- Author: Grace Dean
![Forest Stewardship Workshop participants practice measuring tree heigh with a clinometer. Credit: G.Dean](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/103423small.jpg)
The Forest Stewardship team has revamped their Forest Stewardship Story Map, first published in summer 2023. The new application hosts a slew of new features which provide a more user-friendly experience and allow users to learn about the forestry education programs offered by UC ANR.
The new application, built using ArcGIS Experience Builder, is live and can be viewed by clicking HERE.
Follow along as we go through the new Forest Stewardship Story Map, highlighting key new features, and giving voice to small forest...
- Author: Grace Dean
![UC ANR’s Susie Kocher and Katie Reidy leads Tuesday’s ‘forestry skills’ section. Here, students learn how to use a California tree stick. Photo credit: Karina Bencomo.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/101867small.jpg)
The window of summer is closed, and that ‘back to school' feeling everyone knows has settled in- the excitement, the nerves, the first 7AM breakfast you've had in the last few months. However, the magic of summer lingers, and is a bit more difficult to express in words alone. Rachelle Hedges, Project and Policy Analyst for Berkeley Forests, knows that magic all too well. She sees it every year on the faces of students who come to UC Berkeley's Forestry Field Camp and its new little sibling, Forestry Mini-Camp. Both summer camps take place at 100-year old Plumas National Forest site. Hedges sets the scene: “It's incredibly peaceful: no...
- Author: Grace Dean
![A landowner discusses the challenges of rebuilding post-Creek Fire. Photo credit: Katie Reidy.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/101768small.jpg)
In Spring of 2022, UC ANR launched its first Post-Fire Resilience Workshop. Since 2022, the workshop has traveled to Alpine, El Dorado, Plumas, Mariposa, Fresno, Madera, and Napa counties, and has reached 97 participants. The program continues to gain positive feedback and broadening statewide interest.
The UC ANR Post-Fire Resilience program has provided educational assistance to non-industrial private forest landowners throughout California who have been affected by wildfire. The program's workshop offering is headed by Post-Fire Academic Coordinator Katie Reidy, who aims to provide landowners with an opportunity to learn ways to proceed with their forested land, post-fire....
- Author: Grace Dean
![UCCE Forestry Advisor Susie Kocher leads Forest Stewardship workshop participants during a field day. Photo credit: Kim Ingram.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/101037small.jpg)
With decades of forestry and community outreach experience behind him, David Kelly felt he had more to give after retiring as Division Chief for the U.S Forest Service. Now, he's the Forest Specialist for the Arrowhead Lake Association (ALA), where his experience with the San Bernardino National Forest can be implemented at a smaller scale. “The first thing I said to [ALA] was, what's your forest management plan?” Kelly remarks.
Looking back, Kelly explains that the concept of forest management was not always celebrated in the Lake Arrowhead community. Years ago, homeowner's...
- Author: Grace Dean
![Project Learning Tree encourages using multiple senses to learn about forests. Here, students use their sense of smell.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/98278small.jpg)
On this International Day of Forests, we at UCCE Forest Research and Outreach invite you to celebrate the future of California's trees with us. Considering the recent news coverage regarding tree mortality in California, we want to instead view this subject through a lens of hope. For it's not just the news outlets witnessing the extent of forest die-off: children, especially those in forested communities, are seeing the effects of drought, wildfire, and fire suppression policies in real time. Project Learning Tree is a national education program leading the next generation to witness, and then act on these changes. Children are the future of our forests, and we think the efforts of Project Learning Tree are a cause...