Students from fifteen schools in San Miguel, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, Colfax, and Guadalupe counties descended on Storrie Lake State Park for the 9th Annual STEM Showdown, Sept. 8-19. A total of 319 5th through 12 graders were served during this event, which brought together 19 organizations, representing federal, state, non-profit, higher education and private industry partners. Students […] The post STEM Showdown at Storrie Lake appeared first on New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoratio...| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
NMFWRI is seeking a Digital Content and Outreach Specialist to join our team. Do you enjoy creating with digital tools and are familiar with ArcGIS? Do you like interacting with the public? Have an interest in wildfire mitigation and emergency response? Our institute is hiring a Digital Content and Outreach Specialist! This is an exciting, […] The post We’re hiring! Join the NMFWRI team! appeared first on New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute.| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
Nearly 100 people from across New Mexico gathered in at the UNM-Valencia campus for the 2025 Wildland Urban Fire Summit, Sept. 30-Oct. 2. They had a tour of the Rio Grande Bosque in Los Lunas that was hit by two wildfires in June that burned more than a dozen homes; firefighters, the bosque manager and […] The post WUFS 2025: Building Community Connections appeared first on New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute.| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
NMFWRI ecological monitoring staff provided an all-day field-based guest lecture to the New Mexico Highlands University Forestry Prescribed Fire class up at Black Lake near Angel Fire, NM in September. NMFWRI has long-term monitoring plots at Black Lake and staff worked with the NMHU class to take photopoints, measurements of fuel load, weather, and fuel […]| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
By Dr. Alan Barton, NMFWRI Director In August, another academic year started at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU), NMFWRI’s home base. With students back on campus, the life of the university is picking up again. Twenty years ago, when Congress created NMFWRI as one of the Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes (SWERI), the legislation stated that the […]| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
Do you know your lemmas from your glumes? NMFWRI and NMDGF staff and student interns spent three days in a botany and grass workshop hosted in Las Vegas, NM this August as part of our FIRENM initiative. Under guidance of instructor Lauren Bansbach, the team got a refresher on botanical principles and terminology, then dove deep […] The post FIRENM Hosts Botany, Grasses Workshop appeared first on New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute.| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
NMFWRI staff and director Dr. Alan Barton joined more than a dozen other organizations to provide interactive learning about forest health, land restoration techniques, and more at booths during Forestry Day, hosted by the John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center in Mora. The event was well attended by people of all ages. The event was […] The post NMFWRI participates in Forestry Day appeared first on New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute.| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
The data descriptor paper for the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG) is now published in Scientific Data, a journal of Nature, and an “open-access, online-only journal for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets.” Data Descriptor Paper: TWIG is a new database that combines fuel treatment data from multiple systems of record, making them easily accessible […]| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
What research would help inform and move forward the ability of communities and land managers to recover from wildfires and restore landscapes? A multi-disciplinary team of scientists took a horizon scan and selected 12 research topics based on potential impact and time-sensitivity to advance post-wildfire forest restoration and recovery. The post Report: Research Priorities on Post-Wildfire Forest Restoration and Recovery appeared first on New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration In...| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
By Dr. Alan BartonNMFWRI Director The work of NMFWRI naturally involves partnering with many different landowners, those who make decisions about how the forests in the state are managed. And New Mexico is quite possibly the most interesting place in the U.S. to carry out this work, due to the different types of landownerships seen […] The post New Mexico’s Mosaic of Forest Owners appeared first on New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute.| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
By Alan BartonNMFWRI Director Twenty years ago, when Congress created the New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute (NMFWRI), collaboration was still a relatively new practice in the management of the nation’s forests. One of the goals of the Southwest Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention Act, the organic legislation for the Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes, […]| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration InstituteWe engage government agencies, academic research institutions, land managers, and the public in the areas of forest and watershed management.Learn more about NMFWRI News NMFWRI Plan for the Coming Year Dr. Alan BartonNMFWRI Director The NMFWRI has compiled its annual Work Plan, and submitted it to the Forest Service. […]| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
NMFWRI’s GIS Team has developed the New Mexico Fire Viewer, an interactive web map that provides access to real-time and historical wildfire data. The web map integrates satellite imagery and GIS layers, allowing users to search for active wildfires by name and view perimeter boundaries and hot spots. These updates, sourced from satellite infrared images, […]| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
For the past three years, the month of April has distinct meaning to the staff at the NM Forest & Watershed Restoration Institute and to the communities in northeastern New Mexico.| New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
