Coalition partner, Santa Fe Watershed Association, is hosting their 12th annual Santa Fe River Cleanup for Love your River Day on February 10th. Join us for hot cocoa, donuts, prizes and collective river clean up! Contact 505-820-1696 for more information or just show up at Frenchy's Field Barn at 10am on 2/10/18.
Volunteer opportunity! Wetland Restoration Work party 2/10
Wetland Restoration Work Party on the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve near La Cienega on February 10th starting at 9:30 am.
For more information and to RSVP, contact Yvonne: yvonne@appliedco.org
1/17 - Climate, fire, salamanders, and forests: through the lens of tree rings
Ellis Margolis is a research ecologist at the USGS New Mexico Landscapes Field Station, based in Santa Fe. He received a Ph.D. in Watershed Management from the University of Arizona. Since joining the USGS in 2015, he has continued his research on the interactions between fire, forests, and climate and specializes in dendrochronology (the study of tree rings dating). Presently, his research focuses on land use and climate effects on fire regimes and forests of the southwestern U.S.
Fantastic Failure: False Hope and the Four Mile Canyon Fire
Here is a great blog post on the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network website about lessons learned from the 2010 Four Mile Canyon fire near Boulder, CO. The author, Dave Lasky of Gravitas Peak Wildland Fire Module, personally treated 600 acres of forest within the burn scar prior to the burn. The blog post highlights the importance of following up mechanical treatments with prescribed fire to reduce surface fuels. The post also discusses how home construction, weather, and other factors often play a much larger role than vegetation in determining fire behavior and fire impacts to communities.