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It was the most expensive wildfire in U.S. history, costing $262 million to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11405049/widow-of-bulldozer-operator-killed-in-soberanes-fire-struggles-to-get-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Widow Of Bulldozer Operator Killed In Soberanes Fire Struggles To Get By\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11405049/widow-of-bulldozer-operator-killed-in-soberanes-fire-struggles-to-get-by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SoberanesNight-800x468.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The blaze was started by an illegal campfire in Garrapata State Park outside Carmel on July 22, 2016, and quickly spread, destroying 57 homes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11453905/employer-of-contractor-killed-in-soberanes-fire-pleads-not-guilty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killing a dozer operator\u003c/a> in the first week. It then continued to burn for months in Los Padres National Forest and the Ventana Wilderness, away from any homes or residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report argues the aggressive firefighting tactics used in the remote, uninhabited areas were not only unnecessary, but they were also executed poorly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was conventional firefighting actions but conducted in or adjacent to … very rugged remote uninhabited wildland,” lead author Timothy Ingalsbee said. “The agency should shift its priorities from these backcountry firefighting boondoggles into really concentrating suppression resources on protecting homes and communities that cannot burn. Many of these backcountry wildlands must burn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire is part of the natural ecology of wildlands. It is necessary for the life cycle of certain trees, allows growth on the forest floor, reduces fuel for future fires and increases water supply, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/live_w_fire.pdf\">Cal Fire.\u003c/a> And because of that, Ingalsbee says, it’s excessive to spend so much money fighting fires that don’t threaten buildings or human life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FUSEE report also argues that the unnecessarily aggressive tactics used to fight the Soberanes Fire were ineffective. According to the report, firefighters dropped retardant away from flames and fire lines and built dozer lines outside areas where the fire had stopped spreading on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These techniques failed to stop the spread of fire, cost taxpayers millions of dollars and left long-lasting scars on the land,” Ingalsbee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire retardant cannot stop fire spread on its own without the support of ground crews clearing vegetation on containment lines. During the Soberanes Fire, 110 miles of continuous lines of retardant were dropped in “looping patterns” in remote areas, some of which no firefighters were sent to due to safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retardant was sometimes dropped several miles from active flames in places the wildfire never reached, or it was dropped outside of containment lines where firefighters could reasonably expect the fire would not spread to.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-help-solve-californias-fire-problem-so-why-arent-there-more-of-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why California’s Best Strategy Against Wildfire Is Hardly Ever Used\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1927354/controlled-burns-can-help-solve-californias-fire-problem-so-why-arent-there-more-of-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/07/IMG_0118.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The report also took issue with the 60 miles of dozer lines firefighters cut into the wilderness during the Soberanes firefight. According to the report, the dozer lines did help stop the fire spread in some instances but was ineffective in others. Some dozer lines were cut miles away from the fire’s edge and existing fire lines dug by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dozer lines left lasting scenic impacts on the land, not only from denuding vegetation and damaging soils, but also introducing potential for the spread of invasive weeds and illegal use by off-road vehicles,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service spent roughly $1 million per day for weeks after the fire was contained to repair hiking trails and other areas damaged by dozer lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingalsbee also says limited congressional oversight of the Forest Service’s budget allowed the agency to use expensive tactics, like air tankers and dozers, even when they were ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is kind of a blank check program,” Ingalsbee said. “It’s all framed under this state of emergency and put all fires out at all times, all places, at all costs. And that’s simply not sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An internal Forest Service review of its response to the fire obtained by the Associated Press raised \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/f92cc1767c33459c9312d6fa408cdd50?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APWestRegion&utm_campaign=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar concerns\u003c/a>, finding a firefighting culture overly concerned with aggressive suppression that leads to waste:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For example, the department’s review found that from Aug. 9 to Sept. 29, 2016, the number of threatened structures remained at 400 even as the fire grew by more than 90 square miles, which indicated the risk to property had abated as the flames burned into the wilderness. During that period, firefighting costs grew by $140 million.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service did not respond to a KQED request for comment, but said in a statement to the Associated Press, “Protection of people first and then resources are our primary considerations. Every fire is evaluated to determine the appropriate strategy. We continually look for opportunities to improve outcomes and accountability and to find more cost-efficient and effective methods of managing wildfires.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s 3:30 p.m. on a Monday at Castlemont High School in East Oakland. Teenagers sporting backpacks and colorful sneakers spill out into the yard and the street. They laugh and yell in groups, chase friends down the sidewalk and stand in line to buy ice cream and chips from the vendors who wait for them each day. The vibrant, noisy scene is a sharp contrast to the otherwise quiet sidewalk of MacArthur Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone is packing up to go home. At the end of the long driveway, past the colorful murals and speed bumps, a crew of about a dozen students from Castlemont High and Leadership Public Schools, a local charter school network, are getting ready to get their hands dirty. Literally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students are part of \u003ca href=\"https://lcsoakland.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love Cultivating Schoolyards\u003c/a>, a garden internship program that gives teens the opportunity to earn a stipend while learning about food cultivation and ecology. Organized by Oakland Leaf, a nonprofit that supports after-school programming for local students, the program employs more than 30 interns at six sites across Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711409\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711409\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students prepare the soil in a garden outside Castlemont High School before planting new crops. