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Read more news at California 4-H News or National 4-H News Check out our County Calendar here! February 3, Presentation Day 6, 4-H CCC Meetings (Rohnert Park) 16, 4-H Shooting Sports Workshop - Rifle 28, Wildlife Project March 6, 4-H CCC Meetings (Rohnert Park) 11, Fair Appreciation Day (more info.

Reposted from UC Davis News The Northern California wildfires of 2017 may have created new kinds of pollutants by incinerating housing materials and household items.

Reposted from the UCANR News Newly minted UC fire scientist Kate Wilkin moves into fire country Fire scientist Kate Wilkin was on the job just a few weeks when ferocious winds whipped up the Northern California firestorm of 2017.

Reposted from the UC IGIS blog Recently I was fortunate to work with the IGIS team in Santa Rosa and Sonoma to explore why so many homes and buildings were lost in the October Tubbs and Nuns Fires.

Reposted from the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network blog I was nine years old when my dad's family home burned in the Oakland Hills Fire. As a country kid from one of the most fire-prone counties in northern California, I was no stranger to wildfire.

The 28th Vertebrate Pest Conference, an educational event for discussing and exchanging information on human-wildlife conflicts, will be held February 26 March 1, 2018 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Sonoma Wine Country, Rohnert Park, California.

Recently I was fortunate to work with the IGIS team in Santa Rosa and Sonoma to explore why so many homes and buildings were lost in the October Tubbs and Nuns Fires.

You never know what you'll find when you visit a pollinator garden. Take the case of our visit Nov.

Set a plate for one and you might get three more diners. Such was the case recently in a Sonoma garden when a patch Iceland poppy (Papaver nudicaule) drew a posse of hungry honey bees, all elbowing up to the plate. Iceland poppy is irresistible. Ironically, you won't find Iceland poppy in Iceland.

It's Thanksgiving Day and time to give thanks for NOT what we WANT, but what we HAVE. And, not for what we OWN, but what we CANNOT. That includes the yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii. On the morning of Nov.