Daily Archives: August 26, 2011

Study finds thinning slows wildfires

Posted on by
Reply

Porterville Recorder; 8/26/2011
Excerpt:   “Local forest officials already knew what the Wallow Fire in Arizona so dramatically demonstrated recently: A treated forest does not burn as intensely or as quickly as one overgrown.
In the largest ever study of fuel treatment effectiveness, U.S. Forest Service researchers have found that intense thinning treatments that leave between 50 and 100 trees per acre are the most effective in reducing the probability of crown fires.”
To read more go to
http://www.recorderonline.com/news/forest-49880-study-acre.html

Lawsuit Challenges Livestock Grazing on Quarter-million Acres of Arizona’s National Forest Lands

Posted on by
Reply

Environmental News  Network; 8/26/2011
Excerpt:   “TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity
and the Western Watersheds Project sued the U.S. Forest Service Thursday over decisions allowing livestock grazing on nearly 225,000 acres of
national forest lands in Arizona. The complaint, filed in the U.S.
District Court in Tucson, says federal officials, before approving the
grazing, should have conducted in-depth environmental reviews of 18
livestock grazing allotments on the Coconino, Coronado, Kaibab, Prescott and Tonto national forests….”
Read more at  http://www.enn.com/press_releases/3812