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U.S. Dept. of Agriculture U.S. Forest Service Coconino National Forest www.twitter.com/CoconinoNF www.flickr.com/photos/coconinonationalforest For Immediate Release September 17, 2014 Media Contact:
Brienne Magee, 928-527-8290 Resident receives fines and probation for cutting 207 year-old juniper Flagstaff, Ariz. – A Rimrock resident was recently cited for illegally cutting timber and conducting a business without a permit
on the Coconino National Forest. He was sentenced to two years unsupervised probation, fined $500, and owes $3,000 in restitution to the Forest Service.
On June 6, Joshua Favrow was in the process of illegally cutting an old-growth alligator juniper tree near FR 226 south of Munds Park when a citizen reported it to a nearby Forest Service law
enforcement officer. Favrow admitted to cutting the live tree a year ago, thinking that when we returned this year it would appear he was legally harvesting dead and down wood. He was using the large slabs to make furniture to sell.
The old growth juniper tree Favrow destroyed dated back to 1807; it was alive 53 years before the Civil War, 75 years before Flagstaff was established, and 105 years before Arizona became a
state. The tree could have remained alive for many more centuries if it had not have been cut down.
“These are rare treasures on National Forest land that have been taken away from us,” said Jon Nelson, Patrol Captain of the Northern Arizona Zone.
Favrow plead guilty in Flagstaff’s Federal Magistrates Court on Sep. 9 for cutting the old growth juniper. The maximum penalty for a Class B misdemeanor such as Favrow’s is six months in jail
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