Wildfires Transform Valles Caldera
NOT FAR BEHIND the ranger station, the forest ends. Sunlight floods over grasses, wildflowers, and burnt trunks still standing after the most recent wildfire. The 2013 Thompson Ridge Fire charred the…
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Tag: Wildfire
A Greener Way to Grill
PICURIS PUEBLO’S FORESTRY department is on a mission to make cookouts more environmentally responsible. The pueblo offers all-natural wood charcoal made from piñon, juniper, ponderosa pine, cedar, and…
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2024 True Heroes
Meet New Mexico Magazine's 2024 True Heroes on YouTube: @newmexicomag Thank you to our partners KOB4, New Mexico Tourism Department, and the New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department…
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2024 True Heroes: Logan Fleharty
ON JUNE 17, the swift ferocity of the Salt and South Fork fires swept into Ruidoso, catching the people of the tight-knit mountain village off guard. “I’ve never seen so much heat and smoke so…
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Forged in Fire
IN APRIL, Kathryn Mahan and her husband, Jamie Knutson, picked their way over trees strewn across the Rito Chavez Trail #220, near San Ignacio on the eastern slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains…
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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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The Story of Smokey Bear
CREATED OVER 75 YEARS AGO as a cartoon mascot who warned, “Only you can prevent forest fires,” Smokey Bear found his living embodiment six years later—a fire-singed cub clinging to a charred tree in…
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