A unexpected alliance between traditional woodcutters and federal land managers in New Mexico could provide a model for a push by President Joe Biden's administration to thin forests near villages and towns at risk of climate-driven wildfires.
Near Taos in northern New Mexico, Vicente Fernandez, a mayordomo, or forest caretaker, cut saplings and seedlings crowding a mature fir tree. He explained he was removing fuel that could supercharge a wildfire.
After a spate of large and deadly U.S. wildfires in 2020 that followed a century of fire suppression, the Biden administration and its public land managers moved to dramatically ramp up controlled burns and forest thinning.
The 2022 Infrastructure Law earmarked $8 billion for forest and land management and Congress designated nearly $6 billion towards wildland fire management. The USFS lets local mayordomos select locations and the program could be adopted in other states, the agency said.
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