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"content": "\u003cp>Economists say while Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.marketplace.org/2016/06/03/world/why-trade-war-would-be-particularly-bad-california\">promises to restrict free trade\u003c/a> will be difficult to deliver on, his protectionist policies would likely hurt California more than other states since much of its economy is driven by international trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest effect is uncertainty,” said Kevin Klowden, executive director of the Milken Institute’s California Center. “We really don’t know to what’s he going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Trump threatened a 35 percent tax on cars and parts from Mexico and a 45 percent tariff on Chinese products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump could not actually do a lot of the things he wants to do,” Fred Bergsten, a senior fellow and director emeritus of the Peterson Institute, told KPCC in May. “The law permits him to raise tariffs by 15 percent for five months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump could declare a national security emergency which would allow him wider discretion to raise tariffs, but that’s generally used only in military wars, according to Bergsten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump would have the power to end NAFTA, as he has threatened to do. He called it “the worst trade deal in history.” NAFTA’s Article 2205 states that any party may withdraw from the agreement six months after providing written notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything that would disrupt trade within the North American free trade zone would have considerable consequences in California,” said Jock O’Connell, Beacon Economics’ international trade adviser. ”Mexico is our top export market and Canada is our second largest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty percent of all U.S. imports come through Southern California ports, and international trade supports an estimated 4.4 million jobs in California, according to the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-noland-trade-war-results-20161019-snap-story.html\">A study from the pro-trade Peterson Institute for International Economics\u003c/a> estimated that L.A. county would lose 176,000 jobs and Orange County 60,000 jobs by 2019 if the U.S. gets into a trade war with China and Mexico. California would lose 640,000 jobs, according to the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is a trade war or a significant cooling off in international trade, California is going to get hit,” said Klowden. “Southern California in particular is very tied in with trade with Asia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the very least, Trump’s election all but cements the death of new trade deals, the biggest of which is the Transpacific Partnership or TPP, which aside from lifting tariffs also included stricter copyright protections for companies doing business overseas. (Hillary Clinton also opposed the TPP during her campaign.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Connell said that would hurt the entertainment industry because the TPP called for tighter restrictions on foreign countries that don’t have strong penalties against bootlegged movies and albums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The industries that are most affected are those that have intellectual property rights to protect, such as music, movie and software companies,” said O’Connell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California farmers were also hoping the TPP would help open up new markets such as Japan, where they could sell rice and almonds. Forty percent of California produce is sold overseas, according to the California Department of Agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re probably going to see some harsh times with respect to international trade,” said O’Connell.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists \u003ca href=\"http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/\">agree\u003c/a> that human activities are the leading cause of steadily rising temperatures around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President-elect Donald Trump, however, has called global warming “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/412162068989874176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">bulls**t\u003c/a>” and a “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/427226424987385856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">hoax\u003c/a>,” making him soon to be one of, if not the only, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/TrumpVsWorld.pdf)\">world leader to deny the science behind climate change.\u003c/a> He’s also threatened to defund the Environmental Protection Agency and bring back the flagging coal industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, environmentalists and climate activists are alarmed by what a Trump presidency will mean for efforts to reduce human-generated emissions that are warming the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they wonder what Trump’s policies might mean for California, which is considered a pioneer in efforts to conserve the environment and fight climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump has signaled he will roll back progress on climate change at a national level\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Under the Obama administration, the United States was on track to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants as part of the Clean Power Plan. The U.S. had also signed onto the Paris climate agreement, which took effect earlier this month, and had \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/paris-climate-conference-US-IB.pdf\">pledged\u003c/a> to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent, compared to 2005 levels, by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the future of both those actions are\u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/2016/11/9/13571318/donald-trump-disaster-climate\"> in question\u003c/a>. Trump has said he wants to pull out of the Paris agreement and scrap the Clean Power Plan, while scrapping other Obama environmental regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has been working to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions since the passage of AB 32 in 2006. The state has already reached the goals envisioned under the Clean Power Plan and is on track to cut even more. The state has largely relied on a cap-and-trade program, in which regulators set limits on carbon emissions and allow polluters to buy and sell carbon permits to stay under those limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands now, the Clean Power Plan would give California opportunities to trade emissions permits with neighboring states and to be a model for them as they develop their plans to comply with the new regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the future of the Clean Power Plan is unclear under a Trump administration. The rule has been challenged in federal court. Trump could choose to no longer defend it, and he could appoint a new justice to the Supreme Court who favors overturning it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11168718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11168718\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"Emissions from the Valero Refinery in Vallejo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-1180x817.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-960x665.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-375x260.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emissions from the Valero Refinery in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California will likely continue with its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, even without the Clean Power Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, for Californians, Trump’s election means a return to the days of President George W. Bush, when the state operated largely on its own in terms of climate and environmental policy. After all, it was under the Bush administration that California passed AB 32, the first-of-its-kind climate legislation, and it did so precisely because of federal inaction on climate change, according to Cara Horowitz, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA’s law school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s climate policies are not threatened by a Trump presidency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Passed in 2006, AB 32 required California to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Since then, the state has \u003ca href=\"http://blog.ucsusa.org/adrienne-alvord/california-global-warming-solutions-act-ab-32-by-the-numbers\">reduced its emissions \u003c/a>by over 7 percent, as the population has increased by the same amount. This fall, another landmark bill deepened and extended those cuts. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB32\">SB 32 \u003c/a>commits the state to cutting emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, California has rolled out a suite of programs to help the state meet its emissions reduction goals, the most well known of which is \u003ca href=\"http://www.c2es.org/us-states-regions/key-legislation/california-cap-trade\">cap and trade\u003c/a>. Regulators slowly decrease the cap over time. Polluters who lower their emissions below the cap can make money by selling carbon credits to power plants, refineries and other polluters that can’t meet their targets. The program is meant to incentivize efforts to reduce pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump can’t overturn California’s cap-and-trade program (although it is currently embroiled in a state \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificlegal.org/cases/cap-and-trade-auction-is-an-unconstitutional-tax\">lawsuit\u003c/a> challenging its legality). Nor can he overturn SB 32.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re too committed as a state, and frankly we have too much as a state to back down on our climate policies,” said Horowitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the worst drought in half a millennium, to a long coastline vulnerable to sea level rise, to a wildfire season that is 78 days longer than it was in 1970, Californians “see the effects of climate change every day and we’re very committed to our climate policies, no matter what happens at the federal level,” Horowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who Trump appoints to head federal agencies will likely have a huge impact on California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Beyond climate, President Trump’s attitudes toward the environment will resonate most deeply in traditional environmental issues: things like clean air, clean water, endangered species, land conservation and energy development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way to tell how he’s leaning is to track who is appointed to head agencies tasked with safeguarding or developing those resources, according to Ann Notthoff, California advocacy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has surrounded himself with climate change deniers, oil industry executives, and lawmakers from fossil fuel-dependent states like North Dakota who are eager to expedite production of oil, gas and coal from federal lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11168725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11168725\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-800x496.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) confront bulldozers working on the new oil pipeline near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Donald Trump has surrounded himself with climate change deniers, oil industry executives and lawmakers from states like North Dakota who are eager to expedite production of oil, gas and coal.\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-800x496.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-1020x633.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-1180x732.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-960x596.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-240x149.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-375x233.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-520x323.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) confront bulldozers working on the new oil pipeline near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Donald Trump has surrounded himself with climate change deniers, oil industry executives and lawmakers from states like North Dakota who are eager to expedite production of oil, gas and coal. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Notthoff said she is especially keeping her eye on who Trump appoints to head the Department of Interior, which oversees agencies like the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Reclamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump himself has pledged to\u003ca href=\"https://www.adn.com/politics/2016/05/26/trump-pledges-to-back-more-oil-drilling-including-in-alaska/\"> increase oil and gas production \u003c/a>on federal land, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42432.pdf\">fell\u003c/a> under the Obama administration. That could impact California, the nation’s No. 3 oil state, where 7\u003ca href=\"http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/bakersfield/Programs/Minerals/bkfo_minerals.print.html\"> percent of oil wells are on federal land\u003c/a>, according to the BLM.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump’s EPA, in particular, will affect clean air and clean water in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump has threatened to eliminate the EPA entirely, although he recently walked back that comment, saying he wants to \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-backs-off-plan-to-eliminate-epa/article/2602581\">focus\u003c/a> the agency on ensuring clean air and water. But there are many ways to do this, some of which are top-down and regulatory, while others are more voluntary and market-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the ways the EPA has traditionally ensured clean air and drinking water is creating emissions and concentration standards that polluters have to meet, enforcing them with penalties, and passing stricter ones over time. Horowitz worries a Trump EPA will let that approach slide, becoming business- and industry-friendly at the expense of public health. “It’s very clear he’s one of those Republicans who sees environmental protection and business interests at odd with each other, as opposed to things that can and should co-exist,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is legally allowed to pass state standards that are stricter than federal ones, but Horowitz says that’s difficult. “Without a really robust federal partner, we could see California’s progress on air quality slipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California benefits from federal support for renewable energy, which a Republican-controlled Congress could cut off\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last December, lawmakers \u003ca href=\"http://https//www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/breaking-house-passes-1.1-trillion-spending-bill-with-renewable-energy-tax\">cut a deal\u003c/a> to extend federal tax credits for the wind and solar industries through 2017 and 2019 respectively. The deal would need congressional approval to be extended. And it could even be cut off prematurely, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/breaking--bad-news-for-us-solar-as-donald-trump-becomes-president-elect_100026842/#axzz4PYMuA4Ui\">writes solar energy columnist \u003c/a>Christian Roselund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has previously expressed his distaste for federal subsidies for clean energy. According to a memo released in late October, Trump pledged to “cancel all wasteful climate spending,” according to the Washington Post. Investors are clearly already worried: \u003ca href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/solar-stocks-tank-and-lead-broader-energy-sector-lower-2016-11-09.\">Solar stocks plunged\u003c/a> following news he had won the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has huge implications for California, which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=24852\">nearly half \u003c/a>of the solar power generation in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Subsidies at the federal level can all have a role to play in how effectively we deploy clean energy, how much it competes on a playing field with fossil fuels,” Notthoff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as with climate change policy, state policies encouraging solar development will not be affected by this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s newly minted National Monuments likely to stay in place\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Antiquities Act, President Obama created a number of national monuments in California in the past eight years, including the San Gabriel Mountain National Monument in 2014. Experts say it’s highly unlikely that President Trump would reverse those designations because they’ve mostly received bipartisan support, and it’s unclear the Antiquities Act allows presidents to strip monument designations from locations that already have it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists \u003ca href=\"http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/\">agree\u003c/a> that human activities are the leading cause of steadily rising temperatures around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President-elect Donald Trump, however, has called global warming “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/412162068989874176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">bulls**t\u003c/a>” and a “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/427226424987385856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">hoax\u003c/a>,” making him soon to be one of, if not the only, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/TrumpVsWorld.pdf)\">world leader to deny the science behind climate change.