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twice a week, students gather at the East Oakland garden to weed, plant, harvest and mix soil. They work on two different plots: the garden, run by Oakland Leaf, and the farm, primarily run by \u003ca href=\"https://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phat Beets\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based youth farming and food justice program. Together, the two plots make up over an acre of land hidden behind school walls, where students work together to grow fresh produce and build community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a dominant narrative of Oakland being a really dangerous place, where, you know, nothing really good happens,\" said LCS director Matthew Linzner. \"And here we are, working after school with our young folks, taking care of the green spaces on campus and helping beautify the school, helping provide more healthy food for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711410\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program director Matthew Linzner explains each of the day's tasks before participants choose their jobs for the afternoon. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students chat in English and Spanish as they change their shoes and wait for Linzner to assign daily tasks. Each day, the group begins by passing around a shell filled with lit frankincense while the students answer a prompt meant to set the tone for the day and encourage conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most important thing is that people are comfortable. Comfortable to share, comfortable to explore, comfortable to take risks,” Linzner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program welcomes students from every background, though it has a particularly high number of Latinx and newcomer participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Alejandro Meteas, 16, gardening gives him the opportunity to relax and connect with other students. “We have to help those who are new and don’t know how to plant,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Linzner, working in the garden gives many newcomer students a way to find community and stay connected to agricultural traditions back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-1200x832.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As part of their opening activity, program participants pass an abalone shell with burning frankincense around a circle. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Learning to garden is also a way for many of the students to prepare for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 15-year-old Quynhri Pham Nguyen, working in the garden is a way to spend time outside while boosting her college resume. “I did this program to get some credit for college,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711408\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711408\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adan Urvina, 18, transplants seedlings in the greenhouse. Urvina, who hopes to study marine biology, says he has always had an interest in animals and plants and uses the internship program as an opportunity to learn about growing seasons and help his mom in their garden at home. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711411\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11711411 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Linzner holds a hose while his students work in the garden. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to running the LCS internship, Linzner also teaches a gardening class through Castlemont’s Sustainable Urban Design Academy, a program geared toward helping students gain real-world skills and college credit before graduating from high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland Leaf and Phat Beets, we’re like partnering organizations with SUDA, which is the school-based program,\" he said. \"We’re trying to integrate everything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711416\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Love Cultivating Schoolyards participants work with Oakland Eats to run a pop-up food stand behind Castlemont High School, where local residents can purchase one bunch of greens for a dollar, or take unlimited apples for free. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some students also see learning to garden as way to connect with their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giovanna Mora, 14, said that learning about plants and gardening has allowed her to become closer to her father, a landscaper. “We used to not get along that much, so now we have something to agree on and talk about,” she said. “This knowledge can bring us together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond skill-building, LCS aspires to instill fiscal responsibility and community engagement among its students. The interns earn a base pay of $500 per school year through incremental paychecks, and for each additional year they do the program they can earn a bit more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It benefits both me and the school garden,” said Giovanna. “If I’m not going to take care of it, who is?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711415\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimmy Martinez Aquino, 16, changes into old sneakers before beginning work. Many of the participants keep old pairs of shoes in the shed to avoid ruining the ones they wear to school. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711413\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11711413 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-800x505.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-1200x757.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Linzner sits with his students at the end of the day to discuss the day's work. The program always begins and ends with everyone sitting together in a circle. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This fall, Oakland Leaf began a partnership with Hope Collaborative, a local food-centered youth and community equity organization, to purchase and distribute the produce grown in the garden. According to Linzner, despite having a bounty of high-quality produce, LCS has often struggled to get the food out to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that it was \"a really strange phenomenon where we had all this really high-quality produce and didn’t necessarily have a good way of getting it to the community.” Through the partnership, LCS began selling their produce at cost to local corner stores, as well as to Hope Collaborative’s own nutrition and cooking programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corner store initiative wasn’t a complete success — the store they partnered with shut down — but they’ve since begun selling their produce to 7 Flavours Food For The Soul, a nearby restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our food is still being distributed in the community, which is ultimately the goal,” Linzner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711419\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students transplant newly sprouted seedlings into a planter. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The focus on food has trickled down to the students as well. Working in the garden and learning about new plants has helped Mariah Alvarez, 16, understand that food isn’t just something to make you feel full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of like a medicine,\" she said, noting that the experience has made her “think differently through knowing what we put in our body.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711414\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711414\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-800x508.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-1200x762.