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Managing tribal forestland helped stop Wallow Fire at reservation
Posted on Friday, December 9, 2011Jonathan Brooks, tribal forest manager for the White Mountain Apache Tribe, said forest-management strategies unhindered by environmental litigation and drawn-out federal government processes helped check the massive Wallow wildfire in Arizona this spring along the boundary of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation and the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests in eastern Arizona’s White Mountains.


