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EMNRD Forestry Division Job Announcement - Assistant State Fire Management Officer - Opens 12/29/15 - Closes 1/12/15 by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Dec 30, 2015 10:56 AM: This position functions as the Assistant State Fire Management Officer for the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department and the State of New Mexico. This position maintains the capacity, directly and through cooperative agreements with federal agencies and local governments. This position also coordinates with six districts to assure that national safety standards are met. The position identifies and provides opportunities for all Division employees in some aspect of wild land fire suppression.

SFCS Meeting 1 Handout 2 by Susan Rich, last updated: Dec 29, 2015 05:43 PM: Draft resolution designating the Santa Fe Fireshed, under consideration by the Santa Fe City Council. Distributed at 12/18/15 Santa Fe Cohesive Strategy meeting.

SFCS Meeting 1 Handout 4 by Susan Rich, last updated: Dec 29, 2015 04:00 PM: Briefing Paper on Santa Fe Watershed Protection: Looking Outside the Boundary

SFCS Meeting 1 Handout 3 by Susan Rich, last updated: Dec 29, 2015 03:58 PM: Briefing paper on the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed Fuels Reduction Project. Distributed at 12/18/15 Santa Fe Cohesive Strategy meeting.

SFCS Meeting 1 Handout 1 by Susan Rich, last updated: Dec 29, 2015 03:23 PM: Map and list of NMSF Santa Fe County Projects. Distributed at 12/18/15 Santa Fe Cohesive Strategy meeting.

Santa Fe Cohesive Strategy by Susan Rich, last updated: Dec 29, 2015 03:23 PM: Temporary folder for the Santa Fe Cohesive Strategy workgroup

Univ of CA - Division of Agriculture & Natural Resources by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 13, 2015 11:18 AM: FOREST ECOLOGY - Forest Stewardship Series 3 - Publication 8233

Fire Science Final Report for JFSP Project 09-3-01-47 by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 05, 2015 06:22 PM: More frequent fires under climate warming are likely to alter terrestrial carbon (C) stocks by reducing the amount of C stored in biomass and soil. However, the thresholds of fire frequency that could shift landscapes from C sinks to C sources under future climates and whether these are likely to be exceeded during the coming century are not known.

Fire Science Final Report for JFSP Project 09-1-06-5 - Interactions of insects, fire and climate on fuel loads and fire behavior in mixed conifer forest by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 05, 2015 06:19 PM: Mixed-conifer forests in the interior Pacific Northwest are subject to sporadic outbreaks of the western spruce budworm, the most destructive defoliator in western North America. Such outbreaks usually occur synchronously over broad regions and lead to widespread decreases in growth rates and low to moderate levels of mortality. In the last century, changing land use and fire suppression have led to an increase in the amount and density of host tree species, and changed fire regimes.

Wildlife Adaptation Strategy - Chapter 3 Climate Adaption Goals, Strategies and Actions by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 05, 2015 06:00 PM: Seven goals to help fish, wildlife, plants, and ecosystems cope with the impacts of climate change were developed collectively by diverse teams of federal, state, and tribal technical and management experts, based on existing research and understanding regarding the needs of fish, wildlife, and plants in the face of climate change.

PNW - Spring 2008 Issue 16 - Counting All That Matters: Recognizing the Value of Ecosystem Services by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 05, 2015 05:49 PM: Broadly defined, ecosystem services are the benefits healthy ecosystems provide to humans. Clean air, clean water, and flood control are just a few examples. Although the term is relatively new, the ecosystem services concept has long been a focus of natural resource and environmental economists.

USGS Fact Sheet 2005-3091 (July 2005) USGS Providing Scientific Understanding of the Sagebrush Biome by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 05, 2015 04:37 PM: Early explorers wrote about the vast sea of sagebrush that stretched in front of them. Today, the consequences of land-use practices, invasion by exotic plants, and altered disturbance regimes have touched virtually all of these seemingly endless expanses.

USGS Fact Sheet 2005-3005 Biological Research on Fire in the West by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 05, 2015 04:30 PM: Wildland fires are a natural feature of many ecosystems, including grasslands, forests, and shrublands. However, years of fire exclusion have led to accumulations of dead fuels and increases in the density of fire-intolerant species.

Fire Science Digest - Issue 14 - September 2012 by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 05, 2015 04:19 PM: Smoke Science Plan: The Path Forward

Do Fuel Treatments Reduce Fire Severity in Ponderosa Pine Forests? NAU Fact Sheet December 2013 by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 05, 2015 04:13 PM: Tree Mortality Patterns One Year after the Wallow Fire

Soil Erosion Control After Wildfire -Cooperative Extension, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, The University of Arizona by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 05, 2015 03:54 PM: The potential for severe soil erosion exists after a wildfire because as a fire burns it destroys plant material and the litter layer. Shrubs, forbs, grasses, trees, and the litter layer break up the intensity of severe rainstorms. Plant roots stabilize the soil, and stems and leaves slow the water to give it time to percolate into the soil profile. Fire can destroy this soil protection. There are several steps to take to reduce the amount of soil erosion. A landowner, using common household tools and materials, can accomplish most of these methods in the aftermath of a wildfire.

USDA National Agroforestry Center (NAC) - Working Trees for Water Quality Brochure by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 05, 2015 03:24 PM: Water is a precious national resource. Often, human activities degrade the quality of the water in the streams, lakes, estuaries, wetlands and aquifers on which we depend.

Oregon State Univ - Synthesis of Knowledge on the Effects of Fire and Thinning Treatments on Understory Vegetation in US Dry Forests by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 05, 2015 03:16 PM: 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).

US Forest Service - Wildland Fire Effects in Silviculturally Treated vs. Untreated Stands of New Mexico and Arizona by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 05, 2015 03:01 PM: Research Paper RMRS-RP-55 Low-frequency, high-intensity crownfires have replaced high-frequency, low-intensity fire regimes in southwestern pine (Pinus spp.)-grasslands. High-intensity crownfires can severely disrupt these forest ecosystems.

PHOTO GUIDE FOR APPRAISING DOWNED WOODYMASTICATED FUELS IN INTERIOR PONDEROSA PINE FORESTS ON THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE by Lisa Escudero, last updated: Nov 05, 2015 01:11 PM: PART ONE OF A FOUR-PART SERIES ON INTERIOR PONDEROSA PINE, GAMBEL OAK,MIXED CONIFER AND LODGEPOLE PINE COVER TYPES

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