ERI in the News

Land managers are increasingly interested in using lightning-ignited wildfires as a tool to restore forests and reduce fuel loads. But little is known about the effectiveness of managing wildfires to meet restoration goals. For several years, ecologists at the Ecological Restoration Institute at Northern Arizona University have been working [...]

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A Northern Arizona University forestry expert who was ahead of his time in urging communities across the West to thin dense stands of trees and set fire to the landscape as a way to ward off catastrophic wildfires has retired from his position at the [...]

Wally Covington has been showing people the science of forestry in Flagstaff for years. Read More

The main architect of northern Arizona’s Four Forest Restoration Initiative is set to retire later this month. Wally Covington, a forestry professor at Northern Arizona University, has been a pioneer of modern forest management for more than five decades. KNAU’s Ryan Heinsius reports. Read More

At a university known for its forestry studies, choosing one forestry expert that stands above the rest might seem difficult. But Wally Covington has a track record that speaks for itself. Read More

Northern Arizona University says a top forest restoration pioneer is retiring. The university says Wally Covington will retire in January after 45 years there as a professor of forestry and executive director of the Ecological Restoration Institute. Read More

The smoke billowing from the Flagstaff Ranger District near the Fort Valley Trailhead is from a prescribed burn at the experimental forest on Fort Valley Road. Firefighters will be using drip torches to ignite over 302 acres on their one-day operation 8 miles northwest of Flagstaff. The burn is [...]