Tragedy for the New Mexico landscape

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Re: Tragedy for the New Mexico landscape

by lcarreau » Sun Nov 13, 2011 2:17 am

strudolyubov wrote: The East Fork Jemez River canyon is mostly intact, as well as everything to the west of Las Conchas (where NM-4 crosses East Fork Jemez River). They also managed to save most of Chicoma Mountain area and Pajarito Mountain Ski Area near Los Alamos.


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Re: Tragedy for the New Mexico landscape

by MoapaPk » Sun Nov 13, 2011 3:34 am

strudolyubov wrote:The eastern/southeastern parts of Jemez were burned pretty bad: East-Northeast parts of Valles Caldera are gone, Cochiti Mesa is gone, Bandelier Monument has literally no pine forest left. The East Fork Jemez River canyon is mostly intact, as well as everything to the west of Las Conchas (where NM-4 crosses East Fork Jemez River). They also managed to save most of Chicoma Mountain area and Pajarito Mountain Ski Area near Los Alamos.

Here is the link to the page showing the map of the burned area:

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/2385/


Boy, that is pretty grim.

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Re: Tragedy for the New Mexico landscape

by Bubba Suess » Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:43 pm

strudolyubov wrote:The eastern/southeastern parts of Jemez were burned pretty bad: East-Northeast parts of Valles Caldera are gone, Cochiti Mesa is gone, Bandelier Monument has literally no pine forest left. The East Fork Jemez River canyon is mostly intact, as well as everything to the west of Las Conchas (where NM-4 crosses East Fork Jemez River). They also managed to save most of Chicoma Mountain area and Pajarito Mountain Ski Area near Los Alamos.

Here is the link to the page showing the map of the burned area:

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/2385/


Thanks. This is exactly what I was hoping to find. Based on what I see, it looks as though the Jemez Falls area was not affected. That is a real bummer about Bandelier though. That was one of my favorite parts of New Mexico. On the bright side, at least Los Alamos probably won't have to deal with another fire for a while.

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