Gila Wilderness
The Gila Wilderness area is located within the Gila National Forest in Southwest New Mexico and is excited to join with friends and partners to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Gila Wilderness Area in 2024! (USDA Forest Service video by Preston Keres)“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still…
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We live with fire
Fire will save the forest. This is something that members of the Mescalero Apache Tribe have known for millennia. They have used prescribed fire and other traditional scientific methods within their ancestral lands – about 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border – as part of their traditional lands management practices. They want others to realize how fire can protect communities and restore…
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Cross-boundary partnership brings together lands and people to prevent future wildfires
Forest Service and partners during a field tour on the San Juan National Forest. (The Forest Stewards Guild photo by Esme Cadiente)
Across the arid Southwest, prolonged drought, increased fuel loading and past fire exclusion left many communities at risk for catastrophic wildfire."We've been…
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Forest Service hosts Moroccan partners in New Mexico, exchanging watershed knowhow
San Antonio Creek, Jemez Springs. Visiting small stream structures and discussing monitoring requirements and tools. USDA Forest Service photo by Angela Trujillo.
WASHINGTON, DC—The USDA Forest Service’s International Programs, the San Juan National Forest and Santa Fe National Forest…