We’re finally going to get some snow.
Looks like 3 to 6 inches in Walker.
Drive accordingly.
Winter Weather Advisory
Issued: 1:27 PM Jan. 26, 2025 – National Weather Service…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM MONDAY TO MIDNIGHT
MST MONDAY NIGHT…* WHAT…Snow showers will develop early Monday morning. Snow
showers will intensify rapidly during the late morning […]
All that smoke you’re seeing? That the Forest Service doing a prescribed pile burn.
Everything is OK.
Pile burning planned in the Prescott Basin on the Bradshaw RD
Release Date: Jan 24, 2025
Contact(s): Fire Information: 928-443-8000
PRESCOTT, AZ, January 24, 2025 – Fire managers on the Bradshaw Ranger District plan to burn piles of debris in and […]
The Prescott National Forest Service just announced restrictions are being lifted.
But let’s still be careful out there.
Prescott National Forest Rescinds Fire Restrictions on Thursday, August 8 at 8:00 A.M.
Release Date: Aug 7, 2024
Contact(s): Fire Information 928-925-1111
PRESCOTT, AZ – August 7, 2024 – The Prescott National Forest will lift all fire restrictions on […]
Abraham Lincoln was fighting the Civil War in 1863, when John Rutherford Walker discovered gold in Lynx Creek in Walker. A gold rush ensued, and Prescott was established in 1864 as a mining town. Abraham Lincoln was quoted later that year as saying “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.”
There’s been […]
County, state and federal officials updated Walker-area residents about the Gold Paradise Peak mine during a gathering at Yavapai College Thursday night, April 18.
About 400 people attended the gathering to voice concerns about water pollution, traffic and Arizona metals being shipped off to China.
Yavapai County Supervisor Mary Mallory, who hosted the meeting, said they were […]
Prescott, AZ March 21, 2024- Crews plan to begin working on the Lynx Mastication project in the Lynx Lake recreation area on Friday, March 23 to thin approximately 95 acres in total along the Walker Road corridor where heavy equipment will be used to grind dead and down vegetation, shrubs, and brush beneath the timber […]
CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST NEWS ABOUT THE MINE – Victory!
I am NOT the author of the petition. I posted this here just for awareness in the community. I can’t verify any of it’s claims.
A Foreign Owned Strip Mine Threatening 800 Forested acres just south of Prescott, AZ.
Our community, encompassing Walker, Potato Patch, […]
Correction – road maintenance is only occurring between MM 8.9 and 10.8
PRESCOTT, AZ – October 26, 2023 – Beginning Monday October 30, 2023, The Prescott National Forest, working in conjunction with the Yavapai County Public Works Department, will begin road work on Senator Highway (C56) at approximately Mile Marker 10.4.
Construction is expected to continue […]
Looks like we’re all good.
I wouldn’t plan on drinking water from the ground, but we’re not all going to die from driving by.
It’s rust.
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) surface water and soil test results of orange water and soil in the area surrounding the former Sheldon Mine in Walker, Arizona, indicate […]
There are signs around Walker waning about this. They are apparently doing tests to see what it is.
I drive by the orange water every day. It’s very similar in color to the dirt nearby. We live in the forest.
ADEQ confirmed the presence of orange liquid and soils near E Sheldon Rd and S Midnight […]
