Posts Tagged ‘drought conditions’
Forests Under Siege
June 11, 2021 – This month marks the ten-year anniversary of the 2011 Las Conchas Fire, which burned 156,000 acres of the Jemez Mountains. At the time, Las Conchas was the largest fire in New Mexico’s recorded history. Here in New Mexico—and across the West—wildfire season is getting longer. Wildfires, bigger. And these trends will continue in our warming world. Between 1970 and 2020, New Mexico’s average…
Read MoreWhat Caused September’s Migratory Bird Deaths?
December 18, 2020 – In September, thousands of birds passing through New Mexico died during their fall migration. Wildlife experts studied reports from around the state, as well as about 1,000 carcasses people collected. They learned that while there wasn’t a single cause of death for all the birds, almost all of them were “severely…
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