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  • One of the most important tasks for wildfire preparedness is clearing the roof of debris. UC ANR photo
    Five things you can do this weekend to help protect your home from wildfire

    Sep 28, 2022

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
    • Yard & Garden
  • The new statewide fire coordinator, Katie Low, helps with a prescribed fire at Blodgett Forest Research Station during her studies at UC Berkeley. Photo courtesy Katie Low
    New advisors share crucial wildfire expertise

    Sep 22, 2022

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
  • UC Cooperative Extension has created a disaster preparedness website with information to help the public prepare for extreme heat, earthquakes, power shutoffs and wildfire.
    Disaster resources available to prepare for heat, wildfire, power outages, quakes

    Sep 1, 2022

    • Environment
    • Family
    • Health
  • Opportunities to learn, such as this Wildfire Preparedness Exposition event hosted by the Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council, are integral to the Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program. Photo by Anne-Marie Parkinson
    Study: Regional approach to wildfire more comprehensive, equitable

    May 26, 2022

    • Environment
    • Innovation
    • Natural Resources
  • Rob York says a healthy forest is one that you can run through.
    Lessons on wildfire resilience from a 4,000-acre forest lab

    Feb 1, 2022

    • Environment
  • Humboldt County Prescribed Burn Association uses prescribed fire to reduce fuels and wildfire risk and to restore habitat, control invasive species, improve rangelands in June 2019. Photo by Lenya Quinn Davidson
    First-ever California burn boss class meets in Eureka

    May 12, 2021

    • Environment
  • Teachers practiced delivering lessons from the FireWorks Oak Woodlands curriculum at a training held before the coronavirus pandemic.
    To prepare Californians for wildfire in oak woodlands, UC ANR offers teachers training

    Jun 11, 2020

    • Environment
    • Family
    • Health
    • Natural Resources
  • The Prescribed Burn Association formed by Lenya Quinn-Davidson and Jeffery Stackhouse, UCCE advisors in Humboldt County, was selected by CSAC for its statewide Challenge Award.
    Humboldt County’s Prescribed Burn Association teaches the value of fire

    Feb 5, 2020

    • Natural Resources
  • Landowners at a UCCE prescribed fire training are 'holding' the fire on the left side of the fire line that was cut using rakes and other hand tools. The landowner on the far left is firing the burn unit with a drip torch. (Photo: Ames Gilbert)
    Can rakes save forests? Yes, as long as you have a drip torch in the other hand

    Dec 11, 2018

    • Natural Resources
  • Retired U.S. Forest Service fire chief Jeanne Pincha-Tulley, second from right, is among the inspiring women leaders encouraging women to aspire to be wildland fire managers at the Women-in-Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchange.
    Women learn to burn and lead in fire management in Northern California Oct. 19-28

    Oct 17, 2016

  • Lenya Quinn-Davidson, UC Cooperative Extension advisor and director of the Northern California Prescribed Fire Council, is organizing the first-ever Women-in-Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchange. Photo by Larry Luckham
    Lighting up a new path: the Women-in-Fire Rx Fire Training Exchange (WTREX)

    Oct 13, 2016

  • Rubicon River, El Dorado National Forest
    King Fire provides learning opportunities

    Apr 29, 2015

  • A fire-adapted community  is a community that can survive a wildfire with little or no assistance from firefighters.
    Becoming a fire-adapted community

    Apr 10, 2015

  • This demonstration structure was designed to resist fire.
    Coexist or perish, new wildfire analysis says

    Nov 5, 2014

  • Firefighters set a controlled burn near Hayfork at the 2013 training. Photo by Lenya Quinn-Davidson
    Firefighters from across western US to train in N. California

    Oct 8, 2014

  • The American Fire.
    What happens when a wildfire sweeps through your study area?

    Feb 27, 2014

  • Fire consumes a once-healthy California redwood tree. (photo: USFS)
    Coast redwoods increasingly susceptible to fire damage

    Sep 4, 2013

  • A firefighter monitors a backfire while Rim Fire rages in the background. (Photo: U.S. Forest Service)
    The Rim Fire is a treasure trove of information for fire scientists

    Sep 3, 2013

  • Tree cookies, horizontal slices from a tree trunk, are another tool used to estimate the total number of fire events in an area and how often a fire occurred in a tree’s life, as well as how the tree recovered from the fires. (Photo: Kim Ingram)
    Fire ecology - a ‘hot’ career to attract students to science

    Apr 15, 2013

  • Herbaceous growth on California Tahoe Conservancy land in 2010.
    Forest lands may benefit from active restoration after wildfire

    Aug 21, 2012

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