Ignitions have begun on for the Willow Piles, Rio Tusas-Lower San Antonio Landscape Restoration Project.

Piles of slash created from 472 acres of thinning are being treated throughout an area south of Highway 64 between Tres Piedras, NM, and Hopewell Lake.

The area has been the focus of a commercial timber sale and forest thinning to reduce stand densities, improve wildlife habitat foraging and to facilitate the reintroduction of fire to the landscape. It’s just one of the many projects within the Rio Chama Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project, which spans 3.8 million acres in New Mexico and Colorado to improve and maintain water quality and watershed function and restore natural fire regimes using prescribed fire, among other goals.

Resources

Smoke Ready tips: https://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/CarsonRxSmoke

The Rio Chama Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project background:
https://www.fs.usda.gov/…/features/common-ground-rio-chama

General Carson NF Rx info: https://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/CarsonRx

InciWeb Page: https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/…/nmcaf-willow-piles-rio…