Forest Research and Outreach Blog

Forest Stewardship comes to Contra Costa! Contra Costa Resource Conservation District's Ben Weise has been working with UC ANR's Forest Stewardship team to plan the next Forest Stewardship workshop series for landowners. We spoke with Weise about how the RCD has responded to changes in community needs over…

  Summer days call for unique ways to beat the heat, so here’s a well-kept secret: the best place to cool off is a warehouse-sized freezer, tucked away at CALFIRE’s Lewis A. Moran Reforestation Center (LAMRC). The freezer’s primary residents are thousands of tree seeds: species like Jeffrey…

When seeking to make forests more fire resilient, removing fuels from the landscape is a tough task to make cost-effective. Thinning and limbing trees during fuels reduction treatments will sometimes produce marketable timber, but more often will produce small-diameter wood pieces that have traditionally…

 The invasive goldspotted oak borer first struck San Diego County woodlands over a decade ago, and the damage over successive years left “boneyards” behind. That’s how Jan Gonzales describes the dead trees removed after suffering an infestation of the tiny beetles — just piles of chopped wood…

  This summer, UC ANR is inviting forest landowners in Yuba, Nevada and surrounding counties to learn strategies for promoting wildfire resiliency and forest health on their land. The UC ANR Forest Stewardship workshop begins July 1st and will guide landowners through different aspects of managing…