Good news from Mohave County.  Lynne Durrant just learned a grant proposal 
she submitted was funded for $13,000 for a teen parenting program in 
Kingman. This is the Community Integrated Services (CISS) Grant through 
Mohave County Department of Health and Social Services.  Congratulations 
Lynne! 

*  Congratulations to Monica Pastor on her new duties as Special Assistant 
to the Dean for Advancement and her continuing duties as Agricultural 
Literacy Program Coordinator.   Beginning July 1, Monica will divide her 
time between the Maricopa County Cooperative Extension office and the new 
University of Arizona office in Phoenix. 

* Seminars for the position of Assistant/Associate Agent, Family and Youth 
Development, Santa Cruz County, will be held on June 16, 1999.  Marilynn 
Johnson will be presenting from 8:30-9:15 A.M., and Sarah Baughman will be 
presenting from 10:45-11:30 A.M.  Seminar Title:   “Developing Innovative 
Family and Youth Programs in Santa Cruz County.”  Both seminars will be 
held in Forbes 229. 

*  The herbarium at the University of Arizona houses the world's best 
scientific collection of vascular plants from the arid Southwest.  It was 
established even before the university began operation. The university's 
first botanist, James W. Toumey, arrived in 1891 to find that classroom 
facilities were not yet ready to be occupied.  He therefore took to the 
field to collect plants and had amassed 700 specimens before the university 
opened.  The U of A collection of vascular plants, together with small 
holdings of mosses and lichens, is handled jointly by the Departments of 
Plant Sciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.  Permanent herbarium 
staff are Curator Lucinda McDade and Assistant Curators Philip Jenkins and 
Kristen Johnson.  County offices can mail plant samples to be identified 
directly to the herbarium.  Dried and pressed specimens, with reproductive 
structures if possible, can be sent to: The University of Arizona 
Herbarium, 113 Shantz Building, Tucson, Arizona 85721.  For more 
information on the herbarium, see the web site at: 
http://eebweb.arizona.edu/HERB/index.html  

*  If you are looking for practical, current, and unbiased information 
representing the work of Cooperative Extension and Agricultural Experiment 
Station professionals at Land Grant universities throughout the United 
States, check out this website: http://www.e-answers.org This website includes 
information on a variety of topics, including agriculture, forestry, 
fishing, family/consumer issues, lawn and garden, child development, 
4-H/youth, environment, public policy, economics, water quality and 
communities.  E-answers is made possible by participating universities and 
Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE) through a grant from the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture - CSREES. 
 

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Jim Christenson, Director 
Cooperative Extension, College of Agriculture 
Phone:  520/621-7209 
FAX #:  520/621-1314 
jimc@cals.arizona.edu 
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