Staff from our sister Institutes – the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (CFRI) in Fort Collins, CO and the Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI) in Flagstaff, AZ – joined our summer monitoring field crew at the Walker Flats, Las Vegas Watershed, and Johnson Mesa projects this summer. CFRI joined us in June, and ERI joined us in July. The teams have had a great time working together monitoring and evaluating long-term treatment effectiveness and post-fire forest recovery.
We also had the pleasure to send three staff to join the ERI monitoring team at the Marshall Lake project in Flagstaff, where the Institutes worked to monitor mastication and chip‑fuel conditions after mechanical thinning. They used field measurements and LiDAR to understand how these treatments influence forest structure, understory response, and future fire behavior.
NMFWRI, ERI and CFRI along with the Nevada Forest Restoration Institute, are collectively the Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes working to co-develop, translate, and apply actionable knowledge in collaboration with forest land managers and partners to foster fire-resilient forests for the benefit of communities and nature, now and in the future. Find out more at SWERI.org.