\u003c/a> He’s also threatened to defund the Environmental Protection Agency and bring back the flagging coal industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not surprisingly, environmentalists and climate activists are alarmed by what a Trump presidency will mean for efforts to reduce human-generated emissions that are warming the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they wonder what Trump’s policies might mean for California, which is considered a pioneer in efforts to conserve the environment and fight climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump has signaled he will roll back progress on climate change at a national level\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Under the Obama administration, the United States was on track to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants as part of the Clean Power Plan. The U.S. had also signed onto the Paris climate agreement, which took effect earlier this month, and had \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/paris-climate-conference-US-IB.pdf\">pledged\u003c/a> to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent, compared to 2005 levels, by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the future of both those actions are\u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/2016/11/9/13571318/donald-trump-disaster-climate\"> in question\u003c/a>. Trump has said he wants to pull out of the Paris agreement and scrap the Clean Power Plan, while scrapping other Obama environmental regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has been working to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions since the passage of AB 32 in 2006. The state has already reached the goals envisioned under the Clean Power Plan and is on track to cut even more. The state has largely relied on a cap-and-trade program, in which regulators set limits on carbon emissions and allow polluters to buy and sell carbon permits to stay under those limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands now, the Clean Power Plan would give California opportunities to trade emissions permits with neighboring states and to be a model for them as they develop their plans to comply with the new regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the future of the Clean Power Plan is unclear under a Trump administration. The rule has been challenged in federal court. Trump could choose to no longer defend it, and he could appoint a new justice to the Supreme Court who favors overturning it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11168718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11168718\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"Emissions from the Valero Refinery in Vallejo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-1180x817.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-960x665.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-375x260.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/VallejoRefinery-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emissions from the Valero Refinery in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California will likely continue with its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, even without the Clean Power Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, for Californians, Trump’s election means a return to the days of President George W. Bush, when the state operated largely on its own in terms of climate and environmental policy. After all, it was under the Bush administration that California passed AB 32, the first-of-its-kind climate legislation, and it did so precisely because of federal inaction on climate change, according to Cara Horowitz, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA’s law school.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California’s climate policies are not threatened by a Trump presidency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Passed in 2006, AB 32 required California to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Since then, the state has \u003ca href=\"http://blog.ucsusa.org/adrienne-alvord/california-global-warming-solutions-act-ab-32-by-the-numbers\">reduced its emissions \u003c/a>by over 7 percent, as the population has increased by the same amount. This fall, another landmark bill deepened and extended those cuts. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB32\">SB 32 \u003c/a>commits the state to cutting emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, California has rolled out a suite of programs to help the state meet its emissions reduction goals, the most well known of which is \u003ca href=\"http://www.c2es.org/us-states-regions/key-legislation/california-cap-trade\">cap and trade\u003c/a>. Regulators slowly decrease the cap over time. Polluters who lower their emissions below the cap can make money by selling carbon credits to power plants, refineries and other polluters that can’t meet their targets. The program is meant to incentivize efforts to reduce pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump can’t overturn California’s cap-and-trade program (although it is currently embroiled in a state \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificlegal.org/cases/cap-and-trade-auction-is-an-unconstitutional-tax\">lawsuit\u003c/a> challenging its legality). Nor can he overturn SB 32.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re too committed as a state, and frankly we have too much as a state to back down on our climate policies,” said Horowitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the worst drought in half a millennium, to a long coastline vulnerable to sea level rise, to a wildfire season that is 78 days longer than it was in 1970, Californians “see the effects of climate change every day and we’re very committed to our climate policies, no matter what happens at the federal level,” Horowitz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who Trump appoints to head federal agencies will likely have a huge impact on California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Beyond climate, President Trump’s attitudes toward the environment will resonate most deeply in traditional environmental issues: things like clean air, clean water, endangered species, land conservation and energy development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way to tell how he’s leaning is to track who is appointed to head agencies tasked with safeguarding or developing those resources, according to Ann Notthoff, California advocacy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has surrounded himself with climate change deniers, oil industry executives, and lawmakers from fossil fuel-dependent states like North Dakota who are eager to expedite production of oil, gas and coal from federal lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11168725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11168725\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-800x496.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) confront bulldozers working on the new oil pipeline near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Donald Trump has surrounded himself with climate change deniers, oil industry executives and lawmakers from states like North Dakota who are eager to expedite production of oil, gas and coal.\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-800x496.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-1020x633.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-1180x732.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-960x596.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-240x149.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-375x233.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DaplDozers-520x323.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) confront bulldozers working on the new oil pipeline near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Donald Trump has surrounded himself with climate change deniers, oil industry executives and lawmakers from states like North Dakota who are eager to expedite production of oil, gas and coal. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Notthoff said she is especially keeping her eye on who Trump appoints to head the Department of Interior, which oversees agencies like the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Reclamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump himself has pledged to\u003ca href=\"https://www.adn.com/politics/2016/05/26/trump-pledges-to-back-more-oil-drilling-including-in-alaska/\"> increase oil and gas production \u003c/a>on federal land, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42432.pdf\">fell\u003c/a> under the Obama administration. That could impact California, the nation’s No. 3 oil state, where 7\u003ca href=\"http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/bakersfield/Programs/Minerals/bkfo_minerals.print.html\"> percent of oil wells are on federal land\u003c/a>, according to the BLM.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump’s EPA, in particular, will affect clean air and clean water in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump has threatened to eliminate the EPA entirely, although he recently walked back that comment, saying he wants to \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-backs-off-plan-to-eliminate-epa/article/2602581\">focus\u003c/a> the agency on ensuring clean air and water. But there are many ways to do this, some of which are top-down and regulatory, while others are more voluntary and market-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the ways the EPA has traditionally ensured clean air and drinking water is creating emissions and concentration standards that polluters have to meet, enforcing them with penalties, and passing stricter ones over time. Horowitz worries a Trump EPA will let that approach slide, becoming business- and industry-friendly at the expense of public health. “It’s very clear he’s one of those Republicans who sees environmental protection and business interests at odd with each other, as opposed to things that can and should co-exist,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is legally allowed to pass state standards that are stricter than federal ones, but Horowitz says that’s difficult. “Without a really robust federal partner, we could see California’s progress on air quality slipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California benefits from federal support for renewable energy, which a Republican-controlled Congress could cut off\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last December, lawmakers \u003ca href=\"http://https//www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/breaking-house-passes-1.1-trillion-spending-bill-with-renewable-energy-tax\">cut a deal\u003c/a> to extend federal tax credits for the wind and solar industries through 2017 and 2019 respectively. The deal would need congressional approval to be extended. And it could even be cut off prematurely, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/breaking--bad-news-for-us-solar-as-donald-trump-becomes-president-elect_100026842/#axzz4PYMuA4Ui\">writes solar energy columnist \u003c/a>Christian Roselund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has previously expressed his distaste for federal subsidies for clean energy. According to a memo released in late October, Trump pledged to “cancel all wasteful climate spending,” according to the Washington Post. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dozens of people were arrested overnight after demonstrators poured onto the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles, backing up traffic for miles, in protest of the presidential election of Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 3,000 people turned out at City Hall downtown before the demonstration moved down the road and eventually onto the freeway, according to Los Angeles police Lt. Chris Ramirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters stayed there for most of an hour, with drivers sitting and waiting and many getting out of their cars, the Associated Press reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though demonstrations were largely peaceful, protesters grew more aggressive and violent as the evening wore on, Ramirez told KPCC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11168467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101Confrontation-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Police arrest demonstrators after they shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles on Wednesday night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11168467\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101Confrontation-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101Confrontation-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101Confrontation-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101Confrontation.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101Confrontation-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101Confrontation-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101Confrontation-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101Confrontation-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101Confrontation-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police arrest demonstrators after they shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. \u003ccite>(RINGO CHIU/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ramirez said there were reports of protesters throwing rocks and bottles at police, along with vandalism of some city buildings and at least one police car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti issued a statement saying he was proud that protests had remained mostly peaceful, but he urged everyone to put safety first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"tZSeLJAb14X1o2owUDZgI5hjyPMpJqLb\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that the results of Tuesday’s election are painful for many of us, and this kind of engagement can be a meaningful part of the healing we need after such a long and divisive campaign,” Garcetti said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But walking and throwing objects onto freeways is dangerous for pedestrians and drivers — and it puts a heavy burden on people just trying make it home to their families or get to work safely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11168472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-800x479.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters (R) confront a line of police as they shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles Wednesday night. \" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11168472\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-800x479.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-1020x611.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-1180x707.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-960x575.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-240x144.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-375x225.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-520x311.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters (R) confront a line of police as they shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles Wednesday night. \u003ccite>(RINGO CHIU/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the crowd moved onto the freeway, the LAPD and the California Highway Patrol issued an order to disperse and eventually began arresting anyone who failed to comply, Ramirez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photos from the scene showed officers in full tactical gear, with protesters squaring off against police. About 28 people were arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11168552\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman yells at a police officer as protesters shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles on Wednesday night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11168552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman yells at a police officer as protesters shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ramirez said people have the right to protest, as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else or threaten public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it’s unannounced and it goes onto public highways like the freeway, where it can be hazardous not only to the motorists but to the public, that’s when it becomes illegal,” Ramirez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11168478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"A protester (foreground) confronts a police officer as demonstrators shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles Wednesday night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11168478\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-1180x823.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-960x670.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester (foreground) confronts a police officer as demonstrators shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles Wednesday night. \u003ccite>(RINGO CHIU/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The anti-Trump demonstrations started Wednesday afternoon and ran into the night, with protesters shouting “not my president” and “immigrants welcome here.” At one point, \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/AnnieGilbertson/status/796562202056495104\">a giant effigy of Trump’s head was burned on the steps of City Hall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My marriage might not be legit anymore, because of him. My health care might not be accessible anymore because of him,” said Boyle Heights resident Jayden Bedard. He told KPCC he’s worried about the effect the Trump presidency could have on the Supreme Court and Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11168536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters walk back up a freeway onramp amid a chaotic traffic situation with the shutdown of the freeway in downtown Los Angeles after midnight early on November 10, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11168536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-960x627.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-520x340.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters walk back up a freeway onramp amid a chaotic traffic situation with the shutdown of the freeway in downtown Los Angeles after midnight early on November 10, 2016. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The demonstrators were among thousands who took to the streets in protest of Trump across the country, from New York to Texas to much of the West Coast, according to AP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/articles/11167470/night-2-of-anti-trump-protests-in-east-bay-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">About 7,000 people gathered in downtown Oakland\u003c/a>, while another big crowd marched up San Francisco’s Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protests in Santa Ana also turned rowdy. An estimated 650 demonstrators marched to Bristol Street and McFadden Avenue, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-downtown-la-trump-protests-20161109-htmlstory.html\">according to the LA Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A brick was thrown into a police cruiser, two other vehicles were damaged and two businesses were vandalized, said Santa Ana police Cmdr. Phil Craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers fired bean bags to disperse the crowd, and 10 people were arrested, he said. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department assisted police with the crowd, officials said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Ramirez told KPCC he was not aware of any other protests planned for Thursday, but he said in L.A. demonstrations can pop up without much notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti issued a statement saying he was proud that protests had remained mostly peaceful, but he urged everyone to put safety first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that the results of Tuesday’s election are painful for many of us, and this kind of engagement can be a meaningful part of the healing we need after such a long and divisive campaign,” Garcetti said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But walking and throwing objects onto freeways is dangerous for pedestrians and drivers — and it puts a heavy burden on people just trying make it home to their families or get to work safely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11168472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-800x479.