Yana S Valachovic

Yana Valachovic is the County Director and forest Advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. She supports the UC ANR Fire Network in Community Resilience and Built Environment topics. Her work links natural resources and community activities to help sustain natural resources, build climate-resilient communities and ecosystems, and develop a qualified workforce.

She is a registered professional forester and forest scientist whose skills and interests cover many natural resource fields. She is currently the co-lead of the California Fire Science Consortium's Northern California region and serves many roles with the California Wildfire Forest Resilience Task Force. She is best known for her work in wildfire mitigation and resilience; however, her research has also covered the ecology of conifer and oak ecosystems, management of forest pathogens, the effects of forest management on redwood lumber durability, the water demands of forest densification, impacts of code changes on wildfire building performance, and the sociological aspects of cannabis production.