Plan Threatens Mexican Spotted Owls, Endangered Flycatchers, Watersheds
PHOENIX—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. The U.S. Forest Service is proposing a new travel-management plan for Arizona’s Tonto National Forest that would allow off-road vehicles on more than 3,700 miles and risk destruction of watersheds and wild areas, including habitat for endangered species like Mexican spotted owls and southwestern willow flycatchers. The proposal is listed as the agency’s “preferred alternative” in a new draft environmental impact statement.
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