“Thinking Outside the Timber Box” discussed the Center for Biological Diversity’s efforts to restore northern Arizona’s once-stately ponderosa pine forests (HCN, 7/20/09). Our memo of understanding with Arizona Forest Restoration Products does not waive the Center’s right to appeal or litigate Forest Service decisions. It instead promotes high-quality ecological restoration projects to preclude the need for appeals and litigation. Toward that end, the Center is working with the Forest Service, the small-diameter industry and other stakeholders to design strategically placed ecological restoration treatments to conserve native biological diversity and safely re-establish natural fire regimes across Arizona’s Mogollon Plateau.
Taylor McKinnon
Public Lands Campaigns Director
Center for Biological Diversity
Flagstaff, Arizona
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Lawsuits of last resort.
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