In a showdown between the Obama administration and the town made famous by the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the U.S. Forest Service is refusing to allow historic Tombstone, Ariz., to restore its municipal water supply after it was destroyed by torrential floods and mudslides in the summer of 2011.
Tombstone’s Huachuca Mountain water sources and pipelines are located in the federally-protected “Miller Peak Wilderness,” and so the Forest Service is ignoring a state of emergency declared by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to authorize immediate restoration work.
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