Forest Research and Outreach

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How wildfire can create healthier forests

August 23, 2021
Reposted from the Berkeley News See all Berkeley Voices episodes. Berkeley News writer Kara Manke discusses a new UC Berkeley report that shows how allowing lightning fires to burn in Yosemite's Illilouette Creek Basin recreated a lost and more resilient forest ecosystem.
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How wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed

August 10, 2021
Reposted from Berkeley News For nearly half a century, lightning-sparked blazes in Yosemite's Illilouette Creek Basin have rippled across the landscape closely monitored, but largely unchecked.
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Berkeley joins Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition

July 22, 2021
Reposted from the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources News As fire once again sweeps through the American West, an interagency report formally released today estimates that 7,500 to 10,600 large giant sequoias were killed in last year's Castle Fire.
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