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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or Will Travis, it began 12 years ago, with an eye-opening article in the New Yorker magazine about rising seas and the widespread flooding and dislocation that would bring. As the executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bcdc.ca.gov/\">San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission\u003c/a>, the region’s coastal management agency, he needed to know more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Travis directed his staff to research the issue. In 2007 they handed him a report that foretold catastrophe. The agency produced maps with colorful, frightening flood projections and shared it with local policymakers. Trillions of dollars in public and private infrastructure were at risk, Travis told them. The time to prepare was now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the region’s elected officials and Silicon Valley’s cluster of high-tech firms were deaf to the urgency of his message. No one was planning for higher seas. Their problems were more immediate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I heard a lot was, ‘I’m trying to get my kid into a good college, my wife wants me to lose weight, the car transmission is making a funny noise and you want me to worry about sea level rise?’ ” Travis said. “ ‘Yeah, I’ll get to that when I prepare my earthquake supplies.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Y5pvkTpE9EU2uaM9APJ4VWLkilTv77mS\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He crafted a policy response for his region anyway. In 2011, after four years of scientific analysis, intense bickering, and legal fights, the commission issued what Travis described as the nation’s first enforceable requirement that all shoreline development address the problem of rising seas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, with the breadth and scale of the problem known, the entire state is grappling with how to respond. Every agency and most municipalities are busily crafting plans and prioritizing projects, totaling up what will ultimately be hundreds of billions of dollars in costs to build barriers, restore wetlands and -- somehow -- raise or relocate roads, bridges, railroads and power plants away from the onrushing Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Global climate change is warming oceans and melting glaciers, raising seas higher and threatening the people and things that crowd California’s 1,200-mile coastline. Beaches are shrinking and bluffs are being pulverized. And the water’s rise, which had been somewhat steady in the past 100 years, is now accelerating alarmingly, 30 to 40 times faster than in the last century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11541508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11541508\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Will Travis was one of the first Bay Area officials to take the threat of sea-level rise seriously. When he was executive director of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Travis crafted the first enforceable regulations requiring developers to take rising seas into account.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-960x630.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Travis was one of the first Bay Area officials to take the threat of sea-level rise seriously. When he was executive director of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Travis crafted the first enforceable regulations requiring developers to take rising seas into account. \u003ccite>(Penni Gladstone/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In as few as three decades, scientists say, some areas that are now dry will be permanently under water. Other places, miles from the ocean, will flood more regularly and more deeply, as warmer waters spawn more intense storms and the already swollen sea pushes farther onshore, unimpeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This winter’s lashing storms that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/02/into-the-big-surreal-36-hours-in-californias-isolated-lonely-island/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">took out parts of Highway 1\u003c/a> are an example of collateral damage: Rising seas are making flood-related events worse because there’s more water available to do damage. Flooding along roads is more frequent and lingers longer. Erosion from more powerful waves works away at bridge footings, undermining spans that are critical to transportation corridors, which themselves are strung along the California coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.opc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/docs/rising-seas-in-california-an-update-on-sea-level-rise-science.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by the Ocean Protection Council, the state agency that coordinates the government’s coastal programs, was released in April with the most dire projections yet: The Pacific could rise as much as 10 feet in California in the next 80 years, covering up 800 feet of existing beach and taking out anything in its path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preparing for this eventuality has been declared a top priority in California. By calling for extensive scientific studies and projections, the state has thrown its full power behind the problem. But its power is not absolute. Even though the effects of rising water will be felt comprehensively, bridging public and private property and interests, some of the state’s jurisdiction stops at local borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"dGko5C5Qxmf0kg2hTKHhouPPx5bYAMAI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State planning began in 2008 with an \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=11036\">executive order\u003c/a> from then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. That was followed by Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2010 requirement that state agencies include an adaptation strategy in all planning and permitting documents. Most are still refining those plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beleaguered Department of Transportation has inventoried its holdings, identified which highways will be moved back from the coast and which low-lying roads must be elevated. Highway 1, the meandering, coast-hugging byway famed more for windshield tourism than modern transportation, has been clawed at by erosion and appears often on the state’s flood maps. A section of the roadway at Gleason’s Beach in Sonoma County will be pushed back from the shore some 400 feet. Approvals for the project are expected next year.