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Displays currently available vegetation treatment (planned and completed) project data from various sources, along with the group's April 2015 focus area, surface ownership, HUC 8, 10 and 12, HUC 10 labeled, Gila NF fire history, Gila NF FACTS activities, topographic basemap. 24"x 36" landscape orientation, exported from ArcMap 10.2.2 as pdf at 100 dots per inch.

Position open until July 9, 2015. Stationed in Santa Fe, NM

Presentation made by Steve Bassett to the Coordinating Group on April 3, 2015

It’s not just one day, we get an entire month to celebrate trees and the importance they have to all New Mexicans. The State Forestry Division wants everyone to celebrate Arbor Month by planting or caring for trees and taking part in community activities.

Map 1: March 2015 Priority Project Area Watershed map shows the group's current Priority Project Area with Watershed HUC 8 (labeled), HUC 10 (not labeled), HUC 12 (labeled), Surface ownership (corrected version by Gila NF); Gila NF Priority Landscape, Grant Co 911 Roads layer; Tiger 2010 surface water (streams and waterbodies), GNIS Populated places, Shaded Relief image beneath all; some place names are labeled. 24"x 36" (D size), landscape, pdf

2012 Annual Report

Report and Recommendations from the May 29-30, 2013 Workshop on the State and Future of U.S. Forestry and the Forest Industry. Prepared by M. Goergen, J. Harding, C. Owen, M. Rey and L. Scarlett. "Both the forest products industry, and accordingly, the forestry sector in the United States... have experienced extreme volatility, unprecedented challenges, and substantial change over the past two decades. In many areas, old operating assumptions have been challenged and discarded at an increasingly rapid pace, and practitioners, policy makers, researchers and educators have struggled to keep up. A group of leaders met in Washington, DC to discuss this changing context and its implications for forests and forestry..."

The AWRA Conference, titled "Healthy Forests = Healthy Waters", is accepting abstracts until FEBRUARY 8, 2013. The conference itself will be held June 27-28, 2013. The conference sessions will be relevant to water managers, aquatic biologists/ecologists, planners, engineers, forestland managers, economists, consultants, water purveyors and industrial users of water.

Over the past decade, fuel treatments using mechanical mastication have become increasingly common. Mastication provides a means to treat fuels that are otherwise difficult to treat with prescribed fire. However, a number of questions have arisen regarding the effectiveness and impact of the treatments. We spoke with land managers across the Southwest who have implemented mastication treatments and observed their performance and effects. Some of their insights are presented here along with summaries of research conducted on mastication treatments.

The two-page bulletin is produced by the NM Tree Farm Committee. It contains a letter from the Executive Director, information on the State Inspector Program, and a message from the Chairman.