Many of us know May for flowers and Mother's Day (hope you didn't forget!), but after last year's widespread and long-lasting fire season, many Californians have come to recognize May as Wildfire Preparedness Month.
Much of wildfire preparedness centers on residents taking personal responsibility to prepare, and it's the accretion of homeowners' personal responsibility that contributes to greater community preparedness.
California aims to fully reopen its economy on June 15, more than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic upended the lives and businesses of millions across the state.
“The entire state will move into this phase as a whole. This will not be county-by-county,” Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s health and human services secretary, said in a call with reporters.
However, in a recent survey done by the Pew Research Center, most Americans expect it will be at least six months to a year before life returns to the way it was before the pandemic.
A new UC San Diego biologist endeavors to communicate the safety and life-saving importance of COVID-19 vaccination in underserved communities.Since people of color in underserved communities are disproportionately at risk for contracting and dying of COVID-19, it’s imperative to educate these communities on the importance and safety of COVID-19 vaccines.
LGBT Pride Month occurs in the United States to commemorate the Stonewall riots, which occurred at the end of June 1969. As a result, many pride events are held during this month to recognize the impact LGBT people have had globally.
ANR's LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group has many activities planned for celebrating Pride Month in June: interactive Zoom sessions and weekly emails on the history of Pride, LGBTQ+ basics, and more.
When:
Zoom sessions on Wednesdays, June 9, 16, and 30 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., with the option to continue discussions until noon. Weekly emails will go out every Tuesday in June.
Why:
To learn more about Pride Month and how ANR can support the LGBTQ+ community.
UC SAREP Racial Equity in Extension Webinar Series #1: Farm Workers are Farmers
This session will introduce the importance and value of farmworkers and address farm labor issues in California, how extension professionals can better work to build relationships with farmworker organizations and serve the farmworker community, and why supporting farmworkers is critical to the sustainability of California agriculture.
Summer is here along with the dangers of wildfires
Researchers at UC Irvine recently found the state's burn season has grown longer over the last 20 years, with the start advancing from June to May and the peak shifting from August to July.
“All the indications are that we are heading into another really bad fire year,” said Safeeq Khan, assistant cooperative extension specialist of water and watershed sciences at the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Of the six largest wildfires ever recorded in California, four were ignited by lightning storms, including the largest — the August Complex fire spanning across five counties — as well as the third-, fifth- and sixth-largest. By the end of the 2020 season, nearly 4.4 million acres had burned across the state, exceeding the previous record of nearly 2 million acres set in 2018.
Instructions for making homemade mixtures to control pests are easy to find online and on social media, and it's tempting to make your own home remedy when pests invade. Doing so may seem like a natural, organic, and non-chemical solution, but did you know that what you are mixing is considered a pesticide? A pesticide is any mixture used to kill, destroy, repel, or mitigate a pest.
Pesticide mixtures of household ingredients like dish soap, garlic, and vinegar may seem harmless and safer than storebought formulated pesticides, but they can actually pose unrealized risks.
UC ANR has a new Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Program Team
Last month, UC ANR approved creating a new Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) Program Team. This program team aims to provide a forum for networking and cross-program/cross-disciplinary dialogue on DEIJ issues that promotes learning, collaboration, and improvement in UC ANR's capacity to engage and serve diverse (in terms of race, ethnicity, ability, gender, and sexual orientation) clientele across the state, and to engage all clientele in embracing the benefits diversity brings to the state as a whole. California is a multicultural state rich with a population of diverse ancestry. As a publicly funded institution, UC ANR is responsible for effectively reaching all our California communities equitably.
If you would like to join the DEIJ Program Team, please contact Clare Gupta at cgupta@ucdavis.edu.
San Bernardino UCCE's unique partnership to benefit hundreds of students
In a San Bernardino High School, a unique partnership allows 500 students to experience high-tech farming while learning about nutrition and entrepreneurship skills.
We have previously shared the words for emotions. In this video, you will learn the most common time markers in Spanish, and how to use them with the correct Spanish tenses.
