“ONLY YOU!” For nearly eight decades, Smokey Bear's face and words have served as an emblematic warning about preventing forest fires, but his age-old motto only describes a tiny piece of the current challenge California faces today. California's devastating wildfires have made global headlines for their...
- Author: UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources
Published on: October 7, 2021
Reposted from the Berkeley ESPM News
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UCANR: Promoting healthy people and communities
Focus Area Tags: Environment
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- Author: Pam Kan-Rice
Published on: October 5, 2021
In 2018, the Camp Fire destroyed nearly 19,000 structures in Northern California, including most of the town of Paradise. The structures left standing by the conflagration provided researchers an opportunity to investigate how housing arrangement – such as the size of the lot, the distance to a neighboring home, and...
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UCANR: Promoting healthy people and communities
Tags: Camp Fire (3), defensible space (9), home retrofit (4), Steve Quarles (4), wildfire (79), Yana Valachovic (9)
Focus Area Tags: Environment
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- Author: Kat Kerlin
Published on: September 23, 2021
Reposted from UC Davis News
Dams poorly mimic the temperature patterns California streams require to support...
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UCANR: Protecting California's natural resources
Tags: dam removal (1), dams (1), fish; cold water habitat (1), salmon (1), stream temperature; Anne Willis (1)
Focus Area Tags: Environment
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- Author: Kara Manke
Published on: September 1, 2021
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UCANR: Promoting healthy people and communities
Tags: Air Now (1), air quality (1), Allen Goldstein (2), filtration (1), indoor air quality (1), Purple Air (1), UC Berkeley (15), wildfire smoke (1), Yutong Liang (1)
Focus Area Tags: Environment
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- Author: Kat Kerlin
Published on: August 27, 2021
Reposted from UC Davis News
Dry, Hot Climate Drives Blister Rust Disease Upslope, Threatening White Pines
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UCANR: Protecting California's natural resources
Tags: Andrew Latimer (2), climate change (34), disease (1), elevation (1), forest pathogen (1), white pine blister rust (1)
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