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Environmental

May 30, 2009

Techno ADR Steps Into the Sequoia Thicket

A debate over the National Sequoia Forest has catapulted the U.S. Forest Service to the forefront of a new technology-driven style of mediation.

By Mindy Farabee
Daily Journal Staff Writer

PORTERVILLE - When Tina Terrell arrived at the National Sequoia Forest in March 2007 as its newly named forest supervisor, she had an inkling she was walking into a problem as big and ancient as the towering redwoods themselves.

What Terrell would soon discover is that the problem's solution may reside in technology and public policy processes that are as new as the trees are old. Perhaps even the great ...

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