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The Forest Service is Planning to Strip Our Sangre de Christo Mountains of 90% of Their Trees!
The Hyde Park Wildland Urban Interface/Fuels Reduction Project will remove 90% of the trees in the forests above Santa Fe, from the foothills to the top of the mountains.
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The Forest Service has refused to do an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for this project and there are many questions left unanswered.
The first stage of the project is scheduled to begin summer, 2009, and will cut and burn 90% of the trees along the south side of Hyde Park Road in the canyon between Hyde Park Estates and Black Canyon Campground. Click to See Map
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Is this what you want
your forest to look like?
(Click to view Larger)
Photo By Dr. David Groeneveld
Southwest view over thinned area of Santa Fe Municipal Watershed. The ridge trail marks southern watershed boundary; hill in middle distance is Picacho.
Above image taken from: Monitoring Forest Treatments in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed
August 2004
Santa Fe Watershed Association
PO Box 31160
Santa Fe, NM 87594-1160
(505) 820-1696
www.santafewatershed.org
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