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Monitoring

Moon Mountain

The Moon Mountain fire began one mile east of the Village of Ruidoso, NM on March 28, 2016. The fire was contained April 1, 2016

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Monitoring

Cooks Peak

The Cooks Peak fire began in April 2022, was human caused, and burned 59,359 acres north of Ocate, NM in Mora and Colfax counties. The

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Hermit's Peak CC Post Fire
Monitoring

Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon

The Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon (HPCC) fire burned across 341,471 acres of four counties in Northern New Mexico in 2022, the largest wildfire in the state’s

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News

NM Fire Policy Updates

The New Mexico Legislature meets at the beginning of each year, alternating between one-month and two-month sessions. In 2025, the Legislature met for two months

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News

Fire Hubs for fire season

NMFWRI, working with SWCA Environmental Consultants, developed a Fire Hub template based on the successful Hub set up for the 2022 Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon (HPCC)

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Monitoring

Riparian Ecological Monitoring

Riparian sites, although a smaller percentage of land area in the southwest, are of critical ecological importance. Early settlement in New Mexico, for example, centered

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Collaboration

NM Collaboration Hub launched

The Collaboration Program is excited to announce the launch of the NM Collaboration Hub, a centralized site designed to support the growing network of collaboratives

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