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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		Questions raised in the aftermath of drought
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:02
	Publish Date:		2017-01-29 18:00:00
	Description:		In the last couple of years, droughts have killed millions of trees in California. This has raised some important questions for scientists: “Under the global climatic change that we are experiencing, will we have to manage our forests in different ways? So for example, will we have to thin some of our forests, so the limited water resources that we have can keep at least some trees alive, But maybe not at the densities that our current forests are at." That’s Todd Dawson, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley. He thinks that scientists need to work closely with governmental agencies to choose the best environmental strategies, especially when it comes to water. “We need to really be paying attention to how we manage our water resources. So how do we regulate how much water goes to agriculture, goes to industry, does to supporting people? And then some of the water that we actually just leave alone because it feeds our forests, it feeds our natural ecosystems." Dawson hopes government will continue to support climate change research, so scientists can better detect and mitigate the negative impact of global warming.
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