SANTA FE, NM – Nov. 30, 2016 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are conducting the previously announced Thompson Ridge prescribed pile burn on the Jemez Ranger District today. Conditions, including fuel moisture levels, air quality and weather forecasts, are favorable to complete the burn today. The 40-acre treatment […]

SANTA FE, NM – Nov. 10, 2016 – For Immediate Release – Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest plan to continue the Gallinas Watershed prescribed burn tomorrow, focusing on a 180-acre block in the Las Dispensas area and a 1,120-acre unit on Johnson Mesa. Ignitions will begin Friday, Nov. 11, if conditions, including […]

SANTA FE, NM – Nov. 8, 2016 – For Immediate Release. After assessing the positive outcome of the prescribed burn in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed, fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) today announced that resource objectives for 2016 have been met and there will be no more ignitions in the Watershed […]

SANTA FE, NM – Nov. 2, 2016 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest expect to begin the previously announced Mesa Potrero pile burn on the Coyote Ranger District tomorrow if conditions, including fuel moisture levels, air quality and weather forecasts, are favorable. The 470-acre treatment area is located 7 […]

SANTA FE, NM – Nov. 1, 2016 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest expect to begin the previously announced Vallecitos prescribed burn on the Jemez Ranger District tomorrow if conditions, including fuel moisture levels, air quality and weather forecasts, are favorable. The 363-acre treatment area is adjacent to the […]

SANTA FE, NM – Oct. 31, 2016 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest expect to begin the previously announced Gallina wildland-urban interface (WUI) prescribed burn on the Coyote Ranger District tomorrow if conditions, including fuel moisture levels, air quality and weather forecasts, are favorable. WUI refers to the transition […]

SANTA FE, NM – Oct. 26, 2016 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to conduct the Encino prescribed pile burn on the Coyote Ranger District. Ignitions on approximately 5 acres near the community of Encino could begin as early as tomorrow, Oct. 27, if conditions, including fuel […]

SANTA FE, NM – Oct. 25, 2016 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to conduct the Vallecitos prescribed burn on the Jemez Ranger District. Ignitions for the 363-acre treatment area, located 6 miles northeast of Jemez Springs and south of NM Highway 4, could begin as early […]

SANTA FE, NM – Oct. 21, 2016 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest today announced plans to conduct prescribed burns in several locations on the Coyote Ranger District, including the Gallina wildland-urban interface (WUI), throughout the fall. Ignitions on several pile burns and the Gallina WUI could begin as […]

SANTA FE, NM – Oct. 18, 2016 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers are postponing the completion of the prescribed burn in the Gallinas Watershed until Oct. 24 or later, based on windy conditions predicted for this week. At the end of operations last week, fire crews had completed an estimated 200 acres in the […]

SANTA FE, NM – Oct. 17, 2016 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to conduct the previously announced Mesa Potrero pile burn on the Coyote Ranger District this week if conditions, including fuel moisture levels, air quality and weather forecasts, are favorable. Ignitions on the 470-acre fire, […]

SANTA FE, NM – Oct. 16, 2016 – For Immediate Release. Smoke from the prescribed burn in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed last week is lingering over the city as higher-than-expected temperatures created an inversion that has slowed its dispersal. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest, in consultation with the New Mexico Environment […]

The 387-acre treatment area is located 14 miles *southeast* of Cuba and *east* of the Chaparral Girls Scout Camp.

SANTA FE, NM – Oct. 14, 2016 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to start the Diego prescribed burn on the Cuba Ranger District as early as Monday, Oct. 17, if conditions, including fuel moisture levels, air quality and weather forecasts, are favorable. The 387-acre treatment area […]

SANTA FE, NM – Oct. 14, 2016 – For Immediate Release – Fire managers are postponing the completion of the prescribed burn in the Gallinas Watershed until at least Tuesday, Oct. 18, based on predicted winds over the weekend and into Monday. At the end of operations today, fire crews had completed an estimated 200 […]

SANTA FE, NM – Oct. 14, 2016 – For Immediate Release. Based on smoke impacts to the City of Santa Fe and data on air quality, the Santa Fe National Forest decided today to conclude the prescribed burn in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed. Fire crews used hand and aerial ignitions on Wednesday and Tuesday […]

SANTA FE, NM – Oct. 11, 2016 – For Immediate Release – Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest plan to continue the Gallinas Watershed prescribed burn that began last week on the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District. The decision to burn on Wednesday will be dependent on favorable conditions, including fuel moisture levels, air […]

SANTA FE, NM – Oct. 11, 2016 – For Immediate Release. After a comprehensive review of expected conditions, including weather, winds and ventilation, the Santa Fe National Forest plans to begin the previously announced prescribed burn in the Santa Fe Watershed tomorrow, Oct. 12, with blacklining and hand ignitions, followed by aerial ignitions on Thursday, […]