Forest Treatments in the Fireshed aid in Medio Fire Suppression

Buck Wickham, Operations Section Chief for the Southwest Area Incident Management Team 4  and U.S. Forest Service-Santa Fe National Forest Fuels Program Manager Dennis Carril discuss how forest restoration treatments and prescribed fire work aided in suppression efforts on the Medio fire in a new video produced by The Nature Conservancy and Forest Stewards Guild. The full length video can be found on the Medio Fire page on the Coalition’s website. The shortened highlights version is available below.


Esmé Cadiente

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