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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Look out over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-bay\">San Francisco Bay\u003c/a> on any given day, and you may see a collection of giant container ships anchored offshore. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Stephanie Rohlfs has seen them countless times on her runs, and the same question always pops into her mind: “How do the cargo ships know where to park? Is there an invisible parking lot or some other system?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092756\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Janice Smith points to a map of ships anchored in the San Francisco Bay, in what are called anchor buckets, at the San Francisco Bar Pilots headquarters in San Francisco on Jan. 14, 2026. Anchor buckets offer longer-term places to park for commercial ships. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The short answer is: yes, there is a parking lot, although mariners call them anchorages. The largest ship parking lot in the bay is called Anchorage 9, just south of the Bay Bridge and north of the San Mateo Bridge. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In that area, there are 24 designated “anchor buckets” where ships can drop anchor and be confident that even if they are buffeted by wind and current, there’s no danger they will swing into another ship. They are arrayed in three rows of eight going north-south.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer may seem simple, but the journey to arrive at this system is both tragic and riveting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Standard Oil collision\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the early morning hours of Jan. 19, 1971, two big oil tankers operated by Standard Oil were on the move. The Oregon was leaving Richmond headed towards the open ocean. The Arizona was heading into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Both ships contacted the Coast Guard for weather updates and information on other boat traffic initially, but as they neared the Golden Gate Strait, they stopped communicating. It was a night of thick fog. At around 1:45 a.m., disaster struck. A quarter mile west of the Golden Gate Bridge, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/Chronicle-Covers-San-Francisco-Bay-s-oil-spill-6754542.php\">two ships collided\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“800,000 gallons of petroleum spilled in the bay,” said Gary Reed, Director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/VTS%20User%20Guides/VTS_SF_UserManual_APR2025.pdf\">Vessel Traffic Service San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"753\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092755\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-02-KQED.jpg 950w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-02-KQED-160x127.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bulldozers were used to try and clean up oil-soaked sand at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach in 1971. (Courtesy of San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Reed said back then the Coast Guard had two employees watching the radar at Fort Mason Center along the San Francisco waterfront. They could see the two ships moving on their display, but had no way of radioing them. Ships only checked in when they \u003cem>wanted\u003c/em> to.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The two operators were trying to call the ships and trying to call the ships. They were just watching this slow train wreck about to happen,” Reed said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Area residents woke the next morning to oil on their beaches. Birds covered in oil were washing up on shore, unable to move. Standard Oil paid workmen to help clean up the beaches, but volunteers also came out in droves to help.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The incident caught the attention of legislators in Washington, D.C. They passed the \u003ca href=\"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title46/subtitle7/chapter700&edition=prelim\">Ports and Waterways Safety Act\u003c/a>, which created Vessel Traffic Services.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s a bit like air traffic control in aviation — responsible for knowing where ships are in the bay and communicating with them as they enter and exit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new law also made participation in shore monitoring \u003cem>mandatory\u003c/em> for all ships entering U.S. ports.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They made it mandatory for you to listen to a particular channel on the radio and follow the direction of the Vessel Traffic Service,” Reed said. “So that’s what gave us our authority. And in 1972, VTS San Francisco became the very first VTS in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The VTS is in charge of communicating with ships as they enter and exit the bay, and they manage the anchorages where ships can “park.” They work closely with the San Francisco Bar Pilots, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12089929/why-specialized-mariners-are-required-on-every-ship-sailing-into-san-francisco-bay\">local mariners with expert knowledge\u003c/a> of the waterways and conditions, to assign ships to specific spots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They have a little bit more in-depth knowledge of where the ship is going, when it needs to be there, how deep is its draft and what is it carrying,” Reed said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other prominent anchorages\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In addition to Anchorage 9 in the main part of the bay, Bay Area residents have likely also seen ship action at Anchorage 5, just south of the Richmond-San Rafael bridge and near the Richmond oil terminals. Often tugboats and barges are anchored there waiting to assist oil tankers as they come into the bay to load and unload.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Another eye-catching location is Anchorage 7, just west of Treasure Island. Reed said this is a temporary anchorage meant for short-term use. Most frequently, ships will stop and anchor here if they’ve been sitting at anchor for weeks and are finally headed to their next destination, but need to resupply before doing so. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092754\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-01-KQED-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-01-KQED-1536x1241.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Volunteers work to clean up oil washing up on Ocean Beach after a collision between two oil tankers under the Golden Gate Bridge spilled 800,000 gallons of oil into the bay in 1971. (Courtesy of San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Anchorage 7 is also used in emergencies. If a ship is coming into the bay and has an engine problem, VTS does not want that ship traveling under the Bay Bridge. They’ll ask the ship to wait at Anchorage 7 until its engine is repaired.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It piques my attention when I see someone anchored there because it is very visible and it’s highly susceptible to winds and currents,” Reed said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Constant dredging\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>To keep Bay Area ports operating, the Army Corps of Engineers dredges the shipping channels on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/marine-protection-permitting/sf-bay-ltms\">ongoing basis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some of the container ships that call at the Port of Oakland are longer than the Salesforce Tower is high. And when a ship that big is loaded up with cargo, it has a deep draft — meaning it sticks way down into the water and needs a deep channel.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The stuff the Corps dredges up from the bottom of the bay is called “spoils” and is most often dumped offshore in the Pacific Ocean. Reed said the Army Corps of Engineers knows which parts of the bay are likely to have toxic or harmful materials and they test the spoils before deciding where to dump it. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-28-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092759\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-28-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-28-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260114-BarPilots-28-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ships anchored in the San Francisco Bay, in what are called anchor buckets, on Jan. 14, 2026. Anchor buckets offer longer-term places to park for commercial ships. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But ultimately, the material has to go somewhere, so even stuff dredged up near former military sites does get dumped about 50 miles offshore.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The rules governing the bay and the vessels on it often feel totally separate from Bay Area life lived on shore. For many, the complex work of the maritime industry is just a picturesque backdrop to the daily commute, a necessary but mysterious business. But knowing a bit more about how it all works might mean the next time you look out over the water you’ll be able to say: “Anchorage 9 is looking pretty full today.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode transcript\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’m Olivia Allen-Price. This is Bay Curious – the show that answers listener questions about the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>Now, if you look out over that bay on any given day, and you’ll see a lot of boat traffic. Ferries chugging along their routes, massive cargo ships headed to port, oil tankers on their way to Richmond, cruise ships unload passengers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And then weaving between those larger ships are sailboats tacking back and forth, Coast Guard boats patrolling the shoreline, kayakers, even swimmers! To an untrained eye, it can seem like absolute chaos.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Stephanie Rohlfs has spent a lot of time looking at the ships on the bay.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephane Rohlfs: \u003c/strong>I used to live in West Oakland, and during the pandemic, when we were all desperate to go outside, I started doing a little bit of jogging at Middle Harbor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Right near the Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephane Rohlfs: \u003c/strong>Involved a lot of staring at container ships going by.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>She also noticed the cargo ships further out, parked in the middle of the bay. And started wondering…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephane Rohlfs: \u003c/strong>How do the cargo ships know where to park? And is there an invisible parking lot or some other system? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Stephanie is not the only one curious about how it all works out there. Her question won a Bay Curious voting round, so there are a lot of you with the same question. Here to answer Stephanie is Bay Curious editor and Producer Katrina Schwartz. Hey, Katrina!\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Hi, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> You’ve become quite the maritime expert over the last few months.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I know, I got to dig into how the \u003cem>bar pilots\u003c/em> work and shadow one of them on a job for an episode that aired a few weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> If you’re interested in that episode, by the way, we’ll put a link in our show notes. But right now, let’s get into Stephanie’s question. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Well, before we get into where and how cargo ships park, I first need to tell you a little story that sets up how we got to the system we have today\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> OK, I’m listening.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Allow me to set the scene…\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cem>Dramatic music\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It was a cold, foggy night in 1971…the kind where you’d be happy to be snuggled up at home. But a disaster was quietly unfolding in the bay, right under the Golden Gate Bridge. Two big oil tankers were heading in opposite directions…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival tape: \u003c/strong>The Oregon was moving out of the Gate and the Arizona was moving toward the Gate to come inside the bay. Both ships had been in touch with the Coast Guard for information on weather conditions and locations of ships.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>But back then, there weren’t as many safety protocols in place. So after checking in with the Coast Guard, both ships stopped communicating.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival tape: \u003c/strong>At about 1:45 Monday morning, the incoming Arizona rammed the Oregon port side, about a quarter mile west of the Golden Gate just opposite the center span. The two ships locked together with oil gushing from the gaping hole and drifted towards the south end of Angel Island.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>So 800,000 gallons of petroleum spilled in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>That’s Gary Reed. He works for the Coast Guard, managing Vessel Traffic Services in San Francisco. He knows this history intimately.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>Now the two operators were trying to call the ships and trying to call the ships; they were just watching this slow train wreck about to happen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Gary told me that since ships only checked in when they wanted to…there was no way to alert the two ships they were on a path to collision, even though the Coast Guard could see it all on the radar.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Franciscans woke up that Monday morning to oil on their beaches.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival tape: \u003c/strong>I went down to the beach, down to Ocean Beach, Monday afternoon at about 2 o’clock. I swim in the ocean every day. And I go down there and see all this oil. It’s just sick.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>There was a huge outpouring of volunteers over the following days and weeks to not only help clean up oil, but to also try and save the birds that were so covered in oil they could barely move.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival tape: \u003c/strong>In addition to the 150 or so paid workmen, there were at least that many volunteers along the marina today. Most of them young, and many of them there to save the birds, which came floating in soaked in oil.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Even though this is pretty recent history – 1971 – I haven’t heard about it before.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>That’s so often true of things that happened after the “past” we learn about in high school history class, right?\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Yeah. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Well, I’m telling you this story because it was a wake-up call for everyone around the country. Even Congress — all the way in D.C. — paid attention and eventually passed a law that created the Vessel Traffic Services or VTS. They made it mandatory for ships in every port throughout the country to participate in shore monitoring and to have the necessary radio equipment to communicate with VTS.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>So they made it mandatory for you to listen to a particular channel on the radio and follow the direction of the vessel traffic service. And in 1972, VTS San Francisco became the very first VTS in the United States. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> The very first VTS! That’s kind of a claim to fame. Um, what does VTS do exactly?