Well boys, unfortunately, fire has come to ravage the forests of South Eastern New Mexico, I was hoping we could make it to the monsoons without burning, but this is what almost no snow and only about 4 days with any real rainfall since December.

That is prime elk country burning right there.

Sunset shot.

this spring, sure would be nice if we actually managed the forests again!

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

Here the "friends of the forest" would rather see the whole thing burn rather than allow sound management which would include logging and firewood cutting. They know the Forest Service will shut down indefinitely any areas that are burned. Biologists have told them with the water table what it is in the mountains, and the continued growth of Alamogordo and the Tularosa Basin sucking more and more water out of them, that we should have approx 100 trees per acre, not the 500+ we have in a lot of areas. A full grown Douglas Fir needs over 100 gallons/day to survive. Total crap is what we have here, the county has been trying to sue them to open up logging jobs, no luck so far.