PECOS, NM – Aerial rehabilitation operations continue over the Santa Fe National Forest today as teams work to stabilize soils after the Tres Lagunas Fire. The Tres Lagunas Post-Fire Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Team and contractors report a successful weekend of rehabilitation and soil stabilization treatments over the burn scar within the Santa Fe National Forest. To promote forest regrowth, the BAER team is dropping five types of grasses from an aircraft at specific burn scar locations identified in an assessment. The most productive aerial operations occurred on Sunday, with six plane-loads of seeds getting dropped prior to afternoon rains. Five plane-loads were dropped on Saturday and four on Friday, for a total of 15 as of Sunday night. Each plane-load contains 4,400 pounds of seed. The operations are continuing Monday and until 1,141 acres of public lands are successfully treated. The air craft is staged at the Las Vegas, NM airport. Seed is loaded into the craft...