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- Author: Kara Manke
Published on: December 13, 2023
A 20-year experiment in the Sierra Nevada confirms that different forest management techniques — prescribed burning, restoration thinning or a combination of both — are effective at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire in California.
These treatments also improve forest health, making trees more resilient to stressors like drought and bark beetles, and they do not negatively impact plant or wildlife biodiversity within individual tree stands, the research found. The findings of the experiment, called
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UCANR: Promoting healthy people and communities
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- Author: Grace Dean
Published on: July 3, 2023
For Yolo County's Tracy Katelman, being a self-proclaimed “treehugger” was a part of her identity. A forester though? “I wasn't planning on getting my forester's license,” she told me. “When I helped start the Institute for Sustainable Forestry in Humboldt County in 1991, we were exploring how to empower small forestland owners to restore their cut-over forests. After receiving a CAL FIRE grant, I learned I had to be a Registered Professional Forester (RPF) to legally talk to people about how to manage their forestlands.” That began a long career in natural resource education, a topic for which Katelman is passionate. She currently serves on...
Tags: Forest management (18), forest stewardship (19), prescribed fire (22), Sacramento County (1), Solano County (1), targeted grazing (3), Yolo County (1)
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- Author: Kat Kerlin
Published on: January 23, 2023
Reposted from UC Davis news
The ‘Wrong Kind of Fire' Is Burning Compared to Historical Patterns
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UCANR: Protecting California's natural resources
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- Author: Kat Kerlin
Published on: April 21, 2022
Empowering Property Owners to...
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UCANR: Protecting California's natural resources
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- Author: Kara Manke
Published on: March 16, 2022
Tags: John Battles (7), Karuk (2), Klamath Mountains (1), Matthew Potts (1), prescribed fire (22), wildfire (79), Yurok (2)
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