A Forest Service Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team has started surveying the fire-affected areas located within the Pipeline Fire perimeter. BAER team assessments are rapid evaluations of post-fire conditions of the burned landscape. These assessments determine the level of risk from potential flooding and debris flow, and calculate how these risks will affect both human safety and the natural and cultural resources in the area. The team, led by Forest Service Soil Scientist Eric Schroder, began conducting field surveys yesterday. In addition to field surveys, BAER teams use science-based models to rapidly evaluate and assess the burned area. BAER…
Author: Sedona Best
… laid out before you in all its grandeur are the red rocks of Sedona … a morning shoot from over Jacks Canyon looking to the west north west and encompassing nearly every important red rock feature in the area. On the right the slopes up to Lees Mountain and Munds Mountain – just above them the mittens and above them the San Francisco Peaks on the horizon. Moving left foreground you have Courthouse Rock, Bell Rock and on the other side of SR 179 you have castle rock. Above and to the right a bit is Cathedral Rock ……
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Sedona premiere of “Eiffel” showing July 1-7 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. Inspired by love, he created a masterpiece. After completing the Statue of Liberty, celebrated engineer Gustave Eiffel is on top of the world. Now, the French government is pressuring him to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair. Eiffel’s design plans suddenly change when he crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past. Their long lost, forbidden passion inspires him to change the Paris skyline forever. “Ambitious, handsomely appointed and unapologetically old-fashioned.” — Screen Daily…
By Amaya Gayle GregoryWhat if it doesn’t get any better than this? What if This is It, this is all, in all its itness, its thisness, its thusness. If you knew that for certain, all the way down to the tips of your sweet little toes what would change? Could you settle down, settle into your precious life?Isn’t the search — for understanding and meaning, the desire for something bigger, something better, the magnetic pull towards a greater degree of happiness, the crux of riches’ appeal, the seat of anxiety about not getting, finding, arriving — the nub of trouble?…
… after I finished running the ridge and passed Agassiz Peak which is where I am headed in the photo above, I continued on and headed back to Sedona … there was not a lot of lift nor was there much sink on the way home … kinda buoyant. I crossed over the edge of the plateau in the general neighborhood of the Mittens … it is always a very good feeling to have the ground fall away from you and what can be a slim margin in making it home makes it a no brainer with the extra couple…
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join theatres around the world to present the premiere of the new mountain bike film “Esperanto” showing on day only: Thursday, June 30 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. There will be two shows at 4 and 7 p.m. Teton Gravity Research’s latest action-packed mountain bike film, “Esperanto” mixes the rock stars of the sport with a cast of unknown and up-and-coming heroes. The film explores how we share our dreams through a universal two-wheeled language no matter what our native tongue may be. The sacred ritual of the ride might sound…
The Verde Valley Humane Society (VVHS) announces the appointment of. Brenda Redel as its Executive Director. Board President Alice Klies stated, “I am pleased to welcome Brenda Redel on behalf of the board, staff, and volunteers of the Verde Valley Humane Society.As Executive Director for the Sedona Community Center, Brenda secured grant funding and provided support for the Pet Project—a non-profit program assisting with pet food delivery and veterinarian services for pets of home-bound elders. More recently, as the Director of Organizational Development at Rainbow Acres she oversaw the animal science and equestrian programs for adults with developmental disabilities.Brenda says,…
… flying at or below the elevation of the mountains you are shooting gives a good perspective that you do not get from above them. In the photo above you are looking at the backside of Wilson Mountain (7122′) in Sedona and the remnants of the volcanic cone that was instrumental in forming the mountain along with earthquake faulting and erosion. This photo was taken over Oak Creek Canyon looking to the west and from a about 100′ above (7244′) the mountain and shows about 60% of the cone … faulting cut the other portion of the cone off, moved…
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the One Ocean Film Tour showing June 25-30 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre and Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Curated by Adventure Entertainment — the world’s leading provider of premium adventure films — the One Ocean Film Tour is currently screening across the United States, Canada, South America, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the world. Join us for action, adventure and conservation stories from the high seas! One Ocean Film Tour lineup includes: Five Summer StoriesHeralded as the finest surf movie ever made, “Five Summer…