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Weed science faculty job announcement - Univ of Nebraska
A quick post today to share an announcement for a Integrated Weed Management Specialist position at...
F 150058 Formal Ad (Long) - Weed Management Specialist
Exciting job opportunity: Urban IPM Educator
The UC Statewide IPM Program is hiring an Urban IPM Educator to assist with extending pest...
Job openings with UC IPM
Want to be a part of the University of California Division Agriculture and Natural Resources and...
Analysis says canal could create 129,000 jobs
![Cranes flying over Delta water at sunset. Cranes flying over Delta water at sunset.](http://ucanr.org/blogs/anrnews/blogfiles/8773.jpg)
Supes take stand against aquatic invasives
Kyle Magin, The Union
Nevada County supervisors resolved to support an inspection program for aquatic invasive species, reports Kyle Magin for The (Grass Valley) Union. The article discusses a report by Greg Giusti, UC Cooperative Extension forest and wildlands ecology advisor, which recommends water managers in the state adopt uniform measures regarding boat inspections.
Solve economy, wildfires woes at same time
Forest restoration would be one way to improve our economy, writes researcher Tong Wu of the Center for Forestry and UC Berkeley on CNN's Global Public Square news website. He states that human interference has "made many ecosystems unnaturally susceptible to catastrophic wildfires" and that global warming will exacerbate the problem.
![Wildfire damage in Yosemite National Park. Photo by Mike Poe. Wildfire damage in Yosemite National Park. Photo by Mike Poe.](http://ucanr.org/blogs/anrnews/blogfiles/8743.jpg)
"In economic analyses of environmental management projects across the western United States, ecological restoration produced multiplier effects (the economic 'bang for the buck' of every dollar spent) that were higher than the estimated impacts of the 2009 government stimulus," he wrote.