- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Sharon Junge returns to retirement in March
Sharon Junge, interim statewide 4-H Youth Development Program director and Healthy Families and Communities (HFC) Strategic Initiative leader, will end her recall from ANR retirement in March. In addition to a distinguished ANR career, Junge has provided critical leadership to ANR and spearheading organizational shifts and transitions including the newly created Youth, Families and Communities (YFC) statewide program, serving on Program Council and leading the development and organization of the HFC strategic plan and conference. After a year with EFNEP in Sacramento, Junge became the 4-H Youth Development and Nutrition, Family and Consumer Sciences advisor for Placer...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Sustainable Food conference set for Jan. 25 – 27
The Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Conference will be held Jan. 25 – 27 at UC Davis’ Freeborn Hall. Please hold the dates on your calendar. Closer to the conference date, the agenda, registration and other details will be available from the Program Support Unit at http://ucanr.org/sites/PSU/.
Reminder: Revised SNE plan posted for comment
A revised draft of the Sustainable Natural Ecosystems Strategic Initiative Plan has been posted on the Sustainable Natural Ecosystems web site http://ucanr.org/sites/SNE/. You can access the pdf document...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Revised Sustainable Natural Ecosystems plan posted for comment
A revised draft of the Sustainable Natural Ecosystems Strategic Initiative Plan has been posted on the Sustainable Natural Ecosystems web site http://ucanr.org/sites/SNE/. You can access the pdf document directly athttp://ucanr.org/sites/SNE/files/36665.pdf.
Comments on the plan will be accepted through Aug. 15. Please e-mail your comments directly to Jim Bartolome, Sustainable Natural Ecosystems initiative leader, at jwbart@berkeley.edu.
The initiative’s panel members will integrate the...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
SNE Strategic Initiative Draft Plan posted for review
The Sustainable Natural Ecosystems Strategic Initiative Draft Plan is now available for review at http://ucanr.org/sites/NRCC_2010/.
People who plan on attending the ANR Natural Resources Coordinating Conference (NRCC) on June 28 – 30 should read the draft plan and come prepared to give input about it. The conference will bring together members of workgroups and special projects and Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) and Cooperative Extension (CE) academics working in the broad area of natural resources to determine how the Sustainable Natural Ecosystem (SNE) Initiative can best...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
The UC ANR Natural Resources Coordinating Conference is set for June 28-30. ANR academics and members of selected workgroups should plan to attend and discuss how the Sustainable Natural Ecosystem Initiative can best implement its part of the ANR Strategic Vision.
The conference will be held at the Lion's Gate Hotel at 3410 Westover in McClellan (just northwest of Sacramento).
Here is the tentative agenda:
- Monday, June 28: Overview of current understanding and key priorities of major environmental issues affecting California (e.g. demography, water supply, energy availability, transportation infrastructure, climate change, habitat fragmentation, diversity loss, land use change). Panels will comment on a...
