- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Yesterday, the San Luis Obispo Tribune ran last week's McClatchy story about oaks (which I covered in this blog), and localized it for their own area by calling on another UC Cooperative Extension souce.
UCCE area natural resources specialist Bill Tietje told reporter David Sneed that oak regeneration conditions in San Luis Obispo County are the same as Northern California, according to the story. Most oak woodlands in the...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
It's not a supermarket tabloid, but a story in the Eureka Times-Standard today reports facts that are quite simply beyond belief. The article says local fifth-grade students "were coming back for seconds and thirds" after being served Brussels sprouts.
How could this happen? The answer is something UC Cooperative Extension experts have been telling parents and schools for years.
“It's been proven if they have some hands on activity with gardens and vegetables, they'll eat them more," the article quoted UC...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Sacramento Bee ran an article this week about the lack of young oaks in the local foothills. The article included several comments from UCCE natural resources specialist Doug McCreary and a mention of statewide research on oak regeneration.
Sacramento Bee writer Mary Lynne Vellinga reported that the overwhelming majority of oak seedlings never reach the sapling stage, much less become mature oak trees.
"The limitation does not seem to be the number of acorns, or the number of plants getting to be seedlings a couple of inches tall," McCreary is quoted. "The bottleneck seems to...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Yuba County Board of Supervisors authorized the use of the 4-H Camp in Dobbins for another year, even though the youth development program had to forego its long-term maintenence of the facility, according to an article in today's Appeal-Democrat.
In early March (as was reported in this blog entry), UC Cooperative Extension decided it was no longer practical for the University of California to maintain a camp all year that it used just one week each...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Salinas Californian reported on a meeting in Monterey County in which UC Berkeley Cooperative Extension specialist Peggy Lemaux urged care when considering bans on genetically modified organisms.
Lemaux spoke to the Monterey County Agricultural Advisory Committee, which is deciding wether to recommend a GMO ban to the county supervisors. According to reporter Dawn Withers, Lemaux said county officials must be careful about what rules will govern the use of genetically modified organisms.
"When working with biological systems, you...
