As part of Earth Week at New Mexico Highlands University, the NMHU Forestry Students and families enjoyed a hands-on Earth Day event celebrating Seed to Tree, Mountain to River at New Mexico Highlands University on April 25, 2025.
NMFWRI’s civic and community action research associate Michael Roberts and the NMFWRI GIS program partnered with Martha Graham of the New Mexico Rural Water Association to organize a series of peer-learning sessions and workshop for the 47th annual New Mexico Rural Water Association Conference in mid-April.
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
On April 19, NMFWRI’s Ecological Monitoring team hosted a workshop, Practical Skills for Restoration Professionals, The workshop covered GIS tools (such as RipMap, INREV, NAIP
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
NMFWRI’s Conservation Science Center co-hosted the Northern NM Regional Envirothon with Soil and Water Conservation District partners (Taos, Tierra y Montes, and Western Mora) on
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)
