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Arizona
Restoring Our Forests: It’s Urgent
Since 2010, high intensity fires have burned more than 900,000 acres of Arizona forest lands. The largest in Arizona history, the Wallow Fire in the White Mountains, burned almost 539,000 acres.
Other severe recent fires included the Schultz Fire near Flagstaff, the Horsehoe 2 Fire in the Chiricahua Mountains, and the Monument Fire near Sierra Vista.
The most severe of these fires burned homes, forced evacuations, restricted recreation, forced wildlife relocations and caused damaging erosion. The economic impact to Arizona citizens and businesses counted in the millions of dollars.
Your help matters ... Join us in restoring Arizona’s forests!
Working to Save Our Forests
Collaborative efforts are underway throughout the state to minimize the occurrence of mega-fires and improve forest health.
Restoring Arizona's Forests Gallery
Explore forests, problems they face, and how we're providing solutions at a new art gallery in Scottsdale. Get details
Four Forest Restoration Initiative
The Four Forest Restoration Initiative, modeled after the White Mountains project, will treat 1 million acres in four national forests in Arizona over the next decade. Learn more
White Mountain Stewardship Project
The White Mountain Stewardship Project launched in 2004 thinned trees over 50,000 acres, using the wood products as part of a local business strategy that created 300 jobs and generated an average of $13 million in local spending each year. Learn more
Meet Herman Hauck
The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration project is helping people who are helping forests. Learn more about Herman Hauck
Fighting Wildfires Before They Start
Forest restoration in the White Mountains helped save the Eichelbergers’ home…and their hometown. Learn More
Firescape
Firescape is aimed at reducing heavy fuel loads and restoring the ecological balance in the Sky Island forests of southern Arizona. Learn more
Getting Out in Front of Severe Fire
Northern Arizona's Conservation Manager Sue Sitko explains how the Wallow Fire could have been worse if not for the White Mountain Stewardship Project. Read the Q&A
Forest Thinning in Arizona Wildfires Likely Saved Many Homes and Dollars
A Conservancy scientist weighs in on what happened when the Wallow Fire hit treated areas of forest. Learn more
Wildlife and Fire: What's an Animal to Do?
Each wildlife species has its own fire survival techniques. Find out what fire means for animals in the path of the Wallow Fire. Learn more
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