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Well, they are basically air traffic control for ships. And they’re important to Stephanie’s question about parking in the bay because they communicate with ships coming in from the open sea, and manage the areas where they can park.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So there IS a parking lot!\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>There is, although in maritime lingo they call parking lots “anchorages.” There are 30 anchorages, or zones, in total. Most are in the main bay, and then others are scattered throughout the region’s waterways.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed:\u003c/strong> I would say technically you are not allowed to anchor anywhere outside of those anchorages.\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>And this is for big ships – recreational vessels like sailboats or yachts are another story.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Tell me about a few of the most prominent anchorages we might see from shore.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>OK, so, one of them is called Anchorage 5. It’s just south of the Richmond Bridge. You’ll often see tugboats parked there because when an oil tanker ship comes in, the tugboats are waiting to push it up alongside the oil terminals there in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>Just west of Treasure Island, we have Anchorage 7. And that’s the one that I think a lot of people, well, it piques my attention when I see someone anchored there because it is very visible and it’s highly susceptible to winds and currents and all the weather aspects you can get outta that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Gary says that one is temporary and is most often used by ships that are only going to be there a few hours while they bring on supplies. You won’t see ships there all the time. But the area south of the Bay Bridge and north of the San Mateo Bridge is what most people see.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>And then the biggest one I think most people see when you’re driving across the Bay Bridge, and you’re looking south, you’ll see what we call Anchorage 9, that is our parking lot. That’s where the large ships go to await birth or make repairs or refuel. But that’s our big one down there. That’s our major parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Anchorage nine gets a lot of use by really large ships, so there are designated “buckets” or spots where ships drop their anchors. And that’s because if the weather is really bad and a ship is getting buffeted by the wind and is out at the end of its anchor chain that it’s not going to hit anything nearby. All told, there are 24 of those “anchor buckets” in Anchorage 9. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Tell me a little more about how this whole parking lot system works. Is there a parking meter? A valet? Are we talking parallel parking or pull-in?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Gary said in this system the bar pilots are your very expert valets. They’re those local mariners who specialize in this region. And they decide who parks where.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>They have a little bit more in-depth knowledge of where the ship is going, when does it need to be there, how deep is its draft and what is it carrying. I kind of think of it like the matrix. They’re looking at all the windows. They know what’s coming next and who’s leaving next.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>My first question was how much it costs to park at one of these anchorages, but Gary said the fee structure doesn’t work the same way as a parking lot. Instead, the shipping companies pay the bar pilots a fee that’s based on tonnage. They don’t pay the Coast Guard anything for the actual harbor spot. But most ships don’t want to sit around long in the harbor because that’s money lost.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We need to take a quick break, but when we come back we’ll learn what makes this region so tricky to manage. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor Break\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> KQED is member-supported media. That means we don’t have any shareholders to please or business conflicts that could affect our reporting. It’s you we’re serving – plain and simple. If that type of journalism sounds like your jam, consider becoming a member at \u003ca href=\"http://donate.kqed.org/podcasts\">donate.kqed.org/podcasts\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>OK, now back to talking about all the boat traffic we see in the Bay with Bay Curious editor and producer Katrina Schwartz. So, we’ve established that there IS a parking lot for the ships in the bay and that it’s highly regulated because when ships collide, it can be catastrophic, as we saw in 1971. What makes this area so tricky for mariners?. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I’m going to let Gary Reed, head of VTS, answer that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed:\u003c/strong> It is tricky because of the weather, and it’s tricky, tricky, it’s unique because of the different kinds of waters that we have. We have offshore, we have a bay, we have estuary, we have delta. I mean rivers that go all the way up to Sacramento and Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Gary compared it to the port in Long Beach, which actually does a lot more shipping than any of our ports, but is also simpler.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>Their area is very limited. They have about a 25-mile area that they monitor and manage. And we have 5,000 square miles that we monitor and manage.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Wow, that’s a huge difference.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Yes, and the waterways themselves in the Bay Area are complicated, with bridges, rivers, shallow areas, etc. It’s part of the reason we have the bar pilots…mariners with local knowledge who board every ship over a certain size and navigate it in and out of the bay. And many local disasters have happened in the fog. Like in 2007…the Costco-Busan incident when an oil tanker clipped the Bay Bridge. So, Gary says now ships don’t go under the bridge or leave anchor if visibility is less than half a nautical mile.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed:\u003c/strong> One of our particular cameras is on Yerba Buena Island, and we can look out and see the Oakland Bay Bridge. 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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’m Olivia Allen-Price. This is Bay Curious – the show that answers listener questions about the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>Now, if you look out over that bay on any given day, and you’ll see a lot of boat traffic. Ferries chugging along their routes, massive cargo ships headed to port, oil tankers on their way to Richmond, cruise ships unload passengers.\u003c/p>\n",
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"\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> I’m Olivia Allen-Price. This is Bay Curious – the show that answers listener questions about the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>Now, if you look out over that bay on any given day, and you’ll see a lot of boat traffic. Ferries chugging along their routes, massive cargo ships headed to port, oil tankers on their way to Richmond, cruise ships unload passengers.\u003c/p>\n"
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>And then weaving between those larger ships are sailboats tacking back and forth, Coast Guard boats patrolling the shoreline, kayakers, even swimmers! To an untrained eye, it can seem like absolute chaos.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephane Rohlfs: \u003c/strong>I used to live in West Oakland, and during the pandemic, when we were all desperate to go outside, I started doing a little bit of jogging at Middle Harbor.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>She also noticed the cargo ships further out, parked in the middle of the bay. And started wondering…\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephane Rohlfs: \u003c/strong>How do the cargo ships know where to park? And is there an invisible parking lot or some other system? \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Stephanie is not the only one curious about how it all works out there. Her question won a Bay Curious voting round, so there are a lot of you with the same question. Here to answer Stephanie is Bay Curious editor and Producer Katrina Schwartz. Hey, Katrina!\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> You’ve become quite the maritime expert over the last few months.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I know, I got to dig into how the \u003cem>bar pilots\u003c/em> work and shadow one of them on a job for an episode that aired a few weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> If you’re interested in that episode, by the way, we’ll put a link in our show notes. But right now, let’s get into Stephanie’s question. \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Well, before we get into where and how cargo ships park, I first need to tell you a little story that sets up how we got to the system we have today\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Allow me to set the scene…\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cem>Dramatic music\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It was a cold, foggy night in 1971…the kind where you’d be happy to be snuggled up at home. But a disaster was quietly unfolding in the bay, right under the Golden Gate Bridge. Two big oil tankers were heading in opposite directions…\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>So they made it mandatory for you to listen to a particular channel on the radio and follow the direction of the vessel traffic service. And in 1972, VTS San Francisco became the very first VTS in the United States. \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> The very first VTS! That’s kind of a claim to fame. Um, what does VTS do exactly?\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Well, they are basically air traffic control for ships. And they’re important to Stephanie’s question about parking in the bay because they communicate with ships coming in from the open sea, and manage the areas where they can park.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>There is, although in maritime lingo they call parking lots “anchorages.” There are 30 anchorages, or zones, in total. Most are in the main bay, and then others are scattered throughout the region’s waterways.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed:\u003c/strong> I would say technically you are not allowed to anchor anywhere outside of those anchorages.\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>And this is for big ships – recreational vessels like sailboats or yachts are another story.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Tell me about a few of the most prominent anchorages we might see from shore.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>OK, so, one of them is called Anchorage 5. It’s just south of the Richmond Bridge. You’ll often see tugboats parked there because when an oil tanker ship comes in, the tugboats are waiting to push it up alongside the oil terminals there in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>Just west of Treasure Island, we have Anchorage 7. And that’s the one that I think a lot of people, well, it piques my attention when I see someone anchored there because it is very visible and it’s highly susceptible to winds and currents and all the weather aspects you can get outta that.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Gary says that one is temporary and is most often used by ships that are only going to be there a few hours while they bring on supplies. You won’t see ships there all the time. But the area south of the Bay Bridge and north of the San Mateo Bridge is what most people see.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>And then the biggest one I think most people see when you’re driving across the Bay Bridge, and you’re looking south, you’ll see what we call Anchorage 9, that is our parking lot. That’s where the large ships go to await birth or make repairs or refuel. But that’s our big one down there. That’s our major parking lot.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Anchorage nine gets a lot of use by really large ships, so there are designated “buckets” or spots where ships drop their anchors. And that’s because if the weather is really bad and a ship is getting buffeted by the wind and is out at the end of its anchor chain that it’s not going to hit anything nearby. All told, there are 24 of those “anchor buckets” in Anchorage 9. \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Tell me a little more about how this whole parking lot system works. Is there a parking meter? A valet? Are we talking parallel parking or pull-in?\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>They have a little bit more in-depth knowledge of where the ship is going, when does it need to be there, how deep is its draft and what is it carrying. I kind of think of it like the matrix. They’re looking at all the windows. They know what’s coming next and who’s leaving next.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>My first question was how much it costs to park at one of these anchorages, but Gary said the fee structure doesn’t work the same way as a parking lot. Instead, the shipping companies pay the bar pilots a fee that’s based on tonnage. They don’t pay the Coast Guard anything for the actual harbor spot. But most ships don’t want to sit around long in the harbor because that’s money lost.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We need to take a quick break, but when we come back we’ll learn what makes this region so tricky to manage. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> KQED is member-supported media. That means we don’t have any shareholders to please or business conflicts that could affect our reporting. It’s you we’re serving – plain and simple. If that type of journalism sounds like your jam, consider becoming a member at \u003ca href=\"http://donate.kqed.org/podcasts\">donate.kqed.org/podcasts\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>OK, now back to talking about all the boat traffic we see in the Bay with Bay Curious editor and producer Katrina Schwartz. So, we’ve established that there IS a parking lot for the ships in the bay and that it’s highly regulated because when ships collide, it can be catastrophic, as we saw in 1971. What makes this area so tricky for mariners?. \u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed:\u003c/strong> It is tricky because of the weather, and it’s tricky, tricky, it’s unique because of the different kinds of waters that we have. We have offshore, we have a bay, we have estuary, we have delta. I mean rivers that go all the way up to Sacramento and Stockton.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Gary compared it to the port in Long Beach, which actually does a lot more shipping than any of our ports, but is also simpler.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Yes, and the waterways themselves in the Bay Area are complicated, with bridges, rivers, shallow areas, etc. It’s part of the reason we have the bar pilots…mariners with local knowledge who board every ship over a certain size and navigate it in and out of the bay. And many local disasters have happened in the fog. Like in 2007…the Costco-Busan incident when an oil tanker clipped the Bay Bridge. So, Gary says now ships don’t go under the bridge or leave anchor if visibility is less than half a nautical mile.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>One of the interesting things I learned that’s a bit of a side note to the question is that the crews on foreign ships are not allowed off the vessel when they are at anchor or unloading because they are considered foreign nationals. But sometimes ships do sit at anchor for months at a time, which is obviously a tough situation for the folks on board. So, there’s an organization… Seafarer’s Ministry of the Golden Gate… whose mission is to check up on those folks, on the mental and physical well-being of crew members.\u003c/p>\n",
