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November News Clips (11/15-11/30)

December 3rd, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
How they survived: Owners of the few homes left standing around Paradise, Calif., took critical steps to ward off wildfires (Washington Post) Sarah Kaplan, Frances Stead Sellers, Nov.
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October 2018 News Clips (10/16 - 10/31)

November 1st, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Researchers studying cover crops near almond orchards (Western Farm Press) Tim Hearden, Oct. 31 University of California Cooperative Extension researchers have started field trials to analyze the benefits and trade-off of planting cover crops near or within almond production systems.
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October 2018 News Clips (10/1 - 10/15)

October 31st, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Chico State Hosts "Wildcats Vote" Campaign Forum (Action News Now 12/24) Cecile Juliette, Oct. 15 Ryan Cleland, 4-H Community Education Specialist, said voting is the best way to make a point. "You don't have to engage in the conversations at Thanksgiving or the arguments on TV," Cleland said.
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Glenda Humiston, left, and CDFA Secretary Karen Ross form ANR-CDFA partnership to help farmers adopt climate-smart agricultural practices. Photo by Evett Kilmartin
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CDFA and UC ANR join forces to advance climate-smart agriculture

October 29th, 2018
Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and Vice President Glenda Humiston signed a memorandum of understanding in Sacramento Oct. 26 to initiate a new partnership to advance climate-smart agriculture in California. This partnership will provide $1.
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Water-resources research proposals invited from junior investigators

September 6th, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
The California Institute for Water Resources has announced its 2018-19 Request for Proposals. This year, proposals are requested in the junior investigator category only, said Doug Parker, director of the California Institute for Water Resources. Funded projects will begin March 1, 2019.
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August 2018 News Clips 8/16-8/31

August 31st, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Enormous wildfires spark scramble to improve fire models (Nature) Jeff Tollefson, Aug. 31 Something is definitely different, and it raises questions about how much we really know, says Max Moritz, a fire scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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