Prescott National Forest

• Land and Resource Management Plan: Plan Revision for Prescott National Forest, Yavapai and Coconino Counties, AZ

• FR, January 19, 2010
• Notices
• Forest Service

• 16 USC 482 - Sec. 482a. Mining rights in Prescott National Forest

• U.S. Code - Title 16: Conservation

• Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Prescott National Forest, Bradshaw Ranger District; AZ; Bradshaw Vegetation Management Project

• FR, March 02, 2010
• Notices
• Forest Service

• Southwest Center for Biological Diversity, a Non-Profit Corporation; Forest Guardians, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Southwest Trout, a Non-Profit Corporation; Sky-Island Watch, an Unincorporated Association, Plaintiffs, Arizona Cattle Growers' Association, an Arizona Non-Profit Corporation; Coalition of Arizona and New Mexico Counties for Stable Economic, a Non-Profit Organization; Catron County, New Mexico; James K. Chilton; Susan E. Chilton, Intervenors, v. United States Forest Service; John Bedell, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest Supervisor; Fred Trevey, Coconino National Forest Supervisor; John Mcgee, Colorado National Forest Supervisor; Abel Camarena, Gila National Forest Supervisor; Mike King, Prescott National Forest Supervisor; Charles Bazan, Tonto National Forest Supervisor, Defendants-Appellees, v. Abe Martinez; Lydia Martinez; Daniel Glickman; Michael Dombeck; Eleanor Towns; Bruce Babbit; Jamie Rappaport Clark; Nancy Kaufman, Cross-Defendants-Appellees. Southwest Center for Biological Diversity..., 307 F.3d 964 (9th Cir. 2002)

Sandra Slack Glover of the Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellees. Norman D. James of Phoenix, AZ, for the defendants-in...

• Federal Circuits

• Arizona Land Swap Dogged by Questions; Yavapai Ranch Land Exchange Called a Bad Deal for Public, Spur for Sprawl

In the early 1990s, Fred Ruskin, an anesthesiologist and pediatrician with a practice near Phoenix, Ariz., began to work with officials on the Prescott National Forest on what could be the largest - and the most controversial - public-for-private land swap in Arizona in 50 years. Together, they carved 35,000 acres out of Ruskin's 50,000-acre Yavapai Ranch in west-central Arizona for the Forest Service. In return, the Forest Service agreed to give Ruskin 15,000 acres of federal land within his remaining ranch, along with chunks of developable land on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Williams, Camp Verde, Clarkdale and Cottonwood. The Forest Service did not choose a legislative trade," says Steve Sams, a spokesman for the Prescott National Forest. "That decision was made by the proponent o...

• High Country News
• July 29, 2009

• Feminine Wilds

In her essay "The Land's Song," included in the book's section about living on the land, Judith Ann Isaacs describes her awe of nature. Taking a bath outside at night in New Mexico, she sees stars reflected in the water: "I'm up to my neck in hot water as planets, meteor showers, and constellations spin through the seasons." Isaacs is fascinated with changing light-she tracks the seasons by marking where light hits the mountains-yet humbly foregoes trying to understand her place in the world. "I feel the transience of this existence," she writes. "I can live in wonder without knowing why the world is wonderful. Embracing nature's isolation and solitude and leaving behind the stresses of urban life are compelling forces in several pieces. "I shed the dross of certain beliefs and boundar...

... describes her offthe-grid home in the Prescott National Forest of Arizona. It is a welcome sacrif...

• Texas Observer, The
• August 20, 2009

• Wilderness Society, a Non-Profit Corporation; Sierra Club, a Non-Profit Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jack Ward Thomas, Chief of the United States Forest Service; Chip Cartwright, Regional Forester for the Southwest Region of the Forest Service; Michael King, Forest Supervisor for the Prescott National Forest, Defendants-Appellees, Yavapai Cattle Growers Association, a Non-Profit Association; Rex G. Maughan; Ruth G. Maughan; Hobson Family Trust, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees., 188 F.3d 1130 (9th Cir. 1999)

Deborah S. Reames, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco, California, Gilbert T. Venable, Barton, Venabale, Gullette & Randall, Phoenix, Ariz...

• Federal Circuits

• Good Gun volunteers remove trash from Arizona's Prescott National Forest.

Industry News

• Shooting Industry
• Vol. 48 Nbr. 12, December 2003

• David G. Perkins and Thomas Y. Perkins, Appellants, v. Bob Bergland, Secretary of Agriculture, U. S. Department of Agriculture, John R. Mcguire, Chief, Forest Service, William B. Hurst, Regional Forester, James Kimball, Don Bolander, Supervisor of the Prescott National Forest, Appellees., 608 F.2d 803 (9th Cir. 1979)

Robert K. Best, Sacramento, Cal., for appellants. Carl Strass, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellees. Appeal from the United States Dist...

• Federal Circuits

• Southwest Center for Biological Diversity, a Non-Profit Corporation, Southwest Trout, a Non-Profit Corporation, Sky-Island Watch, an Unincorporated Association, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. United States Forest Service, and in Their Official Capacities, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest Supervisor John Bedell, Coconino National Forest Supervisor Fred Trevey, Corondao National Forest Supervisor John Mcgree, Gila National Forest Supervisor Abel Camarena, Prescott National Forest Supervisor Mike King, Tonto National Forest Supervisor Charles Bazan, Defendants-Appellees, and Arizona Cattle Growers' Assoc., Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, and New Mexico Cattle Growers Assoc., Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee. Forest Guardians, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. United States Forest Service, Daniel Glickman, in His Capacity as Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, and United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Defendants-Appellees., 355 F.3d 1203 (9th Cir. 2004)

Susan D. Daggett, Robert B. Wiygul, Esq., and James J. Tutchton, Esq., Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Denver, CO, Martin J. Bergoffen, Ashevil...

• Federal Circuits