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The Statewide Strategy for Restoring Arizona’s Forests
Grand Canyon Trust staff members have played key roles in developing the Statewide Strategy for Restoring Arizona Forests, an unprecedented 20-year roadmap for restoring Arizona’s forest health, building its sustainable forest-based businesses, and protecting its rural communities from wildfire. It was developed within Governor Napolitano’s Forest Health Advisory Council, which the Trust co-chaired, and it is currently being implemented through Governor Brewer’s Forest Health Council, which we also co-chair. Five key strategies provide the framework for this effort:
- Increasing the human and financial resources dedicated to restoring Arizona’s forests and protecting its communities
- Coordinating and implementing actions at the landscape scale
- Increasing the efficiency of restoration, fire management, and community protection activities
- Encouraging ecologically sustainable, forest-based economic activity
- Building public support for accomplishing restoration, community protection, and fire management across the state
Sixteen overall recommendations have been identified for implementing these strategies.
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