News
Seasonal Staff Join Monitoring Team
This summer, the Ecological Monitoring Program is excited to welcome several new team members based in Las Vegas. Joan Kuyo, Matthew Najera, and Mitchell Dennington have joined the 2026 summer field crew, where they will support upland monitoring and contract work with the New Mexico Department of Wildlife. All three bring strong interests in ecology, […]
Reflections from Confluence 2026
In late May, the NMFWRI Collaboration Program attended Confluence 2026, hosted by the Western Collaborative Conservation Network (WCCN) and co-convened by Crowd Conservation, Trees, Water & People, and Strategic by Nature. The gathering brought together practitioners, researchers, facilitators, land managers, and community leaders from across the West who are working to strengthen collaborative conservation efforts within […]
NMFWRI Welcomes Nevada to the SWERI Alliance
Dr. Alan Barton NMFWRI Director NMFWRI welcomes the Nevada Forest & Woodland Restoration Institute (NFWRI), located at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), to the alliance of Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes (SWERI)! This is exciting news for the SWERI. After 20 years of a partnership between institutes in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, in […]
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.