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Preserving the Wonder TM Summer 2019 KSB’s Quarterly Environmental Message: Yes! We are relevant and will continue to be so as long as stewardship, preservation, quality of life and caring for our community are important to our daily lives and future generations. 10,000+ VOLUNTEER HOURS OVER 5,000 HOURS LITTER LIFTING Plastics Zero Waste Light Pollution Hartwell Canyon Litter Lifters 3 5 7 8 9 In Sedona, the Environment ...IS…the Economy. Keep Sedona Beautiful’s mission is to protect and sustain the unique scenic beauty and natural environment of the Greater Sedona Area PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: To Inspire….to move someone to act, create, or feel emotion, to arouse someone to write a letter for comment or do something new or unusual, to give you new ideas and a strong feeling of enthusiasm and motivation - Merriam Webster and Collins Dictionary Everywhere in our Community there are those that inspire us. I want to share a partial list of some that have had, and continue to have, a strong influence on me. In 1994, Estelle Kingston, Anita O’Conner, Joan McClellan and others started the first ever riſt Shop in the Village of Oak Creek (VOC) to benefit the Humane Society of Sedona. e thriſt shops they began are a major source of support for the Humane Society Shelter. Jim Eaton was the consummate community volunteer for nearly 40 years. He served in leadership roles for KSB, Sedona Historical Society and Verde Valley Forum (Sedona Academy) while serving the City in various roles including Planning & Zoning and the City Council. Barb Zerscke headed the KSB Litter Liſters for over 20 years starting in the 1980’s. Red Rock News’ Citizen of e Year in 1998, Barb advanced the litter liſting effort, adding routes and volunteers. Barb was recognized with Arizona Governor’s Office Awards multiple times, and influenced me to carry on her work. Bill and Justine Kusner have been key community contributors since the 1990’s. I learned a lot about being a KSB Member from them. eir dedication to the Village in particular, has been significant. KSB, the Big Park Regional Coordinating Council, and Friends of e Forest have all benefitted from their outstanding contributions. Yavapai Food Neighbors Project is setting records for gathering food donations to help food deprived people in our area. From a quiet start led by Gail Shaw-Simpson (a former KSB Trustee and daughter of a KSB Founder) and others, the VOC collection, every two months, regularly tops all local communities. e US Women’s National Soccer Team has inspired me. Being a father of daughters that played soccer growing up (one still plays and manages), I am truly inspired by the evolution of women’s soccer in the US. When you are thinking our Society is not advancing, you need only contemplate the last 20 years of women’s sports. Animal protection and rescue groups can serve as a stand-in to measure our cultural growth. How we treat all animals is important to the fabric of our lives and reflects how we treat everyone in our world. e work of individuals and groups protecting animals, including wildlife, is an inspiration. Volunteers - you all inspire me. We need more. Sincerely, Bill Pumphrey, President

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Preserving the WonderTM

S u m m e r 2 0 1 9

KSB’s Quarterly Environmental

Message:

Yes! We are relevant and will continue to be so as long as stewardship, preservation, quality of life and caring for our community are important to our daily lives and future generations.

10,000+ VOLUNTEER HOURSOVER 5,000 HOURS

LITTER LIFTING

Plastics

Zero Waste

Light Pollution

Hartwell Canyon

Litter Lifters

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In Sedona,the Environment...IS…the Economy.

Keep Sedona Beautiful’s mission is to protect and sustain the unique scenic beauty and natural environment of the Greater Sedona Area

PRESIDE NT ’S M E SSAGE:To Inspire….to move someone to act, create, or feel emotion, to arouse someone to write a letter for comment or do something new or unusual, to give you new

ideas and a strong feeling of enthusiasm and motivation - Merriam Webster and Collins Dictionary

Everywhere in our Community there are those that inspire us. I want to share a partial list of some that have had, and continue to have, a strong influence on me. In 1994, Estelle Kingston, Anita O’Conner, Joan McClellan and others started the first ever Thrift Shop in the Village of Oak Creek (VOC) to benefit the Humane Society of Sedona. The thrift shops they began are a major source of support for the Humane Society Shelter.

