Category: Monitoring

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

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

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

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

Upland sites, or those above the elevation where flooding generally occurs, have a variety of vegetation types including Piñon-Juniper, Ponderosa Pine, Dry & Wet Mixed