The Coconino National Forest plans to improve the Mescal Day Use Trailhead area by constructing a new trailhead, providing a new access point to four popular trails: Mescal, Chuckwagon, Long Canyon, Devil’s Bridge and to Red Rock Secret Mountain Wilderness. This project will provide through-route parking for at least forty vehicles, including two oversize spots, an accessible parking spot and a shuttle stop. About half the existing parking area will remain open during construction, with minimal road closures on Long Canyon Road to accommodate visitor access. Construction will begin Jan. 10 with completion expected early summer. Worsening congestion along Long…
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Big Park Regional Coordinating Council has submitted a detailed comment letter to the U.S. Forest Service in opposition to a proposed, above-ground Arizona Public Service (APS) 69kV Powerline Project from the Village of Oak Creek (VOC) to McGuireville. Most of the route would run across Coconino National Forest and require a special use permit from the Forest Service. On December 15th the Forest Service released a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA), initiating a 30-day public comment period.Big Park Council supports a second alternative under consideration by the Forest Service, according to Council President Camille Cox. The second option under study by…
Please join the CHSM Board of Directors at the annual meeting on Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 10:00 am. The meeting will be virtual this year. Join via WebEx at https://clarkdaleheritage.my.webex.com/clarkdaleheritage.my/j.php?MTID=m5e7a6c69b49cf0f696a28431aba5986f. This link is available on the CHSM website: www.clarkdalemuseum.org.Learn what CHSM has accomplished in the past year, and what’s planned for the coming months. Take this opportunity to ask questions, offer opinions and discuss ideas.Access the Museum’s collection, archives, resources and newsletters by visiting www.clarkdalemuseum.org. Peruse school yearbooks, historic phone books and many personal histories at no charge. The 2021 Virtual Home Tour is still available for purchase as…
City of Sedona City Manager Karen Osburn invites residents to participate in a new program, called Straight Talk with Karen, in which once a month, they can come to City Hall and sit down with Osburn to discuss any topic of their choice.The goal of the program is to facilitate open office hours so that residents can meet with Osburn on any question, concern, issue or general topic they would like to talk about. “I’m excited to provide this new forum and to engage with residents that I may not otherwise have the opportunity to interact with. I look forward…
I’ve never had such a great series of shots as I got today, which over about 20 minutes and 600 plus shots covered my time with a Red Tail Hawk near the north end of one of the bays on Lake Pleasant. When I first saw him, it was from a long ways off and he was perched on a cliff overlooking the bay which was about 600′ across to the far shore. The photo above was taken about half a second after he left the perch and cruised out over my head and he continued across the bay dropping…
The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the award-winning documentary “A Song for Cesar” showing Jan. 14-19 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. History will remember the blood, sweat, and tears shed by late civil-rights activist and labor leader Cesar Chavez while standing up for American farmworkers. “A Song for Cesar” is offers a unique view of the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers movement. The film tells a previously untold story about the musicians and artists — including Joan Baez, Maya Angelou, and Carlos Santana, among others — who…
Have you heard of macular degeneration? Learn about this common eye condition at The Sedona Women (“TSW”) program on January 12, 2022 at 10:00a.m. via Zoom. Sedona Optometrist Dr. Kendra Ivy will describe the latest science on this condition and discuss how to keep macular degeneration at bay.Macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision loss among people 50 years and older in the U.S. It can affect the central vision needed for reading and driving and may significantly impact independence. Dr. Kendra Ivy will discuss the causes, symptoms and latest treatments during this important eye health discussion. Dr. Ivy…
Keep Sedona Beautiful will host Desert Botanical Garden’s Wendy Hodgson, on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. for its monthly Preserving the Wonder™ Speaker Series. This event will be held via Zoom. Please visit the KSB website, www.keepsedonabeautiful.org for details.The evening’s topic is titled “Agaves in the Southwestern United States: Discovering Lost Crops Among the Hohokam and Other Pre-Contact Arizona Cultures.”.Ms. Hodgson is the Herbarium Curator Emerita and Senior Research Botanist at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix and has extensively researched Sedona’s rare domesticated Agave species.According to Ms. Hodgson, “Researchers have long recognized the importance of Agaves to…
… it was a very good day at Lake Pleasant today if you like eagles … we saw more bald eagles, adults and juveniles than we have seen before and had great opportunities for wonderful shooting most of the day on the lake regardless of where we were. The lake level is up a couple more feet and encounters with the lake bed are becoming fewer.This is a sequence of three photos of a juvenile bald eagle taking off from a tree limb near shore. The total elapsed time for the sequence is only 1/6th of a second … things…