Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest

A $25,000 reward has been offered for the arrest and conviction of perpetrators involved in a wild horse killing near Alpine.

Grant applications are being accepted by the National Forest’s Coconino Resource Advisory Committee for forest health and restoration projects. Improvement projects are mainly done on federal lands within Coconino County, including the Coconino and Kaibab National Forests and sections of the Prescott and Apache-Sitgreaves Forests.

Officials with the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest continue to fight the Mesa Fire on the Black Mesa Ranger District. It was reported by a Forest Service lookout on July 3rd, the result of a lightning strike.

Officials with the Coconino National Forest say firelines held steady Thursday and overnight on both the Pipeline and Haywire fires. Crews are facing Red Flag winds Friday. The Bureau of Reclamation has implemented fire restrictions in Arizona, southern Nevada and southern California in order to support fire operations and local fire restrictions in those areas.

Forest Service officials will temporarily close certain areas of both the Coconino and Kaibab national forests beginning Friday and Saturday due to fire danger. The move comes as several large wildfires burn across northern Arizona.

Many Arizona national forests will implement Stage 1 Fire Restrictions beginning Thursday, May 5, 2022. Forest managers say the move is due to increased wildfire activity and extremely dry conditions.

The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest will conduct prescribed burns this week on the Lakeside Ranger District, weather permitting.

The U.S. Forest Service has released an environmental review that paves the way for more thinning projects and prescribed burns in northern and eastern Arizona.

The Lakeside Ranger District on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests is planning prescribed burns in the coming weeks near Woodland Lake Park, southwest of Pinetop-Lakeside.

The Center for Biological Diversity, along with the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have reached an agreement to protect waterways…