Hi FAC NM Members,
Fall provides an important time to reflect. After a busy spring and summer, let’s take some time to acknowledge what worked and what didn’t in our wildfire preparedness and community resilience activities. This is how the network can grow and adapt through time. Please share your stories with us at FAC NM!
This week’s Wildfire Wednesday features:
Wildfire Wednesdays Live Speaker Series: Debut October 7th, 6:00pm
FAC NM Leader Profile: Sean Ludden, Cuidad Soil and Water Conservation District
A 20-minute version of Paul Hessburg’s Era of Megafires
Best,
Gabe
Wildfire Wednesdays Live Speaker Series Debut!
FAC NM is excited to feature Wildfire Wednesdays Live. This speaker series will share weekly presentations with forestry and fire personalities around the Santa Fe area that can inform our local conversations about wildfire prevention and preparedness. Although many aspects of these presentations will only apply to The Santa Fe landscape, they may provide useful education elsewhere and potentially spur additional endeavors by others in the FAC NM network. Presentations will be livestreamed through The Santa Fe National Forest Facebook and weekly links will be provided in our regular Wildfire Wednesdays newsletters. Please join us for the kickoff of Wildfire Wednesdays Live on October 7th at 6:00pm. Come for the speakers, stay for the interactive Q&A in the chat. Save-the-date and stay tuned for more information.
FAC NM Leader Profile: Sean Ludden, Cuidad Soil and Water Conservation District
All the uncertainty and unexpected changes of 2020 have forced us, and the ways we interact, to adapt. Sharing information about forest management and wildfire preparedness during covid-19 social distancing guidelines has been no exception.
In response to social distancing challenges, FAC NM Leader Sean Ludden with Ciudad Soil and Water Conservation District, began thinking creatively about how he could reach members of his community in the Sandia Mountains east of Albuquerque, NM (East Mountains) about forest and fire management while meeting social distancing guidelines.
To read the full story about FAC NM Leader Sean Ludden, click here.
Era of Megafires: Now Available to the Public
Trailer for Era of Megafires, for full film, click the link below
Megafires, wildfires over 100,000 acres, are currently burning our western landscape. How did we get here and what can be done about it? Dr. Paul Hessburg, research landscape ecologist for the US Forest Service, has spent the last 40 years learning about how we got here and what can be done about it.
Watch the full film here: https://vimeo.com/313468778