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I am a member of Leave No Trace Center For Outdoor Ethics.

A cluster of overlapping circles distinguish a Frank Lloyd Wright home nestled in a rocky hillside at an edge of the Phoenix Mountains Preserve.

I'm late this week because yesterday was harvest day. (Non-meat eaters should skip the rest of this paragraph.) Ten ducks, all twenty-four of my full-grown and startlingly heavy Red Ranger chickens, plus six more chickens for a friend. I started around dawn. My ranch manager/farm assistant Christina, bless her, joined me later to learn the process.

Four forests ... one atmosphere ... and the one atmosphere is all we get and because of the well meaning efforts put into place by the Four Forests Restoration Initiative, overseen by Greater Flagstaff Forests Partnership and with a whole host of environmental organizations and agencies, we are coming to the moment when it must be acknowledged that more harm is being done than good.

Keep the faith! Never give up! Always believe!

The Transportation Security Administration will not accept the standard AZ Driver’s License if you plan to travel by plane after Oct. 1, 2020.

A light-colored sedan reportedly stolen in Flagstaff was found 28 miles northwest of the site of the second of two bank robberies — which happened only two months apart.

Monument Valley is one of Arizona's more stunning and unique places.

Today was one of those absolutely beautiful days … woke up with the sound of rain drumming the roof of my warm cabin in the woods overlooking the Upper Eau Claire lake … a couple of rollovers and a decision to rest up from the effort of waking up. It was cold, rainy and windy … checked the weather channel app, so I knew.

The Colonel’s Daughter competition, scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29 at Fort Verde State Historic Park, is put on each year by the Camp Verde Cavalry.

Lisa Dahl has done it again.

Oh, Hillary, how we worried about you. Yes, we can all breathe a sigh of relief, as Hillary, the stranded donkey who was marooned for three years on a tiny island, has now been successfully rescued.

Nothing presents us with comfort-zone busting challenges like standing on the edge of a psychological cliff.

It’s not unusual for an automotive technician to be A.S.E. master certified.

That's right. It's weaning time. Yesterday afternoon I locked the seven little lambikins into one of the alleyways, away from their mothers. No more sheep milk for them!

Well by now we realize that in Phoenix we must wear gloves just to touch the steering wheel on our vehicle after it has been parked outside.

It costs about $25 per year to purchase and mail a child books for the Verde Valley Imagination Library program. But participating families don’t pay a cent.

Yes, I'm borrowing from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, but that snippet is the only piece of poetry (if that's poetry) that I know, and I kept repeating it today, "Chins" being the way I was saying the shortened breed name for my new rabbits.

Not all days are productive and there are days when I just shoot for the sake of shooting something … this hen dove is one such example.

With 12 years of experience as a mechanic and chassis tech, Alex Ferguson was ready to open his own business.

The hang gliders and paragliders resembled mosquitoes as they hovered hundreds of feet above Mingus Mountain Saturday during the annual Arizona Hang Gliding & Paragliding Labor Day Fly-In.

Ken Ewing fell in love with the Verde Valley long ago, as his family has lived in the Verde Valley since 1984.

You meet someone special on a dating website. Soon he wants to move off the dating site to email or phone calls. He tells you he loves you, but he lives far away — maybe for business, or because he’s in the military.

Burning Tree Cellars of Cottonwood recently picked up two major awards at the “LUXLife” Magazine awards.

In this place of golden silence as a great blue heron slips quietly across calm waters at sunset