Study shows California forests vulnerable to massive fires
New research from UC Berkeley says if we want to keep our forests healthy and protected from severe wildfires, we have to use different management techniques.
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New research from UC Berkeley says if we want to keep our forests healthy and protected from severe wildfires, we have to use different management techniques.
A 20-year experiment in the north-central Sierra Nevada recently confirmed what many local, state and federal agencies have been saying for years — that forest management techniques such as prescribed
Prescribed burning, restoration thinning, or a combination of both are effective at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire in California.
Forest management strategies like restoration thinning and prescribed burning lower catastrophic wildfire risk, a California study confirms.
<p>A 20-year experiment in the Sierra Nevada confirms that different forest management techniques — prescribed burning, restoration thinning or a combination of both — are effective at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire in California. These treatments also improve forest health, making trees more resilient to stressors like drought and bark beetles, and they do not negatively impact plant or wildlife biodiversity within individual tree stands, the research found.</p>