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student pushes a wheelbarrow past the pool at Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of each day, the students sit on benches in a circle with the sun setting behind them. Linzner makes announcements before closing with a game, chant or word of the day. The students then collect their backpacks, change back into their clean sneakers and walk together through campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal, Linzner said, is to build an “army of young folks, earth warriors, almost.” He’d like to see his students become a team “trying to create change in their community, more green space, more urban ecology, more native habitats, and reclaiming the brown and gray spaces in our city and in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s 3:30 p.m. on a Monday at Castlemont High School in East Oakland. Teenagers sporting backpacks and colorful sneakers spill out into the yard and the street. They laugh and yell in groups, chase friends down the sidewalk and stand in line to buy ice cream and chips from the vendors who wait for them each day. The vibrant, noisy scene is a sharp contrast to the otherwise quiet sidewalk of MacArthur Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone is packing up to go home. At the end of the long driveway, past the colorful murals and speed bumps, a crew of about a dozen students from Castlemont High and Leadership Public Schools, a local charter school network, are getting ready to get their hands dirty. Literally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students are part of \u003ca href=\"https://lcsoakland.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love Cultivating Schoolyards\u003c/a>, a garden internship program that gives teens the opportunity to earn a stipend while learning about food cultivation and ecology. Organized by Oakland Leaf, a nonprofit that supports after-school programming for local students, the program employs more than 30 interns at six sites across Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711409\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711409\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34408_Castlemont_Selects_final_02-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students prepare the soil in a garden outside Castlemont High School before planting new crops. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twice a week, students gather at the East Oakland garden to weed, plant, harvest and mix soil. They work on two different plots: the garden, run by Oakland Leaf, and the farm, primarily run by \u003ca href=\"https://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phat Beets\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based youth farming and food justice program. Together, the two plots make up over an acre of land hidden behind school walls, where students work together to grow fresh produce and build community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a dominant narrative of Oakland being a really dangerous place, where, you know, nothing really good happens,\" said LCS director Matthew Linzner. \"And here we are, working after school with our young folks, taking care of the green spaces on campus and helping beautify the school, helping provide more healthy food for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711410\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34409_Castlemont_Selects_final_03-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program director Matthew Linzner explains each of the day's tasks before participants choose their jobs for the afternoon. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Students chat in English and Spanish as they change their shoes and wait for Linzner to assign daily tasks. Each day, the group begins by passing around a shell filled with lit frankincense while the students answer a prompt meant to set the tone for the day and encourage conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Comfortable to share, comfortable to explore, comfortable to take risks,” Linzner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program welcomes students from every background, though it has a particularly high number of Latinx and newcomer participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Alejandro Meteas, 16, gardening gives him the opportunity to relax and connect with other students. “We have to help those who are new and don’t know how to plant,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Linzner, working in the garden gives many newcomer students a way to find community and stay connected to agricultural traditions back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711418\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut-1200x832.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34415_Castlemont_Selects_final_09-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As part of their opening activity, program participants pass an abalone shell with burning frankincense around a circle. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Learning to garden is also a way for many of the students to prepare for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 15-year-old Quynhri Pham Nguyen, working in the garden is a way to spend time outside while boosting her college resume. “I did this program to get some credit for college,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711408\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711408\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34407_Castlemont_Selects_final_01-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adan Urvina, 18, transplants seedlings in the greenhouse. Urvina, who hopes to study marine biology, says he has always had an interest in animals and plants and uses the internship program as an opportunity to learn about growing seasons and help his mom in their garden at home. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711411\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11711411 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut-1200x783.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34410_Castlemont_Selects_final_04-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Linzner holds a hose while his students work in the garden. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to running the LCS internship, Linzner also teaches a gardening class through Castlemont’s Sustainable Urban Design Academy, a program geared toward helping students gain real-world skills and college credit before graduating from high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland Leaf and Phat Beets, we’re like partnering organizations with SUDA, which is the school-based program,\" he said. \"We’re trying to integrate everything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711416\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34414_Castlemont_Selects_final_08-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Love Cultivating Schoolyards participants work with Oakland Eats to run a pop-up food stand behind Castlemont High School, where local residents can purchase one bunch of greens for a dollar, or take unlimited apples for free. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some students also see learning to garden as way to connect with their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giovanna Mora, 14, said that learning about plants and gardening has allowed her to become closer to her father, a landscaper. “We used to not get along that much, so now we have something to agree on and talk about,” she said. “This knowledge can bring us together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond skill-building, LCS aspires to instill fiscal responsibility and community engagement among its students. The interns earn a base pay of $500 per school year through incremental paychecks, and for each additional year they do the program they can earn a bit more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It benefits both me and the school garden,” said Giovanna. “If I’m not going to take care of it, who is?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711415\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34413_Castlemont_Selects_final_07-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimmy Martinez Aquino, 16, changes into old sneakers before beginning work. Many of the participants keep old pairs of shoes in the shed to avoid ruining the ones they wear to school. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711413\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11711413 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-800x505.