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Could A Phone App Help Prevent California Wildfires?

from CapRadio, Aug. 10, 2020

Could A Phone App Help Prevent California Wildfires? CapRadio, Aug. 10, 2020 Matteo Garbelotto, a University of California Cooperative Extension forest pathology specialist based at UC Berkeley, has developed a tool to tell if a tree is healthy. He named the app "Evalutree." "It's not that the app is miraculous," he said. "It won't predict precisely what's going to happen, but it will help you manage and you will justify your actions better." He came up with the idea because agencies, like PG&E, were using "pencil and paper" to track tree health, a method he says is not efficient. READ MORE

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