- Author: Jeannette Warnert
Reposted from the UCANR Green Blog
Healthy California wildlands were managed with periodic wild and cultural fires for millennia. As the state's population and development grew, officials suppressed most fires out of concern for people, homes and businesses.
Though well-meaning, the strategy left land overgrown with vegetation capable of fueling even more dangerous high-intensity wildfires. The past few years have seen an exponential increase in catastrophic wildfires in California.
- Author: Jocelyn Anderson
Reposted from UC Davis News
A Collaboration of Science and Business Could Rid Lake Tahoe of a Major Polluter
Lake Tahoe is known for its beautiful blue waters and remarkable transparency. But its clarity is threatened by climate change and urbanization — and billions of tiny invasive shrimp.
Researchers at the UC Davis Tahoe...
/h2>/h2>/span>- Author: Robert Sanders
Reposted from the UC Berkeley News
- Author: Hannah Bird
Reposted from the UCANR News
California's most destructive wildfire year on record was 2018, with devastating fires occurring in Northern California oak woodlands. From 2015 to 2017, six of California's 20 most deadly and destructive fires in history occurred in these areas. The communities living in oak woodlands, which had been mostly spared from previous wildfires, were largely unprepared.
To prepare Californians to live with wildfire, Kate Wilkin, former UC Cooperative Extension forestry/fire science and natural resources advisor,...
- Author: UC Berkeley Public Affairs
Reposted from the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources News
Fire has been a central component in California's natural and human history for millennia. Native Americans' use of...