1. 2011 Wildland Fire Season in New Mexico -Forests and Woodlands Dr. Douglas Cram New Mexico State University Photo Credit: NOAA

2. Composite Satellite Image 2011 (NOAA)

3. NOAA Satellite Image June 20, 2011

4. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Photo by John Fowler

5. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Photo by Kristen Hornig

6. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Photo by Kristen Hornig

7. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Photo by Morgan Petroski

8. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

9. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Photo by Burt Stalter

10. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences 2011 Large SW Forest Fires White – 10,356 acres Las Chance – 53,342 Miller – 88,835 Horseshoe 2 – 222,954 Mayhill – 31,861 Wallow, AZ – 538,049 Track – 27,792 Wallow, NM – 15,407 Pacheco – 10,250 Las Conchas – 156, 593 Lookout – 22,687 Total – 1,178,126 acres

11. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

12. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Burn Severity Mapping

13. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Las Conchas Burn Severity High 28,470 ac25% Moderate39,910 ac36% Low43,450 ac39% “Not all of the acreage within the fire perimeters burned severely and in fact much was unburned or burned only at low and moderate severity.”

14. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Low, Moderate, or High?

15. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Low, Moderate, or High?

16. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Low, Moderate, or High?

17. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Low, Moderate, or High?

18. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Moderate Burn Severity

19. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Moderate Burn Severity

20. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Las Conchas Burn Severity High 28,470 ac25% Moderate 39,910 ac36% Low43,450 ac39% “… much of these areas burned as we would expect them to …”

21. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences 41 trees 135 years

22. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences 475+ yrs old 32+ fires

23. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

24. Range Improvement Task Force Cooperative Extension Service / Agricultural Experiment Station College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Doug Cram dcram@nmsu.edu 575-646-8130