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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>“You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back” — motto attributed to the Life Saving Service, 19th century\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The words “California coast” conjure a certain image — sun-drenched beaches, warm waters — in the popular imagination. Point Reyes National Seashore, 50 miles north of San Francisco, does not fit that image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the foggiest, windiest places in North America, for hundreds of years this stretch of the Pacific Ocean has posed incredible danger to seafarers. And hidden away inland, just off the road to Point Reyes’ famous lighthouse, there’s a tiny burial ground that conveys the human cost of this rugged, treacherous coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11659314 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The graves of the four “surfmen” in Point Reyes at the Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery is concealed within a knoll of cypress and eucalyptus trees, and most visitors drive right past it. Here, simple headstones mark the bodies of four young immigrants from Sweden, Finland and Germany. Known as “surfmen”, they were members of what was then called the Life Saving Service — what we now know as the United States Coast Guard. All four lost their lives working in Point Reyes in the 1890s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the cemetery, you can just see the exact stretch of coastline on which those surfmen spent their last months at Point Reyes’ very first Life-Saving Station. This area is known as the Great Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the most treacherous stretch of water out here,” says John Dell’Osso, who has worked in Point Reyes for the National Park Service for 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11659318 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 12 mile stretch of coastline known as the Great Beach, where Point Reyes’ first-ever Life-Saving Station was built \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Point Reyes stretches out 10 miles from the mainland into the Pacific Ocean, resulting in its infamous high coastal winds and thick shrouding fogs. Even the logbooks of Sir Francis Drake’s ship in 1579 complain of “the stinking fogges” here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where the first recorded shipwreck on the West Coast occurred: a Spanish galleon, torn on the rocks in 1595. Until the lighthouse was built in 1870, sailors on these waters making the turn into San Francisco Bay had no warning of the jagged land they were about to strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service says that before the Life-Saving Station was built around 1890, the beaches were littered with shipwrecks — that residents often had to watch as those passengers and crew drowned in the waters in front of them. They couldn’t go in because in a place like Point Reyes, the surf is the thing that will kill you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11659483 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg 1710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-800x496.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1180x731.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-960x595.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-240x149.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-375x232.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-520x322.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Point Reyes Life-Saving Station (1889-1927) at which the four surfmen would have served, \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We don’t know a lot about the young men lying in the cemetery, but we know how dangerous, punishing and isolating their work was in the Life Saving Service. At the Point Reyes Lighthouse, says Dell’Osso, winds “have been clocked at 133 miles per hour. We close the [visitor] stairs at 40 miles per hour because you can barely stand in that condition.” Regardless, he says, “if there was a rescue to be done, these individuals did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no motorized boats, or radios, or powerful searchlights like the Coast Guard has today. These men were dragging their small lifeboats across the hard sand, through mounds of driftwood, and rowing out to shipwrecks by hand, in swells that could reach as high as 12 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve ever seen some of the stormy conditions in the Point Reyes Seashore when we have pounding surf coming in,” says Dell’Osso, “it’s frightening to think that they did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1261\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-960x631.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-240x158.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-520x342.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surfboat launch at Drakes Bay in Point Reyes, circa 1900 \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often, when the waves prevented the surfmen’s rowboat from reaching a sinking ship, they would have to rescue the passengers one by one using a “breeches buoy”: a pair of thick, wide pants sewn into a life-ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was into this that an exhausted, freezing, wet survivor would slide their legs and be hauled over to safety, high above the raging waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An original “breeches buoy” in the Point Reyes Lifeboat Station at Chimney Rock \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they weren’t making rescues, these men were relentlessly training — ready to launch themselves into the ocean at a moment’s notice. So dangerous was their work that the four surfmen lying in the cemetery didn’t even die making a rescue, but in training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Carstens, of Germany, and Andrew Anderson, a Swede, died on a freezing December morning in 1890, as they were pulling their training boat back onto shore. According to the station’s logbooks, a huge breaker rose and overturned the vessel onto them, inflicting massive internal injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account of the accident in the \u003cem>Sausalito News\u003c/em> relates how Anderson in particular was dragged from the surf “insensible, with the blood pouring from his mouth.” Both men died within hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-800x468.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-1020x597.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-1180x690.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-960x562.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-240x140.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-375x219.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-520x304.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “breeches buoy’ rescue, circa 1912 \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over two years later, the second Swede, George Larson, died in the same spot, in exactly the same way. Yet their Finnish crewmate, John Korpala, wasn’t anywhere near a boat when he died in 1891. After hours patrolling the freezing wet beach, he went to bed with chills and never woke up. The coroner’s verdict was a hemorrhage in his lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they were kind of a different breed of individuals,” says Dell’Osso. “So I’m not sure if they were frightened, or they were, like, gung-ho to go out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, he says, their story is one “about lives of sacrifice and service. And that’s that’s exactly what they did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11659494 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1094\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-800x456.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-1020x581.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-1180x672.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-960x547.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-240x137.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-375x214.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-520x296.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life-Saving team at Point Reyes, date unknown \u003ccite>(National Maritime Museum, San Francisco/Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the turn of the century, the Lifesaving Service was combined with the United States Revenue Cutter Service to form the Coast Guard we know today. In 1927, the station was moved to Chimney Rock, away from the deadly surf of the Great Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Lifeboat Station still stands today, complete with pier and “marine railway” tracks used to launch the agency’s new motorized lifeboats. Although it demonstrates just a few decades’ technological advancement, this newer building is a world away from the hand-dragged rowboats commanded by the earlier surfmen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, only the tiny cemetery a few miles away bears witness to the life and work of those first rescuers. Yet the reason that the four surfmen are buried here, of all places, lies a little further up that hill in the form of \u003cem>more\u003c/em> headstones — all belonging to a local Swedish family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Driftwood on the Great Beach of Point Reyes. On foggy days like this, visibility is minimal. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back when the surfmen died, the land belonged to a dairy rancher called Peter Henry Claussen. This is the Claussen family graveyard, on the historic G Ranch, and he made space here “realizing that there was no [other] place to bury these individuals — and they were for the most part very young men,” according to Dell’Osso. Claussen himself is buried here, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claussen’s gift doesn’t attract too much attention these days, and it’s often mistakenly attributed to his own father, Hinrik, who by then had been dead for several decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659320\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11659320 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Dell’Osso, National Park Service chief interpretation officer, in front of Point Reyes’ Historic Life-Saving Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for Claussen’s motives for donating this land on his own family’s burial plot, a place he’d already buried his father and his wife, it’s generally assumed he felt a sense of duty to fellow immigrants — the community’s young local heroes with no real family in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a tribute to him in the \u003cem>Marin Journal\u003c/em>, written by a friend in 1915 just after his death, may offer a little further insight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it we learn that Claussen himself had been a sailor, from the age of 15 — that it was men like him that the surfmen sacrificed their lives to rescue. He was also no stranger to the terror of life-saving, having assisted in the rescue effort when a British ship called the \u003cem>Warrior Queen\u003c/em> ran aground in Point Reyes back in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign off the highway points to the knoll of trees that hides the Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tribute also makes clear how tight-knit the Scandinavian community at Point Reyes was in those days, asserting that “all the Scandinavians on Point Reyes called him not Captain but ‘Papa Claussen.’ They came to him for advice, sympathy, and comfort, which he never denied them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So perhaps the four immigrant surfmen weren’t just courageous strangers to Claussen. These young men may have been his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps it’s right that a place as hidden, and still as this, keeps a few secrets yet.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>“You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back” — motto attributed to the Life Saving Service, 19th century\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The words “California coast” conjure a certain image — sun-drenched beaches, warm waters — in the popular imagination. Point Reyes National Seashore, 50 miles north of San Francisco, does not fit that image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the foggiest, windiest places in North America, for hundreds of years this stretch of the Pacific Ocean has posed incredible danger to seafarers. And hidden away inland, just off the road to Point Reyes’ famous lighthouse, there’s a tiny burial ground that conveys the human cost of this rugged, treacherous coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11659314 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The graves of the four “surfmen” in Point Reyes at the Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery is concealed within a knoll of cypress and eucalyptus trees, and most visitors drive right past it. Here, simple headstones mark the bodies of four young immigrants from Sweden, Finland and Germany. Known as “surfmen”, they were members of what was then called the Life Saving Service — what we now know as the United States Coast Guard. All four lost their lives working in Point Reyes in the 1890s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the cemetery, you can just see the exact stretch of coastline on which those surfmen spent their last months at Point Reyes’ very first Life-Saving Station. This area is known as the Great Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the most treacherous stretch of water out here,” says John Dell’Osso, who has worked in Point Reyes for the National Park Service for 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11659318 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 12 mile stretch of coastline known as the Great Beach, where Point Reyes’ first-ever Life-Saving Station was built \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Point Reyes stretches out 10 miles from the mainland into the Pacific Ocean, resulting in its infamous high coastal winds and thick shrouding fogs. Even the logbooks of Sir Francis Drake’s ship in 1579 complain of “the stinking fogges” here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where the first recorded shipwreck on the West Coast occurred: a Spanish galleon, torn on the rocks in 1595. Until the lighthouse was built in 1870, sailors on these waters making the turn into San Francisco Bay had no warning of the jagged land they were about to strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service says that before the Life-Saving Station was built around 1890, the beaches were littered with shipwrecks — that residents often had to watch as those passengers and crew drowned in the waters in front of them. They couldn’t go in because in a place like Point Reyes, the surf is the thing that will kill you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11659483 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg 1710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-800x496.