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The Pie Town 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 Pie Town CWPP uses the data and findings of the County CWPP to assess the wildfire threat and treatment priorities specific to the Pie Town Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) (#25). 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.
The Pie Town WUI #25 is located either side of US Highway 60 around the community of Pie Town. Ownership includes private, BLM and State. Besides the community of Pie Town, there are 7 subdivisions and scattered residences. Within Pie Town there are some businesses and of course homes throughout the WUI. Recreational use is average to below average for the County. Though the fire threat is lower than for some other areas of the County, there is a threat of a wind driven event in overly dense areas of pinyon/juniper. The Pie Town WUI area rated 44th 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.
As a supplement to the County CWPP, the main objective of the Pie Town 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.
The desired condition for WUI areas as stated in the County CWPPwill not be very difficult to obtain. "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". Pinyon/juniper is not so easy to manage with fire but most of the area is rolling hills that will lend itself to a combination of mechanical and fire treatments.
No modifications of the WUI boundary were necessary.
The early days of Pie Town were associated with cattle drives and mining. Pie was provided by a local resident to cowboys on cattle drives across 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. "Old timers" can remember when the woodlands were mostly open large alligator juniper with grass in the interspaces.
Water availability varies widely. In some subdivisions such as the Sawtooths, well drilling has not successfully reached water.
Besides the meetings held around the County and one meeting at Pie Town Fire Dept. for the County Wildfire Protection Plan, a public meeting was held for this specific CWPP on May 5, 2006 at the Pie Town 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.
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