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Our Land: Urban Forests

Our Land

November 9, 2018—In an arid city like Albuquerque, which most people associate with cactus and sage, trees and the urban forest are important. They provide shade and habitat and help cool the urban landscape. But they also require special care, given the arid climate, drought, and warming. Correspondent Laura Paskus visits with the City of…

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Our Land: Replanting Trees In The Jemez Mountains

Our Land Forest Ecology

August 10, 2018 – When the Las Conchas wildfire burned more than 150,000 acres of forest in the Jemez Mountains, the forest itself shifted. The 2011 fire killed trees, like ponderosa mines and other conifers, and new trees couldn’t grow back. Seed sources were destroyed—and the forest was warmer, as a result of warming over…

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