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 […]

Prescribed Burn Planned for Gorham Scout Camp, South of Cundiyo Taos, NM – During the month of December, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Taos Field Office will conduct a prescribed burn at Gorham Scout Camp, south of Cundiyo, New Mexico, weather permitting.  Burn operations could be on any day within December 7 through December […]

Albuquerque, NM – Starting Monday, December 7 and continuing through December 31, 2015, weather permitting, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rio Puerco Field Office will be conducting a prescribed burn that includes approximately 20 acres along the Perea Nature Trail in the Rio Salado Riparian Area. The area is comprised of salt cedar and […]

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 […]

Taos, NM – During the month of November, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Taos Field Office will conduct a prescribed burn at Gorham Scout Camp, south of Cundiyo, New Mexico, weather permitting. Burn operations could be on any day within November 9 through November 30, 2015. The objectives of the burn are to remove […]

Albuquerque, NM – Starting Monday, November 9, 2015, weather permitting, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rio Puerco Field Office will begin conducting a prescribed burn that includes approximately 20 acres along the Perea Nature Trail in the Rio Salado Riparian Area. The area is comprised of salt cedar and Russian olive, and is approximately […]

Albuquerque, NM – Starting Monday, November 9, 2015, weather permitting, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rio Puerco Field Office will begin conducting a prescribed burn that includes approximately 300 acres within the Ignacio Chavez and Chamisa Wilderness Study Areas. The area, known as Mesa Chivato, is comprised of ponderosa pine, piñon, and juniper, and […]

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 […]

SANTA FE, NM – September 28, 2015 – For Immediate Release. After determining that conditions are favorable for a successful prescribed burn, fire managers are proceeding with aerial ignitions today to complete treatment on approximately 644 acres in the Santa Fe Watershed. Winds are expected to push the smoke southeast of town during the day, […]

Ignitions begin on Santa Fe Watershed Prescribed Burn SANTA FE, NM – September 27, 2015 – For Immediate Release – Weather conditions are favorable today and fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest have decided to begin ignitions on the Santa Fe Watershed prescribed burn, on the Española Ranger District . Today crews will […]