PAYSON — When lightning ignited chaparral and ponderosa pine litter to form the West Fire one night in late August, U.S. Forest Service fire managers knew they had some room to let it run. Flames ...

Petrified Forest National Park is easy to explore, learn, and appreciate one of the Southwest’s unique landscapes.

The Petrified Forest National Park is Arizona's least visited national park. I stopped at the park on a recent road trip across America's Southwest. I discovered colorful fossilized logs, uncovered ...

Adventures in Arizona's Coconino National Forest could get more expensive soon. The National Forest Service has proposed recreation fee increases at sites throughout Coconino National Forest, ...

FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AZFamily) — Wildfires in Coconino County have cost local communities homes, hundreds of millions of dollars, and an entire mountainside worth of forest. Now, teams are trying to reduce ...

Fire managers with the Coconino National Forest and Kaibab National Forest will continue working on local prescribed fire projects this week, including broadcast burns and pile burns, as northern ...

PHOENIX — Fire crews are fighting a fire in Tonto National Forest, according to forest officials. The Sugar Fire is located along Forest Road 402 that leads near Sugarloaf Mountain, near mile marker ...

TONTO NATIONAL FOREST, AZ (AZFamily)—Crews are battling multiple fires that broke out in the Tonto National Forest during Sunday night’s thunderstorms. At this point, no buildings have burned, and no ...

This Arizona road trip adventure leads us up into the White Mountains where we explore the winter wonderland during January.

About 59% of all national forest lands in the U.S., including some in southern and central Arizona, would be open to logging under far fewer environmental restrictions than exist today, under a new ...

Tariffs on Canadian wood products are expected to increase the price of housing construction in Phoenix. An Arizona company proposed a plan to thin forests and use the wood for oriented strand board, ...

BELLEMONT, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NewLife Forest Restoration LLC, the leading sustainable forest products business in the Southwest United States, has raised new funding to scale its forest ...