Jim Eaton was the consummate community volunteer for nearly 40 years. He served in leadership roles for KSB, Sedona Historical Society and Verde Valley Forum (Sedona Academy) while serving the City in various roles including Planning & Zoning and the City Council.

Barb Zerscke headed the KSB Litter Lifters for over 20 years starting in the 1980’s. Red Rock News’ Citizen of The Year in 1998, Barb advanced the litter lifting effort, adding routes and volunteers. Barb was recognized with Arizona Governor’s Office Awards multiple times, and influenced me to carry on her work.

Bill and Justine Kusner have been key community contributors since the 1990’s. I learned a lot about being a KSB Member from them. Their dedication to the Village in particular, has been significant. KSB, the Big Park Regional Coordinating Council, and Friends of The Forest have all benefitted from their outstanding contributions.

Yavapai Food Neighbors Project is setting records for gathering food donations to help food deprived people in our area. From a quiet start led by Gail Shaw-Simpson (a former KSB Trustee and daughter of a KSB Founder) and others, the VOC collection, every two months, regularly tops all local communities.

The US Women’s National Soccer Team has inspired me. Being a father of daughters that played soccer growing up (one still plays and manages), I am truly inspired by the evolution of women’s soccer in the US. When you are thinking our Society is not advancing, you need only contemplate the last 20 years of women’s sports.

Animal protection and rescue groups can serve as a stand-in to measure our cultural growth. How we treat all animals is important to the fabric of our lives and reflects how we treat everyone in our world. The work of individuals and groups protecting animals, including wildlife, is an inspiration.

Volunteers - you all inspire me. We need more.

Sincerely, Bill Pumphrey, President

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This year we made some changes to our annual Native Plant Workshop, held this past April 6.  The event was held at the Verde Valley School, in the Village of Oak Creek, and we had only one keynote speaker and slots for three workshops. Nine different topics were each repeated twice, with each workshop lasting one hour, including Q&A.

The 140 attendees enjoyed a beautiful day in an idyllic setting.  After perusing the Silent Auction items and enjoying coffee/tea and muffins, the program began at 8:30 am. 

So, if anyone is interested in chairing next year's event, or in participating on the organizing committee, please contact the KSB office at 928-282-4938 or email us at [email protected].

All three vendors at the workshop, Jay’s Bird Barn, Verde River Growers and the Verde Valley School, were Certified Sustainable at the Conservationist (Bronze) level by the Sustainability Alliance, of which KSB is a founding member.  Please support these certified businesses.  To get your business certified, please go to www.SustainabilityCertifications.org.

KSB’s Herkenham Award acknowledges the people, businesses, or organizations that further the education and implementation of native plant landscaping. This year’s recipient was Dena Greenwood, an educator and conservationist who loved birding and hiking.   Throughout the Sedona/Verde Valley, she was known as the premier birding guide and natural history instructor who shared her love of nature with all of us. We were honored to present Dena Greenwood the 13th Herkenham Award. Dena’s husband, Randy Miller, accepted the honor posthumously on her behalf.

After the keynote, participants spent the rest of the day enjoying a delicious lunch donated in part by Wildflower Bread Company and attending our workshops:

• John Chorlton led a walking tour of how the Verde Valley School’s sustainability program protected their plant matter from violent ripping, tearing and freezing.

• County Extension agent Jeff Schalau showed how to execute simple and safe vegetable gardening.

• Clare Licher discussed the healing properties of local plants found in most yards.

Kathleen Ventura of Sedona Compost (also known now as Compost Crowd as they have expanded into Flagstaff) gave a brief summary of the company’s goals. This service offers a weekly or bi-weekly residential and commercial food collection with the hope of increasing Sedona’s sustainability one bucket at a time. You can read more about them at their website, www.compostcrowd.com.

