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Fire Readiness in the Grove

August 6, 2019
By Ben A Faber
Sonia Rios, Area Subtropical Horticulture Advisor, Riverside & San Diego Counties Henry Herrera, Forester, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Gary Bender, Subtropical Horticulture Advisor, Emeritus, San Diego County This is a reposting of a blog from 2015 that is still...
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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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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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In memoriam: Donna Jones

July 24, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Donna Gillespie Jones, former ANR budget director, died May 21, after a two-year battle with cancer. She was 61.
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View of the mountain from The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County
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Regional Rendezvous speaker series 2019

July 17, 2019
By Eliot T Freutel
This year's Regional Rendezvous (August 16-18) will host an abundance of learning opportunities for our CalNat participants. Aside from the amazing activities and adventures (such as kayaking, birding, historic building and nature preserve visits, traditional tool use workshop, etc.
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June 2019 News clips (June 16-30)

July 1, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Longtime local UC Cooperative Extension advisor retires (Appeal-Democrat) Jake Abbott, June 30 [Page A1] After nearly four decades as the Yuba-Sutter area's tree crops and environmental horticulture advisor for the UC Cooperative Extension, Janine Hasey recently announced that she would leave the po...
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Names in the News

July 1, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Muramoto hired as first UCCE organic ag specialist Joji Muramoto joined ANR on May 29 as an assistant Cooperative Extension organic production specialist.
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During the career fair, an Engineer speaks with youth about what she does for her job
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UCCE programming increases student leadership for healthy outcomes

June 25, 2019
By Shannon Klisch, Katherine E Soule
Youth in low-income communities of color face health inequities. While 14.6% of all California adolescents ages 12-17 are classified as obese, rates are much higher among Latino adolescents (20.2%) and highest among adolescents in very low-income households (20.4% vs. 12.
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UC Staff Engagement Survey closes June 7

May 30, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Dear UC ANR staff members, Please complete UC's Staff Engagement Survey by June 7 if you haven't done it already. Your unique survey link is in an email from Willis Towers Watson.
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Aloe karasbergensis

May 28, 2019
Perusing plants at a Santa Barbara nursery while on vacation a few years back, I was drawn to an unusual looking aloe.
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