Cutting trees in the power lines

The crew from Rogers Tree Service with Otero County Electric Company

has adopted a more aggressive tree removal policy within the power line rights-of-way (10 feet either side of the utility pole).
 Rogers is working now in Sun Valley Water District. They will be removing “fast growing trees”, meaning ponderosa pine and Box Elder, Narrow Leaf Cottonwood and Poplar. This should reduce the potential for wildfire starts due to power line sparking, like the small fire down at Martell’s in Little Creek a couple of years ago (power line start, not due to lack of thinning). 

PNM has had that multiple wildfire start problems over the past several years in Ruidoso before resuming a more aggressive removal policy. 

Look for Rogers to be out here in the SVW District for a while.

Resulting tree limbs and trunks that are cut are the property of the landowner. DO NOT take this wood without asking permission from the landowner.