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Students in a UC Davis fire ecology class walk along a burned ridge top of Stebbins Cold Canyon Natural Reserve in 2016. (photo Alexandra Weill, UC Davis)

Wildfire Perceptions Largely Positive After Hiking in a Burned Landscape

  • by Ann Filmer
  • March 26, 2020
When hikers returned to UC Davis Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve in 2016, a year after the Wragg wildfire, many expected to see a devastated landscape. They did, but many were also energized about the new changes they saw. Allie Weill, then a graduate student with Professor Andrew Latimer, Plant Sciences, published a paper on this.
Researcher Paul Excoffier during field work about plant diversity and wildfire in the Sierra Nevada. (Clark Richter/UC Davis)

Plant Diversity a Casualty of High-Severity Wildfires

  • by Ann Filmer
  • October 03, 2019
Sierra Nevada forests are losing plant diversity due to high-severity fires, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. These fires are turning patches of forest into shrub fields — indefinitely, in some cases.
Burning of rice residues in SE Punjab, India, prior to the wheat season. (photo Neil Palmer/CIAT)

Fields on Fire: Alternatives to Crop Residue Burning in India

  • by Ann Filmer
  • August 20, 2019
A new article in the journal Science – Fields on Fire: Alternatives to Crop Residue Burning in India – addresses the environmental problems associated with crop burning in India, and presents alternatives such as changing cropping systems and adopting different management practices. J.K. Ladha, Plant Sciences, UC Davis, is a co-author.
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