CWSRF Forest Thinning and Restoration Program

The Arizona CWSRF Forest Thinning and Restoration Program

This Arizona Water Infrastructure Authority of Arizona report details the City of Flagstaff’s Watershed Protection Project that is funded in part by Arizona’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund program. The Watershed Protection Project was created in response to the 2010 the Schultz Fire that burned more than 15,000 acres of steep, forested slopes of the Coconino National Forest surrounding Flagstaff.

Rains after the fire gave way to catastrophic flooding, taking the life of a child, destroying neighborhoods, businesses, local water supply resources, and rendering a once thriving recreational resource to ash. To mitigate and avoid such impacts in the future, the city spent the next ten years building the Flagstaff Watershed Protection Project to undertake preventive forest management through forest thinning. Download the report.