Blog - Forest Research and Outreach

Forestland owners can learn how to survey the trees on their property from four new videos produced by UC Cooperative Extension, setting them on a course for sustainable management of their forestland. The videos are available on the UC ANR YouTube channel (http://youtube.com/UCANR).

Navigating natural resource management rules and regulations in California can be daunting for private forest landowners.

Scientists collect data about a year after the 2016 Cedar Fire. (R. Wayman/UC Davis) California's drought of 2012-2016 killed millions of trees in the Sierra Nevada mostly by way of a bark beetle epidemic leaving a forest canopy full of dry needles.

Decades of research-based knowledge about the history, physical characteristics and vegetation in California annual grassland, oak-woodland and chaparral ecosystems has been consolidated in a new nine-part PDF document.

Reposted from the UCANR News In 2020, 9,000 fires scorched more than 4 million acres of California, a record-breaking year, reported Alejandra Borunda in National Geographic.