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Monitoring crew provides field-based lecture
NMFWRI ecological monitoring staff provided an all-day field-based guest lecture to the New Mexico Highlands University Forestry Prescribed Fire class up at Black Lake near Angel Fire, NM in September. NMFWRI has long-term monitoring plots at Black Lake and staff worked with the NMHU class to take photopoints, measurements of fuel load, weather, and fuel […]
NMFWRI’s Home
By Dr. Alan Barton, NMFWRI Director In August, another academic year started at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU), NMFWRI’s home base. With students back on campus, the life of the university is picking up again. Twenty years ago, when Congress created NMFWRI as one of the Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes (SWERI), the legislation stated that the […]
FIRENM Hosts Botany, Grasses Workshop
Do you know your lemmas from your glumes? NMFWRI and NMDGF staff and student interns spent three days in a botany and grass workshop hosted in Las Vegas, NM this August as part of our FIRENM initiative. Under guidance of instructor Lauren Bansbach, the team got a refresher on botanical principles and terminology, then dove deep […]
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Plants are an integral part of the world around us. We’ve gathered a collection of resources for identification and care of the plants, trees, and grasses of New Mexico.
Fire history in the Four Corners
Wildfires in the Four Corners have grown larger in the last couple of decades. NMFWRI’s Dana Heusinkveld created this timeline of wildfires in the region encompassing New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah.
To see fires that are currently burning in New Mexico along with historic fire info in the NM Fire Viewer, click the button below.
Restoration
The New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute provides technical assistance and practical knowledge in forest and woodland restoration to reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfire and restore healthy and sustainable forested ecosystems and restoration-based economies.
GIS/Mapping
NMFWRI represents the state’s only dedicated capability for supporting the spatial data analysis needs of external stakeholders in the natural resources sector, as well as the GIS/GPS capacity for Highlands University and for most of northern New Mexico.
Monitoring
Restoration based monitoring of New Mexico's forest and riparian ecosystems is integral to NMFWRI's mission.
Collaboration
The New Mexico Forest & Watershed Restoration Institute supports natural-resource-based collaboration by assisting communities to form collaborative organizations and build the capacity to work together to solve problems and restore natural habitats.