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Recreation is the biggest cash cow for AZ Department of Interior lands, while timber lags
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Arizona Mirror
Recreation generated the most money of any activity on Department of Interior lands in Arizona, while timber harvesting, a crucial industry to wildfire prevention, brought in substantially less.
The smallest fraction of economic output on DOI land came from grazing and timber – $100 million.
The release praises President Donald Trump’s national-scale effort to open public lands to mineral and energy extraction.
But in Arizona, recreation rakes in multiple times what extraction does, while the state’s timber industry struggles to capitalize on harvesting that could address the increasing rate of wildfires.
Mechanical thinning is the most common way of getting rid of this woody undergrowth, but not nearly enough thinning has been done on public lands in Arizona.
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