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UCANR: Building climate-resilient communities and ecosystems
Ryan Tompkins Wins Award for Outstanding Contributions to California Forestry
  • Author: CALFIRE Newsroom
Published on: November 12, 2024
Tompkins pictured with his dog Boone.
Tompkins pictured with his dog Boone.
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) Forestry Advisor Ryan Tompkins was posthumously awarded the Francis H. Raymond Award by the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection (Board) on November 6, 2024. This award is given to the individual, organization, agency, or company who has contributed the most to the management of California's natural resources. Criteria includes volunteer participation and achievements reached as a professional.

Ryan graduated from UC Berkeley's (UCB) School of Forestry in 1996 and went on to receive his Master of Forestry degree from UCB in 2001. His first job was...

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UCANR: Protecting California's natural resources
More than Fighting Fires: A Conversation with CALFIRE San Luis Obispo Unit Forester Dave Erickson
Published on: August 27, 2024
CALFIRE has
CALFIRE has "two arms: operations and resource management", which includes implementing prescribed fire. Credit: CALFIRE SLU. For California's fire-adapted landscapes, reintroducing 'good fire' via cultural or prescribed burns yields many ecosystem benefits. Credit: CALFIRE SLU.

This July, 

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UCANR: Promoting healthy people and communities
California’s wildfire season has lengthened, and its peak is now earlier in the year
  • Author: Brian Bell
Published on: May 3, 2021

Reposted from the UC Irvine News

UCI environmental engineers analyzed a century's worth of the Golden State's blazes

A brush fire in the summer of 2017 consumed large swaths of dried out vegetation on the hillsides of Ventura County, a place that emerged as a hot spot for wildfires over the past two decades, according to a new study by UCI researchers in Nature Scientific Reports. Amir AghaKouchak / UCI

Irvine,...

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