As the U.S. Forest Service outlines preliminary plans for forest restoration efforts in northern Arizona, a coalition of interest groups called for an effort to determine what acres should be treated first and by what means.
Last week the Forest Service said it hopes to see more than 880,000 acres of forest mechanically thinned as part of the Four Forest Restoration Initiative, a program that is often referred to as 4FRI and constitutes one of the largest forest restoration project in the United States.
Forest Service officials also said they plan to move forward with projects already scheduled throughout the next fiscal year, as well as move quickly to treat about 134,000 top-priority acres on Bill Williams Mountain, around Flagstaff and on the C.C. Cragin watershed...