Bill Pumphrey, President of Keep Sedona Beautiful, then spoke about the many things that KSB does. In addition to the NPW, we offer the Speaker Series, the Dark Skies initiative, the Litter Lifters, and the KSB Awards of Excellence all in the effort of preserving the wonder of the Sedona area’s scenic natural beauty now and in the future.  He implored the

Our keynote speaker Michael Spielman has been the Farm Manager and Orchard Keeper at The Verde Valley School since 2013. His talk covered the successes and failures of turning a .9-acre lot from dirt to a productive farm that supplies the school with all the greens the students can eat.  This international school encourages students to get down and dirty to help build their raised beds, plant their fruit trees and harvest the fruits and vegetables of their labor.  Michael’s presentation allowed the audience to engage in the activities and see the big picture.

audience to get involved and make a difference.

Pumphrey also spoke of Nancy Spinelli’s service to the Native Plant Workshop over the last ten years.  After chairing the event for the last nine years, she is retiring and allowing someone else to take the reins. In appreciation of her efforts, Bill presented Nancy with a metallic print of Mike Koopsen’s photo Reflections of Oak Creek.

Cont. on page 3

40TH ANNUAL NAT IVE P LANT W O RKS H O P A Resounding Success

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PLASTICS: LET’S CREATE A BETTER FUTUREBy Susan Pitcairn, MS

In 1967, Dustin Hoffman was told the future with one word: “Plastics” (The Graduate). Over 50 years later, our use of plastic escalates yearly, but somehow the stuff doesn’t disappear well as well as it appears, and it is well past time to change that future.

The unglamorous truth is that, since the start, we’ve created enough plastic to bury Hollywood — and in fact, all of California. About half is the single use, love-it-and-leave-it type, like plastic bottles, straws, plates and cups. Even China, once the main destination for the 9% we managed to recycle, has wisely banned scrap plastic imports since 2018. Local markets are fewer and costlier, and so many cities now either stockpile it as long as they can or simply landfill. Note that Sedona Recycles, has found markets for their higher quality clean, sorted plastic.

Beyond that, more plastic than you might imagine goes “free-range,” the result of littering, wind and watersheds. In Los Angeles alone, some 10 metric tons of plastic go surfing into the Pacific every day. The result: huge plastic gyres now cover a significant percentage of the world’s ocean surfaces. This includes both the big stuff and the tiny particles into which it degrades, which end up everywhere. Particles of a single tossed water bottle will likely end up on every mile of beach on the planet.

A double whammy is that chemical toxins conglomerate and adhere to those small particles, which marine animals then mistake for food. They get into fish, seaweeds, sea salt and more,

with the result is that now we each unknowingly ingest some 50,000 microscopic particles of plastic a year.

Clearly, the future of plastics has got to change, and soon. It has to go beyond recycling now. We have to stop buying the stuff. The gruesome 2017 film “Plastic China" helped spur China to stop being the global dumping ground for scrap plastic. Other Asian countries soon followed suit.

The buck cannot be passed on any longer, and that’s good news. No doubt China’s decision helped prod the EU and Canada to pass serious bans on single-use plastics. Hopefully the US will get there soon. Plastic bags are a major culprit, and many major US cities now ban them. Bisbee tried that, but Arizona then passed a corporate-crafted law preventing cities from regulating the use of plastic bags. Call your State legislators and urge them to reverse this legislation.

Political change is slow, but it has to happen. We must support plastic bans, and also ask restaurants and businesses to please cut it out. Meanwhile, we can each pass our own personal bans. We can find creative ways to refuse, reduce, recycle and generally cut down every scrap of plastic in our lives that we can, without beating ourselves up when we have no choice or we slip up. The principle is to treat others as we would wish to be treated. It’s a timeless law and the best of them all.

40TH ANNUAL NPW C ONT.

• Nannette Wear showed how to compost small amounts of waste, right in your kitchen!

• Richard Sidy’s presentation focused on landscape planning and stewardship.

• Janie Agyagos discussed how you can use your landscape to attract butterflies, including monarchs.

• Patty West helped participants become more comfortable welcoming wildness into their yard.

• Amy Zimmerman demonstrated that backyards are for the birds!

Many thanks to our NPW organizing committee: Barbara Saul, Carol Adams, Gerry Snyder, Lin Ennis, Lisa Voss, Michelle Snyder, Rich Spinelli, Sarah Rowley, as well as extra helpers Garry Neil and Paul Ward. Thank you for all your hard work that helped make our 40th Annual Native Plant Workshop such a resounding success!

