This picturesque Arizona town offers retirees natural beauty, a relaxed atmosphere, and the kind of comfort that feels easy to love.

It’s hard to believe that what we now call the Dude Fire burn scar once was a ponderosa pine forest. Thousands of acres at the edge of the Mogollon Rim northeast of Payson were decimated in the deadly ...

FLAGSTAFF, AZ — The electric blue sky frames a stand of ponderosa pines – their ramrod trunks picket the forest floor as sunlight floods the ground. A breeze tickles the green needles, mingling dust ...

Experience Prescott is an advertiser of Sonoran Living. Visit Prescott, Arizona! Nestled at an elevation of 5,200′ feet above sea level amongst the largest stand of ponderosa pine forests in the U.S., ...

Kane, J., Kolb, T. Resin duct density and size predicts mortality in ponderosa pine trees of Northern Arizona . Nat Prec (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3736.1 ...

The Ponderosa pine, that magnificent and stately tree presiding over many of our region’s forests, is one of Northern Arizona’s crown jewels. It is the most widely distributed pine in North America, ...

?Adventure where we live? in Payson, Arizona! We take on Payson?s history and adventure, covering thrilling off-road UTV rides through scenic Ponderosa pines, alongside a deep dive into the town's ...

Arizona is looking at its largest uptick in tree mortality since the early 2000s when about 1.7 million acres were affected. New Mexico saw a similar pattern, though surveys done earlier this year don ...