U.S. Forest Service managers have finalized a land exchange in Arizona with the Yavapai-Apache Nation.
The Tuesday announcement marks the end of an exchange decades in the making that will nearly triple the size of the tribe’s reservation in Verde Valley.
The Yavapai-Apache Tribe had acquired parcels of private land over the years. It will be exchanging those for 5-square miles of national forest land that is part of the tribe’s ancestral homeland…