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1180x731.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-960x595.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-240x149.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-375x232.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-520x322.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Point Reyes Life-Saving Station (1889-1927) at which the four surfmen would have served, \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We don’t know a lot about the young men lying in the cemetery, but we know how dangerous, punishing and isolating their work was in the Life Saving Service. At the Point Reyes Lighthouse, says Dell’Osso, winds “have been clocked at 133 miles per hour. We close the [visitor] stairs at 40 miles per hour because you can barely stand in that condition.” Regardless, he says, “if there was a rescue to be done, these individuals did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no motorized boats, or radios, or powerful searchlights like the Coast Guard has today. These men were dragging their small lifeboats across the hard sand, through mounds of driftwood, and rowing out to shipwrecks by hand, in swells that could reach as high as 12 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve ever seen some of the stormy conditions in the Point Reyes Seashore when we have pounding surf coming in,” says Dell’Osso, “it’s frightening to think that they did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1261\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-960x631.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-240x158.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-520x342.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surfboat launch at Drakes Bay in Point Reyes, circa 1900 \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often, when the waves prevented the surfmen’s rowboat from reaching a sinking ship, they would have to rescue the passengers one by one using a “breeches buoy”: a pair of thick, wide pants sewn into a life-ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was into this that an exhausted, freezing, wet survivor would slide their legs and be hauled over to safety, high above the raging waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An original “breeches buoy” in the Point Reyes Lifeboat Station at Chimney Rock \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they weren’t making rescues, these men were relentlessly training — ready to launch themselves into the ocean at a moment’s notice. So dangerous was their work that the four surfmen lying in the cemetery didn’t even die making a rescue, but in training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Carstens, of Germany, and Andrew Anderson, a Swede, died on a freezing December morning in 1890, as they were pulling their training boat back onto shore. According to the station’s logbooks, a huge breaker rose and overturned the vessel onto them, inflicting massive internal injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account of the accident in the \u003cem>Sausalito News\u003c/em> relates how Anderson in particular was dragged from the surf “insensible, with the blood pouring from his mouth.” Both men died within hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-800x468.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-1020x597.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-1180x690.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-960x562.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-240x140.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-375x219.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-520x304.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “breeches buoy’ rescue, circa 1912 \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over two years later, the second Swede, George Larson, died in the same spot, in exactly the same way. Yet their Finnish crewmate, John Korpala, wasn’t anywhere near a boat when he died in 1891. After hours patrolling the freezing wet beach, he went to bed with chills and never woke up. The coroner’s verdict was a hemorrhage in his lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they were kind of a different breed of individuals,” says Dell’Osso. “So I’m not sure if they were frightened, or they were, like, gung-ho to go out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, he says, their story is one “about lives of sacrifice and service. And that’s that’s exactly what they did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11659494 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1094\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-800x456.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-1020x581.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-1180x672.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-960x547.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-240x137.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-375x214.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-520x296.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life-Saving team at Point Reyes, date unknown \u003ccite>(National Maritime Museum, San Francisco/Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the turn of the century, the Lifesaving Service was combined with the United States Revenue Cutter Service to form the Coast Guard we know today. In 1927, the station was moved to Chimney Rock, away from the deadly surf of the Great Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Lifeboat Station still stands today, complete with pier and “marine railway” tracks used to launch the agency’s new motorized lifeboats. Although it demonstrates just a few decades’ technological advancement, this newer building is a world away from the hand-dragged rowboats commanded by the earlier surfmen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, only the tiny cemetery a few miles away bears witness to the life and work of those first rescuers. Yet the reason that the four surfmen are buried here, of all places, lies a little further up that hill in the form of \u003cem>more\u003c/em> headstones — all belonging to a local Swedish family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Driftwood on the Great Beach of Point Reyes. On foggy days like this, visibility is minimal. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back when the surfmen died, the land belonged to a dairy rancher called Peter Henry Claussen. This is the Claussen family graveyard, on the historic G Ranch, and he made space here “realizing that there was no [other] place to bury these individuals — and they were for the most part very young men,” according to Dell’Osso. Claussen himself is buried here, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claussen’s gift doesn’t attract too much attention these days, and it’s often mistakenly attributed to his own father, Hinrik, who by then had been dead for several decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659320\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11659320 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Dell’Osso, National Park Service chief interpretation officer, in front of Point Reyes’ Historic Life-Saving Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for Claussen’s motives for donating this land on his own family’s burial plot, a place he’d already buried his father and his wife, it’s generally assumed he felt a sense of duty to fellow immigrants — the community’s young local heroes with no real family in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a tribute to him in the \u003cem>Marin Journal\u003c/em>, written by a friend in 1915 just after his death, may offer a little further insight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it we learn that Claussen himself had been a sailor, from the age of 15 — that it was men like him that the surfmen sacrificed their lives to rescue. He was also no stranger to the terror of life-saving, having assisted in the rescue effort when a British ship called the \u003cem>Warrior Queen\u003c/em> ran aground in Point Reyes back in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign off the highway points to the knoll of trees that hides the Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tribute also makes clear how tight-knit the Scandinavian community at Point Reyes was in those days, asserting that “all the Scandinavians on Point Reyes called him not Captain but ‘Papa Claussen.’ They came to him for advice, sympathy, and comfort, which he never denied them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So perhaps the four immigrant surfmen weren’t just courageous strangers to Claussen. These young men may have been his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Gold Rush, the Central Valley in California was like a bathtub. Rivers full of water from the mountains meandered through the valley, spreading the water far and wide across a vast expanse of natural wetlands. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This created rich feeding grounds for migrating species: salmon going to and from the ocean, or birds flying through from Alaska or Argentina. But with the development of farms, dams, houses and roads over the course of the 20th Century, California lost more than 90 percent of its natural wetlands -- and that, in turn, threatened the wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the northern part of the Central Valley -- the Sacramento Valley -- looks like a quilt of perfectly-level rice fields. It’s a vastly productive area that has made the state second only to the Mississippi Delta in rice production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dramatic change in the landscape may sound grim, but in California’s rice country, some strange bedfellows are working together to address the historic loss of wildlife habitat, in a way that makes rice farming part of the solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just outside the tiny town of Richvale this past winter, fourth-generation farmer Josh Sheppard maneuvered his ATV over the leveesfarm, his dog Tonka in tow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Sheppard talked about the Calrose sushi rice he grows, he became almost poetic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an amazing thing to witness. You can see the plants growing under the water on nice warm night,” he said. Driving up the next morning, “It’s satisfying to see rice seed come through the water and totally change the landscape of the field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He showed me rice fields flooded with a few inches of water but it felt more like we were on a bird-watching tour. Sheppard pointed out egrets and herons, Sandhill Cranes, curlews, ibis and countless ducks and geese filling whole sections of rice fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of these are migratory birds, but here they had found a welcome rest stop on a working farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-800x542.jpg\" alt='Josh Sheppard removes wooden boards, releasing water from a rice field as part of a \"variable draw down,\" releasing water from a quarter of his fields at a time, creating a variety of habitat for different migrating birds.' width=\"800\" height=\"542\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660388\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-800x542.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-1020x691.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-1180x800.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-960x651.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-375x254.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Sheppard removes wooden boards, releasing water from a rice field as part of a \"variable draw down,\" releasing water from a quarter of his fields at a time, creating a variety of habitat for different migrating birds. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They use these rice fields as their surrogate wetlands that used to naturally exist 100 years ago,” Sheppard explained. “Most of those natural wetlands have been developed over, but these rice fields are a perfect substitute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met Sheppard in early February, he was purposely adjusting the water levels in his fields — all for the birds. As his dog splashed around in the water, Sheppard kneeled on a levee at a concrete gate, tugging at a few boards of lumber which hold back all the water in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/ca/programs/farmbill/rcpp/?cid=nrcseprd996406\">Government\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://birdreturns.org/\">non-profit\u003c/a> groups pay Sheppard and other farmers to add water to some fields or release it bit by bit over a month. That gives migrating birds a few more weeks of feeding time by turning the Sacramento Valley into a checkerboard of simulated wetlands and mudflats. Some birds prefer fields with a few inches of water on them, while others like looking for bugs in shallow puddles. These different habitats attract various types of birds that need to fuel up before their long journeys north to nest.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You only conserve what you know. We all have to come together for that as Californians, whether we agree on all of that or not. Habitat and conservation are crucial.'\u003ccite>Regina Stafford, California Waterfowl Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’m no birder, but I spotted a curlew with a long, curved beak, and Sheppard pointed out a piper: “That shorter-legged guy, see them dipping into the shallow water there, looking for bugs? Eating breakfast is what they’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be much more efficient, and less risky for his whole farming season, to release all of this water at once, and early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “To hold water a little longer, that was a concept a little bit foreign to us at the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheppard described a meeting he attended in 2008. A bunch of bird conservationists and rice farmers gathered in a room with a whiteboard to share ideas. The bird experts offered ideas about what certain bird species needed to thrive, and talked about what farmers could do after harvest to make the Sacramento Valley hospitable for migrating birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we really realized the benefit of it, it became kind of like ‘Oh heck yeah, we're going to do that,’” Sheppard said. Especially with conservation groups offering to offset some of the costs of labor and water, he said, “Why would we not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-800x381.jpg\" alt=\"Snow Geese in fly over a rice field in the Pleasant Grove area of Sutter County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660365\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-800x381.