BY EMERY COWAN
In mid-March Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell received a stern letter from the office of Arizona’s senior senator.
The letter from Sen. John McCain focused on the largest contractor on the 2.4 million-acre Four Forest Restoration Initiative, or 4FRI. The company, Good Earth Power AZ, had thinned just 8,332 acres of the contract's 300,000-acre goal, despite being halfway through the contract’s 10-year time period.
McCain called the lack of progress by Good Earth “profoundly disappointing” and wanted to know what the Forest Service was going to do about it...