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Truck tippers empty chip vans filled with woody biomass to fuel the Buena Vista Biomass Power facility near Ione (Amador County). Photo by Will Suckow.
A field of tomatoes is irrigated with groundwater at the Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility near UC Davis. California’s prolonged drought is driving major increases in groundwater extraction in the state’s agriculture regions. UC researchers are investigating new ways to recharge aquifers (page 75). Photo by Will Suckow.
Prescribed burning helps to reduce fuels on the forest floor, clear dense understory vegetation and increase diversity in forests. Controlled fires and mechanical treatments can greatly reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire. In the cover photo, Darrik Carlson, a research assistant at UC Berkeley’s Blodgett Forest Research Station in El Dorado County, measures the height of the charred bark on a 100-year-old mature tree after a prescribed burn. Photo by Will Suckow.
Volume 69, Number 4