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Volunteers needed for “blitz” to stop oak-killing beetle

May 14th, 2025

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

To save oak trees, University of California Cooperative Extension is organizing a GSOB Blitz, a community-powered effort to detect and map goldspotted oak borer infestations. Between June 1 and June 15, local survey events will take place across San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and…

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UCLA, UC ANR establish water supply-wildfire research and policy coordination network

April 10th, 2025

UCLA’s Climate & Wildfire Research Initiative (CWRI) is launching a new Urban Water Supply + Fire working group to function as a research and policy coordination network. This effort formalizes a forum where UCLA can come together and coordinate efforts with the University of California Agriculture and…

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Statewide team to assist small farms with SGMA

April 2nd, 2025

By Ngodoo Atume, Kristen Farrar

California relies on groundwater - water stored in underground aquifers and pumped through wells - for up to 41% of water supply in normal years and up to 60% during times of drought. In 2014, the California legislature signed into law the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) with the primary goal…

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A prescribed burn at the UC ANR Hopland Research and Extension Center (2024)

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UC researchers study smoke risk to vineyards from prescribed grassland fires

March 27th, 2025

By Christopher C Chen

In the winegrape vineyards of northern California, fire and its associated smoke pose a unique threat in the form of smoke-taint damage to the fruit. A preliminary study looks at whether prescribed burning as a fire prevention method poses a risk to winegrape crops.

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UC ANR fire expert highlights materials, components and actions that saved homes from LA fires

March 4th, 2025

By Yana S Valachovic

Yana Valachovic, a member of UC ANR's Fire Network with a specialty in community resilience and the built environment, visited the sites of the L.A. fires to look for examples where surviving homes withstood the ferocity of the fire and for signs of defensible space and home hardening in action.

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