Blog - Forest Research and Outreach

Reposted from UCLA Samueli Engineering Newsroom Drone sensors for deployment into a local ignition event Courtesy of Kevin Schwarm As California and other states continue to battle extreme heat this fire season,KevinSchwarm, who is pursuing a Ph.D.

Reposted from the Berkeley News See all Berkeley Voices episodes. Berkeley News writer Kara Manke discusses a new UC Berkeley report that shows how allowing lightning fires to burn in Yosemite's Illilouette Creek Basin recreated a lost and more resilient forest ecosystem.

Reposted from the UC Davis News UC Davis Veterinary Emergency Response Team members help care for horse in the field during the LNU Lightning Complex fire.

Reposted from Berkeley News For nearly half a century, lightning-sparked blazes in Yosemite's Illilouette Creek Basin have rippled across the landscape closely monitored, but largely unchecked.

Enjoying and protecting nature are cited as the top two very important' reasons why private forest landowners in the UC ANR Forest Stewardship Workshops own forestland. Many of these landowners express a desire to have their forest return to an old-growth' state.