Sierra Los Pinos

NWS News:

Prolonged Winter Weather Pattern Continues

Record-breaking snow impacting portions of central and northern New Mexico will continue to ease in intensity through the remainder of the morning, with warmer air making a solid push from southwest to northeast as the day progresses.

This will force snow levels higher, with significant additional snow during the afternoon and evening focused over the northern mountains and lower elevations near the New Mexico Colorado state line.

Due to inclement weather, all events related to Fire and Ice are cancelled.

Bob Wilson- Mayor
Village of Jemez Springs

The New Mexico Hub of the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (FACLN)

Peer-Learning Workshop Thursday, March 19th 9:00 – 5:00pm
Albuquerque Fire Department Training Center
11500 Sunset Gardens Rd. SW, Albuquerque, NM

FACLN is a network of fire and land managers, businesses, NGOs, elected officials, Firewise communities, tribal governments, and anyone else interested in making their community more Fire Adapted.

SOUTHWEST JEMEZ MOUNTAIN COLLABORATIVE FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION PROJECT

Photo R.W.

Save the Dates for the All-Hands Workshop which will take place between March 12 and 13, 2015 at the Santa Fe Community College (Jemez Rooms).

Thursday (March 12) All–Hands Monitoring Presentations from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Friday (March 13) Discussion of 2016 Project Implementation 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Massive Forest Restoration Project in the Jemez
Bringing Back the Natural Jemez
By R.W. JEMEZ DAILY POST

You’ve never seen anything like it.
The plan is to restore the Jemez to a condition of centuries ago.

A massive landscape restoration project is about to take place in the Jemez.

There is a water outage in SLP for folks on Los Griegos from FR 10 to Cerra Pellado, including Aspen Grove and Lauer Lane. A back hoe has been ordered to get at the problem, and members from the water committee and other neighbors are working on the issue. They hope to have it resolved today. Thank you for your patience, and thank you to the folks that are working on the leak!

No, it’s not juniper pollen, not yet, but smoke from a prescribed burn is predicted to spread over a wide area.

The Santa Fe National Forest fire managers are preparing to conduct a prescribed burn above the Jemez Valley, on Virgin Mesa. If fuel moisture levels and air quality conditions are favorable, the burn will start to take place on Monday, Feb. 23, and last through to the end of March. The burn will take place a mere 1 mile away from “downtown” Jemez Springs, and will take in about 450 acres.

• This week, the FS will begin a 450 acre burn on Virgin Mesa (west of Soda Dam), weather dependent.
  • Village will see smoke, and we might also, but not as much as the last burn.
• Thompson Ridge and Paliza (south) will begin next Fall.
• Bill King FMO, will be leaving the Jemez Ranger District, to work in Santa Fe National Forest, in Sante Fe. His last day is Feb. 22nd.
• This fire season, the FS has solid resources, with mostly returnees.