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Traveling Circus Protest Planned by Animal Rights Activists
Sedona AZ – The Culpepper & Merriweather Circus performances at the Camp Verde Community Center Field, Camp Verde, on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, will be met with planned protests from local Verde Valley community members. According to organizers, protestors will meet at the site at 4:15 p.m., preceding the 5:00 p.m. show and again at 6:45 p.m., preceding the 7:30 p.m. show.
The Camp Verde...
Tyson Foods Recalls Chicken Strip Products
Sedona AZ – Tyson Foods, Inc., a Rogers, Arkansas, establishment, is recalling approximately 69,093 pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat chicken strip products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically pieces of metal, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The frozen, ready-to-eat chicken strip items were produced on...
Raw Ground Turkey Recall
Sedona AZ (December 23, 2018) – Jennie-O Turkey Store Sales, Inc., a Faribault, Minn. establishment, is recalling approximately 164,210 pounds of raw ground turkey products that may be contaminated with Salmonella Reading, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced.
The raw ground turkey items were produced on October 22, 2018 and October 23, 2018....
Oak Creek Restoration of Roadside Pullouts Input Request
Sedona AZ (August 17, 2018) – The Forest Service Oak Creek Watershed Restoration Project proposes nine activities to restore the watershed, including the rehabilitation of roadside parking along AZ State Route 89A in Oak Creek Canyon. To enhance the project’s analysis, a set of detailed maps has been created to clarify the location of all sixty (60) unauthorized roadside pullouts proposed...
Coconino National Forest Revised Management Plan
Sedona AZ (May 22, 2018) – After years of work and collaboration, the Coconino National Forest (NF) is pleased to release its revised Final Land and Resource Management Plan (revised management plan) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), along with the Record of Decision signed by Regional Forester Cal Joyner. The revised management plan is the culmination of over a decade of collaboration...
Keeping wildlife wild after javelines bite Sedona residents
Sedona AZ (March 27, 2018) – The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) reminds residents not to feed wildlife.
The Game and Fish Department reminds everyone to stop feeding wildlife following two javelina attacks near Sedona last month. Both attacks were the result of people feeding javelina at their homes.
On February 5, 2018, Game and Fish received information that a 79-year-old woman was...
15th Annual Sedona Cleanup Event
Sedona AZ (May 4, 2017) – The Sedona Fire District (SFD) and the U.S. Forest Service are joining together to offer Sedona area residents the opportunity to dispose of yard waste and combustible vegetation. SFD Fire Station #4 at 391 Forest Road in uptown Sedona will be accepting yard waste Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 19 – 21, 2017, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Participation is open...
Flake Helps Firefighters Secure Exemption from Federal Hiring Freeze
Arizona Senator Jeff Flake
Sedona AZ (February 7, 2017) – U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement after receiving assurances from the Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that seasonal firefighters will be exempt from the federal hiring freeze:
“Securing this commitment to exempt...
Ikes Backbone Allotment Closure Under Consideration
Sedona AZ (October 5, 2015) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
Good afternoon,
The Red Rock Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest is asking for your comments on an Environmental Assessment (EA), which includes a proposal to close the Ikes Backbone Allotment to livestock grazing. The Ikes Backbone Allotment is located on the southwestern boundary of the Coconino...
Prescott Basin Prescribed Burn Continues
Forest prescribed burn method
Sedona AZ (July 27, 2016) – Prescott National Forest fire managers plan to continue fuels treatment in the Prescott Basin. Benefits from these treatment help to reduce hazardous fuels adjacent to the wild land urban interface and increase ecosystem and community resilience. The burning will start on Thursday, July 28, 2016, and could continue through Friday, August...