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar ground-level planning is under way in other agencies. The parks department, for instance, is considering relocating parking lots and restrooms away from the beach up and down the state -- although in some areas there is no room to move facilities, even if the agency could afford to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coastal Commission has assisted California’s 15 coastal counties in preparing \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/lcp/grants/\">vulnerability assessments\u003c/a>, which identify structures to be moved and areas where it’s too dangerous to build. The commission, which approves permits for all development along the coast, has denied the siting of a wastewater treatment plant in Morro Bay and has deemed a power plant in Oxnard to be in harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite such efforts, some say officials need to be much more nimble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11541533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11541533\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"Property owners in Solana Beach have been involved in a protracted legal battle with the city for the right to construct sea walls and shore up fragile beach bluffs that underlay their homes. Such so-called 'armoring' redirects wave action elsewhere, causing unintended harm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-1180x772.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-960x628.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-520x340.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Property owners in Solana Beach have been involved in a protracted legal battle with the city for the right to construct sea walls and shore up fragile beach bluffs that underlay their homes. Such so-called 'armoring' redirects wave action elsewhere, causing unintended harm. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The public cost of armoring the coast with sea walls and breakwaters -- not always the right response but sometimes the best short-term option -- of lifting up highways and defending airports, railways and power plants surely will be staggering. No one knows what it is. The exhaustive scientific analyses commissioned by the state don’t address cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Bob Wieckowski, a Democrat from Fremont who chairs the Senate’s Environmental Quality Committee, would not hazard a guess at the overall cost of shoring up state-owned infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would be a scary number,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all the state’s studies, the precise details for responding to sea rise are mostly local decisions involving zoning, building codes and engineering projects with crippling costs attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, Highway 37, built on a base of mud, flooded on 27 days last winter and has already sunk more than two feet, according to Sonoma County Supervisor David Rabbitt. He said that the state’s transportation agency, Caltrans, told local officials that it could get to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/systemplanning/docs/sr-37-studies/Phase_II_SR_37_Stewardship_FinalReport_Task%204_Benefits_Impacts.pdf\">problem\u003c/a> in 2088.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four affected counties, unable to wait 71 years, are considering a number of options, including putting the critical commuter highway atop a 6-foot levee. The price tag for the 20-mile project is as much as $4 billion, and no one knows who will pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/223503294\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster City, on San Francisco Bay, reckons it will take more than $90 million to shore up its eight miles of \u003ca href=\"http://www.fostercity.org/publicworks/lagoonandlevee/Levee-Protection-Planning.cfm\">rock levees\u003c/a> that protect neighborhoods from encroaching water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Goleta, just north of Santa Barbara, compiled this list two years ago: an estimated $7.9 million to $63.2 million to cap or recap oil wells in flood-risk areas, flood damage expected on private and public property estimated at $14 million by the end of the century, $500,000 to add four to six inches of asphalt to local roads to elevate them above the water for the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving across the soaring Dumbarton Bridge into Menlo Park at the south end of San Francisco Bay, Travis -- who is now a consultant -- is a grim tour guide. Where most would find serenity in the shimmering necklace of the California coastline, Travis sees an inventory of potential calamity for the state’s bridges, levees, homes and sewage plants. He points to a neat grid of commercial salt ponds that create a colorful mosaic of water behind long lines of levees. Colorful yes, but the marshes that could swell with seawater are held back only by flimsy earthen berms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11541536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11541536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-800x499.jpg\" alt=\"The vast network of commercial salt ponds and degraded marshes in the southern end of the San Francisco Bay are the focus of an intensive restoration effort that encompasses tens of thousands of acres. The wetlands will help protect low-lying communities from flooding by slowing storm surges and absorbing rising seas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-800x499.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-1020x636.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-1180x736.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-960x599.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-240x150.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-375x234.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-520x324.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The vast network of commercial salt ponds and degraded marshes in the southern end of the San Francisco Bay are the focus of an intensive restoration effort that encompasses tens of thousands of acres. The wetlands will help protect low-lying communities from flooding by slowing storm surges and absorbing rising seas. \u003ccite>(Jitze Couperus/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is much at stake here, where the soggy, low-lying coast is the most heavily developed in the state. The density of people, and public and private assets, coupled with the region’s vulnerable geography, put the Bay Area at the top of the state’s triage list.