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Along with the many on-going activities at KSB, we again participated in Arizona Gives Day, a statewide fundraiser that was held on April 2.  This year, KSB raised $944 through Arizona Gives Day.

KSB is thankful for its supporting donors whose contributions allow us to engage in our mission to protect and sustain our beautiful Red Rock Country.

ARIZONA GAVE TO KSB

Dena Greenwood was posthumously presented the Norman B. Herkenham Award April 6, 2019, by Keep Sedona Beautiful (KSB) at its 40th annual Native Plant Workshop, for her work on natural environments, bird habitat and education. The plaque was accepted by her husband, Randy Miller of Rimrock.

Locals who knew Dena from Jay’s Bird Barn in Sedona or from her many free birding walks may not be aware she began her birding adventures more than 25 years ago as an Arizona State Park Ranger who developed bird lists for Slide Rock, Red Rock and Dead Horse Ranch State Parks. She received her graduate degree in environmental biology with an emphasis in ornithology, botany and geology. She conducted bird research for Colorado Plateau Research Station, National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service on the Verde, Colorado and San Juan River corridors. She was a Northern Arizona Audubon Board member and a founding committee member of the Verde Valley Bird and Nature Festival.

Dena was a regular at the KSB Native Plant Workshop, contributing gifts to every registrant as well as delivering fascinating presentations, including her 2016 keynote “Ecological Interrelationships between Insects and Birds in Your Garden.”

“Imagine this,” said Dena in a 2016 talk at KSB, “finally you see it, the faint V-formation high in the last light of day. A flock of wild Canada geese gets closer, and their honking gets louder and louder announcing their passing. You marvel at their beauty and the pink and salmon clouds of sunset. Your day was suddenly transformed into the simple pleasure of being; being part of something much bigger than yourself. For a brief moment in time you witnessed and were part of an ancient cycle of nature - the magic of migration. 

“Thousands of species and tens of millions of individual birds make transcontinental journeys twice each year between their summer and winter homes. Many pass right through Arizona on their north- or southward migrations.” Have you seen a California seagull here? A Virginia Rail or a Sora? These and dozens more, including flocks of mesmerizing red-winged blackbirds migrate through or live here year-round.

Though the Sedona Wetlands Preserve was conceived more than a decade ago and was helped along by many people, including Anita MacFarlane, Cliff Hamilton and Sam Hough, it was Dena’s magic that drew droves of birding enthusiasts and wannabes to the 27-acre marshland utilizing the Sedona Waste Water Reclamation Plant’s treated A+ effluent. She led invasive species digs by the ton, as well as planting native trees and flowers. The Wetlands Preserve has become an international birding hotspot and a great example of ecotourism for Sedona and the Verde Valley. In 2018, more than 190 bird species were seen amongst the ponds, trees, shrubs and plants--vegetation native to the local area. Dena, as gentle as a Western Bluebird, died June 11, 2018, before that year’s count was completed.

Accepting the award, her biggest supporter in everything and the architect of the large viewing station at the Wetlands Preserve, Miller said, “As I look out over this audience today, I see people she educated, people she inspired. In you her legacy lives on.”

JOY AND SORROW IN HE RK ENHAM AWA RD

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This year, the Sustainability Alliance declared Earth Day Month. At least thirty-five different groups held Earth Day events in the Verde Valley during April, involving well over 6000 people. Events ranged from the Yavapai/Apache/Camp Verde Earth Day Celebration to Sedona’s household hazardous waste collection which collected 8,770 lbs. of hazardous waste and 17,237 lbs. of electronics.

However, if events generate a lot of waste, they can in fact can be bad for the environment. So, Leslie Fox helped a number of the of the Earth Month events to radically reduce their waste. Leslie heads up the Sustainability Alliance's Zero Waste Events program and runs the Yavapai Food Recovery Program. The industry definition of 'zero waste' is a 90 percent diversion from landfill, but the events that Leslie supported blew that standard out of the water!

