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Students take in close-to-home forestry careers
More than 150 students from El Dorado and Placer county high schools took to the trees Thursday to learn about a smorgasbord of forestry careers.
Held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Blodgett Forest Research Station in Georgetown, the woodED Pathways Experience sought to open doors to students who may not have been aware of jobs available in their own backyards.
Management, firefighting crucial to determine wildfire risk
A new study from researchers in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and the UC Berkeley Center for Fire Research and Outreach—published online in advance of print in Environmental Research Letters—demonstrates that vegetation management and firefighting play major roles in determining fire risk in California.
California’s wildfire risk is rising. Congress missed a chance to help
WASHINGTON - Forestry experts have a dire warning for California: the conditions are ripe for more catastrophic fire seasons like the one last fall.
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100 million dead trees in the Sierra are a massive risk for unpredictable wildfires
“If our society doesn’t like the outcomes from recent fires and extensive drought-induced tree mortality in Sierra forests, then we collectively need to move beyond the status quo,” said study co-author Scott Stephens, professor of fire science at
What tech can — and can't — do to prevent and put out wildfires
"Los Angeles is in its second week of trying to contain the Thomas fire that has spread through two counties. Millions of acres have burned across the U.S.
The ‘extraordinary situation’ that led Edison to cut power to thousands as wildfire-prevent
A decision to cut power – on purpose – to thousands of residents in Riverside County mountain communities for about 33 hours last week is an example of how far Southern California utilities are willing to go to prevent arcing power lines from spar
Cal Fire Says It’s Focusing on Fire Prevention; But Critics Say Current Efforts Leave State Vulnerable to More Mega Fires
Across California, fire prevention is divvied up among a variety of agencies, including local governments. Dr. Bill Stewart, a forest economics and policy expert at UC Berkeley, says Cal Fire is in a unique position to take the lead statewide.