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Is wildfire management ‘for the birds’?

July 3, 2019
Reposted from UC Berkeley News Spotted owls, native to the old-growth forests of the West Coast, have already lost much of their former habitat to logging. Without active forest management, the birds now risk losing even more of their remaining habitat to wildfire, a new paper argues.
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Californians agree: Don’t build in wildfire-prone areas

June 20, 2019
Reposted by Public Affairs, UC Berkeley A man helps friends recover after the 2007 Witch Fire in San Diego County destroyed their home. Californians agree that new homes should not be built in wildfire-prone areas, according to a new Berkeley IGS Poll.
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ESPM experts can lead on carbon dioxide removal

June 18, 2019
By Susan D Kocher
Reprinted from ESPM news In the May edition of California Agriculture, Daniel Sanchez and Whendee Silver discuss challenges and new carbon dioxide removal technologies: Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies, also known as negative emissions technologies, appear critical to achieving California's...
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