This is a 3-part program!
Join us for an educational talk about wildlife corridors at the Rogers Lake Community Forest – Frontiere Property. After the discussion, we will spend time some looking for local wildlife and stargazing if the sky is clear! Please bring your binoculars. Reservations required.

*Please bring your own camping chair if you’d like!

*Please bring close toed shoes and plenty of water!

*Program reminders with directional information will be sent to participants in the week leading up to this event.

The Rogers Lake Community Forest property is an 80-acre parcel located immediately adjacent to, and part of, the 2,250-acre Rogers Lake County Natural Area, managed by Coconino County Parks and Recreation. The 80-acre parcel is also adjacent to the 47,500-acre Centennial Forest, a teaching and demonstration forest that is a collaboration between Northern Arizona University’s School of Forestry, which manages the land, and the Arizona State Land Department, which owns the land. Other nearby land managers include the U.S. Forest Service – Coconino National Forest, Arizona Army National Guard (Camp Navajo), The Arboretum at Flagstaff, and private landowners. CCPR has been awarded a Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Grant from the U.S. Forest Service in the amount of $280,500. This would designate the parcel as a Community Forest, the first one in the southwest. The goals of the management of the parcel would be to provide certain public benefits, including ecosystem services, forest-related education, low-impact recreation, and serving as a model of effective forest management. This Community Forest Plan describes how the parcel will be managed in order to comply with the goals of the grant, while also complying with the Rogers Lake County Natural Area Management Plan.

The majority of the parcel, the eastern three-quarters, is ponderosa pine forest. The westernmost portion of the parcel is native grassland as it transitions into the wetlands and ephemeral lakebed of Rogers Lake to the west. Rogers Lake is a unique, high-elevation, seasonal wetland, a rare and vitally important habitat type to wildlife and the ecosystem. The lake is surrounded by ponderosa pine and Gambel oak forest and situated ten miles southwest of the City of Flagstaff. Its water supply is spring snowmelt and summer monsoons. The parcel lies in the heart of the Woody Ridge Strand wildlife corridor, a 15-mile linkage connecting the large wildlife habitat blocks of the San Francisco Peaks to the north and the Mogollon Rim to the south.

Part of Flagstaff Festival of Science, a free annual 10-day event wholly designed to promote awareness and enthusiasm for science in and about northern Arizona and beyond, aand is fondly known as the Best 10 Days of the Year. Established in 1990, it is the longest, continuously running, entirely free science festival in the world.