Donations
With your donation, you will help the Four Forest Restoration Initiative Collaborative Stakeholder Group (4FRI) restore northern Arizona’s ponderosa pine ecosystems and reduce the risk of unnaturally severe wildfires.
How your donation will be used
Your donation will support a broad array of ecological restoration activities and ensure that long-term monitoring and oversight efforts occur before, during, and after 4FRI’s implementation. Your donation will be used to support restoration activities that are complementary to 4FRI’s currently planned ponderosa pine treatments, including wildlife habitat improvement projects, riparian habitat restoration, seep and spring restoration, aspen protection projects, closures of unnecessary roads that adversely impact wildlife habitat and watershed conditions, and invasive species removal. Additionally, your donation provides the needed funding for continued community-based oversight of ecological effects throughout 4FRI’s 20-year implementation period. Using comprehensive and robust ecological monitoring and oversight, stakeholders and the Forest Service will be able to adapt management strategies and quickly respond to unintended consequences.
Every effort will be made by the 4FRI to maximize the effectiveness of donations received. For instance, we will make efforts to leverage available funds by using matching-funds grants that support restoration efforts.
Why your donation is needed
The Forest Service is planning and working at unprecedented scales to implement the first phase of 4FRI. At an estimated cost of over $16M per year to the agency, the Forest Service’s monumental efforts will go a long way towards achieving the overall vision of the 4FRI – the restoration of forest ecosystems and reduction of unnaturally severe wildfire risk across 2.4 million acres of northern Arizona’s forests. With your support, the 4FRI Stakeholder Group can help the Forest Service and adjacent landowners work at an increased pace, conducting the restoration efforts that are needed to more completely restore and protect the entirety of northern Arizona’s forest ecosystems. Additionally, with the support of your donation, the 4FRI Stakeholder Group can ensure that long-term community oversight and ecological monitoring of restoration treatments occurs – a commitment that the Forest Service is unable to make in the face of uncertain long-term budgets and shifting agency priorities.
Donations may be mailed to:
4FRI Collaborative Stakeholder Group
c/o Navajo County Finance Department
PO Box 668
Holbrook, AZ 86025
Please make checks payable to “4FRI Collaborative Stakeholder Group.”
The 4FRI Collaborative Stakeholder Group is a Navajo County Government-sponsored organization; therefore, your donation may qualify as a tax-deductible charitable donation to a local government.