14 de agosto de 2023

FYI on the CA Oakwatch project from CNPS, resources for Oak Woodland/Tree management

Apologies for the acronym soup, but if you're interested in joining the CA Native Plant Society (CNPS) started a project (California Oakwatch) to track and identify oaks, focusing on recruiting/young oaks and rare oaks across the State:

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/california-oakwatch

They also linking informative training videos on Youtube and some PDF resources to learn to better ID our native oaks.

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P.S. A bonus link and FYI for anyone interested in Oak Rangeland online resources, many UC ANR links were recently reorganized or deleted, so I'm posting this link to UC ANR Oak Rangeland resources (via UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources) in case anyone hasn't seen it.

It contains resources for land managers, homeowners, and others to help manage and protect oak woodlands, as well as links to recent research on the importance of oak woodlands and new management technique publications and findings:

https://oaks.cnr.berkeley.edu/

updated link for UC ANR oak resources here: https://ucanr.edu/sites/csnce/Rangeland/

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13 de mayo de 2021

Los Altos Hills seeks citizen scientists to save local oaks.

Citizen scientists jot down the GPS coordinates of a tree featuring signs of Sudden Oak Death.

https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/news/297-news-features/64421-los-altos-hills-seeks-citizen-scientists-to-save-local-oaks

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15 de noviembre de 2020

I went forest bathing to deal with the stress of 2020. It worked..

For the uninitiated, forest bathing — or shinrin-yoku, as its Japanese creators call it — is a process of taking in the forest through the senses. Breathing it. Smelling it. Feeling it. Watching it. The practice got started in the 1980s as a way to combat high rates of suicide among Japan’s working class; today, spending time on certified “therapy trails” is considered medical treatment, and scientists are studying it around the world.

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/amp/election-redwoods-forest-bathing-tahoe-california-15726673.php

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04 de septiembre de 2020

California Biodiversity Week 2020-San Diego Natural History Museum

Celebrate California’s Natural Beauty!

Join us and our partners for a weeklong celebration of California Biodiversity Day, September 5 – 13.

https://www.sdnhm.org/blog/blog_details/california-biodiversity-week-2020/154/

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10 de marzo de 2020

Volunteers needed to stop SOD from killing oak trees.

In California, sudden oak death disease has killed more than 50 million of the state’s iconic oaks and tanoak trees between Humboldt County and Monterey County, threatening survival of several tree species. In 2019 alone, 1 million tanoaks succumbed to sudden oak death (SOD), according to 2019 tree mortality data released by the U.S. Forest Service.

https://yubanet.com/california/volunteers-needed-to-stop-sod-from-killing-oak-trees/

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14 de febrero de 2020

Oak Blight Hits Humboldt.

While Humboldt County is known for its beautiful forests, sudden oak death threatens their wellbeing.

https://thelumberjack.org/2020/02/13/oak-blight-hits-humboldt/amp/

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29 de enero de 2020

Native Plants: How to re-oak your neighborhood.

California’s native oaks have always evoked the feeling of “home” for me, even though I spent my first quarter-century well east of the Sierra Nevada. From afar, I appreciate the muscular, sculptural beauty of coast live oaks. Up close, I love the multitude of birds and other critters that are drawn to the trees.

https://www.losaltosonline.com/special-sections2/sections/your-home/61778-how-to-re-oak-your-neighborhood

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15 de enero de 2020

What is killing the native oaks of Southern California?

The Goldspotted Oak Borer, or GSOB, is an invasive beetle that is killing native oaks in several areas of Southern California.

https://www.ocregister.com/2020/01/13/what-is-killing-the-native-oaks-of-southern-california/amp/

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06 de enero de 2020

Valley oak tree could provide insight into how plants will adapt to climate change.

The valley oak, a tree species native to California, is at the root of a new means of determining an organism’s genetic fitness in the face of climate change.

A UCLA-led study found that under current global warming conditions, trees such as valley oaks are unable to thrive, adapt and proliferate as before. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America in November.

https://dailybruin.com/2020/01/05/valley-oak-tree-could-provide-insight-into-how-plants-will-adapt-to-climate-change/

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04 de enero de 2020

Plant an oak in 2020: Make a home for insects and animals.

Q: Over the holidays, I was reading about the insect apocalypse. I've decided to include planting an oak tree in my New Year’s resolution list. I read that oak trees provide the most habitat for insects.

https://amp.redding.com/amp/2787701001

Publicado el 04 de enero de 2020 por biohexx1 biohexx1 | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario
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