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Associate Professor of Forest Community Ecology , has accepted a nomination to serve on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Giant Sequoia National Monument. The Board will consist of 5-7 members representing physical, biological, and social scientists and will be charged to provide scientific guidance to the Secretary of Agriculture regarding the management plan for the Monument.
an expert in forest fungal diseases, has been named a Cooperative Extension Specialist. He is investigating the diseases killing California's oaks and pines. Matteo is a native of Italy and came to Berkeley in 1990 on a Fulbright Scholarship. He earned both a masters and a doctorate in plant pathology at Cal and since 1994 has taught classes at Berkeley in molecular cell biology, mycology, microbiology, and forest pathology. As a staff researcher, Matteo has been instrumental in deciphering the genetic structure of the new pathogen that is causing widespread mortality of native oaks in central and northern California.
Professor Emeritus of Forest Economics, was appointed to the US Forest Service Science Consistency Check Team to evaluate the draft Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Sierra Nevada National Forests. In his evaluation he emphasized the need to: 1 recognize the environmental, operational, and budgetary unfeasibility of depending on prescribed fire without major reductions in fuel loadings by mechanical means, 2 acknow-ledge that the typical pre-European-settlement ecosystem with its mosaic of all seral stages and open stands of mature trees was robust against wildfire and provided desirable habitat, and 3 show full economic impacts for each alternative, including direct and indirect employment and net costs to taxpayers.
has recently been appointed to dual positions in the UC Wildland Resources Center and the College's Center for Forestry. In the former, Larry has responsibility for coordinating out-reach, program development, and research. In the Center for Forestry he will coordinate seminar series and work on program develop-ment. Larry brings considerable expertise to these positions based on his Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, as a lecturer and researcher at Berkeley, and his strong policy background dealing with Sierra Nevada and federal issues.
YANA VALACHOVIC
has recently been appointed as the new UC Cooperative Extension Forest Advisor and will address the needs of forest landowners in Humboldt and Del Norte counties. She will emphasize watershed management, silviculture, conservation biology, water quality, and non-timber forest products. Yana earned her master's degree in forest ecology from Ore-gon State University. She worked as a faculty assistant in OSU's Department of Forest Science and has been a consulting botanist and mycologist to the US Forest Service and BLM. Yana was the certified director for the Institute for Sustainable Forestry in Mendocino County where she was responsible for the Smartwood forestland certification and provided technical assistance to landowners.
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