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A forest contending with a bark beetle outbreak

August 2024

  • Feature: Caspar Creek Experimental Watershed
  • Registration: Urban Forestry for Changing Times Symposium
Thumbnail image of a remote lake in the mountains

June 2024

  • Feature: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Projects at PSW
LA Urban Center through the trees.

May 2024

  • Feature: Connecting Los Angeles with Nature
  • National Congressional Staff Tour

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Quarterly Research Spotlight

A bumblebee on a person's finger

March - June 2024

  • Pathogenicity and colonization of Ōhiʻa lehua by Ceratocystis huliohia
  • The Impact of Fire Severity on Sierra Nevada Pollinators
Visibility in the Lake Tahoe basin, as viewed by a webcam at D. L. Bliss State Park (within the study area) during the Caldor Fire on August 30 and 31, 2021.

January 2024 - March 2024 

  • Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather
  • Non-native Grasslands in Hawai'i are Resilient to Disturbance
  • Urban Tree Monitoring; A Field Guide & Resource Guide GTRs translated into Spanish
A butterfly sitting on a leaf with vegetation in the background.

October - December 2023

  • Pollinator Resilience in the Face of Increasing Fire Severity
  • Trends in Agroforestry Research Over 4 Decades
Detection density maps for Hawaiʻi Island from each of the four GAO coverage campaigns, January 2016 (a), June-July 2017 (b), January 2018 (c), and  January 2019 (d), with regions of higher map uncertainty masked out (shown in blue-filled polygons)

July - September 2023

  • Landscape epidemiology of the spread of Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death
  • Using culturally significant birds to guide the timing of prescribed fires

 

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Last updated August 29, 2024