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Forestry and Wildlands Ecology
The Forestry and Wildlands Ecology Program 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.
Forestry Documents
Trees and Drought
Forest Research and Outreach Blog
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Can rakes save forests? Yes, as long as you have a drip torch in the other hand.
Added December 11, 2018Resposted from the UCANR Green Blog The humble rake has been in the spotlight in recent weeks, and its role as a forest management tool ridiculed and scorned. However, most fire professionals believe rakes are a necessary part of...
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Wildfire risk should be considered when planning new developments
Added December 5, 2018San Diego County officials want to approve construction of about 10,000 homes in areas largely labeled by CAL FIRE as posing a "very-high" fire hazard, reported Joshua Emerson Smith in the San Diego Union Tribune. County supervisors said the...
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Catastrophic wildfires and climate change lead to growing acceptance of ‘pyrosilviculture’
Added November 15, 2018Reposted from the UCANR Green Blog For millennia, fires periodically burned through California forests, thinning trees, reducing shrubbery and clearing out downed branches and debris. Without periodic fire, the forests became more dense, with spaces...
Center for Forestry Twitter
Center for Forestry (now @Berkeley Forests):
The UC Center for Forestry is now Berkeley Forests! Please follow us at our new home @berkeleyforests and visit our… https://t.co/PShbGtU0oI
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Center for Forestry (now @Berkeley Forests):
"More than 100 experts from 45 countries have published a three-year study of the Earth’s land degradation, calling… https://t.co/QeiwSeZO2L
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Center for Forestry (now @Berkeley Forests):
"The University of California Natural Reserve System has received a more than $2 million grant... Called the Califo… https://t.co/3ok11X4vYS
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Center for Forestry (now @Berkeley Forests):
"The idea calls for massive plantations of trees and other crops to draw carbon dioxide out of the air... Some expe… https://t.co/i7C3JMXOeg
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Center for Forestry (now @Berkeley Forests):
In an effort to address concerns about future food supply shortages, UC Berkeley scientists have discovered a prote… https://t.co/HXKgnHPFkq
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