• Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Proposal (PDF, 1.16mb)
• Final Pinaleno Mountains Landscape Restoration Strategy Summary (PDF, 7.3mb)
• Related Posters:
  • Unraveling Disturbance Interactions in the Pinaleño Mountains, Lynch et al. (PDF, 1.81mb)
  • Pinaleño LiDAR: New Tools for Forest Restoration, Wilcox et al. (PDF, 2.62mb)
  • Mapping Forests in 3-D: Applications of Vegetation Mapping from Aerial Lasers, Swetnam et al. (PDF, 2.59mb)
  • Forest Disturbance Interactions in the Pinaleño Mountains, O'Connor et al. (PDF, 3.34mb)
• Letter of Support to Regional Forester from Dr. Tom Swetnam, Director and Professor of Dendrochronology, Tree-Ring Laboratory, University of Arizona (PDF, 292kb)
• Hospital Flat Ecological Restoration Demonstration Handout (PDF, 1.69mb)

• Complete Document (PDF, 7.91mb)

• Complete Document (PDF, 10mb)
• Location Map of the Pinaleño Ecosystem Restoration Project (PDF, 67kb)

• DEIS by chapter / section
  • Abstract (21kb)
  • Summary (28kb)
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose of and Need for Action (163kb)
  • Chapter 2 - Alternatives, Including the Proposed Action (2.3mb)
  • Chapter 3 - Affected Environment and Environemntal Consequences
    1. Pages 58-90 (1.2mb)
    2. Pages 91-138 (3mb)
    3. Pages 139-168 (1.1mb)
    4. Pages 169-188 (150kb)
    5. Pages 189-193 (52kb)
  • Chapter 4 - Consultation and Coordination (52kb)
  • Glossary (45kb)
  • References (36kb)
  • Appendix A–Design Features and Mitigation Measures (105kb)
  • Appendix B–Monitoring Requirements Common to Both Management Alternatives (36kb)
  • Appendix C–Silvicultural Models, Methodologies, and Thinning Regime Descriptions (84kb)
  • Appendix D–Fire Modeling Methodology, Assumptions, and Fire History, and Fire Risk (2.1mb)
  • Appendix E–Migratory Bird Effects (31kb)
  • Appendix F–Transportation and Operations (245kb)
  • Appendix G–Alternative 2 Proposed Treatments by Unit (188kb)
  • Appendix H–Alternative 3 Proposed Treatments by Unit (198kb)

Background Documents

Cover Letter, dated August 2, 2007 (pdf, 45 kb)

Notice of intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (pdf, 47 kb)
...the Coronado National Forest, announces its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate a proposed action to thin dense forests, remove standing dead trees and down woody debris, and use prescribed fire on approximately 3,705 acres in the Pinaleño Mountains...

Proposal Pinaleño Ecosystem Restoration Project (PERP) (pdf, 564 kb)
The Safford Ranger District, Coronado National Forest is proposing the Pinaleño Ecosystem Restoration Project (PERP), located on the Pinaleño Mountains near Safford, Arizona. The 5,754-acre project area is located in Graham County, Townships 8 and 9 South, Ranges 23 and 24 East. The treatments proposed are on approximately 3,705 acres within the project area, and would consist of thinning dense forests, removing some standing dead trees and down woody debris, and using prescribed fire to begin restoring what was once a fire-adapted ecosystem (see attached map). These treatments would be carried out over the next 10 years...

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