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A quarter mile west of the Golden Gate Bridge, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/Chronicle-Covers-San-Francisco-Bay-s-oil-spill-6754542.php\">two ships collided\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“800,000 gallons of petroleum spilled in the bay,” said Gary Reed, Director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/VTS%20User%20Guides/VTS_SF_UserManual_APR2025.pdf\">Vessel Traffic Service San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"753\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092755\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-02-KQED.jpg 950w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-02-KQED-160x127.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bulldozers were used to try and clean up oil-soaked sand at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach in 1971. 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Often tugboats and barges are anchored there waiting to assist oil tankers as they come into the bay to load and unload.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Another eye-catching location is Anchorage 7, just west of Treasure Island. Reed said this is a temporary anchorage meant for short-term use. Most frequently, ships will stop and anchor here if they’ve been sitting at anchor for weeks and are finally headed to their next destination, but need to resupply before doing so. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092754\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-01-KQED-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/ShipParking-01-KQED-1536x1241.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Volunteers work to clean up oil washing up on Ocean Beach after a collision between two oil tankers under the Golden Gate Bridge spilled 800,000 gallons of oil into the bay in 1971. 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To an untrained eye, it can seem like absolute chaos.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Stephanie Rohlfs has spent a lot of time looking at the ships on the bay.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephane Rohlfs: \u003c/strong>I used to live in West Oakland, and during the pandemic, when we were all desperate to go outside, I started doing a little bit of jogging at Middle Harbor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Right near the Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephane Rohlfs: \u003c/strong>Involved a lot of staring at container ships going by.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>She also noticed the cargo ships further out, parked in the middle of the bay. And started wondering…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stephane Rohlfs: \u003c/strong>How do the cargo ships know where to park? And is there an invisible parking lot or some other system? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Stephanie is not the only one curious about how it all works out there. Her question won a Bay Curious voting round, so there are a lot of you with the same question. Here to answer Stephanie is Bay Curious editor and Producer Katrina Schwartz. Hey, Katrina!\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Hi, Olivia.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> You’ve become quite the maritime expert over the last few months.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I know, I got to dig into how the \u003cem>bar pilots\u003c/em> work and shadow one of them on a job for an episode that aired a few weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> If you’re interested in that episode, by the way, we’ll put a link in our show notes. But right now, let’s get into Stephanie’s question. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Well, before we get into where and how cargo ships park, I first need to tell you a little story that sets up how we got to the system we have today\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> OK, I’m listening.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Allow me to set the scene…\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cem>Dramatic music\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It was a cold, foggy night in 1971…the kind where you’d be happy to be snuggled up at home. But a disaster was quietly unfolding in the bay, right under the Golden Gate Bridge. Two big oil tankers were heading in opposite directions…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival tape: \u003c/strong>The Oregon was moving out of the Gate and the Arizona was moving toward the Gate to come inside the bay. Both ships had been in touch with the Coast Guard for information on weather conditions and locations of ships.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>But back then, there weren’t as many safety protocols in place. So after checking in with the Coast Guard, both ships stopped communicating.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival tape: \u003c/strong>At about 1:45 Monday morning, the incoming Arizona rammed the Oregon port side, about a quarter mile west of the Golden Gate just opposite the center span. The two ships locked together with oil gushing from the gaping hole and drifted towards the south end of Angel Island.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>So 800,000 gallons of petroleum spilled in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>That’s Gary Reed. He works for the Coast Guard, managing Vessel Traffic Services in San Francisco. He knows this history intimately.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>Now the two operators were trying to call the ships and trying to call the ships; they were just watching this slow train wreck about to happen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Gary told me that since ships only checked in when they wanted to…there was no way to alert the two ships they were on a path to collision, even though the Coast Guard could see it all on the radar.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Franciscans woke up that Monday morning to oil on their beaches.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival tape: \u003c/strong>I went down to the beach, down to Ocean Beach, Monday afternoon at about 2 o’clock. I swim in the ocean every day. And I go down there and see all this oil. It’s just sick.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>There was a huge outpouring of volunteers over the following days and weeks to not only help clean up oil, but to also try and save the birds that were so covered in oil they could barely move.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archival tape: \u003c/strong>In addition to the 150 or so paid workmen, there were at least that many volunteers along the marina today. 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And they’re important to Stephanie’s question about parking in the bay because they communicate with ships coming in from the open sea, and manage the areas where they can park.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> So there IS a parking lot!\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>There is, although in maritime lingo they call parking lots “anchorages.” There are 30 anchorages, or zones, in total. 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And that’s the one that I think a lot of people, well, it piques my attention when I see someone anchored there because it is very visible and it’s highly susceptible to winds and currents and all the weather aspects you can get outta that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Gary says that one is temporary and is most often used by ships that are only going to be there a few hours while they bring on supplies. You won’t see ships there all the time. But the area south of the Bay Bridge and north of the San Mateo Bridge is what most people see.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>And then the biggest one I think most people see when you’re driving across the Bay Bridge, and you’re looking south, you’ll see what we call Anchorage 9, that is our parking lot. That’s where the large ships go to await birth or make repairs or refuel. But that’s our big one down there. 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But most ships don’t want to sit around long in the harbor because that’s money lost.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We need to take a quick break, but when we come back we’ll learn what makes this region so tricky to manage. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor Break\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> KQED is member-supported media. That means we don’t have any shareholders to please or business conflicts that could affect our reporting. It’s you we’re serving – plain and simple. If that type of journalism sounds like your jam, consider becoming a member at \u003ca href=\"http://donate.kqed.org/podcasts\">donate.kqed.org/podcasts\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>OK, now back to talking about all the boat traffic we see in the Bay with Bay Curious editor and producer Katrina Schwartz. So, we’ve established that there IS a parking lot for the ships in the bay and that it’s highly regulated because when ships collide, it can be catastrophic, as we saw in 1971. What makes this area so tricky for mariners?. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I’m going to let Gary Reed, head of VTS, answer that.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed:\u003c/strong> It is tricky because of the weather, and it’s tricky, tricky, it’s unique because of the different kinds of waters that we have. We have offshore, we have a bay, we have estuary, we have delta. I mean rivers that go all the way up to Sacramento and Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Gary compared it to the port in Long Beach, which actually does a lot more shipping than any of our ports, but is also simpler.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: \u003c/strong>Their area is very limited. 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And we know that if we can’t see the Oakland Bay Bridge from our camera, then the visibility is such that people can’t move.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>While we’re talking about the bay, I want to ask another question that we get a lot from audience members. Many know that on average, the bay is actually pretty shallow, especially down in the South Bay. It can be only 12 feet deep or so. So some of our waterways are dredged. Explain what that is, who does it and how often?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Dredging is the process of excavating the bay floor to make deeper shipping channels. The Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for dredging…and they do it on an ongoing basis. Remember, many of these cargo ships are truly huge, like skyscrapers on their sides moving through the water. And they’re carrying a lot of weight, which means they also stick down into the water pretty far too…that’s called the ship’s draft. Dredging shipping lanes that are deeper than the natural bay floor is the only way that these big container ships can continue to work here.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And I did ask Gary where the Army Corps of Engineers dump the stuff they’ve dredged up.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gary Reed: [00:40:46] There is a spot off a Pacific beach that they can dump their spoils because what they’re dredging is non-toxic. 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A totally different lifestyle than what a lot of us landlubbers are used to.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That was Bay Curious editor and producer, Katrina Schwartz.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This question was selected by you in a voting round on \u003ca href=\"http://baycurious.org\">BayCurious.org\u003c/a>. Be sure you never miss a voting round by subscribing to the Bay Curious newsletter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made at member-supported KQED in San Francisco. Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale, and me, Olivia Allen-Price. With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>His uncle fought and died for the United States during the war, while his family was locked away at the Heart Mountain American concentration camp in Wyoming, Oda said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You especially do not stay quiet when you have been taught via painful history exactly where that road leads,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Hayase helped advance the movement for redress and reparations for Japanese Americans in the 1970s and 1980s, and co-founded San José Nikkei Resisters, a social justice organization. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“One of the things that former incarcerees like my parents’ generation and older told us is that they wanted to make sure that it would never happen to anybody else. And we took that as kind of a mission statement, kind of a command that was so important to us,” Hayase said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That history is a driving force behind the group’s demand to stop the ICE office and detention facility being planned and built in South Santa Clara County, just outside Gilroy city limits. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The county and Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office filed a lawsuit against ICE in June aiming to stop the center from advancing, saying it was illegally being developed in secret, skipping over environmental and intergovernmental cooperation laws and regulations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The federal agency has not offered much detail about its facility, saying earlier this year it was planning an office at the location and that it would support its work in the state and country. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges the facility at 7240 Holsclaw Road is planned to be nearly 19,000 square feet, and capable of holding roughly 150 people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>During the rally on Wednesday, Hayase said she feels “righteous anger” at what she views as the cruelty being inflicted at mass scale across the nation. Around 400,000 people have been detained by ICE since President Donald Trump began his second term, with widespread reports of poor conditions in detention facilities, more than 50 in-custody deaths and a growing number of fatal shootings in the street by federal agents, she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We hoped that by illuminating our history, we could inspire people to make sure that it never happened again. But today, unfortunately, it’s too late to just say never again. The thing we feared is happening again now,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12060760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/RobBontaAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta comments on the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning a federal judge’s limits on “roving patrols,” and enforcement stops by ICE agents in Southern California, during a news conference on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025. (Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The groups were joined by elected officials from local, county, state and federal offices, including Rep. Zoe Lofgren, State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, Assemblymembers Ash Kalra and Patrick Ahrens, Santa Clara County Supervisor Betty Duong and San José City Councilmember Anthony Tordillos. