A Friendly Neighborhood Near Williams, AZ Nestled In the Kaibab National Forest
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Forest Service News Release
Moonset Pit Green Waste Disposal Area Extends Open Dates through September 10th
Williams, AZ, July 28, 2022 – For Immediate Release. The Kaibab National Forest, in cooperation with the communities of Parks and Sherwood Forest Estates is pleased to announce the extended open season for Moonset Pit green waste disposal area will now run through September 10, 2022. This pit is for residents to dispose of green waste materials from private property.
The pit will be open every other Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Saturday-July 30, Saturday-August 13, Saturday-August 27, and Saturday-September 10, 2022.
Users will only be allowed to access and discard natural woody debris such as logs, limbs, branches, brush, needles, and leaves on these dates while staff is present. No bagged substances, lumber, construction material, household garbage or any other items should be deposited at the site.
Moonset Pit is located just west of the Parks community on a dirt road east of Spitz Springs on the north side of old Route 66. Residents are encouraged to take advantage of this facility to make their private property more defensible against the threat of wildland fire.
The Kaibab National Forest would like to thank Coconino County for providing the facility at the Moonset Pit, and for helping manage the vegetation, pine needles, branches, and other waste there. Also, a big thank you to all of the volunteers who have helped manage this vegetation waste disposal site over the last 15+
years. Specifically, thank you to Kathie Krushinsky, Sue Hamilton, and Joanie Reatzel for all of their volunteer contributions. Their work makes it possible for us to continue providing this free opportunity to our community, and has made it possible for us to extend the open dates through September 10th.
For information about the Kaibab National Forest, contact any of our offices, visit our website at www.fs.usda.gov/kaibab or by following @KaibabNF on Facebook and Twitter.
Media Contact: Amber Marshall, Williams and Tusayan Districts,
Public Affairs Specialist Phone: 928-635-5653
Email: SM.FS.KaibabPAO@usda.gov
Contact Jeanna Roush at (928) 635-2723 or visit www.donors.vitalant.org (Blood Drive Code: SherwoodForest)
~ Donors will be entered into a raffle for local promos.
~ All May 27 – Sept. 9 blood donors will be automatically entered to win a 2022 VW Taos S, donated by our Valley Volkswagen dealers.
Sign up for Parks Area Connection’s first community yard sale!
Saturday, August 6, 2022 8 am to 2 pm
Rain or Shine
We are starting in a small, targeted area: Sherwood Forest Park. [Southern Boundary: Archers Rd Northern Boundary: Lillie J Ranch Rd Western Boundary: Locksley Dr Eastern Boundary: Jousting Dr.]
$10 Donation to participate per household. Your address will be added to our flyer; PAC will provide decorations so shoppers know where to stop. Sign up by August 2, 2022 – contacts below:
Contacts: Craig Marsino (928) 607-8780 Diane Pacheco (623) 640-6470
All proceeds will benefit the Parks Area Connection, a local non-profit corporation dedicated to helping those in need.
As of June 17, 2022 at 3:00 PM, Coconino County is in Stage 3 fire restrictions. For County park and natural areas, the following restrictions apply:
Additional area fire restriction information:
Coconino County
Coconino National Forest
Kaibab National Forest
City of Flagstaff
Arizona State Parks & Trails
Please continue to check back as weather conditions change.
The next neighborhood watch meeting will be Thursday, June 30th at 5:00 pm at the Firehouse. We invite all neighbors to join the potluck and informative meeting about Ready-Set-Go and Firewise. Questions: Mary Anderson (ABAmary2016@gmail.com). The minutes from the last neighborhood watch meeting are posted on the neighborhood watch page: https://sherwoodforestestatesaz.com/neighborhood-watch/
Neighbors,
Williams, AZ, May 2, 2022 – For Immediate Release. The Kaibab National Forest, in cooperation with the communities of Parks and Sherwood Forest Estates is pleased to announce the reopening of Moonset Pit on May 7, 2022 for residents to dispose of green waste materials from private property.
