WGA
Goal - Promote Community Assistance
Actions
to meet goal
- Reduce
losses to communities from wildland fire
- Promote
markets for traditionally underutilized wood
- Promote
opportunities to continue and enhance sustainable livestock
grazing as part of restoration strategies
- Increase
incentives for private landowners to address defensible space
and fuels management needs on private property
- Promote
local government incentives through fire-sensitive land use
planning
Little
has been done to incentivize Santa Fe property owners adjacent
to the Santa Fe Watershed to treat their property for wildfire
risks. There has been limited use of the 20 Communities Cost-share
program in Santa Fe. NM State Forestry has played a rather passive
role in Santa Fe with these grants and is waiting for people
to apply for funding but has not actively promoted the program.
In
2001 Hyde State Park received a $50,000 20 Communities Cost-share
grant to create a fuel break between the Hyde State Park and
the Santa Fe Watershed. According to Nancy Neskauskas, Bernalillo
District Forester (NMSF), one of the biggest risks to the
Santa Fe Watershed is from a fire in Hyde State Park.
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