- Author: Jeannette Warnert
Newly minted UC fire scientist Kate Wilkin moves into fire country
Fire scientist Kate Wilkin was on the job just a few weeks...
- Author: Kat Kerlin
Reprinted from UC Davis News
As Timberland Converts to Cannabis, Spotted Owls and Barred Owls Test Positive for Rat Poison
- Author: Yana Valachovic
Reposted from the UC IGIS blog
Recently I was fortunate to work with the IGIS team in Santa Rosa and Sonoma to explore why so many homes and buildings were lost in the October Tubbs and Nuns Fires. With the IGIS's Shane Feirer we collected drone-based video to record how the fires burned through the vegetation near and around the lost structures.
We observed several sites where there was little fire activity in the forests or woodlands, yet the homes burned. This type of video helps us document how devastating a wind-driven...
- Author: Lenya Quinn-Davidson
Reposted from the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network blog
I was nine years old when my dad's family home burned in the Oakland Hills Fire. As a country kid from one of the most fire-prone counties in northern California, I was no stranger to wildfire. Still, I remember the shock of driving...
- Author: Jeannette Warnert
Reposted from the UCANR Green Blog
UC Cooperative Extension researchers convey need for more climate change communication and curriculum tools
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from natural and working lands is one of California's key climate change strategies. In particular, the potential for farm and rangeland soils to serve as carbon sinks has been getting a lot...
