I saw this earlier this year and hadn’t gotten around to posting, but recent discussions brought up the topic.
Description:
This document was developed by members of the 4FRI Stakeholder Group and provides a to-date overview of 4FRI’s accomplishments for interested parties. It summarizes information from 4FRI stakeholders and the Forest Service including implementation progress and investments. Specifically, treatment accomplishment data reflects total acres treated within 4FRI 2010-2024 and includes both mechanical thinning and beneficial fire acres, which may overlap geographically. Information about investments in 4FRI comes from partner leverage and match information 2022-2024 as contributed by stakeholders, industries, and the Forest Service. This document is not a Forest Service publication. For more information about 4FRI please see 4fri.org.
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Good grief; realize anything can be represented as accomplishments, anything! White Mountain Stewardship ran until the end of 2014, all those acres are part of 4-FRI, and so are the other programs (actual timber sales, salvage, etc) ongoing at the time. The qualifier is/was, it had to be within the footprint of the 2.4 million acre Ponderosa Pine belt.
Without getting into areas that are confidential, 4-FRI lost their funding due to shenanigans in counting/double/triple counting acres. The quote I can use is “the acres are just not there”!
Can’t blame them for trying, and with the right contractor 4-FRI would have been an overwhelming success. The timber staff on the A-S had a saying that went like this: “I’ve poured more concrete building my porch than the contractor for 4-FRI has poured for their new mill”! That was up until 2015, when I left for Region 2….🤣