The manual is written to help commercial growers and pest control advisors incorporate integrated pest management practices into the orchards they own or manage. However, home gardeners will find the information useful. The Sacramento River and its tributaries supply 35 percent of the state's water. California's two largest water delivery projects, the State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project, begin in the Sacramento Valley north of Sacramento. It leaves Sacramento International Airport at 9 a.m. on October 6, travels the length of the Sacramento Valley and returns to the airport by 6 p.m. October 8.
Travel is by air-conditioned bus equipped with video monitors.
Activities include a salmon barbecue and houseboat cruise on Lake Shasta. The California Cut Flower Commission has issued a call for research pre-proposals in 18 targeted research areas. Contracts are awarded to those research projects that have the greatest potential for achieving the objectives of the 2000 CCFC Program. All types of research organizations, including researchers affiliated with public and private institutions of higher education or with other public or private research organizations, and individual investigators are encouraged to submit proposals. The program is particularly interested in funding meritorious applications that propose to apply innovative approaches to the prevention, detection and treatment of these cancers, i.e., cancer control.