- Author: UC Berkeley Public Affairs
Reposted from the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources News
Fire has been a central component in California's natural and human history for millennia. Native Americans' use of...
- Author: John Hickey
Reposted from the UC Berkeley News
Fire crews work on a wildfire in California. The 2019 fire season could be as destructive as earlier fire seasons. (U.S. Forest Service photo by Mike McMillan under Creative Commons 2.0)
Eight months after the Camp Fire consumed the Northern California town of Paradise...
- Author: Kara Manke
Reposted from UC Berkeley News
Spotted owls, native to the old-growth forests of the West Coast, have already lost much of their former habitat to logging. Without active forest management, the birds now risk losing even more of their remaining habitat to wildfire, a new paper argues. (Photo by Tom Munton)
Spotted owl populations are in decline all along the West...
- Author: Glen Martin
Reposted from California Magazine
Santa Rosa and Sonoma County officials are now in the post mortem phase of the North Bay fire storms, asking what could've been done to avoid the tragedy and what can be done in the future to prevent similar conflagrations. Discussions largely have focused on tighter zoning and fire ordinances. Those are appropriate areas to focus on, say many wildfire experts, but municipalities and counties inevitably face...
- Author: Glen Martin
Reposted from California Alumni Magazine
Detail of photo by Bobby Lee / The Daily...