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-160x76.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-1020x486.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-1180x562.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-960x457.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-240x114.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-375x179.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-520x248.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow Geese in fly over a rice field in the Pleasant Grove area of Sutter County. \u003ccite>(Jim Morris/California Rice Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A recent study of just one of these programs, The Nature Conservancy’s \u003ca href=\"http://birdreturns.org/\">BirdReturns\u003c/a>, showed that the actively-managed rice fields were attracting two to three times as many birds as before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, creating good bird habitat also helps create good publicity for the rice industry. Rice is among California’s top-ten most water-intensive crops. The homepage of the \u003ca href=\"http://calrice.org/\">California Rice Commission\u003c/a> is dominated by a dramatic video of snow geese landing on a rice field. And the Commission’s logo features a rice plant topped by a wading bird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sheppard himself admitted, “There was a time even when the rice industry, we weren’t the poster child of all the environmental stuff that we have adopted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s talking about the old practice of burning rice fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Putting Out the Fires\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As kid, Jessica Lundberg — a third-generation member of \u003ca href=\"http://www.lundberg.com/\">Lundberg Family Farms\u003c/a> -- heard people complain that rice farmers mucked up the air by burning fields, a cheap and effective way to get rid of the straw left over after the rice harvest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was terrible,” she remembered. “All of the fields would go up and maybe a two- or three-week period in the valley [everything] was just socked in with smoke, and you couldn't really even see the foothills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-800x650.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Lundberg of Lundberg Family Farms.\" width=\"800\" height=\"650\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660391\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-800x650.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-1020x829.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-1180x959.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-960x780.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-240x195.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-375x305.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-520x423.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Lundberg of Lundberg Family Farms. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her family’s business stopped burning in the 1960s. Her grandparents, originally from Scandinavia, then the Midwest, lived through the Dust Bowl before settling here, and saw how farmers needed to steward the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that's your mentality, if you're going into it thinking, ‘I have to take care of all of this,’ then you start looking for solutions, you start asking questions,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They passed that belief system on to their sons who took over the business. Lundberg says her dad always kept an Audubon book in his truck, and taught her to learn the seasons of wildlife, as well as farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, the state significantly restricted burning in rice country, so farmers started flooding fields, instead, to decompose that rice straw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lundberg said, “The water in the fields, it’s a great habitat for insects.” Those in turn attract the birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that the area sits right on the Pacific Flyway for migrating birds. So once the burning stopped, the birds began landing and feeding again. “It took several years, but it doesn't take birds long to tell their friends that there's some good stuff going on over here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions of migrating birds visit the Sacramento Valley, but it’s still working farmland, which means there are birds and farm machines wanting to be on the same fields at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Saving Eggs From Machines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Early last summer, I met up with Regina Stafford and her team from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calwaterfowl.org/\">California Waterfowl Association\u003c/a> in a rice field that was about to get tilled. They had two big ATVs, a rope, and tin cans filled with gravel. It’s called a “drag rope” and they tied it between the two ATVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"In early June 2017, the Egg Salvage team from the California Waterfowl Association "drags" a rice field before it's tilled. They attach tin cans filled with gravel to rope tied between two ATVs, and then drive slowly down the field, hoping to flush ducks nesting in the field.\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660382\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-800x491.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-1020x626.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-1180x725.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-960x590.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-240x147.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-375x230.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-520x319.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In early June 2017, the Egg Salvage team from the California Waterfowl Association \"drags\" a rice field before it's tilled. They attach tin cans filled with gravel to rope tied between two ATVs, and then drive slowly down the field, hoping to flush ducks nesting in the field. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The rope spins on swivels as we go. It’s nothing high-tech for sure!” Stafford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ducks love to nest in dry rice fields before planting season. But when workers bring out the big machinery, they could easily miss the nests and crush them, eggs and all. To avoid that, Stafford and her Egg Salvage team drove the ATVs slowly, in parallel, down the bumpy field, using the gravel-filled cans as simple noisemakers to flush the ducks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, one of her colleagues called out, “Bird! Bird! Bird!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stafford explained, “We just had a hen flush from the nest so we’re going to stop and check it out.” Team members placed the eggs in cartons and added some down for protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the salvaged eggs this team collects are sent to a nearby hatchery, where they mature into ducks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks later, Regina Stafford was on a private ranch, leading an educational program and teaching kids how to put identifying bands on the young ducklings’ legs, and how to release them into the habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She warned a group of kids, each hanging onto a duck, “Remember, they can’t fly, so we can’t do any duck chucking.” The kids squatted at the edge of the water, and on the count of three released the ducks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-800x556.jpg\" alt=\"Young people prepare to release ducks raised from salvaged eggs onto habitat at a private hunting club.\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660385\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-800x556.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-1020x709.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-1180x820.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-960x667.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-375x261.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-520x361.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young people prepare to release ducks raised from salvaged eggs onto habitat at a private hunting club. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stafford’s organization, California Waterfowl, saved nearly 4,000 eggs last year -- but it’s a hunters’ organization, and it’s a private hunting club that houses the hatchery and habitat. So I asked: Are they just saving eggs to make more ducks for hunting? She replied that, habitat like this, paid for by hunters, helps support all the birds that migrate through this area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You only conserve what you know,” she explained. \"We all have to come together for that as Californians, whether we agree on all of that or not. Habitat and conservation are crucial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Side-Benefit For Salmon?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So, if hunters, farmers and conservationists can come together for birds who find surrogate wetlands in these fields, could other wildlife also benefit from sharing space with rice? The answer is yes, according to Jacob Katz, a scientist with the organization\u003ca href=\"http://caltrout.org/\"> California Trout\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two million salmon once came through the Golden Gate into the rivers of the Central Valley. What we think we’re looking at here is the key to that kind of abundance again,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Katz at a large rice farm full of swans, dowitchers and Sand Hill Cranes. To demonstrate his theory, Katz took me to three different bodies of water. First, the Sacramento River, where Katz’s colleague Jacob Montgomery donned waders and tossed a plankton net into the river to take samples, which he then deposited in a plastic bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you’re looking for is movement,” Katz said, peering into the bag. “What we'd like to see in a fertile water sample is bugs, which we simplify to fish food. What we see here is drifting sand, a little bit of plant parts, but very few bugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Scientist Jacob Katz compares water samples from a flooded rice field, a canal and a river. The rice field sample contains tens of thousands of bugs, great food for fish.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660397\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-960x635.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scientist Jacob Katz compares water samples from a flooded rice field, a canal and a river. The rice field sample contains tens of thousands of bugs, great food for fish. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a nearby canal, the results were similar. “Some floating debris, but not a lot of life, not a lot of wiggling invertebrates,” Katz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Montgomery gathered water from a flooded rice field. When Katz held up the plastic bag, he smiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s teeming, it’s writhing,” he said. “The truth is there’s probably hundreds of thousands of individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least tens of thousands, anyway. They’ll find the exact number later at their UC Davis laboratory. If a young salmon lives in the rice fields, Katz said, “It’s going to get big, fat, robust. It’s going to pack a big lunch to trip down to the ocean, and have a much better chance of returning as an adult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katz and his team found that by letting salmon feed in flooded rice fields they grew seven times faster than fish in the nearby river channel.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11066097/a-flying-fish-that-transformed-the-sierra-for-better-and-for-worse\">A Flying Fish That Transformed the Sierra -- for Better and for Worse\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11066097/a-flying-fish-that-transformed-the-sierra-for-better-and-for-worse\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21016_IMG_0695-qut-1920x1440.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“First we'd like to see gates in our levees and our bypasses that would allow water and fish to flow out of the river and onto managed floodplains that provide them with food access with incredible habitat,” Katz said. “We upgrade our cell phones every six months, it seems like 100 years is long enough to wait for levees 2.0.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for some agricultural landscapes, getting fish access to rice fields and back to the rivers would be really difficult. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since this water from flooded rice fields is so thick with great fish food, Katz would like to see hundreds of thousands of acres drained strategically back into rivers, where endangered fish populations feed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think most people think that endangered species are inevitable and what our work is showing us is that that’s not the case. We’re trying to say— we’re not going back, we’re never going to be able to recreate tens or hundreds of thousands of acres of waving tule and wetland. But if we understand how that system works, if we understand the mechanisms that created that kind of abundance...” then, he said, we can learn how to create landscapes for the benefit of fish, birds, and agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece is part of the series \u003ca href=\"https://californiafoodways.com/\">California Foodways\u003c/a>. It was produced in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://thefern.org/\">Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>, a non-profit, investigative news organization.