We're looking for a post-doc to join our exceptional GIS team! Apply through the Highlands University job portal.

🤔Are non-native trees automatically bad? Or might they hold value in a changing climate? One of our ecological monitoring team members explores the debate when it comes to Russian olives. nmfwri.org/news/a-mixed...

Registration is open for Confluence 2026! We’re excited to share this opportunity from our partners at the Western Collaborative Conservation Network, taking place May 19–21 in Fort Collins, CO. Learn more: loom.ly/tYRvoFA

Sign up soon for this great FREE training opportunity to learn methods for effective collaboration. Sign up here - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Contractor Workforce Fair & Workshop, Dec. 2, 5:30-8 PM at El Rito Campus Northern NM College. Businesses and contractors in the forest restoration economy are invited to attend, network, and learn about licensing/insurance/funding. To register, contact Luz: [email protected]; 505-983-8992

New Mexico Forestry Division is seeking a Community Wildfire Defense Program Manager to direct and engage in forest and watershed management and community wildfire risk reduction. Apply by Dec. 5 with job ID #159915 through the State job portal www.spo.state.nm.us/work-for-new...

More guidance for Mora County private well owners from NM DHSEM regarding reopening fire claim to cover potential fire-related heavy metal contamination in wells.

Information about Mora County water resources, contacts, and the NM Dept of Health advisory regarding recent heavy metal contamination in some wells is all available on the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Post-fire Resources Hub. hermits-peak-calf-canyon-fire-resources-nmhu.hub.arcgis.com/pages/extern...

Congrats to everyone involved in this important work!

🤝 Partnerships and careful planning make for successful prescribed burns, a critical tool for restoring healthy fire-adapted forests. In this great story, a new prescribed burn participant reflects on the experience at an Oct burn on State Land near Black Lake, NM.

🔥 Firewise and Fire Adapted Communities advance wildfire risk reduction. Find out how in the latest edition of The Spark by @forestguild @NMForestry @USDOI @fireadaptednet and NMFWRI . #WildfirePreparedness

👁️ If you haven't checked out the NM Collaborative Conservation Hub developed by our Collaboration Program, take a look! 💻 It is loaded with information! collaboration-hub-nmfwri-nmhu.hub.arcgis.com

A fact sheet from NM Dept of Health on the Mora County wells and heavy metal contamination. These wells are within the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon burn scar from 2022; the source of any metal contamination has yet to be determined.

We still have a few spots left in our free Community Chainsaw Refresher Class! Bought a new chainsaw but never used one before? Pretty skilled with a chainsaw but looking for some maintenance tips? This class is for you! Sign up via email at [email protected] or call 505-426-2080.

We're hiring for an exciting new position at our institute - a Digital Content and Outreach Specialist! Please note a change in the link here. Apply directly through the Highlands University job portal:

We've got an excellent Bark Beetle Management – QIA workshop coming up Nov. 15 with our partners at NM Forestry Division. We look forward to seeing you there!

Save the Date! Nov. 15 is the next QIA workshop.

"We investigated if causal factors could explain wildfire burn severity of the Quebec 2023 wildfires...Forest mgmt is implicated through the accumulated impacts of harvesting, which have skewered age class distributions toward younger [more flammable] forests." 🌍 www.publish.csiro.au/WF/justaccep...

Researchers at the Ecological Restoration Institute are exploring how biochar can boost land management, from restoring soils to capturing carbon. tinyurl.com/5y2555hk

It's the season for prescribed fire - an important step to reducing fuel loads in our forests. This article from Ecology & Society focuses on RX burns in Greece and how proactive prevention can get lost as a method to reduce catastrophic wildfires. ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss3/a...

We're hiring! We're looking for a Digital Content and Outreach professional who is interested in forest and watershed health, enjoys creating with social media and digital tools, and likes interacting with the public. Apply via the NMHU portal.

Do you enjoy communication and are familiar with ArcGIS? Do you like interacting with the public? Have an interest in wildfire mitigation? Our institute is hiring a Digital Content and Outreach Specialist! Find out more and apply through the NMHU portal: nmhu.peopleadmin.com/postings/9954

Check out the latest events and more in the Hermit's Peak-Calf Canyon Post-Fire Resources Hub. hermits-peak-calf-canyon-fire-resources-nmhu.hub.arcgis.com/pages/5db832...

Come work with us! Hiring: Conservation Specialist - full-time, exempt, term position with the Conservation Science Center nmhu.peopleadmin.com/postings/9801 Ecological Monitoring Technician - full-time, non-exempt, term position nmhu.peopleadmin.com/postings/9884

Fire Cafe happening tomorrow! A free webinar to discuss the ReSHAPE TWIG wildfire and fuels reduction geodatabase and how it can help fire and land managers.

Coming up Sept. 23 - how can TWIG help fire and land managers better visualize the intersection of forest treatments and wildfire for on-the-ground decisions? Find out more during this webinar from the ReSHAPE team working on TWIG, a powerful geodatabase.

We’re excited to see @Esri highlight our partnership and the powerful work being done with TWIG (Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase). When data is available to those who need it, we can better protect communities and ecosystems. Check out the blog: www.esri.com/en-us/indust... #SWERI

Our updated PJ Protocols guide is now available on our website. nmfwri.org/wp-content/u...

Upcoming Fire CAFE webinar! Join Southwest Fire Ecology on Tuesday Sept. 23 at 1 pm ET to learn about how the ReSHAPE Program compiles data on fuels treatments and wildfires through the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG). Register at ow.ly/nenl50WQrW9

Our new FIRENM program is rolling out workshops. This one on botany and grass identification was held in August. Stay tuned for more! nmfwri.org/news/firenm-...

Native New Mexican and George Washington University student Nicholas Aguirre Zafiro made this great little video about Riparian Systems for Planet Forward. planetforward.org/story/vermej...

A multi-disciplinary team of scientists took a horizon scan of the wildfire landscape and identified some critical areas to focus post-wildfire forest restoration research. Here's an overview of their findings. sweri.org/wp-content/u...

In 2022, the 341,471 acre Hermit's Peak/CalfCanyon wildfire devastated the area near Las Vegas, NM, the institute's home. It was not the first and won't be the last megafire in the state. See the NM fire history here: youtu.be/81CYb6KJnPE?...

We thought it fitting that our first post on Bluesky should be to reshare some of the excellent forest research our SWERI colleagues at @eri-nau.bsky.social are doing.