Prescribed fire at Blodgett Forest Research Station (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Prescribed fire at Blodgett Forest Research Station

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UC Berkeley’s Blodgett Forest Research Station is the home of an ongoing, 20-year study investigating the impacts of prescribed fire and restoration thinning on forest health and wildfire risk in the Sierra Nevada. Scroll through the slideshow to show how these treatments have transformed different corners of the forest over the past two decades.

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Ariel Roughton/UC Berkeley

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