New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE
Chapter 20 - FOREST MANAGEMENT
Part 5 - PRESCRIBED BURN MANAGER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Section 19.20.5.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 24, December 23, 2024
For additional definitions refer to Section 68-5-2 NMSA 1978.
A. "Act" means the Prescribed Burning Act, Sections 68-5-1 to 68-5-8 NMSA 1978.
B. "Broadcast burning" means an activity where fire is applied generally to most or all of an area with well-defined boundaries.
C. "Broadcast burn manager" means the person acting as the prescribed burn manager with responsibility for ensuring all local and state required permits are secured, ensuring the burn plan is written and sufficient for the prescribed burn, coordinating fire resources and equipment, monitoring weather conditions and notifications and directing the implementation of the broadcast burn.
D. "Committee" means a committee established pursuant to 19.20.5.13 NMAC to review applications for prescribed burn manager certification; provide oversight of the development and updating of training modules, refresher courses and recertification; and cross-walk the training modules with other training and experiences.
E. "Council" means the New Mexico prescribed fire council.
F. "Course" means an online or in-person learning experience taught by the cooperative extension service, division, contractor or other persons.
G. "Curriculum" means the minimum topics to be covered in a course.
H. "National wildfire coordinating group (NWCG)" means the organization of member agencies and organizations that provides national leadership to establish interagency wildland fire operations standards including qualification requirements for prescribed burning on federal lands.
I. "Nine-element course" means training that covers legal requirements, safety, weather, fire behavior, smoke management, prescribed burn techniques, public relations, planning and contingencies as specified in Subsection A of Section 68-5-7 NMSA 1978.
J. "Pile burn manager" means the person acting as the prescribed burn manager with responsibility for ensuring all local and state required permitting is secured, coordinating fire resources and equipment, monitoring weather conditions and notifications and directing the implementation of the pile burn. Specifically, it means a burn of piles conducted with sufficient moisture or other limiting factor such as bare mineral soil to prevent the spread of fire between piles.
K. "Fire management" means all activities for the management of wildland fires to meet land management objectives. Fire management includes the entire scope of activities from planning, prevention, fuels or vegetation modification, prescribed fire, hazard mitigation, fire response, rehabilitation, monitoring and evaluation.
L. "Proficiency workbook" means a tool to provide an observable, measurable and standardized means to evaluate and document proficiency for the distinct attributes of a pile or broadcast burn manager. Each proficiency workbook shall be approved by the division, made available in all its offices and on its website and will have evaluation elements with accompanying signatures for demonstrating proficiency.
