A ‘Reforestation Pipeline’ in New Mexico Trains Seedlings to Survive in Burn Scars

Why this matters: environmental and climate reporting with long-term consequences.

Four years after the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire burned 341,471 acres in northern New Mexico, the massive burn scar from the most destructive blaze in state history still holds vast stretches of leafless, barren and charred trees. It’s one of many scorched landscapes across the state—the New Mexic