NALT Keyword: Natural Resources

Waterbirds and landbirds, including many special status species, are using flooded fields, wetlands and riparian forest on private lands.

In this case study, converting forest wastes to electricity had energy and emissions benefits but was not economically viable.

The powerful mapping capabilities of Lidar soon may be widely available to California forest managers as costs fall and the technology improves.

Ornamental plants at high risk for future invasion include 60 species that naturalized after 1940, and 94 species that have not yet naturalized.

Nearly 30 years after a burn at two sites in northeastern California, sagebrush had recovered fully and invasive grasses had diminished.

Pasture-scale tests of prescribed grazing did not reduce yellow starthistle, but did reduce medusahead in years without late-spring rainfall.

Taking two or three cores in a few beds produces a reliable nutrient assessment that could avoid nitrogen surpluses and groundwater pollution.

At half the test sites receiving recycled water since 1998, chloride levels exceeded the thresholds for chloride-sensitive crops such as strawberries.

A historic shift is occurring in the way California agriculture is engaging in groundwater management and protection.

A consensus is developing that fuel treatments are not negatively impacting the ecology of yellow pine and mixed-conifer forests.