UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia)

I most often work with land managers in Southern California and one thing that surprises me is the size of restoration and management projects. One survey of land managers in Orange County found the average size of a restoration treatment is 6 ac.

Several field experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of pre-emergence herbicides, herbicide rates, and tankmix combinations at different locations in the Central Valley of California and to compare the efficacy of burndown herbicides in mixture with different pre-emergence herbicides...

Everywhere you turn these days, the term citizen science is in use. The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) dedicates a page of its website to the topic.

A quick post today to share a few links and reposts that I found interesting recently. The first is a link to a video on the television program, CBS Sunday Morning. In this program from a week ago, weeds were the focus. Click here for a link to the video.

In June we visited a first-leaf almond orchard that had started the season growing normally, but as the root system expanded, the trees growth became rapidly stunted (Fig. 1). The newly expanding shoot tips showed little leaf symptoms (Fig.