>> At the
>>Arizona-California border, there were two things of note: a California
>>Department of Food and Agriculture checkpoint where I was literally
>>asked whether I had any
>>fruit to declare,
>
>Heh! Yeah, that's a pretty amusing checkpoint. Deeply srs bzns, of
>course, given the agricultural community in CA and the relative lack
>of citrus pests, but still pretty hilarious.

Given that the University of California at Riverside has the only comprehensive collection of every orange cultivar in the world, I would think that they would need to be mindful of citrus pests. Sort of like not having open matches in the Special Collections department of a major library.

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