- Author: Molly Stephens
- Author: Roger Bales
![With few ladder fuels and lower fuels loads, fire is less likely to jump from ground to canopy. Photo credit: UC Merced Newsroom.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/104819small.jpg)
The new film "California's Watershed Healing" documents the huge benefits that result from restoring forests to healthier densities. UC Merced's Sierra Nevada Research Institute partnered with the nonprofit Chronicles Group to tell the story of these efforts, the science behind them, and pathways that dedicated individuals and groups are pioneering to scale up these urgent climate solutions.
"California's forests are at a tipping point, owing to both climate stress and past unsustainable management practices that suppressed wildfires and prioritized timber...
- Author: Mario Aguilera
![A series of wildfire experiments conducted at UC San Diego carry implications for aquatic ecosystems in areas such as the Sierra Nevada mountains. Photo credit: C.Wall](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/104816small.jpg)
In devastating cases dotting the globe in recent years, climate warming has led to an increase in the number and severity of destructive wildfires. Climate change projections indicate that environmental and economic damage from wildfires will spread and escalate in the years ahead.
While studies have analyzed impacts on land, new research from the University of California San Diego and other institutions indicates that aquatic ecosystems are also undergoing rapid changes as a result of wildfires.
Led by School of Biological Sciences Professor Jonathan Shurin's laboratory, the researchers compared how aquatic systems change with the input of burnt plant matter,...
- Author: Grace Dean
![Satink Wolfson is a part of UC ANR’s statewide fire advisor network. From left to right: Luca Carmignani, Yana Valachovic, Katie Low, Barb Satink Wolfson, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Alison Deak, Tori Norville. Photo credit: Fire Solutions- UC ANR.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/102148small.jpg)
In the wake of California's increasing wildfire concerns, UC ANR has made a concerted push to expand their fire network by hiring more academic advisors like Barb Satink Wolfson. Satink Wolfson covers the central coast region of California, serving the communities of San Benito, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties. This is her first fire-focused position in California- but is far from her first time working in fire science and communications. Prior to moving to the Central Coast in 2022, Satink Wolfson established a...
- Author: Grace Dean
![A landowner discusses the challenges of rebuilding post-Creek Fire. Photo credit: Katie Reidy.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/101768small.jpg)
In Spring of 2022, UC ANR launched its first Post-Fire Resilience Workshop. Since 2022, the workshop has traveled to Alpine, El Dorado, Plumas, Mariposa, Fresno, Madera, and Napa counties, and has reached 97 participants. The program continues to gain positive feedback and broadening statewide interest.
The UC ANR Post-Fire Resilience program has provided educational assistance to non-industrial private forest landowners throughout California who have been affected by wildfire. The program's workshop offering is headed by Post-Fire Academic Coordinator Katie Reidy, who aims to provide landowners with an opportunity to learn ways to proceed with their forested land, post-fire....
- Author: Brian Bell
![Steven Davis, UCI professor of Earth system science, led a study of carbon dioxide emissions from forest fires in recent decades. In a paper in the journal Science, he and his colleagues shared some shocking findings. “According to our measurements, boreal fires in 2021 shattered previous records. These fires are two decades of rapid warming and extreme drought in Northern Canada and Siberia coming to roost, and unfortunately even this new record may not stand for long,” he says. Steve Zylius / UCI](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/forestrymgmt/blogfiles/98051small.jpg)
Irvine, Calif., March 2, 2023 — Carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires, which have been gradually increasing since 2000, spiked drastically to a record high in 2021, according to an international team of researchers led by Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine.
Nearly half a gigaton of carbon (or 1.76 billion tons of CO2) was released from burning boreal forests in North America and Eurasia in 2021, 150 percent higher than annual mean CO2 emissions between 2000 and 2020, the scientists reported in a paper in Science.
“According to our...