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Dear Colleagues: The Commission on Catastrophic Wildfire Cost and Recovery will hold its inaugural meeting on February 25, 2019 from 10:00 AM 2:00 PM. The meeting will take place in Sacramento City Hall Council Chamber, 915 I Street, 1st Floor, Sacramento, CA 95814.

ANR's IT team has seen an increase in the number of spoofed emails, a form of phishing or spam email. Email spoofing is the forgery of an email so that the message appears to be from someone or somewhere other than the actual source.

Tardigrades, also known as the water bears, are microscopic animals but they're not microscopic any more! They're featured prominently on the newly available Bohart Museum of Entomology hooded sweatshirts, the work of artist Charlotte Herbert Alberts and designer Fran Keller.

While trying to decide what to write this blog on, I glanced out my family room window and saw some of my violets still blooming, not as many as during December through January. The leaves that were few and far between in late October are growing as most of the violets die back.

Dear 4-H families, On Tuesday, February 19th, the 4-H Leaders Council will hold its monthly meeting at 7pm. The location will be at the County Agricultural conference room at 1423 Abbott St. in Salinas. All 4-H families are invited to attend and take part in the councils discussion and planning.

The annual performance appraisal is an opportunity for staff and supervisors to recognize accomplishments, identify opportunities to build skills, and align individual efforts to high-level unit and division goals.

In the next presidential election, 32 million Hispanics will be eligible to vote, just slightly more than the 30 million voters who are black.

If growers sprayed for Italian ryegrass earlier this year, it might still be worth keeping an eye out for it in fields and field margins. Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) is an annual grass that can sometimes behave as a biennial or short-lived perennial in California.

California Fresh Carrot Advisory Board & UC Cooperative Extension 2019 Carrot Research Symposium Tuesday, March 12, 2019 Kern County Ag Pavilion See agenda attached...

Apply for CDFA funding-State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program (SWEEP) Friday, February 22, 2019 at UCCE Kern Office See workshop information with registration link attached...