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Blog - Forest Research and Outreach : Article

Lichen Is Losing to Wildfire, Years After Flames Are Gone

August 10, 2018
By Susan D Kocher
Reposted from UC Davis News Lichen on a Napa County oak tree. (Jesse Miller/UC Davis) Quick Summary Lichen mostly unaffected by low-severity fires. In severely burned areas, nearly all lichen were gone, even 16 years after a fire.
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STAR Award
Nutrition News in the Butte Cluster: Article

The Butte Cluster Receives the UC ANR STAR Team Award

August 10, 2018
The Butte Cluster was awarded with a UC ANR STAR Team Award in June 2018 for their significant contribution to UC ANR's Healthy Families and Communities Strategic Initiative through the coordination and implementation of the UC CalFresh Nutrition Education Program (NEP) and the Expanded Food and Nut...
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Topped tree. photo by Brenda Altman
Under the Solano Sun: Article

OUCH!

August 10, 2018
Ouch! Recently when I looked out my bedroom window I was shocked when I saw this tree with overly excessive pruning cuts. I don't know why this drastic type of pruning was needed for this tree.
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UC Rice Blog: Article

Leafhopper damage

August 10, 2018
By Luis Espino
I visited a field with leafhopper damage. What was interesting about this field, is that the leafhopper causing the problem was not the aster leafhopper, which is the common one we have in rice.
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UCCE in Santa Barbara County: Article

September 2018 Master Gardener E-newsletter

August 10, 2018
Contents of this Issue: Announcing 2019 Training Class Overview Sessions Victory Vegetable Gardening Classes Now Enrolling County-wide schedule of Master Gardener Help Tables September Gardening Guide...
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Artwork created by kindergarten, first, and second grade that promotes heart health!
UC CalFresh Fresno/Madera Counties: Article

Smarter Lunchrooms Success Stories from Fresno Unified

August 10, 2018
By Nora R Lopez, Mishelle Costa
The UC CalFresh Nutrition Education Program and Fresno Unified School District Food Services Department began implementation of the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement (SLM) in 9 elementary schools starting during the 2017-2018 school year.
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Dried puncturevine spikes in tires, UC ANR
The Real Dirt: Article

Ouch! It’s Puncturevine!

August 10, 2018
By Jeanette Alosi, UC Master Gardener of Butte County, August 10, 2018 Puncturevine (Tribulus terrestris) is an attractive green plant with small yellow flowers commonly seen growing prostrate along the side of the road. A native to Southern Europe, it's also referred to as goathead.
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Noticias: Article

CA 4-H Juntos, una jornada intensa a un futuro prometedor

August 10, 2018
By Miguel Sanchez
Cesar Andrs Gonzlez, 15 aos de edad naci en los Estados Unidos, pero conoce ms Michoacn que su pas de nacimiento. El hijo de padres campesinos migrantes, deportados creci cuidado por unos tos en la sierra michoacana, donde sus padres desaparecieron, dejndolo con una huella profunda.
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Children of California migratory workers react to seeing a Madagacar hissing cockroach at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. A news story by Kathy Keatley Garvey, communications specialist for the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, won the gold award in newswriting at the ACE conference. She also won a silver award for her "Once Upon a Monarch" post on her Bug Squad blog. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

UC Davis, UC ANR Communicators Bring Home the Gold, Silver and Bronze

August 9, 2018
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Six communicators affiliated with the University of California, Davis, or the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) received a total of 10 awards for excellence at the 2018 conference of the international Association for Communication Excellence in Agricultu...
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