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Cerro Pelado Fire Update

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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Medio Fire Threatens Watersheds

A car drives down a road that has a "FOREST FIRE IN AREA" sign posted next to it, against a dark blue sky.

August 28, 2020 – In the mountains above Santa Fe, the Medio Fire has been burning since August 17, threatening the Rio Nambe, Rio Capulin, and Rio en Medio watersheds. Firefighters have been making headway on the fire, which is burning outside the normal range of New Mexico’s fire season. At the same time, they’re…

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