[Volunteers_fosm] Fwd: NEWS RELEASE Ignitions complete on the Sandia Ranger District Tablazon Prescribed Fire - Cibola National Forest & National Grasslands

[Michael Madden]

This looks like good news next week for the Thursday weekly trails crew, as
we had to skip our Tablazon Trail reroute work yesterday due to the
prescribed burn, and did some brushing on the Challenge Trail instead.

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From: FS-Cibola PAO <SM.FS.CibolaPAO at usda.gov>
Date: Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Subject: NEWS RELEASE Ignitions complete on the Sandia Ranger District
Tablazon Prescribed Fire - Cibola National Forest & National Grasslands
To:


*NEWS RELEASE*

[image: Forest Service Shield]

*Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands*

2113 Osuna Road NE

Albuquerque, NM 87113

(505) 346-3900

www.fs.usda.gov/cibola

www.facebook.com/cibolanf

twitter.com/cibola_nf


Sandia Ranger District
Tablazon Prescribed Fire

*Ignitions complete*



*ALBUQUERQUE, NM – November 1, 2024 *– Today, weather conditions remained
favorable to successfully complete ignitions on the Cibola National Forest
& National Grasslands (NF & NG) Tablazon prescribed fire (Rx) on the Sandia
Ranger District. Crews continued with ground ignitions to blackline fuels
along control lines and burning of interior pockets of 107 acres on units 4
& 5. With yesterday and today’s operations, fire managers completed the 189
acres of prescribed fire operations on the Tablazon Project area.

With ignitions complete on the Tablazon prescribed fire project, fire crews
will transition to a patrol and monitor plan until the fire is called out.

The Tablazon prescribed fire project area is in the Manzanita Mountains.
Tablazon is located south of HWY 333, south of Lower Pine trailhead and
east of FSRD 462. *Map attached*.

Residual smoke from the Tablazon prescribed fire may be visible in the
surrounding areas of Tijeras, Edgewood, Moriarty and Albuquerque. The
Cibola NF & NGs manages all prescribed fires in compliance with New Mexico
state air quality and smoke management regulations. However, smoke may
settle into drainages and lower elevations at night. Information on air
quality and protecting your health can be found online at the
www.airnow.gov/.

Some objectives for the Tablazon Rx fire include improving wildlife habitat
by creating diversity in vegetation, returning fire to the ecosystem in a
controlled and efficient manner, and to reduce fuel loadings/raise the
canopy cover base to reduce the likelihood of a crown fire, all while
providing for the safety of all fire personnel and members of the public.

This will be the final release on the Tablazon Prescribed Fire unless
conditions or the situation warrants additional information.

Announcements and updates on prescribed fire projects will be posted on
InciWeb <https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/>, New Mexico Fire Information
<https://nmfireinfo.com/> and on the Cibola NF & NGs website
<https://www.fs.usda.gov/cibola>, Cibola Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/cibolanf/> and Cibola Twitter
<https://twitter.com/cibola_nf> sites.

For more information on the Tablazon prescribed fire, contact the Sandia
Ranger District Office at 505-281-3304 or Cibola National Forest and
National Grasslands Supervisor’s Office: 505-346-3900.

*Forest Service Photos attached: Sandia Ranger District Tablazon Prescribed
Fire operations on November 1, 2024*










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