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- Author: Mike Hsu
Published on: June 30, 2022
UCCE forest advisor helps landowners, community groups determine best project options
As Californians prepare for another year of drought and an anticipated intense fire season, landowners and organizations across California have been working to reduce forest fuels – flammable woody material – that can endanger their properties and communities.
For many of them, however, their urgent efforts hit a sizable speed bump: a massive rulebook that describes, amid a thicket of other information, the permits required before people can treat or remove fuels – as well...
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Tags: California Forest Practice Rules (1), forest (7), forest health (12), fuel reduction (2), fuels treatments (2), rpf (1), wildfire (79), Yana Valachovic (9)
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- Author: Robyn Schelenz
Published on: April 12, 2022
Reposted from the University of California news
Once outlawed, cultural burns can save our forests from uncontrollable wildfire
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Tags: Beth Rose Middleton (1), cultural burning (1), forest health (12), Lenya Quinn-Davidson (16), prescribed burning (5), Ron Goode (1), wildfire (79)
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- Author: Jules Bernstein
Published on: March 31, 2022
Reposted from the UC Riverside news
Project examines microbes' role in greenhouse gas emissions
Scientists have found microbes living in the charred soil that wildfires leave behind. They don't know how some fungi and bacteria manage to thrive when everything else has died, but a new project aims to change that.
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- Author: Kara Manke
Published on: March 16, 2022
Tags: John Battles (7), Karuk (2), Klamath Mountains (1), Matthew Potts (1), prescribed fire (22), wildfire (79), Yurok (2)
Focus Area Tags: Environment
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- Author: Kat Kerlin
Published on: January 20, 2022
Reposted from UC ANR news
Study finds resilient, frequent-fire forests have far fewer trees
What does a “resilient” forest look like in California's Sierra Nevada? A lot fewer trees than we're used to, according to a study of frequent-fire forests from the University of California, Davis.
More than a century ago, Sierra Nevada forests faced almost no competition from neighboring trees for resources. The tree densities of the late 1800s would...
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Tags: Brandon Collins (5), forest health (12), forest resilience (4), Rob York (8), Ryan Tompkins (3), Scott Stephens (21), Sierra Nevada (9), wildfire (79)
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