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The Santa Fe National Forest is reminding those enjoying the outdoors to make sure to properly extinguish any campfires.
The 2021 wildfire season is approaching and the SFNF is experiencing severe drought conditions and high fire danger.
Over Mother’s Day weekend, fire prevention patrols in the Jemez Ranger District found 18 abandoned campfires. The Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District found an estimated 10 abandoned campfires reported over the last 10 days.
Most of the abandoned campfires – the leading human cause of wildfire – were found at dispersed campsites.
The Jemez patrols are also reporting several of the campfires found were not still-smoldering ash, but actually flaming, burning logs which no one had even attempted to extinguish.