[NMCCSC] SW Jemez Mtns Restoration Project Meeting

[Katie Cunningham via NMCCSCeGroup]

Thank you Sam for your investigative reporting!  Katie C.

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 4:16 PM Sam via NMCCSCeGroup <
nmccscegroup at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> Hello Skiers,
>
> On Thursday, March 28, I attended the day-long "All Hands" Meeting of the
> Southwest Jemez Mountains Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration
> Project at Santa Fe Community College.
>
> Representatives of some of the 30 organizations participating in this
> project presented reports on projects related to wild fire,
> thinning, streams, wildlife, vegetation, restorations after floods,
> wetlands restoration, and cultural resources.
>
> Ski Club members who skied with me this winter saw the results of the
> extensive thinning on the East Fork Ridge. We were especially interested in
> the very large piles of logs and slash (small trees and branches from
> felled trees). I talked with the contractor who is doing the thinning. I
> also talked with Bryan Riley, the Jemez District Ranger.
>
> From them I learned the following:
>
> 1. In order to not have slash and chipped slash scattered in the thinned
> area, the contractor is using a very large skidder to drag complete felled
> trees to each log landing where a large machine will strip off the branches
> that are then placed in very large piles. The logs are then stored in very
> large piles with a crane. They will be trucked to the Jemez Pueblo Walatowa
> Forest Industries site at the pueblo where they will be processed into
> vigas, lumber, beams, pellets, fire wood, and mulch. The large piles of
> slash will be burned when conditions are favorable to minimize smoke and
> the risk of wild fire.
>
> 2. Thinning will continue to the parking lot at the west trailhead of the
> East Fork Ridge Trail. Due to the thinning activities, access to the East
> Fork Ridge from that trailhead will be closed for a few months in 2019.
>
> 3. About 100 acres of the Los Griegos area south of NM-4 will be thinned
> on the lower mountain in the Lower Road area. (100 acres is not an
> especially large area on the very large north slope of this mountain. If
> the 100 acres is a square defined by 10 acres by 10 acres, each side of the
> square would be about 0.4 mile long [10 X 200 ft] or 2000/5000.)
>
> If you have questions, please email them to me.
>
> Sam
>
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