Fire Fuel Management Program

Upper Jordan Fire Trail Partial Closure

October 31, 2025

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NOTICE: Sections of Upper Jordan Fire Trail to be closed 7:30 am – 4:00 pm, Monday, November 3, 2025 - approximately Friday, December 12, 2025

The trail will not be closed on Sundays.

This trail closure supports wildfire fuel mitigation east of the Space Sciences Lab...

Lessons for saving our forests

September 11, 2014

UC Berkeley professor Scott Stephens lost 400 research sites in last year's Sierra Nevada Rim Fire, but the harm to the forest ecosystem is incalculable. Now fires are raging again in Yosemite. Stephens offered advice on how to reduce future catastrophes, in a NewsCenter story that first ran in October 2013; it is reposted here.

Read more here: https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/09/11/lessons-for-saving-forests/

Q&A: The hillside tree-removal plan

May 31, 2013

Q&A: Campus environmental manager Tom Klatt talks about hillside tree-removal plan

UC Berkeley, along with the City of Oakland and the East Bay Regional Park District, has applied for Federal Emergency Management Agency grants to remove trees in the East Bay hills to reduce the chance and severity of wildfires. As the public considers the project, UC Berkeley’s Tom Klatt, campus environmental manager, answers key questions about it.

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