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Tag: Healthy Forest Initiative

Posted inEditor's Picks, Social Justice, Sustainability

Wildfire prevention gets boost from behind bars with expanded program

by Steve Crane May 7, 2021May 7, 2021

WASHINGTON – It’s important to have boots on the ground when battling wildfires. And come July 1, the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management will be able to start putting 1,400 more boots on the ground. That’s when an expansion of a long-running program that lets the department use inmate crews to do forest […]

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