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Forest Ecosystems and Communities Member List - Workgroup Information
Forest Ecosystems and Communities
Summary
Conifer-dominated forest ecosystems, both managed and unmanaged, provide a wide range of benefits to California's consumers, recreationists, workforce, and local residents. This workgroup focuses on generating and disseminating the best practices that connect forests, natural resource managers, and the broad array of communities that benefit.
Annual Reports
Workgroup Chair Information
William C Stewart
Title: Specialist
Specialty: forest management
Address:
137 Mulford Hall MC 3114
211 Mulford
Berkeley, CA 94720-5438
Phone: (510) 643-3130
Email: billstewart@berkeley.edu
Member Information
Edith B Allen
Title: CE Natural Resources Specialist & Professor of Plant Ecology
Address:
University of California, Riverside
2129 Batchelor Hall
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: (951) 827-2123
Fax: 951-827-4437
Email: edith.allen@ucr.edu
Barbara H Allen-Diaz
Title: Vice President, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Director of Cooperative Extension, and Professor and Russell Rustici Chair in Rangeland Management
Specialty: Rangeland Ecology and Management
Address:
ANR
1111 Franklin St.
Franklin 10201
Oakland, CA 94607-5200
Phone: (510) 987-9359
Fax: (510) 832-8612
Email: barbara.allen-diaz@ucop.edu
UC Davis Environmental Horticulture Baldocchi, Dennis
ESPM-Division of Ecosystems, UCB
Dr Michael G Barbour
Title: Professor Botanist-AES
Specialty: Plant autecology, especially of coast, desert, vernal pool, and montane forest species
Address:
Department of Plant Sciences
One Shields Avenue
1210 Plant and Environmental Sciences Bldg
Davis, CA 95616-8780
Phone: (530) 752-2956
Email: mgbarbour@ucdavis.edu
Reginald H Barrett
Title: Professor of Wildlife Ecology & Management
Specialty: Wildlife management, especially the response of wildlife to land management practices and the management of introduced vertebrates
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (925) 286-9269
Email: rbarrett@berkeley.edu
James Bartolome
Title: Professor
Specialty: Ecology and management of California's rangelands
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 642-7945
Email: jwbart@berkeley.edu
John Battles
Title: Professor and Chair, Division of Ecosystem Sciences
Specialty: Forest ecology and ecosystem dynamics
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 643-0684
Email: jbattles@berkeley.edu
Steven Beissinger
Title: Professor
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 643-3038
Email: beis@berkeley.edu
Carl E. Bell
Title: Regional Advisor, head quartered in San Diego
Specialty: Invasive Plants
Address:
Cooperative Extension
9335 Hazard Way
Suite 201
San Diego, CA 92123
Phone: (858) 822-7796
Fax: (858) 822-7667
Email: cebell@ucanr.edu
Alison M Berry
Title: Professor Plant Biologist-AES
Specialty: Assessment of nitrogen fixing plants, root and root nodule development, management of woody landscape plants, mistletoe control, biofuels
Address:
Mailstop 1
PES 2228
Davis, CA 95616-8587
Phone: (530) 752-7683
Email: amberry@ucdavis.edu
Gregory S Biging
Title: Professor Associate Dean Forest
Specialty: Biometrics research for developing long-term forecasting models of forest growth for major forest types in California; remote sensing research for utilizing advanced digital data in forest inventory and for wildlife habitat assessment
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 642-1249
Email: biging@berkeley.edu
Caroline Bledsoe Ph.D.
Title: AES Professor Microbial Ecologist
Specialty: Rhizosphere ecology, plant physiology, forest ecosystems mycorrhizae, nutrient uptake
Address:
Soils & Biogeochemistry Program
3306 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building
, CA
Phone: (530) 752-0388
Email: csbledsoe@ucdavis.edu
CDF Forestry Assistance
Dave Campbell
Title: Associate Specialist in CE; Strategic Initiative Leader, Healthy Families and Communities
Specialty: Community development research and outreach in areas of citizenship, governance, and economic and workforce development
Address:
Human and Community Development Dept.
