The Bureau of Land Management New Mexico State Office has issued a fire prevention order prohibiting the use of exploding targets on BLM-managed lands throughout the state. The order takes effect on March 10, 2021 and expires on Dec. 31, 2021. Exploding targets are commercially available binary explosives commonly consisting of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder. Although both compounds are inert, once mixed, they can be ignited by high-velocity bullets used in target shooting. Once combined they are considered a high explosive by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and cannot be transported per U.S. Dept. of Transportation regulations. The use of exploding targets is restricted on most Federal lands in the Western U.S. – including all other Federal lands in New Mexico – due to their propensity to start wildfires. Use of exploding targets has been found to have caused multiple wildfires across the West in recent years. This includes the Sawmill Fire, which burned more than 46,000 acres southeast of Tucson, AZ in 2017.