Smokey Bear Ranger District – Eagle Prescribed Burn – General vicinity is mile marker 2 along Ski Run Road near Ruidoso. The prescribed burn went well yesterday. Slash in the hand piles was 80 – 95% consumed. There was some residual smoke from continued smoldering at the end of the day. There were no smoke accumulations in [...]
Read moreLincoln National Forest Prescribed Fire Update – 2/12/13 – 1230 pm
Pile burning activities are underway on the Smokey Bear Ranger District. The project area is in the vicinity of SKI RUN ROAD near Ruidoso. Piles of slash and debris were ignited around mid-morning today. Ignition operations ceased around noon and firefighters will be holding and monitoring the piles for the rest of the day. Smoke may be visible [...]
Read morePrescribed Fires Planned for Next Week Near Ruidoso
RUIDOSO, NM– Prescribed fire activities are likely to be implemented near Ruidoso this week. Under clear skies – with no rain showers or snowfall – fire crews will proceed with prescribed fire activities that involve broadcast burning along Cedar Creek and behind the Smokey Bear Ranger Station. An alternative plan if snow showers do develop will [...]
Read moreThe BLM-Socorro Field Office will be conducting a prescribe burn east of Socorro
Socorro, NM- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Socorro Field Office will begin burning about 600 acres East of Socorro and Northwest of Bingham, NM, during the periods of February 11 and March 1, 2013 weather permitting. Fire crews plan to ignite Sacaton draws to try and remove 80-90% of coarse unpalatable old growth Sacaton [...]
Read moreSanta Fe National Forest Fire Management Update – Thursday, January 8
Due to unfavorable conditions, the 20-acre Santa Fe Watershed pile burn scheduled for today has been postponed until further notice. Santa Fe Watershed, Espanola Ranger District Approximately 20-acres of piles are to be treated at any point in time in the Santa Fe Watershed from January through the end of February, if conditions are favorable [...]
Read more2012 In Review! Thank you for supporting the website..More to come for 2013!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 1,400,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 25 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than [...]
Read moreLincoln National Forest – Snow Drops Fire Danger to LOW on Guadalupe Ranger District
CARLSBAD, NM – Widespread snowfall covered much of southern New Mexico, including the Guadalupe Mountains west of Carlsbad. “The moisture brought on by the snow event was a welcome change,” said Art Arias, Fire Management Officer for the Lincoln National Forest’s Guadalupe Ranger District. “Snow stretched from the mountains to the plains and across the [...]
Read morePrescribed Fire on Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation
Fire managers on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation will continue to take advantage of favorable weather conditions to treat hazardous fuels with prescribed fire on various projects throughout the Mescalero Apache Reservation. This week’s prescribed burning consists of slash pile burning only. These slash piles are a result of logging activity or hazardous fuels reduction [...]
Read moreSanta Fe National Forest Fire Management Prescribed Fire Notification – Gallinas Canyon Pile Burn, Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District
Beginning tomorrow through Friday, as conditions are favorable, fire managers plan to begin the Gallinas Canyon Pile Burn, located approximately 20 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Prescribed burns are conducted when specific conditions and criteria align to allow fire managers to safely conduct the burn, while achieving desired objectives. Conditions include: temperature, humidity, wind, moisture [...]
Read moreElevated Fire Danger in Guadalupe Mountains National Park (CORRECTION)
(NOTE: This news release is being reissued as a correction on December 17, 2012. The quote originally attributed to Guadalupe Mountains National Park Superintendent Dennis A. Vásquez should have correctly been attributed to Guadalupe Ranger District Fire Management Office Art Arias of the Lincoln National Forest. The correct quotes are included in this correction. Please note, also, [...]
Read moreBLM Prescribed Burning to Start Near Ft. Stanton
Starting the week of December 17, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will begin prescribed burning operations in the Ft. Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area (NCA). Burning operations will take place as weather conditions permit and are expected to occur intermittently through mid-April. The Ft. Stanton Pile Project consists of burning slash piles that [...]
Read moreBLM Plans Pile Burning Near Pie Town
(Socorro, NM) — The Socorro Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management is going to begin burning in Pie Town, NM starting December 15, 2012, weather permitting. The Pie Town Pile burn is located in and around the vicinity of Pie Town. Fire crews plan to ignite piles through the end of March, 2013 [...]
Read moreBe ready for wildfires with the new official Red Cross wildfire app on your iPhone or Android device
Be ready for wildfires with the new official Red Cross wildfire app. “Blaze Warnings” let you see where NOAA has issued wildfire warnings, “Blaze Alerts” notify you when a new wildfire occurs and the “Blaze Path Tracker” gives you a current view of the wildfire’s track and perimeter. You can also let loved ones know [...]
Read more#LittleBearFire Got flood insurance? Flash flood family preparedness tips
Message from Lincoln County Emergency Management: Due to the Little Bear Fire there is great potential for flooding along the following streams: Rio Ruidoso, Eagle Creek, Little Creek, Nogal and especially in the Rio Bonito. If you live near or around any of these streams we need you to begin to take precautions to remove [...]
Read moreHow to Receive NMFireInfo Updates As Text messages.
If you want to receive NMFireInfo twitter messages directly to your phone as text messages, you do not need to have a Twitter account to receive text message updates. To start receiving texts, send a text message to 40404. In the message just type the words “Follow NMFireInfo” (without the quotation marks) and send. You [...]
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