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut-1200x757.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34411_Castlemont_Selects_final_05-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Linzner sits with his students at the end of the day to discuss the day's work. The program always begins and ends with everyone sitting together in a circle. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This fall, Oakland Leaf began a partnership with Hope Collaborative, a local food-centered youth and community equity organization, to purchase and distribute the produce grown in the garden. According to Linzner, despite having a bounty of high-quality produce, LCS has often struggled to get the food out to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that it was \"a really strange phenomenon where we had all this really high-quality produce and didn’t necessarily have a good way of getting it to the community.” Through the partnership, LCS began selling their produce at cost to local corner stores, as well as to Hope Collaborative’s own nutrition and cooking programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corner store initiative wasn’t a complete success — the store they partnered with shut down — but they’ve since begun selling their produce to 7 Flavours Food For The Soul, a nearby restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our food is still being distributed in the community, which is ultimately the goal,” Linzner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711419\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711419\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34416_Castlemont_Selects_final_10-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students transplant newly sprouted seedlings into a planter. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The focus on food has trickled down to the students as well. Working in the garden and learning about new plants has helped Mariah Alvarez, 16, understand that food isn’t just something to make you feel full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of like a medicine,\" she said, noting that the experience has made her “think differently through knowing what we put in our body.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11711414\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11711414\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-800x508.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut-1200x762.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34412_Castlemont_Selects_final_06-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student pushes a wheelbarrow past the pool at Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of each day, the students sit on benches in a circle with the sun setting behind them. Linzner makes announcements before closing with a game, chant or word of the day. The students then collect their backpacks, change back into their clean sneakers and walk together through campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>State utility regulators announced Friday they're launching an investigation into whether PG&E has falsified records related to requests from construction crews and homeowners to mark the location of its natural gas lines. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal California Public Utilities Commission probe follows an exhaustive review of PG&E's \"locate and mark\" practices by the agency's Safety and Enforcement Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The locate and mark program, best known through a national publicity campaign that urges people to \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/yard-safety/digging/call-811-before-you-dig.page\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Call Before You Dig\u003c/a>,\" is designed to lessen the threat to life and property caused by breaches of natural gas lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5629155/246120841.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an order issued Thursday\u003c/a> and made public Friday, the CPUC said its safety division is alleging the company violated state law requiring utilities to promptly respond to excavators' requests to find and mark underground utilities so that they would not be damaged during construction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safety division says PG&E then created records that falsely reported that the company had responded within the legally specified timeframe to the \"locate and mark\" requests. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, the CPUC reports says, utilities are generally obligated to locate and mark underground utilities between two and 14 days after an excavator's request. The companies file \"late tickets\" when they fail to carry out the location and marking on time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In PG&E's case, the safety division found that the company's failure to ensure records were kept accurately resulted in undercounting \"tens of thousands of late tickets\" each year between 2012 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Safety Enforcement Division's conclusions are outlined in a massive report that relied on its own investigation and studies done by consultants hired by PG&E. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712531/pge-asks-for-billions-of-dollars-from-ratepayers-for-fire-safety-plant-decommissioning\">PG&E Asks for Billions of Dollars From Ratepayers for Fire Safety, Plant Decommissioning\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712531/pge-asks-for-billions-of-dollars-from-ratepayers-for-fire-safety-plant-decommissioning\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11953_transform-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of the consultant's reports concluded that PG&E didn't have enough personnel to locate and mark utilities in a timely manner, that the company \"placed inherent pressure\" on employees to complete the work, and that \"it was common knowledge among supervisors that locators entered false notes to avoid tickets from going late.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC's order emphasized it has not yet determined that PG&E broke the law. But the document noted that the time frame targeted in the safety division's investigation was one during which the utility was under especially close scrutiny for its safety practices. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the period immediately following the 2010 San Bruno gas explosion and fire that resulted in eight fatalities, numerous injuries and damage to property,\" the order said. \"This commission would expect that after such a tragedy, caused by multiple proven violations of law, PG&E would have sought to vigorously enhance and increase its effectiveness in all aspects of its gas safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company seemed to acknowledge missteps in a statement issued late Friday afternoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"At PG&E, our most important responsibility is public and employee safety. We’re committed to accurate and thorough reporting and record-keeping, and we didn’t live up to that commitment in this case. Once that became apparent, we took and continue to take additional actions to meet the regulatory standards related to our Locate and Mark record-keeping. Among those actions are: improvements to our system that tracks 811 tickets; an upgraded review and audit protocol; hiring more employees, and enhanced training for employees, to perform this work. We are aware of and cooperating with the CPUC’s investigation. We are fully committed to keeping our customers, communities and co-workers safe every single day.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The utility was convicted in 2016 of violating federal pipeline safety laws before the San Bruno disaster and is currently serving five years of probation. A CPUC finding that PG&E falsified records and violated state statues would violate the first condition of the company's probation, which is that it shall not break federal, state, or local laws. