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Horseshoe 2 Fire is hurting several small businesses

Birding tour guide outfits are suffering during their peak season


Sat, 05/14/2011 - 12:01am



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The Horseshoe Fire 2 is seen burning from Rodeo, N.M., earlier this week. (Photo courtesy of Stephen Cullen)

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By Derek Jordan
Herald/Review

SIERRA VISTA — The fire consuming thousands of acres in the Chiricahua Mountains this past week couldn’t have come at a worse time for several small businesses in the community of Portal.

“This hit us at the absolute peak of the year,” said Peg Abbot, owner of Naturalist Journeys, a small birding tour guide business in an area well known to bird watchers.

Normally, April and May are the busiest times for businesses like Abbot’s and the various lodgings dotting the eastern edge of the Coronado National Forest.

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ATF_rebelyell1991's picture
ATF_rebelyell1991 on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 12:15pm
Title: *S* to all of the fire figters and other responders

i just want to say thank you to all the fire fighters police and other responders coming from the son of a former bisbee fire fighter

*S*

Rosina27 on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 5:22pm
Title: Thanks alot to those awful

Thanks alot to those awful drug smugglers coming into Arizona. They are the ones who started this fire. They do not care..

 

anon on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 8:19am
Title: sick of the smoke

Seems like more fires this year than normal, and they are running longer. 

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