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Welcome Pacific West Area Office
 Beneficial Wasp May Help Put Sting in Fruit Pest Research Project: Areawide Management of Spotted-Wing Drosophila Video: Beneficial Wasp May Help Put Sting in Fruit Pest
 Predicting High-Risk Areas for Wildfires Article: Now You Don't Have to Wait for Smoke to Know Where Fires Are Likely to Occur Forecast Tool: Great Basin rangeland fire probability
 Targeting Taste Buds, Targeting Grazing Research Project: Enhancing Sheep Enterprises and Developing Rangeland Management Strategies to Improve Rangeland Health and Conserve Ecology Grazing to a new level
 Turning Wine Waste into Gut Power
 California's Long Term Honey Bee Research Monitoring Network Research Project: Conduct Longitudinal Studies on Colony Performance and Explore Near-term Effects of Nutritional and Agrochemical Stressors on Honey Bee Health Video: California’s Long Term Honey Bee Research Monitoring Network
 New Wheat Alters Glucose and Insulin Responses Research Project: Resistant Starch Type 2 From Wheat Reduces Postprandial Glycemic Response With Concurrent Alterations In Gut Microbiota Composition Research Project: Impact of Diet on Intestinal Microbiota, Gut Health and Immune Function
 USDA Improves Fall Planting Options with New Pea Cultivars  Article: ARS Releases First USDA Winter Peas for Food, Not Feed


Pacific West Area Offices
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 Maricopa, Arizona
 U.S. Arid Land Agricultural Research Center
                                                                Pest Management and Biocontrol Research
                                                                Plant Physiology and Genetics Research
                                                                Water Management and Conservation Research
 Tucson, Arizona
 Carl Hayden Bee Research Center
                                                        Southwest Watershed Research Center
 Albany, California
 Western Regional Research Center
                                                                Produce Safety and Microbiology Research
                                                                Healthy Processed Foods Research
                                                                Crop Improvement and Genetics Research
                                                                Bioproducts Research
                                                                Foodborne Toxin Detection and Prevention Research
                                                                Invasive Species and Pollinator Health
                                                        Plant Gene Expression Center
 Davis, California
 Crops Pathology and Genetics Research
                                                        Nat'l Clonal Germplasm Rep - Tree Fruit & Nut Crops & Grapes
                                                        Western Human Nutrition Research Center
                                                                Immunity and Disease Prevention Research
                                                                Obesity and Metabolism Research
                                                        Sustainable Agricultural Water Systems Research
 Parlier, California
 San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center
                                                                Commodity Protection and Quality Research
                                                                Crop Diseases, Pests and Genetics Research
                                                                Water Management Research
 Riverside, California
 National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Citrus
                                                        Agricultural Water Efficiency and Salinity Research Unit
 Salinas, California
 Crop Improvement and Protection Research
 Hilo, Hawaii
 Daniel K. Inouye U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center
                                                                Tropical Crop and Commodity Protection Research
                                                                Tropical Plant Genetic Resources and Disease Research
                                                                Tropical Pest Genetics and Molecular Biology Research Unit
 Aberdeen, Idaho
 Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research
 Boise, Idaho
 Northwest Watershed Research Center
 Dubois, Idaho
 Range Sheep Production Efficiency Research
 Kimberly, Idaho
 Northwest Irrigation and Soils Research
 Reno, Nevada
 Great Basin Rangelands Research
 Burns, Oregon
 Range and Meadow Forage Management Research
 Corvallis, Oregon
 Forage Seed and Cereal Research Unit
                                                        National Clonal Germplasm Repository
                                                        Horticultural Crops Disease and Pest Management Research Unit
                                                        Horticultural Crops Production and Genetic Improvement Research Unit
 Newport, Oregon
 Pacific Shellfish Research Unit
 Pendleton, Oregon
 Columbia Plateau Conservation Research Center
 Logan, Utah
 Pollinating Insect-Biology, Management, Systematics Research
                                                        Forage and Range Research
                                                        Poisonous Plant Research
 Pullman, Washington
 Animal Disease Research
                                                        Plant Germplasm Introduction and Testing Research
                                                        Grain Legume Genetics Physiology Research
                                                        Northwest Sustainable Agroecosystems Research
                                                        Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research
 Wapato, Washington
 Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research
 Wenatchee, Washington
 Physiology and Pathology of Tree Fruits Research


Research Projects
				    More... Adaptive Capacity and Ecosystem Service Provisioning on Intermountain Range Sheep Systems Under a Changing Climate Advancing Molecular Pest Management, Diagnostics, and Eradication of Fruit Flies and Invasive Species Advancing Soil Health and Agricultural Performance to Promote Sustainable Intensification and Resilience of Northwest Dryland Cropping Systems


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