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“ICE is out of control. It needs to be rebuilt from top to bottom. We have dangerous, masked, armed men snatching people who’ve lived here for years and disappearing them off the streets,” Lofgren said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“And if that detention center is opened…what it’s going to mean is that those masked, armed, dangerous agents can fan out across Northern California and bring their reign of terror to our communities. We cannot allow that to happen,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In recent court filings, ICE agreed to voluntarily hold off on further construction of the facility as part of a scheduling compromise with attorneys for Santa Clara County and the Attorney General’s office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The county and the state are also asking a judge for a preliminary injunction to halt the project indefinitely while the long-term litigation plays out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/GettyImages-1330932126-scaled-e1643861298742.jpg\" alt=\"A close shot of Zoe Lofgren, a middle-aged white woman with shoulder-length blond hair and glasses, wearing large earrings and a dark blue blazer, speaks into a microphone in front of an American flag.\" class=\"wp-image-11903832\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. Rep. 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(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She expects the legacy of the park as a valuable shared space in the city’s downtown to continue, now and after the renaming. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“A name is a name, but at the end of the day, it’s about the memories and the community connections that are made in that place,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After the close of the survey, city staff will review the results and present recommendations to the Parks and Recreation Commission at its Sept. 2 meeting, according to the city. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The commission is expected to make a recommendation to the City Council, which will make the final decision on the park’s new name.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jamie Ortizen, of San José, was visiting the park on Monday with her family and a friend from out of town. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After reviewing the five naming options, Ortizen said she likes Farmworkers Plaza. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It still has the spirit of what Cesar Chavez was fighting for. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/prisons\">California prisons\u003c/a> are increasingly relying on an unusual fire alarm system: humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2020 and 2025, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has spent nearly $50 million on “fire watch” staffing costs. In recent years, prison employees have spent roughly 270,000 hours monitoring for smoke or fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They patrol prisons and visually inspect different areas during their shifts, according to job postings reviewed by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the majority of California’s 31 prisons have deficient fire alarm systems and it would cost $1.5 billion to replace them all, according to the department’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/fpcm/wp-content/uploads/sites/184/2026/01/2025_MPAR-ADA_Final.pdf\">annual report\u003c/a> submitted in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the face of outdated, malfunctioning and inoperable fire alarm systems, the Office of the State Fire Marshal ordered the department to run fire watch coverage until it repairs or replaces its fire alarm systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This process has come at a significant expense to the department in staff costs for fire watch coverage,” corrections officials wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://bcp.dof.ca.gov/2627/FY2627_ORG5225_BCP8797.pdf\">recent $15.2 million budget request\u003c/a> to support next year’s coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12090740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12090740\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260630-CCWFTOUR-34-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260630-CCWFTOUR-34-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260630-CCWFTOUR-34-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260630-CCWFTOUR-34-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarcerated women walk through a Receiving and Release (R&R) yard at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, California, on June 30, 2026. The prison is the largest women’s correctional facility in California, and the R&R yard is used to process incarcerated people entering and leaving the facility. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a drop in the bucket for the department’s $14.6 billion budget, but costs continue to balloon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department in June said it was on track to spend roughly $40 million for last year’s fire watch coverage, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. That’s roughly $25 million over its budgeted authority, the office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Replacing a single prison’s fire alarm system costs between $3 million and $87 million, according to estimates in the system’s facilities master plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caitlin O’Neil, who monitors the corrections budget as a principal fiscal and policy analyst at the Legislative Analyst’s Office, said the department has historically used correctional officers for fire coverage because the assignment requires keys and access to move about the prison freely. Their fire watch hours are typically coded to overtime.[aside postID=news_12088448 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/bailey-photo-2-scaled-e1782232782432.jpeg']The base pay for an experienced correctional officer is $9,647 a month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhr.ca.gov/about-calhr/divisions-programs/financial-management-division/compensation-surveys/2024-correctional-officer-total-compensation-survey/\">according to a 2024 salary survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But O’Neil said the department is exploring whether it can achieve fire watch coverage with a lower cost job classification — recognizing that correctional officers have more capabilities than just looking for fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to O’Neil, the department is piloting a fire watch program at Solano State Prison. There, fire watch positions are classified as an “office assistant” and report to a correctional sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pay for that position tops out at $4,357 a month, according to a job ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Royal Ramey, a formerly incarcerated firefighter who co-founded the nonprofit organization Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, said fire safety inside correctional institutions is non-negotiable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who are incarcerated, as well as the staff inside these facilities deserve reliable systems and strong emergency protections that keep everyone safe,” he said. “In situations involving fire emergency response, there can be no gaps in protection. But the priority must also remain protecting lives while continuing to advance permanent and reliable infrastructure solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Matt Cate, who was California’s corrections secretary under former Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown, said he was skeptical about the spending because people are paid to stand around and look for a problem that doesn’t exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/110822-KernValleyPrison-LV_CM_04-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/110822-KernValleyPrison-LV_CM_04-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/110822-KernValleyPrison-LV_CM_04-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/110822-KernValleyPrison-LV_CM_04-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guard towers outside of Kern Valley State Prison on Nov. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Large-scale fires in prisons are extremely rare because prisons are made of concrete and steel,” he said. “There’s a fire department attached to each prison and there are people throughout the prison who are there all the time. It’s staffed 24-7.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cate, the state has “very strict” regulations to manage fire risk in prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that puts the department in a position of either upgrading its fire alarm systems for hundreds of millions of dollars or requesting incremental cash each year to meet those regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little like deciding, do we buy the house or do we rent?” he said. “It’s ultimately the governor’s office and the Legislature who have to decide how much to invest versus how much to plug the problem through adding additional staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen Cowan, who studies the impacts of \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025GH001569\">extreme weather disasters in prisons and jails\u003c/a> as an assistant professor at the University of Buffalo, said she did not know it was legal for prisons to have inoperable fire alarm systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is baseline disaster preparedness,” she said. “It’s certainly concerning to know that that (technology) is missing. It makes you wonder what else is missing in the facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two California state prisons had to create evacuation plans in 2023 when flooding approached them. They did not ultimately evacuate, but the near-disaster raised concerns about emergency planning. Here, rising water from the intermittent Tulare Lake approached one of the prisons on April 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(George Rose/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cowan said the department’s reliance on fire watch positions in lieu of up-to-date technology could create big delays in fire detection, risking more injuries, deaths, and detrimental health impacts from smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wouldn’t let anyone else live in a place that doesn’t have a smoke detector,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cayla Mihalovich is a California Local News fellow.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/07/prisons-fire-watch/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The base pay for an experienced correctional officer is $9,647 a month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhr.ca.gov/about-calhr/divisions-programs/financial-management-division/compensation-surveys/2024-correctional-officer-total-compensation-survey/\">according to a 2024 salary survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But O’Neil said the department is exploring whether it can achieve fire watch coverage with a lower cost job classification — recognizing that correctional officers have more capabilities than just looking for fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to O’Neil, the department is piloting a fire watch program at Solano State Prison. There, fire watch positions are classified as an “office assistant” and report to a correctional sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pay for that position tops out at $4,357 a month, according to a job ad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Royal Ramey, a formerly incarcerated firefighter who co-founded the nonprofit organization Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, said fire safety inside correctional institutions is non-negotiable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who are incarcerated, as well as the staff inside these facilities deserve reliable systems and strong emergency protections that keep everyone safe,” he said. “In situations involving fire emergency response, there can be no gaps in protection. But the priority must also remain protecting lives while continuing to advance permanent and reliable infrastructure solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Matt Cate, who was California’s corrections secretary under former Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown, said he was skeptical about the spending because people are paid to stand around and look for a problem that doesn’t exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/110822-KernValleyPrison-LV_CM_04-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/110822-KernValleyPrison-LV_CM_04-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/110822-KernValleyPrison-LV_CM_04-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/110822-KernValleyPrison-LV_CM_04-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guard towers outside of Kern Valley State Prison on Nov. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Large-scale fires in prisons are extremely rare because prisons are made of concrete and steel,” he said. “There’s a fire department attached to each prison and there are people throughout the prison who are there all the time. It’s staffed 24-7.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cate, the state has “very strict” regulations to manage fire risk in prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that puts the department in a position of either upgrading its fire alarm systems for hundreds of millions of dollars or requesting incremental cash each year to meet those regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little like deciding, do we buy the house or do we rent?” he said. “It’s ultimately the governor’s office and the Legislature who have to decide how much to invest versus how much to plug the problem through adding additional staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen Cowan, who studies the impacts of \u003ca href=\"https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025GH001569\">extreme weather disasters in prisons and jails\u003c/a> as an assistant professor at the University of Buffalo, said she did not know it was legal for prisons to have inoperable fire alarm systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is baseline disaster preparedness,” she said. “It’s certainly concerning to know that that (technology) is missing. It makes you wonder what else is missing in the facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/050525-Corcoran-State-Prison-GR-Getty-01-CM-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two California state prisons had to create evacuation plans in 2023 when flooding approached them. They did not ultimately evacuate, but the near-disaster raised concerns about emergency planning. Here, rising water from the intermittent Tulare Lake approached one of the prisons on April 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(George Rose/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cowan said the department’s reliance on fire watch positions in lieu of up-to-date technology could create big delays in fire detection, risking more injuries, deaths, and detrimental health impacts from smoke exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wouldn’t let anyone else live in a place that doesn’t have a smoke detector,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cayla Mihalovich is a California Local News fellow.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/07/prisons-fire-watch/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The grizzly bear on California’s flag went extinct a century ago in the Golden State. Now, a group of tribes and environmentalists is urging the Legislature to study whether it’s possible to bring them back.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Grizzlies once lived across most of California. As many as 10,000 may have roamed before the Gold Rush. They were so prevalent that when California settlers tried to form their own nation, they called it the Bear Flag Republic. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Settlers systematically exterminated the animals, and they were gone by the 1920s, leaving the smaller black bear as the only surviving bear species.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A century and 34.5 million more people later, Inglewood Democratic Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/laura-richardson-187466\">Laura Richardson\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb1305\">Senate Bill 1305\u003c/a> would task the California Department of Fish and Wildlife with creating a “roadmap that evaluates whether, and under what conditions, reintroduction of the grizzly bear is feasible and advisable.