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The Pipeline Fire was reported Sunday morning six miles north of Flagstaff.

Logging operations on the Coconino National Forest have begun in two popular recreation areas north of Flagstaff to reduce the risk of wildfire and flooding.

Fire managers on the Coconino National Forest this week are continuing three pile burns near Flagstaff.

Jan 18, 2021 FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Tall stacks of logs left over from a forest thinning project in mountains overlooking Flagstaff are being processed into thousands of cords of free firewood to provide a winter heat source for northern Arizonans, including residents of the Navajo and Hopi reservations. “It’s cold, it’s winter, we want this stuff out. A lot of it is dry and can be burned this year, so we want to make sure that, rather than having wood sitting here, that it’s sitting...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Tall stacks of logs left over from a forest thinning project in mountains overlooking Flagstaff are being processed into thousands of cords of free firewood to provide a...

Snow fell here Monday, at last. Good, we need it. We’ve been parched, withered, absolutely drought-saturated. At this point, we wouldve even settled for a nice dusting of graupel, anything for some moisture. But — and I feel sheepishly guilty even mentioning this — one upside of the dry November and December in Flagstaff was that the trails higher on the mountain had mostly been easy to traverse, sans snowshoes or even Kahtoola spikes. So it was that, on Christmas Eve morni...