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters (R) confront a line of police as they shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles Wednesday night. \" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11168472\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-800x479.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-1020x611.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-1180x707.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-960x575.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-240x144.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-375x225.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/101FreewayLine-520x311.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters (R) confront a line of police as they shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles Wednesday night. \u003ccite>(RINGO CHIU/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the crowd moved onto the freeway, the LAPD and the California Highway Patrol issued an order to disperse and eventually began arresting anyone who failed to comply, Ramirez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photos from the scene showed officers in full tactical gear, with protesters squaring off against police. About 28 people were arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11168552\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman yells at a police officer as protesters shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles on Wednesday night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11168552\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BatonFreeway-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman yells at a police officer as protesters shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ramirez said people have the right to protest, as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else or threaten public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it’s unannounced and it goes onto public highways like the freeway, where it can be hazardous not only to the motorists but to the public, that’s when it becomes illegal,” Ramirez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11168478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"A protester (foreground) confronts a police officer as demonstrators shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles Wednesday night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11168478\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-1180x823.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-960x670.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/YellingCop-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester (foreground) confronts a police officer as demonstrators shut down the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles Wednesday night. \u003ccite>(RINGO CHIU/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The anti-Trump demonstrations started Wednesday afternoon and ran into the night, with protesters shouting “not my president” and “immigrants welcome here.” At one point, \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/AnnieGilbertson/status/796562202056495104\">a giant effigy of Trump’s head was burned on the steps of City Hall\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My marriage might not be legit anymore, because of him. My health care might not be accessible anymore because of him,” said Boyle Heights resident Jayden Bedard. He told KPCC he’s worried about the effect the Trump presidency could have on the Supreme Court and Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11168536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters walk back up a freeway onramp amid a chaotic traffic situation with the shutdown of the freeway in downtown Los Angeles after midnight early on November 10, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11168536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-960x627.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/OnRampGroup-520x340.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters walk back up a freeway onramp amid a chaotic traffic situation with the shutdown of the freeway in downtown Los Angeles after midnight early on November 10, 2016. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The demonstrators were among thousands who took to the streets in protest of Trump across the country, from New York to Texas to much of the West Coast, according to AP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/articles/11167470/night-2-of-anti-trump-protests-in-east-bay-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">About 7,000 people gathered in downtown Oakland\u003c/a>, while another big crowd marched up San Francisco’s Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protests in Santa Ana also turned rowdy. An estimated 650 demonstrators marched to Bristol Street and McFadden Avenue, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-downtown-la-trump-protests-20161109-htmlstory.html\">according to the LA Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A brick was thrown into a police cruiser, two other vehicles were damaged and two businesses were vandalized, said Santa Ana police Cmdr. Phil Craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers fired bean bags to disperse the crowd, and 10 people were arrested, he said. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department assisted police with the crowd, officials said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Ramirez told KPCC he was not aware of any other protests planned for Thursday, but he said in L.A. demonstrations can pop up without much notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California voters have a decision to make on the general election ballot: approve $9 billion in bonds for school and community college construction projects and modernization, or reject it to avoid adding to the state debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters appear split on the measure known as \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2014/info/proposition-51\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 51\u003c/a>. The Public Policy Institute of California found in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_916MBS.pdf\">September survey\u003c/a> that 47 percent of likely voters polled support the measure while 43 percent oppose it. The proposition will need a simple majority to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291322952\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third-grader Jade Rosa likely doesn't know anything about the forces aligning for and against Proposition 51. She and her classmates do know that theirs is a portable classroom at Felton Elementary School in Lennox, just a few minutes from the Los Angeles International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent visit, Jade had just finished a math test, and was taking a break to work on a coloring project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m drawing Seedot,\" she said. \"It’s a Pokemon, he’s really cute.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All seems normal in Jade's classroom until you step outside and hear the roar of the jet engines overhead. Unlike other buildings on campus, these portables don't have sound protection and some of the noise filters into the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jade's classroom also doesn’t have any natural light. The windows have been blocked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are covered, there's like a board on the outside part that covers it. I'm not exactly sure how that was made,\"said Elizabeth Franco, Jade's teacher. \"It's always been like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franco said in her 14 years of teaching, she’s never had a classroom with a window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s almost like, just that’s the way it is. I’ve never experienced anything else,\" Franco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11156830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11156830\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Portable classroom buildings at Felton Elementary School in Lennox, California, near LAX have boarded up windows for security and to dampen overhead airplane noise. School officials say some of the portables were brought in as temporary structures but have not been replaced by permanent buildings for decades.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-960x717.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-240x179.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-375x280.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Classrooms-520x388.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portable classroom buildings at Felton Elementary School in Lennox, California, near LAX have boarded-up windows for security and to dampen overhead airplane noise. School officials say some of the portables were brought in as temporary structures but have not been replaced by permanent buildings for decades. \u003ccite>(Michale Pompa/Felton Elementary School)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kent Taylor, superintendent of the Lennox School District of which Felton Elementary is a part, said the windows are blocked for security reasons, but it also serves as a way to dampen the airplane noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district doesn't have the funds to soundproof the portable buildings, according to Taylor. The permanent classrooms are eligible for special funding that the temporary buildings don't qualify for. All of this creates an equity problem, he said. Some kids get to learn in quiet rooms, others don't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, Proposition 51 will authorize $9 billion in general obligation bonds for new construction and improvement projects at K-12 schools, community colleges and vocational and charter schools. For Taylor, that means replacing portable buildings with permanent ones and upgrading his district's aging school infrastructure. Several schools in the district are more than 50 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So if we get another $10 million because of Prop. 51, we’re so excited,\" he said as he talked over the plane noise. \"It doesn’t meet all of our needs, but it certainly helps our students so much. So we’re encouraging the voters: please think about our kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school's principal, Norma Martinez, said kids in more affluent communities don't have to deal with portables at their schools as frequently as those in less affluent areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's definitely a concern for me,\" she said. \"I would prefer that all kids have equal access.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 51 has an army of supporters — many with deep pockets, like well-known housing developers such as Brookfield, KB Home and Shea Homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson is among the measure's backers. He's been appearing at events around California in support of the measure. Relying entirely on local districts for facility funding, according to Torlakson, takes away from money that can be spent directly on learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been a tradition of state partnership with local school districts that goes back decades, so the state has always been a partner,\" he said. \"It's worked. The state should step up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, more than $11 million has been raised in support of the bond measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe frameborder=\"no\" height=\"555px\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http://162.243.135.6/elections/latest/measure-finance/proposition-51/index.html\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the measure also has high-profile opposition, notably from California Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a blunderbuss effort that promotes sprawl and squanders money that would be far better spent in low-income communities,\" the governor said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office estimates that the state will pay about $17.6 billion to pay off principal and interest on the bonds, or about $500 million annually for 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several newspapers, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-proposition-51-20160921-snap-story.html\">the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/school-732118-costs-state.html\">Orange County Register\u003c/a>, have recommended voters reject the measure, arguing in part that Proposition 51 locks in rules for developers that don’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>G. Rick Marshall, with the California Taxpayers Action Network, helped write the arguments against the measure in the \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/\">state’s voter information guide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All this does is add to the state debt,\" Marshall said. \"And it brings a one-size-fits-all program to school districts, when you have local bond money the locals decide what to do with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes, according to Marshall, developers will benefit. Proposition 51 would prevent changes to the fee structure they pay when they build new housing developments that need schools, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 51 opponents also argue that larger, more organized school districts will be first in line to dip into the pot since, unlike some smaller districts, they have the staff to speedily apply for the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents like Marshall also want to see school districts use local sources of funding rather than new state bond money to build and improve schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think that by providing new construction money, you’re going to encourage schools to build buildings that they don’t need,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, more than 100 school districts, including Lennox, have placed local bond measures on the November ballot. Many hope to raise matching funds to take advantage of Proposition 51, if it passes, since some local share is usually required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although many districts have real needs, Proposition 51 would come at a price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Felton Elementary, school officials are hoping a day will come when all students can learn in quiet classrooms free of the noise from the airplanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Jade and other third-graders will be well into their 40s by the time the state pays off the bonds in about 2053.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/cacounts/\">California Counts\u003c/a> is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Cordova said the campaign emphasizes nonviolence in its messaging to its volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said recent events, like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/10/26/65789/donald-trump-s-destroyed-hollywood-star-is-already/\">damage to Trump’s star\u003c/a> on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, have some on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re careful about our volunteers, to make sure we don’t put them in harm’s way ... it is a concern,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others worry Trump’s rhetoric may spur \u003cem>his\u003c/em> supporters into violence. Several of Trump events, including a \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/04/28/60110/protests-outside-trump-rally-close-streets-in-cost/\">rally he held in Costa Mesa\u003c/a> in April, have turned violent with supporters or protesters clashing with police or each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, hundreds of nonpartisan volunteers will also be monitoring polling locations in California on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.advancingjustice-la.org/\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice California\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan group that advocates for Asians and voting rights, plans to send 600 trained volunteers to polling places in 25 counties, including Riverside and Orange, to help voters with limited English proficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the group also said volunteers will be on the lookout for voters who are \"intimidated or harassed, and if voters are being asked to show identification inappropriately, among other issues,” Deanna Kitamura, the group's Voting Rights Project director, stated in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our monitors observe or report any major issues, we will be in immediate contact with election officials on Election Day. 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"content": "\u003cp>California is now home to the nation's first large-scale program to help transgender people find jobs. The goal of the new California Transgender Workplace Project is to eat away at the unemployment rate for trans people, which is \u003ca href=\"http://www.lgbtmap.org/unfair-price-transgender\">twice the rate\u003c/a> of other Americans. The numbers are even worse for trans people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project will place trans job seekers into entry-level positions at restaurants throughout the state, in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"http://events.calrest.org/events/WFHE-The-New-Normal!-Trans-Inclusivity-in-the-Workplace-3174/details\">California Restaurant Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/494102719/498504431/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an incentive to owners and managers, the first 60 hours of a new hire's wages will be paid for through a $150,000 grant from the California Workforce Development Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is all because of \u003ca href=\"http://michaelaspeaks.com/\">Michaela Mendelsohn\u003c/a>, a trans woman who has employed trans people at her restaurants for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'The customer’s always right ... unless they attack you personally.'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The El Pollo Loco at South Western Avenue and Venice Boulevard was all hands on deck one recent afternoon. Even though the lunch rush ended hours ago, workers were frantically running around filling orders, chopping onions and searing hundreds of pieces of chicken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three of those workers rushing behind the counter were trans, including Delaney Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like it's a supportive atmosphere,\" she says. Small gestures like being called what she wishes, instead of what may currently be on official documents, meant the world to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm able to have my name tag as I wish, and I just feel more comfortable,\" says Martinez. \"With being comfortable, I can give better service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This restaurant is the first El Pollo Loco owned by Michaela Mendelsohn. She opened it in 1988, and it's one of six locations she currently owns in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085597\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Michaela Mendelsohn is a transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman. Mendelsohn stands inside an El Pollo Loco franchise she owns on July 14, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michaela Mendelsohn is a transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman. Mendelsohn stands inside an El Pollo Loco franchise she owns on July 14, 2016. