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The U.S. Forest Service's Red Rock Ranger District announced Thursday it would close the highest trafficked trails and day-use sites near Sedona 'in response to large numbers of people hiking, congregating, and not practicing social distancing.'

The area had seen a large number of visitors to some of its most popular trails, and higher-than-normal dispersed camping in the area, according to a city release posted Tuesday.

The following trails will be closed this weekend until further notice:

• Beaver Creek Day-Use Site.
• Bell Rock Trailhead.
• Cathedral Rock Trailhead and Trail.
• Courthouse Vista Trailhead.
• Crescent Moon Day-Use Site.
• Devil’s Bridge Trail, including OHV access and surrounding associated trails.
• Dry Creek Trailhead.
• Long Canyon Trailhead.
• Mescal Trailhead.
• West Fork Trailhead and Trail.

Red Rock District Ranger Amy Tinderholt said in a press release Thursday that these locations had continued to see crowds and lines of people form.

“We realize these popular destinations in Sedona are places people rejuvenate by getting outside and experiencing the beauty this area has to offer,” Red Rock District Ranger Amy Tinderholt said. “We will not keep trails and areas open that create environments for COVID-19 to spread easily, which negates the important practice of social distancing.”

Forest Service employees and law enforcement officers will patrol the areas and issue citations for people ignoring the closures.

The closure comes a day after Grand Canyon National Park announced it would close to the public after receiving a request to do so from Coconino County health officials.

Sedona mayor: We have to protect our hospital

Mayor Sandy Moriarty has lived in Sedona for 48 years.

The popular Arizona tourist city regularly sees up to 3 million visitors per year. Traffic usually crawls along state routes 179 and 89A leading in and out of town.

But these days, traffic is nonexistent, Moriarty says, the first time in her 48 years she's ever seen it happen.

Moriarty declared a state of emergency effective March 19, forcing the closure of restaurants and bars.

But even after the closure order, the Forest Service reported seeing an 'alarming' mob of hikers on Devil's Bridge, which has long been one of the most trafficked trails in the city, Moriarty said.

'We don’t want to close down trails,' Moriarty told The Arizona Republic Wednesday. 'But it may come to that.'

Half of the land in Sedona is federal land overseen by the Forest Service, Moriarty said. On Tuesday, the Forest Service had already closed certain areas like campgrounds in Oak Creek Canyon.

On March 30, Gov. Doug Ducey issued a statewide 'stay-at-home' order through April 30 in an effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, preventing Arizonans from leaving their residences except for food, medicine and other 'essential activities.'

But Ducey's directive still allows for outdoor exercise and keeping trails open.

Of particular concern for Moriarty was the limited capacity of local hospitals in the area. The Verde Valley has just one hospital in Cottonwood, in addition to one emergency room and a walk-in clinic, she said.

Ultimately, she said the decision to close the trails was the authority of the Forest Service and not the governor.

“We cannot afford to risk the capacity of our local hospitals or the lives of our healthcare workers and vulnerable citizens because people want to take a vacation,” Moriarty said in the press release.

Have a tip out of Scottsdale? Reach the reporter Lorraine Longhi at llonghi@gannett.com or 480-243-4086. Follow her on Twitter @lolonghi.

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Trail of Tears, in U.S. History, the forced relocation during the 1830s of of the Southeast region of the (including, and, among other nations) to west of the. Estimates based on tribal and military records suggest that approximately 100,000 people were forced from their homes during that period, which is sometimes known as the removal era, and that some 15,000 died during the journey west.

The term Trail of Tears the suffering those people experienced, although it is most commonly used in reference to the removal experiences of the generally and the nation specifically. The physical trail consisted of several overland routes and one main water route and, by passage of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act in 2009, stretched some 5,045 miles (about 8,120 km) across portions of nine states (Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee). Indigenous reactions to the Indian Removal Act varied. The Southeast Indians were for the most part tightly organized and heavily invested in agriculture. The farms of the most populous tribes—the, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Cherokee—were particularly coveted by outsiders because they were located in prime agricultural areas and were very well developed. This meant that speculators who purchased such properties could immediately turn a profit: fields had already been cleared, pastures fenced, barns and houses built, and the like. Thus, the Southeast tribes approached federal negotiations with the goal of either reimbursement for or protection of their members’ investments.

Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription.The Choctaw were the first polity to finalize negotiations: in 1830 they agreed to cede their real property for western land, transportation for themselves and their goods, and logistical support during and after the journey. However, the federal government had no experience in transporting large numbers of civilians, let alone their household effects, farming equipment, and livestock. And corruption caused many Choctaw to die from exposure, malnutrition, exhaustion, and disease while traveling. The signed an initial removal agreement as early as 1830, but negotiations were not finalized until 1832. Skeptical of federal regarding reimbursement for their property, members of the Chickasaw nation sold their landholdings at a profit and financed their own transportation. As a result, their journey, which took place in 1837, had fewer problems than did those of the other Southeast tribes.The also finalized a removal agreement in 1832. However, Euro-American settlers and speculators moved into the planned Creek cessions prematurely, causing conflicts, delays, and fraudulent land sales that delayed the Creek journey until 1836.

Federal authorities once again proved incompetent and corrupt, and many Creek people died, often from the same preventable causes that had killed Choctaw travelers.A small group of leaders negotiated a removal agreement in 1832, but a majority of the tribe protested that the signatories had no authority to represent them. The United States insisted that the agreement should hold, instigating such fierce resistance to removal that the ensuing conflict became known as the Second (1835–42). Although many were eventually captured and removed to the west, a substantial number of Seminole people managed to elude the authorities and remain in Florida.The Cherokee chose to use legal action to resist removal. Their lawsuits, notably Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) and Worcester v. Georgia (1832), reached the U.S. Supreme Court but ultimately provided no relief.

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As with the Seminole, a few Cherokee leaders negotiated a removal agreement that was subsequently rejected by the people as a whole. Although several families moved west in the mid-1830s, most believed that their would ultimately be respected. This was not to be the case, and in 1838 the U.S. Military began to force Cherokee people from their homes, often at gunpoint. Held in miserable internment camps for days or weeks before their journeys began, many became ill, and most were very poorly equipped for the trip.

Those who took the river route were loaded onto boats in which they traveled parts of the, Ohio, Mississippi, and Arkansas rivers, eventually arriving at Fort Gibson in Indian Territory. Not until then did the survivors receive much-needed food and supplies. Perhaps 4,000 of the estimated 15,000 Cherokee died on the journey, while some 1,000 avoided internment and built in North Carolina.Traditionally, the nations tended to be more mobile and less politically unified than those of the Southeast.

As a result, literally dozens of band-specific removal agreements were negotiated with the peoples of that region between 1830 and 1840. Many of the groups residing in the of the Upper Midwest, such as various bands of and, agreed to cede particular tracts of land but retained in perpetuity the right to hunt, fish, and gather wild plants and timber from such properties. Groups living in the prairies and deciduous forests of the Lower Midwest, including bands of, and, ceded their land with great reluctance and were moved west in small parties, usually under pressure from speculators, settlers, and the U.S. A few groups attempted armed resistance, most notably a band led by the Sauk leader in 1832. Although their experiences are often overshadowed by those of the more-populous Southeast nations, the peoples of the Northeast perhaps one-third to one-half of those who were subject to removal.