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"content": "\u003cp>There’s a certain kind of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997477/fishnets-and-fossil-fuels-meet-3-bay-area-climate-conscious-drag-artists\">queer magic\u003c/a> that thrives along the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a century, queer people have sought refuge in rural Sonoma County, leaving the stress of city life for the peace — and parties — of the sprawling river valley and redwood forests. Artists, hippies, nude sun bathers, cruisers and even disco legends like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13854644/how-the-world-caught-up-to-sylvester\">Sylvester\u003c/a> have all flocked there over the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, two groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.shelterwoodcollective.org/\">Shelterwood Collective\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.solarpunkfarms.com/\">Solar Punk Farms\u003c/a>, are actively calling queer people back to the land, and not only to party. They’re creating a different type of magic: Shelterwood is restoring acres of forest through Indigenous practices like controlled burns, and Solar Punk advocates for environmental policy and farms the land — all while making space for queer community-building, joy and self-expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not selling this as a panacea, but as one small piece of a larger puzzle of correcting the arc of history,” said Shelterwood co-founder Nikola Alexandre. “It matters that the last gas station before coming to Shelterwood and leaving is in Guerneville, which is maybe the gayest rural town in the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-37-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-37-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-37-KQED-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-37-KQED-768x589.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-37-KQED-1536x1177.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikola Alexandre, of Shelterwood Collective, poses for a portrait at the property in Cazadero on Nov. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Caring for our elders’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About half an hour northwest of Guerneville, Shelterwood is an oasis that centers queer, trans, Black, Indigenous and disabled people. The property was once a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2020/04/18/looking-back-on-the-cazadero-cult-camp-hundred-years-later/\">religious cult \u003c/a>and later a Christian camp. Since 2021, Shelterwood Collective has cared for its 900 acres of forest through stream restoration, forest thinning and prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forested valley, surrounded by a ridge, is home to wild boars, foxes, deer, mountain lions and the occasional bear. The Kashia Band of Pomo Indians stewarded these lands for thousands of years. White settlers and the federal government forced them from their ancestral lands in the 1800s, which also eliminated their practice of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13983729/good-fire-tending-native-lands-review-oakland-museum-california\">cultural burning\u003c/a>. In the mid-19th century, loggers turned the nearby town of Cazadero into a major timber hub. [aside postid='arts_13983729']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexandre said that when Shelterwood purchased the land, it was overgrown due to poor management and needed room to breathe. With a five-year grant from Cal Fire, the group is physically thinning the forest and using prescribed fire to allow native species such as blue oak, sword fern and hummingbird sage to thrive once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not trying to micromanage a forest, we’re caring for our elders,” Alexandre said of large trees unscathed by fire during a prescribed burn in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing on a cascading hillside meadow, with billowing smoke around him, Alexandre said actively burning the crowded forest has a two-fold purpose: tending the land \u003ci>and\u003c/i> queer hearts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mythology that we are not part of these ecosystems, or that the only thing that happens to Black folk in the woods is negative or harmful, is one that I sought to truly push back against,” Alexandre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984073\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free Freddie performs during Shelterwood’s summer campout in July 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Brandon Simmoneau)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Giving ‘queerness space to breathe’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shelterwood’s work isn’t just physical, it’s communal. The five people who live on the property, along with visiting friends and organizers, host weekend gatherings centered on queer folk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around Halloween, at a party called 900 Acres and a Ghoul, dozens of queer people dressed as sexy witches, a giant slice of pizza in a jock strap and horror movie characters like Casey Becker from \u003ci>Scream\u003c/i>. The group of mostly 20- and 30-somethings danced to techno under a canopy of branches, carved pumpkins, connected in cuddle puddles and hiked in the fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We dance with our human and non-human kin for a couple of days, and that is the joy that fuels many of us,” Alexandre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Wood made the two-and-a-half-hour trek from San Francisco. The 30-year-old said every time he visits, he feels a little bit more restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s also healed my relationship with nature a lot,” Wood said. “I had to relearn what it means to hike or camp because I associated those with white, higher socioeconomic activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood has also learned the healing nature of prescribed fire, and sees his experience at Shelterwood as parallel to burning off the hardness of city life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ 80085 performs during Shelterwood’s summer campout in July 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Brandon Simmoneau)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A good burn was something I never knew about, but this maintains the health of the forest,” Wood said. “I think that’s something that we can all kind of apply as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brandon Jones, Shelterwood’s executive director, restoring the forest and holding space for queer people is about developing a sense of sanctuary. The sprawling property gives “queerness space to breathe,” Jones said. “There’s something radical about removing queerness from confinement and throwing it into the open space to frolic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep the magic intact, Jones is figuring out how to shift Shelterwood from relying on grants to a retreat model for events and weddings, with potential for a farm and restaurant. Jones said he’s exploring more reliable funding options, as grants and private funding become harder to acquire in the current political climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you get through our gates, there is spaciousness,” Jones said. “That’s part of the magic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-8-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-8-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-8-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-8-KQED-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-8-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Schwanz trains a cucumber plant to grow upward at Solar Punk Farms in Guerneville on Nov. