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2011 Wildland Fire Season in New Mexico -Forests and Woodlands

2011 Wildland Fire Season in New Mexico -Forests and Woodlands. Photo Credit: NOAA. Dr. Douglas Cram New Mexico State University. Composite Satellite Image 2011 (NOAA) . NOAA Satellite Image June 20, 2011 . Range Improvement Task Force

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2011 Wildland Fire Season in New Mexico -Forests and Woodlands

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  1. 2011 Wildland Fire Season in New Mexico -Forests and Woodlands Photo Credit: NOAA Dr. Douglas Cram New Mexico State University

  2. Composite Satellite Image 2011 (NOAA)

  3. NOAA Satellite Image June 20, 2011

  4. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Photo by John Fowler

  5. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Photo by Kristen Hornig

  6. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Photo by Kristen Hornig

  7. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Photo by Morgan Petroski

  8. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  9. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Photo by Burt Stalter

  10. 2011 Large SW Forest Fires White – 10,356 acres Las Chance – 53,342 Miller – 88,835 Horseshoe 2 – 222,954 Mayhill – 31,861 Wallow, AZ – 538,049 Track – 27,792 Wallow, NM – 15,407 Pacheco – 10,250 Las Conchas – 156, 593 Lookout – 22,687 Total – 1,178,126 acres Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  11. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  12. Burn Severity Mapping Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  13. Las Conchas Burn Severity • High 28,470 ac 25% • Moderate 39,910 ac 36% • Low 43,450 ac 39% “Not all of the acreage within the fire perimeters burned severely and in fact much was unburned or burned only at low and moderate severity.” Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  14. Low, Moderate, or High? Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  15. Low, Moderate, or High? Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  16. Low, Moderate, or High? Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  17. Low, Moderate, or High? Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  18. Moderate Burn Severity Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  19. Moderate Burn Severity Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  20. Las Conchas Burn Severity • High 28,470 ac 25% • Moderate 39,910 ac 36% • Low 43,450 ac 39% “…much of these areas burned as we would expect them to…” Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  21. 41 trees 135 years Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  22. 475+ yrs old 32+ fires Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  23. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  24. Doug Cram dcram@nmsu.edu 575-646-8130 Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

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