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Together we give. GivingTuesday Dec. 3

Get ready for GivingTuesday Dec. 3

November 25, 2024
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
GivingTuesday is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. It's an opportunity for people around the world to give through acts of kindness or gifts of time, talent or money. On Dec.
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Mary Bianchi

In memoriam: Mary Bianchi

November 25, 2024
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Mary Bianchi, UC Cooperative Extension horticulture advisor emeritus, died on Nov. 4. She was 67. Bianchi served the University of California for 32 years, with the last 26 years of her UCCE career in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.
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Niamh Quinn teaches participants about physical characteristics that can help pest management professionals identify the different rodent species. All photos by Saoimanu Sope.

Pest managers learn to do the ‘rat thing’ at Rodent Academy

November 6, 2024
By Saoimanu Sope
Tail length, fur color, eye size, ear shape and nose structure are some of the characteristics highlighted during the Rodent Speed Dating ID activity at West Coast Rodent Academy (WCRA). If you thought you would find rats at WCRA, you wouldn't be wrong.
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