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More than $188 million in federal funding will be allocated to wildfire mitigation for the City of Prescott and the Four Forest Restoration Initiative.
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A new study from The Nature Conservancy says thinning ponderosa pines can save trees in the long run. The research modeled what will happen to northern Arizona forests as the climate grows hotter and drier. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with lead author Lisa McCauley about how the results relate to the nation’s largest restoration project, the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI).
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Large-scale restoration in northern Arizona has moved at a slow pace for nearly a decade. Now, the company tasked with thinning hundreds of thousands of acres as part of the Four Forest Restoration Initiative has been issued a $200 million bond to ramp up work.
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More than $60 million in federal funding will be invested in wildfire prevention in Arizona. It comes from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law by President Joe Biden in November.
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The Arizona Legislature has established an ad hoc committee focusing on forest and wildfire management. Lawmakers announced Monday that state Rep. David…
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The U.S. Forest Service has abruptly canceled its contract process for the second phase of the Four Forest Restoration Initiative. It throws the next…
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A sawmill company in Arizona has announced plans to convert a former paper plant near Flagstaff into a new sawmill facility, bolstering forest restoration…
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The main architect of northern Arizona’s Four Forest Restoration Initiative is set to retire later this month. Wally Covington, a forestry professor at…
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The U.S. Forest Service is seeking proposals to remove dense stands of trees in a wide swath of Arizona to help prevent wildfires.The work is part of the…