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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2001

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Wednesday praised an experimental forest in Arizona as a means of preventing wildfires.

The Fort Valley Experimental Forest is a project between the government and private groups. The project thins out trees in a 1,900-acre section of the Coconino National Forest.

Thinning, said Norton, keeps the forest healthy and protects it from fires.

Environmentalists protested Norton's visit to the forest, saying the project is a guise for logging.

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Forest-thinning wins high praise (The Arizona Republic 8/9)
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Secretary of Interior lauds Arizona forest thinning project; protesters call it logging (AP 8/8)

Relevant Links:
Fort Valley Experimental Forest - http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/main/expfor/fortvalley.html