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  • A tour of the French Meadows Forest Restoration Project at the Tahoe National Forest is carried out on June 21, 2022. Photo by Brie Anne Coleman, Placer County Water Agency
    Study shows how restoring California's overstocked forests yields multiple, diverse benefits

    Aug 3, 2022

    • Environment
  • In this restoration treatment, encroaching conifers are removed from an oak woodland to bolster fire resilience. Photo by Jared Gerstein
    Free wildfire publication simplifies understanding fuel-reduction permits on private land

    Jun 28, 2022

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
  • For predicting fire severity, dead biomass and live tree density were the two most important variables, the study found. Photo by Scott Stephens
    Previous tree mortality and density big factors in the devastating 2020 Creek Fire

    May 23, 2022

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
  • Rob York says a healthy forest is one that you can run through.
    Lessons on wildfire resilience from a 4,000-acre forest lab

    Feb 1, 2022

    • Environment
  • A new suggests that low-density stands that largely eliminate tree competition are key to creating forests resilient to stressors such as severe wildfire, drought and bark beetles. Photo by Elena Zhukova
    Just what is a ‘resilient’ forest, anyway?

    Jan 19, 2022

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
  • Unlike large timber, small trees usually cannot be sold to sawmills to recoup some of the cost of the forest thinning treatments. UC Berkeley photo by Daniel Sanchez
    Want to limit carbon and curb wildfire? Create a market for small trees

    Dec 13, 2021

    • Natural Resources
  • A compass is one of the tools professional foresters use to establish plots when collecting data about a forest.
    New videos demonstrate techniques and tools to survey forestland trees

    Jan 21, 2021

    • Natural Resources
  • An instrumented forest restoration site in the Middle Fork of the American River Basin. Photo by Safeeq Khan
    New research clarifies impacts of timber harvest on sediment in watersheds

    Aug 11, 2020

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
  • Ph.D. student Mike Johnson uses Evalutree to assess the health and economic value of oak woodlands.
    New mobile app identifies hazardous trees for public safety

    Jul 21, 2020

  • Eleven years after the 2007 Moonlight Fire.  In the fall and winter, prescribed fire is used to burn piles of dead trees, downed logs and shrubs to reduce fuels in the stand and prepare the site for planting (Photo: R. Torres).
    Reforestation in a burning climate

    Mar 21, 2020

    • Natural Resources
  • Thinning trees in a mixed conifer forest is one way to improve its resiliency to climate change. (Photo: Will Suckow)
    UC helps forest owners adapt to climate change

    Apr 5, 2017

  • UC researcher Scott Stephens believes that with restoration, California forests will be fine. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
    It's not too late to make California forests resilient to wildfire

    Aug 16, 2016

  • The Four Little PIGS (Pork in Green Sauce) drew applause as the winners of the 2016 Solano County 4-H Chili Contest. From left are Spencer Merodio, Alexis Taliaferro, Natalie Frenkel and Kate Frenkel, all of the Suisun Valley 4-H Club. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
    'Four Little Pigs' blow the house down with a super bowl of chili

    Feb 3, 2016

  • CalAg July-Sept2015
    What to do with woody waste in forests?

    Oct 19, 2015

  • Trees killed by bark beetles on the Stanislaus National Forest in 1992. (Photo: Jack Kelly Clark)
    Forest and tree health in a time of drought

    Jun 8, 2015

  • Mike De Lasaux shows FIT participants the tree rings in a core sample.
    Teachers invited to learn about natural resources in the forest

    Mar 4, 2015

  • Forest study finds fewer big trees and an increasing number of small trees. (Photo of Tenaya Canyon in the Sierra Nevada from Wikimedia Commons.)
    Fewer big trees found in today's forests

    Jan 20, 2015

  • Mike De Lasaux demonstrates how foresters determine the age of a tree by taking a core sample and counting the rings.
    Teaching teachers about the environment outdoors

    Dec 12, 2014

  • Firefighters set a controlled burn near Hayfork at the 2013 training. Photo by Lenya Quinn-Davidson
    Firefighters from across western US to train in N. California

    Oct 8, 2014

  • 4-H enthusiast Angelina Gonzalez with her best-of-show salted caramel bars, Solano County Fair. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
    The best of the best: salted caramel butter bars

    Sep 22, 2014

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