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Using their own chainsaws and pickup trucks, more than 150 community members thinned a total of 163 acres and harvested over 850 cords of firewood over the Cerro Negro Forest Council’s four-year forest mayordomo pilot project. In January 2024, there were six similar forest mayordomo projects, overseen by other local groups, operating on the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico.