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Planners add working-lands, forest-restoration and invasive-species content to natural-environment chapter
Summary
The county's Natural Environment chapter was expanded to emphasize working lands, forest restoration, juniper management and invasive-grass suppression; staff and technical experts presented updated maps and called out use of external species databases.
Coconino County staff and technical experts on Monday presented a revised Natural Environment chapter that places greater emphasis on working landscapes, forest restoration and ecological change, and that directs readers to externally maintained species inventories.
The revision incorporates comments that asked planners to recognize ranching, timber and other land-based production as part of the county's natural-resource economy and to treat working lands as a component of landscape-scale conservation and resilience. Staff said the plan now references working-land values in multiple places and cross-links to the county's economic-development…
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