BY EMERY COWAN
Last week, in the forest southwest of Lake Mary, a group of volunteers wound their way through ponderosa-covered slopes, rocky drainages and knee high grasses.
Their goal was to find and follow the route that water takes as it flows from the flanks of Mormon Mountain, through the forest and into upper Lake Mary, one of Flagstaff’s main water sources.
Along the way the men noted and recorded erosion, geology and vegetation details about the drainage as part of a data collection effort related to the Four Forest Restoration Initiative, or 4FRI, northern Arizona’s 2.4 million-acre forest health project...