Smokey Bear Turns 80
“SMOKEY BEAR’S ‘GOTCHA DAY’ is in May,” says Smokey Bear Historical Park manager Mary Lavin, using the modern term for pet adoption anniversaries. The real-life orphan cub, who’d been badly burned in…
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Tag: New Mexico Wildfire
True Heroes 2023: Carmen Baca
THE SPRING MORNING started the same as any other for writer Carmen Baca. But around 2 p.m. on April 6, 2022, from her home in Cañoncito de las Manuelitas, Baca noticed smoke snaking across the sky off…
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Why We Love NM: Our Resilience Is Inspiring
M ARY LAVIN GREW UP IN THE MIDWEST dreaming of the forests and mountains of the Southwest. She moved to New Mexico after studying forestry and natural resource management, and first worked in timber…
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True Heroes 2022: Sean Sinclair
WHEN THE HERMITS PEAK/CALF CANYON FIRE erupted this spring, growing from a prescribed burn in the Santa Fe National Forest into the worst wildfire in New Mexico history, Sean Sinclair didn’t hesitate…
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