Hi Fireshed Members,

With Southwest wildfire preparedness week at the end of this month (3/28 – (4/3), now is a great time to get ready for wildfire season in your home and community. This year, there are many excellent virtual resources. You can enjoy the webinars below from the comfort of your own couch. Take advantage of all the great information at your finger-tips and don’t forget to invite your friends, family, and neighbors to tune in.

This Wildfire Wednesday features:

  • Proactive steps for individual and family preparedness webinar, tomorrow, March 11th

  • Home Ignition Zone webinar Tuesday, March 16th at 6pm

  • New Mexico State Forestry WUI fuels grant RFP and Non-federal lands fuels grant RFP start today, March 10th.

Best,

Gabe

NMSU Learning to Live with Fire webinar: Proactive steps for individual and family preparedness

Tomorrow, March 11th at 12pm

Guest Speaker Tom Dominguez, Santa Fe County Extension Agent

This informative lunch-hour webinar series from New Mexico State University Extension, Learning to Live with Fire, is going on every Thursday in the month of March. Tune in this week to learn how you and your family can get prepared for the upcoming fire season. Also, this talk will share information about now to identify and dispose of trees that have experienced insect and disease mortality. With this year’s drought conditions, we may be seeing more insect and disease mortality.  

For more information and to register, click here.

Home Ignition Zone webinar Tuesday, March 16th at 6pm

Please join us on Tuesday, March 16th at 6pm mst for a Home Ignition Zone Webinar with guest speaker Captain Jerry McAdams. Through this 1-hour webinar we hope to teach our audience some simple and effective ways to reduce the risk of home ignition from flames and embers. The webinar will take place on Facebook live and will be streaming from the FACNM Facebook as well as partner Facebook pages.  

Our guest speaker, Jerry McAdams, has over 20 years of experience working in the fire service. Jerry is a Senior Captain and NFPA Certified Wildfire Mitigation Specialist (CWMS) for the Boise Fire Department in Boise, Idaho.  

This webinar is part of an interagency campaign to promote wildfire preparedness in 2021, centering around the theme “Wildfire Preparedness is Year-Round," Fire Adapted New Mexico and will be hosting a monthly webinar series for March, April, and May.  

New Mexico State Forestry Division Requests Applications for their WUI Fuels and Non-Federal Lands Grant Programs

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Today, March 10th, New Mexico State Forestry Division released the notice of funding opportunities and request for applications (RFA) to two grant programs: The FY22 Wildland Urban Interface Hazardous Fuels Grant, and the FY21 Non-Federal Lands Hazardous Fuels Grant.

For full grant program information, and to access the RFAs, click here.

Gabriel Kohler

The GSFFC is a coalition of public and private organizations. The GSFFC is not a subdivision of the State of New Mexico, as defined in the state’s Open Meetings Act, §§ 10-15-1 to 10-15-4 NMSA 1978. Although federal agencies participate in the GSFFC, the Coalition is not a federal advisory board and was not created by a federal agency, as defined by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5.U.S.C. app. 2, §§ 1 to 16 (2012). The GSFFC operates informally to support its partners, and is not incorporated as a non-profit, 501(C)(3), partnership, or other legal status.