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Please join California Naturalist in extending a warm welcome to our newest team member, Eliot Freutel! Eliot joined us last month as the new Community Education Specialist in Southern California. He is based at UCCE Los Angeles County in Alhambra. Eliot received his B.A.

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UC Cooperative Extension is hosting a sudden oak death bioblitz April 25-28 in Northern California, in which a corps of volunteers will fan out across the wildland areas to track the progression of the devastating disease, reported Derek Moore in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.

The key word is INTEGRATED. Use the least toxic methods to control weeds in the home garden. Next, learn about one of the strangest plants you can find. They are called Staghorn Ferns! Dr.

The Bohart Museum of Entomology and the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, both part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will participate in the UC Davis Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work (TODS) Day on Thursday, April 25.

Please see below link to access "How To Use Weekly Crop Water Use (ET) Reports to Assist Farm Water Management" How To Use Weekly Crop Water Use Report Please see below link to access "Weekly ET Report 04-22-2019" ET Report 04-22-2019 Please see disclaimer link below: University of California Divisi...

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Across the globe, scientists have shown that birds can be farmer allies. Insectivorous birds feed on damaging insect pests in many crops including coffee, cacao, oil palm, corn, cabbage and apples.

I'm trained in soil chemistry, what on earth could I get from a Fire Summit? If you get the right speakers together, you can learn a lot! UC ANR and the California Fire Science Consortium sponsored a Fire Summit in Redding in April for some 150 participants representing more than 50 organizations.

Water Quality Impacts on California Avocado A Collaborative Approach Sat Darshan S. Khalsa1 and Ben Faber2 1Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis 2Cooperative Extension Ventura County, UCANR Avocado consumption continues to grow both in the U.S. and around the globe.