Local News: June 22nd, 2022
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Philip Connors deeply loves the forest he has watched over every summer for the past 20 years. But it was a different forest two decades ago, and will be even more changed once the flames die down.
Grant County commissioners held their June work session Tuesday morning, and received a foreboding report from the U.S. Forest Service about flash floods to come in the wake of the still-burning Black Fire. Representatives reported that severe floods will likely occur this monsoon season, and possibly for years of monsoon seasons to come. The Burn Area Emergency Response Team for the Forest Service conducted an analysis of areas burned by …
The bill package was heard before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife and could soon see a vote to advance.
The northern edge of the fire, northwest of Truth or Consequences, goes through cattle country. Flooding there would be a fresh catastrophe for ranchers who have already seen their land ravaged by the fire.