Mogollon Rim Ranger District Information
Cinch Hook Snow Play Area
This area is managed by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the
Mogollon Rim Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest. It
previously supplied rock material for![[graphic] Ranger Corner Logo](mog-rim-graphics/new-ranger-corner.gif)
road construction. Nowadays, it is utilized as a location for snow
play when conditions are satisfactory.
The Forest Service will open this area for snow play on weekends
and holidays when there is a foot or more of snow on the slope where
people slide. The reason for this is simple: PUBLIC SAFETY. The
hillside is a rocky slope with numerous obstacles including large
rocks and young pine trees. Experience has show to open the area
with less snow would increase the risk of injury to the public.
Thus, when there is a foot or more of snow present we will open
the area on weekends and holidays from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.
When the area is closed, law enforcement personnel may issue people
using the hillside citations. I ask that you seek an alternative
location for recreating when the hillside is unavailable. Forest
Road 613 (north on 87, 5 miles) provides slopes where people are
known to play. Likewise, when forest roads are open, numerous areas
off the highway are available for snow play.
Rubber inner tubes and plastic sledding devices are the only means
which to slide at Cinch Hook. Metal sleds, wood toboggans, etc.
are not permitted. Again, the reason for this restriction is PUBLIC
SAFETY.
For additional information, please contact the Blue Ridge office
at 928-477-2255 or the Happy Jack Information Center at 928-477-2172.
LARRY G. SEARS
District Ranger
Work Begins Along Highway 87
Arizona Department of Transportation has begun work on the Highway
87 hazard tree removal project. They will be working above Strawberry
and proceed North to Clints Well. If you are traveling this way
you can expect up to 20 minute delays. Logs will be hauled to Payson
and slash to the Willow Valley Pit. There is no estimate as to when
this project will be completed, as always weather will be the primary
limiting factor on when the project will be completed. If you have
any questions please contact Al Schirman at Blue Ridge Ranger Station,
477-2255.
Mogollon Rim District Urban Interface
Structure Inventory
 Once
a year we travel through the subdivisions and count structures.
I thought some of you might find this interesting. These statistics
are a year old and only residential and commercial structures within
the Mogollon Rim Center were counted. Travel trailers, storage sheds,
well houses and out buildings were not counted. In January 2003
there were 1,477 homes and structures and 1460 undeveloped properties.
This is a breakdown of some of the subdivisions in the Mogollon
Rim District.
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Blue Ridge Estates 22
Clear Creek Pines
Unit #1 55
Unit #2 54
Unit # 3&7 156
Unit # 4,5&6 175
Unit # 8&9 340
Double Cabin Park 32
Goddard 13
Mogollon Ranch 25
Pine Canyon 18
Ponderosa Pines 22
Starlite Pines 305
Starlite Ranchettes 31
Stoneman Lake 65
Tameron Estates 15
Structure Counts
January 2003 = 1,477
December 2001 = 1,350
December 1998 = 1,065
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Did You Know?
A little known fact about the Grand Canyon National Park
is that the land which became the park was, at one time, all
Forest Service administered land. Originally, the land was
called Grand Canon (spelling correct) when it was made a forest
reserve in February 20, 1893. The name  was
changed to a more English spelling of Grand Canyon on August
8, 1906, the same year as the Antiquities Act was passed.
Two years later, on January 1, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt
established the 818,560-acre Grand Canyon National Monument
in the core area of the forest reserve, by then renamed as
national forest. The new national monument was the first one
established for a very large, scientific, geologic feature
— that being the greatest eroded canyon in the U.S.
Ronald Lee, in his on-line National Park Service book about
the Antiquities Act, wrote about the creation of the Grand
Canyon National Monument and many archeological monuments
in the Southwest. Lee wrote that Horace McFarland and Gifford
Pinchot were major players in the establishment of the monument:
“The reason the Grand Canyon of the Colorado is in the
Forest Service was because the American Civic Association
(McFarland was president) was bombarded by some man who insisted
that there was a trolley line about to be constructed around
it….Mr. Pinchot was the Forester and was one of several
who made a loud noise in his ear, in consequence of which
he went to Mr. Roosevelt, and had the Grand Canyon located
as a monument in the forest reserve.” The Forest Service
managed the monument until it was passed to the National Park
Service on August 5, 1919, as Grand Canyon National Park. |
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