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's possible role in starting the catastrophic Camp Fire in Butte County has already been raised in connection with the utility's probation in the San Bruno case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, currently overseeing utility's probation, recently ordered the company, the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco and court-appointed monitor Christopher Keegan to report on what role, if any, PG&E had in causing the Camp Fire and all other fires since its probation began early last year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an order issued late last month, Alsup also asked for an assessment of whether \"any inaccurate, slow, or failed reporting of information about any wildfire\" by PG&E might violate its probation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He followed those requests with an invitation to the office of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to weigh in on whether \"reckless operation or maintenance\" of PG&E power lines would in itself break state law. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answers are due to Alsup by Dec. 31. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, the CPUC reports says, utilities are generally obligated to locate and mark underground utilities between two and 14 days after an excavator's request. The companies file \"late tickets\" when they fail to carry out the location and marking on time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In PG&E's case, the safety division found that the company's failure to ensure records were kept accurately resulted in undercounting \"tens of thousands of late tickets\" each year between 2012 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Safety Enforcement Division's conclusions are outlined in a massive report that relied on its own investigation and studies done by consultants hired by PG&E. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712531/pge-asks-for-billions-of-dollars-from-ratepayers-for-fire-safety-plant-decommissioning\">PG&E Asks for Billions of Dollars From Ratepayers for Fire Safety, Plant Decommissioning\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712531/pge-asks-for-billions-of-dollars-from-ratepayers-for-fire-safety-plant-decommissioning\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/11953_transform-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of the consultant's reports concluded that PG&E didn't have enough personnel to locate and mark utilities in a timely manner, that the company \"placed inherent pressure\" on employees to complete the work, and that \"it was common knowledge among supervisors that locators entered false notes to avoid tickets from going late.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC's order emphasized it has not yet determined that PG&E broke the law. But the document noted that the time frame targeted in the safety division's investigation was one during which the utility was under especially close scrutiny for its safety practices. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the period immediately following the 2010 San Bruno gas explosion and fire that resulted in eight fatalities, numerous injuries and damage to property,\" the order said. \"This commission would expect that after such a tragedy, caused by multiple proven violations of law, PG&E would have sought to vigorously enhance and increase its effectiveness in all aspects of its gas safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company seemed to acknowledge missteps in a statement issued late Friday afternoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"At PG&E, our most important responsibility is public and employee safety. We’re committed to accurate and thorough reporting and record-keeping, and we didn’t live up to that commitment in this case. Once that became apparent, we took and continue to take additional actions to meet the regulatory standards related to our Locate and Mark record-keeping. Among those actions are: improvements to our system that tracks 811 tickets; an upgraded review and audit protocol; hiring more employees, and enhanced training for employees, to perform this work. We are aware of and cooperating with the CPUC’s investigation. We are fully committed to keeping our customers, communities and co-workers safe every single day.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The utility was convicted in 2016 of violating federal pipeline safety laws before the San Bruno disaster and is currently serving five years of probation. A CPUC finding that PG&E falsified records and violated state statues would violate the first condition of the company's probation, which is that it shall not break federal, state, or local laws. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's possible role in starting the catastrophic Camp Fire in Butte County has already been raised in connection with the utility's probation in the San Bruno case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, currently overseeing utility's probation, recently ordered the company, the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco and court-appointed monitor Christopher Keegan to report on what role, if any, PG&E had in causing the Camp Fire and all other fires since its probation began early last year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an order issued late last month, Alsup also asked for an assessment of whether \"any inaccurate, slow, or failed reporting of information about any wildfire\" by PG&E might violate its probation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He followed those requests with an invitation to the office of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to weigh in on whether \"reckless operation or maintenance\" of PG&E power lines would in itself break state law. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answers are due to Alsup by Dec. 31. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After three decades of firefighting and managing some of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/Top20_Destruction.pdf\">worst blazes in California history\u003c/a>, Ken Pimlott, chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, is retiring today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Pimlott reflects on his 30 years of fire management, he says California currently finds itself with the “dubious distinction of breaking records” in terms of wildfire prevalence, intensity and deadliness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, 1.2 million acres of land were destroyed by almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/california-wildfires-comparison/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ef8dcc086de2\">9,000 wildfires\u003c/a>, including the massive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/thomas-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tubbs\u003c/a> infernos. By the time the Thomas Fire was 100 percent contained, it had set the record for the largest wildfire in modern California history. It took less than a year for another fire to break that record.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The reality of it is these fires are beyond the intensities of anything we have experienced.’\u003ccite>Ken Pimlott, Cal Fire chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This year saw the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/woolsey-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woolsey Fire\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Fire\u003c/a>. The deadliest and most destructive blaze in modern California’s history, the Camp Fire destroyed almost 14,000 homes and claimed at least 86 lives. Between those two blazes alone, plus the Hill Fire, insurance claims \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712264/insurance-claims-at-9-billion-from-recent-california-fires\">have risen to $9 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damage — physically and psychologically — is staggering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Cal Fire explains that there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/TheBenefitsofFire.pdf\">marked ecological benefits\u003c/a> to forest fires such as soil nourishment, the creation of new habitats for animals, the elimination of disease and seed regeneration, Pimlott says that in the past three of four years, the fires have far exceeded their natural cycles and are damaging, “not just the wildlife in the watershed, but are having significant impact on communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712677\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Gov. Jerry Brown, Gov.