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BAER team completes Soil Burn Severity map for Trout Fire
Silver City, NM, June 30, 2025 – Forest Service Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) specialists recently completed their field data evaluation to produce the Soil Burn Severity (SBS) map for the Trout Fire, which field verifies unburned/very low, low, moderate, and high SBS categories from satellite imagery. The SBS map estimates approximately 9,996 acres (20%) of the fire is unburned/very low, approximately 28,860 acres (58%) have low soil burn severity, approximately 8,647 acres (17%) sustained a moderate SBS, and approximately 2,069 acres (4%) sustained a high SBS. The SBS map product is an estimate of fire effects to soils, not fire effects to vegetation. SBS characterizes fire effects to the soil surface and below ground. Fire effects to vegetation would include an estimate of vegetation mortality and does not always correlate with degree of soil burn severity.
Article by Mary Alice Murphy
Photos by Mary Alice Murphy and Starr Farrell (each identified)
On Friday, June 27, 2025, this author got to visit a small portion of where the Trout Fire had burned beside NM 15 beyond Signal Peak. She went with Trout Fire public information officer Starr Farrell, Paul Meznerich, who drove, and the Trout Fire BAER (burned area emergency response) public information officer Dick Fleishman.
Required attire included the yellow shirts that everyone wore, including one provided for this author, and yellow hard hats.
Protocol required checking in and checking out of the area the group entered, which was on the blocked off portion of NM 15 from the Ben Lilly outlook to the intersection with NM 35.
By Lynn Janes
The Cobre Consolidated School Board held a special meeting on June 9, 2025. Board members in attendance included Gabriella Begay, Gilbert Guadiana, Emmarie Heredia and Angelina Hardin. Interim superintendent Randall Piper also attended. David Terrazas and did not attend.
The board approved the agenda with some changes in the order of the agenda items.
Board members reports
Begay had moved this item in the agenda to introduce the new interim superintendent. "We're glad to have you on board." He had come out of retirement to fill this position. He had done six years with the Lordsburg municipal schools and two years at Truth or Consequences schools. He also did many years with Regional Education Cooperative (REC). The rest of the board in attendance welcomed Piper.
Low water crossings are clear in the Hatch area, removed from NM Roads.
DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS Hatch Are
Difficult Driving Conditions, in the Hatch area, roadways are flooded and low water crossings are running. The NMDOT is in route to clear.
Standing water on roadway. Use extreme caution.
Southwest Area Complex Incident Management Team TEAM 4 – Andrew Mandell – Incident Commander
Southwest Area Incident Management Team 4 prepares for transfer of command for Trout Fire
Fire Information Phone: 575-323-8964 (8 am – 8 pm)
Daily Update for June 29, 2025
Acres: 47,294 Start Date: June 12, 2025 Location: 12 miles north of Silver City, NM
Cause: Lightning Personnel: 553 Fuels: Grass, brush, and timber Containment: 83%
Highlights: Management of the Trout Fire will transition to the Gila Las Cruces Type 3 Incident Management Team at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow, Monday, June 30, 2025. Team efforts will continue to focus on suppression repair and supporting local partners, communities, and the Gila National Forest. As a reminder, ongoing minimal fire activity can still produce visible smoke and ash in the air; however, it does not threaten containment lines.
The outgoing team extends its sincere gratitude to the residents, local communities, emergency management, and land management agencies for their cooperation, collaboration, and support throughout this incident. These partnerships have been instrumental in helping protect lives, property, and valued natural and cultural resources.
FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Portions of south central and southwest New Mexico,
including the following counties, in south central New Mexico,
Sierra. In southwest New Mexico, Grant.
* WHEN...Until 345 PM MDT.
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