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Ray Lucas, senior producer and director of digital media, will retire Sept. 1 after 35 years of UC service, including the last 23 years with UC ANR. In 1984, Lucas joined UC Davis in Instructional Media, now called Academic Technology Service.

One of the best ways to improve our health is to eat more fruits and vegetables.

Entomologists have a unique toolbox of gadgets designed to trap and collect otherwise hard to nab insects. Beating, sweeping, sucking, and carefully brushing, these scientists have no lack of creativity when it comes to collecting what most people can't even see.

There are many reasons to avoid food waste, from wanting to save money to concern for our environment. On average, 40% of food in the U.S. is wasted somewhere along the way between production and our plates.

Following is a summary of a Library Talk by UC Master Gardeners on July 2, 2020. by Carrie Strohl I was recently grateful to be able to get out of town for a few days.

The California Naturalist Program's Program Advisory Committee (PAC) is a volunteer advisory group to the Director designed to provide feedback to the program, guide priorities, assist in evaluation, strengthen collaborations, and support program development efforts.

Over the last three days, we've had a stark reminder about our vulnerability to wildfire and public safety power shutoffs here in the Sierra foothills.

Ever seen the California state insect, the dogface butterfly (Zerene eurydice), or toured its celebrated habitat near Auburn on the Shutamul Bear River Preserve, owned by Placer Land Trust (PLT)?

Esta es una de una serie de historias escritas por un grupo de acadmicos de UC ANR cuyo trabajo ejemplifica el valor pblico que UC ANR trae a California. In English Los granjeros ya estn viendo en sus cultivos los efectos de las noches de invierno ms clidas y das de verano ms calientes.

Can any of us remember a summer like this?! The work of ranching continues - irrigating pasture, checking livestock, preparing for calving or breeding season. And yet the COVID-19 pandemic casts a pall over everything we're doing.