The New Mexico
FLN currently has two major
areas of focus—it is a key partner in the Rio Grande Water Fund and also hosts the Burned Area Learning Network (BALN). The Rio Grande Water Fund is engaging
more than 80 private and public partners to fund and implement forest and
watershed treatments to improve forest health and reduce the risk of severe
wildfire in the Rio Grande watershed. Healthier forests across this
1.7-million-acre landscape will help secure the water supplies for Albuquerque
and surrounding communities, encompassing about half the state’s population. To mitigate the effects of
severe fires that do occur, the Burned Area Learning Network is working to
develop a robust landscape-scale approach to integrating post-fire response
into pre-fire planning.
Learn more:
Video: Rio Grande Water Fund: Safeguarding Recreation Now and into the Future
Notes from the Field: BALN Santa Clara Field Tour & Eastern Jemez Landscape Futures Workshop (2018)
Notes from the Field: The Greater Santa Fe Fireshed Coalition (2018)
Notes from the Field: Federal Burned Area Response Policies (2018)
Notes from the Field: BALN Learning After Wildfire Field Tour (2017)
