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As part of our #ESA2021 virtual conference series, we reached out to co-editors Christopher Lepczyk, Owen Boyle, and Timothy Vargo to discuss their new book, Handbook of Citizen Science in Ecoloy and Conservation. The book is the first practical and comprehensive manual for creating, implementing, o

As part of our #ESA2021 virtual conference series, we reached out to author Adina Merenlender to discuss her new book with Brendan Buhler, Climate Stewardship:Taking Collective Action to Protect California. The book takes readers on a journey to discover that all life is interconnected and shaped by

By Stephen Pyne, author of The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens NextThis article was originally published in The Arizona Republic, and is reposted here with permission.For the third year running I’ve watched the plumes of megafires from my office window. 2019: Woodbu

By David Carle, author of Introduction to Fire in California, Second EditionThe following post is an adapted excerpt from Introduction to Fire in California, Second EditionCould your house survive without firefighter protection, on its own? Do you know the fire-return interval in your ar

This post of part of our UC Press Editor Spotlight Series.For this year’s Ecological Society of America virtual conference, we connected with UC Press Environmental Studies Editor Stacy Eisenstark to talk about our program and what new projects she’s most excited about. Stacy also shares how she

"My vision for the new EES domain is to publish research that combines the traditional 'ologies' like ecology and geology with understanding of human impacts in the Anthropocene"