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the gateway to Silicon Valley, formerly known as Valley of Heart’s Delight -- a reference to once-sprawling fruit orchards -- now home to Tesla, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google and Hewlett Packard. State officials are keenly aware that its critical economic driver is in the path of eventual disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adaptation projects in this region show how nature is being harnessed to hold back Pacific waters. The Bay begins with a deficit, having lost more than 80 percent of its marshes in the last 200 years, each new development gouging out some natural protection. Multiple efforts are underway to reclaim those wetlands, restoring vegetation that absorbs floodwater and slows storm surges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in nine Bay Area counties last year approved a parcel tax to raise a half-billion dollars in the next 20 years, with plans to restore tidal marshes along the bay and creeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More sobering for the public is the question of how to protect the international airports in San Francisco and Oakland. San Francisco airport, which, like Oakland’s, juts like a finger into the bay, has crumbling cement along its eight miles of sea wall. SFO officials are developing a $60 million shoreline protection project. At both airports, efforts will focus on buttressing and expanding existing walls and barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"square\" link=\"file\" size=\"full\" ids=\"11541540,11541541\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sea wall that rims the waterfront Embarcadero office park and promenade of shops requires a multi-billion-dollar upgrade. The Port of San Francisco is soliciting improvement proposals and has set aside \u003ca href=\"https://sfseawall.com/\">$40 million for the project\u003c/a>. The venerable rock pile is a critical bulwark: Behind it sits nearly $40 billion in commercial development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if those numbers aren’t staggering enough, Travis’s back-of-the-envelope calculation for protecting just the San Francisco Bay with a simple levee -- not accounting for any relocating, rebuilding or constructing more sophisticated defensive measures: As much as $100 billion. His bleak coda: The cost of doing nothing and paying to clean up the mess is four times that figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an abridged version of the full story, which is available at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\">\u003cem>calmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. CALmatters is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>or Will Travis, it began 12 years ago, with an eye-opening article in the New Yorker magazine about rising seas and the widespread flooding and dislocation that would bring. As the executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bcdc.ca.gov/\">San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission\u003c/a>, the region’s coastal management agency, he needed to know more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Travis directed his staff to research the issue. In 2007 they handed him a report that foretold catastrophe. The agency produced maps with colorful, frightening flood projections and shared it with local policymakers. Trillions of dollars in public and private infrastructure were at risk, Travis told them. The time to prepare was now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the region’s elected officials and Silicon Valley’s cluster of high-tech firms were deaf to the urgency of his message. No one was planning for higher seas. Their problems were more immediate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I heard a lot was, ‘I’m trying to get my kid into a good college, my wife wants me to lose weight, the car transmission is making a funny noise and you want me to worry about sea level rise?’ ” Travis said. “ ‘Yeah, I’ll get to that when I prepare my earthquake supplies.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He crafted a policy response for his region anyway. In 2011, after four years of scientific analysis, intense bickering, and legal fights, the commission issued what Travis described as the nation’s first enforceable requirement that all shoreline development address the problem of rising seas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, with the breadth and scale of the problem known, the entire state is grappling with how to respond. Every agency and most municipalities are busily crafting plans and prioritizing projects, totaling up what will ultimately be hundreds of billions of dollars in costs to build barriers, restore wetlands and -- somehow -- raise or relocate roads, bridges, railroads and power plants away from the onrushing Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Global climate change is warming oceans and melting glaciers, raising seas higher and threatening the people and things that crowd California’s 1,200-mile coastline. Beaches are shrinking and bluffs are being pulverized. And the water’s rise, which had been somewhat steady in the past 100 years, is now accelerating alarmingly, 30 to 40 times faster than in the last century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11541508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11541508\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Will Travis was one of the first Bay Area officials to take the threat of sea-level rise seriously. When he was executive director of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Travis crafted the first enforceable regulations requiring developers to take rising seas into account.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-1180x774.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-960x630.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WillTravis-520x341.