2020 Medio WILDFire

In late August 2020, treatments associated with the Pacheco Canyon Forest Resiliency Project played a consequential role in containing the Medio Wildfire burning in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, 11 miles northeast of Santa Fe, NM.
To learn about the wildfire and the Greater Santa Fe Fireshed Coalition partnership treatments which successfully mitigated its forward progress, interact with the map below, view the briefing paper and news release, and watch the informational after-action video.

Good Fire and Active Forest Management

View the discussion on how forest treatments near Pacheco Canyon assisted wildland firefighters in containing the Medio Fire while protecting watersheds and communities in this video from the Southwest Fire Science Consortium.

Read the full briefing paper:

Medio Fire Factsheet

“On Monday, August 17, a lightning strike 3/4 mile upstream from Nambe Pueblo sparked a wildfire in the Rio Nambe drainage of the Santa Fe National Forest…”

 
 

Quick links for more information:

News Release - After the Burn:
https://www.sfreporter.com/news/coverstories/2020/09/23/after-the-burn/

Inciweb: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7031/

Santa Fe National Forest: 
https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/santafe/home

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/santafeNF/

New Mexico Fire Information: 
https://nmfireinfo.com/author/sfnfpao/

Community Meeting: A recording of 9/2/20 virtual meeting: https://facebook.com/santafeNF/

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 the videos below - available in a highlights and full-length version.

Medio Fire and Fireshed Fuel Breaks - highlights video

 

Full-length Version

Virtual Field tour of Pacheco Canyon Forest Restoration

 

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.