Hogan business helped by Ariz. fire

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2002

A hogan manufacturer on the Navajo Reservation is one business that will benefit from the tragic Rodeo-Chediski Fire in Arizona.

Indigenous Community Enterprises builds hogans with the small diameter trees that will to be harvested as a result of the fire. The company also is able to use the trees that will be "thinned" under proposals before Congress.

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Relevant Links:
Healthy Forest Initiative - http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/healthyforests/index.html

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