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure provides no funding to carry out the study, which could be provided by a future Legislature or an outside group. And even if it were funded and its recommendations acted on, it would be several years and require help from a potentially adversarial federal government before a grizzly bear’s claws ever cut tracks in California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260317-MONARCH-THE-BEAR-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12076801\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260317-MONARCH-THE-BEAR-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260317-MONARCH-THE-BEAR-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260317-MONARCH-THE-BEAR-04-KQED-1536x1028.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">It is often said that the bear on the modern California state flag is based on “Monarch,” one of the last grizzly bears to live in the state. But researchers now believe it was based on the drawing of another bear, Samson. (Joseph Sohm/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The proposal’s hypothetical nature has done little to ease tensions over the prospect of some day returning the continent’s second-largest land predator to the nation’s most populous state. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On one side are organizations representing rural communities, hunting organizations and ranchers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>They argue it’s preposterous to consider reintroducing aggressive 800-pound bears to California’s degraded, drought- and fire-prone landscapes. Rural areas, they say, are already overwhelmed with conflicts with \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/mountain-lion-attacks-2-people-in-california-foothills-killing-1/\">mountain lions\u003c/a> and growing \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Black-Bear\">black bear\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article316446094.html\">wolf populations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I just don’t think that our California today is ready for a grizzly bear,” Republican Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/heather-hadwick-187417\">Heather Hadwick\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/279747#t=1192&f=ea737d404cb65c8e1f0d48a47f0e4922\">told the Assembly wildlife committee\u003c/a> last month. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hadwick’s sprawling rural district in northeastern California has faced years of tensions over predators, especially wolves, killing livestock and frightening small towns.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Environmentalists, tribes support \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At least 40 groups, including tribes, environmentalists and animal welfare organizations, support the bill, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/\">CalMatters Digital Democracy database\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>They say bringing back the state’s biggest apex land predator would improve the ecosystem and right an ecological wrong from California’s past.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I can see the ways in which my homeland has suffered from the loss of iconic species such as the grizzly, and that this loss lingers in our heart and in the attenuation of a millennia-old relationship,” Tiana Williams-Claussen, director of the Yurok Tribe’s wildlife department, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/279747#t=27&f=ea737d404cb65c8e1f0d48a47f0e4922\">told lawmakers last month\u003c/a>. The Yurok and Tejon tribes are the bill’s cosponsors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Yurok-Tribe-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092588\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Yurok-Tribe-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Yurok-Tribe-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Yurok-Tribe-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Brook Thompson of the Yurok Tribe overlooks the removal site of the Iron Gate Dam, allowing the Klamath River to run in its original path in that area for the first time in nearly a century, near Hornbrook, California, on Aug. 14, 2024. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calgrizzly.org/feasibility-study\">A 2025 study\u003c/a> from a coalition of tribes, environmentalists and university researchers found that the Yurok lands on the north coast as well as the nearby Klamath Mountains and Trinity Alps could be suitable grizzly habitat. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The study also singled out the southern Sierra Nevada, including Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks, as well as the Transverse Mountains that span from San Bernardino County to Santa Barbara County.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>It estimated the habitats could sustain between 424 and 1,713 grizzlies, though it recommends bringing in a population of 25 grizzlies to start. Grizzlies can be found in Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters of the proposal say grizzlies would help California’s ecosystem. The giant omnivorous bears till soil as they root up meals, helping restore conifer forests, prairies and oak savannas, easing fire danger.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Grizzlies also serve as a check on overpopulation of prey. Grizzlies could reduce California’s human conflicts with black bears since grizzlies compete for food with their smaller cousins. Grizzlies also kill and eat black bears.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The loss of grizzlies might have been one of those contributing factors to that (black bear population) overgrowth,” Williams-Claussen said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grizzlies and the urban-rural divide\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters’ arguments have appealed to the Democrats who control the Legislature. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Only Republicans have voted against the bill, which is pending before the Assembly Appropriations Committee when the Legislature returns Aug. 3.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Richardson didn’t return an interview request for this story. The measure’s Democratic coauthors are lawmakers from Southern California representing predominantly urban districts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/072126-Stern-and-Richardson-Split-01-CM-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A side-by-side split image showing a person on the left in a blue suit and a red tie holding a cell phone in their hand. The person on the right is wearing a black blazer over a blouse with a black-and-white pattern while speaking on the California Assembly floor into a microphone.\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From left, state Sen. Henry Stern and state Sen. Laura Richardson. Photos by Fred Greaves for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This spring, one of the coauthors, Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/henry-stern-36368\">Henry Stern\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/279103#t=1532&f=20798ddeaaa55218d15cdbf945d9f503\">told the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee\u003c/a> that a mountain lion recently attacked one of his neighbors, so he understands rural concerns about predators.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Even so, learning to coexist with them is just part of living in a beautiful state filled with wildlife, Stern said.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“We want to live in a California where — that risk — there’s some beauty in it,” said Stern, who represents the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles. “To have that element in our lives, as opposed to just sterilizing our landscapes and our nature so that nothing else could ever be a risk … I think it makes us more human to have wildness in our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Washoe, a Native American from Modoc County, hears that kind of talk from urban residents and rolls her eyes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing I would love more than to see grizzly bears on the beach at Santa Barbara chasing rich people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But she said that would be cruel — to the bears.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Like many in California, Washoe’s people still pay homage to grizzlies through ceremonial bear dances, but she said it’s not “ethically right to bring them back.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She hopes lawmakers consider what life would be like for the grizzlies they’d have captured and brought to California, where they would face a landscape radically different and eight times more populated than when the bears last lived here.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The bears don’t have any say in it,” Washoe said. “Where they’re at, they’re living a pretty good life, and we’d take them and put them here in a landscape that is so dramatically changed from what it was the last time that the bears were truly living a good life here … I understand the idea of it, but to me it feels egotistical.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">State wildlife officials wary\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The California agency that would be responsible for studying grizzly bear reintroduction does not appear eager to take it on. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Department of Fish and Wildlife, which hasn’t taken an official position on the legislation, does not comment on pending bills, spokesperson Peter Tira told CalMatters this week. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But there’s no indication the department’s position on grizzlies has changed since a former spokesperson told a reporter in 2023 that wildlife officials can barely keep up with existing predator conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12084670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks about his state budget proposal on Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Sacramento, California. (Jeff Chiu/AP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Bringing another predator into the state that we would have to manage and come up with some program to figure out what happens when the grizzly attacks a human or kills livestock does not seem feasible for us,” then-spokesperson Jordan Traverso told \u003ca href=\"https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a43127739/grizzly-bear-return-california-peter-alagona/\">the Alta Journal\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The department is chronically underfunded and understaffed. A legislative analysis for this year’s bill notes that Fish and Wildlife has enough cash and staff to complete just 38% of its existing duties. The department “would be unable to absorb the demand this roadmap would have on staff time and resources” according to the analysis.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>David Bess, who recently retired as its top law enforcement officer overseeing California’s game wardens, said the department is “drowning in work,” much of it trying to manage conflicts with predators already on the landscape.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I just don’t see where the department even has the capacity to do it,” Bess said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trump’s grizzly proposal\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, President Donald Trump’s administration has added a new wrinkle to the debate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the administration issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/07/15/nx-s1-5893400/trump-administrations-proposal-to-shift-management-of-grizzly-bears-causes-confusion\">proposed rule change\u003c/a> that seeks to return management of grizzlies to states, despite the bears being protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Environmentalists fear Trump’s proposal would allow conservative states to begin killing grizzlies to appease ranchers and big game hunters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12019868\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5-800x556.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5-1536x1067.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A grizzly bear mother and her cub in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. (Karen Bleier/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The proposed federal rule wouldn’t impact California’s grizzly proposal, since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would be in charge of any reintroduction program, said Andrea Zaccardi, carnivore conservation legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity, which supports Richardson’s legislation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But having the bears in environmentally friendly states such as California could prove helpful if other states begin aggressively killing them off, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, they would be managed more responsibly there,” said Zaccardi, whose organization has \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/grizzly_bear/bring_back_the_bears.html\">unsuccessfully petitioned the feds\u003c/a> to return grizzly bears to California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/07/california-grizzly-bear-reintroduction-bill/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>The measure provides no funding to carry out the study, which could be provided by a future Legislature or an outside group. And even if it were funded and its recommendations acted on, it would be several years and require help from a potentially adversarial federal government before a grizzly bear’s claws ever cut tracks in California.\u003c/p>\n",
