Test PB Collection: FTE

In response to the increasing scale and severity of wildfire impacts to California forests, the 2021 California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan recommended the formation of Emergency Forest Restoration Teams (EFRTs) to provide forest restoration assistance to small private landowners.

Webinar Series on the Ecology and Active Management of Riparian Vegetation in Forested Landscapes Recent regulatory proposals and research suggest that active management of riparian ecosystems can yield benefits to water quality and associated aquatic habitats.

Collaboration is increasingly being emphasized by land management agencies and stakeholders to address natural resource management issues and implement adaptive management. SNAMP collaborative field trip on the Tahoe National Forest involving multiple agencies and stakeholders.

Needles are yellowish-green, 1-inch-long and arranged in a spiral around the branchlets, like a bottlebrush. Cones are oblong, 2 to 4 inches long with three-pointed bracts and are located primarily in the upper crown. Bark on young trees is thin, smooth, and gray, with numerous resin blisters.

Lodgepole pine is a species which grows throughout the west, as far north as the Yukon and south to Baja California. It ranges east to the Black Hills of South Dakota and west all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

The coast redwood, also called the California redwood, is the tallest living thing in the world. It also grows to great volume. One grove of trees in Humboldt Redwoods State park contains the largest measured concentration of living material, or biomass, in the world.

The ponderosa pine, also known as the yellow pine, is one of the most widely distributed tree species in the West, growing from southern Canada into Mexico, and from Nebraska and Oklahoma all the way to the Pacific Coast. The largest recorded diameter was over 8 1/2 feet.

Identification: Needles are bluish-green and scale-like with short, thick, sharp points. Cones are small and woody, generally 2-3" long. Bark is reddish-brown, fibrous, and very thick.

Resources page with library of authoritative information relating to reforestation and seed development.

California Drought, Tree Mortality, Sierra Nevada Forests, Bark Beetles, Western Pine Beetle, Ponderosa Pine, Forest Health, Climate Impacts, Wildfire Fuels, Forest Resilience, UC Research, Tree Mortality Data Network, California Agriculture