SignalsAZ.com Prescott News Podcast - Prescott National Forest Begins Mechanical Thinning

Episode Date: July 31, 2025

Send us a text and chime in!Contractors will begin working the mastication phase of the Evacuation Route Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project on the Bradshaw Ranger District no earlier than July 24, 2025. They will be using heavy equipment to masticate hazardous fuels within the approximately 240-acre area. This project is being implemented under the Bradshaw Landscape Environmental Assessment and is designed to reduce fuels along roads that may be utilized as evacuation routes in the event of wildfire. Evacuation Route Phase 1 is located along the following roads and trails: Thumb Butte Road Deering Road Willow Springs GSC Road Copper Basin Road Sierra Prieta Trail #366... For the written story, read here >> https://www.signalsaz.com/articles/prescott-national-forest-begins-mechanical-thinning/Check out the CAST11.com Website at: https://CAST11.com Follow the CAST11 Podcast Network on Facebook at: https://Facebook.com/CAST11AZFollow Cast11 Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/cast11_podcast_network

Text to Speech audio articles made possible by Cast 11 Talking Glass Media. Contractors will begin working the mastication phase of the evacuation route hazardous fuels reduction project on the Bradshaw Ranger District no earlier than July 24, 2025. They will be using heavy equipment to masticate hazardous fuels within the approximately 240-acre area. This project is being implemented under the Bradshaw landscape environmental assessment and is designed to reduce fuels along roads that may be utilized as evacuation routes in the event of wildfire. Evacuation route phase one is located along the following roads and trails.

Thumbute Road. Deering Road. Willow Springs GSC Road. Copper Basin Road. Sierra Prieta Trail number 366. Williams Peak Trail number 738. Bonanza Trail number 743. Garden Party Trail number 0357.

Some designations. dispersed camping areas along Thumb Buteloup Road will be impacted. No area or road closures are expected, but we ask the public to avoid the area and stay away from areas where the heavy equipment is operating. Approaching such equipment is very dangerous as the operator may not see you. The intent of the project is to improve the health and resiliency of fire-adapted ecosystems while simultaneously reducing hazardous fuels that pose a threat to life and property in the wildland urban interface and allow safe evacuation in the event of wildfire. For more information, please contact the Bradshaw Ranger District at 928-443-8-0-0.

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