UC Santa Cruz music professor David Dunn has joined forces with two forest scientists from Northern Arizona University to combat an insect infestation that is killing millions of trees throughout the West.
Credit: Courtesy of David...
Written by University of California Cooperative Extension Forestry
- Author: Lorena Anderson
Published on: July 5, 2019
The scope of the tree deaths is evident when viewed as part of...
- Author: Kat Kerlin
Published on: May 29, 2019
Treatments May Reduce Loss in Future Droughts and Bark Beetle Epidemics
Tags: bark beetles (6), Christina Restaino (1), Derek Young (2), drought (12), effectiveness (1), fire (7), forest (7), fuels reduction (4), thinning (2)
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- Author: Jeannette Warnert
Published on: October 25, 2017
Reposted from UCANR News
Given California's changing climate, should Sierra Nevada residents replant pine trees after so many died during the 2010-2016 drought? The short answer is yes, says Susie Kocher, UC Cooperative Extension forestry advisor.
“We have every reason to believe that pines will continue to be an important part of mixed conifer forests in the Sierras,” Kocher said.
Tags: bark beetles (6), forest health (12), Jodi Axelson (2), Master Gardeners (2), Susie Kocher (20), tree mortality (11)
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- Author: Pat Joseph
Published on: September 28, 2017
Reprinted from California Magazine, UC Berkeley Alumni Association
Pete Oboyski worries about bugs eating his bugs.
Scratch that. The collections manager at the Essig Museum of Entomology, Oboyski worries about insects eating his insects—specifically, a family of beetles known as dermestids, which, should they make their way in, could reduce the museum's 6-million-plus specimens to powdery ruin. As any...
- Author: Scott Rappaport
Published on: March 17, 2017
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