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USFS fuel treatment effectiveness assessment.

Information on the National Big Tree Program

The National Association of State Foresters (NASF), the USDA Forest Service, and the American Forest Foundation (AFF) partnered to establish a campaign designed to raise U.S. awareness of the value of forests through the International Year of Forests celebration. With Forest Service support, NASF created and manages this website to serve all members of the U.S. forestry community. The website provides free toolkit materials anyone can use to celebrate forests in their own community; it is also a central forum for sharing ideas and events.

Web page with information and resources on invasive plants and animals, from the Forest Guild website.

This position functions as the Field Manager (District Forester) for the Capitan District of the Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD)- Forestry Division. The District is comprised of 8,591,874 acres of private, non-federal and non-municipal lands in Otero, Lincoln, Chaves, DeBaca, Roosevelt, Lea and Eddy counties. The position supervises the implementation of all forestry programs to include the Smokey Bear Historical Park, fire management, forest and watershed health management, timber harvesting regulations, service forestry and all administrative activities on the district. The position participates with other groups and agencies with similar objectives and authorities to allocate resources across jurisdictional boundaries to achieve forest and watershed health and communities that are more defensible from wildland fire and insect and disease epidemics. The position is also responsible for maintaining compliance with governmental standards and business philosophies such as department and division policies, the state procurement code, contract management, supervision and federal codes relating to the delivery of federal programs.

A study paper for the Society of American Foresters to identify and reach consensus on the inclusion of forests and forestry activities in public policies on climate change. Coordinating Authors: Neil Sampson, The Sampson Group, Inc., Steve Ruddell and Matt Smith, Forecon, Inc. December 2007

This Western Governors' Drought Forum webinar explored the latest science on forest management practices that may increase water availability and add security to water portfolios. The moderator was Ken Pimlott, California State Forester and Director of CAL FIRE. Panelists included: Alan Hook, Project Manager, Santa Fe Municipal Watershed Management Plan and Water Resources Coordinator, City of Santa Fe; Marcos Robles, Conservation Science Specialist, The Nature Conservancy; Don Boucher, Project Manager, Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project, United States Forest Service.

Displays currently available vegetation treatment (planned and completed) project data from various sources, along with the group's April 2015 focus area, surface ownership, HUC 8, 10 and 12, HUC 10 labeled, Gila NF fire history, Gila NF FACTS activities, topographic basemap. 24"x 36" landscape orientation, exported from ArcMap 10.2.2 as pdf at 100 dots per inch.

Map 1: March 2015 Priority Project Area Watershed map shows the group's current Priority Project Area with Watershed HUC 8 (labeled), HUC 10 (not labeled), HUC 12 (labeled), Surface ownership (corrected version by Gila NF); Gila NF Priority Landscape, Grant Co 911 Roads layer; Tiger 2010 surface water (streams and waterbodies), GNIS Populated places, Shaded Relief image beneath all; some place names are labeled. 24"x 36" (D size), landscape, pdf

Prepared by TNC for Ciudad SWCD, February 2015