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Cerro Pelado Fire Update

August 3, 2023
A smoke plume rises over a mountain range.

8.4.23 – Gene Grant talks to the Line Opinion Panel about a report from the U.S. Forest Service that shows the agency was responsible for starting last year’s Cerro Pelado Fire, due in part to a holdover fire from a prescribed burn the service conducted in the area two weeks prior. Gene asks the panel…

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Climate Change ‘Outpaced’ Fire Protocols

July 21, 2022
An aerial shot of a plume of smoke from a fire. Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service.

7.22.2022 – It’s been a devastating fire season in New Mexico, with hot, dry, and windy conditions throughout the spring and summer – plus two U.S. Forest Service prescribed fire treatments that burned out of control, merging into New Mexico’s largest fire in recorded history, the Hermits Peak – Calf Canyon Fire. New Mexico State…

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