by Web Editor | Oct 16, 2017 | News, News/PR
Overgrown Arizona forests have fueled unprecedented fires, burning bigger and hotter. “Forests that once had 40 to 50 trees per acre, now have 500 to a thousand trees per acre,” said Patrick Graham, director of the Arizona Nature Conservancy, at a news...
by Web Editor | Aug 18, 2017 | News, News/PR
For the next four and a half months, the sounds of feller-bunchers, processors and log trucks will be a common one around the lower Dry Lake Hills and the base of Mount Elden. This week, loggers are getting into full swing on the thinning of 642 acres of forest north...
by Web Editor | Feb 17, 2016 | News, News/PR
On paper, this region is blessed with a pioneering 2 million-acre forest restoration plan that is a model for the rest of the nation. But in reality, there is little to show yet for all the effort that has gone into the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI). More...
by Web Editor | May 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
With a major environmental analysis completed and summer weather on the horizon, the time is ripe for thinning to gear up on the largest forest restoration project in the country. In the coming year, the Forest Service is set to open up more than 41,000 acres for...
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...