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We're hiring for an exciting new position at our institute - a Digital Content and Outreach Specialist! Please note a change in the link here. Apply directly through the Highlands University job portal:

We've got an excellent Bark Beetle Management – QIA workshop coming up Nov. 15 with our partners at NM Forestry Division. We look forward to seeing you there!

Save the Date! Nov. 15 is the next QIA workshop.

Exploring the determinants of the 2023 Quebec mega-wildfire burn severity Background The Quebec wildfires in 2023 attracted international attention, affecting 4.5 M ha of boreal forest. Aims We investigated if causal factors could be identified that explained spatial vari...

"We investigated if causal factors could explain wildfire burn severity of the Quebec 2023 wildfires...Forest mgmt is implicated through the accumulated impacts of harvesting, which have skewered age class distributions toward younger [more flammable] forests." 🌍 www.publish.csiro.au/WF/justaccep...

Researchers at the Ecological Restoration Institute are exploring how biochar can boost land management, from restoring soils to capturing carbon. tinyurl.com/5y2555hk

It's the season for prescribed fire - an important step to reducing fuel loads in our forests.

This article from Ecology & Society focuses on RX burns in Greece and how proactive prevention can get lost as a method to reduce catastrophic wildfires.

ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss3/a...

We're hiring! We're looking for a Digital Content and Outreach professional who is interested in forest and watershed health, enjoys creating with social media and digital tools, and likes interacting with the public. Apply via the NMHU portal.

Do you enjoy communication and are familiar with ArcGIS? Do you like interacting with the public? Have an interest in wildfire mitigation? Our institute is hiring a Digital Content and Outreach Specialist! Find out more and apply through the NMHU portal: nmhu.peopleadmin.com/postings/9954

Post-Fire Community Events This page will provide access to announcements for upcoming meetings, events and workshops, in addition to recordings of these events when available.

Check out the latest events and more in the Hermit's Peak-Calf Canyon Post-Fire Resources Hub. hermits-peak-calf-canyon-fire-resources-nmhu.hub.arcgis.com/pages/5db832...

Come work with us!
Hiring:
Conservation Specialist - full-time, exempt, term position with the Conservation Science Center
nmhu.peopleadmin.com/postings/9801
Ecological Monitoring Technician - full-time, non-exempt, term position
nmhu.peopleadmin.com/postings/9884

Fire Cafe happening tomorrow! A free webinar to discuss the ReSHAPE TWIG wildfire and fuels reduction geodatabase and how it can help fire and land managers.

Coming up Sept. 23 - how can TWIG help fire and land managers better visualize the intersection of forest treatments and wildfire for on-the-ground decisions? Find out more during this webinar from the ReSHAPE team working on TWIG, a powerful geodatabase.

A New National Platform Transforms Wildfire Data into Actionable Insights Discover TWIG, a national platform combining wildfire and fuel treatment data into usable insights with interactive maps and open access tools.

We’re excited to see @Esri highlight our partnership and the powerful work being done with TWIG (Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase). When data is available to those who need it, we can better protect communities and ecosystems.

Check out the blog: www.esri.com/en-us/indust...

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Our updated PJ Protocols guide is now available on our website. nmfwri.org/wp-content/u...

Hello to our esteemed ERI colleagues! Nothing but BlueSky do we see! 😁

Upcoming Fire CAFE webinar! Join Southwest Fire Ecology on Tuesday Sept. 23 at 1 pm ET to learn about how the ReSHAPE Program compiles data on fuels treatments and wildfires through the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG). Register at ow.ly/nenl50WQrW9

FIRENM Hosts Botany, Grasses Workshop - New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute Do you know your lemmas from your glumes? NMFWRI and NMDGF staff and student interns spent three days in a botany and grass workshop hosted in Las Vegas, NM this August as part of our FIRENM initiativ...

Our new FIRENM program is rolling out workshops. This one on botany and grass identification was held in August. Stay tuned for more! nmfwri.org/news/firenm-...

Wild Vermejo | What in the world is a riparian ecosystem? - Planet Forward Wetlands, streams, and the surrounding areas hold immense ecological importance. If you've never heard of a riparian ecosystem, click here!

Native New Mexican and George Washington University student Nicholas Aguirre Zafiro made this great little video about Riparian Systems for Planet Forward.
planetforward.org/story/vermej...

A multi-disciplinary team of scientists took a horizon scan of the wildfire landscape and identified some critical areas to focus post-wildfire forest restoration research. Here's an overview of their findings. sweri.org/wp-content/u...

YouTube video by NM FWRI Fire History in the Four Corners (1950 - 2024)

In 2022, the 341,471 acre Hermit's Peak/CalfCanyon wildfire devastated the area near Las Vegas, NM, the institute's home. It was not the first and won't be the last megafire in the state. See the NM fire history here: youtu.be/81CYb6KJnPE?...

We thought it fitting that our first post on Bluesky should be to reshare some of the excellent forest research our SWERI colleagues at @eri-nau.bsky.social are doing.