UC IPM Makes It Happen
Training
- Master gardener training. More
than 60 master gardeners and master gardener coordinators, representing
26 California
counties, learned how to use video presentations on ants and weeds
and had hands-on experience working with various ant and weed management
activities.
- Retail education day. UC IPM Education and Publications staff
participated in
and sponsored the 2005 UCCE/California Association of Nurseries
and Garden Centers' "Healthy Landscapes Retail Education
Day."
- IPM
for schools. UC IPM participated in a one-day training workshop
sponsored by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation School
IPM program
at Oroville High School in March 2005.
- NRCS staff training. UC IPM
sponsored two, two-day training programs for more than 66 NRCS
staff in November and December.
- Weed school. Nearly 70 people attended the "Central
Valley Weed School 2005," sponsored by UC IPM, UCCE Fresno,
and UC Kearney Agricultural Center in July.
-
Vine mealybug identification training. Salvador
Gil and other vineyard supervisors learned how to identify
vine mealybugs under a microscope at a training workshop conducted
by UC IPM in Sonoma.
- Water
quality training. UC IPM Advisor Phil Phillips gave five IPM presentations
on water quality to nearly 350 growers this year.
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