UC Cooperative Extension outlines oak stewardship, wildfire resilience and tree-mortality concerns to Lake County supervisors

Michael Jones, the University of California Cooperative Extension forest advisor for Lake County, told the Lake County Board of Supervisors that his program "is aimed to conduct outreach, education and research on forestry-related topics" to help landowners and managers steward conifer forests and oak woodlands.

Jones said the Extension is concentrating on three core areas in Lake County: oak woodland stewardship; managing for disturbance and wildfire resilience — including fuels reduction and helping form prescribed burn associations — and broader forest-health concerns such as new invasive insects and tree mortality. "We rely a lot on the forest service to fly…