-elect Gavin Newson and President Donald Trump listen to Cal Fire Chief Ken Pimlott during Trump's visit to the Camp Fire in Chico on Nov. 17, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-1200x872.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Gov. Jerry Brown, Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom and President Trump listen to Cal Fire Chief Ken Pimlott during Trump’s visit to the Camp Fire in Chico on Nov. 17, 2018. \u003ccite>(Paul Kitagaki Jr.-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite President Trump’s accusations that California’s vulnerability to recent fire decimation is due to botched forest management, Pimlott says California has invested more as a state than any other over the next five years, committing $1 billion in \u003ca href=\"https://www.c2es.org/content/california-cap-and-trade/\">cap-and-trade\u003c/a> funding specifically slated for forest health, fire prevention, fuels treatment and public education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1061168803218948096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2018\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been ramping up the state’s capabilities — along with our local government partners and the federal firefighting agencies — to respond,” says Pimlott. “We have been continuing to invest in [fire prevention], but understanding that just every year the intensities continue to increase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite rainfall and weather patterns in the past two years that have given California a respite of moisture, the vegetation remains “critically dry.” Cal Fire’s herculean financial and infrastructural efforts remain no match for the unprecedented fires caused by climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Firefighters are facing the impacts of climate change every day, literally,” Pimlott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“They’re the indicators, they’re the ones that are deployed for months at a time. They’re the ones that are experiencing these increased fire conditions and you can go out and talk to any experienced firefighter and they will tell you…things have significantly changed over the last several decades.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As the ubiquity of these blazes isn’t likely to change, he says we have to learn from past fires and continue to take a hard look at determining where houses can be built in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pimlott says that the state will absolutely continue to build — there are, after all, 40 million people in California who need places to call home — and there is a commitment to rebuild Paradise. In the wake of these fires, newfound focus is being put on land use planning, identifying high fire hazard severity zones, building codes, construction, placement in the urban interface and even cluster development to maximize protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There just may be areas in drainage or that are critical fire corridors that intensify winds that it will make it impossible to protect a structure,” he continues. “How do we build smartly to make sure we’re not putting people in harm’s way? There’s a lot to look at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pimlott explains that the state is not interested in dictating ordinances or legislation down to local government, but “we’re going to be bringing everyone along and having those hard conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gavin Newsom, governor-elect of California, has yet to name Pimlott’s successor, but whoever takes over will have a daunting task as California scrambles to combat our new normal amid threats of depleted federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality of it is these fires are beyond the intensities of anything we have experienced,” Pimlott says. “We have to learn to live with fire in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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By the time the Thomas Fire was 100 percent contained, it had set the record for the largest wildfire in modern California history. It took less than a year for another fire to break that record.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The reality of it is these fires are beyond the intensities of anything we have experienced.’\u003ccite>Ken Pimlott, Cal Fire chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This year saw the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/woolsey-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woolsey Fire\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Fire\u003c/a>. The deadliest and most destructive blaze in modern California’s history, the Camp Fire destroyed almost 14,000 homes and claimed at least 86 lives. Between those two blazes alone, plus the Hill Fire, insurance claims \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11712264/insurance-claims-at-9-billion-from-recent-california-fires\">have risen to $9 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damage — physically and psychologically — is staggering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Cal Fire explains that there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/TheBenefitsofFire.pdf\">marked ecological benefits\u003c/a> to forest fires such as soil nourishment, the creation of new habitats for animals, the elimination of disease and seed regeneration, Pimlott says that in the past three of four years, the fires have far exceeded their natural cycles and are damaging, “not just the wildlife in the watershed, but are having significant impact on communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712677\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Gov. Jerry Brown, Gov.-elect Gavin Newson and President Donald Trump listen to Cal Fire Chief Ken Pimlott during Trump's visit to the Camp Fire in Chico on Nov. 17, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire-1200x872.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/PimlottCampFire.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Gov. 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Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Donald J. 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Those conditions led to a blaze that moved with shocking speed on Nov. 8, consuming an estimated 76 acres a minute and advancing 15 miles from its origin near the Feather River community of Pulga in just 12 hours. 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"content": "\u003cp>From the air, the scale of the devastation in and around Paradise, California, is, simply put, alarming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whole neighborhoods and commercial districts are completely decimated, turned to rubble amid the tall, orange-singed pine trees with blackened trunks. Deeper into the mountains, illegal pot plantations were suddenly exposed — and charred. Then there’s the odd home on a ridge top or Rite Aid store that has been randomly spared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“See how hot that burned, there’s nothing left down there,” says Dan Tomascheski, talking through a headset over the roar of the helicopter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s vice president of resources for Sierra Pacific Industries, one of Northern California’s biggest timber companies. About 10,000 acres of the company’s private land was scorched by the Camp Fire, the largest and deadliest wildfire in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll have to get [down] there quickly and harvest what’s big enough to make lumber,” Tomascheski says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the immediate term, his company will try to salvage as many of the burned trees as they can before they’re taken over by bugs or rot. The longer-term strategy is more complicated and, in the past, politically fraught. But now, many on the ground in beleaguered Butte County — from the timber industry to environmentalists, forest ecologists and firefighters — see this fire as a possible turning point in the long-running debate over how Western forests should be managed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712313\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-2-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"Sierra Pacific\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-2-800x557.