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The University of California Hopland Research and Extension Center (HREC) is working in partnership with CAL FIRE to implement a 10-year Vegetation Management Plan (VMP) of annual prescribed burns for fuel reduction, public safety, ecosystem health, research and education.

A Frost Primer Definitions: Dry-bulb temperature: the temperature of the air as measured with a thermometer. Wet-bulb temperature: the temperature that the tree will likely sense due to evaporative cooling of the leaves.

Okay, maybe I am cheap, but I hate to waste stuff. Even when I can buy something for a specific purpose, I try to make it first, just to see if it works--sort of like a Rube Goldberg machine. I come from a family of immigrants, which is true of almost everyone in the U.S.

If you stand perfectly still and don't make any jerky movements, you can usually get a close-up image of a black syrphid fly, a Mexican cactus fly, Copestylum mexicanum. It's Friday Fly Day and this one was nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifolia.

After nearly 10 years working as the Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor in San Benito, Monterey, and Santa Cruz counties, I am going to be moving north. It is very much a bitter-sweet move for me.

En un granja de produccin a baja escala en el condado de Plumas, el Proyecto Alimentario Lost Sierra (LSFP) incrementa el acceso a alimentos en el rea rural y ofrece actividades para el desarrollo de mano de obra y oportunidades de educacin agrcola, al mismo tiempo que sirve como un lugar clave de r...

Ahmed El-Moghazy se integr a la Divisin de Agricultura y Recursos Naturales de UC como especialista en seguridad alimentaria de Extensin Cooperativa el pasado febrero y trabaja desde UC Riverside.

El reciclaje de aguas residuales en Los ngeles es el enfoque de un nuevo reporte dado a conocer por e Centro Luskin para la Innovacin de UCLA y la Divisin de Agricultura y Recursos Naturales de UC.

A robot that navigates and weeds row-crop fields and its design team from Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts have garnered the grand prize in the second annual Farm Robotics Challenge. Five winning teams, representing various universities and colleges across the U.S.

Common Vision I found a purple flower! I see 5 pumpkins! Hm I think there's more than that. Did you really look in there? Wanda calmly guided an energetic crowd of first graders through the garden space.