by Web Editor | Jul 10, 2015 | News, News/PR
With storm clouds come lightning, and in the desert Southwest, that means wildfires may be swift to follow. This summer’s increase in rain across much of New Mexico means conditions are ripe for wildland fire crews to help naturally caused fires move across forests...
by Web Editor | Jul 8, 2013 | News, News/PR
If you doubt that climate change is transforming the American landscape, go to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sweltering temperatures there have broken records this summer, and a seemingly permanent orange haze of smoke hangs in the air from multiple wildfires. Take a ride...
by Web Editor | May 13, 2013 | News, News/PR
Two small but unseasonably early wildfires burning in northern California’s wine country and another wind-whipped blaze farther south likely are a harbinger of a nasty summer fire season across the West. Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in...
by Web Editor | Jun 1, 2012 | News, News/PR
A massive wildfire that has burned more than 265 square miles in the Gila National Forest has become the largest fire in New Mexico history, fire officials confirmed Wednesday. The erratic blaze grew overnight to more than 170,000 acres, surpassing a blaze last year...