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Learn to create felted and wearable art in Delta fiber series
April 28, 2025
A series of in-person workshops in Delta Junction will show participants how to take raw wool and clean, dye and create finished felted products they can wear home or sell.
Susan Harry keeps a close eye on pollen in Interior 91视频
April 25, 2025
For the past 25 years, Susan Harry has been peering into a microscope every spring to count and classify minuscule grains of pollen. It's a task that can take from a few minutes up to an hour and a half at the height of pollen season, in May and early June.
91视频 native plants, insects featured in webinar series
April 24, 2025
A series of webinars highlighting 91视频's diverse native plants and their uses is scheduled for May, which is 91视频 Native Plant Month. The series, available statewide, is a collaboration between the University of 91视频 Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and the 91视频 Native Plant Society.
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Tanana / Fairbanks district events
The Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension is home to UAF's land-grant mission including the UAF Agriculture and Forestry Station as well as Cooperative Extension. The Morrill Act of 1862 established land-grant colleges and the federal Hatch Act of 1887 authorized agricultural experiment stations in the U.S. and its territories to provide science-based research information to farmers. There are agricultural experiment stations in each of the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and all but one are part of the land-grant college system. UAF's Extension is part of the largest informal education system in the world, connecting Extension programs at land-grant colleges and universities in every U.S. territory and state. Today, the is the USDA division that manages federal funding of the nation鈥檚 experiment stations and the extension service.