Permits are also available for the the Lincoln National Forest for $10. Trees can be harvested only in designated areas of National Forests. Within the Gila, permits for pinion trees only are free.

The trees are “a valuable ‘time capsule’ that tells us not only about these mountain forests 6,000 years ago, but about the climate conditions that allowed them to exist,” says Kevin ...

The agency plans to log more than 54,000 acres of the forest and remove limits on cutting large-diameter trees, but it’s unclear from ... “Instead of reducing its burden, the Lincoln National Forest ...