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CWPP - Datil Print this page
The Datil Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a supplement to the Catron County Community Wildfire Protection Plan. The County CWPP completed in October, 2005 assesses the wildfire threat and hazardous fuels treatment priorities on a landscape scale. The Datil CWPP uses the data and findings of the County CWPP to assess the wildfire threat and treatment priorities specific to the Datil Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) (#69). Mitigation which will reduce the threat of wildfire damage to property, life and the land are proposed. Project scale data from the County CWPP and other sources is presented to aid in planning and design of the proposed projects.
Overview:
The Datil WUI #69 is located in and around the community of Datil at the intersection of US Highway 60 and State Highway 12. Private, BLM, National Forest and State lands are in the WUI. Homes, some businesses, a school and a campground are located within the WUI. The vegetation is mostly pinyon/juniper with the fire threat generally moderate. These characteristics placed the Datil WUI area 34th in treatment priority in the County CWPP.
The County CWPP contains a thorough presentation of how determinations of values at risk, risk of occurrence and fire threat were used to locate the areas and values most at risk from catastrophic wildfire in the County and to prioritize treatment needs. Please refer to the County CWPP for more information. It is not the intent of this plan to duplicate the County CWPP. The general outline of the County CWPP is followed in this CWPP, except where there is no supplement necessary to the County CWPP.
Goals and Objectives
As a supplement to the County CWPP, the main objective of the Datil CWPP is to propose work needed to reduce and mitigate fire threat. To accomplish this objective this supplement continues the collaboration started in the County CWPP, coordinating the needed work with past efforts, the various land owners and other interest.
As stated in the County CWPP: "The desired condition for WUI areas is a fire safe environment around protected improvements that will provide "defensible space" for firefighters in the event of a wildfire in the surrounding area". The desired condition should not be too difficult to obtain with some well placed mechanical and fire treatments.
No modifications of the WUI boundary were necessary.
The early days of Datil were associated with cattle drives as it was on the cattle driveway from points west to the rail head at Magdalena. Past timber and wood cutting, cattle grazing and fire exclusion has influenced the species composition and structure of vegetation in the area. Datil has the only traffic light (blinking caution light) in the entire County. Several subdivisions of private land in recent years has changed the demographics of the area considerably.
An overhead water supply tank was erected at the Datil Fire Station several years ago and a new larger water tank installation in Datil is in the planning and advertisement stages. Water availability for fire fighting out in the subdivisions is generally not very good.
Except for the steeper inaccessible areas, all ponderosa pine areas on the National Forest in and surrounding the Datil WUI has been commercially harvested several times. There have been numerous non-commercial treatments also such as pre-commercial thinning and prescribed burns. Fire wood cutting has greatly altered the age class and species composition in accessible to wood cutter areas.
Besides the meetings held around the County and one meeting at Datil Fire Dept. for the County Wildfire Protection Plan, a public meeting was held for this specific CWPP on May 17, 2006 at the Datil Fire Station. Comments from all these meetings and contacts were incorporated in a rough draft. Comments on the rough draft were incorporated in a draft which was sent out for a last review by the involved agencies before the final was signed.
Most of the data used for this CWPP is from the County CWPP and was scaled to fit this WUI, Although the County CWPP was a landscape scale analysis, much of the data originated at a scale that fits the purpose of this CWPP (30x30 meter satellite imagery for example). In addition collaborative input from the various cooperators and interested parties was obtained through group meetings and individual contacts.
See above Collaboration section.
The Datil WUI area totaling 12,603 acres includes the community of Datil and 7 subdivisions. US Highway 60 and State Highway 32 intersect in the WUI. Other access is via gravel roads. About 40% of the WUI is in each of private and National Forest ownership with the remainder being BLM and State. The Cibola NF land is on the Magdalena Ranger District with office located at Magdalena. BLM and State lands are administered from offices in Socorro. The vegetative cover is mostly pinyon/juniper (74%). As can be seen in the table below 11% of the area is in a "closed" canopy condition with most of the area in an "open" canopy or grassland condition.
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