Category: Monitoring

Monitoring

Data Sharing Portal

NMFWRI’s Ecological Monitoring Program has data on over 2,500 long-term plots in riparian and upland areas across New Mexico. We regularly respond to requests from

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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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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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Monitoring

Upland Ecological Monitoring

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

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