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The Green Blog shares news and information related to forestry/wildfire, sustainability, climate, environmental stewardship and other green topics.

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Tribal Engagement at the Hopland Research and Extension Center

May 5, 2023
By Adina Merenlender
The Hopland Research and Extension Center is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Shqowa and Hopland People, whose historical and spiritual relationship with these lands continues to this day and beyond (for more on the Land and people history of the site, see this story m...
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View of Lone Bobcat Woods during a Forest Stewardship Placer-Nevada County field day. Photo credit: Kim Ingram.
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Top 10 tools for new forest landowners

April 21, 2023
By Grace N Dean
Earth Day 2023 celebrates the ways in which we can all invest in our planet, and forest landowners play a considerable role in this. Part of being a forest landowner is deciding where and when to invest your time, money and energy.
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A tree burned from the inside out, then toppled at Hopland Research & Extension Center.
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Wildfires may spur animal biodiversity

April 14, 2023
Wildfires. Many see them as purely destructive forces, disasters that blaze through a landscape, charring everything in their paths. But a study published in the journal Ecology Letters reminds us that wildfires are also generative forces, spurring biodiversity in their wakes.
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