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National Forests, Grand Canyon lift or roll back fire restrictions
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Coconino And Kaibab National Forests Rescinding Fire Restrictions Friday
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The battle to protect Arizonaâs remaining old growth ponderosa pines has flared again with a dispute about a timber sale on the Kaibab National Forest â with implications for forest restoration efforts statewide.
The tense exchange of complaints and explanations centered on the removal of thousands of fire-resistant trees greater than 24 inches in diameter as part of the Jacob Ryan Project. A forest supervisorâs suggestion that the removal of the old-growth trees reduced fire damage in a recent wildfire provoked a furious response from environmentalists.
The dispute threatens to unravel an agreement to focus on removing the smaller trees that now choke the forest, after a century of logging, cattle grazing and fire suppression.
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Early on a September morning, with the smell of smoke in the air as a wildfire raged five miles away, a team set out on a search and rescue attempt in Big Sur. A few weeks before, they had spent hours clearing chaparral to hike in to the site. Today, they had to set rope gear and rappel 50 feet to a cliffside cave. One of the rescuers, Gavin Emmons, hung 100 feet above the ground, then squirmed his way through a 3-foot-wide hole before wriggling 10 feet into the cave to reach his target. But this search and rescue wasn’t for a lost hiker or an injured rock climber. Instead, Emmons made his way toward a 15-pound baby condor hiding in its nest. He needed to get the endangered chick out before the Dolan Fire reached the cave.