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Travis was one of the first Bay Area officials to take the threat of sea-level rise seriously. When he was executive director of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Travis crafted the first enforceable regulations requiring developers to take rising seas into account. \u003ccite>(Penni Gladstone/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In as few as three decades, scientists say, some areas that are now dry will be permanently under water. Other places, miles from the ocean, will flood more regularly and more deeply, as warmer waters spawn more intense storms and the already swollen sea pushes farther onshore, unimpeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This winter’s lashing storms that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/02/into-the-big-surreal-36-hours-in-californias-isolated-lonely-island/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">took out parts of Highway 1\u003c/a> are an example of collateral damage: Rising seas are making flood-related events worse because there’s more water available to do damage. Flooding along roads is more frequent and lingers longer. Erosion from more powerful waves works away at bridge footings, undermining spans that are critical to transportation corridors, which themselves are strung along the California coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.opc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/docs/rising-seas-in-california-an-update-on-sea-level-rise-science.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by the Ocean Protection Council, the state agency that coordinates the government’s coastal programs, was released in April with the most dire projections yet: The Pacific could rise as much as 10 feet in California in the next 80 years, covering up 800 feet of existing beach and taking out anything in its path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preparing for this eventuality has been declared a top priority in California. By calling for extensive scientific studies and projections, the state has thrown its full power behind the problem. But its power is not absolute. Even though the effects of rising water will be felt comprehensively, bridging public and private property and interests, some of the state’s jurisdiction stops at local borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State planning began in 2008 with an \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=11036\">executive order\u003c/a> from then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. That was followed by Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2010 requirement that state agencies include an adaptation strategy in all planning and permitting documents. Most are still refining those plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beleaguered Department of Transportation has inventoried its holdings, identified which highways will be moved back from the coast and which low-lying roads must be elevated. Highway 1, the meandering, coast-hugging byway famed more for windshield tourism than modern transportation, has been clawed at by erosion and appears often on the state’s flood maps. A section of the roadway at Gleason’s Beach in Sonoma County will be pushed back from the shore some 400 feet. Approvals for the project are expected next year.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar ground-level planning is under way in other agencies. The parks department, for instance, is considering relocating parking lots and restrooms away from the beach up and down the state -- although in some areas there is no room to move facilities, even if the agency could afford to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coastal Commission has assisted California’s 15 coastal counties in preparing \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/lcp/grants/\">vulnerability assessments\u003c/a>, which identify structures to be moved and areas where it’s too dangerous to build. The commission, which approves permits for all development along the coast, has denied the siting of a wastewater treatment plant in Morro Bay and has deemed a power plant in Oxnard to be in harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite such efforts, some say officials need to be much more nimble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11541533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11541533\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"Property owners in Solana Beach have been involved in a protracted legal battle with the city for the right to construct sea walls and shore up fragile beach bluffs that underlay their homes. Such so-called 'armoring' redirects wave action elsewhere, causing unintended harm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-1180x772.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-960x628.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SolanaBeach-520x340.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Property owners in Solana Beach have been involved in a protracted legal battle with the city for the right to construct sea walls and shore up fragile beach bluffs that underlay their homes. Such so-called 'armoring' redirects wave action elsewhere, causing unintended harm. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The public cost of armoring the coast with sea walls and breakwaters -- not always the right response but sometimes the best short-term option -- of lifting up highways and defending airports, railways and power plants surely will be staggering. No one knows what it is. The exhaustive scientific analyses commissioned by the state don’t address cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Bob Wieckowski, a Democrat from Fremont who chairs the Senate’s Environmental Quality Committee, would not hazard a guess at the overall cost of shoring up state-owned infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would be a scary number,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all the state’s studies, the precise details for responding to sea rise are mostly local decisions involving zoning, building codes and engineering projects with crippling costs attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, Highway 37, built on a base of mud, flooded on 27 days last winter and has already sunk more than two feet, according to Sonoma County Supervisor David Rabbitt. He said that the state’s transportation agency, Caltrans, told local officials that it could get to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/systemplanning/docs/sr-37-studies/Phase_II_SR_37_Stewardship_FinalReport_Task%204_Benefits_Impacts.pdf\">problem\u003c/a> in 2088.