Fire mitigation, invasive species removal to begin along banks of Animas River

Fire mitigation, invasive species removal to begin along banks of Animas River

Crews won’t be finished until early next year
Duane Bair, chief of the wildland division with the Farmington Fire Department, walks through an area in the Riverside Nature Center on Thursday that has not had Russian olive trees removed. A new mitigation project will remove Russian olive and saltcedar across 30 acres in three locations.
Invasive Russian olive trees grow in thick stands at the Riverside Nature Center in Farmington.
Invasive Russian olive trees grow in thick stands at the Riverside Nature Center in Farmington.
Courtesy Farmington Fire Department Crews remove Russian olive trees in Animas Park in Farmington recently.

Fire mitigation, invasive species removal to begin along banks of Animas River

Duane Bair, chief of the wildland division with the Farmington Fire Department, walks through an area in the Riverside Nature Center on Thursday that has not had Russian olive trees removed. A new mitigation project will remove Russian olive and saltcedar across 30 acres in three locations.
Invasive Russian olive trees grow in thick stands at the Riverside Nature Center in Farmington.
Invasive Russian olive trees grow in thick stands at the Riverside Nature Center in Farmington.
Courtesy Farmington Fire Department Crews remove Russian olive trees in Animas Park in Farmington recently.
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