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn says she fosters an atmosphere in which she backs her trans employees despite what customers might say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know you always hear the thing, 'The customer’s always right,' \" she says. \"In my restaurants, the customer’s always right unless they attack you personally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'The word’s just gotten out that I’m a trans owner supporting trans people.'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn transitioned in 2005, taking a year away from work and without saying a word to her employees or other franchise owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They thought I was dying of cancer because they just assumed, ‘Well, he just disappeared. He’s sick,' \" she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she reintroduced herself to her staff and colleagues, she braced for the worst. All she got was love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The franchisees basically lined up for hours to give me a hug and wish me well,\" Mendelsohn remembers of the first conference as Michaela with other El Pollo Loco franchise owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a holiday party for her own staff, she didn't hear a nasty remark, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m the boss, so no one’s saying it to my face,\" she smirks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I considered myself as somebody who had my head in the sand when it comes to what they’re really going through. ... This is a civil rights issue.'\u003ccite>Jot Condie, president of the California Restaurant Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She was the only trans person in her restaurants for years, however, until 2012 when she hired her first trans employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That person told Mendelsohn of the troubles she had securing entry-level jobs at many places. She was mysteriously told during interviews that there were no open positions, and recalled how hiring managers would laugh or scoff when she entered the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn was profoundly affected, and began collaborating with the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the TransLatin@ Coalition to find other out-of-work trans people and to offer them jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The word’s just gotten out that I’m a trans owner supporting trans people,\" she says, estimating about 8 to 10 percent of her 150 employees are trans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085600\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"A month ago, Delaney Martinez started working at this El Pollo Loco owned by transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman Michaela Mendelsohn. Martinez met Mendelsohn at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-400x257.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-960x617.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A month ago, Delaney Martinez started working at this El Pollo Loco owned by transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman Michaela Mendelsohn. Martinez met Mendelsohn at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Caitlyn Jenner and North Carolina's Bathroom Bill Helped the Cause\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn batted around the idea for years of how to expand the success of her work into something bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She got that chance this year when the public awareness of trans issues grew to an all-time high, both with the transition of Caitlyn Jenner and the acrimonious fight over \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/09/477316001/deadline-approaches-for-north-carolinas-response-on-lgbt-law\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina's law\u003c/a> that restricted which bathrooms trans people could use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So several months ago, Mendelsohn met up with her colleagues at the California Restaurant Association, one of the biggest state industry groups for restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hotel bar, she chatted up her longtime friend and head of the association, Jot Condie, about the difficulties that trans people face in the work world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also invited him to meet with trans people at the Los Angeles LGBT Center who were desperate for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I considered myself as somebody who had my head in the sand when it comes to what they’re really going through,\" says Condie. \"This is a civil rights issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Mendelsohn floated her ambitious idea to Condie: Help her back a jobs program that would secure jobs for trans people at restaurants. The benefit to owners and managers would be a new worker, which are in desperate need right now because of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.franchisetimes.com/February-2015/Where-have-all-the-workers-gone-Restaurants-see-shortage/\">nationwide labor shortage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's tougher than in the past 12 years to find employees,\" says Mendelsohn. \"We can’t afford, as restaurateurs, to exclude qualified employees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also collaborated with the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the TransLatin@ Coalition and more organizations to be a part of this program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she just needed to sell other restaurants on the idea, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Restaurants' First Taste of the New Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo is one of the biggest trade shows in the country for restaurants, with more than 10,000 attendees at this year's event in late August at the L.A. Convention Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085603\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FoodExpo-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees sample the offerings at the Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo at the L.A. Convention Center on August 30, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FoodExpo-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FoodExpo-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FoodExpo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FoodExpo-1180x810.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FoodExpo-960x659.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees sample the offerings at the Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo at the L.A. Convention Center on Aug. 30, 2016. \u003ccite>(Leo Duran/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Restaurant Association sponsors the expo, and it used the gathering as an opportunity to host the first of six seminars for its members interested in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant owners and managers would need to attend at least one of the sessions being held throughout the state in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They'll learn how to apply, the issues that trans people face in the workplace and how to support their trans staff – call it \"Trans 101.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trans people are vulnerable when we come into the workplace,\" Drian Juarez, from the Los Angeles LGBT Center, told the room. \"If somebody makes fun of us, we may not have the wherewithal to stand up for ourselves because we don't want to jeopardize our jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone believes it's the right thing to do right now, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expo attendee Grant Theim said he believes everyone should have a right to a job no matter who they are, but that other Americans might not be ready for this idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I still think that there’s a majority of people out there that might have a problem with being served by somebody that’s transgender,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085605\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Michaela Mendelsohn, a trans businesswoman, speaks before a seminar at the Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo at the L.A. Convention Center on August 30, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2-1180x728.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2-960x593.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michaela Mendelsohn, a trans businesswoman, speaks before a seminar at the Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo at the L.A. Convention Center on August 30, 2016. \u003ccite>(Leo Duran/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Mendelsohn told the seminar that her restaurants are a good example of how that's not necessarily true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The customer compliments on our transgender employees started coming in. Lots of compliments,\" she says, \"and our stores have consistently climbed in sales.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drian Juarez also says that a growing number of industries are welcoming trans people into their workforce, and are writing LGBT-friendly guidelines into their HR handbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You will always have people who don't like trans people for whatever reason,\" she says, \"but it's not about changing that person. It's about getting them to a place where they understand that when you're at home you can believe whatever you want. But when you're in the workplace, you will follow the law and treat everyone with respect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn and the association say they hope their effort will convince other industries around the country to follow their lead, and that it will be a great encouragement for trans people to head back into the job market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I promise a trans person a level playing field,\" says Mendelsohn. \"I don't promise them a bed of roses. They're going to need to work hard like everyone else.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'The customer’s always right ... unless they attack you personally.'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The El Pollo Loco at South Western Avenue and Venice Boulevard was all hands on deck one recent afternoon. Even though the lunch rush ended hours ago, workers were frantically running around filling orders, chopping onions and searing hundreds of pieces of chicken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three of those workers rushing behind the counter were trans, including Delaney Martinez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like it's a supportive atmosphere,\" she says. Small gestures like being called what she wishes, instead of what may currently be on official documents, meant the world to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm able to have my name tag as I wish, and I just feel more comfortable,\" says Martinez. \"With being comfortable, I can give better service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This restaurant is the first El Pollo Loco owned by Michaela Mendelsohn. She opened it in 1988, and it's one of six locations she currently owns in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085597\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Michaela Mendelsohn is a transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman. Mendelsohn stands inside an El Pollo Loco franchise she owns on July 14, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michaela Mendelsohn is a transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman. Mendelsohn stands inside an El Pollo Loco franchise she owns on July 14, 2016. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn says she fosters an atmosphere in which she backs her trans employees despite what customers might say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know you always hear the thing, 'The customer’s always right,' \" she says. \"In my restaurants, the customer’s always right unless they attack you personally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'The word’s just gotten out that I’m a trans owner supporting trans people.'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn transitioned in 2005, taking a year away from work and without saying a word to her employees or other franchise owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They thought I was dying of cancer because they just assumed, ‘Well, he just disappeared. He’s sick,' \" she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she reintroduced herself to her staff and colleagues, she braced for the worst. All she got was love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The franchisees basically lined up for hours to give me a hug and wish me well,\" Mendelsohn remembers of the first conference as Michaela with other El Pollo Loco franchise owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a holiday party for her own staff, she didn't hear a nasty remark, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m the boss, so no one’s saying it to my face,\" she smirks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I considered myself as somebody who had my head in the sand when it comes to what they’re really going through. ... This is a civil rights issue.'\u003ccite>Jot Condie, president of the California Restaurant Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She was the only trans person in her restaurants for years, however, until 2012 when she hired her first trans employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That person told Mendelsohn of the troubles she had securing entry-level jobs at many places. She was mysteriously told during interviews that there were no open positions, and recalled how hiring managers would laugh or scoff when she entered the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn was profoundly affected, and began collaborating with the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the TransLatin@ Coalition to find other out-of-work trans people and to offer them jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The word’s just gotten out that I’m a trans owner supporting trans people,\" she says, estimating about 8 to 10 percent of her 150 employees are trans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085600\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"A month ago, Delaney Martinez started working at this El Pollo Loco owned by transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman Michaela Mendelsohn. Martinez met Mendelsohn at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-400x257.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Delaney-960x617.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A month ago, Delaney Martinez started working at this El Pollo Loco owned by transgender activist, public speaker and businesswoman Michaela Mendelsohn. Martinez met Mendelsohn at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Caitlyn Jenner and North Carolina's Bathroom Bill Helped the Cause\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn batted around the idea for years of how to expand the success of her work into something bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She got that chance this year when the public awareness of trans issues grew to an all-time high, both with the transition of Caitlyn Jenner and the acrimonious fight over \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/09/477316001/deadline-approaches-for-north-carolinas-response-on-lgbt-law\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina's law\u003c/a> that restricted which bathrooms trans people could use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So several months ago, Mendelsohn met up with her colleagues at the California Restaurant Association, one of the biggest state industry groups for restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hotel bar, she chatted up her longtime friend and head of the association, Jot Condie, about the difficulties that trans people face in the work world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also invited him to meet with trans people at the Los Angeles LGBT Center who were desperate for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort paid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I considered myself as somebody who had my head in the sand when it comes to what they’re really going through,\" says Condie. \"This is a civil rights issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Mendelsohn floated her ambitious idea to Condie: Help her back a jobs program that would secure jobs for trans people at restaurants. The benefit to owners and managers would be a new worker, which are in desperate need right now because of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.franchisetimes.com/February-2015/Where-have-all-the-workers-gone-Restaurants-see-shortage/\">nationwide labor shortage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's tougher than in the past 12 years to find employees,\" says Mendelsohn. \"We can’t afford, as restaurateurs, to exclude qualified employees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also collaborated with the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the TransLatin@ Coalition and more organizations to be a part of this program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she just needed to sell other restaurants on the idea, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Restaurants' First Taste of the New Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo is one of the biggest trade shows in the country for restaurants, with more than 10,000 attendees at this year's event in late August at the L.A. 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Convention Center on Aug. 30, 2016. \u003ccite>(Leo Duran/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Restaurant Association sponsors the expo, and it used the gathering as an opportunity to host the first of six seminars for its members interested in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant owners and managers would need to attend at least one of the sessions being held throughout the state in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They'll learn how to apply, the issues that trans people face in the workplace and how to support their trans staff – call it \"Trans 101.