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four affected counties, unable to wait 71 years, are considering a number of options, including putting the critical commuter highway atop a 6-foot levee. The price tag for the 20-mile project is as much as $4 billion, and no one knows who will pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/223503294\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster City, on San Francisco Bay, reckons it will take more than $90 million to shore up its eight miles of \u003ca href=\"http://www.fostercity.org/publicworks/lagoonandlevee/Levee-Protection-Planning.cfm\">rock levees\u003c/a> that protect neighborhoods from encroaching water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Goleta, just north of Santa Barbara, compiled this list two years ago: an estimated $7.9 million to $63.2 million to cap or recap oil wells in flood-risk areas, flood damage expected on private and public property estimated at $14 million by the end of the century, $500,000 to add four to six inches of asphalt to local roads to elevate them above the water for the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving across the soaring Dumbarton Bridge into Menlo Park at the south end of San Francisco Bay, Travis -- who is now a consultant -- is a grim tour guide. Where most would find serenity in the shimmering necklace of the California coastline, Travis sees an inventory of potential calamity for the state’s bridges, levees, homes and sewage plants. He points to a neat grid of commercial salt ponds that create a colorful mosaic of water behind long lines of levees. Colorful yes, but the marshes that could swell with seawater are held back only by flimsy earthen berms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11541536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11541536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-800x499.jpg\" alt=\"The vast network of commercial salt ponds and degraded marshes in the southern end of the San Francisco Bay are the focus of an intensive restoration effort that encompasses tens of thousands of acres. The wetlands will help protect low-lying communities from flooding by slowing storm surges and absorbing rising seas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-800x499.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-1020x636.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-1180x736.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-960x599.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-240x150.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-375x234.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/SaltPonds-520x324.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The vast network of commercial salt ponds and degraded marshes in the southern end of the San Francisco Bay are the focus of an intensive restoration effort that encompasses tens of thousands of acres. The wetlands will help protect low-lying communities from flooding by slowing storm surges and absorbing rising seas. \u003ccite>(Jitze Couperus/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is much at stake here, where the soggy, low-lying coast is the most heavily developed in the state. The density of people, and public and private assets, coupled with the region’s vulnerable geography, put the Bay Area at the top of the state’s triage list.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the gateway to Silicon Valley, formerly known as Valley of Heart’s Delight -- a reference to once-sprawling fruit orchards -- now home to Tesla, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google and Hewlett Packard. State officials are keenly aware that its critical economic driver is in the path of eventual disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adaptation projects in this region show how nature is being harnessed to hold back Pacific waters. The Bay begins with a deficit, having lost more than 80 percent of its marshes in the last 200 years, each new development gouging out some natural protection. Multiple efforts are underway to reclaim those wetlands, restoring vegetation that absorbs floodwater and slows storm surges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in nine Bay Area counties last year approved a parcel tax to raise a half-billion dollars in the next 20 years, with plans to restore tidal marshes along the bay and creeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More sobering for the public is the question of how to protect the international airports in San Francisco and Oakland. San Francisco airport, which, like Oakland’s, juts like a finger into the bay, has crumbling cement along its eight miles of sea wall. SFO officials are developing a $60 million shoreline protection project. At both airports, efforts will focus on buttressing and expanding existing walls and barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"headTitle": "Science for the People: Grab Your Phone and Help Snap Pictures of Coastal Biodiversity | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>Your moments peering into tide pools, gazing at spiny starfish, or eyeing bashful anemones can be more than just moments. They’re observations, and scientists can learn from them about what’s happening on California’s coastline. Thousands of observations, added together—that’s valuable data.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s a way for people to witness global change in a real way.’\u003ccite>Dr. Rebecca Johnson,\u003cbr>\nCalifornia Academy of Sciences\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This weekend, Californians who love marine ecosystems can head to the bay or the beach, take pictures of all the animals they can see, upload them to the cell phone app iNaturalist, and take part in a statewide campaign to catalog the biodiversity of the state’s coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.calacademy.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mpacollaborative.