96 percent diversion: Yavapai/Apache/Camp Verde Earth Day Celebration. The 2nd annual Earth Day celebration held with the Yavapai-Apache Nation and the Town of Camp Verde should be voted the most improved.  Last year no one knew how much waste went to the landfill, but participants recalled dumpster after dumpster of stuff being taken away.  This year the event only generated 2.5 pounds of garbage to put into the landfill, with a 96% diversion rate of what we rescued! 

How did they do it? They eliminated single use disposable water bottles, notified vendors that everything they brought with them they would need to take away with them, and changed from a single stream waste/recycle removal system to a Separation Station in order to individually collect

items for recycling, composting, up-cycling or returning to items to vendors.  They also changed the menu to ensure minimal waste. 

99 percent diversion: Taste of OLLI: The trash cans were removed from the room. Instead a Separation Station was set up and the only items we could not collect were the packaging around the tea bags (a cross of plastic and paper).  That waste did not even register on the scale, so this event had a 99.999% diversion rate.

100 percent diversion: Earth Day at La Ferme de Pomme Bleue. Blue Apple Farm, in Cornville asked the participants to take away anything they brought with them. A food vendor brought compostable service ware.

If you’re hosting an event and want to reduce your environmental footprint, please contact [email protected], and we’ll be happy to assist.

EARTH DAY CELEBRATIONS ACHIEVED ‘ZERO WASTE’

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KSB WE LC OMES 12 NEW MEMBERS !

Kim Boykin

Margaret Connery & Louis Pescevic

Charles Feiner

Shirley Hawkins

Ann Holland

Brandi Miller

Adele Olson

Charlotte Randall

Jacqueline Robinson

Patricia Walicke

Maria West

© JODY SMITH

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KS B WEBS ITEYou may have noticed a change we made to the KSB web site. Instead of a random set of photos making up the background for our site, we have instead chosen to feature a different photo for each season.

For summer, our background image will be this stunning photograph of a storm and rainbow over Cathedral Rock. All of our background imaged have been supplied by local photographer Derek von Briesen, whose work can be seen on this web site. Thanks Derek for your continued support of KSB.

PRESERVIN G T HE WONDE R T M S p eaker S er ies

The Speakers Series resumes on September 11th after the summer hiatus, with Jeff Hall, Director of the Lowell Observatory speaking. Jeff is always an energetic and engaging speaker and not to be missed! Lowell Observatory is planning a major expansion to its outreach programs and continues to perform cutting-edge research at its 4.3-meter Discovery Channel Telescope. The Observatory has also been working extensively with the City of Flagstaff on a retrofit of

its street light system that will preserve Flagstaff ’s dark skies. Jeff Hall will talk about all these developments.

These events are held at 5:30 p.m. at the KSB Pushmahata Center, 360 Brewer Road, Sedona. Appetizers, snacks and beverages will be served, admission is free and open to the public, donations are appreciated. Speaker Series visitors may sign up for membership at these events.

save the date!

KSB SPONSORS ANOT HE R VO LU NTEER TRAIL DAYOn Saturday March 16, Keep Sedona Beautiful sponsored a volunteer trail day in cooperation with the Forest Service. We helped blaze a new trail in the Western Gateway, where the Forest Service is creating an extensive new network of trails for a couple of reasons: to allow greater access to this beautiful part of our National Forest land west of Sedona, and to help relieve overcrowding on the more established and well-known trails.

KSB has begun a tradition of sponsoring a trail day every year as part of our commitment to improving access and encouraging residents to get out enjoy the beauty of the Red Rock District. Stay tuned for announcements about future trail days, and join us for a rewarding morning of work in the great outdoors.

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© DEREK VON BRIESEN

Georgia Munsell, Craig Swanson, Susan Murrill, David Murrill

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KSB Gratefully Acknowledges New Business SponsorsWith a reminder to all KSB members to patronize our sponsors whenever possible,

KSB welcomes these new sponsors:

B E L L R O C K ( $ 2 5 0 )

KSB Gratefully Acknowledges New Business Sponsors

With a reminder to all KSB members to patronize our sponsors whenever possible, Keep Sedona Beautiful welcomes this new sponsor:

Loren Cunningham CPA, PLLC is a certified public accounting firm specializing exclusively in auditing and accounting for non-profit organizations and local governments. The firm has been in business in Northern Arizona for over twenty years, and on August 1 is opening new offices at 9 N. Elden St, Suite 9, in downtown Flagstaff. Loren can be contacted by email at [email protected].