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trans people are vulnerable when we come into the workplace,\" Drian Juarez, from the Los Angeles LGBT Center, told the room. \"If somebody makes fun of us, we may not have the wherewithal to stand up for ourselves because we don't want to jeopardize our jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone believes it's the right thing to do right now, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expo attendee Grant Theim said he believes everyone should have a right to a job no matter who they are, but that other Americans might not be ready for this idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I still think that there’s a majority of people out there that might have a problem with being served by somebody that’s transgender,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11085605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11085605\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Michaela2-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Michaela Mendelsohn, a trans businesswoman, speaks before a seminar at the Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo at the L.A. 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Lots of compliments,\" she says, \"and our stores have consistently climbed in sales.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drian Juarez also says that a growing number of industries are welcoming trans people into their workforce, and are writing LGBT-friendly guidelines into their HR handbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You will always have people who don't like trans people for whatever reason,\" she says, \"but it's not about changing that person. It's about getting them to a place where they understand that when you're at home you can believe whatever you want. But when you're in the workplace, you will follow the law and treat everyone with respect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendelsohn and the association say they hope their effort will convince other industries around the country to follow their lead, and that it will be a great encouragement for trans people to head back into the job market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles County's growing homeless population includes one group that’s not so visible: immigrants who came to the United States to earn a better living but couldn’t, and are ending up without shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On any given day at a Cypress Park Community Job Center, located in the parking lot of a busy Home Depot, some of the day laborers waiting for work don't have a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them are staying on the streets,\" said Luis Valentan, who manages the day labor center, which is run by Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California, \u003ca href=\"http://idepsca.org/\">a community nonprofit\u003c/a>. \"We know a couple of workers that sleep in the back of a truck or under a bridge, or in a park,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/284292368\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the day laborers is a 51-year-old man who goes by Alonso. He did not want to use his full name because he doesn't have legal status and he does not want this family to know he's homeless. He said he's been that way for about four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sleep on the street, not in the open street, but someplace where I have a tent,\" said Alonso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso said he camps high up in Elysian Park, about a 15-minute walk from the Home Depot. He shows up for work looking clean and presentable. He said he tries to use public showers when he can, but other times, washes in the L.A. River or in the nearby Arroyo Seco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. ... There are no more decent rents.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I bathe when it rains and it is clean,\" he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso has struggled since the recession. Until about four years ago, he was able to rent a room nearby. But the work dried up, and the money wasn't enough. He stopped sending money home to his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who came to the U.S. to find work have found themselves on similar footing, Valentan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more about survival,\" Valentan said. \"This gentrification that is happening in Los Angeles, it is leaving pretty much everybody without opportunities. Like rents are very expensive now. There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. There are no more decent rents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11100566 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established The Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-960x635.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established the Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lately, Valentan and the job center staff have referred a growing number of workers to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dolores-mission.org/\">Dolores Mission\u003c/a> in Boyle Heights. The shelter is unique in that it caters to Spanish-speaking immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, we have seen a huge increase in the number of people coming to us, and newly homeless, since 2009,\" said Cynthia Sanchez, director of Proyecto Pastoral, the nonprofit that runs the shelter at Dolores Mission Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church shelter first opened its doors nearly 30 years ago to house refugees fleeing war-torn Central America. Now, it shelters a different crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of them are day laborers. They work in construction or they work in restaurants, they work in landscaping,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep inside the church sanctuary and several others sleep in adjacent buildings. A smaller women's shelter opened a year and a half ago, housing mostly older women who work in domestic jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those who wind up on the street are single men, Sanchez said. They are here on their own, without families in the U.S., and often send money back home to relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Shadow' Population\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others who work with the homeless immigrants see them as a shadow population within Los Angeles' growing homeless ranks. Since last year, the number of homeless in Los Angeles County rose by almost 6 percent over the past year to 46,874 people, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/05/04/60286/la-homelessness-up-6-percent-over-last-year/\">a census of the homeless\u003c/a> released in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immigrant homeless are part of this population, but there are barriers to assisting them. Many are reluctant to seek services or go to shelters, according to local day labor centers and others who work with them. They said they are afraid of others on the street who are mentally ill or use drugs. Some from foreign countries are fearful of the black homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"S0uDkOER4VT30ZR60ZpzaYElt0IUuC09\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a sense of shame, Sanchez said. Some among the immigrant homeless are reluctant to accept help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, they don’t see themselves as being homeless or as needing shelter, but rather as needing support so they can work,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lack of legal status in the U.S. also makes them reluctant to step forward, whether to report a crime or to enter a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even when they come here to the program, and we start putting their information into the computer, they ask: Where does this information go? Is it going to affect us?\" said Salvador Mendoza, who handles intake at Dolores Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said those who lack legal status also have other issues accessing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the most part, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for public benefits, that being federal housing subsidies, or CalFresh benefits, formerly known as food stamps,\" said Phil Ansell, director of Los Angeles County's new \u003ca href=\"http://priorities.lacounty.gov/homeless/\">Homeless Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said that's not to say U.S. citizens and legal residents who are homeless have it much easier. He said there isn't enough federal Section 8 housing assistance to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The overall challenge is that rents are high and that wages are low,\" Ansell said. \"And that is the same challenge that faces most other homeless families and individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said he hoped recent minimum wage and anti-wage theft laws might help. Wage theft -- when employers withhold wages or benefits owed to an employee -- is rampant in day labor and other low-wage industries that attract immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez at Dolores Mission said for now, their best solution for moving people into permanent housing is to place them with roommates in private rentals. But rising rents lately have made that difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Off the Streets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every night at the Dolores Mission, after dinner, the cots go up inside the church, even where the altar stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gets pushed to the side to allow space for eight cots to go up on the altar,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep in the church. Others sleep in adjacent buildings. Altogether the men's shelter houses 45. There is also a smaller women's shelter that opened a year and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent evening, a few of the men gathered around the TV before dinner. Among them was 59-year-old Andres Gonzales Perez, a relatively recent arrival to the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for two months,\" Gonzales said. \"It is the first time I am here at a mission, unfortunately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales said it's the first time he has been homeless. He used to work as a baker, but became sick with a lung ailment that needed treatment and couldn’t keep working. He tried unsuccessfully staying with his brother. About three months ago, he wound up on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very cold,\" Gonzales said. \"I got an ugly cough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rigoberto Bejerano has been on the street longer. He said he tried staying for a time downtown, near Skid Row, where all the services are, but he found that frightening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s lots of drugs, lots of alcoholism, lots of perdition, lots of vandalism,\" said Bejerano, who has worked as a handyman. \"People don’t have any money, so they attack others to get what they want. It’s dangerous living downtown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Cypress Park, Alonso said one reason he camps in the hills is to avoid the dangers of the streets. He said he's been thinking lately about heading back to Mexico after 16 years in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he hasn't talked to his parents since he’s been on the street. At first, he told them everything was OK. Then he stopped calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of making them happy to hear from me, it would make them upset,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been years now since he had contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What really breaks my heart is that I don’t know if my dad is alive, if my mom is alive, if my siblings are OK,\" Alonso said. \"I love them very much ... and I’m afraid they will think that I am ingrate, that I don’t want to help them, that I forgot about them -- and it’s not like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that if things don’t get better within a couple of years, he’ll head home.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sleep on the street, not in the open street, but someplace where I have a tent,\" said Alonso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso said he camps high up in Elysian Park, about a 15-minute walk from the Home Depot. He shows up for work looking clean and presentable. He said he tries to use public showers when he can, but other times, washes in the L.A. River or in the nearby Arroyo Seco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. ... There are no more decent rents.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I bathe when it rains and it is clean,\" he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso has struggled since the recession. Until about four years ago, he was able to rent a room nearby. But the work dried up, and the money wasn't enough. He stopped sending money home to his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who came to the U.S. to find work have found themselves on similar footing, Valentan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more about survival,\" Valentan said. \"This gentrification that is happening in Los Angeles, it is leaving pretty much everybody without opportunities. Like rents are very expensive now. There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. There are no more decent rents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11100566 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established The Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-960x635.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established the Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lately, Valentan and the job center staff have referred a growing number of workers to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dolores-mission.org/\">Dolores Mission\u003c/a> in Boyle Heights. The shelter is unique in that it caters to Spanish-speaking immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, we have seen a huge increase in the number of people coming to us, and newly homeless, since 2009,\" said Cynthia Sanchez, director of Proyecto Pastoral, the nonprofit that runs the shelter at Dolores Mission Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church shelter first opened its doors nearly 30 years ago to house refugees fleeing war-torn Central America. Now, it shelters a different crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of them are day laborers. They work in construction or they work in restaurants, they work in landscaping,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep inside the church sanctuary and several others sleep in adjacent buildings. A smaller women's shelter opened a year and a half ago, housing mostly older women who work in domestic jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those who wind up on the street are single men, Sanchez said. They are here on their own, without families in the U.S., and often send money back home to relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Shadow' Population\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others who work with the homeless immigrants see them as a shadow population within Los Angeles' growing homeless ranks. Since last year, the number of homeless in Los Angeles County rose by almost 6 percent over the past year to 46,874 people, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/05/04/60286/la-homelessness-up-6-percent-over-last-year/\">a census of the homeless\u003c/a> released in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immigrant homeless are part of this population, but there are barriers to assisting them. Many are reluctant to seek services or go to shelters, according to local day labor centers and others who work with them. They said they are afraid of others on the street who are mentally ill or use drugs. Some from foreign countries are fearful of the black homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a sense of shame, Sanchez said. Some among the immigrant homeless are reluctant to accept help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, they don’t see themselves as being homeless or as needing shelter, but rather as needing support so they can work,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lack of legal status in the U.S. also makes them reluctant to step forward, whether to report a crime or to enter a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even when they come here to the program, and we start putting their information into the computer, they ask: Where does this information go? Is it going to affect us?\" said Salvador Mendoza, who handles intake at Dolores Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said those who lack legal status also have other issues accessing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the most part, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for public benefits, that being federal housing subsidies, or CalFresh benefits, formerly known as food stamps,\" said Phil Ansell, director of Los Angeles County's new \u003ca href=\"http://priorities.lacounty.gov/homeless/\">Homeless Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said that's not to say U.S. citizens and legal residents who are homeless have it much easier. He said there isn't enough federal Section 8 housing assistance to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The overall challenge is that rents are high and that wages are low,\" Ansell said. \"And that is the same challenge that faces most other homeless families and individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said he hoped recent minimum wage and anti-wage theft laws might help. Wage theft -- when employers withhold wages or benefits owed to an employee -- is rampant in day labor and other low-wage industries that attract immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez at Dolores Mission said for now, their best solution for moving people into permanent housing is to place them with roommates in private rentals. But rising rents lately have made that difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Off the Streets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every night at the Dolores Mission, after dinner, the cots go up inside the church, even where the altar stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gets pushed to the side to allow space for eight cots to go up on the altar,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep in the church. Others sleep in adjacent buildings. Altogether the men's shelter houses 45. There is also a smaller women's shelter that opened a year and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent evening, a few of the men gathered around the TV before dinner. Among them was 59-year-old Andres Gonzales Perez, a relatively recent arrival to the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for two months,\" Gonzales said. \"It is the first time I am here at a mission, unfortunately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales said it's the first time he has been homeless. He used to work as a baker, but became sick with a lung ailment that needed treatment and couldn’t keep working. He tried unsuccessfully staying with his brother. About three months ago, he wound up on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very cold,\" Gonzales said. \"I got an ugly cough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rigoberto Bejerano has been on the street longer. He said he tried staying for a time downtown, near Skid Row, where all the services are, but he found that