UC Davis
2317 Hart Hall
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 754-4328
Fax: 530-752-5885
Email: dave.c.campbell@ucdavis.edu
Ignacio Chapela
Title: Assistant Professor
Specialty: Mycology; fungi as biological resource to promote a balanced, sustained human development countering current trends of species and habitat loss; research linked to social and economic needs; bioprospecting, development of biocontrol agents, and sustainable management of forests. Basic research on fungal ecology.
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 643-2452
Email: chapela@berkeley.edu
Dr Laurence R Costello
Title: "Environmental Horticulture Advisor, Emeritus"
Specialty: Urban forestry and landscape horticulture
Address:
146 Jordan Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94118
Phone: (415) 225-5567
Email: lrcostello@ucanr.edu
Amanda Crump
Specialty: Horticulture, International Agriculture, Sustainable Landscapes, Tree Health, Technology Transfer Evaluation, Pesticide Safety
Address:
Plant Sciences
190 EH Bldg. One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 752-7975
Email: acrump@ucdavis.edu
Michael De Lasaux
Title: Natural Resources Advisor
Specialty: Forestry, Community Fuel Reduction and Watershed Management
Address:
208 Fairground Road
Quincy, CA 95971
Phone: (530) 283-6125
Email: mjdelasaux@ucanr.edu
Joseph DiTomaso
Title: CE Weed Specialist
Specialty: Non-crop areas, including weeds of rangeland, forestry, rights-of-way, roadside, wetlands, and natural sites and taxomony
Address:
Dept. of Plant Sciences, Mail Stop 4
290 Robbins Hall
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 754-8715
Fax: 530-752-4604
Email: jmditomaso@ucdavis.edu
Richard S Dodd
Title: Professor
Specialty: Plant population genetics and evolution
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 643-1635
Email: dodd@berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley Everett, Rick
UC Berkeley
Sally K Fairfax
Title: Professor Emerita
Specialty: land conservation, public resource policy, food systems
Address:
233 Mulford Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3100
Phone: (510) 642-7627
Email: fairfax@berkeley.edu
Larry C Forero
Title: County Director
Specialty: Livestock and Natural resources
Address:
Cooperative Extension Shasta County
1851 Hartnell Avenue
Redding, CA 96002-2217
Phone: (530) 224-4900
Email: lcforero@ucanr.edu
Louise Fortmann
Specialty: Natural resource sociology; rural development, science and society
Address:
ESPM
137 Mulford Hall
121 Giannini Hall physical location
Berkeley, CA, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 642-7018
Email: louisef@berkeley.edu
Dr Bill Frost
Title: Associate Director of Cooperative Extension and the Agricultural Experiment Station, Director ANR Research & Extension Center System
Address:
Ag Field Station Building
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 752-3931
Email: wefrost@ucanr.edu
Matteo M. Garbelotto Ph.D.
Title: Extension Specialist in Forest Pathology and Adjunct Professor
Specialty: Forest pathology and mycology
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 643-4282
Email: matteog@berkeley.edu
Christy Getz
Title: Associate Cooperative Extension Specialist
Specialty: Natural Resource-Dependent Workers and Communities
Address:
207 Giannini Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3310
Phone: (510) 642-8681
Fax: (801) 672-8681
Email: getz@berkeley.edu
J. Keith Gilless
Title: Dean
Specialty: Forest economics and management, regional economics, fire protection planning, forestry development
Address:
Dean's Office
101 Giannini Hall MC#3100
Berkeley, CA 94720-3100
Phone: (510) 642-7171
Fax: (510) 642-4612
Email: gilless@berkeley.edu
Gregory A Giusti
Title: Lake-Mendocino County Director/Advisor:Forests & Wildland Ecology
Specialty: Forest management, wildlife management, vertebrate pest management, wetlands, watersheds, fisheries and freshwater ecology
Address:
UC Cooperative Extension
883 Lakeport Boulevard
Lakeport, CA 95453
Phone: (707) 263-6838
Email: gagiusti@ucanr.edu
Peng Gong
Title: Professor
Specialty: Remote sensing, map analysis, pattern recognition, principles of land information systems
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 642-5170
Email: penggong@berkeley.edu
Robert C Graham
Title: Professor
Specialty: Weathering, transformations & properties of soil minerals, genesis and behavior of soils and weathered rock in natural ecosystems; wildland soils
Address:
2258 Geology Building
Riverside, CA 92521-0424
Phone: (951) 827-3751
Email: graham@ucr.edu
Janet Hartin
Title: Environmental Horticulture Advisor
Specialty: Environmental horticulture, sustainable landscapes (irrigation and soil/water relations; greenwaste management; integrated pest management stressing prevention)
Address:
Cooperative Extension San Bernardino County
777 East Rialto Avenue
San Bernardino, CA 92415-0730
Phone: (951) 313-2023
Email: jshartin@ucanr.edu
Bruce R Hartsough
Title: Professor and Associate Dean (College of Engineering)
Specialty: Harvesting short rotation plantations; handling small trees on steep terrain; mechanics and dynamics of forestry equipment, modeling and systems analysis of forest operations; forest biomass for energy.
