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Stakeholders Collaboration

Memorandum of Understanding

with the Center for Biological Diversity and the Grand Canyon Trust

Following a century of ecological decline and decades of litigation, the agreement, in the form of a Memorandum of Understanding between the parties, marks a sea change in Southwestern forest politics, focusing industry and conservation groups on a common goal of conserving species and ecosystems in a rapidly warming climate.

On April 22, 2009, Earth Day, representatives of the Grand Canyon Trust, Arizona Forest Restoration Products, and Center for Biological Diversity signed a landmark agreement committing mutual support to a plan to safely restore beneficial fires and conserve biological diversity in northern Arizona ponderosa pine forests.

The Memorandum describes an ecological basis and strategic framework for safely restoring beneficial fires and conserving biological diversity in northern Arizona’s degraded forests. It establishes clear parameters for proceeding with nearly 1 million acres of landscape-scale ecosystem restoration over 20 years.

The agreement supports AZFRP's construction of an OSB plant in Winslow, AZ to use small-diameter trees resulting from the ecological restoration thinning of about 30,000 acres per year over a period of 20+ years.

The Grand Canyon Trust, Arizona Forest Restoration Products, and Center for Biological Diversity are actively involved in the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) collaborative process of northern Arizona and are working with the U.S. Forest Service and other constituencies toward the accelerated implementation of landscape-scale forest restoration across the Mogollon Rim. The group is acting on mandates, and with guidance, offered through strong letters and resolutions of support by the State of Arizona, seven northern Arizona counties, the Eastern Arizona Counties Organization, the County Supervisors Association of Arizona, and the northern Arizona Council of Governments.

Additional information includes:

Center for Biological Diversity press release

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Grand Canyon Trust press release

See the press release.

Spring 2010 - Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics

Peace on the Rim?

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April 30, 2009 - Land Letter

FORESTS: Industry, enviro groups jointly pursue Ariz. ponderosa restoration

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April 28, 2009 - Arizona Daily Sun