Nearly 100 people from across New Mexico gathered in at the UNM-Valencia campus for the 2025 Wildland Urban Fire Summit, Sept. 30-Oct. 2. They had

NMFWRI ecological monitoring staff provided an all-day field-based guest lecture to the New Mexico Highlands University Forestry Prescribed Fire class up at Black Lake near

By Dr. Alan Barton, NMFWRI Director In August, another academic year started at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU), NMFWRI’s home base. With students back on campus,

Do you know your lemmas from your glumes? NMFWRI and NMDGF staff and student interns spent three days in a botany and grass workshop hosted

NMFWRI staff and director Dr. Alan Barton joined more than a dozen other organizations to provide interactive learning about forest health, land restoration techniques, and

The data descriptor paper for the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG) is now published in Scientific Data, a journal of Nature, and  an “open-access,

What research would help inform and move forward the ability of communities and land managers to recover from wildfires and restore  landscapes? A multi-disciplinary team

By Dr. Alan BartonNMFWRI Director  The work of NMFWRI naturally involves partnering with many different landowners, those who make decisions about how the forests in