Ground Zero in Timber Wars Shows Signs of Peace.

The House Hope Stewardship Project, taken off the shelf with $1.4 million from President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package, will thin and restore 890 acres.

It's a tiny fraction of the 60 million to 80 million acres the U.S. Forest Service estimates need it nationwide, but people here feel as if this is a start -- not only to grappling with the growing threat of wildfire in a warming climate, but in healing rifts between environmentalists, the timber industry and the Forest Service that have left the national forests in limbo.

''I wouldn't go so far as to say there is peace in the valley, but we are closer than ever before,'' said Shane Jimerfield, director of the Siskiyou Project, a local conservation group that grew out of the protests.

http://nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/21/us/AP-US-Forest-Cease-fire.html