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just outside the tiny town of Richvale this past winter, fourth-generation farmer Josh Sheppard maneuvered his ATV over the leveesfarm, his dog Tonka in tow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Sheppard talked about the Calrose sushi rice he grows, he became almost poetic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an amazing thing to witness. You can see the plants growing under the water on nice warm night,” he said. Driving up the next morning, “It’s satisfying to see rice seed come through the water and totally change the landscape of the field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He showed me rice fields flooded with a few inches of water but it felt more like we were on a bird-watching tour. Sheppard pointed out egrets and herons, Sandhill Cranes, curlews, ibis and countless ducks and geese filling whole sections of rice fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of these are migratory birds, but here they had found a welcome rest stop on a working farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-800x542.jpg\" alt='Josh Sheppard removes wooden boards, releasing water from a rice field as part of a \"variable draw down,\" releasing water from a quarter of his fields at a time, creating a variety of habitat for different migrating birds.' width=\"800\" height=\"542\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660388\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-800x542.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-1020x691.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-1180x800.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-960x651.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-375x254.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Sheppard-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Sheppard removes wooden boards, releasing water from a rice field as part of a \"variable draw down,\" releasing water from a quarter of his fields at a time, creating a variety of habitat for different migrating birds. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They use these rice fields as their surrogate wetlands that used to naturally exist 100 years ago,” Sheppard explained. “Most of those natural wetlands have been developed over, but these rice fields are a perfect substitute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met Sheppard in early February, he was purposely adjusting the water levels in his fields — all for the birds. As his dog splashed around in the water, Sheppard kneeled on a levee at a concrete gate, tugging at a few boards of lumber which hold back all the water in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/ca/programs/farmbill/rcpp/?cid=nrcseprd996406\">Government\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://birdreturns.org/\">non-profit\u003c/a> groups pay Sheppard and other farmers to add water to some fields or release it bit by bit over a month. That gives migrating birds a few more weeks of feeding time by turning the Sacramento Valley into a checkerboard of simulated wetlands and mudflats. Some birds prefer fields with a few inches of water on them, while others like looking for bugs in shallow puddles. These different habitats attract various types of birds that need to fuel up before their long journeys north to nest.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You only conserve what you know. We all have to come together for that as Californians, whether we agree on all of that or not. Habitat and conservation are crucial.'\u003ccite>Regina Stafford, California Waterfowl Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’m no birder, but I spotted a curlew with a long, curved beak, and Sheppard pointed out a piper: “That shorter-legged guy, see them dipping into the shallow water there, looking for bugs? Eating breakfast is what they’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be much more efficient, and less risky for his whole farming season, to release all of this water at once, and early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “To hold water a little longer, that was a concept a little bit foreign to us at the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheppard described a meeting he attended in 2008. A bunch of bird conservationists and rice farmers gathered in a room with a whiteboard to share ideas. The bird experts offered ideas about what certain bird species needed to thrive, and talked about what farmers could do after harvest to make the Sacramento Valley hospitable for migrating birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we really realized the benefit of it, it became kind of like ‘Oh heck yeah, we're going to do that,’” Sheppard said. Especially with conservation groups offering to offset some of the costs of labor and water, he said, “Why would we not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-800x381.jpg\" alt=\"Snow Geese in fly over a rice field in the Pleasant Grove area of Sutter County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660365\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-800x381.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-160x76.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-1020x486.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-1180x562.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-960x457.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-240x114.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-375x179.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese-520x248.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeese.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow Geese in fly over a rice field in the Pleasant Grove area of Sutter County. \u003ccite>(Jim Morris/California Rice Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A recent study of just one of these programs, The Nature Conservancy’s \u003ca href=\"http://birdreturns.org/\">BirdReturns\u003c/a>, showed that the actively-managed rice fields were attracting two to three times as many birds as before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, creating good bird habitat also helps create good publicity for the rice industry. Rice is among California’s top-ten most water-intensive crops. The homepage of the \u003ca href=\"http://calrice.org/\">California Rice Commission\u003c/a> is dominated by a dramatic video of snow geese landing on a rice field. And the Commission’s logo features a rice plant topped by a wading bird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sheppard himself admitted, “There was a time even when the rice industry, we weren’t the poster child of all the environmental stuff that we have adopted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s talking about the old practice of burning rice fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Putting Out the Fires\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As kid, Jessica Lundberg — a third-generation member of \u003ca href=\"http://www.lundberg.com/\">Lundberg Family Farms\u003c/a> -- heard people complain that rice farmers mucked up the air by burning fields, a cheap and effective way to get rid of the straw left over after the rice harvest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was terrible,” she remembered. “All of the fields would go up and maybe a two- or three-week period in the valley [everything] was just socked in with smoke, and you couldn't really even see the foothills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-800x650.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Lundberg of Lundberg Family Farms.\" width=\"800\" height=\"650\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660391\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-800x650.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-1020x829.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-1180x959.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-960x780.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-240x195.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-375x305.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/Lundberg-520x423.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Lundberg of Lundberg Family Farms. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her family’s business stopped burning in the 1960s. Her grandparents, originally from Scandinavia, then the Midwest, lived through the Dust Bowl before settling here, and saw how farmers needed to steward the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that's your mentality, if you're going into it thinking, ‘I have to take care of all of this,’ then you start looking for solutions, you start asking questions,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They passed that belief system on to their sons who took over the business. Lundberg says her dad always kept an Audubon book in his truck, and taught her to learn the seasons of wildlife, as well as farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, the state significantly restricted burning in rice country, so farmers started flooding fields, instead, to decompose that rice straw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lundberg said, “The water in the fields, it’s a great habitat for insects.” Those in turn attract the birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that the area sits right on the Pacific Flyway for migrating birds. So once the burning stopped, the birds began landing and feeding again. “It took several years, but it doesn't take birds long to tell their friends that there's some good stuff going on over here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions of migrating birds visit the Sacramento Valley, but it’s still working farmland, which means there are birds and farm machines wanting to be on the same fields at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Saving Eggs From Machines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Early last summer, I met up with Regina Stafford and her team from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calwaterfowl.org/\">California Waterfowl Association\u003c/a> in a rice field that was about to get tilled. They had two big ATVs, a rope, and tin cans filled with gravel. It’s called a “drag rope” and they tied it between the two ATVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"In early June 2017, the Egg Salvage team from the California Waterfowl Association "drags" a rice field before it's tilled. They attach tin cans filled with gravel to rope tied between two ATVs, and then drive slowly down the field, hoping to flush ducks nesting in the field.\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660382\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-800x491.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-1020x626.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-1180x725.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-960x590.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-240x147.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-375x230.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/DragFieldEggs-520x319.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In early June 2017, the Egg Salvage team from the California Waterfowl Association \"drags\" a rice field before it's tilled. They attach tin cans filled with gravel to rope tied between two ATVs, and then drive slowly down the field, hoping to flush ducks nesting in the field. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The rope spins on swivels as we go. It’s nothing high-tech for sure!” Stafford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ducks love to nest in dry rice fields before planting season. But when workers bring out the big machinery, they could easily miss the nests and crush them, eggs and all. To avoid that, Stafford and her Egg Salvage team drove the ATVs slowly, in parallel, down the bumpy field, using the gravel-filled cans as simple noisemakers to flush the ducks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, one of her colleagues called out, “Bird! Bird! Bird!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stafford explained, “We just had a hen flush from the nest so we’re going to stop and check it out.” Team members placed the eggs in cartons and added some down for protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the salvaged eggs this team collects are sent to a nearby hatchery, where they mature into ducks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks later, Regina Stafford was on a private ranch, leading an educational program and teaching kids how to put identifying bands on the young ducklings’ legs, and how to release them into the habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She warned a group of kids, each hanging onto a duck, “Remember, they can’t fly, so we can’t do any duck chucking.” The kids squatted at the edge of the water, and on the count of three released the ducks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-800x556.jpg\" alt=\"Young people prepare to release ducks raised from salvaged eggs onto habitat at a private hunting club.\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660385\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-800x556.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-1020x709.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-1180x820.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-960x667.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-375x261.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsWithDucks-520x361.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young people prepare to release ducks raised from salvaged eggs onto habitat at a private hunting club. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stafford’s organization, California Waterfowl, saved nearly 4,000 eggs last year -- but it’s a hunters’ organization, and it’s a private hunting club that houses the hatchery and habitat. So I asked: Are they just saving eggs to make more ducks for hunting? She replied that, habitat like this, paid for by hunters, helps support all the birds that migrate through this area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You only conserve what you know,” she explained. \"We all have to come together for that as Californians, whether we agree on all of that or not. Habitat and conservation are crucial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Side-Benefit For Salmon?