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’Tis the season for permits for cutting down potential Christmas trees in Arizona. The Kaibab National Forest will make Christmas tree permits available online starting Thursday.
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Crews on the Kaibab National Forest are monitoring a lightning-caused wildfire near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
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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.
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A new report highlights several logging projects in the U.S. that environmental groups say are endangering some of the nation’s oldest forests. Among the threatened areas is a 15,000-acre swath on the Kaibab Plateau near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
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Fire restrictions in many areas of northern Arizona were lifted Tuesday following the recent monsoon moisture. The Coconino and Kaibab national forests are again allowing campfires and other activities that had been banned since early May following the Tunnel Fire.
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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.
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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.
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Forest Service officials have announced they will temporarily close certain areas of both the Coconino and Kaibab national forests beginning Friday and Saturday due to fire danger and for public safety.
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Multiple public agencies have implemented heightened fire bans across the region as hot and dry weather drives an uptick in wildfire danger.
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Stage two fire restrictions are set to go into effect across the Coconino, Kaibab, Prescott and Apache-Sitgreaves national forests along with the City of Flagstaff as warmer, windy weather creates increased wildfire danger.