Photos: Remembering Fire Season 2011

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Photos: Remembering Fire Season 2011

Stands of burned out trees must be cut to reduce fuel loads that feed wildfires. In New Mexico, the Santa Clara, Jemez and Cochiti Pueblos are just beginning the major cleanup work on more than 156,000 acres of burned forest from last year's Las Conchas fire. Taliman photo

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Tribal emergency management crews are stretched thin responding to forest fires affecting tribal lands. Several of the notable hot shot crews hail from Indian Country, and firefighting is a major seasonal job booster in many tribal communities. (photo Regis Chavarria)

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Photos: Remembering Fire Season 2011

Stands of burned out trees must be cut to reduce fuel loads that feed wildfires. In New Mexico, the Santa Clara, Jemez and Cochiti Pueblos are just beginning the major cleanup work on more than 156,000 acres of burned forest from last year's Las Conchas fire. Taliman photo

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The start of the 2012 wildfire season is cause for concern in many tribal communities with timber reserves. Fires in the West last year, including this one on Santa Clara Pueblo lands, burned hundreds of thousands of acres. (photo courtesy Santa Clara Pueblo)

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Wildfires raging throughout the West have destroyed precious forest lands, homes, watersheds, sacred sites, springs and abundant wildlife on tribal lands. As persistent drought continues, tribal leaders are fearing the worst as they prepare for the 2012 fire season (photo Regis Chavarria)

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Photos: Remembering Fire Season 2011

By:

ICTMN Staff

May 16, 2012

It's on: As we reported earlier today, "fire season" has returned to Arizona and New Mexico. Last year was a devastating one, with the Wallow Fire setting a record as the largest wildfire in Arizona history. The dry conditions in the region, which contains numerous Indian reservations, make it a veritable tinderbox -- until the monsoons come, in late summer.

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