FIRENM

FIRENM is Fire Informed Restoration Education for New Mexico. FIRENM aims to increase access to fire-adapted restoration knowledge, practices and experiences to promote resiliency in firesheds across New Mexico. Many local communities exist in a pre-, during- and post-fire continuum.  This project focuses on community-engaged trainings and restoration practices and implementation.

FIRENM includes land restoration workshops under the Querencia in Action: Living with Fire program and Land Restoration guides.

Querencia in Action: Living with Fire provide workshops and trainings at fire-impacted working lands across the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon burn scar. 

Some of our workshops include:

Bark Beetle Management Workshop

Attendees at the Bark Beetle Management workshop held December 2024 in Rociada. The workshop was part of the ongoing Querencia …

Structural Ignition Workshop

Hank Blackwell, director of the Wildfire Resiliency Training Center at Luna Community College, leads a structural ignition risk reduction workshop …

Native Seed ID and Collection

Habitat restoration director Cameron Weber of Rio Grande Return talks about seed identification and collection with students and landowners during …

Contour Log Erosion Control Workshop

A River Source summer field crew helps build a contour log fell erosion control structure in the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon …

Erosion Control with Burned Trees Workshop

NMFWRI and Luna Community College coordinated free post-fire land restoration workshops for landowners, like this one teaching use of burned …

Post-fire Tree Thinning Workshop

Dr. Kent Reid discusses forest management after a fire with area landowners …