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So, if hunters, farmers and conservationists can come together for birds who find surrogate wetlands in these fields, could other wildlife also benefit from sharing space with rice? The answer is yes, according to Jacob Katz, a scientist with the organization\u003ca href=\"http://caltrout.org/\"> California Trout\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two million salmon once came through the Golden Gate into the rivers of the Central Valley. What we think we’re looking at here is the key to that kind of abundance again,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Katz at a large rice farm full of swans, dowitchers and Sand Hill Cranes. To demonstrate his theory, Katz took me to three different bodies of water. First, the Sacramento River, where Katz’s colleague Jacob Montgomery donned waders and tossed a plankton net into the river to take samples, which he then deposited in a plastic bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you’re looking for is movement,” Katz said, peering into the bag. “What we'd like to see in a fertile water sample is bugs, which we simplify to fish food. What we see here is drifting sand, a little bit of plant parts, but very few bugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Scientist Jacob Katz compares water samples from a flooded rice field, a canal and a river. The rice field sample contains tens of thousands of bugs, great food for fish.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660397\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-960x635.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/FishWater-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scientist Jacob Katz compares water samples from a flooded rice field, a canal and a river. The rice field sample contains tens of thousands of bugs, great food for fish. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a nearby canal, the results were similar. “Some floating debris, but not a lot of life, not a lot of wiggling invertebrates,” Katz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Montgomery gathered water from a flooded rice field. When Katz held up the plastic bag, he smiled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s teeming, it’s writhing,” he said. “The truth is there’s probably hundreds of thousands of individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least tens of thousands, anyway. They’ll find the exact number later at their UC Davis laboratory. If a young salmon lives in the rice fields, Katz said, “It’s going to get big, fat, robust. It’s going to pack a big lunch to trip down to the ocean, and have a much better chance of returning as an adult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katz and his team found that by letting salmon feed in flooded rice fields they grew seven times faster than fish in the nearby river channel.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11066097/a-flying-fish-that-transformed-the-sierra-for-better-and-for-worse\">A Flying Fish That Transformed the Sierra -- for Better and for Worse\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11066097/a-flying-fish-that-transformed-the-sierra-for-better-and-for-worse\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21016_IMG_0695-qut-1920x1440.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“First we'd like to see gates in our levees and our bypasses that would allow water and fish to flow out of the river and onto managed floodplains that provide them with food access with incredible habitat,” Katz said. “We upgrade our cell phones every six months, it seems like 100 years is long enough to wait for levees 2.0.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for some agricultural landscapes, getting fish access to rice fields and back to the rivers would be really difficult. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since this water from flooded rice fields is so thick with great fish food, Katz would like to see hundreds of thousands of acres drained strategically back into rivers, where endangered fish populations feed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think most people think that endangered species are inevitable and what our work is showing us is that that’s not the case. We’re trying to say— we’re not going back, we’re never going to be able to recreate tens or hundreds of thousands of acres of waving tule and wetland. But if we understand how that system works, if we understand the mechanisms that created that kind of abundance...” then, he said, we can learn how to create landscapes for the benefit of fish, birds, and agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Peri Thompson of San Diego watched a televised helicopter rescue of a family shortly after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11641884/frustrations-tragedy-mount-for-community-hit-by-mudslide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massive debris flow\u003c/a> slammed into the Santa Barbara County community of Montecito, she was shocked to see that the drama unfolding was at a home she owned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson had rented the house in Montecito to a young family that narrowly escaped death when the 30-square-mile debris flow raced down fire-scarred mountains after an intense rain on January 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They woke up from the sound of crashing and when they got out of bed to see what it was, (the house) was waist-deep in mud, debris and boulders,” Thompson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using an attic ladder Thompson had recently installed, the couple pulled themselves, their newborn, two other children and two dogs out of the mud and into the attic. From there they climbed onto the roof and into a basket dangled from a hovering U.S. Coast Guard helicopter which then pulled them up and flew them to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And they took their dogs,” Thompson said of the rescue crew. “Their two large dogs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relieved that her tenants made it out safely, Thompson was left with the task of assessing the damage to her home – one of more than 300 houses filled with mud, rocks and debris several feet high. And that’s when she – like many property owners in Montecito – discovered she was underinsured for this type of disaster, which left her unsure of how to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just come here and it just seems absolutely futile to do anything,” she says. “It’s mind boggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And expensive, says Abe Powell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powell is a director for the Montecito Fire Protection District and a founder of the newly formed Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade. The volunteer group has helped more than five dozen homeowners dig out from the mud, for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jed Hirsh of Sommerland (L) and Josiah Hamilton (R) of Montecito joined the all-volunteer "Bucket Brigade to help the community dig out and heal from the mudslide tragedy. Here they are pictured clearing mud from Peri Thompson's living room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jed Hirsh of Sommerland (L) and Josiah Hamilton (R) of Montecito joined the all-volunteer “Bucket Brigade to help the community dig out and heal from the mudslide tragedy. Here they are pictured clearing mud from Peri Thompson’s living room. \u003ccite>(Stephanie O'Neill/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Most of the homes we’re digging out are the smaller homes where the working families live,” says Powell. “And so usually with a crew of 40 to 50 we can get that mostly completed in a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, he says, more than 2,000 volunteers have shown up to shovel. While some volunteers work to clear mud from inside each house, Powell oversees crews working outside to clear debris with help from a mini-excavator and other heavy equipment the group rents with donation dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Job one: dig a path to the front door – much the same way you’d clear a walkway of snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘For most of the volunteers it’s as much for them as it is for the people they’re helping. It really is a cleansing experience for the community.’\u003ccite>John Trimble, Bucket Brigade volunteer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Second thing is we dig the cars out,” Powell says. “And then the next thing is to dig out inside and dig a perimeter around the house so the walls can start to dry out and that’s very important because a house will literally rot from within.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crews pile dirt in each yard for the homeowner to dispose of. And while dumping it is costly, Powell estimates the group has saved Montecito residents more than a million dollars in cleanup costs so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the work happening each weekend in Montecito helps more than just the hard-hit homeowners, says local contractor and volunteer John Trimble of Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For most of the volunteers it’s as much for them as it is for the people they’re helping,” says Trimble. “It really is a cleansing experience for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow volunteer Jed Hirsch, also a local contractor who lives in nearby Summerland says with each passing week, those who show up to dig seem to be more relaxed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are beginning to smile,” Hirsh says. “And that’s the interesting part of it – seeing how people are maturing into this tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30312_Bucket-Brigade-7-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rubber boots and other mud-caked items sit atop a table in Peri Thompson's kitchen. Hers was one of more than 300 homes damaged by a large mudslide in January that followed the devastating December wildfires in Santa Barbara County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660263\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30312_Bucket-Brigade-7-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30312_Bucket-Brigade-7-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30312_Bucket-Brigade-7-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30312_Bucket-Brigade-7-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30312_Bucket-Brigade-7-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30312_Bucket-Brigade-7-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30312_Bucket-Brigade-7-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30312_Bucket-Brigade-7-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30312_Bucket-Brigade-7-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rubber boots and other mud-caked items sit atop a table in Peri Thompson’s kitchen. Hers was one of more than 300 homes damaged by a large mudslide in January that followed the devastating December wildfires in Santa Barbara County. \u003ccite>(Stephanie O'Neill/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many touched by the tragedy, digging has become a way to connect with others and to begin processing the disaster that took at least 21 lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A toddler girl and teenaged boy remain missing and are presumed dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, there are families out there that are never going to recover from this,” says local realtor and bucket brigade volunteer Josiah Hamilton. “The families that lost lives and the people who perished in this, that’s something that we always just want to keep in our hearts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the cleanup far from over, it’s likely to take some time before many homeowners in Montecito learn whether their houses can be saved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Peri Thompson says, she considers herself among the lucky ones: Not only did her tenants escape tragedy, but now she and her neighbors are getting the help they need – from total strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know these people at all,” she said wiping tears from her eyes as she took a break from cleanup to watch the volunteers at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, they’ve come out here and dug and I don’t know why I’m crying because it’s a really wonderful thing.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relieved that her tenants made it out safely, Thompson was left with the task of assessing the damage to her home – one of more than 300 houses filled with mud, rocks and debris several feet high. And that’s when she – like many property owners in Montecito – discovered she was underinsured for this type of disaster, which left her unsure of how to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just come here and it just seems absolutely futile to do anything,” she says. “It’s mind boggling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And expensive, says Abe Powell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powell is a director for the Montecito Fire Protection District and a founder of the newly formed Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade. The volunteer group has helped more than five dozen homeowners dig out from the mud, for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jed Hirsh of Sommerland (L) and Josiah Hamilton (R) of Montecito joined the all-volunteer "Bucket Brigade to help the community dig out and heal from the mudslide tragedy. Here they are pictured clearing mud from Peri Thompson's living room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30309_Bucket-Brigade-1-qut-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jed Hirsh of Sommerland (L) and Josiah Hamilton (R) of Montecito joined the all-volunteer “Bucket Brigade to help the community dig out and heal from the mudslide tragedy. Here they are pictured clearing mud from Peri Thompson’s living room. \u003ccite>(Stephanie O'Neill/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Most of the homes we’re digging out are the smaller homes where the working families live,” says Powell. “And so usually with a crew of 40 to 50 we can get that mostly completed in a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, he says, more than 2,000 volunteers have shown up to shovel. While some volunteers work to clear mud from inside each house, Powell oversees crews working outside to clear debris with help from a mini-excavator and other heavy equipment the group rents with donation dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Job one: dig a path to the front door – much the same way you’d clear a walkway of snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘For most of the volunteers it’s as much for them as it is for the people they’re helping. It really is a cleansing experience for the community.’