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Monitoring crew prepped for field season
NMFWRI’s field monitoring crew has to be ready for every kind of situation when they are on in the remote backcountry gathering the detailed data required to track forest health before and after fires. Mud, lightning and stuck vehicles are bound to happen. Flat tires, glitchy equipment, and blisters are all par for the course. […]
Community college students learn field research skills
In the third and final year of USDA’s Natural Resources Field Skills and Leadership Development, CSC teamed up with up NMFWRI’s monitoring team, Albuquerque Wildlife Federation, NMHU’s Department of Forestry and local landowners to serve community college students from Las Vegas, Santa Fe and Denver in an immersive 10-day field course. Students learned a suite […]
Partnerships: The Key to Successful Landscape Restoration
By Alan BartonNMFWRI Director Twenty years ago, when Congress created the New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute (NMFWRI), collaboration was still a relatively new practice in the management of the nation’s forests. One of the goals of the Southwest Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention Act, the organic legislation for the Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes, […]
Want to learn about New Mexico Plants?
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.