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What we learned from Sustainable You Summer Camp

July 31, 2019
By Hannah M Bird
A great update from our Summer Camp intern Taylor Woodruff: Planning the whole camp was one thing, but actually running the Sustainable You summer camp was awesome! I was a little nervous to meet all of the campers, but everyone was extremely kind and caring.
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Introducing our Summer Camp Intern, Taylor Woodruff

July 25, 2019
By Hannah M Bird
Hi! I'm Taylor Woodruff, the new summer camp intern for the Sustainable You! - Adventure Science Camp! I am 21 years old, graduated from Clear Lake High School in 2015, and am currently a student at Mendocino College. At the college, I am a tutor for Statistics and Trigonometry.
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Changes to UC ANR Hopland REC Sheep Program

May 24, 2019
By Hannah M Bird
UC Hopland REC Reduce Sheep Flock For over 65 years, the Hopland Research and Extension Center (HREC) has been well known as one of the last large scale sheep ranches and research facilities in the northwest.
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Americorps NCCC Gold Seven Team Experience Hopland REC

February 20, 2019
By Hannah M Bird
The wonderful NCCC Gold Seven team have been working at HREC for the past 3 weeks, they have been so helpful - all the HREC staff will be so very sad to see them go! In this blog post we learn a little about the team members and get an overview of the work that they have been involved in, the interv...
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Zane and Benjamin planting acorns for the UC Santa Cruz study by Dr. Blair McLaughlin of the Zavaleta Lab.
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HREC Youth Volunteers Support Oak Research

January 17, 2019
My name is Valentina Evans, and I am a new volunteer at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center. My partners Benjamin Evans, and Zane Petersen have chosen to volunteer with me at the HREC for our senior project at Ukiah High School.
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New Forestry Advisor in Post

November 19, 2018
By Hannah M Bird
Great to have Michael Jones our new UCCE Forestry Advisor in post! Read more about Michael here: https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.
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HREC Fieldmap Fires. The red is existing vegetation. Many of the oaks did not burn. Brighter red indicates untouched green foliage, fainter red indicates some damage. Black areas are burnt grasslands, gray areas are primarily  chaparral or chamise.  The two separate black areas are where we did prescribed burns this June. The white spots are ash indicating where a tree did burn. Thanks to Shane Feirer of iGIS for putting this together.
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URGENT: Post Fire Research Opportunities at Hopland REC

August 23, 2018
By Hannah M Bird
HREC and Post-Fire Research Opportunities What is HREC? The UC Hopland Research & Extension Center (HREC) is a multi-disciplinary research and education facility in Mendocino County located in the foothills of the Coast Range about two hours north of Berkeley.
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A Tale of Two Fires

August 1, 2018
By Hannah M Bird
Fire has a vitally important role in the California landscape and many fire-related studies have been conducted at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center (HREC) since 1951.
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Sustainable You! 2018

July 20, 2018
By Hannah M Bird
Hello All, For those who don't know me, my name is Rachel Wingler and I am the summer intern at Hopland REC. Through my internship I have had the opportunity to work on and help plan the Sustainable You Summer Camp.
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Barn to Yarn this Saturday

May 7, 2018
By Hannah M Bird
From the Barn to the Yarn in Hopland On Monday morning a group of 25 strangers gathered in front of the lambing barn at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center. If you survive the week, you'll be in a rare group commented John Harper, Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor to the class.
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