\u003ccite>John Trimble, Bucket Brigade volunteer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Second thing is we dig the cars out,” Powell says. “And then the next thing is to dig out inside and dig a perimeter around the house so the walls can start to dry out and that’s very important because a house will literally rot from within.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crews pile dirt in each yard for the homeowner to dispose of. And while dumping it is costly, Powell estimates the group has saved Montecito residents more than a million dollars in cleanup costs so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the work happening each weekend in Montecito helps more than just the hard-hit homeowners, says local contractor and volunteer John Trimble of Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For most of the volunteers it’s as much for them as it is for the people they’re helping,” says Trimble. “It really is a cleansing experience for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow volunteer Jed Hirsch, also a local contractor who lives in nearby Summerland says with each passing week, those who show up to dig seem to be more relaxed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are beginning to smile,” Hirsh says. “And that’s the interesting part of it – seeing how people are maturing into this tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30312_Bucket-Brigade-7-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rubber boots and other mud-caked items sit atop a table in Peri Thompson's kitchen. 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The storm is an extremely warm system that will bring rain to elevations of 10,000 feet or more in the Sierra Nevada, which would accelerate the spring snowmelt and potentially cause flash flooding in the Tahoe region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the terms used are a Pineapple Express, and that’s basically like a river of moisture that’s coming from the tropics and pointed toward the West Coast,” said forecaster Roger Gass of the National Weather Service in Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gass said coastal and mountainous ranges should expect the most rain, with up to 6 inches in the highest parts of the North Bay and 3 to 4 inches in the East Bay hills. The Santa Cruz Mountains could also see up to 6 inches of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11660073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/29790357_1880190822056265_6085851929810829312_n.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/29790357_1880190822056265_6085851929810829312_n.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/29790357_1880190822056265_6085851929810829312_n-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/29790357_1880190822056265_6085851929810829312_n-800x600.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/29790357_1880190822056265_6085851929810829312_n-240x180.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/29790357_1880190822056265_6085851929810829312_n-375x281.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/29790357_1880190822056265_6085851929810829312_n-520x390.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The National Weather Service Bay Area/Monterey office issued flood watch warnings for the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(U.S. National Weather Service Bay Area/Monterey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol is urging drivers to leave an extra buffer between cars and advising them to avoid pools of water by driving in the center of their lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NWS issued flood watches from late tonight through Saturday morning for parts of Northern California, including the following locations: the coastal North Bay, including Point Reyes National Seashore, North Bay interior valleys, North Bay mountains and Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/NWSBayArea/posts/1880190892056258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the NWS Facebook page\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Flood Watch means there is potential for flooding based on current forecasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Periods of rain, heavy at times, are forecast to fall over the North Bay region and Santa Cruz Mountains including the coastal ranges of San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Impacts expected include roadway and small stream flooding as well as urban flooding in poorly drained areas. Moderate rises will likely occur on mainstem rivers. During periods of heavy rain, ponding of water on roadways is likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extreme rainfall rates over recent burn scars could potentially trigger flash flooding or mudslide/debris flows across and downstream from the burn scar locations.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. says it has extra crews ready for what is expected to be a significant amount of wet weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokeswoman Tamar Sarkissian said staff will be watching the region closely and may open up an emergency center to respond to potential outages around the clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a plan. We’re prepared for the storm. We want our customers to be prepared as well,” Sarkissian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarkissian recommends people have flashlights with fresh batteries and sign up for PG&E’s outage alerts. She also warns residents to call 911 if they spot a downed power line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And farther north, the storm could be the first test of the newly constructed spillway at Oroville Dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm could force operators at the Oroville Dam to open the gates and let water out of the reservoir to make room for storm runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would be the first release from Oroville since crews began rebuilding the spillways that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1918649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collapsed in February\u003c/a> of last year, an event that triggered evacuation orders for hundreds of thousands of people along the Feather River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite National Park officials are canceling camping reservations this weekend. The NWS has issued a flood watch for the Yosemite area from 11 p.m. Friday through 11 a.m. Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>For Residents in Sonoma County’s October Wildfire Burn Areas\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County officials are advising residents living in the October wildfire burn areas to be “rain ready” in light of the National Weather Service forecast for periods of heavy rain tonight through Saturday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Rosa Fire Department is encouraging residents to keep their cellphones on at all times to receive emergency warnings from the National Weather Service and SoCo Alerts. Residents may sign up for the alerts at \u003ca href=\"http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/FES/Emergency-Management/SoCoAlert/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoCoAlert.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We urge our residents to use caution outdoors and avoid our creeks during higher intensity rainfall,” said Santa Rosa Assistant Fire Marshal Paul Lowenthal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents that live in and around the burn scars from the Tubbs and Nuns fires can receive information about possible flooding and mud or debris flows at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomacountyrecovers.org/rain-ready\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sonomacountyrecovers.org/rain-ready\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Colangelo, interim director of Sonoma County Fire and Emergency Services, said last fall’s wildfires left behind a lot of scorched ground that’s vulnerable to landslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our biggest concern right now is obviously we have a huge burn scar area, and so even a relatively minor rainfall event, if it’s severe enough over a short period of time, could cause problems we wouldn’t normally expect,” Colangelo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandbags for Santa Rosa residents are available at the Municipal Services Center, located at 55 Stony Point Road. The yard is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Water Agency officials said a system of 10 stream/rain gauges and 12 rain-only gauges were installed throughout the Nuns and Tubbs burn areas and along streams within and downstream of the burn areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gauges provide real-time data to weather forecasters who are responsible for sending flash flood and mud or debris flow alerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This system of gauges allows us to monitor streams and rainfall in real time and gives us a more accurate picture of conditions in the burn areas that are vulnerable. We can also start to gather historical flow data along more streams, which is critical for our stream maintenance and flood control operations,” chief engineer Jay Jasperse said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real-time rainfall and stream flow data are available to the public at \u003ca href=\"https://sonoma.onerain.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://sonoma.onerain.com/\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Craig Miller, Sara Hossaini and Muna Danish, the Associated Press and Bay City News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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During periods of heavy rain, ponding of water on roadways is likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extreme rainfall rates over recent burn scars could potentially trigger flash flooding or mudslide/debris flows across and downstream from the burn scar locations.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. says it has extra crews ready for what is expected to be a significant amount of wet weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokeswoman Tamar Sarkissian said staff will be watching the region closely and may open up an emergency center to respond to potential outages around the clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a plan. We’re prepared for the storm. We want our customers to be prepared as well,” Sarkissian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarkissian recommends people have flashlights with fresh batteries and sign up for PG&E’s outage alerts. She also warns residents to call 911 if they spot a downed power line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And farther north, the storm could be the first test of the newly constructed spillway at Oroville Dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm could force operators at the Oroville Dam to open the gates and let water out of the reservoir to make room for storm runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would be the first release from Oroville since crews began rebuilding the spillways that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1918649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collapsed in February\u003c/a> of last year, an event that triggered evacuation orders for hundreds of thousands of people along the Feather River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite National Park officials are canceling camping reservations this weekend. The NWS has issued a flood watch for the Yosemite area from 11 p.m. Friday through 11 a.m. Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>For Residents in Sonoma County’s October Wildfire Burn Areas\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County officials are advising residents living in the October wildfire burn areas to be “rain ready” in light of the National Weather Service forecast for periods of heavy rain tonight through Saturday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Rosa Fire Department is encouraging residents to keep their cellphones on at all times to receive emergency warnings from the National Weather Service and SoCo Alerts. 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"content": "\u003cp>As an innovator and early adopter of freeways, California became the symbolic capital of car culture. But the ease of movement conferred by the massive postwar freeway building boom was short-lived, turning the dream of car travel into a nightmare of congestion and long commutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of how Californians went from getting around to getting stuck behind the wheel is deeply entwined with the history of the urban freeway, an enterprise that advanced earlier and on a larger scale here than anywhere else in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half a century ago, there was reason for optimism about cars. Los Angeles native Michael Alexander remembers the days when the old saying about getting anywhere in Los Angeles in 20 minutes actually held true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I trusted it at least in the first decade of driving that I did,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1964, Alexander was a newly minted teenage driver, many freeways had just been built and he got a job as a clown in the L.A. City Traveling Circus, performing at city parks from the San Fernando Valley to the port cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11660158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck.jpg\" alt=\"Children follow a truck as it drives into position at Granada Hills Playground to set up the 1964 Combined Traveling Circus and Kiddie Carnival. Photo dated: July 4, 1964.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-800x594.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-1020x757.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-960x713.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-240x178.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-375x278.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-520x386.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children follow a truck as it drives into position at Granada Hills Playground to set up the 1964 Combined Traveling Circus and Kiddie Carnival. Photo dated: July 4, 1964. \u003ccite>(HERALD-EXAMINER COLLECTION / LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were truly able to ride the speed limit at any time of the day,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, that 20-minute rule is absurd. His wife, Vicki Kirsch, budgets five to six times that long to drive from their home northeast of downtown to her job teaching music at UCLA about 15 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic data analytics firm \u003ca href=\"http://inrix.com/scorecard/?