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Planting the seeds of sustainability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Shelterwood Collective isn’t alone in its mission of centering queerness and climate resilience. About 20 miles away from Shelterwood, Nick Schwanz and Spencer Scott run Solar Punk Farms in Guerneville. It’s a working farm, a communal home they share with at least two others and a redwood forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fed up with their jobs in health and tech in San Francisco, the couple wanted to live in a way that could make a tangible difference to the environment. At first, they dabbled in climate-related jobs. But they wanted to get their hands dirty, so they began looking for a piece of land. In 2020, they bought a 10-acre parcel in Guerneville with their savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The queer history there was one of the big things that really drew us to the space,” Schwanz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple wants to help make the entire Russian River area resilient enough to weather future floods and fires. They see the Russian River’s queer history and the local climate movement as important factors in protecting the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Queer people know that we have to protect each other,” Scott said. “No one’s coming to save us, we’ve got to do it ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984065\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-9-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spencer Scott picks the last apples of the harvest at Solar Punk Farms in Guerneville on Nov. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They grow squash, tomatoes and other produce, and host environmental salons, natural wine events and climate-themed drag shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our mission is to make the sustainability movement feel irresistible, not just essential or something that we \u003cem>should\u003c/em> do, but something that you really want to do because it’s fun, sexy and interesting,” Schwanz said. [aside postid='arts_13979195']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duo’s move to Guerneville isn’t just about harvesting vegetables and raising chickens. They want to “shift culture” by influencing local policy to better support the environment. Schwanz is the president of the Russian River Chamber of Commerce, and Scott is on the county’s Lower Russian River Municipal Advisory Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their influence is starting to have an impact. Schwanz pushed the chamber to adopt a goal of making the area a regeneration hotspot, and next year it aims to co-host a countywide festival focused on river health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to take Guerneville’s super power of getting a ton of people here and having a great time and diverting that energy towards a climate goal,” Schwanz said. “The sense is that every year is worse than the last. Our near-term goal is to feel like every year’s better than the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984062\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-4-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chickens roam around Solar Punk Farms in Guerneville on Nov. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schwanz and Scott are also friends with Alexandre from Shelterwood Collective and hope to learn from the group’s forest restoration efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hoping to get some guidance on how to best do forest thinning, burn piles and controlled burns,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexandre believes the restoration work by Solar Punk Farms, albeit on a very different scale, is essential, and it’s even more vital that queer communities focused on climate remain undivided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s my hope that these kinds of communities, collectives and sub-regional groupings of folks who are in close relationship with this place will become more and more frequent,” Alexandre said. [aside postid='science_1997477']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A long queer history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gay San Franciscans began flocking to the Russian River in the 1920s and never stopped. The area served as a vacation destination, with people taking ferries, trains and cars to its redwood-lined riverbanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They wanted to get away from the stultifying rules about how you’re supposed to live your life, and your sexuality is part of that,” said Tina Dungan, who teaches a course on Sonoma County’s LGBTQ+ history at Santa Rosa Junior College. “It’s the beauty of being in the trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shad Reinstein, an independent researcher in LGBTQ+ history, described the Russian River of the 1960s–’80s as the West Coast’s Fire Island. Bars, restaurants and hotels catered to the queer community. Journalists at the time called the area “the New Gay Mecca” and “a resort town that welcomes gays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984176\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984176\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Sylvester.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage photo of a disco star performing in front of a crowd of young, gay fans.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Sylvester.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Sylvester-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Sylvester-768x506.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Sylvester-1536x1011.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvester performs at the The Woods Hexagon House in 1984. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Loren Henry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said so many gay men visited the area that she believes artists like the Weather Girls, who performed at a resort there, found an audience for their song “It’s Raining Men” among the throngs of shirtless men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I personally believe that was performed about the river,” Reinstein speculated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though gays and lesbians came to the river for fun, Reinstein said the gay men she’s interviewed said there weren’t any historical queer communes in the Sonoma area. But she recently learned of one gay men’s retreat center, Wildwood Ranch in the Cazadero area, that was run collectively from the late 1970s. She noted many gay men also joined straight collectives. [aside postid='arts_13854644']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russian River has gone through economic highs and lows, and weathered the height of the AIDS epidemic. These days, the LGBTQ+ scene on the river isn’t as prolific as it was when it was considered the Fire Island of the West Coast. Reinstein attributes that, in part, to positive developments including gay marriage, antiretroviral therapy and greater queer acceptance in mainstream society. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1970s and ’80s, both lesbians and gays were working to create a culture and a community,” Reinstein said. “That was different. I don’t think that’s happening the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984178\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QueerWoods-GC-11_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QueerWoods-GC-11_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QueerWoods-GC-11_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QueerWoods-GC-11_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QueerWoods-GC-11_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Schwanz, center, hands Freddie, 6, a bouquet of dahlias, at Solar Punk Farms in Guerneville on Nov. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet with LGBTQ+ rights under attack, the Russian River remains an important safe haven, and Solar Punk Farms and Shelterwood Collective are bringing the vibrancy back. “I’m really excited that it’s there,” Reinstein added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many queer people of past generations sought the woods as a place of escape, but Shelterwood’s Alexandre takes a different view. He said he and his friends are “not escaping anything,” but nurturing the queer cultural ecosystem while tending to the land. The goal is for both to thrive for generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to create safety for those communities who traditionally don’t get safe spaces,” Alexandre said, “and also acknowledge that all our futures are intertwined.