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***May 12, 2025*** Fire Activity and Dry Conditions Prompt Stage 2 Fire Restrictions in Southeastern Arizona
Dry Conditions Statewide Could Fuel High Fire Activity Across Arizona
***Feb 27, 2025*** White Mountain Coordinating Group Implementing Stage 1 Fire Restrictions
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Arizona's Witness Tree Program

If trees could talk.......what could they tell us?

Trees are a living legacy to the history of a community and to remarkable events such as Arizona Statehood. They create a "sense of place" for local residents, and they are a connection from the present to the past.

Arizona's Witness Trees are those trees located in communities and public gathering places that have been verified to have witnessed Arizona's statehood, February 14, 1912.

 

NOMINATE A WITNESS TREE NOW!

 

Nominations must include documentation (either photographic or written) of the tree being in its current location since Arizona's statehood.

 
 
Explore our 2012 Witness Trees Book
 
 

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The Department of Forestry and FIre Management has many tree experts on staff who are happy to answer any of your questions. See our Frequently Asked Questions or contact our Urban and Forestry team at [email protected].

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Spring 2024 Forestry in Focus

 

See our Archived Urban Tree Talk Newsletters for past issues.

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