Santa Fe, NM – April 14, 2016 – For Immediate Release.  Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest hope to take advantage of warmer weather in May 2016 to conduct the Mesitas prescribed burn on the Española Ranger District.  The 1,800-acre treatment area is located approximately six miles southwest of Abiquiu, 15 miles north […]

SANTA FE, NM – March 24, 2016 – For Immediate Release – Favorable conditions today allowed fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest to proceed with the planned prescribed burn in the lower portion of the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed. The 200-acre broadcast burn adjacent to the Nichols Reservoir will be done with hand […]

Wildland-Urban Interface is Focus of Prescribed Burn Planned on Santa Fe National Forest Jemez Ranger District SANTA FE, NM – March 17, 2016 – For Immediate Release – Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are working with communities in the Jemez Ranger District to conduct the bi-annual Thompson Ridge slash-pit prescribed burn. The […]

SANTA FE, NM – March 17, 2016 – For Immediate Release – Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to conduct the previously announced prescribed burn on the south end of the Paliza treatment area within the boundaries of the Southwest Jemez Mountains Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project on the Jemez Ranger […]

SANTA FE, NM – March 15, 2016 – For Immediate Release – Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to begin the previously announced prescribed burn in Gallinas Canyon and Las Dispensas area on the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 if conditions are favorable. Once ignitions have started, […]

Ignitions have begun on the Thompson Ridge Pile Burn.  The burn, a total of 35 acres, is located nine miles north of Jemez Springs. For more information contact the Jemez Ranger Station at 575-829-3535. Santa Fe, NM – Jan. 13, 2016 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning […]

  Santa Fe, NM – Jan. 13, 2016 – For Immediate Release.  Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to conduct three pile burns on the Jemez and Cuba Ranger Districts sometime between Jan. 15 and March 31, 2016.  That window is dependent on the amount of snowfall on the ground as […]

SANTA FE, NM – Dec. 15, 2015 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning a prescribed pile burn on the Cuba Ranger District. The La Jara prescribed pile burn, a total of 77 acres located just northeast of the community of La Jara, may be conducted Jan. 1 […]

Dec. 14, 2015 12:28pm.  Ignitions have begun on the Joaquin Canyon Prescribed burn on the Jemez and Cuba Ranger Districts. Santa Fe, NM – Nov. 20, 2015 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to conduct three pile burns on the Jemez and Cuba Ranger Districts sometime between […]

Santa Fe, NM – Nov. 20, 2015 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to conduct three pile burns on the Jemez and Cuba Ranger Districts sometime between Nov. 30 and Dec. 30, 2015.  That window is dependent on the amount of snowfall on the ground as well […]

Santa Fe, NM – October 27, 2015 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to conduct prescribed burns in the Joaquin Canyon on the Jemez Ranger District.  The Joaquin Canyon prescribed burn area, a total of 142 acres, is located approximately 8 miles west of Jemez Springs. The […]

SANTA FE, NM – October 16, 2015 – For Immediate Release – Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to begin the previously announced prescribed burn in Gallinas Canyon on the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District on Saturday, October 17, 2015, if conditions are favorable. Once ignitions have started, they are expected to […]

SANTA FE, NM – October 13, 2015 – For Immediate Release – Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to conduct a prescribed burn on the Cuba Ranger District on Wednesday, October 14, 2015, if conditions including fuel moisture levels, air quality and weather forecasts are favorable. The initial treatment area under […]

SANTA FE, NM – October 9, 2015 – For Immediate Release.  Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are postponing the previously announced prescribed burn on the south end of the Paliza treatment area within the boundaries of the Southwest Jemez Mountains Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project on the Jemez Ranger District. Fire managers […]

  SANTA FE, NM – October 1, 2015 – For Immediate Release – Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to begin the previously announced prescribed burn in Gallinas Canyon on the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District on Saturday, October 3, 2015, if conditions are favorable. Once ignitions have started, they are expected […]

Smoke Continues to Disperse After Santa Fe Watershed Prescribed Burn SANTA FE, NM – September 29, 2015 – For Immediate Release.  Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest completed ignitions in the Santa Fe Watershed at approximately 2:30 p.m. Monday.  While smoke from the burn did impact Santa Fe and surrounding communities, residual smoke continues […]

SANTA FE, NM – September 28, 2015 – For Immediate Release. Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest are planning to conduct a prescribed burn on the south end of the Paliza treatment area within the boundaries of the Southwest Jemez Mountains Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project on the Jemez Ranger District. The window […]