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The Real Reason Why Santa Is Hurrying Down the Chimney

December 24, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
So, hurry down the chimney, tonight! So goes a line from "Santa Baby." The songwriters (J. Javits, P. Springer and T. Springer) listed all the good presents they wanted Santa to bring: a sable, a '54 convertible (light blue, please!), a yacht, a duplex and a deed to a platinum mine.
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Saving the Monarchs: Saving the Sacred Trees

December 23, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
We can help save the monarch butterflies by saving the "sacred" trees in central Mexico where most of the migrating population overwinters. Science journalist Janet Marinelli, writing in Yalee360, said it well in her Dec. 21st piece, "To Protect Monarch: a Plan to Save the Sacred Firs.
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How Is The Drought Impacting Your Operation?

December 23, 2015
By Devii R Rao
UC Davis, UC Cooperative Extension, the California Cattlemen's Association, and the California Wool Growers Association are all partnering to conduct a survey of California ranchers.
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What's Up With The Yeomans Plow?

December 22, 2015
By Devii R Rao
UCCE Watershed Advisor Royce Larsen put on a workshop in Creston (San Luis Obispo County) yesterday to demonstrate use of the Yeomans Plow, which was developed in Australia.
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Yuzu

December 22, 2015
By Ben A Faber
Lots of seeds; thick, coarse skin; not big, not small; thorns; sour; but fragrant, cold tolerant and selling for good prices. A cross between one of the original citrus parents papeda and a mandarin. It's got some pretty ancestral properties with something of a lemony flavor and a grapefruit odor.
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Why Wild Bees Are in Trouble

December 21, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Our nation's wild bees--which include bumble bees, squash bees and leafcutter bees--are in trouble. A newly published study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals just how much trouble.
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GIS Day Wrap Up (a bit late...)

December 20, 2015
By Maggi Kelly
Panel of mapping innovators @ GIS Day 2015 The GIF began in November 2015 on a wave of excitement around geospatial technology. In the months leading up to our first GIS Day in 2005, Google Maps launched, then went mobile; Google Earth launched in the summer; and NASA Blue Marble arrived.
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S. California Can Grow Just About Anything including avocado and citrus

December 20, 2015
By Ben A Faber
It seems the world is attacked on all sides, including the iconic citrus and avocado industries in California. Aside from the other agricultural issues all growers have of water, labor, costs, weather, family, you name it, citrus and avocado growers have particular problems.
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