Santa Fe National Forest Initiates Scoping for Hermit’s Peak Calf Canyon Recovery Project

The Santa Fe National Forest is starting the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process for long-term recovery work within the Hermit’s Peak Calf Canyon burned area. For the last two years, the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District has addressed immediate post-fire impacts like reseeding and tree planting, hazard tree removal, and flood mitigation. The project area is approximately 167,000 acres of National Forest System lands on the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains of San Miguel and Mora Counties, New Mexico.

The SFNF is committed to community engagement to help plan and shape this project throughout the NEPA process. We encourage communities to provide comments on recovery work you feel is important. Our Santa Fe National Forest Team will incorporate your feedback into our planning and implementation.

How to Comment

The SFNF welcomes input and written comments from Federal, State, Tribal, and local agencies as well as individuals and organizations who may be interested in, or affected by, the proposed project. To assist the SFNF in identifying and considering issues or concerns related to the proposed project, we ask for comments to be as clear, concise and specific as possible.

Comments will be most beneficial in shaping this project if received by October 7, 2024.

You can provide written comments to us online or via mail. When sending your comments. please reference HPCC Recovery Project in all correspondence. Electronic comments are preferred and may be submitted to

https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public/CommentInput?Project=66857. Written, facsimile, and hand-delivered, can be delivered to: HPCC Recovery Project Supervisor’s Office11 Forest Lane Santa Fe, NM 87508, 505-438-5300, Fax: 505-438-5390.

Comments, including names and street addresses of respondents will be available for public review and will be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). They may be published as part of the environmental analysis and other related documents.