The US Forest Service is looking for volunteers to help plant tens of thousands of trees in mountains surrounding Flagstaff that were ravaged by fire.
The Coconino National Forest is recruiting people to help with planting trees in the San Francisco Peaks in August. About 3,000 acres of planted trees that were only put in the ground since a 2010 fire were destroyed in 2022’s Tunnel and Pipeline fires.
Now officials want to put some 40,000 native ponderosas across 200 acres of National Forest land.
A volunteer event is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 9. Contact: Wade Gibson at [email protected].
More northern Arizona news
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National Park Service officials expect to restore a reliable water supply in the Grand Canyon in weeks — not months — as the deadly flash flood didn’t damage most of a near-complete pipeline project, they said Tuesday. -
The park remains open despite some trail and campground closures, but park staff are issuing conservation efforts after Transcanyon water pipeline was damaged. -
A professor at Northern Arizona University teamed up with Navajo communities to test water quality in remote wells. The map is meant to help tribal members still struggling with the effects of past uranium mining. -
Grand Canyon National Park staff and partner agencies continue to assess damage from last week’s deadly flash flood. The park is now expanding its temporary closures. -
The Arizona Department of Transportation has opened a new tunnel as part of a project to construct a free-flowing interchange that will reduce delays on the main route between Phoenix and Las Vegas.
