Wildfire Wednesdays #13 - FACNM Leader Profile - Forest and Wildfire Trivia Game - Wildfire Preparedness Tips

Hello Fireshed

The same as every year around this time we are seeing and smelling smoke in the air from wildfires in Arizona, New Mexico, and beyond.  Until monsoon season begins and brings some long-awaited relief from the heat we can expect more wildfires to start.  As we wait for monsoons remember to keep up your preparedness or use the smoke in the air as a chance to remind some of your neighbors that now is as good a time as any to prepare for wildfire.

This week’s Wildfire Wednesday includes:

  • A profile of a FACNM leader in the Timberlake Ranch community in Northwestern New Mexico.

  • Forest and Wildfire Trivia Game, to be played over zoom!

  • Fireshed Wildfire Preparedness Pages

Best, Sam

FAC Leader Profile: Mary Jo Wallen, Timberlake, NM

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Enthusiasm and personal connection to the outdoors are powerful resources. By sharing these passions we can inspire others to take action towards a more wildfire adapted future.

To learn how FACNM leader Mary Jo Wallen got interested in wildfire mitigation and community organizing, click here.

Fire Adapted Communities New Mexico Leaders act in a very similar way to Fireshed Ambassadors here in Santa Fe. To learn more about that program click here.

Forest and Wildfire Trivia game!

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Esmé Cadiente at the Forest Stewards Guild put together a fun social distancing activity that you can play with your friends and peers. Forest and Wildfire trivia can be played over Zoom, google hangouts, or any other platform that allows you to share your screen and computer sound. You must have Spotify to access the music round, and PowerPoint to access the visual round. There are five rounds of eight questions:

  1. Forest, Fire and tree trivia

  2. Music round – Spotify list

  3. Visual round - PowerPoint

  4. Fictional forests and fires

  5. Visual Round PDF – you can work on this at any time

After each round, the quizmaster will read the answers aloud and participants will report back their scores. The quizmaster will keep an excel doc to track scores. You will need to choose a quizmaster to conduct the trivia and then invite participants to join! This is a great way to connect with neighbors and friends in a time when we can’t connect in the personal way we are used to. You may also learn something about forests and fires!

Use these three files to play:

Cheers,

Esmé

Greater Santa Fe Fireshed Preparedness Page 

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To help guide your actions toward wildfire preparedness, take a look at the Fireshed’s wildfire preparedness page. This page features resources that can help keep your home safe from wildfire, including A home hazard assessment, a wildfire preparation factsheet by NFPA, 10 tips for wildfire risk reduction, and a webinar on how to prepare your Home Ignition Zone for wildfire season. The page also has an entire section devoted to wildfire resistant building materials that can help guide you through home construction or renovation.  

Remember, even small actions like picking up pine needles can make a big difference to prepare your home for wildfire!

To take a look at all the useful resources on the Fireshed’s Prepare page, click here.  

Sam Berry

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.