Art Babbott feels good. For at least two decades, he’s been mulling over the challenge of what to do with low-value forest products – branches and woody biomass – left over from thinning projects designed to improve forest health and protect the Flagstaff community from wildfire.

Today, Babbott and business partners David Hayward and Chris Lloyd are confident they have solved a small piece of the forest restoration puzzle with their new business, Restoration Soils, which also can keep much of Flagstaff’s organic and food waste stream out of the landfill by transforming it into a high-value compost and sending it back out to the landscape.

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