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-2-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-2-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-2-1200x836.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-2.jpg 1837w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of Sierra Pacific’s defensible space project next to Paradise Lake, as seen from the air. The tree thinning can be seen in comparison to the denser forest in the background. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Every one of the fires, Thomas, Tubbs, Carr, and of course Camp, have all been leading us down the same direction — we have to rethink the past,” said Jim Broshears, emergency operations coordinator for the town of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as Paradise and the communities around it are still reeling in crisis, foresters are already eyeing the critical forest health and restoration work ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an agreement now that we have overstocked forests that are not resilient to drought, disease and wildfire,” Broshears says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many Northern California forests, they are so overgrown there are 10 times as many trees as there would be in a healthy, natural forest. All of that overgrowth, dried out from hotter and longer summers and a history of suppressing wildfires, is a big reason why we’re now seeing deadly infernos like the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trees as a ‘liability’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mountains near the old sawmill town of Stirling City, Dan Tomascheski has traded a chopper for a pickup so he can get a closer look at the extent of some of the damage to Sierra Pacific’s timber lands. In one forested rural neighborhood that didn’t burn, it is astounding how dense the woods are, thick with brush and small-diameter trees. It is similar to how many forested areas near Paradise looked before last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People love the trees and they’re beautiful,” Tomascheski says. “But they can be a liability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11712315 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tomasheski\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-6-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-6-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-6-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-6.jpg 1824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sierra Pacific Vice President Dan Tomascheski \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tomascheski stops near Paradise Lake to point out a small clearing in the forest where the large trees mostly survived the fire. Earlier this year, Sierra Pacific had thinned out underbrush and some of the trees to create what’s known as a fuel break. This had the effect of slowing down the Camp Fire long enough to allow firefighters to safely stage here and make a stand against the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t think we’re being naive in that this is a panacea for every condition every time, but this really is a start,” Tomascheski says. You’re never going to stop these modern megafires once they blow up, he says, but a key fuel break like this might give firefighters the upper hand on the second or third day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There isn’t a lot of good news after the Camp Fire. But the small success around this fuel break makes the case for the kind of work that foresters say needs to be done now across millions of acres of private and public lands in the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Landscape-level restoration \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 90 percent of all of the homes in Paradise, which had a population of almost 27,000, were destroyed. Jim Broshears’ place was spared, which he credits to the extensive brush clearing and other mitigation work he’d done prior to the fire. But he says this work creating defensible space and fuel breaks can’t just be focused in and around towns that have been built out into fire-prone areas. Attention also needs to be paid way out into the forests, doing selective thinning projects, brush clearing and controlled burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that one of the outcomes of this is that we’ll all be at the same table,” Broshears says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712314\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-4-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"Sierra Pacific\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-4-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-4-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-4-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-4-1200x785.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of Sierra Pacific’s defensible space project outside the town of Stirling City. This thinned area was used as a Cal Fire staging area and was one of the northern boundaries of the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The so-called timber wars of the 1980s and ’90s pitted environmentalists against the logging industry. Battles over the spotted owl and other issues led to a significant drop in timber harvests on federal public land. But Broshears and others who work on the land say, these days, what’s really holding up these critical forest management projects is funding, not those environmental battles or lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arielle Halpern, a wildfire scientist with the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center, says there’s a realization now that all the finger-pointing and blaming of the past wasn’t constructive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are a lot of discussions that need to happen and everybody could use some education,” she says. “I say this for myself as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North of Paradise near the town of Mount Shasta, Halpern is organizing her neighbors — from hippies to ranchers — into community groups that will conduct prescribed burns on private land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have common goals; we all like to have safe homes and families,” Halpern says. “You talk to an environmentalist on the far left and someone on the far right, and I bet that they could agree with that statement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rural economic rebound? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the woods, near the old sawmill town of Stirling City, Dan Tomascheski says his industry is now talking and compromising with groups they might not have even agreed to meet with a couple of decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes time. You go to more meetings than you’d like to, but you need to build a consensus,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s too much at stake not to build that consensus, foresters say. There’s valuable timber, of course. But the forests are also important wildlife habitat. They serve as critical watersheds for many cities in the West, and the recent megafires are emitting enormous amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, worsening global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in nobody’s interest to burn the whole resource up,” Tomascheski says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Sierra Pacific and other companies have begun making retrofits to mills in order to process the smaller-diameter wood and biomass that needs to be cleared out from the forests, and turn it into a commercially viable product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the industry knows there will be a steady market, Tomascheski says, they’ll invest and expand. He sees an upside amid all this tragedy — the potential for a rural economic boom.