Blog: The art and science of transforming California’s forests
In an event earlier this month, PPIC Water Policy Center research associate Kyle Greenspan presented new research about California’s efforts to reduce severe wildfire hazards. … Scott Stephens, Henry Vaux special professor of forest policy at UC Berkeley, explained the problem. “It’s about what’s going on inside that fire. Maybe 30–40% of that 2020 year of fire was high severity, so you’re killing all trees over thousands of acres continuously. That’s incredibly detrimental.” It’s particularly problematic for the state’s water supply, the vast majority of which originates in California’s headwaters regions, like the Sierra-Cascade Mountains.
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