New Mexico - Stewardship Contracting Projects

Forest Service

  • Sign Camp Stewardship Project, Gila National Forest
    The Sign camp stewardship project will reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire and improve forest health. The contract was awarded in FY 2004.
  • Zuni-Four Corners Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Cibola National Forest
    The primary objectives of this project are to reduce standing vegetation fuel ladders through tree thinning and the removal of biomass, including small sawlog and special forest products. A contract was awarded in FY 2003 and this project is now complete.
  • Jemez Campgrounds Forest Health Stewardship Project, Santa Fe National Forest
    The goal of the Jemez Campground Forest Health Stewardship Project is to decrease fuel loading, to reduce the risk of wildfire within and adjacent to these four campgrounds. The number of project acres proposed for treatment is approximately 448. Two contracts were awarded in FY 2004.
  • Outlook Restoration, Lincoln National Forest
    Outlook Restoration will reduce both hazardous fuels and stand density while maintaining and improving key wildlife habitat across approximately 287 acres of Wildland-Urban Interface.

Bureau of Land Management

  • Chimayo Scout, Taos Field Office
    The project has numerous goals with the primarily objective of converting a highly stocked pinyon-juniper forest to a more natural pinyon-juniper savannah, & the re-establishment of native grasslands. This project will greatly reduce the hazardous fuels conditions at a wildland urban interface (WUI) with rural homes & facilities adjacent to the eastern & western boundaries of the project area. The large Chimayo Scout Reservation and Camp Rand building complex lay just outside the BLM property line to the east of the project area.
  • San Ignacio/Rito, Albuquerque Field Office
    The objectives of this 1500 acre project is to remove pinyon juniper from sites where they were historically absent, reestablish the historical variation of density & distribution of trees on woodland savannah sites, reduce the density of trees on woodland, reestablish the historical dominance of Pinyon Pine within the project area & improve the health and resiliency of the grass/shrub & woodlands within the project area. These objectives are related to the overall goal of improving local watershed conditions within the San Ignacio drainage basin & providing local communities with commercial opportunities. This project is in Catron County.
  • Wind Mountain, Taos Field Office
    The project has numerous goals with the primarily objective to convert a highly stocked pinyon-juniper forest to a more natural pinyon-juniper savannah, and the re-establishment of native grasslands. This project will greatly reduce the hazardous fuels conditions at a wildland urban interface (WUI) with rural communities adjacent to the southern boundary of the project area.

Location: http://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/stewardship/nm.shtml
Last modified: Thursday June 14 2007