Rangelands

Editor's Note: Good Day Sacramento featured Professor Bond and the spider on a segment Oct. 7. https://gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.

In English Los recursos para combatir los incendios se estrechan cada vez ms debido a la cantidad de incendios forestales que arden en todo California, lo cual significa que puede suceder que las primeras autoridades en responder no estn inmediatamente disponibles para proteger su hogar.

Welcome to another New Normal! Due to climate change resulting in hotter, drier conditions and reduced snowpack, the occurrence of a fire season which traditionally occurred from May through October is becoming a misnomer, with fire occurring throughout the year.

Some lost everything: Their homes, their barns, their farm animals, their bees, their livelihoods. The recent wildfire that roared through rural Vacaville, reaching the outer edges of the city, seared the souls of the victims but what's happening now is warming their hearts.

So you're growing milkweed for the first time--or found some milkweed--and you're trying to figure out how to identify a monarch egg. Monarchs lay their eggs on the underside of milkweed leaves--generally--but we've seen them on stems and on the leaf edges.

Be sure to check out our upcoming webinars on cattle production and targeted grazing - we have a great line-up of speakers and topics! Tuesday, October 6 (6pm) - Introduction to Targeted Grazing This webinar will provide an overview of targeted grazing, including grazing management, picking the righ...

Butterfly expert Robert "Bob" Michael Pyle, founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, is not only a national award-winning author, a teacher, a public speaker and a conservationist--but now he's on screen. Well, sort of "on screen.

Two adults, apparently not science aficionados, recently asked me: "What is entomology?" Quick answer: insect science. "What is a monarch?" Quick answer: An orange and black butterfly that's the icon of the butterfly world. Science.

For those of you that have been impacted by past or current wildfires in relation to loss of rangeland forage, the YouTube video link and related website below would be good resources to review to help calculate forage loss.

Professor Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra has announced the UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology's fall seminars, which will all be virtual in keeping with COVID-19 precautions. Zoom links and times will be announced for each speaker, he said.