Cooperating Agencies:

• Arizona National Guard – Camp Navajo


• Arizona Department of Game and Fish

Location:

12 miles (20 km) west of Flagstaff, AZ.

Date Initiated:

1996

Description:

Camp Navajo (formerly Navajo Army Depot) manages a National Guard training and equipment storage facility in northern Arizona. As the result of an old-growth study initiated by Dr. Margaret Moore, the ERI worked with Camp Navajo to develop an ecological restoration experiment for a portion of the facility's ponderosa pine/Gambel oak forest, encompassing approximately 11,000 acres. The current Environmental Assessment (EA) calls for treatment of between 6000 and 7000 acres. Research collaborators include several NAU partners and the Arizona Game and Fish Department. 

Project Status:

The project was suspended after establishment of monitoring plots and initial measurement due to changing priorities in the National Guard’s management of the site. If priorities swing back in favor of continuing the project we will return and monitor the results of restoration treatments.

For More Information:

• Contact Judy Springer, at

Publications:

• Fulé, P.Z., W.W. Covington, and M.M. Moore. 1997. Determining reference conditions for ecosystem management of southwestern ponderosa pine forest.  Ecological Applications 7(3):895-908.
• Moore, M.M., W.W. Covington, and P.Z. Fulé. 1999. Reference conditions and ecological restoration: a southwestern ponderosa pine perspective. Ecological Applications 9(4) :1266-1277.