Forestry

Cadenasso proposes new approach to viewing a world on fire

UC Davis Prof. Mary L. Cadenasso and colleagues propose a framework for understanding human-natural disasters, highlighting how human actions and natural processes combine to create events like wildfires, exacerbated by climate change.

The California Tree Mortality Data Collection Network

An article in California Agriculture addresses how critical research is underway to understand the consequences of the massive wave of tree mortality in the Sierra Nevada. Urgent dialogue has started among UC scientists, forest managers, and public agencies to manage the consequences of the unprecedented tree die-off and increase the resiliency of forests to future droughts.