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There’s a certain kind of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997477/fishnets-and-fossil-fuels-meet-3-bay-area-climate-conscious-drag-artists\">queer magic\u003c/a> that thrives along the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a century, queer people have sought refuge in rural Sonoma County, leaving the stress of city life for the peace — and parties — of the sprawling river valley and redwood forests. Artists, hippies, nude sun bathers, cruisers and even disco legends like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13854644/how-the-world-caught-up-to-sylvester\">Sylvester\u003c/a> have all flocked there over the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, two groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.shelterwoodcollective.org/\">Shelterwood Collective\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.solarpunkfarms.com/\">Solar Punk Farms\u003c/a>, are actively calling queer people back to the land, and not only to party. They’re creating a different type of magic: Shelterwood is restoring acres of forest through Indigenous practices like controlled burns, and Solar Punk advocates for environmental policy and farms the land — all while making space for queer community-building, joy and self-expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not selling this as a panacea, but as one small piece of a larger puzzle of correcting the arc of history,” said Shelterwood co-founder Nikola Alexandre. “It matters that the last gas station before coming to Shelterwood and leaving is in Guerneville, which is maybe the gayest rural town in the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-37-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-37-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-37-KQED-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-37-KQED-768x589.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-37-KQED-1536x1177.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikola Alexandre, of Shelterwood Collective, poses for a portrait at the property in Cazadero on Nov. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Caring for our elders’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About half an hour northwest of Guerneville, Shelterwood is an oasis that centers queer, trans, Black, Indigenous and disabled people. The property was once a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2020/04/18/looking-back-on-the-cazadero-cult-camp-hundred-years-later/\">religious cult \u003c/a>and later a Christian camp. Since 2021, Shelterwood Collective has cared for its 900 acres of forest through stream restoration, forest thinning and prescribed burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forested valley, surrounded by a ridge, is home to wild boars, foxes, deer, mountain lions and the occasional bear. The Kashia Band of Pomo Indians stewarded these lands for thousands of years. White settlers and the federal government forced them from their ancestral lands in the 1800s, which also eliminated their practice of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13983729/good-fire-tending-native-lands-review-oakland-museum-california\">cultural burning\u003c/a>. In the mid-19th century, loggers turned the nearby town of Cazadero into a major timber hub. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexandre said that when Shelterwood purchased the land, it was overgrown due to poor management and needed room to breathe. With a five-year grant from Cal Fire, the group is physically thinning the forest and using prescribed fire to allow native species such as blue oak, sword fern and hummingbird sage to thrive once again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not trying to micromanage a forest, we’re caring for our elders,” Alexandre said of large trees unscathed by fire during a prescribed burn in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing on a cascading hillside meadow, with billowing smoke around him, Alexandre said actively burning the crowded forest has a two-fold purpose: tending the land \u003ci>and\u003c/i> queer hearts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mythology that we are not part of these ecosystems, or that the only thing that happens to Black folk in the woods is negative or harmful, is one that I sought to truly push back against,” Alexandre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984073\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-01-KQED-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free Freddie performs during Shelterwood’s summer campout in July 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Brandon Simmoneau)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Giving ‘queerness space to breathe’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shelterwood’s work isn’t just physical, it’s communal. The five people who live on the property, along with visiting friends and organizers, host weekend gatherings centered on queer folk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around Halloween, at a party called 900 Acres and a Ghoul, dozens of queer people dressed as sexy witches, a giant slice of pizza in a jock strap and horror movie characters like Casey Becker from \u003ci>Scream\u003c/i>. The group of mostly 20- and 30-somethings danced to techno under a canopy of branches, carved pumpkins, connected in cuddle puddles and hiked in the fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We dance with our human and non-human kin for a couple of days, and that is the joy that fuels many of us,” Alexandre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Wood made the two-and-a-half-hour trek from San Francisco. The 30-year-old said every time he visits, he feels a little bit more restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s also healed my relationship with nature a lot,” Wood said. “I had to relearn what it means to hike or camp because I associated those with white, higher socioeconomic activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wood has also learned the healing nature of prescribed fire, and sees his experience at Shelterwood as parallel to burning off the hardness of city life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984074\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251125_QUEERWOODS-02-KQED-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ 80085 performs during Shelterwood’s summer campout in July 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Brandon Simmoneau)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A good burn was something I never knew about, but this maintains the health of the forest,” Wood said. “I think that’s something that we can all kind of apply as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Brandon Jones, Shelterwood’s executive director, restoring the forest and holding space for queer people is about developing a sense of sanctuary. The sprawling property gives “queerness space to breathe,” Jones said. “There’s something radical about removing queerness from confinement and throwing it into the open space to frolic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep the magic intact, Jones is figuring out how to shift Shelterwood from relying on grants to a retreat model for events and weddings, with potential for a farm and restaurant. Jones said he’s exploring more reliable funding options, as grants and private funding become harder to acquire in the current political climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you get through our gates, there is spaciousness,” Jones said. “That’s part of the magic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984064\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-8-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-8-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-8-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-8-KQED-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-8-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Schwanz trains a cucumber plant to grow upward at Solar Punk Farms in Guerneville on Nov. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Planting the seeds of sustainability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Shelterwood Collective isn’t alone in its mission of centering queerness and climate resilience. About 20 miles away from Shelterwood, Nick Schwanz and Spencer Scott run Solar Punk Farms in Guerneville. It’s a working farm, a communal home they share with at least two others and a redwood forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fed up with their jobs in health and tech in San Francisco, the couple wanted to live in a way that could make a tangible difference to the environment. At first, they dabbled in climate-related jobs. But they wanted to get their hands dirty, so they began looking for a piece of land. In 2020, they bought a 10-acre parcel in Guerneville with their savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The queer history there was one of the big things that really drew us to the space,” Schwanz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple wants to help make the entire Russian River area resilient enough to weather future floods and fires. They see the Russian River’s queer history and the local climate movement as important factors in protecting the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Queer people know that we have to protect each other,” Scott said. “No one’s coming to save us, we’ve got to do it ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984065\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-9-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spencer Scott picks the last apples of the harvest at Solar Punk Farms in Guerneville on Nov. