WGA Goal - Restore Fire Adapted Ecosystems

Actions to meet goal

Perform burned area stabilization and rehabilitation work in emergency areas
Restore burned areas and repair and improve lands unlikely to recover
Place priority on at risk watersheds that have been damaged by wildland fire
Establish native seeds and other plant material
Publicize and train in the use of minimum impact suppression activities
Promote research of effective restoration practices
Research interactions between fire, land management and other disturbances

Mill Site Project

Mill Site image In 2000, a restoration project was established in the Gila National Forest by Gila WoodNet, the Center for Biological Diversity and the USFS. The Mill Project Forest Restoration/Economic Development Partnership is a 1,400-acre site that Gila WoodNet and the Center for Biological Diversity developed as a demonstration area. It is designed to allow Forest Service personnel and the environmental community to work together to find the best approaches to restore unhealthy forests. The project is funded by a Collaborative Forest Restoration Program (CFRP) grant of $356,400 awarded in 2001. The grant will complete an environmental analysis, develop prescriptions and fund restoration work on site. Wood debris removed from the project area will be used by local industries, such as Santa Clara Woodworks, to make furniture and small log cabins.

Work began on the Mill Site Project in July 2002. The prescriptions call for low impact equipment purchased through a 1999 grant from the Ford Foundation. low impact eq. image

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