- Posted By: Jaime Adler
- Written by: Gareth J Mayhead
![Flat bed log truck arriving at Trinity River Lumber with the new sawmill building in the background,](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/8303small.jpg)
Last week I visited Trinity River Lumber (TRL), a sawmill, in Weaverville, California. The sawmill was almost totally destroyed by a fire in September 2009 and completed rebuilding in January this year. The mill is the largest private employer in Trinity County with approximately 115 full time jobs. The community was relieved that TRL’s owner chose to rebuild the mill after the fire. The new mill is impressive in its versatility to saw a range of products and in its use of technology to maximize production. Both the pony (small log) and main headrig saws make use of 3D scanners to optimize lumber yield from each log. They are currently increasing production to approximately 120,000,000 board feet of lumber per year. The main...
- Posted By: Jaime Adler
- Written by: Susie Kocher, UCCE Advisor
![Ron Parson, manager at Granlibakken gives an overview of the fuels treatments done by the resort](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/8106small.jpg)
Wildfire Summit pulls together Tahoe basin residents and agencies on the fourth anniversary of the 2007 Angora fire to improve implementation of defensible space
The Lake Tahoe Wildfire Summit was held in Tahoe City on June 24th, 2011, four years after the Angora fire which started on June 24th, 2007 in South Lake Tahoe. The summit drew together over 100 basin residents, agency staff and policy makers to focus on ways to reduce wildfire risks to Tahoe homes and communities. Presentations centered on wildfire issues in the Tahoe Basin and how to reduce risk to homes and communities by creating defensible space, improving building materials and design, and implementing forest fuels reduction...
- Posted By: Jaime Adler
- Written by: Yana Valachovic
![Upper Coyote Burn Bald Hills, Redwood National Park, 2010. Photo by Debra Harris](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/7956small.jpg)
The Northern California Prescribed Fire Council provides continuing education opportunities for those using fire in forest management and conservation activities. Although prescribed fire councils are common in the U.S., this is the first such council in California. Council participants include public and private resource managers, researchers, firefighters, fire safe councils, tribes and regulatory agencies. The council hopes that by working together, this diverse group can increase individual members’ expertise in using fire for resource management and can improve fire-related education in the state. The council aims for a better public understanding of the value of prescribed burning in the state’s fire adapted landscapes, for...
- Posted By: Jaime Adler
- Written by: Rick Standiford, Susie Kocher, Mike De Lasaux, Jaime Adler
![Dr. Meng-Ling Wu, Dr. Yue-Hsing](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/7618small.jpg)
Recently three leaders from the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (TFRI), a division of Tawain’s Council of Agriculture (COA), traveled to Northern California to meet with UCCE foresters to gain information about our outreach program that they might be able to apply in Taiwan. Dr. Yue-Hsing “Star” Huang, Director of TFRI; Dr. Meng-Ling Wu, Department Chief of Forest Protection; Dr. Gene-Sheng Tung, Assistant Researcher in the Department of Forest Protection spent three days at UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley’s Blodgett Forest Research Station, South Lake Tahoe, and in Quincy and Plumas Counties exploring extension projects and learning how UCCE Foresters initiate and maintain relationships with landowners, managers, conservation groups, and...
- Posted By: Jaime Adler
- Written by: Steve Quarles, UCCE Forest Specialist
![The radiant panel at UNC-Charlotte used to test materials after the wetting agent was applied.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/7558small.jpg)
The ASTM E05.14 Subcommittee on Exterior Fire met today. Task groups that are developing standard test methods to evaluate vents and decking products updated the subcommittee on progress made since the last meeting (these committees meeting every six months, in early December and early June). All of these draft standards are in some stage of balloting at the subcommittee or main committee level.
Professor Joe Urbas, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, gave a presentation to the subcommittee on a research project that he has been working on. Professor Urbas has been evaluating the effectiveness of wetting agents applied to vegetation and building components in resisting radiant heat exposures. The wetting agents he evaluated...