Announcement of Opportunities for Public Involvement in the Santa Fe Mountains Project

With the re-release of a Santa Fe area forest resiliency project’s environmental assessment, several opportunities for public engagement and dialogue have been made available.

Interactive Webinar: Thursday, December 15 at 6:00pm

The Greater Santa Fe Fireshed Coalition will host a livestream webinar on the ecological role of fire in the Santa Fe mountains. The public discussion will include presentations by subject matter experts with decades of forestry and fire science experience in the landscape surrounding Santa Fe. Your participation this Thursday is encouraged to keep the conversation going!

When: December 15 at 6pm

Where: Facebook Live virtual platform

Who: Greater Santa Fe Fireshed Coalition (host and facilitator)

How to join: GSFFC Facebook page under “events”

RSVP now to join the discussion!

Read a recently published Santa Fe New Mexican opinion piece by Thursday's subject matter experts and revisit Wildfire Wednesdays blog #100 discussing this and other local fire and forest science resources.

Santa Fe Mountains Landscape Resiliency Project EA release & comment period

The Santa Fe National Forest announced on Friday, December 9 that they were reinitiating a 45-day objection period for the Santa Fe Mountains Landscape Resiliency Project environmental assessment (EA). This legal document incorporates heritage, wildlife, and a number of other surveys which describe the current condition of the landscape and assess the impact of a number of potential forest and fuels resiliency treatment options.

The SFMLRP draft decision notice by the US Forest Service highlights the need to make the forested landscapes around Santa Fe more resilient to the threats of climate change, drought, and wildfire. This need has been realized in collaboration with other federal agencies, state, local, and Tribal representatives, and non-governmental and community organizations, including the Greater Santa Fe Fireshed Coalition.

Those who previously submitted comments during this EA’s previous scoping or comment periods can submit a new objection during the 45-day objection period, or by January 23, 2023.

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The GSFFC is a coalition of public and private organizations. The GSFFC is not a subdivision of the State of New Mexico, as defined in the state’s Open Meetings Act, §§ 10-15-1 to 10-15-4 NMSA 1978. Although federal agencies participate in the GSFFC, the Coalition is not a federal advisory board and was not created by a federal agency, as defined by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5.U.S.C. app. 2, §§ 1 to 16 (2012). The GSFFC operates informally to support its partners, and is not incorporated as a non-profit, 501(C)(3), partnership, or other legal status.