RESTORATION OF MARICOPA TRAIL SEGMENT 20 COMPLETE
RESTORATION OF MARICOPA TRAIL SEGMENT 20 COMPLETE Tree burned in the 2005 Cave Creek Complex Fire Wildfires can be as confusing and they are devastating. Sometimes they roar through a forest in take-no-hostages fury while in other situations, they hopscotch over the land creating a random patchwork of destruction and untouched swaths. Strawberry Hedgehog cacti bloom March-April The 2005 Cave Creek Complex Fire that swept through Tonto National Forest north of the Valley resulted in a combination of heartbreaking ruin and pockets of unscathed life. One fluke is the survival of a stand of junipers along Cottonwood Creek, an intermittent stream below Quien Sabe Peak. A point of pride of the restoration efforts of the nearly 14 miles of fire damaged trails that connect the Bronco Trailhead at Seven Springs Road with Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area is the mending of the route that passes by the mile-long juniper haven that escaped the blaze. Corrals at the Bronc...