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Official Agency Press Releases and/or Restriction and Closure Orders for New Mexico
Date: September 28, 2009
SANTA FE NATIONAL FOREST TO BURN THINNED MATERIALS
Santa Fe Watershed Prescribed Burn Planned for September 29
Forest Service fire managers on the Espanola Ranger District are planning to continue burning previously thinned material in the Santa Fe Watershed beginning Tuesday, September 29th if conditions are favorable. During the four day burning period, appropmately 1,500-acres will be treated with hand and aerial ignitions. Smoke from the burn will visible from the city of Santa Fe, east of Santa Fe, Tesuque, from I-25 and to the east from Glorieta to the Pecos Canyon area. Smoke may settle into lower elevations and in drainage areas during the evenings, but should lift by mid-morning.
The Santa Fe Watershed Project was designed to reduce dense small-diameter tree stands within a 7,270 acre area in the watershed that pose a wildfire threat to both the watershed and the city of Santa Fe. Providing 40 percent of Santa Fe’s water, the watershed is one of the main sources of water for the city Santa Fe. Since 2002 when the project began, all thinning has been completed, and approximately 3,400 acres of piles have been burned successfully. There remains 1,500 acres with piles of thinned material in the treated area.
For more information on the Santa Fe Watershed Burn please visit www.fs.fed.us/r3/sfe or call the Espanola Ranger District at 505-753-7331.
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