ABOVE: The remains of a building at the UCLA La Kretz Center Field Station that burned in the Woolsey fire
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The Woolsey Fire in southern California has incinerated a conservation science building at a University of California, Los Angeles, field station in Malibu. The structure was one of two facilities at the site; the other one, which just opened its doors six weeks ago, was unharmed.
“Our main building was the cornerstone of the field station, and it’s totally gone,” Brad Shaffer, director of the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science and a professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, says in a press release. “We still have to get up there to assess the damage, but the new building, about 20 feet away, looks unscathed. So the good news is that it’s not all lost.”
The building did not house any ongoing ...
