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Prescribed burning, restoration thinning, or a combination of both are effective at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire in California.
<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>
The University of New Mexico Department of Geography and Environmental Studies will host its 2023 Murphy Lecture, featuring a talk from Lesley-Ann L. Dupigny-Giroux, Ph.D., Friday, Nov. 17 from 3 to 4 p.m. in Mitchell Hall 122. Dupigny-Giroux, a...
The new online tool, released in its beta version this week, seeks to promote more collaboration across agencies on larger wildfire prevention projects.