The pit will be open every other Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.:
Saturday-May 7, Saturday-May 21, Saturday-June 4, Saturday-June 18, Saturday-July 2, Saturday-July 16 and Saturday-July 30, 2022.
Users will only be allowed to access and discard natural woody debris such as logs, limbs, branches, brush, needles, and leaves on these dates while staff is present. No bagged substances, lumber, construction material, household garbage or any other items should be deposited at the site.
Moonset Pit is located just west of the Parks community on a dirt road east of Spitz Springs on the north side of old Route 66.
The Kaibab National Forest would like to thank Coconino County for providing the facility at the Moonset Pit, and for helping manage the vegetation, pine needles, branches, and other waste there. Also, thank you to all of the volunteers who have helped manage this vegetation waste disposal site over the last 15+ years. Specifically, thank you to Kathie Krushinsky, Sue Hamilton, and Joanie Raetzel for all of their volunteer contributions. Their work makes it possible for us to continue providing this free opportunity to our community.
The Moonset Pit serves the local area providing a location for the disposal of natural forest debris. Residents are encouraged to take advantage of this facility to make their private property more defensible against the threat of wildland fire.
The Parks Area Connection (PAC) is sponsoring an area-wide informational community meeting for June 4, 2022, to be held at the Maine School gymnasium, beginning at 10:00 a.m.
This meeting is intended to give you important information to keep you and your family safe during emergency situations, and to keep you informed of what’s happening in your community.
Everyone in Parks and the surrounding areas are invited and urged to attend this meeting. If you would like to know what the agencies in the area are doing and/or have questions you would like answered, you need to attend this meeting.
Some of the agencies to make presentations include:
A question-and-answer period will follow each presentation.
Topics include: Extended weather outlook, fire weather, wildfire, smoke, emergency notifications (“Ready Set Go”, Smart 911), Forest Thinning, Infrastructure projects, County Projects, Electrical, etc.
Find out what’s going on in your community!
Note: You might want to bring a stadium seat or pillow, as bleachers, metal and plastic chairs get hard really quick!
April 22, 2022 FLAGSTAFF – The Arizona Department of Transportation will demolish and replace
the A-1 Mountain Road overpass along I-40 in Flagstaff in 40 days thanks to an
innovative bridge construction method.
Crews will use an accelerated bridge construction method known as a
geosynthetic reinforced soil-integrated bridge system. That means crews will
create bridge abutments by putting in alternating layers of granular fill reinforced
with synthetic material. In order to replace the bridge, A-1 Mountain Road will be closed to all traffic over I-40 starting Monday, May 2.
During the 40-day closure, drivers will need to use the established detour route. Eastbound I-40 drivers wanting to exit A-1 Mountain Road will be detoured to Exit 191 to turn around and travel west to access A-1 Mountain Road. Drivers on A-1 Mountain Road who want to travel eastbound on I-40 will first travel westbound on I-40 and exit Hughes Avenue (Exit 185) to turn around and travel eastbound.
I-40 will also close overnight at the location of the bridge 16 times in each direction between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. during the 40-day closure so crews can demolish the current bridge and construct the framework for the new bridge. Traffic will use the off- and on-ramps to detour around the closure.
Utilizing this method benefits drivers with a serious savings in construction time, allowing the project to be completed sooner than traditional methods. In addition, a new bridge deck will be constructed using a polyester polymer concrete that can be placed and cured in a matter of days rather than weeks.
The closure is expected to be lifted by Friday, June 10.
ADOT first employed this innovative technique a few years ago when the agency replaced the Meteor City Road bridge over I-40 east of Flagstaff.
The $4.9 million project, located about 5 miles west of the I-17 junction along I-40, is anticipated to be completed by this fall.
For more information on the project, visit azdot.gov/i40-A1-Mountain.
https://azdot.gov/adot-news/1-mountain-road-bridge-be-replaced-40-days-thanks-innovation