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Presentation Day changes, CSU Chico Educational Days, and more...

Ho Ho Holy Cow its going to be cold (in other parts of the country) this holiday break. Winter and the New Year are great times to think about preventing weed management problems.

Her name was Olive. Every Friday morning she'd come bounding over to greet me, her tail wagging happily, one ear up, one ear down. I called her "My Second Favorite Dog" and nicknamed her "The Bee Garden Mascot.

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." That's the line that came to me Saturday when I released a week-old Gulf Fritillary butterfly I'd reared in our home. Kris Kristofferson penned that line in his hit song, "Me and Bobby McGee," popularized by Janis Joplin.

Great news! The UC Berkeley Graduate ?Certificate ?in? Geographic ?Information ?Science ?and? Technology? (GIST)? has been approved. This certificate will provide? an ?academic? structure ?for ?an ?interdisciplinary ?exchange ?of? ideas ?around? geospatial? information ?and ?analysis.

Rehabilitating Frost Damages Citrus and Avocado Advances in mitigation of alternate bearing of olive: vegetative growth response to plant growth regulators Fertigation - Measuring Uniformity Olive Fly Update...

The boys won't be back in town for awhile. But they will show up. Girls, too.

My title is Regional Advisor Invasive Plants, but I really think of myself as a Weed Scientist (which sometimes gets an interesting response from some people; those that likely have a smoking habit).

Jim Downer is the Environmental Horticulture Advisor in Ventura County Cooperative Extension As growers of thousands of ornamentals we understand that minerals absorbed mostly by roots as ions are essential for plant growth and development.

If you've been itching for that long--awaited book about North America's bumble bees, the itch and the wait are over. You can now order the book, titled "Bumble Bees of North America: An identification Guide," on the Princeton University Press website.