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A program designed to improve the conditions in urban forests in disadvantaged communities has received $6 million in federal funding.

The Flagstaff area has received almost one hundred inches of snow so far this winter. That’s about average for the region, but it follows a stretch of dry winters that have drastically shrunk local rivers and reservoirs. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with Salli Dymond, a forest hydrologist at Northern Arizona University, about what this winter’s snowpack means for the future.

Environmental groups have turned in more than 122,000 public comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Interior Department urging the agencies to protect mature and old-growth forests on public lands from logging.

President Joe Biden’s order to protect the nation’s oldest woodlands is raising a simple but vexing question: When does a forest grow old?

It’s common now to see smoke in the air around Northern Arizona in the fall. Prescribed burns have become the norm for managing forests—especially around…

The U.S. Forest Service is proposing to expand its list of projects that don’t require environmental review. The agency says the change is needed to make…

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…

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…

A report from a nonprofit institute says forest restoration initiatives generated $150 million dollars for northern Arizona’s economy in 2017. The study…

Stakeholders for the Four Forest Restoration Initiative or 4FRI have complained the U.S. Forest Service cut down two- and three-hundred year old trees in…