SILVER CITY, NM, January 25, 2024 | In 2023 Gila National Forest took major steps toward restoring trails and watersheds damaged by the Whitewater-Baldy Complex Fire of 2012. A fast-moving, lightning-caused fire, it consumed more than 274,000 acres of the Gila National Forest, holding title as New Mexico’s largest wildfire for a decade. However, restoration efforts with partners and volunteers over the past eighteen months are beginning to bear fruit.