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A storm is expected to drop snow across a wide swath of northern Arizona this weekend while a bitterly cold arctic air mass draped across the country.
âWeâre super excited and the prospects for biomass look much brighter,â Novo BioPower head Brad Worsley told a relieved group of loggers, mill owners and public officials eager to restore the forest and prevent runaway megafires from consuming forested communities. Worsley said changes at the Arizona Corporation Commission and negotiations with the Salt River Project have given him new hope that his 27-megawatt power plant near Snowflake will survive. Moreover, he said the plant hopes to play a key role in two crucial thinning projects â the effort to protect the 64,000-ac...
A lawsuit working its way through the Arizona court system is challenging Arizona Department of Health Services' denial of four dispensary licenses in rural Arizona counties, as a Phoenix-based company attempts to fill empty spaces in the cannabis landscape and increase patient access where there currently is none. The lawsuit pits four LLCs—Joshua Tree, Cactus Wren, Saguaro and Desert Tortoise health centers—against AZDHS, challenging the denial of applications for dispensary licenses in Apache, Greenlee, La Paz and Santa Cruz counties. The initial complaint was filed in July 2020 and al...
America’s wide-open West is marked by reminders of its legendary, lawless frontier days. Apache County in the Arizona Territory of the late 1800s had more than its share of gunmen and horse thieves.
Tonto National Forest this week launched a 5,200-acre thinning project to protect Pine, Strawberry, Whispering Pines, Washington Park and a host of other communities from wildfire. The project will continue for five months, with mechanical thinning intended to create buffer zones around forested communities in the hopes of lessening the danger of the kinds of catastrophic fires that have consumed more than 10,000 homes this year in California. âThese scheduled mechanical treatments are a vital component of our long-range, landscape-scale, three-pronged fuels reduction and Robust Forest S...