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Rural areas, they say, are already overwhelmed with conflicts with \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/mountain-lion-attacks-2-people-in-california-foothills-killing-1/\">mountain lions\u003c/a> and growing \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Black-Bear\">black bear\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article316446094.html\">wolf populations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I just don’t think that our California today is ready for a grizzly bear,” Republican Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/heather-hadwick-187417\">Heather Hadwick\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/279747#t=1192&f=ea737d404cb65c8e1f0d48a47f0e4922\">told the Assembly wildlife committee\u003c/a> last month. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hadwick’s sprawling rural district in northeastern California has faced years of tensions over predators, especially wolves, killing livestock and frightening small towns.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Environmentalists, tribes support \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At least 40 groups, including tribes, environmentalists and animal welfare organizations, support the bill, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/\">CalMatters Digital Democracy database\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>They say bringing back the state’s biggest apex land predator would improve the ecosystem and right an ecological wrong from California’s past.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I can see the ways in which my homeland has suffered from the loss of iconic species such as the grizzly, and that this loss lingers in our heart and in the attenuation of a millennia-old relationship,” Tiana Williams-Claussen, director of the Yurok Tribe’s wildlife department, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/279747#t=27&f=ea737d404cb65c8e1f0d48a47f0e4922\">told lawmakers last month\u003c/a>. The Yurok and Tejon tribes are the bill’s cosponsors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Yurok-Tribe-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092588\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Yurok-Tribe-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Yurok-Tribe-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/Yurok-Tribe-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Brook Thompson of the Yurok Tribe overlooks the removal site of the Iron Gate Dam, allowing the Klamath River to run in its original path in that area for the first time in nearly a century, near Hornbrook, California, on Aug. 14, 2024. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calgrizzly.org/feasibility-study\">A 2025 study\u003c/a> from a coalition of tribes, environmentalists and university researchers found that the Yurok lands on the north coast as well as the nearby Klamath Mountains and Trinity Alps could be suitable grizzly habitat. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The study also singled out the southern Sierra Nevada, including Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks, as well as the Transverse Mountains that span from San Bernardino County to Santa Barbara County.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>It estimated the habitats could sustain between 424 and 1,713 grizzlies, though it recommends bringing in a population of 25 grizzlies to start. Grizzlies can be found in Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters of the proposal say grizzlies would help California’s ecosystem. The giant omnivorous bears till soil as they root up meals, helping restore conifer forests, prairies and oak savannas, easing fire danger.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Grizzlies also serve as a check on overpopulation of prey. Grizzlies could reduce California’s human conflicts with black bears since grizzlies compete for food with their smaller cousins. Grizzlies also kill and eat black bears.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The loss of grizzlies might have been one of those contributing factors to that (black bear population) overgrowth,” Williams-Claussen said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grizzlies and the urban-rural divide\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters’ arguments have appealed to the Democrats who control the Legislature. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Only Republicans have voted against the bill, which is pending before the Assembly Appropriations Committee when the Legislature returns Aug. 3.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Richardson didn’t return an interview request for this story. The measure’s Democratic coauthors are lawmakers from Southern California representing predominantly urban districts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/072126-Stern-and-Richardson-Split-01-CM-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A side-by-side split image showing a person on the left in a blue suit and a red tie holding a cell phone in their hand. The person on the right is wearing a black blazer over a blouse with a black-and-white pattern while speaking on the California Assembly floor into a microphone.\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From left, state Sen. Henry Stern and state Sen. Laura Richardson. Photos by Fred Greaves for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This spring, one of the coauthors, Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/henry-stern-36368\">Henry Stern\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/279103#t=1532&f=20798ddeaaa55218d15cdbf945d9f503\">told the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee\u003c/a> that a mountain lion recently attacked one of his neighbors, so he understands rural concerns about predators.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Even so, learning to coexist with them is just part of living in a beautiful state filled with wildlife, Stern said.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“We want to live in a California where — that risk — there’s some beauty in it,” said Stern, who represents the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles. “To have that element in our lives, as opposed to just sterilizing our landscapes and our nature so that nothing else could ever be a risk … I think it makes us more human to have wildness in our lives.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Washoe, a Native American from Modoc County, hears that kind of talk from urban residents and rolls her eyes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing I would love more than to see grizzly bears on the beach at Santa Barbara chasing rich people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But she said that would be cruel — to the bears.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Like many in California, Washoe’s people still pay homage to grizzlies through ceremonial bear dances, but she said it’s not “ethically right to bring them back.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She hopes lawmakers consider what life would be like for the grizzlies they’d have captured and brought to California, where they would face a landscape radically different and eight times more populated than when the bears last lived here.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The bears don’t have any say in it,” Washoe said. “Where they’re at, they’re living a pretty good life, and we’d take them and put them here in a landscape that is so dramatically changed from what it was the last time that the bears were truly living a good life here … I understand the idea of it, but to me it feels egotistical.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">State wildlife officials wary\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The California agency that would be responsible for studying grizzly bear reintroduction does not appear eager to take it on. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Department of Fish and Wildlife, which hasn’t taken an official position on the legislation, does not comment on pending bills, spokesperson Peter Tira told CalMatters this week. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But there’s no indication the department’s position on grizzlies has changed since a former spokesperson told a reporter in 2023 that wildlife officials can barely keep up with existing predator conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12084670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks about his state budget proposal on Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Sacramento, California. (Jeff Chiu/AP)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Bringing another predator into the state that we would have to manage and come up with some program to figure out what happens when the grizzly attacks a human or kills livestock does not seem feasible for us,” then-spokesperson Jordan Traverso told \u003ca href=\"https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a43127739/grizzly-bear-return-california-peter-alagona/\">the Alta Journal\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The department is chronically underfunded and understaffed. A legislative analysis for this year’s bill notes that Fish and Wildlife has enough cash and staff to complete just 38% of its existing duties. The department “would be unable to absorb the demand this roadmap would have on staff time and resources” according to the analysis.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>David Bess, who recently retired as its top law enforcement officer overseeing California’s game wardens, said the department is “drowning in work,” much of it trying to manage conflicts with predators already on the landscape.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I just don’t see where the department even has the capacity to do it,” Bess said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trump’s grizzly proposal\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, President Donald Trump’s administration has added a new wrinkle to the debate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the administration issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/07/15/nx-s1-5893400/trump-administrations-proposal-to-shift-management-of-grizzly-bears-causes-confusion\">proposed rule change\u003c/a> that seeks to return management of grizzlies to states, despite the bears being protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Environmentalists fear Trump’s proposal would allow conservative states to begin killing grizzlies to appease ranchers and big game hunters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12019868\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5-800x556.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-5-1536x1067.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A grizzly bear mother and her cub in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. (Karen Bleier/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The proposed federal rule wouldn’t impact California’s grizzly proposal, since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would be in charge of any reintroduction program, said Andrea Zaccardi, carnivore conservation legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity, which supports Richardson’s legislation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But having the bears in environmentally friendly states such as California could prove helpful if other states begin aggressively killing them off, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, they would be managed more responsibly there,” said Zaccardi, whose organization has \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/grizzly_bear/bring_back_the_bears.html\">unsuccessfully petitioned the feds\u003c/a> to return grizzly bears to California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A windowless warehouse on the outskirts of Davis shelters pieces of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California’s\u003c/a> forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Icy air swirls and fogs around 42,000 pounds of seeds — the past and the future of these trees, frozen in cardboard boxes. It smells like the woods on a snowy day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is like the mothership of forestry in California right here,” said Stewart McMorrow, staff chief for wildfire resilience at Cal Fire, standing outside the heavy metal door of the state seed bank at Cal Fire’s Lewis A. Moran Reforestation Center in Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private landowners especially rely on these seeds — some now more than a half-century old — to reforest property destroyed by wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the pace California is burning, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2026-04/04.16.2026-agenda-apr16-cnra-ii-wildfire-4.14.pdf\">nowhere near enough\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change and more than a century of overzealous fire suppression are now fueling wildfires so severe that they’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532829123\">wiping out the very forests\u003c/a> that need fire to thrive — leaving iconic landscapes at risk of turning into brush and scrub, permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past quarter century, high-severity wildfires have burned 2.3 million acres of California’s forestland so completely that the trees are unlikely to return on their own — according to a working draft of the state’s new reforestation strategy obtained by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12092570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_01.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_01-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_01-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sheet of Douglas fir seeds are scanned by x-ray for insect larvae by Lily Hessl, a Cal Fire forestry aide, at the Lewis A. Moran Reforestation Center in Davis on July 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is counting on these forests to store carbon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/tracking-headwaters-management-for-wildfire-resilience-in-california/\">protect water supplies\u003c/a>, clean the air, and shelter wildlife. By 2071, \u003ca href=\"https://datastories.americanforests.org/california-forests/\">one recent analysis reports\u003c/a>, half of California’s forest area could be gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reforestation,” said Malcolm North, a scientist with the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, “is pretty damn important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet to replant even a quarter of the privately owned forestlands in the state, California would need to increase seed bank capacity by roughly 300%, \u003ca href=\"https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/calfire-website/what-we-do/natural-resource-management/wildfire-resilience/reforestation-services/2025_rsp_at_a_glance.pdf?rev=d9519c34d3164306bf9feafb3e6ed81f&hash=0785BB05DE064440D7DA93D1E74FD147\">according to Cal Fire\u003c/a> — which means more seeds, more people, more space. And that wouldn’t solve the problem on federal land, which accounts for more than half the forests in the state and most of the lands that need replanting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both Sacramento and Washington have spent decades letting the money and staff needed to grow back California’s forests wither.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to focus on reforestation as an emergency, as a state,” McMorrow said. “We are slowly losing our forestland, and we’re not catching up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bleeding the federal workforce\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Timber harvests once paid for much of the U.S. Forest Service’s efforts to replant trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as new laws tightened \u003ca href=\"https://research.fs.usda.gov/download/treesearch/57828.pdf\">endangered species and other public lands protections\u003c/a>, logging in national forests declined. Severe wildfires also increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The combination devoured the \u003ca href=\"https://research.fs.usda.gov/download/treesearch/64690.pdf\">Forest Service’s resources, and people\u003c/a>: from 1998 to 2015, non-fire staff tasked with managing National Forest System lands decreased by 39%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2015-Fire-Budget-Report.pdf\">according to a 2015 report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12092571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_08.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_08.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_08-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_08-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Nursery Manager Maya Hotz examines white fir seedlings in a greenhouse at the Lewis A. Moran Reforestation Center in Davis on July 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With ever-increasing demands, a \u003ca href=\"https://research.fs.usda.gov/download/treesearch/64690.pdf\">2022 Forest Service document warned\u003c/a>, there is a “critical need” to increase the number of staff “substantially dedicated” to reforestation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress and the Biden Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.agriculture.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/REPLANT%20Factsheet.pdf\">unstoppered additional money\u003c/a> for a reforestation trust fund in 2021, a move championed by the conservation non-profit American Forests. Just a few years later, the Forest Service reported that it had replanted roughly 285,000 acres nationwide — \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/fs-fy27-congressional-budget-justification.pdf\">the highest yearly total\u003c/a> in more than a quarter century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the need still dwarfs action, and federally-directed work is lengthy and intense. Crews must clear dead and dying trees quickly to reduce the danger to people and the chance of reburns, a Forest Service spokesperson said.