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the immediate term, his company will try to salvage as many of the burned trees as they can before they’re taken over by bugs or rot. The longer-term strategy is more complicated and, in the past, politically fraught. But now, many on the ground in beleaguered Butte County — from the timber industry to environmentalists, forest ecologists and firefighters — see this fire as a possible turning point in the long-running debate over how Western forests should be managed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712313\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-2-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"Sierra Pacific\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-2-800x557.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-2-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-2-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-2-1200x836.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-2.jpg 1837w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of Sierra Pacific’s defensible space project next to Paradise Lake, as seen from the air. The tree thinning can be seen in comparison to the denser forest in the background. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Every one of the fires, Thomas, Tubbs, Carr, and of course Camp, have all been leading us down the same direction — we have to rethink the past,” said Jim Broshears, emergency operations coordinator for the town of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as Paradise and the communities around it are still reeling in crisis, foresters are already eyeing the critical forest health and restoration work ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an agreement now that we have overstocked forests that are not resilient to drought, disease and wildfire,” Broshears says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many Northern California forests, they are so overgrown there are 10 times as many trees as there would be in a healthy, natural forest. All of that overgrowth, dried out from hotter and longer summers and a history of suppressing wildfires, is a big reason why we’re now seeing deadly infernos like the Camp Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trees as a ‘liability’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mountains near the old sawmill town of Stirling City, Dan Tomascheski has traded a chopper for a pickup so he can get a closer look at the extent of some of the damage to Sierra Pacific’s timber lands. In one forested rural neighborhood that didn’t burn, it is astounding how dense the woods are, thick with brush and small-diameter trees. It is similar to how many forested areas near Paradise looked before last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People love the trees and they’re beautiful,” Tomascheski says. “But they can be a liability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11712315 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-6-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tomasheski\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-6-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-6-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-6-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-6.jpg 1824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sierra Pacific Vice President Dan Tomascheski \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tomascheski stops near Paradise Lake to point out a small clearing in the forest where the large trees mostly survived the fire. Earlier this year, Sierra Pacific had thinned out underbrush and some of the trees to create what’s known as a fuel break. This had the effect of slowing down the Camp Fire long enough to allow firefighters to safely stage here and make a stand against the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t think we’re being naive in that this is a panacea for every condition every time, but this really is a start,” Tomascheski says. You’re never going to stop these modern megafires once they blow up, he says, but a key fuel break like this might give firefighters the upper hand on the second or third day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There isn’t a lot of good news after the Camp Fire. But the small success around this fuel break makes the case for the kind of work that foresters say needs to be done now across millions of acres of private and public lands in the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Landscape-level restoration \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 90 percent of all of the homes in Paradise, which had a population of almost 27,000, were destroyed. Jim Broshears’ place was spared, which he credits to the extensive brush clearing and other mitigation work he’d done prior to the fire. But he says this work creating defensible space and fuel breaks can’t just be focused in and around towns that have been built out into fire-prone areas. Attention also needs to be paid way out into the forests, doing selective thinning projects, brush clearing and controlled burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that one of the outcomes of this is that we’ll all be at the same table,” Broshears says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11712314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11712314\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-4-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"Sierra Pacific\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-4-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-4-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-4-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-4-1200x785.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Siegler_Sierra-Pacific-lumber-4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of Sierra Pacific’s defensible space project outside the town of Stirling City. This thinned area was used as a Cal Fire staging area and was one of the northern boundaries of the Camp Fire. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The so-called timber wars of the 1980s and ’90s pitted environmentalists against the logging industry. Battles over the spotted owl and other issues led to a significant drop in timber harvests on federal public land. But Broshears and others who work on the land say, these days, what’s really holding up these critical forest management projects is funding, not those environmental battles or lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arielle Halpern, a wildfire scientist with the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center, says there’s a realization now that all the finger-pointing and blaming of the past wasn’t constructive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are a lot of discussions that need to happen and everybody could use some education,” she says. “I say this for myself as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North of Paradise near the town of Mount Shasta, Halpern is organizing her neighbors — from hippies to ranchers — into community groups that will conduct prescribed burns on private land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have common goals; we all like to have safe homes and families,” Halpern says. “You talk to an environmentalist on the far left and someone on the far right, and I bet that they could agree with that statement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rural economic rebound? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the woods, near the old sawmill town of Stirling City, Dan Tomascheski says his industry is now talking and compromising with groups they might not have even agreed to meet with a couple of decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes time. 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