Based on Seoul, Korea, Ritamville (“Village of Truth”) strives to enlighten people, organizations, and thought leaders. Ritamville’s specialized yoga, meditation, detox and total well-being programs are designed for people who are looking for comfort, deep connection and liberation. You can learn more by visiting www.ritamville.com/en.

“When we add light to the environment, that has the potential to disrupt habitat, just like running a bulldozer over the landscape can.” - Chad Moore, formerly of the National Park Service.

Animals, just like humans, depend upon the predictable rhythm of day and night. People have disrupted that cycle by lighting up the night. The artificial night lights have negative effects on animals, birds, insects, and plants. Nocturnal animals sleep during the day and are active at night. The night lights have turned that night into day, radically altering the animals’ preferred environment.

According to research scientist Christopher Kyba, for nocturnal animals “the introduction of artificial light probably represents the most drastic change human beings have made to their environment”.

“Predators use light to hunt, and prey species use darkness as cover, “ Kyba explains. “Near cities, cloudy skies are now hundreds, or even thousands of times brighter than they were 200 years ago. We are only beginning to learn what a drastic effect this has had on nocturnal ecology.”

Businesses and residents can help reduce light pollution by turning off lights that are not needed, and by properly shielding the lights that are on.

Light pollution is reversible by just flipping the switch.

You can visit the International Dark Sky Association web site, darksky.org, for more information on light pollution.

LIGHT POL LUT ION IM PACT S W ILDLIFE

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© DEREK VON BRIESEN

Keep Sedona Beautiful (KSB) is committed to protect and sustain the unique scenic beauty and natural environment of the Greater Sedona Area. During the past several years, KSB has proactively engaged with The Nature Conservancy (Conservancy) during their efforts to transfer their ownership of the Kittredge Ranch. The protection and preservation of this unique area at the mouth of Hartwell Canyon is vital to the beauty and natural environment of Sedona.

Hartwell Canyon is in the Secret Mountain Wilderness north and west of Sedona. It provides an important habitat for a diversity of native wildlife and contains unique cultural resources. In 1986, the Kittredge family, who owned a 50-acre ranch adjacent to the mouth of Hartwell Canyon and surrounded by national forest land, donated the land to the Conservancy with the intent of conserving the land in its natural state.

In May 2015, KSB was advised that the Conservancy had placed their property at the mouth of Hartwell Canyon for sale. The KSB Board met with Heather Reading, Director of Land and Water Protection for the Conservancy, to discuss the land’s preservation. The KSB Board toured the property with Ms. Reading and discussed KSB’s concerns. The KSB board’s primary concern over the Conservancy’s intention to sell this ecologically and historically sensitive parcel of land was that it would be highly detrimental to the preservation and conservation of the parcel itself and most importantly, would have a negative impact on the surrounding national forest lands.

At that meeting, Ms. Reading agreed that the Conservancy was committed to protecting the property and that in order to protect the land, a conservation easement (CE) would be added to the land deed, to preserve the land's conservation values.

In January 2019, KSB was informed the Conservancy had concluded the sale of the 50-acre property to an undisclosed buyer. KSB contacted Ms. Reading regarding the sale of the property. She confirmed that the Conservancy did sell the property, but with a retained CE, to private buyers who share the Conservancy’s conservation values. Ms. Reading stated that the CE is very restrictive and limits development on the property to a 2.5-acre building envelope encompassing the existing development footprint, as previously described to the KSB Board in 2015.

The final CE terms are very similar to those discussed with the KSB Board prior to the sale. The 2015 draft CE terms allowed for repair or replacement of the existing residence (KSB envisioned that it would need to be torn down and replaced due to structural problems) and construction of a guest house and associated outbuildings (there are a number of sheds, corrals and other existing ancillary structures); the final 2018 CE terms allow for 2 residential structures and associated outbuildings, rather than a “house” and “guest house.” The number of habitable dwellings remains the same, but the final CE terms do not impose a size restriction.

