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3:10 pm
Fri August 17, 2012

Bingaman hears New Mexico climate change testimony

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2011's Las Conchas fire in the Jemez Mountains
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New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, D, was in Santa Fe today, listening to testimony about the impacts of climate change. During a field hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the senator heard what’s happening on the ground in New Mexico.

In his testimony, Governor Walter Dasheno of Santa Clara Pueblo pointed out that climate change contributed to last year’s Las Conchas fire. That fire burned more than 150,000 acres in the Jemez Mountains.

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Local News
9:23 am
Wed July 25, 2012

Signs of life in the Gila National Forest

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Sprouting seeds between two downed trees.
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Seeds sprouting along a severely burned hillside.
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Straw is loaded into a net in preparation for heli-mulching in the wake of the Whitewater-Baldy wildfire in the Gila National Forest.
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An outbound helicopter with a net full of straw headed out for an aerial mulching run.
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Even after the flames have died down, the impacts of a wildfire persist. Without tree and grass roots to absorb rainfall and hold soil in place, flooding can be a big problem.

In the wake of the Whitewater-Baldy Fire—which burned almost 300,000 acres in southwestern New Mexico—officials in the Gila National Forest have been working to get ahead of the summer rains and next year’s snowmelt.

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Local News
9:55 am
Mon July 23, 2012

Santa Fe National Forest plans to release travel map

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Overlooking the Rio Chama located in Northern New Mexico within the Coyote Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest.
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The Santa Fe National Forest is expected to come out with a map this fall that tells visitors where they can and cannot travel with motorized vehicles such as trucks and all terrain vehicles.

All national forests are required to create what are called "travel management plans" to control the impacts of motorized vehicles on natural resources.

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