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Smoke from the Las Conchas fire in 2011. This is a partial and incomplete list of wildfires in the US state of New Mexico. New Mexico has dry, windy, and often hot weather conditions that often produce moderate to severe wildfires.
A heavy gauge metal barrier protects Forest Road 263 and the canyon west of Montezuma, New Mexico, added as a method of flood and debris control following the fire. Workers from the city of Las Vegas, New Mexico dumping stone and earth to form a breaker to reinforce a bridge from potentially hazardous post-fire flooding of the Gallinas creek.
By 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt had more than doubled the forest-reserve acreage, and Congress responded by limiting the president's ability to proclaim new reserves. The National Forest System underwent a major reorganization in 1908, and in 1911 Congress authorized new additions to the system under the authority of the Weeks Act.
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Sep. 9—Firefighters continued to work Saturday to suppress a wildfire that prompted the evacuation of two small Northern New Mexico communities, El Valle and Las Trampas, on Friday afternoon. An ...
More information about the fires is being communicated via radio broadcast in the area through 1490 AM, as well as the Lincoln County New Mexico incident information website. Residents are also ...
Ponil Complex Fire: New Mexico: Also called the Philmont fire. 2002: 31,016 acres (12,552 ha) Mt. Zirkel Complex Fire: Colorado: Started August. 2002: 467,066 acres (189,015 ha) Rodeo–Chediski Fire: Arizona: Threatened, but did not burn the town of Show Low, Arizona. 2002: 137,760 acres (55,750 ha) Hayman Fire in Pike National Forest: Colorado
Sep. 27—New Mexicans might have a smoke filled weekend — smoke that's coming from fires set by the U.S. Forest Service. Fire managers from the Santa Fe National Forest began the North Joaquin ...