UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia)

RECRUITMENT PERIOD Open date: February 3, 2017 Next review date: March 31, 2017. Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: July 1, 2017.

June 25-30, 2017 Asilomar Conference Center // Pacific Grove, California http://www.wcpp14.org You are warmly invited to the 14th World Congress on Parasitic Plants.

The Southwest US Herbicide Resistance Listening Session was hosted by the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) on February 15, 2017 at the UCCE office in Tulare, California. This was one of seven regional sessions hosted by WSSA and it included attendees from California, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Invasive species are plants, animals, fungi or microbes that are not native to an area, but can quickly establish, multiply, and become pests. These species can hurt the environment, agricultural production, and even human health in some instances (e.g. the mosquito Aedes aegypti).

In 1997-1998, the big El Nino year in California, yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) (YST) infestations throughout the state were probably the largest that I have seen in my time in California.