- Author: Grace Nguyen-Sovan Dean
This fall, UC ANR's forestry team welcomed new Biomass and Forest Products Advisor Ali Azadfar to the Shasta, Siskiyou, and Trinity communities. Azadfar to comes to UC ANR's Siskiyou office with research and teaching experiences shaped by diverse locations: the Pacific Northwest, New York state, and Iran. It was in Iran, amongst the country's iconic Hyrcanian forests, where Azadfar realized his passion for forestry. “I was surrounded by an incredibly rich and ancient ecosystem,” he states, “which taught me early on about the importance of forest...
- Author: CALFIRE Newsroom
Ryan graduated from UC Berkeley's (UCB) School of Forestry in 1996 and went on to receive his Master of Forestry degree from UCB in 2001. His first job was...
- Author: Christian Jordan
Early one morning this fall, three National Park Service researchers from the Klamath Inventory and Monitoring Network (KLMN) scrambled over minivan-sized boulders on a remote butte in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Their goal -- to reach plot three, the most difficult to access site in the National Park Service's Whitebark Pine Monitoring Network at Lassen.
Since 2012, the KLMN has studied whitebark pine populations at Crater Lake and Lassen Volcanic National Parks to assess species health and long-term trends, specifically threats from blister rust and mountain pine...
- Author: Grace Nguyen-Sovan Dean
California's forests have long been adapted to fire, where the presence of regular, low-severity fires helped maintain forest health. After decades of fire suppression, many private forest landowners are interested in reintroducing fire to their landscape through prescribed burns. When planning for a prescribed fire, landowners must consider a variety of factors, including the age of their trees.
A new study from Hunter Noble (University of Nevada, Reno) and
- Author: Grace Nguyen-Sovan Dean
This July,
