Irrigated farmland serves as a landscape-scale buffer to wildfire, creating major tradeoffs between water-saving drought adaptation efforts and shifting wildfire...
By Leah Borts-Kuperman; The Narwhal, Circle of Blue Aquatic global change ecologist Mary Jade (MJ) Farruggia found herself studying the impact of wildfires on lakes by accident. She was researching lakes in the mountains of California in the summer of 2020...
Lukins Brothers Water Company achieves Firewise recognition through community–led risk reduction Press release from the California Water Association: The California Water Association (CWA) today announced that the Lukins Brothers Water Company, which services Tahoe Valley, has earned official recognition from...
From UC Merced: Wildfire is reshaping the forests of California’s Sierra Nevada and affecting the water those forests supply to downstream users. A paper published in Hydrology and Earth System Science reports that the effect of wildfire on potential runoff from...
California’s wildfires are destroying forests faster than the state can replant them, and federal cuts are making the gap worse. One expert says the crisis is barely known — even though it could reshape half the state’s forests by 2071. By...
By: Dmitri Kalashnikov, University of California, Merced; Cong Yin, University of California, Merced; Madhulika Gurazada, University of California, Merced, and Mukesh Kumar, University of California, Merced When heat waves hit the Western United States, the risk of wildfires quickly rises....
