UC Berkeley removes hundreds of trees in Oakland hills for fire safety
Pile of logs along Grizzly Peak. UC Berkeley cut down the trees as part of a plan to ensure Claremont Avenue could be used as an evacuation route during a fire. Photo: Doug Prose John Radke is a UC Berkeley associate professor who specializes in fire modeling. As part of his coursework, he likes to lead students into the winding thickets of Claremont Canyon in the Oakland hills, where the underbrush can reach chest-high, to show them the likely site of one of the next major East Bay fires. “I was up there one day in the fall and you could hear the leaves cracking they were so dry,” Radke ...
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