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Coconino National Forest officials say they’ll continue three large pile burns in the coming days.
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Coconino County flood officials have approved applications for more than $30 million in federal grants for flood mitigation projects.
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The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management plans a large prescribed burn near Mormon Lake Thursday. The broadcast burn is likely to push smoke toward the northeast and shouldn’t affect the Mormon Lake community or Interstate 40.
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Fire officials on the Prescott National Forest are conducting a series of debris pile burns Monday.
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Officials on the Prescott National Forest plan multiple prescribed burns on Bradshaw and Verde ranger districts in the coming weeks.
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The Arizona Legislature’s Forest and Wildfire Management Ad Hoc Committee will hold its final hearing next week. It was formed last year to make policy recommendations to reduce the impacts of wildfires in the state.
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Crews have finished construction on a series of detention basins in Flagstaff designed to lessen post-wildfire flooding. It follows this summer’s Pipeline Fire that scorched several watersheds on the San Francisco Peaks.
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The Coconino National Forest will reopen the Fossil Creek recreation area Thursday after it was closed in July 2021 because of the Backbone Fire.
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Coconino County officials have approved $11.5 million for small-scale flood mitigation near Flagstaff. It follows a summer of devastating flooding caused by major wildfires on the San Francisco Peaks.
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Funds from last year’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act could help fire managers in Arizona as wildfires continue to burn bigger and hotter.