Address:
One Shields Avenue
3052 Bainer Hall
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 752-5714
Fax: 530-752-2640
Email: brhartsough@ucdavis.edu
Mr James Michael Henry
Title: Farm Advisor, Emeritus
Specialty: Turf and landscape, Master Gardener Program
Address:
68885 Jarana Road
Cathedral City, CA 92234
Phone: (760) 992-8615
Email: mjhenry@ucdavis.edu
Walter E Howard
Title: Professor Emeritus
Specialty: Ecology; behavior; defends responsible use of animals; management and control of wild vertebrates, especially rodents and coyotes
Address:
Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology
One Shields Avenue
1088 Academic Surge Building
Davis, CA 95616-8751
Phone: (530) 752-2564
Email: wehoward@ucdavis.edu
Dr Lynn Huntsinger
Title: Professor
Specialty: Rangeland management and ecology, Native American natural resource management, pasforalism, culture and natural resources
Address:
University of California Berkeley
ESPM- ES 137 Mulford Hall MC 3110
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: (510) 685-1884
Email: huntsinger@berkeley.edu
Sierra Pacific Industries
Maggi Kelly
Title: Director, Statewide IGIS Program, Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist
Specialty: GIS, remote sensing, landscape ecology, wetlands, deforestation
Address:
130 Mulford Hall #3114
121 Mulford
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 642-7272
Email: maggi@berkeley.edu
Susie Kocher
Title: Natural Resources Advisor
Specialty: Forestry, fire and water quality
Address:
1061 3rd Street
South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
Phone: (530) 542-2571
Fax: 530-542-5567
Email: sdkocher@ucanr.edu
UCB Hastings Natural History Reserv
Dr Donald L. Lancaster
Title: "County Director, Farm Advisor"
Specialty: Range and forage crops and natural resources
Address:
1206 W 10th Street
Alturas, CA 96101
Phone: (530) 233-3152
Fax: 530-233-3152
Email: dllancaster@ucdavis.edu
Dr Royce Larsen E.
Title: Area Natural Resource Watershed Advisor
Specialty: Water Quality and Non-point Source Pollution on Rangelands. Also, other natural resource issues including: Rangeland Improvements, Noxious Invasive Weeds, Wildland Fires, Grassland Restoration and Endangered Species.
Address:
Cooperative Extension San Luis Obispo County
350 N. Main Street, Ste. B
Templeton, CA, CA 93465
Phone: (805) 434-4106
Fax: (805) 434-4881
Email: relarsen@ucdavis.edu
David Lile
Title: County Director
Specialty: Livestock / Natural Resources
Address:
Cooperative Extension Lassen County
707 Nevada Street
Susanville, CA 96130
Phone: (530) 251-8133
Email: dflile@ucanr.edu
Dr Daniel B Marcum
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Irrigation, plant nutrition, salinity, entomology, sustainable agriculture, agronomy, vegetable crops, engineering, plant pathology, integrated pest management, systems management, economics, weed control, nematology, strawberry nursery production, garlic, wild rice, alfalfa, timothy, sugarbeet, pasture, range, biodiversity, peppermint, viticulture
Address:
Cooperative Extension Shasta County, Shasta-Lassen Office
P.O. Box 9, 44218 A Street
McArthur, CA 96056-0009
Phone: (530) 336-5784
Email: dbmarcum@ucanr.edu
Gareth J Mayhead
Title: Academic Coordinator - Forest Products
Specialty: Woody biomass technology and markets, forest products, business development, forest certification, community forestry
Address:
University of California Richmond Field Station
Building 478, 1301 South 46th Street
Richmond, CA 94804
Phone: (510) 665-3662
Fax: 510-665-3427
Email: gmayhead@berkeley.edu
Joe R McBride
Title: Professor
Specialty: Forest ecology; influence of land use on natural patterns of forest succession; riparian woodlands restoration; urban forestry
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 643-5322
Email: jrm2@berkeley.edu
Neil K. McDougald M.S.