[aside postID=news_12092116 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/LittleFireGetty3.jpg']Finding seeds and growing seedlings can take a year or two, even before planting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government’s capacity to replant forests eroded away over time, and it will take time to rebuild it, said Solomon Dobrowski, a professor of landscape ecology at the University of Montana. Dobrowski’s research found that the reforestation gap spans \u003ca href=\"https://northlab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/195/2024/05/Mind-the-gap-reforestation-needs-vs-capacity-Dobrowski-Front-For-Clim-Change-2024.pdf\">millions of acres\u003c/a> across the West and is likely to double or even triple in the coming decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t turn that ship around on a dime,” Dobrowski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the Trump administration cut the Forest Service significantly. The agency lost \u003ca href=\"https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-26-107993/index.html?_gl=1*sas2py*_ga*MTQyODQzNDg2MC4xNzgxODg1NzIy*_ga_V393SNS3SR*czE3ODM0NDMxODckbzMkZzEkdDE3ODM0NDMzMTEkajkkbDAkaDA\">20% of its staff last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just makes me cry at night … it’s basically a child swinging a wrecking ball,” said Hugh Safford, a forest and fire ecologist with the UC Davis Environmental Science and Policy Department and a former regional ecologist for the Forest Service. “Morale is down, capacity already was really minimal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And California keeps burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A widening gap\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The loss of forests “is one of the least-known impacts of climate change and megafires,” said wildfire task force director Patrick Wright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft strategy for California obtained by CalMatters comes with no dedicated funding. The goal, Wright said, is to put every agency and organization trying to replant California’s scorched forests on the same page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy calls for streamlining planning, prioritizing projects tackling critical human safety concerns and ecosystem issues like water supply, and increasing the supply of seeds, seedlings and workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12092572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_11.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_11-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_11-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burned and fallen trees leave a section of hillside bare near Pollock Pines on July 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It urges land managers to avoid adding more fuel to the fires, and recommends replanting at lower densities and with more natural spacing instead of the classic, closely-packed “pines in lines” grid. Scientists have linked \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.70400\">high-density plantings\u003c/a> to high-severity fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most startling pieces, though, come from the draft strategy’s look at the current landscape. California would need to scale up reforestation by 35% annually to meet the state’s existing \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/-/media/CNRA-Website/Files/Initiatives/Expanding-Nature-Based-Solutions/NBS-Climate-Targets-Appendix-1---Methodology.pdf\">post-fire replanting goals\u003c/a>, which start at 280,000 acres per year in 2030. The increase would take “significant funds,” the report said, because reforestation can cost up to $6,400 an acre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the current pace is lagging. Statewide, land managers have replanted roughly 254,000 acres of severely burned forest since 2020 — or around 16% of the area stripped of forest cover by high severity fires between 2020 and 2024 alone. The number is just 8% on federal lands, outside of wilderness areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safford said the numbers are actually even more dire: Factoring in both wilderness areas and excluding forests likely to regrow on their own, \u003ca href=\"https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/forests-and-global-change/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2026.1764379/full\">his recent study reports\u003c/a> that the U.S. Forest Service replanted just 1.2% of the agency’s California lands that wildfire denuded between 2016 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t always like this, said Safford. The Forest Service’s replanting efforts mostly kept pace with wildfires until around 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then,” Safford said, “it just falls to shit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Nowhere near prepared’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For all the vitriol between Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump over \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/01/governor-newsom-challenges-president-trump-to-adopt-model-executive-order-to-help-make-america-rake-again/\">the care and raking of California’s forests\u003c/a>, state and federal money — and people — often intersect on the landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On California’s end, Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"https://reforestationtools.org/climate-adapted-seed-tool/\">funds\u003c/a> and conducts research, and provides \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/grants/forest-health\">grants\u003c/a> for forest restoration on \u003ca href=\"https://www.grants.ca.gov/grants/2026-wildfire-resilience-block-grants/\">private\u003c/a>, state and even federal land. Cal Fire also runs the reforestation center in Davis, where flats of glossy young conifers are gently misted with water in the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMorrow — tall and crisp in his navy Cal Fire uniform — can’t help but dig his hands into the dirt to pull out weeds tangling with the seedlings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12092575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_05.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_05.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_05-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_05-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Nursery Manager Maya Hotz checks on a batch of Douglas fir seedlings in a nursery at the Lewis A. Moran Reforestation Center in Davis on July 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the most challenging chokepoints, McMorrow said, is finding the right seeds to grow these seedlings — getting climbers to the right spot, at the right time, to pluck ripe cones from the treetops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Believe me, I do it,” said McMorrow, who created a tree-climbing program at Cal Fire. “We are trying to meet the demand that’s in front of us, and it’s crushing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the money for Cal Fire’s efforts — cobbled together from the state budget, federal grants and other one-time funds — represents a relatively \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/resources/2026/State-Wildfire-Resilience-Funding-051326.pdf\">small and ever-changing fraction\u003c/a> of Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4952#How_has_state_spending_on_wildfire_resilience_changed_over_time.3F\">multibillion-dollar budget\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nursery in Davis shut down \u003ca href=\"https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/calfire-website/what-we-do/natural-resource-management/wildfire-resilience/reforestation-services/cal_fire_seed_bank_aon_2025_v5_20_signed.pdf?rev=8965d92777cb4ffab11b3387e4987b5e&hash=558CF1247F1837FA3E954E453DD2CE20\">in the early 2000s\u003c/a>, a casualty of across-the-board state budget cuts. Though the seed bank freezer stayed on, the reforestation center didn’t fully reopen until after the Legislature in 2017 tapped a 2012 fee \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/Initiatives/Forest-Stewardship/Timber-Regulation-and-Forest-Restoration-Program\">on wood products\u003c/a> to bring it back online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scaling up and upgrading the facility now carries an estimated\u003ca href=\"https://bcp.dof.ca.gov/2627/FY2627_ORG3540_BCP8896.pdf\"> $26.2 million\u003c/a> price tag; this year’s state budget included about\u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2026-06/floor-report-of-the-2026-27-budget-june-27-2026_5.pdf\"> $1.2 million\u003c/a> to fund preliminary planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, other funding is on the line. California’s climate regulators — chaired by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2025/09/air-resources-board-chair-transition/\">Newsom appointee Lauren Sanchez\u003c/a> — voted in May to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2026/05/newsom-california-safe-drinking-water/\">overhaul a key climate program \u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://senv.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2026-05/lao-handout.pdf\">in ways that\u003c/a> could substantially reduce, or even eliminate, up to $200 million a year for wildfire resilience. Grants for reforestation are among the many competing priorities for this funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12092576\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_09.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_09.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_09-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_09-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leilani Villeda prepares to fire a weighted line into the high branches of a pine tree using an air-powered launcher during Cone Camp, an annual training session where participants learn how to survey and collect pine cones, in Pollock Pines on July 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://wildfiretaskforce.org/california-passes-proposition-4-providing-1-5-billion-for-wildfire-resilience/\">the Proposition 4\u003c/a> climate bond includes \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5115\">$1.5 billion\u003c/a> for wildfire and forest resilience, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/11/california-budget-earmarks-2025/\">state leaders\u003c/a> are \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/resources/2026/State-Wildfire-Resilience-Funding-051326.pdf\">spending down the bond quickly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth of the matter is that California is probably, infrastructurally speaking, in a better place than any other western state,” Safford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What that tells you is how piss-poor the capacity is in general in the Western U.S., because California is nowhere near prepared for the scale of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cone hunting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the banks of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jenkinsonlake.com/\">Jenkinson Lake\u003c/a> in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Stella Krone and Elyse Wohlenberg wrestled with a slingshot that towered over the two of them. It took their combined strength to slot the bungee into position, then Wohlenberg stepped back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All clear?” Krone asked, kneeling in a clearing and pointing the slingshot at a Douglas fir 50 yards away. “Firing!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krone, Wohlenberg, and dozens of other hard-hatted people were there, crunching over conifer needles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-camp-thats-training-a-new-generation-of-cone-collectors/\">for Cone Camp\u003c/a> — a training program led by American Forests with support from Cal Fire and the Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12092578\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_10.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_10-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_10-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cone Camp participants search for the right pine tree to collect cones from on the shores of Jenkinson Lake in Pollock Pines on July 15, 2026. Cone collection helps contribute to Cal Fire’s seed bank and reforestation program. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The campers — some forestry professionals, some interested laypeople — peeled off with oversized slingshots and souped-up potato guns to learn how to knock cones loose from tree branches. That’s how they check the cones for ripeness and viability, before sending someone up the tree to collect them for a seed bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem was, there were hardly any. Last year’s dry cones rattled to the forest floor as Krone and another camper jiggled the rope they’d shot into the canopy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So far, not a great cone year,” said Leana Weissberg, American Forests’ California director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the clearing, the instructor asked whether the group was ready to try again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s go,” Krone said. “We’re cone hunters for a reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2026/07/wildfires-california-forest-reforestation-seed/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private landowners especially rely on these seeds — some now more than a half-century old — to reforest property destroyed by wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the pace California is burning, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2026-04/04.16.2026-agenda-apr16-cnra-ii-wildfire-4.14.pdf\">nowhere near enough\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change and more than a century of overzealous fire suppression are now fueling wildfires so severe that they’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532829123\">wiping out the very forests\u003c/a> that need fire to thrive — leaving iconic landscapes at risk of turning into brush and scrub, permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past quarter century, high-severity wildfires have burned 2.3 million acres of California’s forestland so completely that the trees are unlikely to return on their own — according to a working draft of the state’s new reforestation strategy obtained by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12092570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_01.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_01-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_01-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sheet of Douglas fir seeds are scanned by x-ray for insect larvae by Lily Hessl, a Cal Fire forestry aide, at the Lewis A. Moran Reforestation Center in Davis on July 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California is counting on these forests to store carbon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/tracking-headwaters-management-for-wildfire-resilience-in-california/\">protect water supplies\u003c/a>, clean the air, and shelter wildlife. By 2071, \u003ca href=\"https://datastories.americanforests.org/california-forests/\">one recent analysis reports\u003c/a>, half of California’s forest area could be gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reforestation,” said Malcolm North, a scientist with the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, “is pretty damn important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet to replant even a quarter of the privately owned forestlands in the state, California would need to increase seed bank capacity by roughly 300%, \u003ca href=\"https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/calfire-website/what-we-do/natural-resource-management/wildfire-resilience/reforestation-services/2025_rsp_at_a_glance.pdf?rev=d9519c34d3164306bf9feafb3e6ed81f&hash=0785BB05DE064440D7DA93D1E74FD147\">according to Cal Fire\u003c/a> — which means more seeds, more people, more space. And that wouldn’t solve the problem on federal land, which accounts for more than half the forests in the state and most of the lands that need replanting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both Sacramento and Washington have spent decades letting the money and staff needed to grow back California’s forests wither.