District III - Socorro
| Socorro District HC 32, Box 2 1701 Enterprise Socorro, NM 87801 575-835-9359 575-835-9452 fax |
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Socorro is a large District, spanning the southwest corner of the state. The district includes the seven counties of Catron, Dona Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra, and Socorro. District Forester Doug Boykin, before coming to Socorro was Timber Management Officer and Fire Management Officer at the Chama District. Before coming to State Forestry, Doug spent eight seasons with the Gila National Forest as a firefighter, Fire Prevention Patrolman, and other assorted seasonal positions. Doug became District Forester in 1992. Doug's staff consists of Fire Management Forester Jack Dickey, Timber/Stewardship Forester Nick Smokovich, Administrative Officer Dorothy Brannon, The Socorro District maintains a satellite office in Silver City that primarily serves Grant, Luna, and Hidalgo counties. The Socorro District office is located west of Socorro on Highway 60 toward Magdalena. The Silver City satellite office is located on North Silver Street in Silver City. Doug's priorities for the District include: - Working with landowners by providing technical assistance in forest management on private lands. This includes the Stewardship Program as well as the new Forest Lands Enhancement Program. This is Nick’s major focus area. Initiative (New Mexico Fire Plan) and National Fire Plan. This includes regular county team meetings in Catron, Grant and Sierra counties and working to flow thru grant monies to private landowners to complete mitigation projects, as well as assist with fire department grants and trainings. It also includes periodic meetings with line officers from all agencies as well as representatives from the counties, SWCD’s, environmental groups and interest groups. Current projects implementing CWPP's in Catron, Grant, Sierra, and include re-formatting the old 20 Communities Action Plans to the new Community Wildfire Protection Plan format to be able to access Healthy Forest funds. - Working with the State Land Office to implement forest management practices on Luera Mountain, a 27,000 acre block of state trust land in southeastern Catron County. -Continue to work with several large ranches (the Gray Ranch, Ladder Ranch, Armandaris Ranch, Double H Ranch , etc) to implement aggressive prescribed fire and Fire Use programs to improve Forest and Watershed Health. - Working with cooperators and fire departments to insure that wildfire suppression and management is based on safety, cost-effectiveness and appropriate suppression response criteria. -Working with the Save Our Bosque Task Force to continue projects to use, protect and enhance the Rio Grande Bosque in Socorro County. This includes the care and up keep of 17 Rio Grande Riverside parks, the Socorro Nature area, multiple landowner assistance projects and invasive species control projects. and natural resource planning. Programs. mechanisms. Datil Wells Campground (15+ years). Doug Boykin is also responsible for managing the Tree Farm program for the State. The Tree Farm program is sponsored by the American Forest Foundation to recognize excellent forest practices on non-industrial forest lands throughout the United States. New Mexico has approximately 200 certified or pioneer tree farmers with over 200,000 acres enrolled and certified as either a pioneer or certified tree farm.
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Documents and brochures for viewing or downloading (most in PDF format**): Double H Ranch 2007 Hazardous Fuels Project Willow Creek Ranch Restoration Work Plan Luera Mountain Management Plan Debris Burning
Save Our Bosque Task Force,
**(you need the free Adobe Reader to read these) Go to District index page with map
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