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An online collection of resources from the Center for Watershed Protection and the US Forest Service Northeastern Area. Provides useful tools and training materials about managing urban forests for watershed health. Links to topical collections including: Forest Planning And Assessment, Reducing Stormwater Runoff, Forest-Friendly Development, and Planting and Maintaining Trees

Handout describing New Mexico's Watershed Restoration Initiative. Presented by EMNRD Forestry Division at the October 16, 2015 NM Drought Task Force Watershed Management Committee/Coordinating Group meeting

Please see the attached Western Forestry Leadership Coalition Update for January 31, 2011 Table of Contents 1. OR Board of Forestry Selects Doug Decker as State Forester 2. New Carbon Storage Report Commissioned by Climate Action Reserve 3. Tribal Summit on Energy and Funding Opportunities 4. National Workshop on Climate and Forests 5. In the News: AZ Elderly Residents Heat with Wood from Stewardship Project 6. Eastern Alaska University Seeks Field Forester

Western Governors' Association Reports

Seavy, Nathaniel E. et al. 2009. Why Climate Change Makes Riparian Restoration More Important Than Ever: Recommendations for Practice and Research. Ecological Restoration 27:3. September 2009

Presentation by Lowell Ballard to the NM Forest and Watershed Management Coordinating Group, July 26, 2019

This is just the PowerPoint slides, no recording: The opening presentation to the 3-hour "Preparing for Large Wildfires in New Mexico" workshop. We cover fire ecology, fire regimes, and the need for mitigation.

PowerPoint presentation (PDF version). Presented by Mary Stuever, NM State Forestry Chama District Forester at Preparing for Large Wildfires in New Mexico workshop series, April 2018.

An unprecedented 40-year experiment in a 40,000 acre valley of Yosemite National Park strongly supports the idea that managing fire, rather than suppressing it, makes wilderness areas more resilient to fire, with the added benefit of increased water availability and resistance to drought. After a three-year assessment of the Park's Illilouette Creek Basin, UC Berkeley researchers concluded that a strategy dating to 1973 of managing wildfires with minimal suppression and almost no prescribed burns has created a landscape more resistant to catastrophic fire, with more diverse vegetation, forest structure and increased water storage. "When fire is not suppressed, you get all these benefits: increased stream flow, increased downstream water availability, increased soil moisture, which improves habitat for the plants in the watershed. And it increases the drought resistance of the remaining trees and also increases the fire resilience because you have created these natural firebreaks," said Gabrielle Boisramé, graduate student at UC Berkeley's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and first author of the study. The Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy supports management of fires where possible. Managing fires is part of the Cohesive Strategy vision: to safely and effectively suppress fires, use fire where allowable, manage our natural resources, and as a Nation, live with wildland fire. Read the full article and find the published study at: ttp://wildfireinthewest.blogspot.com/2016/10/wildfire-management-vs-suppression.html.

Audio Postcard from KUNM's Anna Lande and YCC crew leaders at the Valle de Oro Wildlife Refuge. Aired July 8, 2016.