In a nutshell: Presenters from the Southwest Jemez Mountains CFLRP offer lessons gleaned from 15 years of cooperative work about the impact of managed and prescribed fire, forest thinning, and a collaborative approach to land management on landscape resiliency.
Recorded on: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM Mountain/11:00 AM Arizona
Description: Multi-party monitoring is a central feature of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) and allows communities to assess the ecological, social, and economic impacts of these landscape-scale stewardship projects over a long period. The Southwest Jemez Mountains (SWJM) CFLRP, implemented from 2010-2024 in north-central New Mexico, was led by 40 agencies, organizations, Tribal entities or representatives, universities, contractors, and citizen volunteers. The goal of the SWJM project was the large-scale restoration of forest ecosystems and improvement of overall resilience to major disturbances, including fire, insects and disease, and a changing climate.
In this presentation, several key Collaborative members present the lessons they learned from 15 years of cooperative work and multi-party monitoring. They discuss whether the goals of the CFLRP were met, and focus on the impacts of multi-decadal managed and prescribed fire, forest thinning, and the monitoring and computer modeling that shows that forest resilience and restoration treatments ultimately reduced fire risk or severity in the treatment area. This presentation offers insight for land managers currently involved in landscape-scale restoration and wildfire risk reduction and is based on the SWJM CFLRP Final Monitoring Report, expected to be released in the spring of 2025.
Speakers: Jeremy Marshall, USFS Santa Fe National Forest; Robert Parmenter, NPS Valles Caldera National Preserve; Steven Del Favero, USFS Santa Fe National Forest; and Jeremy Golston, USFS Santa Fe National Forest.
Additional Resources:
2022 Cerro Pelado story from a landowner perspective
Overview of fire in the Jemez Mountains
This webinar is co-hosted by the Arizona Wildfire Initiative.
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