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They grow squash, tomatoes and other produce, and host environmental salons, natural wine events and climate-themed drag shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our mission is to make the sustainability movement feel irresistible, not just essential or something that we \u003cem>should\u003c/em> do, but something that you really want to do because it’s fun, sexy and interesting,” Schwanz said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duo’s move to Guerneville isn’t just about harvesting vegetables and raising chickens. They want to “shift culture” by influencing local policy to better support the environment. Schwanz is the president of the Russian River Chamber of Commerce, and Scott is on the county’s Lower Russian River Municipal Advisory Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their influence is starting to have an impact. Schwanz pushed the chamber to adopt a goal of making the area a regeneration hotspot, and next year it aims to co-host a countywide festival focused on river health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to take Guerneville’s super power of getting a ton of people here and having a great time and diverting that energy towards a climate goal,” Schwanz said. “The sense is that every year is worse than the last. Our near-term goal is to feel like every year’s better than the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984062\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-4-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QUEERWOODS-GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chickens roam around Solar Punk Farms in Guerneville on Nov. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schwanz and Scott are also friends with Alexandre from Shelterwood Collective and hope to learn from the group’s forest restoration efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hoping to get some guidance on how to best do forest thinning, burn piles and controlled burns,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexandre believes the restoration work by Solar Punk Farms, albeit on a very different scale, is essential, and it’s even more vital that queer communities focused on climate remain undivided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s my hope that these kinds of communities, collectives and sub-regional groupings of folks who are in close relationship with this place will become more and more frequent,” Alexandre said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A long queer history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gay San Franciscans began flocking to the Russian River in the 1920s and never stopped. The area served as a vacation destination, with people taking ferries, trains and cars to its redwood-lined riverbanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They wanted to get away from the stultifying rules about how you’re supposed to live your life, and your sexuality is part of that,” said Tina Dungan, who teaches a course on Sonoma County’s LGBTQ+ history at Santa Rosa Junior College. “It’s the beauty of being in the trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shad Reinstein, an independent researcher in LGBTQ+ history, described the Russian River of the 1960s–’80s as the West Coast’s Fire Island. Bars, restaurants and hotels catered to the queer community. Journalists at the time called the area “the New Gay Mecca” and “a resort town that welcomes gays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984176\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984176\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Sylvester.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage photo of a disco star performing in front of a crowd of young, gay fans.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Sylvester.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Sylvester-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Sylvester-768x506.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Sylvester-1536x1011.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvester performs at the The Woods Hexagon House in 1984. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Loren Henry)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said so many gay men visited the area that she believes artists like the Weather Girls, who performed at a resort there, found an audience for their song “It’s Raining Men” among the throngs of shirtless men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I personally believe that was performed about the river,” Reinstein speculated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though gays and lesbians came to the river for fun, Reinstein said the gay men she’s interviewed said there weren’t any historical queer communes in the Sonoma area. But she recently learned of one gay men’s retreat center, Wildwood Ranch in the Cazadero area, that was run collectively from the late 1970s. She noted many gay men also joined straight collectives. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russian River has gone through economic highs and lows, and weathered the height of the AIDS epidemic. These days, the LGBTQ+ scene on the river isn’t as prolific as it was when it was considered the Fire Island of the West Coast. Reinstein attributes that, in part, to positive developments including gay marriage, antiretroviral therapy and greater queer acceptance in mainstream society. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1970s and ’80s, both lesbians and gays were working to create a culture and a community,” Reinstein said. “That was different. I don’t think that’s happening the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984178\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QueerWoods-GC-11_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QueerWoods-GC-11_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QueerWoods-GC-11_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QueerWoods-GC-11_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/20251101_QueerWoods-GC-11_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Schwanz, center, hands Freddie, 6, a bouquet of dahlias, at Solar Punk Farms in Guerneville on Nov. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet with LGBTQ+ rights under attack, the Russian River remains an important safe haven, and Solar Punk Farms and Shelterwood Collective are bringing the vibrancy back. “I’m really excited that it’s there,” Reinstein added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many queer people of past generations sought the woods as a place of escape, but Shelterwood’s Alexandre takes a different view. He said he and his friends are “not escaping anything,” but nurturing the queer cultural ecosystem while tending to the land. The goal is for both to thrive for generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For anyone devastated or dismayed by the last decade of catastrophic megafires in California, there is no more hopeful story than that of Native Californians reviving their use of intentional, beneficial fire. By using “good fire,” they are leaving forests, fields and brushlands more resilient to future wildfires. They also use fire to regenerate ecosystems, spurring the regrowth of plants that serve as food, medicine and basketry materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oakland Museum of California, a new exhibit called \u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/on-view/good-fire-tending-native-lands/\">\u003ci>Good Fire: Tending Native Lands\u003c/i>\u003c/a> traces the past, present and hoped-for future of Indigenous Californians’ use of fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diana Almendariz (Wintun, Nisenan, Hupa, Yurok) uses fire to tend the Cache Creek Nature Preserve, and was a consultant and collaborator in the exhibit. Fire, she explained at the Nov. 6 press preview, was “the first child of land and water.” It completes natural cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working with it, she said, is “beautiful. It’s like art. You want to share it with people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Good Fire\u003c/i> features a photo of her burning basketry materials with a joyous smile on her face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13983733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1887px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13983733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/3_Installation-view-Good-Fire_Tending-Native-Lands-November-7-2025%E2%80%93May-31-2026-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Photo-by-Kiki-King-courtesy-Oakland-Museum-of-California.jpeg\" alt=\"An exhibition display features kindling for controlled burns.