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Sunset from CalNat Partner Camp Ocean Pines in Cambria
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Rediscovering California’s Central Coast bioregion

August 6, 2019
By Gregory C Ira
Just in time for the 2019 California Naturalist Regional Rendezvous, naturalists can re-discover California's Central Coast through a new UC ANR publication: Natural History of the Central Coast Bioregion.
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July 2019 News clips (July 16-31)

July 31, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
We Have Fire Everywhere' (New York Times Magazine) Jon Mooallem, July 31 Those towns grew into cities; the land around them, suburbs. More than a century of fire suppression left the ecosystems abutting them misshapen and dysfunctional.
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Amer Fayad
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Names in the News

July 31, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Fayad named Western IPM Center director Amer Fayad joined ANR on July 8, 2019 as director of the Western Integrated Pest Management Center.
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July 2019 News clips (July 1-15)

July 31, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Inside The Lives Of Farmworkers: Top 5 Lessons I Learned On The Ground (NPR) Dan Charles, July 15 Philip Martin, an economist at the University of California, Davis, who's spent his professional life studying farm labor markets, says employers are adapting to the worker shortage in four different wa...
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Spotted wing drosophila on raspberry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Postdoc Position in Frank Zalom lab

July 29, 2019
(Please share widely) Post Doctoral Scholar Opportunity University of California, Davis Small Fruit Insect IPM Post-doctoral Position A post-doctoral position is currently available for two years focusing on spotted wing drosophila (SWD) population biology, insecticide resistance, and management in...
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Soda taxes have been proven to reduce consumption.
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Soda tax advocates ride a political roller-coaster

July 26, 2019
When Genoveva Islas was 12 years old, she was responsible for giving insulin injections to her diabetic tia, her aunt. Tia lost her toes, lost her leg, lost her life, Islas said. This is a very important fight.
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Lilliana Ruiz (left), Jeff Mitchell, and Sophia Garcia, following the video presentation by Ruiz and Garcia to twenty staff members of the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier, CA, July 19, 2019
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Wonderful Company Interns wrap up summer program at KARE!

July 22, 2019
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
July 19, 2019 Two junior-year students at Washington Union High School in Easton, CA, Sophia Garcia and Lilliana Ruiz, successfully completed their two-week internship with the Wonderful Company at UC ANR's Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
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