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UC ANR forms employee resource groups Dear Colleagues, I'm excited to announce my support of three new employee resource groups that are forming this month to connect and promote relationships among employees and to foster inclusive work environments across UC ANR.

Urban trees are much more than lovely greenery and stately landscape features. Scientists believe trees are a key tool for combating climate change and living with warming temperatures in California.

Good morning! UCCE Placer-Nevada and Central Sierra, along with the Placer Resource Conservation District, are hosting a workshop and field days on using prescribed fire on working rangelands and forestlands, on March 30 and 31 (with live-fire field days to be scheduled in April, weather permitting)...

And what do you get, a defoliated tree. And a defolated tree has no way of moving water through its system. The leaves are not there to transpire and create a flow of water through the tree. When hot day comes and it does not need to be much hotter than 80 deg the bark will heat up and burn.

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If you've been following the startling spread of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, into California--it's been detected as far north as Shasta County since 2013--then you'll want to read about the innovative research underway by a team of UC Davis scientists led by medical entomologist-geneti...

One reason for the successful spread of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, to at least 17 California counties since 2013--from the Mexican border to Shasta County--may be linked to its resistance to pyrethroids, according to newly published UC Davis research examining genetic markers of resis...

Concerns about a growing resistance to herbicides In Mediterranean or arid climates, particularly in areas with marginal soils, crop rotations are often limited to a narrow range of hay, pasture, a handful of winter legumes, or rainy-season grasses.

Meetings and Announcements Tree Decline...

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