Interesting News
'Tree Hugger' Has Burning Passion For Forest Health
PENASCO-Hart Allex slopped a dollop of gasoline on a jumbled pile of snow-dampened ponderosa pine branches and pited a match on it. The flames sputtered, then suddenly flared up with a crackle. Allex, a retired teacher and builder, had lit up a dozen piles by 8:30 a.m. on a chilly December morning. A crew of local men he's hired monitored the burning piles in the swath of forest Allex owns on a mountainside flanking this Northern New Mexico village.
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Tree rings reveal increased fire risk for southwestern US
Historical record points to climate patterns that could prime
the region for an intense fire season.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01686-y
2017 Presentation to the NM Assessors
On January, 19, 2017, Socorro District Forester Doug Boykin,
Bernalillo District Forester Todd Haines, Chairman Matt Silva and Vic-Chair Tom
Bennion meet with the Assessors’ Affiliate of the NM Association of Counties to
discuss the tree farm program and how the statute for agricultural tax status
affects certified tree farms.
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