Title: Natural Resources Farm Advisor, Emeritus
Specialty: Range and livestock
Notes: Neil McDougald retired effective 3/1/12.
Address:
UC Cooperative Extension
328 S. Madera Avenue
Madera, CA 93637-5465
Phone: (559) 675-7879 Ext. 207
Email: nmcdougald@ucanr.edu
Richard A Minnich
Title: Professor Geographer
Specialty: Geography, fire ecology
Address:
Earth Sciences
1454 Geology Building
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: (951) 827-5515
Fax: (951) 827-3993
Email: minnich@ucr.edu
Dr Max Alan Moritz Ph.D.
Title: Associate Specialist in Cooperative Extension
Specialty: Fire Ecology and Management; Disturbance Regimes; Spatial Analysis and GIS; Fire Policy
Address:
UCCE Santa Barbara County
6950 Hollister Avenue
Suite 275
Goleta, CA 93117
Phone: 805-893-2125
Fax: (email is best!)
Email: mmoritz@berkeley.edu
Glenn A Nader
Title: Farm Advisor Livestock and Natural Resources
Specialty: Livestock, forage crops, range and natural resources
Address:
Cooperative Extension Sutter-Yuba Counties
142A Garden Highway
Yuba City, CA 95991-5512
Phone: (530) 822-7515
Email: ganader@ucanr.edu
Gary M Nakamura
Title: Area Forestry Specialist;retired
Specialty: Conifer forest management, silviculture, environmental education for teachers, biomass harvesting, eucalyptus production, power plant ash, bioregional councils, community-based forestry
Address:
Mail will be forwarded
1851 Hartnell Avenue
Redding, CA, CA 96002
Phone: 530-224-4900 - messages only
Email: nakamura@berkeley.edu
USDA Forestry Science Lab
Kevin O'Hara
Title: Professor
Specialty: Silviculture, forest management, stand dynamics
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 642-2127
Email: kohara@berkeley.edu
Dara O'Rourke
Title: Associate Professor
Address:
207 Giannini Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 643-3110
Email: orourke@berkeley.edu
Scott Oneto
Title: Farm Advisor / County Director
Specialty: Rangeland management, weed science, home horticulture, livestock
Address:
12200B Airport Road
(209) 223-6834
Jackson, CA 95642
Phone: (209) 223-6834
Fax: 888-764-9669
Email: sroneto@ucanr.edu
Nancy Peluso
Title: Professor
Specialty: Natural resource sociology, political ecology, relationships between landscape change, resource access, and political economy, Southeast Asian resources, tropical forest management
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 643-2797
Email: peluso@berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley Powers, Bob
USDA FS PSW Reserach Station
Stephen L Quarles
Title: CE Advisor Emeritus
Specialty: Performance of materials in wood-frame buildings; wildfire; moisture; physical properties of wood
Address:
UC Richmond Field Station
1301 S. 46th Street, Bldg 478
Richmond, CA 94804
Phone: (510) 665-3580
Email: steve.quarles@berkeley.edu
James F Quinn
Title: Professor Ecologist-AES
Specialty: Conservation biology, GIS, informatics tools for biodiversity, land use modeling, and water quality
Address:
Environmental Science and Policy
One Shields Avenue
2120C Wickson Hall
Davis, CA 95616-5270
Phone: (530) 752-8027
Email: jfquinn@ucdavis.edu
Kimberly A Rodrigues
Title: Executive Director for Academic Personnel
Specialty: Administration; Environmental Science, Policy and Management; Collaborative Science
Address:
ANR Office of Academic Personnel
ANR Building, Hopkins Road
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 754-8509
Email: karodrigues@ucanr.edu
Deborah L Rogers
Title: Resource Analyst
Address:
, CA
Phone: (530) 754-8507
