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Recent changes in CDC and CDPH guidance and some County Public Health Orders have required a reassessment of UC ANR's Mask Protocol.

After three years of limited hiring due to budget constraints, Vice President Glenda Humiston announced the release of 10 UC Cooperative Extension positions for recruitment.

Alli Rowe-Fish and Ben Faber Cover crops offer an important opportunity to build soil health in avocado orchards. A cover crop is a crop seeded or encouraged as natural plant cover as an investment in soil fertility and not as a cash crop.

Elderberry By Jutta Thoerner UCCE Master Gardener Sambucus nigra subspecies caerulea syn. Sambucus mexican Size of tree: 10-25 feet high and wide. PH: 5-9, will tolerate alkaline soils USDA hardy zone: 6-10 Bloom description and season: flat topped clusters of tiny, creamy-white flowers.

It's an exasperating experience. You go to the nursery, pick out a flowering plant, shrub, or tree and bring it home only to have some critter damage or destroy it within the first week. Pests cause damage and waste time and money.

I am heading out on vacation tomorrow. That means I spent much of the week trying to check things off the list that aren't due until early August.

Dear UC ANR Community, Once again we are facing the challenges wrought by multiple wildfires around the state.

Wildfires that generate their own weather, drought, record-breaking heatwaves, and frequent flooding are compelling more people to try to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

PowerPoint slides that give an overview of UC ANR are now available in the ANR communications toolkit. If you are giving a presentation and need some background information about UC ANR, you can select what you need from a set of 14 slides.

Unify-Communicate-Advocate The UC ANR Strategic Initiatives offer a home for strategic thought - drawing on members of the wider UC ANR community and beyond to 1) help people connect and 2) to help them identify and address issues of current and emerging importance.