Green Blog

To manage johnsongrass, a noxious weed that crowds out cotton and sickens horses, farmers have tried herbicides, burning and hand-pulling.

For 40 years, the University of California Master Gardener Program of San Diego County has upheld its mission of providing research-based information about home horticulture and pest management to the public, while earning and sustaining the community's trust in doing so.

A 20-year experiment in the Sierra Nevada confirms that different forest management techniques prescribed burning, restoration thinning or a combination of both are effective at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire in California.

Scientists, land managers, educators and students from a variety of organizations worldwide will gather from Dec. 4-8 in Monterey, California for the 10th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress.

Water scholars from 18 countries gathered in South Africa for the 11th biennial Rosenberg Forum on International Water Policy.