From UC Merced: As wildfires grow in intensity and frequency, it’s vital that agencies and local stakeholders work together to rehabilitate and restore resilience to wildlands in California. This finding is underscored in a paper in the journal Restoration Ecology published...
By Jacob Margolis, LAist This article was originally published by LAist on 10/30/2024. Over the past decade, about 67 million gallons of fire retardant have been dropped on wildfires across California, according to the U.S. Forest Service. If you’ve ever...
Exceptionally wet winters drove a boom of grasses and shrubs that a record hot summer dried into the fuel powering the Park Fire in Northern California, the Line Fire outside Los Angeles and other conflagrations. By Caroline Marshall Reinhart, Inside...
In a warming climate, increased wildfire activity coupled with extreme rain events is causing significant erosion, leading to heightened sediment flow in rivers. This phenomenon has critical implications for water resource management and infrastructure maintenance. By the USGS A recent...
DRI’s Gabrielle Boisramé has been studying the transformative impact of Yosemite’s natural fire experiment for over a decade. By Elyse DeFranco, Desert Research Institute A few miles south of Yosemite’s famed Glacier Point, ringed by striking granite domes, lies the...
