Blog - Forest Research and Outreach

Reposted from UC Davis News Rebecca Wayman, a UC Davis associate specialist of forestry, participates in the prescribed burn. (Tim McConville/UC Davis) Smoke billows over the forest like a slow-moving fog. Dried oak leaves singe, crackle and curl into ash.

Reposted from the University of California news Once outlawed, cultural burns can save our forests from uncontrollable wildfire In the past several years, California has endured the most extreme fires in its recorded history.

Forests in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Range are being stressed by many factors that put them at risk. High-severity wildfire, drought stress, insect outbreaks, disease, and a backdrop of changing climate are a few.

Reposted from UC News Climate disruption has arrived, bringing challenges that once seemed unimaginable: wildfires so large and hot that they create their own weather, record-breaking heat waves and a vanishing Sierra snowpack.

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.