The new owners believe that it is most important that structures (new or old) are contained within the building envelope. As the Conservancy discussed with the KSB Board in 2015, the 50-acre property cannot be subdivided and can only be transferred as one parcel per the final CE terms. The Conservancy’s intent is to have a solidly defensible CE and long-term partnership with the new landowners at Hartwell, as well as those that may follow.

KSB is pleased that their focus on the preservation of the Kittredge Ranch as originally intended by the Kittredge family when donated to the Conservancy has resulted in a CE that permanently protects that important parcel in the Sedona area.

The Transfer o f Own ersh ip of THE NATURE C ONSE RVANCY PRO PERTY AT HARTWELL CANYO Napril 1 , 2019

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KSB LITTER LIFTERS June 2019 Report

Earth Day brought out the very best efforts from our litter lifters. Brett Davila and Carla DeRonge from Flagstaff filled about 25 blue bags with all kinds of highway litter. Having never litter lifted before, Brett and Carla were surprised to find so much litter hidden in the ditches and on the slopes. Thanks to them for helping the earth heal from human thoughtlessness.

The response rate on our litter lifter survey was 35%. We will use this information for future grants and litter lifter management. Thanks to those who responded!

On May 11th, a team of seven women helped litter lift Beaverhead Flats Road. The team was here on vacation and wanted to give back to the community. Lisa from Sol Searchers, a retreat company, brought the women to Sedona and organized the event. Everyone had a good time and many bags of litter were generated. Thank you Sol Searchers!

The following miles are available for litter lifting volunteers:

SR 89A - Airport Road to Mountain Shadows

Upper Red Road Loop Road from the Yellow Flood Sign to the High School

Red Rock Loop from Red Rock State Park to Cup O’ Gold

SR179 - 308W to 309W

SR 179 - 309E to 310E – Summer Only

SR 179 - 313 to 314

Brewer Road: 89A to Blackhawk and Ranger

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© DEREK VON BRIESEN

© JODY SMITH

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Keep Sedona Beautiful, Inc.

INVITATION TO OUR MEMBERS:If You Care About the Beautiful Nature that Surrounds Sedona, THEN IT’S YOU WE ARE LOOKING FOR!

Put your special volunteer talents to work for the greater good of Preserving the WonderTM! www.KeepSedonaBeautiful.org or call KSB at 928-282-4938

Bill Pumphrey, President

Mike Yarbrough, Executive Vice President

Jo Anne Van Derveer, Secretary

Abbie Denton, Treasurer

Joanne KendrickGeorgia Munsell Susan MurrillDave Norton

Craig Swanson Mike Ward Carla Williams

2019 BOARD OF OFFICERS

2019 TRUSTEES

Office Manager: Jan Wind

Executive Assistant: Wendy Heald

K E E P S E D O N A B E A U T I F U L360 BREWER ROAD, SEDONA, AZ 86336

NAME(S):

MAILING ADDRESS:

PHONE: EMAIL:

CITY: STATE: ZIP:

JOIN/RENEWKeep Sedona BeautifulEnvironmental Stewards Since 1972

Keep Sedona Beautiful, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization.Contributions are tax deductible within the limits of the law.

Please print this page and mail it along with a check for your membership dues to:

$500$1000$2500$5000

(__) Individual (__) Family(__) Promoter(__) Conserver

$35$50

$100$250

(__) Protector (__) Preserver(__) Steward(__) Sustainer

(KSB is an environmental organization. To conserve paper, ink and other natural resources, and to reduce our carbon footprint, we communicate electronically whenever possible.)

Keep Sedona Beautiful360 Brewer Road Sedona, AZ 86336-6012

_____ I prefer to remain anonymous in public membership lists_____ I am interested in volunteering. Please contact me.

© DEREK VON BRIESEN

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© DEREK VON BRIESEN

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THANKS TO KSB’s 2018 BUSINESS SPONSORS WHOSE FINANCIAL SUPPORT HELPS US TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

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