frightening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s lots of drugs, lots of alcoholism, lots of perdition, lots of vandalism,\" said Bejerano, who has worked as a handyman. \"People don’t have any money, so they attack others to get what they want. It’s dangerous living downtown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Cypress Park, Alonso said one reason he camps in the hills is to avoid the dangers of the streets. He said he's been thinking lately about heading back to Mexico after 16 years in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he hasn't talked to his parents since he’s been on the street. At first, he told them everything was OK. Then he stopped calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of making them happy to hear from me, it would make them upset,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been years now since he had contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What really breaks my heart is that I don’t know if my dad is alive, if my mom is alive, if my siblings are OK,\" Alonso said. \"I love them very much ... and I’m afraid they will think that I am ingrate, that I don’t want to help them, that I forgot about them -- and it’s not like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Southern California is home to some of the most diverse plant communities in the world, from coastal sage scrub and oak woodlands to conifer forests and inland chaparral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where biologists see ecological niches, fire officials see fuel sources for wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many climate models predict that greenhouse gases will create a hotter, drier future for California over the next century. And that will likely amp up the potential for big blazes on these varying landscapes, creating new challenges for firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One plant community already feeling the heat is the high-elevation pine woodlands in places like Mount Baldy, Idyllwild and Big Bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we have a lot of Jeffrey pines and a lot of white firs,” Paris Krause pointed out on a recent hike through the piney peaks of the San Bernardino Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s a contract botanist with the U.S. Forest Service, hired to study the aftermath of 2015’s Lake Fire near Big Bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11066259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Forest Service crew member and botanist Paris Krause drives through moderate and high-intensity burn areas one year after the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest on July 20, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Forest Service crew member and botanist Paris Krause drives through moderate and high-intensity burn areas one year after the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest on July 20, 2016. \u003ccite>(Susanica Tam/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thanks to extremely dry conditions, that fire quickly spread across 48 miles, reducing entire hillsides of pines to charred trunks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a few needles left on trees. Like this tree in front of us has four needles at the very peak,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the needles, that tree and scores around it are dead. Krause said the fire was so intense it likely baked any seeds resting in the ground, making it hard for new trees to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That opens the door for another plant community to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right here this is a white thorn or a Ceanothus,” Krause says, pointing to a small green cluster of leaves. “And right over there, that is a baby Manzanita.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11066264\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"New chaparral whitethorn (L) and manzanita (R) grow on the forest floor one year after the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest on July 20, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New chaparral whitethorn (L) and manzanita (R) grow on the forest floor one year after the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest on July 20, 2016. \u003ccite>(Susanica Tam/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These are both common chaparral species that are now thriving in the wake of the Lake Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s actually a pattern that is quite familiar to us in California,” said James Thorne, a researcher with UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says chaparral often comes into piney areas right after a fire, but it doesn’t typically stick around as new saplings grow through it. But that could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorne and his team of researchers modeled future climate conditions in the state and found that if we don’t significantly curb greenhouse gases, it’s likely that areas now dominated by conifer forests may not be able to sustain them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll become more suitable for the chaparral,” Thorne said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means in a hotter, drier future we may permanently lose our conifers to chaparral. For firefighters, that would mean a shift in approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://i.imgur.com/JVCkGPP.gif\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This GIF depicts areas of pine forests from 1981 to 2099. Blue areas show suitable conditions for these forests to thrive. Red areas show unsuitable conditions triggered by climate change. (Source: UC Davis)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with chaparral, and as we see an increase in it, is that it burns very hot and very rapidly,” said Mike Mohler from Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says chaparral fires grow fast and out of control. Since so many Southern Californians live near chaparral, he says these are the fires that often destroy homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent Sand Fire was a textbook example: It torched more than 40,000 acres, claimed one life and burned nearly 20 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohler says fires in pine forests are hard to fight up close, because there are often few roads and lots of trees. Instead, crews make fire breaks and back-burn to take away fuel as the fire advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral fires, on the other hand, are easier to attack head-on with hoses and hand crews, but that puts firefighters in more danger, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://imgur.com/vXLadxr\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This GIF depicts areas of chaparral from 1981 to 2099. Blue areas show suitable conditions for chaparral. Red areas show unsuitable conditions because of climate change. (Source: UC Davis)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, even as chaparral threatens to take over pine forests, chaparral itself is at risk of being replaced by an even more flammable plant community, according to Rick Halsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halsey runs the nonprofit Chaparral Institute, and he is full of facts on the benefits of this ever-present ecosystem. For instance, he says chaparral plants prevent erosion, help rainwater absorb deeper into soils and provide habitat for many animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halsey said most people, though, just see chaparral as a fire waiting to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so as a consequence they look at these areas as a place of fear and danger rather than an important part of California’s ecology,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral systems actually need fire every couple of decades to help certain plants germinate and to weed out others. But he adds that too many fires in too short a time means even these plants can disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened on a hillside of the Del Dios Highlands Preserve in San Diego County where a fire struck in 1997 and another one hit 10 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11066277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Halsey researches the benefits of chaparral ecosystems and the threats facing these plant communities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Halsey researches the benefits of chaparral ecosystems and the threats facing these plant communities. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now the hillside is covered in non-native, weedy grasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point is there’s no shrubs, and they were here before. The frequency between the two fires eliminated the shrubs and allowed different species to come in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halsey says the non-native grasses that are choking out the chaparral dry out easily and burn even faster than the native shrubs that were here before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasslands aren’t new to California, says Cal Fire’s Mohler, but they may be the most dangerous of all the plant types because of how quickly a fire can shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The fire] can turn in a moment’s notice with just a minor wind shift, and come back against fire personnel, and cause massive burns,” Mohler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said firefighters have to be on high alert when dealing with grass fires, but luckily they respond well to attacks from above with water- and retardant-dropping planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohler says firefighters and forest managers can work together to mitigate new fire risks from changing plant communities, but a lot of the changes expected from global warming can’t be stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and others worry that as these effects strengthen, explosive fires will be the new normal for every ecosystem in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/topics/forever-fire-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forever Fire Season\u003c/a>, KPCC’s in-depth coverage of the new reality of year-round fire season in Southern California. Over the next few weeks we’ll cover those affected by the summer’s destructive wildfires and efforts to develop better firefighting tools and reduce the risk of property damage.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Let us know your thoughts and questions below in the comments section or \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/kpcc\">on KPCC’s Facebook page.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Southern California is home to some of the most diverse plant communities in the world, from coastal sage scrub and oak woodlands to conifer forests and inland chaparral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where biologists see ecological niches, fire officials see fuel sources for wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many climate models predict that greenhouse gases will create a hotter, drier future for California over the next century. And that will likely amp up the potential for big blazes on these varying landscapes, creating new challenges for firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One plant community already feeling the heat is the high-elevation pine woodlands in places like Mount Baldy, Idyllwild and Big Bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we have a lot of Jeffrey pines and a lot of white firs,” Paris Krause pointed out on a recent hike through the piney peaks of the San Bernardino Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s a contract botanist with the U.S. Forest Service, hired to study the aftermath of 2015’s Lake Fire near Big Bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11066259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Forest Service crew member and botanist Paris Krause drives through moderate and high-intensity burn areas one year after the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest on July 20, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Forest Service crew member and botanist Paris Krause drives through moderate and high-intensity burn areas one year after the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest on July 20, 2016. \u003ccite>(Susanica Tam/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thanks to extremely dry conditions, that fire quickly spread across 48 miles, reducing entire hillsides of pines to charred trunks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a few needles left on trees. Like this tree in front of us has four needles at the very peak,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the needles, that tree and scores around it are dead. Krause said the fire was so intense it likely baked any seeds resting in the ground, making it hard for new trees to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That opens the door for another plant community to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right here this is a white thorn or a Ceanothus,” Krause says, pointing to a small green cluster of leaves. “And right over there, that is a baby Manzanita.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11066264\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"New chaparral whitethorn (L) and manzanita (R) grow on the forest floor one year after the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest on July 20, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New chaparral whitethorn (L) and manzanita (R) grow on the forest floor one year after the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest on July 20, 2016. \u003ccite>(Susanica Tam/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These are both common chaparral species that are now thriving in the wake of the Lake Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s actually a pattern that is quite familiar to us in California,” said James Thorne, a researcher with UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says chaparral often comes into piney areas right after a fire, but it doesn’t typically stick around as new saplings grow through it. But that could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorne and his team of researchers modeled future climate conditions in the state and found that if we don’t significantly curb greenhouse gases, it’s likely that areas now dominated by conifer forests may not be able to sustain them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll become more suitable for the chaparral,” Thorne said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means in a hotter, drier future we may permanently lose our conifers to chaparral. For firefighters, that would mean a shift in approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://i.imgur.com/JVCkGPP.gif\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This GIF depicts areas of pine forests from 1981 to 2099. Blue areas show suitable conditions for these forests to thrive. Red areas show unsuitable conditions triggered by climate change. (Source: UC Davis)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with chaparral, and as we see an increase in it, is that it burns very hot and very rapidly,” said Mike Mohler from Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says chaparral fires grow fast and out of control. Since so many Southern Californians live near chaparral, he says these are the fires that often destroy homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent Sand Fire was a textbook example: It torched more than 40,000 acres, claimed one life and burned nearly 20 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohler says fires in pine forests are hard to fight up close, because there are often few roads and lots of trees. Instead, crews make fire breaks and back-burn to take away fuel as the fire advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral fires, on the other hand, are easier to attack head-on with hoses and hand crews, but that puts firefighters in more danger, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://imgur.com/vXLadxr\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This GIF depicts areas of chaparral from 1981 to 2099. Blue areas show suitable conditions for chaparral. Red areas show unsuitable conditions because of climate change. (Source: UC Davis)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, even as chaparral threatens to take over pine forests, chaparral itself is at risk of being replaced by an even more flammable plant community, according to Rick Halsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halsey runs the nonprofit Chaparral Institute, and he is full of facts on the benefits of this ever-present ecosystem. For instance, he says chaparral plants prevent erosion, help rainwater absorb deeper into soils and provide habitat for many animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halsey said most people, though, just see chaparral as a fire waiting to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so as a consequence they look at these areas as a place of fear and danger rather than an important part of California’s ecology,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral systems actually need fire every couple of decades to help certain plants germinate and to weed out others. But he adds that too many fires in too short a time means even these plants can disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened on a hillside of the Del Dios Highlands Preserve in San Diego County where a fire struck in 1997 and another one hit 10 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11066277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Halsey researches the benefits of chaparral ecosystems and the threats facing these plant communities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Halsey researches the benefits of chaparral ecosystems and the threats facing these plant communities. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now the hillside is covered in non-native, weedy grasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point is there’s no shrubs, and they were here before. The frequency between the two fires eliminated the shrubs and allowed different species to come in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halsey says the non-native grasses that are choking out the chaparral dry out easily and burn even faster than the native shrubs that were here before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasslands aren’t new to California, says Cal Fire’s Mohler, but they may be the most dangerous of all the plant types because of how quickly a fire can shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The fire] can turn in a moment’s notice with just a minor wind shift, and come back against fire personnel, and cause massive burns,” Mohler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said firefighters have to be on high alert when dealing with grass fires, but luckily they respond well to attacks from above with water- and retardant-dropping planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohler says firefighters and forest managers can work together to mitigate new fire risks from changing plant communities, but a lot of the changes expected from global warming can’t be stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and others worry that as these effects strengthen, explosive fires will be the new normal for every ecosystem in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/topics/forever-fire-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forever Fire Season\u003c/a>, KPCC’s in-depth coverage of the new reality of year-round fire season in Southern California. Over the next few weeks we’ll cover those affected by the summer’s destructive wildfires and efforts to develop better firefighting tools and reduce the risk of property damage.