\">Inrix\u003c/a> ranked L.A. traffic not just the worst in the country, but the worst in the world in 2017, saying drivers spent more than 100 hours a year delayed by congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not much better in the San Francisco Bay Area, ranked fifth most congested worldwide, where drivers were stuck in traffic almost 80 hours, according to Inrix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limited-access highways in urban areas were conceived in the 1920s as a way to provide speedier thoroughfares for cars while excluding streetcars, pedestrians and intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That history can be traced less than a mile from Alexander and Kirsch’s home on a drive they take nearly every day down the Arroyo Seco Parkway, one of the earliest freeways in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 953px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11660160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco.jpg\" alt=\"Arroyo Seco Parkway soon after opening, 1940.\" width=\"953\" height=\"724\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco.jpg 953w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco-800x608.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco-240x182.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco-375x285.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco-520x395.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arroyo Seco Parkway soon after opening, 1940. \u003ccite>(AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHIVES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Its opening in 1940 was a seminal moment, said Matthew Roth, historian for the Automobile Club of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you build a piece of freeway, you have determined future actions,” he said. “Once those lines are laid down in concrete, subsequent construction is going to have to connect with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decades that followed, California did connect them — financing and designing a massive network of freeways that spans more than 50,000 miles across the state, a system that would become a model for the rest of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California was the right place, but it was also the right time,” said Brian Taylor, an urban planning professor who directs UCLA’s Institute of Transportation Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1004px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11660163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns.jpg\" alt=\"One-way signs that were placed on exit ramps after opening because people did not understand the concept of on-ramps and off-ramps, 1942.\" width=\"1004\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns.jpg 1004w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns-960x687.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1004px) 100vw, 1004px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One-way signs that were placed on exit ramps after opening because people did not understand the concept of on-ramps and off-ramps, 1942. \u003ccite>(AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHIVES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rise of the automobile was happening everywhere, but California was uniquely poised to embrace it, said Taylor, because it coincided with the state’s period of maximum growth. In the two decades after World War II, there was booming industry, plenty of land to develop and the population doubled. Car ownership was growing even faster than the population, with car registrations \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/bc1434a6-66a8-476c-b500-7e159ee9baaf/S7-1.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CONVERT_TO=url&CACHEID=bc1434a6-66a8-476c-b500-7e159ee9baaf\">increasing by 10 percent\u003c/a> a year between 1946 and 1958, according to the state Department of Motor Vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1947, the state began raising the gas tax to fund the freeways with the landmark Collier-Burns Act, setting up a gas tax highway trust fund which would be copied at the federal level a decade later. Previously, most roads had been funded on an ad hoc basis through bonds, tolls or local property taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Division of Highways, the precursor to Caltrans, built about a hundred miles of new freeway a year between the mid-’50s and mid-’60s, including sections of Highway 101 in Northern and Southern California, and much of Interstate 5, along with interstates 405 and 280.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said these roadways were designed for high speed and high capacity by an agency that had previously been responsible only for rural highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were off to the races building these big super highways that had really been designed to move people at 70 mph between cities rather than 15 mph within cities” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a hodge-podge of more modest facilities like Arroyo Seco Parkway, initiated and built at the local level and designed to fit the crowded urban environment, turned into a state-orchestrated effort that transformed urban landscapes with high-capacity speedways cutting through the heart of cities and out to their fringes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1012px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11660166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed.jpg\" alt=\"Grading the roadbed of the Harbor Freeway, 1958.\" width=\"1012\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed.jpg 1012w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed-800x565.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed-960x678.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed-240x170.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed-375x265.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed-520x367.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grading the roadbed of the Harbor Freeway, 1958. \u003ccite>(AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHIVES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet only about half the freeways that were planned for the state were ever built. By the 1970s cities were revolting against displacement and smog. Taylor’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.accessmagazine.org/fall-1993/why-california-stopped-building-freeways/\">research\u003c/a> shows that state spending on freeways continued to increase, even as the number of miles constructed plummeted because of cost inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost as quickly as it began, the era of freeway building came to an end. But Taylor said its legacy can still be felt, and has only compounded as California cities have grown and densified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These facilities supported development very far from the city center and created an expectation that it was somehow normal and reasonable to travel very far,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of the freeways helped drive commerce, development and population growth across the state. The state’s population nearly tripled in the last half of the 20th century and the once-sparsley populated suburbs began merging with the big city centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Taylor said it’s a mistake to view the resulting vehicle traffic as a sign of failure or dysfunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congestion is a problem that arises from all of the activity we have in cities,” he said. “Cities exist because they push lots of activities together in a place. But when you push things together, things get crowded and slowed down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congestion, not free movement, is the natural state of thriving cities. So what Michael Alexander experienced in 1964 — the dream of driving across a city in 20 minutes — was an anomaly, a blip brought on by a sudden burst of new capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s likely the dream of a 20-minute car commute will live on only in the memories of folks like Alexander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the advantages the car culture gave me,” he said. “But I’m the beneficiary of something that might not have been best for society in the long run.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As an innovator and early adopter of freeways, California became the symbolic capital of car culture. But the ease of movement conferred by the massive postwar freeway building boom was short-lived, turning the dream of car travel into a nightmare of congestion and long commutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of how Californians went from getting around to getting stuck behind the wheel is deeply entwined with the history of the urban freeway, an enterprise that advanced earlier and on a larger scale here than anywhere else in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half a century ago, there was reason for optimism about cars. Los Angeles native Michael Alexander remembers the days when the old saying about getting anywhere in Los Angeles in 20 minutes actually held true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I trusted it at least in the first decade of driving that I did,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1964, Alexander was a newly minted teenage driver, many freeways had just been built and he got a job as a clown in the L.A. City Traveling Circus, performing at city parks from the San Fernando Valley to the port cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11660158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck.jpg\" alt=\"Children follow a truck as it drives into position at Granada Hills Playground to set up the 1964 Combined Traveling Circus and Kiddie Carnival. Photo dated: July 4, 1964.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-800x594.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-1020x757.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-960x713.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-240x178.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-375x278.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/KidsFollowTruck-520x386.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children follow a truck as it drives into position at Granada Hills Playground to set up the 1964 Combined Traveling Circus and Kiddie Carnival. Photo dated: July 4, 1964. \u003ccite>(HERALD-EXAMINER COLLECTION / LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We were truly able to ride the speed limit at any time of the day,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, that 20-minute rule is absurd. His wife, Vicki Kirsch, budgets five to six times that long to drive from their home northeast of downtown to her job teaching music at UCLA about 15 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic data analytics firm \u003ca href=\"http://inrix.com/scorecard/?\">Inrix\u003c/a> ranked L.A. traffic not just the worst in the country, but the worst in the world in 2017, saying drivers spent more than 100 hours a year delayed by congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not much better in the San Francisco Bay Area, ranked fifth most congested worldwide, where drivers were stuck in traffic almost 80 hours, according to Inrix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limited-access highways in urban areas were conceived in the 1920s as a way to provide speedier thoroughfares for cars while excluding streetcars, pedestrians and intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That history can be traced less than a mile from Alexander and Kirsch’s home on a drive they take nearly every day down the Arroyo Seco Parkway, one of the earliest freeways in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 953px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11660160\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco.jpg\" alt=\"Arroyo Seco Parkway soon after opening, 1940.\" width=\"953\" height=\"724\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco.jpg 953w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco-800x608.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco-240x182.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco-375x285.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ArroyoSeco-520x395.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arroyo Seco Parkway soon after opening, 1940. \u003ccite>(AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHIVES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Its opening in 1940 was a seminal moment, said Matthew Roth, historian for the Automobile Club of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once you build a piece of freeway, you have determined future actions,” he said. “Once those lines are laid down in concrete, subsequent construction is going to have to connect with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the decades that followed, California did connect them — financing and designing a massive network of freeways that spans more than 50,000 miles across the state, a system that would become a model for the rest of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California was the right place, but it was also the right time,” said Brian Taylor, an urban planning professor who directs UCLA’s Institute of Transportation Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1004px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11660163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns.jpg\" alt=\"One-way signs that were placed on exit ramps after opening because people did not understand the concept of on-ramps and off-ramps, 1942.\" width=\"1004\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns.jpg 1004w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns-960x687.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/OneWaySigns-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1004px) 100vw, 1004px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One-way signs that were placed on exit ramps after opening because people did not understand the concept of on-ramps and off-ramps, 1942. \u003ccite>(AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHIVES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rise of the automobile was happening everywhere, but California was uniquely poised to embrace it, said Taylor, because it coincided with the state’s period of maximum growth. In the two decades after World War II, there was booming industry, plenty of land to develop and the population doubled. Car ownership was growing even faster than the population, with car registrations \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/bc1434a6-66a8-476c-b500-7e159ee9baaf/S7-1.