\" width=\"1887\" height=\"1258\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/3_Installation-view-Good-Fire_Tending-Native-Lands-November-7-2025–May-31-2026-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Photo-by-Kiki-King-courtesy-Oakland-Museum-of-California.jpeg 1887w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/3_Installation-view-Good-Fire_Tending-Native-Lands-November-7-2025–May-31-2026-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Photo-by-Kiki-King-courtesy-Oakland-Museum-of-California-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/3_Installation-view-Good-Fire_Tending-Native-Lands-November-7-2025–May-31-2026-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Photo-by-Kiki-King-courtesy-Oakland-Museum-of-California-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/3_Installation-view-Good-Fire_Tending-Native-Lands-November-7-2025–May-31-2026-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Photo-by-Kiki-King-courtesy-Oakland-Museum-of-California-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1887px) 100vw, 1887px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An installation view of ‘Good Fire: Tending Native Lands,’ on view at Oakland Museum of California through May 31, 2026. \u003ccite>(Kiki King, Oakland Museum of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Visitors will also see videos of burns and displays holding natural torches — bundles of wormwood, tule or manzanita. The exhibit also interweaves sculptures, paintings, collages, regalia, baskets, photographs and cuts from tree trunks with burn scars. A collection of T-shirts from various organizations speaks to the Indigenous sovereignty movement. “We Undammed the Klamath,” says one. “Land Back, Fire Back,” says another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Good Fire\u003c/i> explores the legacy of violence and government policies that made it impossible for Native people to be on their lands, use fire, hunt, gather food and practice their culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one displayed quote from 1879, the former director of the U.S. Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell, said, “The fires can, then, be very greatly curtailed by the removal of the Indians… Once protected from fires, the forests will increase in extent and value.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973196/the-karuk-used-fire-to-manage-the-forest-for-centuries-now-they-want-to-do-that-again\">suppressing native fire contributed directly to our era of megafires\u003c/a>. Under an \u003ca href=\"https://calindianhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/04_22_1850_Law.pdf\">1850 state law\u003c/a>, Native Americans were fined, punished and even shot for setting fires. Forests became overgrown and primed to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13983734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13983734\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A historical photo of white men blasting a California cliffside with a high-pressure jet of water. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"2125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-2000x1660.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-768x637.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-1536x1275.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-2048x1700.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Courtright, ‘Building a reservoir with hydraulic mining techniques,’ n.d. Photograph. \u003ccite>(Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Herrington & Olson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our lands are starved of fire,” said Brittani R. Orona (Hupa), co-curator of the exhibition and Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis. “Megafires are a result of poor settler management of the lands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sculpture by Saif Azzuz (Yurok/Libyan) uses a metal cattle gate to convey how livestock grazing cut off Native access to ancestral lands. But it also incorporates symbols of resilience. Welded into the metal gate are shapes of animals, plants and what appear to be splashes of flame. It’s evocative and moving, and worth lingering at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13983735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13983735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/5.Saif-Azzuz-Yurok-Libyan-Who-says-2022.-Stickers-ink-bungee-cord-chains-and-steel.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Anthony-Meier-Mill-Valley-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A metal sculpture shaped like a fence with silhouettes of flames and plants.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/5.Saif-Azzuz-Yurok-Libyan-Who-says-2022.-Stickers-ink-bungee-cord-chains-and-steel.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Anthony-Meier-Mill-Valley-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/5.Saif-Azzuz-Yurok-Libyan-Who-says-2022.-Stickers-ink-bungee-cord-chains-and-steel.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Anthony-Meier-Mill-Valley-1-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/5.Saif-Azzuz-Yurok-Libyan-Who-says-2022.-Stickers-ink-bungee-cord-chains-and-steel.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Anthony-Meier-Mill-Valley-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/5.Saif-Azzuz-Yurok-Libyan-Who-says-2022.-Stickers-ink-bungee-cord-chains-and-steel.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Anthony-Meier-Mill-Valley-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/5.Saif-Azzuz-Yurok-Libyan-Who-says-2022.-Stickers-ink-bungee-cord-chains-and-steel.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Anthony-Meier-Mill-Valley-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/5.Saif-Azzuz-Yurok-Libyan-Who-says-2022.-Stickers-ink-bungee-cord-chains-and-steel.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Anthony-Meier-Mill-Valley-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saif Azzuz (Yurok, Libyan), ‘Who says,’ 2022. Stickers, ink, bungee cord, chains, and steel. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist and Anthony Meier, Mill Valley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearby a mixed-media work on paper by Brian D. Tripp (Karuk) says “They Think They Own The Place,” the words crowded around large, flashy dollar signs. (On another copy of the poster at the Gorman Museum of Native American Art, Tripp wrote at the bottom in pen, “BUT WE KNOW BETTER.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Native people link the process of re-normalizing their use of good fire with the process of restoring personal and community health. Despite a painful past for Indigenous Californians, the future can and does look more hopeful. Fire is integral to that hope. In the exhibit’s final section, a quote on the wall from Jordan Reyes of the Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians says, “Doing these cultural burns, we can start to heal each other.” [aside postid='arts_13983716']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last 150 years have shown there’s no California without fire, but we can do more to choose what kind of fires we want. Learning about and supporting those who know how to use good fire is a step along that path, whether we are Native or not. Instead of only fearing and fighting fire, we can befriend it, domesticate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just an element,” Almendariz said. “It’s alive. And the first thing it wants to do is eat. So you better know what you’re going to feed it. If you starve it, it will become wild.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘\u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/on-view/good-fire-tending-native-lands/\">Good Fire: Tending Native Lands\u003c/a>’ is on view at Oakland Museum of California through May 31, 2026.