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The recent outbreak in California of two devastating fires - the Woolsey Fire in Ventura and Los Angeles counties and the Camp Fire in Butte County - are being covered extensively by the news media.

Reposted from the UCANR Green Blog For millennia, fires periodically burned through California forests, thinning trees, reducing shrubbery and clearing out downed branches and debris.

Acacias By Andrea Peck UCCE Master Gardener Common Name: Purple Fernleaf Acacia Latin Name: Acacia bayleyana purpurea Planting zone: USDA 9-11 Size of Plant: This plant grows 20-30 feet tall and wide.

California Tarantulas (Aphonopelma sp.) By Norman Smith This is the time of year when you might see tarantulas wandering around the woodlands and crossing roads, often in broad daylight - unusual for a spider. Well, what you are seeing are male tarantulas, looking for a female.

Water Measuring and Reporting Shortcourse Senate Bill 88 requires that all water right holders who have previously diverted or intend to divert more than 10 acre-feet per year (riparian and pre-1914 claims), or who are authorized to divert more than 10 acre-feet per year under a permit, license, or...

This is your final week to choose the right benefits for you and your family for 2019 Open Enrollment ends at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 20.

It's that time of year again. Time to get small grains seeded, especially considering that there is the potential for a weather system to move through our area next week (Wednesday, November 21, 2018). Water in our weather? Current forecasts suggest that rain could move through the area next week.

They did it! Again! The incredible University of California Linnaean Games Team, comprised of graduate students from UC Davis and UC Berkeley, won the national championship at the popular and highly competitive Linnaean Games hosted this week at the Entomological Society of America's meeting in Vanc...

As wildfires continue to burn in the north and south portions of the state, many of us are also affected by poor air quality.

As you walk quickly down the nursery walkway on the way to the sales team meeting, you glance over at the 1- gallon stock that's almost ready to sell. Then you stop; something is wrong with the Chamaecyparis lawsoniana. Yikes, the older portions of the branches are browning on many plants.