Environment

Santa Fe Watershed Prescribed Burn Planned For Mid-March To Restore Forest Health, Reduce Wildfire Risk

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on March 6, 2019
SFNF News:
 
SANTA FE ― Fire managers on the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) plan to take advantage of favorable conditions, including fuel moisture levels, air quality, wind direction and weather forecasts, to initiate a prescribed burn in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed on the Española Ranger District as early as Monday, March 18.  
 
Exact dates will be dependent on fuel conditions on site.
 
Up to 500 acres near Nichols Reservoir in the lower Watershed, including 50 acres of piles, will be treated with hand and aerial ignitions. Fire managers are also looking
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Seet: Renewable Energy Options For Los Alamos

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on March 6, 2019

The Kit Carson Electric Co-op in Taos. Courtesy/Nic Seet

By NICHOLAS SEET
Renewable Los Alamos

Turning on the light is such a trivial event that we barely consider how the energy must travel great distances from where powerful turbines – spun by the steam of boiling water, heated by burning coal – generate the power we need to live a comfortable, modern life.  

While this convenience has existed since the industrial revolution, the bill is finally coming due as our  global climate warms.

There was a meeting March 3 in Taos about the energy decisions the communities in the Kit Carson Electric

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PEEC: Explore Dwarf Planets And Exoplanets March 8

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on March 6, 2019
Learn all about dwarf planets Friday, March 8 at the Los Alamos Nature Center. This talk begins at 7 p.m. Additionally, see the full-dome film “Exoplanets” at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 9.
 
PEEC News:
 
Learn all about dwarf planets at 7 p.m., Friday, March 8, at the Los Alamos Nature.
 
Paul Arendt will lead this discussion and explore how planets are designated, the current status of dwarf planets and similar bodies that may be occupants of our solar system.
 
Throughout history, various bodies in our solar system have been deemed planets, but were subsequently relabeled as
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LANL: New Reactor-Liner Alloy Material Offers Strength, Resilience

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on March 5, 2019

Osman El Atwani, left, and Enrique Martinez at the transmission electron microscope. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Tungsten blend resists fractures, could be valuable for magnetic fusion facilities

A new tungsten-based alloy developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory can withstand unprecedented amounts of radiation without damage.

Essential for extreme irradiation environments such as the interiors of magnetic fusion reactors, previously explored materials have thus far been hobbled by weakness against fracture, but this new alloy seems to defeat that problem. 

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NWS: Today’s High Near 44, Tonight’s Low Around 29

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on March 4, 2019

The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 44 with a 30 percent chance of snow and rain showers before 11 a.m., then a chance of rain and tonight’s low around 29. Total snow accumulation of less than one half inch possible. Courtesy/NWS Read More

PEEC: Explore New Mexico’s Wetlands March 5

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on March 3, 2019
Learn about New Mexico’s wetlands Tuesday, March 5 at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Courtesy/PEEC
 
PEEC News:
 
Learn about New Mexico’s wetlands Tuesday, March 5 at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Emile Sawyer from the Wetlands Program at the New Mexico Environment Department will introduce the audience to our state’s wetlands and provide an overview of the process of mapping and characterizing our wetlands resources. This talk begins at 7 p.m. and is free to attend.
 
The staff of the Wetlands Program at the New Mexico Environment Department is currently in the process of mapping
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Lawmakers Question Carbon Capture And Sequestration Tech Proposed In Plan To Keep San Juan Plant Running

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on March 3, 2019
Coal miners from San Juan County stand during a hearing Saturday on Senate Bill 489 before the state Senate Corporations and Transportation Committee. They pleaded with lawmakers to adopt an amendment to the bill that would allow the San Juan Generating Station to continue operating. Jane Phillips/For The New Mexican
 
Senate Bill 489, the sweeping Energy Transition Act, whips up tensions at a hearing Saturday before the state Senate Corporations and Transportation Committee. Jane Phillips/For The New Mexican
 
Senate Bill 489, the sweeping Energy Transition Act, whips up tensions
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NWS: Today’s High Near 48, Tonight’s Low Around 32

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on March 3, 2019

The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 48 with a 30 percent chance of rain before 11 a.m., and a low tonight around 32 with a chance of snow showers of less than a half inch possible. Courtesy/NWS Read More

Registration Opens For PEEC’s Summer Camps

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on March 2, 2019
Registration is open for Backpacking Adventure for Teens, Living Earth Adventure Program and both sessions of Nature Odyssey. Space is limited and the camps are filling up quickly. Courtesy/PEEC
 
Registration is open for PEEC’s June Summer Camps. Courtesy/PEEC
 
PEEC News:
 
Registration is open for all four of the Pajarito Environmental Education Center’s June summer camps.
 
These camps give youth entering fourth through 12th grades the opportunity to get outside this summer to explore the incredible outdoors of the Pajarito Plateau. The camps are filling
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Southwest Jemez Mountains Forest Restoration Project Hosts Annual Public Meeting March 28-29

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on March 2, 2019
Valles Caldera National Preserve receives significant snowfall this winter. Courtesy/NPS
 
NPS News:
 
JEMEZ SPRINGS ― Members of the public are invited to the 2019 “All Hands” meeting for a comprehensive update on the largest landscape-scale forest restoration project in New Mexico March 28-29 in Santa Fe. Both days are free and open to the public.
 
The Southwest Jemez Mountains (SWJM) Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project is a long-term collaborative effort to restore forest ecosystems at the landscape scale and improve resilience to major disturbances,
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NWS: Today’s High Near 53, Tonight’s Low Around 36

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on March 2, 2019

The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 53 and tonight’s low around 36 with a 70 percent chance of rain and snow showers. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Courtesy/NWS Read More

Legislation To Promote Clean Energy Jobs Advances

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on March 1, 2019
HOUSE DEMOCRATS News:
 
SANTA FE ― Thursday, the House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee advanced a measure to promote clean energy jobs.
 
House Bill 547, sponsored by Reps. Javier Martinez (D-Albuquerque) and Angelica Rubio (D-Las Cruces), creates a plan to leverage our resources to create new, good-paying jobs and grow the economy.  
 
House Bill 547 calls on the Department of Workforce Solutions to prepare a report that will examine the opportunities for and barriers to a transition to a clean energy economy and to specifically assess the impact on
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Fire-Adapted Communities Focus Of Prescribed Burn

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on March 1, 2019
SFNF News:
 
SANTA FE ― Fire managers on the Jemez Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest are working with communities to reduce the risk of wildfire by conducting a prescribed burn at the Thompson Ridge slash pit this spring.
 
The half-acre slash pit, located at the end of Forest Road 106 just north of the community of Thompson Ridge and ten miles north of Jemez Springs, is a collaborative effort between the Jemez Ranger District and the surrounding area to promote fire-adapted communities in the wildland-urban interface (WUI).
 
WUI refers to the transition zone between
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