Email: debrogers@ucdavis.edu
Jeffrey M Romm
Title: Professor
Specialty: Resource policy and economics; resource conservation and economic development; intergovernmental relations in resource management
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 642-6499
Email: jeffromm@berkeley.edu
Thomas A Scott
Title: Natural Resources Wildlife Specialist
Specialty: Conservation of wildlife, wildlife/urban interface. Response of wildlife to human disturbances
Address:
2258 Geology Building
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: (951) 827-5115
Fax: 951-827-2973
Email: thomas.scott@ucr.edu
David A. Shaw
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Turfgrass, Landscape, Arboriculture, Irrigation Management
Address:
U.C. Cooperative Extension
151 East Carmel Street
San Marcos, CA 92078
Phone: (760) 752-4720
Fax: (760) 752-4725
Email: dshaw@ucdavis.edu
John Shelly Ph.D.
Title: CE Advisor Forest Products and Biomass Utilization
Specialty: Forest Products, Wood manufacturing methods, biomass utilization,physical properties of wood
Address:
UC Berkeley, Richmond Field Station
1301 South 46th Street, Bldg 478
Richmond, CA 94804
Phone: (510) 665-3491
Fax: 510-665-3427
Email: jshelly@berkeley.edu
USFS - WCUFRE
Richard B Standiford Ph.D.
Title: Cooperative Extension Forest Management Specialist
Specialty: Resource economics; forest management; hardwood rangelands; silviculture
Address:
130 Mulford Hall, #3114
Room 162
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 643-5428
Email: standifo@berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley Center for Forestry
Dr Scott Stephens
Title: Professor
Specialty: Wildland fire science, fire ecology, fire behavior, wildfire
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 642-7304
Fax: (510) 643-5098
Email: sstephens@berkeley.edu
William C Stewart
Title: Specialist
Specialty: forest management
Address:
137 Mulford Hall MC 3114
211 Mulford
Berkeley, CA 94720-5438
Phone: (510) 643-3130
Email: billstewart@berkeley.edu
Michigan Technological University
William D Tietje
Title: Area Natural Resource Specialist
Specialty: Oak woodland ecology and management, human impacts on wildlife, oak regeneration, land use planning
Address:
Cooperative Extension County Offices UCCE San Luis Obispo County 2156 Sierra Way
2156 Sierra Way, Suite C
San Luis Obispo, CA, CA 93401
Phone: (805) 781-5938
Email: tietje@berkeley.edu
Unverified User
Address:
, CA
Email: janis.gonzales@sdcounty.ca.gov.old
Unverified User
Address:
, CA
Email: jkusel@sierrainstitute.us
Yana Valachovic
Title: Forest Advisor and Humboldt - Del Norte County Director
Specialty: Forest management and ecology
Address:
5630 South Broadway
Eureka, CA 95503-6998
Phone: (707) 445-7351
Email: yvala@ucanr.edu
Dept. of Geography, UC Los Angeles
Wendy West
Title: Natural Resources Program Representative
Specialty: Invasive Plants, Collaborative Efforts - Weed Management Areas, Agriculture and Environmental Literacy
Address:
311 Fair Lane
Placerville, CA 95667
Phone: (530) 621-5533
Fax: 888-764-9669
Email: wkwest@ucanr.edu
Dr David L Wood
Title: Professor Emeritus
Specialty: Host selection behavior of forest insects; chemical ecology of forest insects; biology and ecology of barkbeetles, forest pest management, insect-pathogen-plant interactions,
Address:
University of California, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
130 Mulford Hall, MC 3114
Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
Phone: (510) 642-5538
Email: bigwood@berkeley.edu