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News release November 4, 2014

briefing paper updated January 13, 2017

Handout about an accessible tool under development for planning, mapping and tracking forest and watershed restoration projects in New Mexico

Handout distributed at the January 2018 Coordinating Group meeting.

Overview of data and methods used by NM State Forestry to develop a working draft analysis of priority landscapes. Distributed as a handout at the 1/15/16 Coordinating Group/Watershed Management Subcommittee meeting.

New Mexico Urban and Community Forestry Program - Strategic Plan

List of collaborative groups working on forest and watershed health in New Mexico. Compiled for the April 15, 2016 Coordinating Group/Watershed Management Subcommittee meeting.

Southwest Fire Science Consortium webinar, Jan. 2015. available at https://www.frames.gov/rcs/18000/18920.html.

NY Times WORLD | November 23, 2010 Ixtl'an de Ju'arez Journal: Growing a Forest, and Harvesting Jobs By ELISABETH MALKIN Zapotec Indians in Mexico have become exemplars of community forest ownership and management.

A century of fire exclusion in dry forests across the United States has resulted in high fuel loads and increasing dominance by fire-intolerant vegetation. Federal, state, and private agencies have adopted a goal of managing forests to reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire. Forest managers use a variety of tools to create desired conditions within forests; the most common are prescribed fire and mechanical thinning. These two treatments may be used separately or in combination, depending on restoration goals for the forest stand. Before these treatments can be applied, managers must justify their choice by documenting the effects of the treatment on other ecosystem components, such as understory vegetation. Understory vegetation in fire-dominated landscapes often has adapted to regrowing in frequent, low-severity fire regimes. Because fire releases nutrients and, by opening the canopy, allows light to the forest floor, the understory response is positive (e.g., increased growth or reproduction).