by Web Editor | Nov 24, 2014 | News, News/PR
After almost four years of work, the U.S. Forest Service has released its final plan for restoration work on almost 600,000 acres of northern Arizona forests. It is believed to be the largest single restoration project in the nation. The Forest Service’s plan states...
by Web Editor | Mar 3, 2014 | News, News/PR
Environmental groups say a forest thinning project on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon confirms their worst fears about the Forest Service management of the troubled forest thinning contracts. The festering dispute centers on whether the Forest Service will leave...
by Web Editor | Feb 3, 2014 | News, News/PR
Slash. Burn. Cut. This coming year, northern Arizona will leap into an era of logging not seen in a generation. The historic Four Forest Restoration Initiative will begin in earnest on the region’s forests in 2014. That means logging trucks, and lots of them. The 4FRI...
by Web Editor | Sep 16, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service is rebooting its largest-ever forest restoration project, handing the contract for thinning northern Arizona pines to a new company after the original contractor failed to finance a mill or ramp up cutting in its first 16 months on the job....
by Web Editor | Jul 24, 2013 | News, News/PR
Amid fresh furor, the U.S. Forest Service is considering letting a troubled timber company transfer the biggest forest restoration project in history. The Forest Service announced on Monday that it has received a request from Pioneer Forest Products to transfer the...