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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Researchers honored with U.S. Department of Energy Award
On Wednesday, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) granted a Secretary of Energy Achievement Award to a team including two Rausser College researchers, assistant Cooperative Extention specialist Daniel Sanchez and PhD...
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New videos demonstrate techniques and tools to survey forestland trees
Forestland owners can learn how to survey the trees on their property from four new videos produced by UC Cooperative Extension, setting them on a course for sustainable management of their forestland. The videos are available on the UC ANR...
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Permitting rules and regulations for private forest landowners: What you can and cannot do
Navigating natural resource management rules and regulations in California can be daunting for private forest landowners. California's Forest Practice Rules were created in 1974, and have evolved over the years through a collaborative process between...
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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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