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For anyone devastated or dismayed by the last decade of catastrophic megafires in California, there is no more hopeful story than that of Native Californians reviving their use of intentional, beneficial fire. By using “good fire,” they are leaving forests, fields and brushlands more resilient to future wildfires. They also use fire to regenerate ecosystems, spurring the regrowth of plants that serve as food, medicine and basketry materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oakland Museum of California, a new exhibit called \u003ca href=\"https://museumca.org/on-view/good-fire-tending-native-lands/\">\u003ci>Good Fire: Tending Native Lands\u003c/i>\u003c/a> traces the past, present and hoped-for future of Indigenous Californians’ use of fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diana Almendariz (Wintun, Nisenan, Hupa, Yurok) uses fire to tend the Cache Creek Nature Preserve, and was a consultant and collaborator in the exhibit. Fire, she explained at the Nov. 6 press preview, was “the first child of land and water.” It completes natural cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working with it, she said, is “beautiful. It’s like art. You want to share it with people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Good Fire\u003c/i> features a photo of her burning basketry materials with a joyous smile on her face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13983733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1887px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13983733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/3_Installation-view-Good-Fire_Tending-Native-Lands-November-7-2025%E2%80%93May-31-2026-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Photo-by-Kiki-King-courtesy-Oakland-Museum-of-California.jpeg\" alt=\"An exhibition display features kindling for controlled burns.\" width=\"1887\" height=\"1258\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/3_Installation-view-Good-Fire_Tending-Native-Lands-November-7-2025–May-31-2026-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Photo-by-Kiki-King-courtesy-Oakland-Museum-of-California.jpeg 1887w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/3_Installation-view-Good-Fire_Tending-Native-Lands-November-7-2025–May-31-2026-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Photo-by-Kiki-King-courtesy-Oakland-Museum-of-California-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/3_Installation-view-Good-Fire_Tending-Native-Lands-November-7-2025–May-31-2026-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Photo-by-Kiki-King-courtesy-Oakland-Museum-of-California-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/3_Installation-view-Good-Fire_Tending-Native-Lands-November-7-2025–May-31-2026-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Photo-by-Kiki-King-courtesy-Oakland-Museum-of-California-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1887px) 100vw, 1887px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An installation view of ‘Good Fire: Tending Native Lands,’ on view at Oakland Museum of California through May 31, 2026. \u003ccite>(Kiki King, Oakland Museum of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Visitors will also see videos of burns and displays holding natural torches — bundles of wormwood, tule or manzanita. The exhibit also interweaves sculptures, paintings, collages, regalia, baskets, photographs and cuts from tree trunks with burn scars. A collection of T-shirts from various organizations speaks to the Indigenous sovereignty movement. “We Undammed the Klamath,” says one. “Land Back, Fire Back,” says another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Good Fire\u003c/i> explores the legacy of violence and government policies that made it impossible for Native people to be on their lands, use fire, hunt, gather food and practice their culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one displayed quote from 1879, the former director of the U.S. Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell, said, “The fires can, then, be very greatly curtailed by the removal of the Indians… Once protected from fires, the forests will increase in extent and value.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1973196/the-karuk-used-fire-to-manage-the-forest-for-centuries-now-they-want-to-do-that-again\">suppressing native fire contributed directly to our era of megafires\u003c/a>. Under an \u003ca href=\"https://calindianhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/04_22_1850_Law.pdf\">1850 state law\u003c/a>, Native Americans were fined, punished and even shot for setting fires. Forests became overgrown and primed to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13983734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13983734\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A historical photo of white men blasting a California cliffside with a high-pressure jet of water. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"2125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-2000x1660.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-768x637.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-1536x1275.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/9.Harry-Courtright-Building-a-reservoir-with-hydraulic-mining-techniques-n.d.-Photograph.-Collection-of-the-Oakland-Museum-of-California.-Gift-of-Herrington-Olson-2048x1700.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Courtright, ‘Building a reservoir with hydraulic mining techniques,’ n.d. Photograph. \u003ccite>(Collection of the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Herrington & Olson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our lands are starved of fire,” said Brittani R. Orona (Hupa), co-curator of the exhibition and Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis. “Megafires are a result of poor settler management of the lands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sculpture by Saif Azzuz (Yurok/Libyan) uses a metal cattle gate to convey how livestock grazing cut off Native access to ancestral lands. But it also incorporates symbols of resilience. Welded into the metal gate are shapes of animals, plants and what appear to be splashes of flame. 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I don’t often feel the need to be in nature, and when I do, I visit Lake Merritt or Golden Gate Park. The one time I was forced by a friend to drive through Yosemite National Park — altogether too remote for my liking — I have a recollection of rounding a corner and contemptuously uttering the phrase “Oh good. \u003cem>More trees\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mention this so you’ll understand what an enormous feat it is for anyone, anything — let alone a single book — to make me want to start hiking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s exactly what Liam O’Brien’s new illustrated guide, \u003cem>Butterflies of the Bay Area and (Slightly) Beyond\u003c/em> has done. I cannot overstate what a miracle this is. This comprehensive and gorgeous book is so full of reverence for the prettier flying insects in our midst, so lacking in pretension, and so easy to understand, it’ll inspire even the most fervent city-dwellers to get outside and find the little buggers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13978366']If, like me, you need baby steps, that’s okay. O’Brien is clear that one doesn’t have to leave the city to see many of the butterflies he describes in detail. A chapter titled “Tigers on Market Street” is dedicated to the Western Tiger Swallowtails of downtown San Francisco. As O’Brien also explains, the Upper Sunset is the city’s best neighborhood for spotting a variety of beautiful butterflies without leaving the city. But with his cataloging of 135 species from all nine Bay Area counties, plus Mendocino, San Benito and Monterey, don’t be surprised if you start feeling the call of greener spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though \u003cem>Butterflies of the Bay Area\u003c/em> took five years to put together, O’Brien’s first butterfly research began three decades ago, in 1996. One of the reasons his writing doesn’t get bogged down in science-speak is that he’s a former stage actor who spent years performing on major stages, including in \u003cem>Les Miserables\u003c/em> on Broadway. His interest in butterflies only intensified after an HIV diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The virus has connected me to nature in a profound and surreal way,” O’Brien writes. “The world of butterflies was handed to me by the fate of the disease. What a blessing. What a gift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13981624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1477px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13981624\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/Indra-Swallowtail.png\" alt=\"A book page featuring four illustrations of the same black and yellow butterfly from different angles, as well as what it looks like as a caterpillar. \" width=\"1477\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/Indra-Swallowtail.png 1477w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/Indra-Swallowtail-160x217.