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The Intermountain Research and Extension Center 2023 mint breeding block. Photo by Darrin Culp

Intermountain REC research proposals due March 21

January 29, 2025
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
The Intermountain Research and Extension Center is soliciting proposals from researchers for new and continuing research projects in 2025-26. IREC is a 140-acre research facility located at 4,000 feet elevation near the Oregon border.
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Swelam looks out to dozens of people seated at tables at West Side REC.

UC ANR leaders meet with growers at Kearney, West Side RECs

January 29, 2025
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Growers and other San Joaquin Valley residents were invited to meet with UC ANR leadership and learn about the latest research at Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier and West Side REC in Five Points on Jan. 9.
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Para Lupita Quintero uno de sus grandes orgullos son sus flores, mismas que comenzó a cultivar hace cinco años y que actualmente vende en los mercados de agricultores locales. "En las flores va nuestra tierra, nuestras raíces".
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UC ANR, sembrando innovación y compromiso social en EcoFarm 2025

January 29, 2025
By Diana Cervantes
Dejar atrs su amado Mxico fue una de las decisiones ms difciles que Lupita Quintero tuvo que tomar al mudarse a Watsonville, California. La nostalgia por su tierra natal la acompa durante aos, como un hilo invisible que la conectaba con sus races.
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Creating Native Bee Nests

January 29, 2025
By Ben A Faber
Checking in at bee hotels: trap-nesting occupancy and fitness of cavity-nesting bees in an urbanised biodiversity hotspot Kit S. Prendergast The design of bee hotels is critical - untreated wood, holes a range of diameters (I suggest 3-10 mm), lengths min 10 cm.
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Message about federal funding freeze

January 28, 2025
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Dear Colleagues: Recent announcements from the Office of the President of the United States regarding the temporary pause on federal grants, loans and other financial assistance programs that was to become effective at 2 p.m.
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The yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenzkii, on an oak leaf at the Glen Cove Waterfront Park, as photographed on Jan. 11 by Michael Kwong.

Winning Bumble at the Glen Cove Waterfront Park

January 28, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
What are the odds? You're participating in a monarch-counting expedition, you photograph an image of a bumble bee with your cell phone, and you win a regional bumble bee contest, a contest you didn't know about at the time.
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