Silver City and Wilderness Ranger Districts are preparing to burn slash piles beginning as early as Wednesday, January 8, coincident with predicted snowy weather conditions. These prescribed fire activities have been previously announced in the latest news releases from Gila National Forest. Slash piles targeted for burning this week exist on Gila National Forest lands […]

Crews to burn slash piles near Little Walnut, Fort Bayard, and Pinos Altos areas SILVER CITY, NM, Dec. 6, 2024 – The Gila National Forest, Silver City Ranger District is assessing conditions in preparation for burning slash piles in the Little Walnut, Fort Bayard, and Pinos Altos areas this fall and winter. Slash piles are […]

Black Range Ranger District plans prescribed fire near New Mexico Highway 59 and Forest Road 150 SILVER CITY, NM, Dec. 16, 2024 – The Gila National Forest, Black Range Ranger District is preparing to implement prescribed fire at multiple locations across the district between now and the end of February 2025. A total of about […]

Burning of slash piles near Brushy Mountain to reduce hazardous fuels SILVER CITY, NM, Dec. 16, 2024 – The Gila National Forest, Glenwood Ranger District is preparing to use prescribed fire to burn slash piles adjacent to private property at Pine Cienega off of Brushy Mountain Road (Grant County Road 5-12). The prescribed fire project […]

Santa Fe, NM – The Forest Stewards Guild and The Nature Conservancy will utilize snowy conditions to conduct a prescribed pile burn on Nature Conservancy land this winter to complete the last 10 acres of the 120 acres located just east of Santa Fe, NM beginning as soon as January and continuing throughout the winter […]

The prescribed fire on the 16 Springs Project Area on the Sacramento Ranger District, Lincoln National Forest, has been postponed due to high humidity and weather patterns predicted this week. Conditions will be reassessed after Sunday to look for better windows of opportunity.

The Lincoln National Forest will be conducting prescribed burns on the Sacramento Ranger District on December 3-6, 2024. Crews will continue to focus on 350 acres within the 16 Springs Project Area. There will be continued monitoring of the area after operations cease. Signs will be set up alerting the public to the project area. […]

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 […]

Fire crews are planning to begin pile burning operations as early as the week of Nov. 18 in and around Hopewell Lake, Tres Piedras, and Canjilon. Willow and Tio North pile burns are expected to begin as early as Tuesday, Nov. 19. Willow is in the vicinity of FR712 and can be seen from Hwy 64, […]

Ignitions begin Tuesday November 19 on the Lino Pile Burn unit in Coyote Ranger District Santa Fe, N.M., November 18, 2024 — On Tuesday, November 19, fire managers from the Coyote Ranger District will begin ignitions on the 99-acre Lino Pile Burn unit. The project is located adjacent to Forest Road 461KA, a spur road […]

Carson National Forest Forest Service News Release Earl Hidayetoglu 505-901-3454 earl.hidayetoglu@usda.gov fs.usda.gov/carson Highway 150 Piles Enter Monitoring Phase Taos, N.M., November 17, 2024—Fire crews continued ignitions on the Highway 150 Piles Prescribed Fire today. Here’s the latest: Project Background Today’s work is part of the Highway 150 Corridor Wildland Urban Interface Project. Local organizations in […]

Carson National Forest Forest Service News Release Earl Hidayetoglu earl.hidayetoglu@usda.gov 505-901-3454 fs.usda.gov/carson Highway 150 Piles Continue Burning Taos, N.M., November 16, 2024—Fire crews began ignitions on the Highway 150 Piles Prescribed Fire today. Here’s the latest: Project Background Today’s work is part of the Highway 150 Corridor Wildland Urban Interface Project. Local organizations in 2014 […]

Ignitions complete on pile burns in Jemez and Coyote Ranger Districts On Saturday, fire managers from the Jemez Ranger District completed the 43-acre Triangle pile burn project. This project is located near the community of La Cueva, adjacent to Forest Road 376 and Forest Road 604. Meanwhile, fire managers from the Coyote Ranger District finished […]

Ignitions Complete – Final Update ALBUQUERQUE, NM – November 16, 2024 – Fire crews for the Cibola National Forest & National Grasslands (NF & NG) have successfully completed a total of 12 acres of pile burning with yesterday and today’s prescribe fire (Rx) ignitions within the 34 acres of the previously announced Sulphur Rx Fire […]

Earl Hidayetoglu 505-901-3454 earl.hidayetoglu@usda.gov fs.usda.gov/carson Highway 150 Piles Burn Taos, N.M., November 14, 2024—Fire crews began ignitions on the Highway 150 Piles Prescribed Fire today. Here’s the latest: • Fire crews completed 88 of 300 treated acres in the Highway 150 Piles project area, mostly on the southside of New Mexico Highway 150. • Crewswill […]

Wilderness Ranger district to conduct prescribed fires during early December MIMBRES, NM, Nov. 15, 2024 – The Wilderness Ranger District is planning to conduct multiple prescribe fire projects, including the 250-acre Upper Terry Canyon Prescribed Fire along Forest Road 150. The district will also look to implement the 128-acre T-bird Prescribed Fire directly behind Camp […]

Ignitions Implemented – November 15 Update ALBUQUERQUE, NM – November 15, 2024 – Fire crews for the Cibola National Forest & National Grasslands (NF & NG) completed 6 acres of pile burning today on the previously announced 34 acres of Sulphur prescribed fire (Rx) Piles on the Sandia Ranger District. Pending favorable conditions fire managers […]

Ignitions begin in Española Ranger District Friday November 15 Fire managers have decided to postpone the Seven Springs prescribed pile burn project in the Jemez Ranger District and will shift resources to the 43-acre Triangle prescribed pile burn unit located near the community of La Cueva, adjacent to Forest Road 376 and Forest Road 604. […]

Ignitions postponed for today (November 14) ALBUQUERQUE, NM – November 14, 2024 – Fire management for the Cibola National Forest & National Grasslands (NF & NG) did not proceed on ignitions today on the previously announced Sulphur prescribed fire (Rx) Piles on the Sandia Ranger District after test fire resulted in unfavorable conditions for continued […]

Ignitions begin this week in the Cuba, Jemez, and Española Ranger Districts Prescribed pile burn ignitions will begin tomorrow, Thursday, November 14, in the Jemez and Cuba Ranger Districts, and on Friday, November 15, in the Española Ranger District. Pile burning is meant to treat slash, like branches, piled by thinning crews with the aim […]