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/Indra-Swallowtail-768x1040.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/Indra-Swallowtail-1134x1536.png 1134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1477px) 100vw, 1477px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A section on the Indra Swallowtail from ‘Butterflies of the Bay Area’ by Liam O’Brien. \u003ccite>(Heyday)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>O’Brien meticulously illustrates each species alongside details of their habitats, host plants and life phases, as well as the best locations to see them. He includes all the scientific information a layperson might need, including a breakdown of official terminologies, the stages of metamorphosis and butterfly migration patterns — but it never gets boring. One section, for example, is titled “On Common Names and Latin Names and the Big Bag of Crazy Those Are.” He uses the word “bazillions” at one point. He even compares butterflies’ preferences for hilltops to humans gravitating towards bars to find a date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly, there is magic in the ways O’Brien views and describes these insects. Of the Bilateral Gynandromorphisms — butterflies that express both male and female characteristics, possess both sexes’ genitalia and are incapable of mating — he states: “A true chimera roams the earth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Brien’s calls for more nature conservation are also impactful. “In the early years of this passion for me, one truth became clear,” he writes. “We San Franciscans are more famous for what no longer flies here than for what still does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Brien was born in Redwood City, raised in south San Jose and is a 30-year resident of San Francisco who has also lived in Benicia. When he offers you a guide to the best butterfly walks in the Bay (and the best times of year to explore them), it’s safe to say you can trust he knows what he’s talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13978816']In addition to his own extensive work, O’Brien consulted \u003ca href=\"https://essig.berkeley.edu/butterflies/\">John Steiner’s lifelong research\u003c/a> on butterflies when writing the book, as well as a collection of every male and female butterfly species from Sonoma and Napa that was donated to him by fellow enthusiast Tom Wyndham. Again, the thing that ties that research all together is his ability to make this science relatable. He describes butterflies as “little solar panels.” He describes the minuscule scales on their wings as “laid like overlapping shingles on a roof.” He makes you want to know as much as he does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one moving passage, O’Brien describes performing conservation work, including relocating Mission Blue butterflies from San Bruno Mountain to San Francisco’s Twin Peaks. And it’s there that you realize the butterflies are his true calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have sung alone on a Broadway stage,” he write at one point, “but this job transcends all other experiences. There is a completeness in me here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/butterflies-of-the-bay-area/\">Butterflies of the Bay Area and (Slightly) Beyond: An Illustrated Guide\u003c/a>,’ by Liam O’Brien, will be released on Sept. 30, 2025 via Heyday Books.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>During an angry shower early in the pandemic, Zoe Young began spitting lyrics about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/climate-change\">the state of the planet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco musician with short platinum hair and dark roots was thinking about the “scariest night” of her life when, back in 2017, she convinced her stubborn father to evacuate his home in Ojai as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11636206/thomas-fire-becomes-5th-largest-in-state-history\">Thomas Fire\u003c/a> approached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first time our altered Earth had a clear impact on her life. Zoe needed an outlet, so she started a punk band, \u003ca href=\"https://furioustits.com/\">The Furious Tits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what came out of my brain was based on climate, and they turned into these punk songs,” said Zoe, who was previously a writer for a large environmental organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Furious Tits, whose members are mostly queer, blend lyrics about climate chaos with irreverent humor and sexuality. In “Cougar Town,” Zoe sings about P-22, a\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161569051/tribes-bury-p-22-southern-californias-famed-mountain-lion\"> deceased wild mountain lion\u003c/a> in Los Angeles, and dating older women. “Desperate Pleasures” is about finding love in a time of climate change and swipe-left culture, with lyrics like “we don’t need to break the ice because it’s breaking up on its own.” Their diss track about golf was inspired by a trip to Las Vegas last year, where they noticed a lush, green, empty golf course in the middle of the desert, watered by “ancient aquifers.” Their newest song, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/microplastics\">Microplastics\u003c/a>,” details how scientists have found synthetic bits in human brains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_023_BF_KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_023_BF_KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_023_BF_KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_023_BF_KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_023_BF_KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Furious Tits performed live in San Francisco at the Castro Night Market on Friday, July 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Brian Frank/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997477/fishnets-and-fossil-fuels-meet-3-bay-area-climate-conscious-drag-artists\">links between climate, queerness\u003c/a> and punk may not be obvious, Zoe points to how the state of our warming planet affects, well, everything. “Climate change is coming for every aspect of our lives, including our sex lives,” said Zoe, whose bandmates lovingly refer to as the Band Domme. “You can’t hook up in your house if it’s burned down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-July, The Furious Tits performed at the Castro Night Market to a relatively wholesome crowd of kids, people eating barbecue and their diehard fans, who showed up in cropped black T-shirts emblazoned with different-sized cartoon breasts. Their usual venues, however, are more of a scene: dark dive bars, queer landmarks like El Rio and kinky events like San Francisco’s famed Folsom Street Fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found that it turns out the kinksters care about our planet,” said Miju, the band’s bassist, whose nickname is Punk Jesus. She took the stage in black boots and a black latex one-piece at last year’s festival. “I don’t think it was a bait-and-switch to play climate songs at Folsom. 