The 10-campus UC system is approaching a tipping point where it it may not be able to excel without increased state support. (UC Berkeley photos by Elena Zhukova)
After years of sagging funding and rising enrollment, the...
Written by University of California Cooperative Extension Forestry
- Author: AMANDA BRADFORD
Published on: August 26, 2018
Reposted from The Daily Californian
Peter Berck, one of the world's foremost forestry economists and a professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, or ARE, died of cancer Aug. 10 at age 68.
Berck earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from UC Berkeley and a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He returned to campus as an assistant professor in 1976, where he remained for the duration of his career. Berck never retired, continuing to advise students and conduct research even...
Tags: economics (2), Peter Berck (1)
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- Author: Will Kane
Published on: August 26, 2018
Reposted from the UC Berkeley News
Tags: funding (1), John Aubrey Douglass (1), tuition (1), University of California (3), Zachary Bleemer (1)
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- Author: Kat Kerlin
Published on: August 10, 2018
Wildfire Is Reshaping Forests and Lichen Communities
- Author: Jeannette Warnert
Published on: August 9, 2018
Reprinted from UCANR News
The news that Americans are getting about California's devasting fires is not being hyped up by the media, said UC Cooperative Extension area fire advisor Lenya Quinn-Davidson on the nationally broadcast NPR program On Point.
Host Eric Westervelt of WBUR in Boston got a Northern California perspective from Quinn-Davidson, who works with communities in Siskiyou, Trinity and Mendocino counties on managing the...
- Author: Jeannette Warnert
Published on: August 6, 2018
Many common street trees now growing in the interior of California are unlikely to persist in the warmer climate expected in 2099, according to research published in the July 2018 issue of the journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
“Urban foresters in inland cities of California should begin reconsidering their palettes of common street trees to prepare for warmer conditions expected in 2099 due to climate change,” said the study's co-author, Igor Lacan, UC Cooperative Extension environmental horticulture advisor in the Bay Area.
Common trees in Coastal...
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