Green Blog

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The Green Blog shares news and information related to forestry/wildfire, sustainability, climate, environmental stewardship and other green topics.

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View of Lone Bobcat Woods during a Forest Stewardship Placer-Nevada County field day. Photo credit: Kim Ingram.
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Top 10 tools for new forest landowners

April 21st, 2023
By Grace N Dean
Earth Day 2023 celebrates the ways in which we can all invest in our planet, and forest landowners play a considerable role in this. Part of being a forest landowner is deciding where and when to invest your time, money and energy.
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A tree burned from the inside out, then toppled at Hopland Research & Extension Center.
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Wildfires may spur animal biodiversity

April 14th, 2023
Wildfires. Many see them as purely destructive forces, disasters that blaze through a landscape, charring everything in their paths. But a study published in the journal Ecology Letters reminds us that wildfires are also generative forces, spurring biodiversity in their wakes.
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Safeeq Khan adjusts a research instrument among trees in a forest
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French Meadows partnership completes fourth season of work

March 8th, 2023
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Despite the challenges of an extremely dangerous fire season, including California's largest wildfire in 2022 (Mosquito Fire) impeding access and limiting operations, partners of the French Meadows Forest Restoration Project have wrapped up their fourth season of forest treatments in the critical he...
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