Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 4, Issue 2 – December, 1989 Introduction Native oaks are a vital and important component of the vegetation of California. They grow in a wide variety of habitats and help provide a distinctive character to
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Rooting Out Oak Radicles
Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 5, Issue 1 – June, 1990 Introduction Blue oak acorns readily germinate once they fall from the tree. Unlike some acorns, such as the black oaks which require a cool, moist resting period to trigger germination,
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Introduction Oak trees are an important California natural resource, but in many areas they are not regenerating naturally. In addition, clearing land for economic reasons is reducing existing stands in many locations. Artificially regenerating oaks is one way to help conserve this
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Oaks ‘n Folks – Volume 18, Issue 12 – July, 2002 Throughout northern coastal California, a great deal of information regarding water quality and fish habitat is being amassed that potentially could change how people view and utilize stream corridors.
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Oaks ‘n Folks – Volume 18, Issue 12 – July, 2002 Most people are unaware that there are many more species of bees than just honeybees and bumblebees. In fact, there are at least 20,000 species of bees in the
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Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 2, Issue 2 – November, 1987 The persistence of oak woodlands in California is threatened by suburban development, fuel wood harvest, range management, and poor regeneration. Oak woodlands are extremely valuable to wildlife not only
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The Fifth Consecutive Oak Symposium Focuses on California’s Changing Landscape On October 23 to 25, 2001, the University of California Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program, along with 13 other organizations,1 sponsored the California Oak Symposium at the Bahia Resort Hotel in
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The Oregon White Oak and California Black Oak Ecology and Management Symposium, sponsored by University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources and Humboldt State University, took place in Eureka, CA on November 11-12, 2015. Symposium participants were able to choose between two all-day field trip
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Oaks ’n’ Folks – Volume 6, Issue 3 – December 1991 The recent fires in the Oakland and Berkeley hills that claimed several thousand homes and caused several billion dollars in property damage, occurred partly in oak woodlands dominated by
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Watersheds are landscape mosaics; therefore, watershed structure and function is dependent on scale. Temporal and spatial scales influence the inferences we can make about landscape patterns and processes. Spatial scale is the dimension of an object or process characterized by both grain and extent. Grain is defined as the finest level of spatial resolution possible with a given data set and extent is the size of a study area. The scale at which watershed measurements are taken influences our ability to detect spatial patterns. Biotic and abiotic processes vary in their operating scale.For example, anadromous fish are affected by stream and ocean environments. In contrast, native minnows are influenced by processes that occur within a stream or tributary.
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