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HPCC wildfire map honored at international GIS conference
The story of the devastating 2022 Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon wildfire and its aftermath gained renewed interest and an award during the recent Esri User Conference in San Diego, Calif. Dana Heusinkveld, a GIS research specialist with the New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute (NMFWRI) based at Highlands University, designed a beautiful poster with a map […]
Workshop: Plants as Post-fire Restoration Tools
More than a dozen landowners from Mora and San Miguel Counties gathered in Mineral Hill for the Plants as Post-fire Restoration Tools workshop hosted by NMFWRI. Photo by Jax Gaglianese-Woody. Shantini Ramakrishnan with FIRE NM describes working with slopes when planting seeds. Ecologist and firefighter Dr. Krista Bonfantine, with rake co-taught the Plants as Post-fire […]
Collaboration staff present on SWCD role in effective wildfire mitigation
By Alejandro Collins, Collaboration Specialist In June, Collaboration Specialist Alejandro Collins attended the 40th annual conference of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources in Corvallis, Oregon. Alejandro partnered with NMFWRI Director, Dr. Alan Barton, to give a presentation titled “Leading Cross-Boundary Collaborative Conservation: SWCDs in the Estancia Basin, New Mexico”. Their presentation […]
Bark Beetle Management Resources
Fire and drought can make New Mexico forests vulnerable to a variety of bark beetles. Find out more about the beetles and how to manage them in these downloadable resources. Click on the button below and scroll down the page to the technical guides.
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.