Forest Research and Outreach

Reposted from UCANR News Trees essential to lowering temperatures, cooling heat islands' Water restrictions prompted by the drought are driving Californians to prioritize how they will use their limited water.

Reposted from UC ANR News After a rash of wildfires across Southern California in 2003, many counties, cities and neighborhoods adopted Community Wildfire Protection Plans to improve their preparedness and fire response.

Reposted from UC Davis News Rebecca Wayman, a UC Davis associate specialist of forestry, participates in the prescribed burn. (Tim McConville/UC Davis) Smoke billows over the forest like a slow-moving fog. Dried oak leaves singe, crackle and curl into ash.

Reposted from the University of California news Once outlawed, cultural burns can save our forests from uncontrollable wildfire In the past several years, California has endured the most extreme fires in its recorded history.

Forests in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Range are being stressed by many factors that put them at risk. High-severity wildfire, drought stress, insect outbreaks, disease, and a backdrop of changing climate are a few.