Hello Everyone,

On Wednesday, June 14, Lou Romero will lead a high priority FOSM project to move several cords of bucked wood from the new “footprint” of the new Nine Mile PA to the adjacent old highway.

On Saturday, Lou learned from Taylon Chesser, Cibola NF Engineer, that approximately 60, mostly live aspen and white fir trees, have been removed from the new "footprint" for the reconstructed picnic area. Hotshot crews from Globe, Arizona, have bucked 12 to 18-inch rounds and moved them into piles along the edge of the pavement.

The contractor will be working within the "footprint" Wednesday, and it is a high priority to remove the piles of bucked rounds from along the pavement on the East, South and West sides of the "footprint". We estimate 3 to 4 dump trailer loads. We decided not to make multiple trips to the woodlot Wednesday.  Instead, we will move the rounds from the "footprint" to the old highway behind the new gate near the entrance for processing at a later date.

We decided that we will only use the splitter for the largest, heaviest green rounds.  We will need 3 people helping Tami Meade with the splitting operation. The rest of our FOSM crew will be loading the trailer. Jory Meade will then haul and dump the loads about one hundred yards below the new gate.

There should be very little need for chainsaw work, because the Hotshots have bucked and moved the wood to the pavement. Wednesday, we will bring only the last load off the mountain to the woodlot.

Hopefully, we will have 8 to 12 FOSM volunteers.

Lou Romero, Project Leader, and Sam Beard, Projects Chair

Friends of the Sandia Mountains