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UCCE Sonoma Annual Report 2022
Dear Colleagues & Community Partners, The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE Sonoma) team is proud to present our 2022 Annual Report, highlighting the department's accomplishments through our innovative programs in Sonoma County. UCCE Sonoma is the main County department that conducts private landowners' outreach, especially as it relates to agriculture production and natural resources management, along with youth development. We...
What’s Going on in the Insurance Industry
This article was published in June 2022 Edition of Sonoma Marin Farm News What's Going on in the Insurance Industry By Sashi Sabaratnam, UCCE Division Manager for Vegetation Management & Jason Majors, Director of Security and Fire Services for Jackson Family Wines Here in Sonoma County, we are ground zero for the concurrent crises many around the state are facing: the wildfire crisis and the insurance affordability and availability crisis. (For...
2021 UCCE Sonoma Annual Report
Dear Colleagues & Community Partners, The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE Sonoma) team is proud to present our 2021 Annual Report, highlighting the department's accomplishments through our innovative programs in Sonoma County. UCCE Sonoma is the main County department that conducts private landowners' outreach, especially as it relates to agriculture production and natural resources management, along with youth development. We worked with our community partners to...
The Wildfire Fuel Mapper: A Tool for Landowners to Reduce Fuels
In Sonoma County and across the west, fires have grown larger and more destructive. In the past five years alone, fire has consumed about 25% of the county's landscape, destroying 7,500 structures and killing dozens of residents. To respond to the growing need for vegetation management to reduce fuels, the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Sonoma, in partnership with Pepperwood and Tukman Geospatial, developed the Wildfire Fuel Mapper, a set of tools and resources, provides...
UCCE Staff conduct site visit and discuss forest health and vegetation management with landowner. Photo credit UCCE Sonoma
UCCE Staff, Circuit Riders, and Lake Sonoma landowner test fuel reduction strategies and plan management based on the Wildfire Fuel Mapper
UCCE Staff and landowner review Wildfire Fuel Mapper Map Report. Photo Credit UCCE Sonoma
Photo Credit Mark Tukman, Tukman Geospatial
USDA to invest $500m in Small-scale Meat Processing
From USDA Press Release & Contact Info Press Release Release No. 0154.21 Contact: USDA PressEmail: press@usda.gov Council Bluffs, I.A., July 9, 2021 – Today, USDA is announcing it intends to make significant investments to expand processing capacity and increase competition in meat and poultry processing to make agricultural markets more accessible, fair, competitive, and resilient for American farmers and ranchers. This is one of several key steps that...
Meat processing small plant - USDA Multimedia photo by Lance Cheung