Green news from the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Published on: March 8, 2023
Cooperative Extension Specialist Safeeq Khan adjusts research instrumentation, which will help assess how vegetation changes from forest management affect water quantity in the local watershed. Photo courtesy of Placer County Water Agency
Safeeq Khan of UC ANR among collaborators on forest treatments in the Sierra
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 headwaters of Tahoe National Forest. Safeeq Khan, Cooperative Extension specialist in water and watershed sciences with UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, is among the collaborators.
This season, project partners safely treated over 700...
Public Value:
UCANR: Protecting California's natural resources
Tags: forest (15), fuel management (1), fuels reduction (1), Merced (1), Placer County (1), Safeeq Khan (4), Sierra Nevada (8), Sierras (1), Tahoe (1), Tahoe National Forest (1), treatment (1), UC Merced (2)
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Natural Resources
Comments: 0
Viewing -3--3 of 1
