Rangelands

California's forests and woodlands are always changing, and it takes time for California's regulatory framework to catch up to what's happening. After years of fire suppression, it is now common to see encroaching conifers (e.g.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday week, American consumers tossed out about 200 million pounds of turkey, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. In fact, American consumers waste 60 million tons of food a year, statistics show.

Drum roll... The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, is gearing up for the new year. Open houses or special events planned from January through May include: Saturday, Jan. 11: General Open House 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb.

They don't communicate like we do, but if praying mantises could talk, do you think they would forego the formal greeting of "Nice to meet you" and say "Nice to eat you?

Look, over there! It's Thanksgiving Week and there's a newly eclosed Gulf Fritillary on a tattered pink zinnia "that looks as it has seen better days," as my mother used to say. The orange of autumn exploding, the silver of yultide beckoning. Silver and bold...

It's good to see UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock and his 50-plus years of incredible research in the news.

UC Davis doctoral alumna Inga Zasada of the USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory in Corvallis, Ore., will return to her alma mater on Monday, Dec.

Graduate students with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology excelled at the recent Entomological Society of America meeting in Phoenix.

Congrats to two UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology doctoral candidates: Mia Lippey and Ziv Lieberman.

The new University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Foundation has been established to advance UC ANR's essential research and extension mission.