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He came up with the lyric “desperate times call for desperate pleasures” to show listeners that “in the midst of these desperate times,” they have to find joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250721-ClimatePunk-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250721-ClimatePunk-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250721-ClimatePunk-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250721-ClimatePunk-06-BL_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250721-ClimatePunk-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The climate punk band The Furious Tits play at their practice space in Oakland on July 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Furious Tits are currently writing a climate-themed album they plan to release in early 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s queer about our climate songs is that we’re talking about changing culture,” Miju said. “Queer people have always had to make new culture because it hasn’t existed before. That means we don’t always have role models. We have to chart our own course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As The Furious Tits think about the future, they ponder the higher purpose of their activism: Ensuring their families — and chosen families — are safe as wildfires rage, flooding increases and air quality worsens. [aside postid='science_1997477']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so overwhelming thinking about how I can leave my children a functional world where they can feel safe and experience joy amid all these overlapping crises,” David said. “Art is what continues to give me hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the band sets their sights on completing the album, Zoe and Miju want to explore a song about endangered coral reefs. Miju recalls a scene from the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGGBGcjdjXA\">Chasing Coral\u003c/a>\u003c/em> documentary on Netflix, featuring an aerial view of fluorescent coral in shades of purple, blue and green. In the film, the documentarian notes the vibrant colors represent “the incredibly beautiful phase of death,” as if “the corals are saying, ‘Look at me, please notice.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miju’s son burst into tears during the clip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Holy cow, that’s the right response,’” Miju said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will, the drummer, dreams of turning lyrics about airplane emissions into the band’s “next hit song” as a way to explore his fears about the planet his future children will inherit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250721-ClimatePunk-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250721-ClimatePunk-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250721-ClimatePunk-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250721-ClimatePunk-14-BL_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250721-ClimatePunk-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Furious Tits play at their practice space in Oakland on July 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It feels so existentially grounding and artistically meaningful to throw these musical darts at these large climate targets,” said Will, “and eke out the hilarity and the joy while doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on mismatched couches in the band’s Oakland practice space, surrounded by gear and relics from previous tenants — lamps made from laced-up heels and lyric-filled white boards — Zoe and her bandmates reflect on how music can foster the kind of solidarity needed to survive the climate crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We rely on each other, and that can be a model for the climate movement,” Zoe said. “This is a long fight, and we don’t even get the clean apocalypse where we’re all gonna die. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>During an angry shower early in the pandemic, Zoe Young began spitting lyrics about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/climate-change\">the state of the planet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco musician with short platinum hair and dark roots was thinking about the “scariest night” of her life when, back in 2017, she convinced her stubborn father to evacuate his home in Ojai as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11636206/thomas-fire-becomes-5th-largest-in-state-history\">Thomas Fire\u003c/a> approached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the first time our altered Earth had a clear impact on her life. Zoe needed an outlet, so she started a punk band, \u003ca href=\"https://furioustits.com/\">The Furious Tits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what came out of my brain was based on climate, and they turned into these punk songs,” said Zoe, who was previously a writer for a large environmental organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Furious Tits, whose members are mostly queer, blend lyrics about climate chaos with irreverent humor and sexuality. In “Cougar Town,” Zoe sings about P-22, a\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161569051/tribes-bury-p-22-southern-californias-famed-mountain-lion\"> deceased wild mountain lion\u003c/a> in Los Angeles, and dating older women. “Desperate Pleasures” is about finding love in a time of climate change and swipe-left culture, with lyrics like “we don’t need to break the ice because it’s breaking up on its own.” Their diss track about golf was inspired by a trip to Las Vegas last year, where they noticed a lush, green, empty golf course in the middle of the desert, watered by “ancient aquifers.” Their newest song, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/microplastics\">Microplastics\u003c/a>,” details how scientists have found synthetic bits in human brains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979090\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_023_BF_KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_023_BF_KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_023_BF_KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_023_BF_KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_023_BF_KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Furious Tits performed live in San Francisco at the Castro Night Market on Friday, July 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Brian Frank/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997477/fishnets-and-fossil-fuels-meet-3-bay-area-climate-conscious-drag-artists\">links between climate, queerness\u003c/a> and punk may not be obvious, Zoe points to how the state of our warming planet affects, well, everything. “Climate change is coming for every aspect of our lives, including our sex lives,” said Zoe, whose bandmates lovingly refer to as the Band Domme. “You can’t hook up in your house if it’s burned down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-July, The Furious Tits performed at the Castro Night Market to a relatively wholesome crowd of kids, people eating barbecue and their diehard fans, who showed up in cropped black T-shirts emblazoned with different-sized cartoon breasts. Their usual venues, however, are more of a scene: dark dive bars, queer landmarks like El Rio and kinky events like San Francisco’s famed Folsom Street Fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found that it turns out the kinksters care about our planet,” said Miju, the band’s bassist, whose nickname is Punk Jesus. She took the stage in black boots and a black latex one-piece at last year’s festival. “I don’t think it was a bait-and-switch to play climate songs at Folsom. Kinky people care about other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_004_BF_KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_004_BF_KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_004_BF_KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_004_BF_KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250718_CLIMATEPUNK_004_BF_KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Furious Tits fan at the Castro Night Market on Friday, July 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Brian Frank/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Furious Tits create space for concert-goers to let out their frustration and anxiety about orange sky days and flash floods, inviting them to “tenderly mosh” to their songs. “It’s been amazing to look into the mosh pit and see the audience jump and elbow each other along to a song about how golf is unsustainable,” Zoe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For drummer William Renauld, whose alias is Will Yummy, joining The Furious Tits provided him a place to “push anger and aggression” about the climate crisis out of his body and into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1978547/writing-music-about-climate-change-oakland-artist-reclaims-feminine-power\">music that has the potential to sway culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=1962210910/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s this beautiful ball of angry, horny, hilarious joy that we just get to serve up to the people who listen to our music,” Will said. “Punk can be so gloriously scrappy, and I envision a climate future where that kind of resourcefulness and that kind of resilience is gonna be an absolute necessity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The band’s first climate song, “Desperate Pleasures,” came to lead guitarist David Griswold, known as Daddy in the band, as he was pondering online dating culture and the apocalypse. 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