Catron County Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Preface & Introduction

• Home page
• CWPP Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Declaration of Agreement and Concurrence
• Preface & Introduction
• Planning Process
• Community Profile
• Planning for the Future
• Monitoring & Evaluation
• Appendix 1 - data
• Appendix 2 - maps
• Downloads

This Catron County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) covers the whole of Catron County, N.M., a sparsely populated 7000 square mile area located in southwestern New Mexico. The CWPP was developed in response to the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (HFRA) and is the product of collaboration between County government, local rural volunteer fire departments, State and Federal agencies, local Soil & Water Conservation Districts, and members of the public, and includes all land ownerships.

Due to the large land area addressed, the CWPP addresses wildfire protection at the landscape scale. The Plan was designed to provide data and guidelines for the development of project level (on-the-ground) Wildfire Protection Plans by the stakeholders of lands identified as the highest risk from catastrophic wildfire. This Plan aims to provide a logical approach to reducing hazardous fuels on wildlands while improving forest health, supporting local industry and local economies, and improving fire-fighting response capabilities.

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