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Mescalero Tribal Forest Products is working to get funding and government support to restart its long-dormant sawmill in Mescalero, N.M.
The MFP facility operated from 1987 to 2012, employing about 55 workers and generating another 150 jobs in associated logging and administrative operations. At the same time, a weak lumber market also forced the tribe to close a second mill in Alamogordo, N.M., eliminating another 80+ positions.
In addition to restoring jobs, reopening the Mescalero mill would pay for thinning forests in the area to provide much-needed fire prevention.
