Forest Research and Outreach Blog

As Californians prepare for another year of drought and an anticipated intense fire season, landowners and organizations across California have been working to reduce forest fuels flammable woody material that can endanger their properties and communities.

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.