Projects
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The Fire Resilience Project: Piloting ways for citizen scientists and professionals to work together effectively in helping our fire-ravaged landscapes
Santa Barbara Botanical Garden and CBI partner to assess fire-damaged watersheds and prioritize management actions.
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Spatial Inventory and Economic Analysis of Bottomland Hardwood Forest Conservation Reserves: Pilot for the State of Mississippi
CBI is collaborating with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Farm Service Agency to produce an online application depicting ecological and economic features across Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands in Mississippi.
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Terrestrial Flora Program Support: Rare Plant Monitoring on Naval Base Point Loma and Coronado, CA
The Department of Defense, United States Navy recently awarded CBI a rare plant monitoring project and subsequent cooperative agreement to monitor rare plant species located on Naval Base’s Point Loma and Coronado, California in 2019.
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Alaska Yellow Cedar gene conservation in Klamath Region (CA and OR)
CBI is collaborating with the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest and the Klamath National Forest in their effort to conserve the Alaska yellow Cedar in its southern range where it faces extreme extinction risk due to climate change.
Reports
Publications
- Chaparral Landscape Conversion in Southern California
- Mapping future fire probability under climate change: Does vegetation matter?
- The iCASS Platform: Nine principles for landscape conservation design
- Human presence diminishes the importance of climate in driving fire activity across the United States
- Trends and drivers of fire activity vary across California aridland ecosystems
