Last Saturday an Oak Woodland Management "webinar class" culminated with a "hands-on" field tour at the UC Hopland Research & Extension Center.  Participants included large-acreage landowners, representatives from several major land conservancies, a major forest products company representative, and several RPFs/CRMs who advise landowners.

Topics included Native-American historic cultural uses of oak woodlands, water quality assessment and related issues in oak woodlands (see photo), grazing and livestock management issues, riparian restoration, oak conservation strategies, wildlife-use of oak woodlands and habitat elements considerations, blue oak natural and artificial regeneration, road impacts and design in oak woodlands/rangeland, and fuel management alternatives in chaparral brush zones.

UC HREC plays a vital role in such extension-type outreach with topics almost unlimited as related to North Coast rangelands and natural resources.