Oaks ’n’ Folks – Volume 7, Issue 2 – September 1992 Introduction Urbanization in California’s oak woodlands is taking place at unprecedented rates. Areas that were previously extensively managed for livestock production, with only a few homes spread out over
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The Role of Fire in California’s Oak Woodlands
Oaks ’n’ Folks – Volume 9, Issue 2 – September 1994 Introduction Fire is a natural part of California’s oak woodland ecosystem. It has also served as an important management tool since Native Americans first inhabited these areas. Fire plays
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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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Oaks ‘n Folks – Volume 14, Issue 2 – August, 1999 Introduction California’s 10 million acres of hardwood rangelands, or oak woodlands, are the most biologically diverse broad habitat in the state. Most of the state’s water supply flows through
Read full articleEstablishing Livestock Carrying Capacity
Oaks ’n’ Folks – Volume 13, Issue 1- February. 1998 Establishing Livestock Carrying Capacity From GIS & Range Science Research The Williamson Act is a tax assessment for agricultural land that bases property taxes on the use of the land
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Effects of Wood Cutting on Wildlife Habitat in Blue Oak Woodlands in the Northern Sacramento Valley Barret A. Garrison and Richard B. Standiford. Oaks ‘n’ Folks – Volume 12, Issue 1 – February, 1997 Wood cutting in California’s hard-wood rangelands
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Residential and commercial development is the leading cause of conversion of oak woodlands over a relatively large area of the state. Oak woodlands have the highest biological diversity of any major habitat type in the state. This is largely due
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A study was started in 1987 to develop a dynamic model of hardwood rangeland management activities using the best available biological and economic data. Firewood production, livestock production, and commercial hunting were incorporated into a multi-product objective function to model
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