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Beaver once swam in Big Bear Creek in the Lincoln National Forest and built their dams in the area, which improved the ecosystem. But the semi-aquatic rodents have since abandoned that part of their range amid habitat loss.
“We’ve lost a lot of the riparian vegetation, the biomass and species diversification within this area,” said Larry Cordova, a biologist with the Lincoln National Forest.
Now the U.S Forest Service is asking for $20,000 of funding from the Habitat Stamp Program to improve the riparian area ecosystem, including building fake beaver dams that play the function the beavers once played in the creek system.
BLM conducts prescribed burn in Cibola County
Albuquerque, N.M. – Now through May 15,
the Bureau of Land Management’s Rio Puerco Field Office will conduct a prescribed burn in the Chain of Craters project area, weather permitting. The burn will be conducted in several phases during this timeframe and consists of approximately 2,500 acres of ponderosa pine, piñon and juniper trees.
The Chain of Craters prescribed burn is within the El Malpais National Conservation Area, south of State Highway 53, approximately 35 miles southwest of Grants, N.M., and west of County Road 42. Specifically, it is located within multiple sections of Township 7 North, Range 13 West.