Tonto National Forest

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Planning has begun for thinning projects in Arizona’s Coconino, Kaibab, Apache-Sitgreaves and Tonto national forests.
The area encompasses an 800,000-acre swath from south of Mormon Lake, west into the Kaibab National Forest and north toward Tusayan.
U.S. Forest Service managers would solicit private contractors to begin thinning trees by 2012 or 2013.
The project [...]