A disaster that could have been avoided

 Started: June 20 at approximately 11:00 at Schultz Tank and Elden Trail  Cause: Investigators have determined that an abandoned campfire started the Schultz Fire.  Location: North of Flagstaff, East of the San Francisco Peaks  Size: approximately 15,075 acres

 To date, the wildfire has cost $8,613,389 and devastated this revered landscape and its environmentally important resources.  The Forest Service is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.  750 homes evacuated

 Another resident, Maren Zobott, heard the sound of rushing water, but no rain.  "I was on the phone with my friend, and I said, 'Oh, there's the shed floating by.'“

 The Warehams bought flood insurance on July 6, as Coconino County had advised all in Timberline to do.  But the insurance has a 30-day waiting period before it becomes effective.

 Shaelyn Wilson, 12, died Tuesday afternoon after falling into a flooded wash south of the old White Vulcan pumice mine near her neighborhood.

This planning completes the Forest Service/GFFP 10-year goals initiated in 1998 to treat forest fuels to reduce the risk of catastrophic fire and restore the natural ecosystem functions of the ponderosa pine forests within the Urban Wildland Interface surrounding Flagstaff. Date: August 26, 2008

This project was planned and analyzed under authorization of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (HFRA), which was designed to expedite the preparation and implementation of hazardous fuels reduction projects on federal lands.

Use of this authority helps streamline the planning process and allows implementation of the Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) for the greater Flagstaff area that was developed by numerous local and state organizations and agencies.

The 11,827-acre project area is north of Flagstaff, east of the San Francisco Peaks, including Schultz Pass.

 The sue-happy Center for Biological Disaster has attempted (unsuccessfully) to deflect criticism after the Schultz Fire. The community is well-aware, however, that the multi-million dollar, super-litigious, anti-forest, pro- holocaust “activist” group headquartered in Tucson has thrown legal monkey wrench after legal monkey wrench into any and all stewardship efforts in and around Flagstaff.

“The solution to that problem is not, as Mr. Wheeler suggests, logging big trees to pay for thinning small ones. That approach puts economy before the needs of forests. It removes the big trees that are tomorrow's old growth in a forest where only 5 percent of the original old growth remains.”

“We've been working to do so in northern Arizona for a few years now.”

This image of the fire was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on June 21. Places where MODIS detected actively burning fire are outlined in red, and smoke drifts far to the northeast over the portion of the Colorado Plateau known as the Painted Desert.(MODIS)Aqua

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