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to focus on reforestation as an emergency, as a state,” McMorrow said. “We are slowly losing our forestland, and we’re not catching up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bleeding the federal workforce\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Timber harvests once paid for much of the U.S. Forest Service’s efforts to replant trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as new laws tightened \u003ca href=\"https://research.fs.usda.gov/download/treesearch/57828.pdf\">endangered species and other public lands protections\u003c/a>, logging in national forests declined. Severe wildfires also increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The combination devoured the \u003ca href=\"https://research.fs.usda.gov/download/treesearch/64690.pdf\">Forest Service’s resources, and people\u003c/a>: from 1998 to 2015, non-fire staff tasked with managing National Forest System lands decreased by 39%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2015-Fire-Budget-Report.pdf\">according to a 2015 report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12092571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_08.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_08.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_08-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_08-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Nursery Manager Maya Hotz examines white fir seedlings in a greenhouse at the Lewis A. Moran Reforestation Center in Davis on July 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With ever-increasing demands, a \u003ca href=\"https://research.fs.usda.gov/download/treesearch/64690.pdf\">2022 Forest Service document warned\u003c/a>, there is a “critical need” to increase the number of staff “substantially dedicated” to reforestation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress and the Biden Administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.agriculture.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/REPLANT%20Factsheet.pdf\">unstoppered additional money\u003c/a> for a reforestation trust fund in 2021, a move championed by the conservation non-profit American Forests. Just a few years later, the Forest Service reported that it had replanted roughly 285,000 acres nationwide — \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/fs-fy27-congressional-budget-justification.pdf\">the highest yearly total\u003c/a> in more than a quarter century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the need still dwarfs action, and federally-directed work is lengthy and intense. Crews must clear dead and dying trees quickly to reduce the danger to people and the chance of reburns, a Forest Service spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Finding seeds and growing seedlings can take a year or two, even before planting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government’s capacity to replant forests eroded away over time, and it will take time to rebuild it, said Solomon Dobrowski, a professor of landscape ecology at the University of Montana. Dobrowski’s research found that the reforestation gap spans \u003ca href=\"https://northlab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/195/2024/05/Mind-the-gap-reforestation-needs-vs-capacity-Dobrowski-Front-For-Clim-Change-2024.pdf\">millions of acres\u003c/a> across the West and is likely to double or even triple in the coming decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t turn that ship around on a dime,” Dobrowski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the Trump administration cut the Forest Service significantly. The agency lost \u003ca href=\"https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-26-107993/index.html?_gl=1*sas2py*_ga*MTQyODQzNDg2MC4xNzgxODg1NzIy*_ga_V393SNS3SR*czE3ODM0NDMxODckbzMkZzEkdDE3ODM0NDMzMTEkajkkbDAkaDA\">20% of its staff last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just makes me cry at night … it’s basically a child swinging a wrecking ball,” said Hugh Safford, a forest and fire ecologist with the UC Davis Environmental Science and Policy Department and a former regional ecologist for the Forest Service. “Morale is down, capacity already was really minimal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And California keeps burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A widening gap\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The loss of forests “is one of the least-known impacts of climate change and megafires,” said wildfire task force director Patrick Wright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft strategy for California obtained by CalMatters comes with no dedicated funding. The goal, Wright said, is to put every agency and organization trying to replant California’s scorched forests on the same page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy calls for streamlining planning, prioritizing projects tackling critical human safety concerns and ecosystem issues like water supply, and increasing the supply of seeds, seedlings and workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12092572\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_11.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_11-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_11-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burned and fallen trees leave a section of hillside bare near Pollock Pines on July 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It urges land managers to avoid adding more fuel to the fires, and recommends replanting at lower densities and with more natural spacing instead of the classic, closely-packed “pines in lines” grid. Scientists have linked \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.70400\">high-density plantings\u003c/a> to high-severity fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most startling pieces, though, come from the draft strategy’s look at the current landscape. California would need to scale up reforestation by 35% annually to meet the state’s existing \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/-/media/CNRA-Website/Files/Initiatives/Expanding-Nature-Based-Solutions/NBS-Climate-Targets-Appendix-1---Methodology.pdf\">post-fire replanting goals\u003c/a>, which start at 280,000 acres per year in 2030. The increase would take “significant funds,” the report said, because reforestation can cost up to $6,400 an acre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the current pace is lagging. Statewide, land managers have replanted roughly 254,000 acres of severely burned forest since 2020 — or around 16% of the area stripped of forest cover by high severity fires between 2020 and 2024 alone. The number is just 8% on federal lands, outside of wilderness areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safford said the numbers are actually even more dire: Factoring in both wilderness areas and excluding forests likely to regrow on their own, \u003ca href=\"https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/forests-and-global-change/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2026.1764379/full\">his recent study reports\u003c/a> that the U.S. Forest Service replanted just 1.2% of the agency’s California lands that wildfire denuded between 2016 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t always like this, said Safford. The Forest Service’s replanting efforts mostly kept pace with wildfires until around 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then,” Safford said, “it just falls to shit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Nowhere near prepared’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For all the vitriol between Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump over \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/01/governor-newsom-challenges-president-trump-to-adopt-model-executive-order-to-help-make-america-rake-again/\">the care and raking of California’s forests\u003c/a>, state and federal money — and people — often intersect on the landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On California’s end, Cal Fire \u003ca href=\"https://reforestationtools.org/climate-adapted-seed-tool/\">funds\u003c/a> and conducts research, and provides \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/grants/forest-health\">grants\u003c/a> for forest restoration on \u003ca href=\"https://www.grants.ca.gov/grants/2026-wildfire-resilience-block-grants/\">private\u003c/a>, state and even federal land. Cal Fire also runs the reforestation center in Davis, where flats of glossy young conifers are gently misted with water in the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMorrow — tall and crisp in his navy Cal Fire uniform — can’t help but dig his hands into the dirt to pull out weeds tangling with the seedlings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12092575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_05.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_05.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_05-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_05-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Nursery Manager Maya Hotz checks on a batch of Douglas fir seedlings in a nursery at the Lewis A. Moran Reforestation Center in Davis on July 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the most challenging chokepoints, McMorrow said, is finding the right seeds to grow these seedlings — getting climbers to the right spot, at the right time, to pluck ripe cones from the treetops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Believe me, I do it,” said McMorrow, who created a tree-climbing program at Cal Fire. “We are trying to meet the demand that’s in front of us, and it’s crushing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the money for Cal Fire’s efforts — cobbled together from the state budget, federal grants and other one-time funds — represents a relatively \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/resources/2026/State-Wildfire-Resilience-Funding-051326.pdf\">small and ever-changing fraction\u003c/a> of Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4952#How_has_state_spending_on_wildfire_resilience_changed_over_time.3F\">multibillion-dollar budget\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nursery in Davis shut down \u003ca href=\"https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/calfire-website/what-we-do/natural-resource-management/wildfire-resilience/reforestation-services/cal_fire_seed_bank_aon_2025_v5_20_signed.pdf?rev=8965d92777cb4ffab11b3387e4987b5e&hash=558CF1247F1837FA3E954E453DD2CE20\">in the early 2000s\u003c/a>, a casualty of across-the-board state budget cuts. Though the seed bank freezer stayed on, the reforestation center didn’t fully reopen until after the Legislature in 2017 tapped a 2012 fee \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/Initiatives/Forest-Stewardship/Timber-Regulation-and-Forest-Restoration-Program\">on wood products\u003c/a> to bring it back online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scaling up and upgrading the facility now carries an estimated\u003ca href=\"https://bcp.dof.ca.gov/2627/FY2627_ORG3540_BCP8896.pdf\"> $26.2 million\u003c/a> price tag; this year’s state budget included about\u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2026-06/floor-report-of-the-2026-27-budget-june-27-2026_5.pdf\"> $1.2 million\u003c/a> to fund preliminary planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, other funding is on the line. California’s climate regulators — chaired by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2025/09/air-resources-board-chair-transition/\">Newsom appointee Lauren Sanchez\u003c/a> — voted in May to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2026/05/newsom-california-safe-drinking-water/\">overhaul a key climate program \u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://senv.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2026-05/lao-handout.pdf\">in ways that\u003c/a> could substantially reduce, or even eliminate, up to $200 million a year for wildfire resilience. Grants for reforestation are among the many competing priorities for this funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12092576\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_09.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_09.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_09-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_09-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leilani Villeda prepares to fire a weighted line into the high branches of a pine tree using an air-powered launcher during Cone Camp, an annual training session where participants learn how to survey and collect pine cones, in Pollock Pines on July 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://wildfiretaskforce.org/california-passes-proposition-4-providing-1-5-billion-for-wildfire-resilience/\">the Proposition 4\u003c/a> climate bond includes \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5115\">$1.5 billion\u003c/a> for wildfire and forest resilience, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/11/california-budget-earmarks-2025/\">state leaders\u003c/a> are \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/resources/2026/State-Wildfire-Resilience-Funding-051326.pdf\">spending down the bond quickly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth of the matter is that California is probably, infrastructurally speaking, in a better place than any other western state,” Safford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What that tells you is how piss-poor the capacity is in general in the Western U.S., because California is nowhere near prepared for the scale of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cone hunting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the banks of \u003ca href=\"https://www.jenkinsonlake.com/\">Jenkinson Lake\u003c/a> in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Stella Krone and Elyse Wohlenberg wrestled with a slingshot that towered over the two of them. It took their combined strength to slot the bungee into position, then Wohlenberg stepped back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All clear?” Krone asked, kneeling in a clearing and pointing the slingshot at a Douglas fir 50 yards away. “Firing!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krone, Wohlenberg, and dozens of other hard-hatted people were there, crunching over conifer needles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-camp-thats-training-a-new-generation-of-cone-collectors/\">for Cone Camp\u003c/a> — a training program led by American Forests with support from Cal Fire and the Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12092578\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_10.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_10-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/071526_Reforestation_AHK_CM_10-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cone Camp participants search for the right pine tree to collect cones from on the shores of Jenkinson Lake in Pollock Pines on July 15, 2026. Cone collection helps contribute to Cal Fire’s seed bank and reforestation program. \u003ccite>(Anna Hoch-Kenney/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The campers — some forestry professionals, some interested laypeople — peeled off with oversized slingshots and souped-up potato guns to learn how to knock cones loose from tree branches. That’s how they check the cones for ripeness and viability, before sending someone up the tree to collect them for a seed bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem was, there were hardly any. Last year’s dry cones rattled to the forest floor as Krone and another camper jiggled the rope they’d shot into the canopy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So far, not a great cone year,” said Leana Weissberg, American Forests’ California director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the clearing, the instructor asked whether the group was ready to try again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s go,” Krone said. “We’re cone hunters for a reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2026/07/wildfires-california-forest-reforestation-seed/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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