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UCANR: Protecting California's natural resources
Little Fires: Landowners Learn to Burn
  • Author: Kat Kerlin
Published on: April 21, 2022
Reposted from UC Davis News

Rebecca Wayman, a UC Davis associate specialist of forestry, participates in the prescribed burn. (Tim McConville/UC Davis)

Empowering Property Owners to...

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Tags: Prescribed burn association (2), prescribed fire (22), private landowners (2)
Focus Area Tags: Environment
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UCANR: Protecting California's natural resources
How the Indigenous practice of 'good fire' can help our forests thrive
  • Author: Robyn Schelenz
Published on: April 12, 2022

Reposted from the University of California news

Once outlawed, cultural burns can save our forests from uncontrollable wildfire
In the past several years, California has endured the most extreme fires in its recorded history.
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Tags: Beth Rose Middleton (1), cultural burning (1), forest health (12), Lenya Quinn-Davidson (16), prescribed burning (5), Ron Goode (1), wildfire (79)
Focus Area Tags: Environment
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UCANR: Protecting California's natural resources
Forest Management Handbook for Small Parcel Landowners
Published on: April 11, 2022
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Forests in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Range are being stressed by many factors that put them at risk. High-severity wildfire, drought stress, insect outbreaks, disease, and a backdrop of changing climate are a few. A significant portion of Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade forests are owned and managed as small parcels (10 to 100 acres) by nonindustrial private landowners. To assist these landowners, CAL FIRE and the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station have recently released the ‘Forest Management Handbook for Small Parcel Landowners.' This step by step guide is an additional resource designed to help small, private...

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Tags: forest management (18), forest management plan (3), Forest Stewardship (19)
Focus Area Tags: Natural Resources
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UCANR: Protecting California's natural resources
How UC Research is helping California meet the challenges of the climate crisis
  • Author: Carolyn McMillan
Published on: April 7, 2022

Reposted from UC News

Climate disruption has arrived, bringing challenges that once seemed unimaginable: wildfires so large and hot that they create their own weather, record-breaking heat waves and a vanishing Sierra...

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Tags: climate adaptation (2), climate change (34), climate mitigation (1)
Focus Area Tags: Environment
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UCANR: Protecting California's natural resources
Why doesn’t fire kill some bacteria and fungi?
  • Author: Jules Bernstein
Published on: March 31, 2022

Reposted from the UC Riverside news

Project examines microbes' role in greenhouse gas emissions

Scientists have found microbes living in the charred soil that wildfires leave behind. They don't know how some fungi and bacteria manage to thrive when everything else has died, but a new project aims to change that.  

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Tags: microbes (1), Sydney Glassman (1), Wildfire (79), wildfire impacts (2)
Focus Area Tags: Environment
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