Fire Recovery Publications & Websites

Below are publications from the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources: 

Burned Oaks: Which Ones Will Survive, UC ANR Publication 8445: This publication provides information about how to assess fire damage to burned oak trees and provides guidelines for determining whether trees should be cut down or saved.

Evaluating Investments in Natural Resource Management: This publication presents to natural resource managers a method for evaluating capital investments in forests and rangeland. This method allows managers to compare and rank natural resource investments with stocks, bonds, or other alternatives to ensure efficient use of invested capital. 

Forest Stewardship Series: The series gives California forestland owners comprehensive information on the management and enjoyment of their lands. It is a good introduction to the lifelong study of forest stewardship that is part of owning forest property.

Forest Stewardship Series 6: Forest Vegetation Management: This publication helps people understand how forest vegetation can be managed to achieve their goals and objectives.

Forest Stewardship Series 7: Forest Regeneration: This publication helps people understand the fundamental steps involved in successfully regenerating or restoring a forest.

Forest Stewardship Series 15: Wildfire and Fuel Management: This publication gives you background information abut fire and fuel management as well as some practices that can help reduce the risk of a catastrophic wildfire occurring on your property.

Forest Stewardship Series 23: Technical and Financial Assistance: This publication helps people identify and understand the technical assistance and cost-share programs available to help in their forest stewardship.

Forest Stewardship Series 24: Professional Assistance: This publication helps people understand which resource management professionals may be able to assist with forest stewardship and where to find them.

Home Landscaping for Fire, ANR Publication 8228: This publication discusses incorporating fire safe concepts into the residential landscape as one of the most important ways to reduce wildfire risk for a new or existing home.

Rebuilding a Green Landscape After Wildfire: Tips for Landowners: Post-fire, the landscape is black and barren, but perceptive landowners understand the need to revegetate their property. This publication discusses erosion control, the plants and other measures to help convert devastated “back40’s” and yards into resilient forests and home landscapes again.

Recovering from Wildfire: A Guide for California's Forest Landowners, UC ANR Publication 8386: This publication discusses issues that forest landowners should consider following a wildfire in their forest, including how to assess fire impacts, protect valuable property from damage due to erosion, where to go for help and financial assistance, how to salvage dead trees or replant on your land, and how to claim a casualty loss on your tax return.

Regenerating Rangeland Oaks in California: This publication provides a resource for restorationists, hardwood rangeland managers, and others involved in oak propagation and planting projects so that their efforts are based on the latest scientific information available and are, ultimately, more successful.

Vegetation Management After Fire: The Use of Natives in Annual Dominated Systems in Central CA: The choice of what to plant after a fire is as important as understanding the role fire plays in species selection.  This publication discusses choosing species based on how well they will accommodate your management goals.

UC ANR Fire in California: University of California fire science and ecology resources and information to aid in prevention, preparedness and recovery/restoration.

Active Fire Mapping with Remote Sensing: The Active Fire Mapping Program is an operational, satellite-based fire detection and monitoring program managed by the USDA Forest Service Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (RSAC) located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Active Fire Mapping program provides near real-time detection and characterization of wildland fire conditions in a geospatial context for the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Canada. Detectable fire activity across all administrative ownerships in the United States and Canada are mapped and characterized by the program.

California Fire Safe Councils: Fire Safe Councils are grassroots, community-led organizations that mobilize residents to protect their homes, communities, and environments from catastrophic wildfire.

California Fire Science Consortium: The California Fire Science Consortium is a network of scientists and managers that strives to accelerate the awareness, understanding, and adoption of wildland fire science information by federal, tribal, state, local, and private stakeholders within ecologically similar regions. Our mission is to be an inclusive, neutral, customer-driven collaborative group that facilitates the flow of fire science information and dialogue.

Firewise USA: Firewise USA® is a voluntary program that provides a framework to help neighbors get organized, find direction, and take action to increase the ignition resistance of their homes and community.

The Burn Institute: The Burn Institute provides life changing services for burn survivors. To prevent fires and burns, they work with firefighters and volunteers to educate communities.

UC Center for Fire Research and Outreach: Resources of the University of California on fire research and outreach. Includes current fire news, the fire information engine tool kit, homeowner's wildfire assessment and mitigation guides, and fire resistant landscaping guides. 

UC Center for Forestry: The Center for Forestry brings together researchers to create and disseminate knowledge concerning ecosystem processes, human interactions and value systems, and restoration and operational forestry management practice. The Center for Forestry is located in the College of Natural Resources on the UC Berkeley Campus. 

UC Forest Research and Outreach: This website contains information, resources, publications, and big ideas about how to steward forest land in California.

UC Oaks: UC Oaks provides science-based information on California’s oak woodland ecology, management, and conservation. It is a repository of over 30 years of science-based research and outreach conducted during 1986 to 2010 by the UC Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program (IHRMP), a collaboration among the University of California, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

UCANR Woody Biomass Utilization: The website is a collaborative outreach effort working to advance the understanding and use of wood and woody biomass.