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News and Events
In This Issue   New Publications  
  Director's Foreword 1
  Ecological Restoration 3
  Education 4
 
        Collections 6
        Field Notes 8
  Research 9
  12
  15
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California Grasslands:  Ecology and Management
Mark R. Stromberg, Jeffrey D. Corbin, and Carla M. D’Antonio, eds. 
University of California Press, 2007. 
ISBN 978-0-520-25220-2.
$55.00.

A new handbook on grassland restoration and ecology, covering systematics, historical ecosystems, native American management of grasslands, biological resources, ecological interactions, and policy. Faculty Director Carla D’Antonio wrote several of the chapters.

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  Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology
Jean Beagle Ristaino, ed. 
American Phytopathological Society, 2008.
ISBN 978-0-89054-359-7. 
$89.00. 

Includes a chapter by CCBER Director Jennifer Thorsch on Katherine Esau who was a world renowned plant anatomist. In 1963 Katherine Esau joined the biology department at UCSB as professor emeritus. She received the Presidental Medal of Science from former President George Bush in 1989.
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  New CCBER Interpretive Signs  
 
CCBER has just installed five interpretive signs and is in the process of designing more signs to enhance appreciation of our coastal resources. Funded by the Associated Students Coastal Fund, two signs were installed at West Storke Wetland near the bike bridge and three signs were installed at East and West Depression at Lagoon Island.

 
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  One of three coastal dune interpretation signs installed at Lagoon Island.
 Restoration and signs funded by the students of UCSB through the Coastal Fund.
 
   
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