As a wildland fire fighter I believe that communities need to understand and learn to live amongst wild fire. This can be accomplished by educating the public and learning from one another as professionals. I would like to see fire management moving in the right direction and want to be a part of that.
Occupation: Wildland Coordinator
Email: ghanson@angelfirenm.gov
City: Angel Fire
County: Colfax
I am the public affairs officer for the Gila National Forest. Sharing information and educating the public about Fire Adapted Communities is part of my primary mission. I enjoy living in New Mexico and want to share knowledge wherever I can.
Occupation: Public Affairs Officer
Email: marta.call@usda.gov
City: Silver City
County: Grant
Email: karenakoestner@gmail.com
City: Santa Fe
County: Santa Fe
My interest in forest and fire management stems from the social and cultural dynamics related to resource development and human quality of life. While at Oregon State University, I worked with Fire Science and Management professor Dr. John Bailey and Extension Specialist Dr. Emily Jane Davis to create interdisciplinary research that investigated the social values and preferences surrounding wildfire risk reduction treatments on federal forestland. It is my goal to conduct research that bridges the gap between science and management, and I hope that by engaging with the Fire Adapted Communities New Mexico Learning Network I can continue to develop my skills as a research collaborator.
Occupation: Forest Stewards Guild Program Assistant
Email: gabe@forestguild.org
City: Santa Fe
County: Santa Fe
As high school environmental science instructor and a forest land home owner I am interested in supporting the effort to create healthier, fire safe forests here in New Mexico as well as the rest of the country. I live in an area that is rated as high risk and am in the process of working with neighbors to start educating folks in this area about the importance of forest management hoping to establish a long term forest management plan for our area.
Occupation: Teacher/land owner
Email: mister.schali@gmail.com
City: Ramah
County: McKinley
Occupation: Forester
Organization: Philmont Scout Ranch
Email: zach.seeger@scouting.org
Phone: 505-269-5022
City: Cimarron
County: Colfax
Website:
As forest fires continue to worsen, the importance of proper forest management is becoming more important. Timberlake has a great Volunteer Fire Dept., but we are in the middle of the Cibola National Forest. We have one main access for ingress and egress with the second being Forest Road 157, which in a 4 wheel drive vehicle takes 1 1/2 hours to drive thru the forest to get to the McGaffey area and close to I-40. Several of my neighbors and myself intend to promote forest management/this network to others in our area.
Occupation: Retired
Organization: Emergency Evacuation Coordinator for Timberlake Ranch Landowners Association
Email: Mrsdw19dw@aol.com
Phone: 505-269-5022
City: Ramah
County: McKinley
Website: www.trnews.info
Occupation: Program Director
Organization: The Nature Conservancy
City: Albuquerque
County: Bernalillo
Website: nature.org/newmexico
I have lived on the edge of the USFS for over 20 years. I have received two separate grants for thinning my property in that time and have a bit of a longer term perspective on watching the ecosystem improve over time with thinning. I also offer aerial mapping services for pre and post thinning assessments for fire management.
Occupation: Aerial mapping, LiDAR scanning, 3D photogrammetry modeling
Organization:
Email: scott@SWscanning.com
City: Santa Fe
County: Santa Fe
Website:
I live in the WUI near Jemez Springs, and I currently serve on the board of the Greater Eastern Jemez Wildland Urban Interface Corporation (Firewise group). I am working with the Jemez Firewise group, neighbors and the Forest Service to secure funds and implement forest fuels treatments, education, etc.
Occupation: Professor of dendrochronolology & watershed management, emeritus
Organization: University of Arizona
Email: treering1748@gmail.com
City: Jemez Springs
County: Sandoval
Website: https://ltrr.arizona.edu/
Our non-profit international high school is situated on 400 acres of Ponderosa Pine and Pinon forest. The forest has dangerous levels of fuel loading, and is in need of thinning and management. I teach at UWC-USA and direct our Agroecology Research Center, which has been charged with generating a plan for reducing these fuel loads.
Occupation: Director - UWC-USA Agroecology Research Center
Organization: United World College - USA
City: Montezuma
County: San Miguel
Website: www.uwc-usa.org
As a Fire Adapted Community practitioner living and working in Arizona I want to pay attention to the great work of our southwestern partners and the similar challenges we all face. My experience ranges from fire management, fuel mitigation, forestry, codes/ordinances, partnerships and community outreach.
Occupation: AZ Statewide Good Neighbor Authority Coordinator
Organization: Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire, The Greater Flagstaff Forests Partnership & AZ Fire Adapted Communities
Email: mbrehl@dffm.az.gov
City: Flagstaff, AZ
County: Coconino
Website: https://dffm.az.gov/ | www.gffp.org | www.azfac.org
Occupation: Program Coordinator
Organization: Forest Stewards Guild
email: kendal@forestguild.org
City: Santa Fe
County: Santa Fe
Website: foreststewardsguild.org
Since 2002, Nick has been a forester and firefighter providing recommendations to individual homeowner groups. Nick's objective is to educate and implement change from one house to a whole watershed so that wildland fire is not a destructive but a renewing force.
Occupation: Capitan District Forester
Organization: NM Forestry Division
email: nick.smokovich@state.nm.us
City: Capitan
County: Lincoln
Website: nmforestry.com
Canyon Young holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Range Science from New Mexico State University, and is the owner and operator of Cienega Ecosystems providing a wide range of land management services including forestry thinning and defensible space. Canyon is a former USFS Wildland Firefighter, and current seasonal employee of the USFS on trails crew.
Occupation: Ecosystem Consultant
Organization: Cienega Ecosystems
email: 505cienega@gmail.com
City: Sandia Park
County: Bernalillo
Website: https://www.cienegaecosystems.com/
Occupation: Executive Director
Organization:
email: jlaksnm@yahoo.com
City: Santa Fe
County: Santa Fe
Website: www.chamapeak.org
Occupation: Executive Director
Organization: Chama Peak Land Aliiance
email: emily.hohman@chamapeak.org
City: Pagosa Springs
County: Rio Arriba
Website: www.chamapeak.org
The SW Region of the Forest Service is interested in supporting restoration partnerships of all types and scales. Fire prevention, mitigation, suppression, rehabilitation, and management all present opportunities for partnerships with the Forest Service.
Occupation: Restoration Partnership Coordinator
Organization: USDA, US Forest Service, SW Region
email: johnewaconda@fs.fed.us
City: Albuquerque
County: Bernalillo
Website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/r3/home
I live in the WUI north of Taos and have watched big fires burn on three sides of us, including the Taos Pueblo Fire. I organized the members of our road to get Soil and Water funding to create a sheltered fuel break along our road to allow safer egress and ingress in case of fire. I work diligently to keep my 3 acres thinned and hopefully fire safe as well as continue to encourage my neighbors to do what they can.
Occupation: Retired
Organization: El Salto Firewise Community
email: bones40@taosnet.com
City: Arroyo Seco
County: Taos
Occupation: Student
Organization: University of New Mexico
email: ekalhor@unm.edu
City: Albuquerque
County: Bernalillo