Forestry
Forest Advisor Michael Jones promotes a Forestry Program for Mendocino, Lake, and Sonoma Counties that focuses on efforts to keep oak and conifer forests and the habitat they provide healthy and productive. Through research, education, and advise the program encourages biodiversity and sustainable management of these forestlands.
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Forest Research and Outreach Blog
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Dead Trees Fuel Wildfire Severity in Sierra Nevada - Study Highlights the Role of Forest Fuels Amid a Warming Climate
Scientists collect data about a year after the 2016 Cedar Fire. (R. Wayman/UC Davis) California's drought of 2012-2016 killed millions of trees in the Sierra Nevada — mostly by way of a bark beetle epidemic...
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UC ANR releases new publication that synthesizes scientific knowledge on annual rangeland
Decades of research-based knowledge about the history, physical characteristics and vegetation in California annual grassland, oak-woodland and chaparral ecosystems has been consolidated in a new nine-part PDF document. The 200-page...
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Forest management can help giant sequoias and coastal redwoods survive
Reposted from the UCANR News In 2020, 9,000 fires scorched more than 4 million acres of California, a record-breaking year, reported Alejandra Borunda in National Geographic. Fires burned through homes and oak forests,...
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Identifying Where to Reforest After Wildfire A Future of Fewer Christmas Trees? Conifers Expected to Decline
A post-fire area of the Sierra Nevada mountains with negligible conifer regeneration. (Joseph Stewart, UC Davis/USGS) In the aftermath of megafires that devastated forests of the western United States, attention turns to whether...
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Ag Pass program aims to improve wildfire preparedness on rangeland
When the Detwiler Fire broke out near his family's ranch in 2017, Tony Toso was home to take defensive action to protect his family and animals. The Mariposa County rancher feels fortunate that he was on site. “We were on the front end...
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