About the Hopland Research and Extension Center
The UC Hopland Research & Extension Center is a multi-disciplinary research and education facility in California’s north coast region. We are stewards of more than 5,300 acres of oak woodland, grassland, chaparral, and riparian environments.
Our mission is to maintain and enhance ecosystem integrity through applied research, adaptive management, and educational activities, while also supporting working landscapes. Field experiments and demonstrations conducted here since 1951 have led to more than 2,000 publications in animal science, entomology, plant ecology, public health, watershed management, and wildlife biology.
Educational programs are available to youth and adults through school field trips, summer camps, Mendocino California Naturalist classes, sheep shearing and care workshops, hikes and more! Keep an eye on our calendar of events to find out what is coming up and sign up to our e-mail newsletter to keep up to date.
Land Acknowledgement
We at the Hopland Research and Extension Center, first and foremost acknowledge with honor the Shóqowa and Hopland People on whose traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands we work, educate and learn, and whose historical and spiritual relationship with these lands continues to this day and beyond.
For more information on the Indigenous and colonial history of this land please see this Land History Story Map.
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Smell smoke? It may be good fire. CAL FIRE plans Vegetation Management Plan burns at Hopland Research and Extension Center
The University of California Hopland Research and Extension Center (HREC) is working in partnership with CAL FIRE to implement a 10-year Vegetation Management Plan (VMP) of annual prescribed burns for fuel reduction, public safety, ecosystem health,...
Calendar of Events
| Event Name | Date |
|---|---|
| Hopland Hikes: Meet the Lambs | 1/11/2025 |
| Lambing School | 1/24/2025 |
| California Naturalist Class | 2/8/2025 |
| Hopland Hikes: Lambing Time | 2/8/2025 |
| Sheep Shearing and Basic Care 101 OR Shearing Technique Refinement | 4/11/2025 |
| Celebrate Science and Nature - A Fundraiser for HREC | 5/18/2025 |
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