Home / Media / News Stories

News Story Archive

Results:
Archive: August, 2011
Clear

  • August

    RATON, N.M., -- The hills just above Raton's Lake Maloya badly burned, and officials know rain will likely bring ash, dirt and debris right into the lake. This is a problem since the majority of the town's potable water comes from the lake.

    Post Fire, Corps Helps Town Protect Water Supply

    The people in the town of Raton, N.M., know that a wildfire’s effects don’t end when the last smoldering ember is extinguished. The “Track Fire” originated June 12 on the northern outskirts of Raton and quickly got out of control. It eventually burned almost 27,800 acres, thousands of trees and much of the ground-cover vegetation of the watershed around Lake Maloya in Sugarite Canyon, which straddles the New Mexico-Colorado border.
  • Corps’ staff who went to the film in this picture are:(L to R) Austin Kuhlman, David Dutton, Paul Branch, Ronnie Schelby, Kristen Skopeck, and Eric Garner. Not pictured: Lisa Lockyear and Brad Atwood.

    Abiquiu Project Staff Enjoy Movie Partly Filmed at Site

    Last summer, the District’s staff at Abiquiu Reservoir played host to about 200 people during a two-week span, for filming of parts of “Cowboys and Aliens.”
  • Ash and debris in a tributary of the Rio Grande.

    Fish and Fire in the Rio Grande

    You just don’t expect fish to drown, and it is almost counter intuitive that dead fish down in the valley could somehow be the result of a fire high up in the mountains.

  • New Mexico’s Worst Wildfire Contained by Collaboration

    The USDA Forest Service reported Aug. 1 that, after 36 long days, firefighters fully contained the Las Conchas Fire, the largest wildland fire in New Mexico’s recorded history.