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Here's a sobering idea during one of the most destructive fire seasons in memory: Over the next few decades, climate change is expected to supercharge fire risk in California. Researchers think summers will be hotter and drier, increasing the potential for big blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/western-wildfires-climate-change-20475\">One study by the research group Climate Central\u003c/a> predicts that by 2050, the number of high-risk fire days in the state will jump by a fifth, from 120 a year to 145. Add that to the fact that right now, there are 11 million Californians living in fire-prone areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this looming threat ahead, what are firefighters doing to prepare?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blowing up hoses for starters, said Sam Wu, project leader with the San Dimas Technology and Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center is a sprawling 18-acre campus owned by the U.S. Forest Service in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. It's where the future of firefighting is being developed and tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059781\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Wu holds out two samples of fire hose used at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-1180x795.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-960x647.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Wu holds out two samples of firehose used at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wu and his team push trucks, pumps and hoses to their limits. On a typical day, they might pump a hose with as much as 1,200 pounds per square inch of water pressure, four times what your normal firehose experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they'll drop hot metal cubes on it to see how well the material withstands being struck by a burning ember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pretty often the hoses explode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last year we bought over 6,600 miles of firehose,\" he added. \"That's a lot of firehose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Jsm6yMVdwcJvzf2DdJSXwD9njlUMFmte\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's all in service of making sure firefighters have the toughest, safest and most effective gear when battling blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Dimas Technology and Development Center was founded just after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The government was looking at repurposing excess military equipment to use for domestic firefighting efforts,\" Wu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service took trucks, planes and even helicopters and turned them into tools for fighting fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, the center started designing better fire engines that could climb steep hills without tipping over. Today it's still tweaking the design, strengthening cabs so trucks that roll over won't crush passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059789\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Staff at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center use a tilt bed to see how much incline fire trucks can take before they start to tip over.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-960x675.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center use a tilt bed to see how much incline fire trucks can take before they start to tip over. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It also helped develop special filters that stop fire-causing sparks from flying out of the exhaust systems of motorcycles and chainsaws. And it pioneered standards for the use of planes that drop fire retardant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, the center is working on helping the Forest Service switch its fleet of fire tankers from propeller planes to jets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though jets are old hat to commercial airlines, converting them to firefighting safety standards has taken time. Making sure these new planes drop the right amount of retardant in the right place is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/281630829\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest models are piloting a newly developed tanker door system to evenly spread that signature orange goo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's worth the effort, said test pilot Brent Connor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's been flying and fighting fires for more than 30 years. One thing he likes about the new jets is the speed. Last year he was able to zip from a fire in Fairbanks, Alaska, to another fire in Wendover, Nevada, in roughly four hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the older airplanes, depending on what that was, that could have been a six to 10-hour flight,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" link=\"file\" size=\"medium\" ids=\"11059836,11059835,11059840\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//giphy.com/embed/l0MYssaDHN0nXDIpG\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"giphy-embed\" scrolling=\"yes\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big part of firefighting is dealing with, well, a lot of fire. How do you do that in a controlled setting to test crucial gear without accidentally burning down your lab?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center just recently purchased a new burn simulator. It's a machine that can create a large and controlled fire, perfect for seeing how much heat new equipment can take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the first of its kind in the country and cost around $350,000. The simulator is capable of generating a wall of fire 47 feet long. The center plans to use it to evaluate the toughness of trucks and other firefighting equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059843\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"A large fire simulator. The U.S. Forest Service recently purchased one to use in various tests of new firefighting equipment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large fire simulator. The U.S. Forest Service recently purchased one to use in various tests of new firefighting equipment. \u003ccite>(SAN DIMAS TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The center also evaluates new firefighting tools developed elsewhere, like the Personal Alert and Tracking System (PATS) created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a combination monitor and communication device that can send alerts across several miles of wilderness, even when there’s no cell reception, said Ed Chow, project leader for the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means it can let firefighters know if a blaze is headed their way. It can also keeps tabs on where team members are. It monitors their vital signs and even senses if one falls down a slope and needs help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow said the San Dimas Center tested the system and gave feedback on everything from the display to the batteries, which at first were fancy lithium ion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then firefighters say they only use AA-batteries ... all the equipment uses AA-batteries,\" he laughed. He switched to AA after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the system is just a prototype, but it could one day be a crucial tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059845\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Chow with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows off the Personal Alert and Tracking System he helped develop for firefighters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-800x546.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-1180x805.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-960x655.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Chow with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows off the Personal Alert and Tracking System he helped develop for firefighters. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, new technology alone won't be enough to curb the growing threat of wildfire, said Tom Scott, a natural resource specialist based at UC Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s some point where the concept that you have gear that’s going to save you is irrelevant,\" Scott said. \"That’s not going to happen because the fires are going to be too intense and people are going to die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott thinks research and forest management are also a key part of reducing fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stresses the need to think critically about where homes are built since in Southern California, people are by far the number one cause of fire. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Here's a sobering idea during one of the most destructive fire seasons in memory: Over the next few decades, climate change is expected to supercharge fire risk in California. Researchers think summers will be hotter and drier, increasing the potential for big blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/western-wildfires-climate-change-20475\">One study by the research group Climate Central\u003c/a> predicts that by 2050, the number of high-risk fire days in the state will jump by a fifth, from 120 a year to 145. Add that to the fact that right now, there are 11 million Californians living in fire-prone areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this looming threat ahead, what are firefighters doing to prepare?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blowing up hoses for starters, said Sam Wu, project leader with the San Dimas Technology and Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center is a sprawling 18-acre campus owned by the U.S. Forest Service in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. It's where the future of firefighting is being developed and tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059781\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Wu holds out two samples of fire hose used at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-1180x795.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/WuHoses-960x647.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Wu holds out two samples of firehose used at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wu and his team push trucks, pumps and hoses to their limits. On a typical day, they might pump a hose with as much as 1,200 pounds per square inch of water pressure, four times what your normal firehose experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then they'll drop hot metal cubes on it to see how well the material withstands being struck by a burning ember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pretty often the hoses explode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last year we bought over 6,600 miles of firehose,\" he added. \"That's a lot of firehose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's all in service of making sure firefighters have the toughest, safest and most effective gear when battling blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Dimas Technology and Development Center was founded just after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The government was looking at repurposing excess military equipment to use for domestic firefighting efforts,\" Wu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service took trucks, planes and even helicopters and turned them into tools for fighting fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, the center started designing better fire engines that could climb steep hills without tipping over. Today it's still tweaking the design, strengthening cabs so trucks that roll over won't crush passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059789\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"Staff at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center use a tilt bed to see how much incline fire trucks can take before they start to tip over.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-1180x830.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TiltingTruck-960x675.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center use a tilt bed to see how much incline fire trucks can take before they start to tip over. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It also helped develop special filters that stop fire-causing sparks from flying out of the exhaust systems of motorcycles and chainsaws. And it pioneered standards for the use of planes that drop fire retardant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, the center is working on helping the Forest Service switch its fleet of fire tankers from propeller planes to jets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though jets are old hat to commercial airlines, converting them to firefighting safety standards has taken time. Making sure these new planes drop the right amount of retardant in the right place is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/281630829&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/281630829'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest models are piloting a newly developed tanker door system to evenly spread that signature orange goo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's worth the effort, said test pilot Brent Connor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's been flying and fighting fires for more than 30 years. One thing he likes about the new jets is the speed. Last year he was able to zip from a fire in Fairbanks, Alaska, to another fire in Wendover, Nevada, in roughly four hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the older airplanes, depending on what that was, that could have been a six to 10-hour flight,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The U.S. Forest Service recently purchased one to use in various tests of new firefighting equipment.\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurnSim-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large fire simulator. The U.S. Forest Service recently purchased one to use in various tests of new firefighting equipment. \u003ccite>(SAN DIMAS TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The center also evaluates new firefighting tools developed elsewhere, like the Personal Alert and Tracking System (PATS) created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a combination monitor and communication device that can send alerts across several miles of wilderness, even when there’s no cell reception, said Ed Chow, project leader for the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means it can let firefighters know if a blaze is headed their way. It can also keeps tabs on where team members are. It monitors their vital signs and even senses if one falls down a slope and needs help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow said the San Dimas Center tested the system and gave feedback on everything from the display to the batteries, which at first were fancy lithium ion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then firefighters say they only use AA-batteries ... all the equipment uses AA-batteries,\" he laughed. He switched to AA after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the system is just a prototype, but it could one day be a crucial tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059845\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Chow with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows off the Personal Alert and Tracking System he helped develop for firefighters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-800x546.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-1180x805.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/TrackingSystem-960x655.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Chow with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows off the Personal Alert and Tracking System he helped develop for firefighters. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, new technology alone won't be enough to curb the growing threat of wildfire, said Tom Scott, a natural resource specialist based at UC Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s some point where the concept that you have gear that’s going to save you is irrelevant,\" Scott said. \"That’s not going to happen because the fires are going to be too intense and people are going to die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott thinks research and forest management are also a key part of reducing fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stresses the need to think critically about where homes are built since in Southern California, people are by far the number one cause of fire. 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"content": "\u003cp>Imagine losing your home. Not just your home, but your books, your pictures, your favorite shirt, your children’s art and every other little thing that you’ve stored there. Imagine it all gone to ash and smoke forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s happened to scores of families in Southern California this year, and peak fire season isn’t even over yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a stark reminder that 6 million people in the region live in harm’s way when it comes to wildfire, according to the research group Climate Central. That threat is expected to grow as the state’s population increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, many firefighters and scientists think fires in the West will likely be bigger and hotter in the future, thanks to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to feel helpless in the face of threats like that, but architect Don Ross says even the most at-risk homes can put up a fight against fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He should know. He’s a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cvfiresafecouncil.com/\">Crescenta Valley Fire Safe Council\u003c/a>, and he works with communities like Briggs Terrace, where a dense pocket of homes is surrounded by two fire-prone hillsides, sitting just above the Sierra Madre fault with only one road going in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means an earthquake could strike, cut off the road trapping residents and knock over a power line, sparking a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It all works together to create a soup of hazards, for lack of a better phrase,” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, even in this neighborhood, Ross said there’s a lot homeowners can do to safeguard against disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Notice he’s got fire resistant exterior wall material,” Ross pointed out during a drive through the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home he’s referring to is what’s known as “fire hardened,” meaning the owners took steps to reduce the chance it would burn. There are plenty of examples like this in Briggs Terrace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11053448\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11053448\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Sanden-Totten-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"An example of a fire-hardened home in Briggs Terrace.