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CONVERT_TO=url&CACHEID=bc1434a6-66a8-476c-b500-7e159ee9baaf\">increasing by 10 percent\u003c/a> a year between 1946 and 1958, according to the state Department of Motor Vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1947, the state began raising the gas tax to fund the freeways with the landmark Collier-Burns Act, setting up a gas tax highway trust fund which would be copied at the federal level a decade later. Previously, most roads had been funded on an ad hoc basis through bonds, tolls or local property taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Division of Highways, the precursor to Caltrans, built about a hundred miles of new freeway a year between the mid-’50s and mid-’60s, including sections of Highway 101 in Northern and Southern California, and much of Interstate 5, along with interstates 405 and 280.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said these roadways were designed for high speed and high capacity by an agency that had previously been responsible only for rural highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were off to the races building these big super highways that had really been designed to move people at 70 mph between cities rather than 15 mph within cities” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a hodge-podge of more modest facilities like Arroyo Seco Parkway, initiated and built at the local level and designed to fit the crowded urban environment, turned into a state-orchestrated effort that transformed urban landscapes with high-capacity speedways cutting through the heart of cities and out to their fringes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1012px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11660166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed.jpg\" alt=\"Grading the roadbed of the Harbor Freeway, 1958.\" width=\"1012\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed.jpg 1012w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed-800x565.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed-960x678.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed-240x170.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed-375x265.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GradingtheRoadbed-520x367.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grading the roadbed of the Harbor Freeway, 1958. \u003ccite>(AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHIVES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet only about half the freeways that were planned for the state were ever built. By the 1970s cities were revolting against displacement and smog. Taylor’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.accessmagazine.org/fall-1993/why-california-stopped-building-freeways/\">research\u003c/a> shows that state spending on freeways continued to increase, even as the number of miles constructed plummeted because of cost inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost as quickly as it began, the era of freeway building came to an end. But Taylor said its legacy can still be felt, and has only compounded as California cities have grown and densified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These facilities supported development very far from the city center and created an expectation that it was somehow normal and reasonable to travel very far,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of the freeways helped drive commerce, development and population growth across the state. The state’s population nearly tripled in the last half of the 20th century and the once-sparsley populated suburbs began merging with the big city centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Taylor said it’s a mistake to view the resulting vehicle traffic as a sign of failure or dysfunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congestion is a problem that arises from all of the activity we have in cities,” he said. “Cities exist because they push lots of activities together in a place. But when you push things together, things get crowded and slowed down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congestion, not free movement, is the natural state of thriving cities. 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"content": "\u003cp>This year marks the 170th anniversary of the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, north of Sacramento. The legacy of the Gold Rush is inescapable in Northern California, particularly in Mariposa County. It’s visible in mining museums, at roadside historical sites and in county buildings on Bullion Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What hasn’t persisted in this region is gold mining itself. But one Canadian company wants to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Long works on a few thousand acres in the Mariposa County foothills. He doesn’t have to go far to be reminded of the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve recovered old wheelbarrows, old shovels and picks, steel lunchboxes, old ore carts,” he says. “There was even a bit of railway track where they used to push through carts of rock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 170 years, Long is here to reignite this historic industry. He’s the exploration manager for Fremont Gold Mining, a small company prospecting for gold on a hillside overlooking Lake McClure. Inside a warehouse, geologists examine rock samples, and outside, another cuts rock with a saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately the goal is to have a mine and to create good jobs for people throughout the county, throughout the state,” Long says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont Gold’s property lies along the famed Mother Lode Gold Belt, which stretches 120 miles from Mariposa north into El Dorado County. Since the 1840s, it’s been home to hundreds of gold mines that have extracted millions of ounces of the mineral. By some estimates, however, literally tons of gold still lie buried here. Fremont Gold hopes to make those potential resources a reality — but history suggests it’s likely to face an uphill battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"Despite the name, Fremont Gold Mining is an exploration company, completing many years of surveying, sampling and drilling before deciding whether a mine could be economically feasible.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-1180x817.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-960x665.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-375x260.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite the name, Fremont Gold Mining is an exploration company, completing many years of surveying, sampling and drilling before deciding whether a mine could be economically feasible. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To be clear, Fremont Gold Mining is not actually mining. It’s exploring. Its job is to determine how much gold its property contains, which involves surveying, sampling and drilling. After exploring a quarter of its property, the company estimates it has already defined close to 900,000 ounces of gold — far more than what was already extracted during 100 years of mining on the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If so much gold remains in the hills here, exploration companies must be stampeding back to the Mother Lode, right? Nope. Throughout the five counties containing the gold belt, only one gold mine is active, and only intermittently. Other exploration projects have folded, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Clinkenbeard with the California Geological Survey says that’s because the mineral itself is only one component of an economical operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gold production increases and decreases with the economy and with wars,” he says. “A whole lot of things influence what happened [since the Gold Rush].”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘[In the 19th century] you simply mined, and then when you were done you walked away, and you left the land with significant scars and in some cases … public hazards.’\u003ccite>Pat Perez, California Department of Conservation\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Although the price of gold has dropped from its peak in 2012, after inflation it’s still about 2.5 times higher than its value in the 1840s. But gold operations themselves have become much pricier since then, with more advanced technology and higher labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vishal Gupta is CEO of California Gold Mining, the Canadian company that owns Fremont Gold. He says another reason gold mining slowed is because this is California, ground zero for environmentalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I won’t say there was a moratorium on any gold mining since the Second World War,” he says, “but it had become increasingly difficult for gold and other commodity-based companies to do any sort of a business within the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Perez, with the California Department of Conservation, says that’s for good reason. In the 19th century, long before the California Environmental Quality Act and the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act, environmental accountability simply wasn’t a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You simply mined, and then when you were done you walked away, and you left the land with significant scars and in some cases environmental challenges and public hazards,” Perez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mariposa County resident Les Overstreet is concerned about the socioeconomic and environmental impacts a mine would have, and doesn't want the environmental negligence of the gold rush era.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariposa County resident Les Overstreet is concerned about the socioeconomic and environmental impacts a mine would have, and doesn’t want the environmental negligence of the Gold Rush era. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariposa County officials, who handle local permitting, are well aware of those scars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associate planner Steve Engfer points to many practices he hopes remain in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was “hydraulic mining, where they would mine whole mountainsides and all the silt and everything just washes downstream, river amalgamation processes where there were chemicals involved that weren’t as regulated as we would have today,” he says. And there were many others. Engfer believes with diligence, gold mining can be both environmentally responsible and a driver of economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County resident Les Overstreet isn’t convinced either is true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He lives a few miles away from the Fremont Gold site and says he plans to push back against any plans to develop a mine. He worries about how it could strain local infrastructure and water resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s going to happen environmentally to the wild and scenic Merced River, and then also the lake?” he asks. “It’d be very difficult to keep things like surfactants out the lake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont Gold expects to spend another few years drilling and surveying. A mine would be many years further down the road, after more permitting and opportunity for public comment.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It’s exploring. Its job is to determine how much gold its property contains, which involves surveying, sampling and drilling. After exploring a quarter of its property, the company estimates it has already defined close to 900,000 ounces of gold — far more than what was already extracted during 100 years of mining on the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If so much gold remains in the hills here, exploration companies must be stampeding back to the Mother Lode, right? Nope. Throughout the five counties containing the gold belt, only one gold mine is active, and only intermittently. Other exploration projects have folded, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Clinkenbeard with the California Geological Survey says that’s because the mineral itself is only one component of an economical operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gold production increases and decreases with the economy and with wars,” he says. “A whole lot of things influence what happened [since the Gold Rush].”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘[In the 19th century] you simply mined, and then when you were done you walked away, and you left the land with significant scars and in some cases … public hazards.’\u003ccite>Pat Perez, California Department of Conservation\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Although the price of gold has dropped from its peak in 2012, after inflation it’s still about 2.5 times higher than its value in the 1840s. 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In the 19th century, long before the California Environmental Quality Act and the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act, environmental accountability simply wasn’t a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You simply mined, and then when you were done you walked away, and you left the land with significant scars and in some cases environmental challenges and public hazards,” Perez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mariposa County resident Les Overstreet is concerned about the socioeconomic and environmental impacts a mine would have, and doesn't want the environmental negligence of the gold rush era.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariposa County resident Les Overstreet is concerned about the socioeconomic and environmental impacts a mine would have, and doesn’t want the environmental negligence of the Gold Rush era. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariposa County officials, who handle local permitting, are well aware of those scars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associate planner Steve Engfer points to many practices he hopes remain in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was “hydraulic mining, where they would mine whole mountainsides and all the silt and everything just washes downstream, river amalgamation processes where there were chemicals involved that weren’t as regulated as we would have today,” he says. 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