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Dear Colleagues, The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF), Resources for the Future (RFF), and University of Maryland (UMD) is convening an international symposium June 11-13, 2018 in Annapolis, MD, to bring together leaders...

The California 4-H Youth Summits are three day weekend leadership conferences hosted in multiple locations throughout the state. The Southern Youth Summit was held on January 12-14, 2018 at Pathfinder Ranch in Mountain Center, CA.

Blacks and Hispanics make up 15.5% and 25.4% of the U.S. public school population, respectively. Yet large shares in each group attend schools where their own race or ethnicity accounts for at least half of students, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Department of Education data.

Read more news at California 4-H News or National 4-H News Check out our County Calendar here! February 3, Presentation Day 6, 4-H CCC Meetings (Rohnert Park) 16, 4-H Shooting Sports Workshop - Rifle 28, Wildlife Project March 6, 4-H CCC Meetings (Rohnert Park) 11, Fair Appreciation Day (more info.

You may have seen Mistletoe hung in doorways over these past few weeks. It is a traditional holiday decoration, but when it's growing on trees in the landscape, this parasitic plant may not seem quite as charming. There are two types of mistletoe: broadleaf and dwarf.

UC VP Glenda Humiston, 4-H member Melina Granados of Riverside County and UC Merced Chancellor Dorothy Leland gave the UC regents a presentation about UC ANR's community outreach and impact.

Artificial intelligence, or AI, can improve precision agriculture by using sensed environmental data to learn and continually adapt, VP Glenda Humiston told the Little Hoover Commission at a hearing in Sacramento on Jan. 25.

Johnson named nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor Cathryn Katie Johnson joined UCCE on Jan. 2, 2018, as an area nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor for the Central Sierra Multi-County Partnership serving El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras and Tuolumne counties.

If you have a fruit tree, you know that gardeners are not the only ones who enjoy the bounty of the harvest. There are many pests such as scales, aphids and mites that feast on the tender plant parts and these same pests overwinter on the fruit trees.

By Faith Kearns From beaches to canyons, southern California is well-known for its iconic landscapes. Palm-lined streets are so ingrained in the popular imagination that it's easy to forget the trees haven't been there all that long.