time when foresters…
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Warming temperatures and drought are increasing bark beetle outbreaks worldwide, killing off thousands of miles of forests. The problem is so dire in…
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A massive alligator juniper tree near Prescott is believed to be the largest and oldest of its kind in the world. It’s survived hundreds, possibly…