An effort to reduce the threat of destructive wildfires in central
New Mexico is getting a boost thanks to $2 million in federal funding. The U.S. Forest Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service
have approved the funds for tree thinning, prescribed fires and the
removal of hazardous fuels on the Cibola National Forest, Isleta Pueblo
and the Chilili Land Grant. Officials say the ponderosa pine and pinon-juniper forests of the Sandia and Manzano mountains are dense, dry and overgrown. The Nature Conservancy
says the work will help restore forested watersheds in areas with high
potential for damaging wildfire and post-fire flooding that can wash ash
and debris into water supplies. The group is raising private matching funds to help leverage the federal dollars invested in the Isleta Project. AP
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
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