Blue Forest Monthly: A Science September
Dear Blue Forest community,?
You may have read about the launch of our new peer-reviewed wildfire smoke study, “The Human Health Benefits of Improving Forest Health," a couple of weeks ago.?The study investigates the links between forest management, wildfire smoke, and the health sector and represents almost two years of hard work from members of our science team as well as our partners at the California Council on Science & Technology (CCST). Check out the report here, the 1-pager/brief here, and view the recording of last week’s public briefing here.?
Late last month, Blue Forest Senior Project Scientist, Tessa Maurer, was a guest on KPCW’s Mountain Money where she talked about the Forest Resilience Bond, the importance of forest management for securing water supply in the West, and more. In case you missed it, you can listen to the segment here.
Please join us in congratulating Blue Forest Senior Scientist Micah Elias on his recent completion of his Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at U.C. Berkeley! ?? A few months back, we rolled out Micah’s recent research paper, Financial Analysis of Innovative Wood Products and Carbon Finance to Support Forest Restoration in California. You can now check out the research brief to learn about his work studying the financial viability of wood products made from low-value biomass.
We hope you’re enjoying the cooler weather as we move into the fall season.
Be well,?
The Blue Forest Team ??
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Featured Blog
Written By: Kelsee Taylor
In 2020, Oregon experienced the Labor Day Fires, five simultaneous megafires unlike any fire situation in the state’s history. In a matter of days, these wildfires took eleven lives, burned over 1 million acres, and evacuated 40,000 people from their homes. They also swept through watersheds that provide safe drinking water to thousands of people. Only 4 days after these first megafires in western Oregon, the Almeda Fire struck the Rogue Valley, and is estimated to have destroyed over 3,000 businesses and homes and displaced 8,500 residents. Today, Rogue Valley communities continue to face some of the highest wildfire risk in the state due to many factors related to climate change, drought, and over a century of suppressing the natural fire regime.
Blue Forest strives to address the wildfire crisis through strategic investments in landscape-scale restoration initiatives. Our projects support efforts related to watershed health, wildfire risk reduction, and post-fire restoration. In the western US, wildfire risk reduction and source water protection are among the most pressing environmental priorities. This reality, along with the increasing occurrence of catastrophic wildfires, has motivated us to explore projects throughout the Pacific Northwest, and to the recent launch of the Rogue Valley I FRB.
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