Publications

A Garden For Everyone – Tales of Marin’s Community Gardeners: These stories are inspirational. UCCE Community Garden Coordinator, Lauren Klein, compiled these so you can read about Marin’s community gardens and some of the people and places that make them real, so that Marin’s diverse communities can put their hands in the soil and enrich their lives and environment. This complements the interactive Marin Community Garden Map.

Guidelines to Minimize Phytophthora Pathogens in Restoration Nurseries: This practical guide, co-authored by Janice Alexander, Forest Health Education Specialist, gives nursery operators practical how-to information for monitoring nd avoiding these pathogens in native plant stocks.

Guidelines to Minimize Phytophthora Contamination in Restoration Projects: This guide complements the nursery guidelines with specific in-the-field recommendations for the implementation of plant community restoration projects.

Guidance for Environmental Regulators to Reduce the Risk of Phytophthora and Other Plant Pathogen Introductions to Restoration Sites: The last of these guides is written for regulatory and resource agency staff as reference on these pathogens and how they can work collaboratively with nurseries and restoration professionals to reduce the presence and spread of these plant diseases.

Tribal Pest Field Guide Cards: Prepared by Janice Alexander, Forest Health Education Specialist, with support from the Western Region Triable Integrated Pest Management Work Group. These field cards were produced in collaboration with and for use by tribal partners as readily available integrated pest management resources. Each card provides a brief summary of an important pest or disease (thistles, brooms, sudden oak death) and a quick reference code to more online information for that pest and how to manage it.

Conventional and Organic Options for the Control of Wooly Distaff Thistle: This peer-reviewed article, co-authored by David Lewis, Watershed Management Advisor, provides the results of management trials to reduce the presence of Wooly Distaff Thistle on Marin’s rangelands using conventional and organic measures. These results were shared in-field with Marin’s ranchers for their use and adaptation.

Registering Your Marin County Farm Pond: Acquiring and maintaining a licensed, perfected water right is not easy at first glance, including the registration of small livestock and domestic farm ponds. Vince Trotter, Agricultural Ombudsman, and others have laid out the rationale and the administrative path for registering these small agricultural ponds in this publication.

Assessing ecosystem services on conserved properties: In this peer-reviewed research article, co-authored by Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor Stephanie Larson, learn about the economic value of ecosystem services like carbon storage and sediment retention on lands protected by land trusts.

Youth and Adult Perceptions of a New Technology in California 4-H - The Online Record Book: Online learning and interfaces are the norm in today’s youth program environments. In this peer-reviewed article, co-authored by Youth Development Advisor Steven Worker, learn how participating youth and adults respond to these tools and the implications of their perceptions for using online environments going forward.

Newsletters:
If you want to catch up on the past year's issues of our three newsletters, find them here:

Grown in Marin News: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
The Leaflet: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
California Oak Mortality Task Force Newsletter: bi-monthly issues

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Websites:
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