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Sanden-Totten-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Sanden-Totten-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Sanden-Totten-960x719.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Sanden-Totten.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of a fire-hardened home in Briggs Terrace. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These houses have stucco walls instead of wood siding, fire-resistant roofing, screens on attic vents to keep out embers, and fire-retardant decks. In fact, according the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, building codes mandate that new homes in fire-prone areas adhere to such standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, older homes built before the codes took effect don’t need to retrofit to be fire-safe unless the owners plan to do significant new work to the exterior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross passes one such home in Briggs Terrace, just a few doors from a fire-hardened home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All this wood, this is like ‘eek,’ but they are older … and there’s a lot of fire hazards,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A house like this isn’t just a danger to itself. It can also be a threat to neighbors if it catches fire because it can burn a long time, allowing the blaze to spread more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11053452\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11053452\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Totten-KPCC-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Don Ross with the Crescenta Valley Fire Safe Council helps homeowners safeguard their property from wildfires.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Totten-KPCC-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Totten-KPCC-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Totten-KPCC-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Totten-KPCC.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Ross with the Crescenta Valley Fire Safe Council helps homeowners safeguard their property from wildfires. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s why it’s also important to have what’s called “defensible space” around a home, said Alexandra Syphard, a researcher with the Conservation Biology Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the idea that people should clear trees and shrubs directly around their homes and keep larger plants to a minimum for a distance of 100 feet or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This prevents nearby yard plants from catching fire and spreading it to a home. And it gives firefighters room to maneuver if they have to battle a house fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syphard said some experts even suggest mowing down plants for up to 300 feet around homes, but she said that might be counterproductive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s studied hundreds of burned houses from past wildfires and found people may actually be clearing too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within the first 50 to 60 feet there is a significant chance that it will reduce your risk of burning in a fire,” she said. “Anything beyond 100 feet provides no significant benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that she means the chances of avoiding fire don’t significantly increase with clearing beyond 100 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11053455\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11053455\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20772_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs29-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Skidmore points out where certain rooms use to be in his family’s home before the Clayton fire in Lower Lake, California destroyed it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20772_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs29-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20772_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs29-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20772_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs29.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20772_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs29-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20772_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs29-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Skidmore points out where certain rooms use to be in his family’s home before the Clayton fire in Lower Lake, California destroyed it. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, she thinks clearing too many native plants and shrubs can actually increase fire danger by giving non-native grasses an opportunity to spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When embers land on evergreen shrublands, they are much more likely to just go out,” she said. “When they land on a dry grassland, that’s just tinder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire-hardening homes and setting up defensible space, though, are bandages for a larger problem. Syphard and others say the number one way to prevent homes from burning is to stop building them in wild areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are by far the number one cause of fire in Southern California, and the region’s population is expected to jump by 4 million over the next few decades. L.A. County alone is projected to see an extra one million residents over the next quarter century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trends suggest we’ll keep building further and further into what’s known as the urban-wildland interface, putting more and more homes at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, there’s no real way to stop that, said Thomas Scott, a natural resource specialist based at UC Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think elected officials would be very reluctant to tell someone who had property they couldn’t put a home on it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted there are federal laws stopping people from building in certain flood zones, and state laws stopping construction on known earthquake faults, but there are no similar laws to keep people from building in fire-prone areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because fire zones are so common and partly because so much of California is already built out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The question would be in the coast ranges in California, or in the Sierra Foothills would there actually be an opportunity to say the kind of fire that would come up this canyon would be too severe to fight so we can’t have houses there?” Scott asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, insurance companies can charge more for structures in fire-prone areas, and the state sticks some rural homeowners with fees to help cover fire prevention costs. But even that’s been controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11053456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11053456\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Forest Service crews work to cut down hazard trees in Lower Lake, California on Aug. 16, 2016 following the Clayton fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forest Service crews work to cut down hazard trees in Lower Lake, California on Aug. 16, 2016 following the Clayton fire. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trying to legislate where people can and cannot build would be a very hard sell, Scott added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Ross, with the La Crescenta’s Fire Safe Council, thinks people should be allowed to build homes wherever they want, as long as they understand and accept the risks that go along with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am very big on property rights,” he said. “I’m very big on adults making decisions for themselves as long as they are informed decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Ross and others will keep doing their best to inform those decisions in hopes that those in harm’s way will have a fighting chance against fire.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Imagine losing your home. Not just your home, but your books, your pictures, your favorite shirt, your children’s art and every other little thing that you’ve stored there. Imagine it all gone to ash and smoke forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s happened to scores of families in Southern California this year, and peak fire season isn’t even over yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a stark reminder that 6 million people in the region live in harm’s way when it comes to wildfire, according to the research group Climate Central. That threat is expected to grow as the state’s population increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, many firefighters and scientists think fires in the West will likely be bigger and hotter in the future, thanks to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to feel helpless in the face of threats like that, but architect Don Ross says even the most at-risk homes can put up a fight against fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He should know. He’s a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cvfiresafecouncil.com/\">Crescenta Valley Fire Safe Council\u003c/a>, and he works with communities like Briggs Terrace, where a dense pocket of homes is surrounded by two fire-prone hillsides, sitting just above the Sierra Madre fault with only one road going in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means an earthquake could strike, cut off the road trapping residents and knock over a power line, sparking a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It all works together to create a soup of hazards, for lack of a better phrase,” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, even in this neighborhood, Ross said there’s a lot homeowners can do to safeguard against disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Notice he’s got fire resistant exterior wall material,” Ross pointed out during a drive through the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home he’s referring to is what’s known as “fire hardened,” meaning the owners took steps to reduce the chance it would burn. There are plenty of examples like this in Briggs Terrace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11053448\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11053448\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Sanden-Totten-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"An example of a fire-hardened home in Briggs Terrace.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Sanden-Totten-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Sanden-Totten-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Sanden-Totten-960x719.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Sanden-Totten.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of a fire-hardened home in Briggs Terrace. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These houses have stucco walls instead of wood siding, fire-resistant roofing, screens on attic vents to keep out embers, and fire-retardant decks. In fact, according the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, building codes mandate that new homes in fire-prone areas adhere to such standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, older homes built before the codes took effect don’t need to retrofit to be fire-safe unless the owners plan to do significant new work to the exterior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross passes one such home in Briggs Terrace, just a few doors from a fire-hardened home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All this wood, this is like ‘eek,’ but they are older … and there’s a lot of fire hazards,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A house like this isn’t just a danger to itself. It can also be a threat to neighbors if it catches fire because it can burn a long time, allowing the blaze to spread more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11053452\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11053452\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Totten-KPCC-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Don Ross with the Crescenta Valley Fire Safe Council helps homeowners safeguard their property from wildfires.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Totten-KPCC-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Totten-KPCC-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Totten-KPCC-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Totten-KPCC.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Ross with the Crescenta Valley Fire Safe Council helps homeowners safeguard their property from wildfires. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s why it’s also important to have what’s called “defensible space” around a home, said Alexandra Syphard, a researcher with the Conservation Biology Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the idea that people should clear trees and shrubs directly around their homes and keep larger plants to a minimum for a distance of 100 feet or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This prevents nearby yard plants from catching fire and spreading it to a home. And it gives firefighters room to maneuver if they have to battle a house fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syphard said some experts even suggest mowing down plants for up to 300 feet around homes, but she said that might be counterproductive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s studied hundreds of burned houses from past wildfires and found people may actually be clearing too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within the first 50 to 60 feet there is a significant chance that it will reduce your risk of burning in a fire,” she said. “Anything beyond 100 feet provides no significant benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that she means the chances of avoiding fire don’t significantly increase with clearing beyond 100 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11053455\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11053455\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20772_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs29-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Skidmore points out where certain rooms use to be in his family’s home before the Clayton fire in Lower Lake, California destroyed it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20772_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs29-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20772_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs29-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20772_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs29.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20772_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs29-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20772_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs29-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Skidmore points out where certain rooms use to be in his family’s home before the Clayton fire in Lower Lake, California destroyed it. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, she thinks clearing too many native plants and shrubs can actually increase fire danger by giving non-native grasses an opportunity to spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When embers land on evergreen shrublands, they are much more likely to just go out,” she said. “When they land on a dry grassland, that’s just tinder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire-hardening homes and setting up defensible space, though, are bandages for a larger problem. Syphard and others say the number one way to prevent homes from burning is to stop building them in wild areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are by far the number one cause of fire in Southern California, and the region’s population is expected to jump by 4 million over the next few decades. L.A. County alone is projected to see an extra one million residents over the next quarter century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trends suggest we’ll keep building further and further into what’s known as the urban-wildland interface, putting more and more homes at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, there’s no real way to stop that, said Thomas Scott, a natural resource specialist based at UC Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think elected officials would be very reluctant to tell someone who had property they couldn’t put a home on it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted there are federal laws stopping people from building in certain flood zones, and state laws stopping construction on known earthquake faults, but there are no similar laws to keep people from building in fire-prone areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because fire zones are so common and partly because so much of California is already built out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The question would be in the coast ranges in California, or in the Sierra Foothills would there actually be an opportunity to say the kind of fire that would come up this canyon would be too severe to fight so we can’t have houses there?” Scott asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, insurance companies can charge more for structures in fire-prone areas, and the state sticks some rural homeowners with fees to help cover fire prevention costs. But even that’s been controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11053456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11053456\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Forest Service crews work to cut down hazard trees in Lower Lake, California on Aug. 16, 2016 following the Clayton fire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forest Service crews work to cut down hazard trees in Lower Lake, California on Aug. 16, 2016 following the Clayton fire. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trying to legislate where people can and cannot build would be a very hard sell, Scott added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Ross, with the La Crescenta’s Fire Safe Council, thinks people should be allowed to build homes wherever they want, as long as they understand and accept the risks that go along with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am very big on property rights,” he said. “I’m very big on adults making decisions for themselves as long as they are informed decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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