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marine Protected Area Collaborative Network\u003c/a> are hosting \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/citizen-science/snapshot-cal-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snapshot Cal Coast\u003c/a>, an annual coastal “bio-blitz” that started June 23 and wraps up on Sunday, July 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what kind of science it is—it starts with an observation,” says Dr. Rebecca Johnson, citizen science research coordinator at the Cal Academy. “We’re providing a way for people to share those observations and then we can look for patterns and ask more questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1787229\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1787229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snapping a photo of a sea anemone, to upload to the iNaturalist app for Snapshot Cal Coast. \u003ccite>(Calla Allison/Marine Protected Areas Collaborative Network)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cal Academy and other organizations are holding cataloging parties up and down the California coastline this weekend, to encourage people to get together and collect observations. In the Bay Area, families or individuals can head down to Ocean Beach on Sunday morning to join a team for free community \u003ca href=\"http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/snapshot-cal-coast-2017-ocean-beach-bioblitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">event\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Snapshot of Biodiversity \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can get observations all along the coast at the same time of year, every year,” Johnson says, “we can get a snapshot of biodiversity, and the ranges of individual species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the project’s second year, and there are plans to make it an annual event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do this every year, we can see how species’ ranges are changing,” says Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coastal animal’s range can change for a variety of reasons such as invasive species, diseases such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.eeb.ucsc.edu/pacificrockyintertidal/data-products/sea-star-wasting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sea star wasting syndrome\u003c/a>, and warming waters due to climate change. Biodiversity data is also essential in order to answer questions about the efficacy of marine protected areas and other conservation measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1787232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1787232\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tidepoolers at Pillar Point look for marine life to photograph, during this year’s bio-blitz. \u003ccite>(Rebecca Johnson/California Academy of Sciences)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>iNaturalist is an phone app and website that aggregates geo-located photos of species. And you don’t have to be an expert to use it. Users can either enter identify their observations themselves or tag something as ‘unknown.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have to know what you’re looking at,” says Johnson, “you just have to take good enough pictures that someone else can identify it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snapshot Cal Coast is also a way for amateur naturalists, who know a lot about one place, to contribute to a larger-scale observation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”pY10qOhKQ34943XDliZmrOLeBjHYgS6z”]Over the last week, 400 participants have uploaded 8,000 observations of coastal organisms, representing close to 900 species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smart phones with great cameras, and apps like iNaturalist, make a model of citizen science possible that was never possible before. And Johnson says using a phone outdoors doesn’t have to distract from relaxing and observing natural spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technology and looking at a screen gets a bad rap for disconnecting people from each other,” she says. “Through the work that we do, we have really been able to use that technology to build community and connect people to nature and each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Demystifying Science \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the greatest beneficiaries of Snapshot Cal Coast are the citizen scientists themselves. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Your moments peering into tide pools, gazing at spiny starfish, or eyeing bashful anemones can be more than just moments. They’re observations, and scientists can learn from them about what’s happening on California’s coastline. Thousands of observations, added together—that’s valuable data.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s a way for people to witness global change in a real way.’\u003ccite>Dr. Rebecca Johnson,\u003cbr>\nCalifornia Academy of Sciences\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This weekend, Californians who love marine ecosystems can head to the bay or the beach, take pictures of all the animals they can see, upload them to the cell phone app iNaturalist, and take part in a statewide campaign to catalog the biodiversity of the state’s coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.calacademy.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Academy of Sciences\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mpacollaborative.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marine Protected Area Collaborative Network\u003c/a> are hosting \u003ca href=\"https://www.calacademy.org/citizen-science/snapshot-cal-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snapshot Cal Coast\u003c/a>, an annual coastal “bio-blitz” that started June 23 and wraps up on Sunday, July 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what kind of science it is—it starts with an observation,” says Dr. Rebecca Johnson, citizen science research coordinator at the Cal Academy. “We’re providing a way for people to share those observations and then we can look for patterns and ask more questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1787229\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1787229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/Calla_Allison_PhotoTakingforSnapshotCalCoast-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snapping a photo of a sea anemone, to upload to the iNaturalist app for Snapshot Cal Coast. \u003ccite>(Calla Allison/Marine Protected Areas Collaborative Network)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cal Academy and other organizations are holding cataloging parties up and down the California coastline this weekend, to encourage people to get together and collect observations. In the Bay Area, families or individuals can head down to Ocean Beach on Sunday morning to join a team for free community \u003ca href=\"http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/snapshot-cal-coast-2017-ocean-beach-bioblitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">event\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Snapshot of Biodiversity \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can get observations all along the coast at the same time of year, every year,” Johnson says, “we can get a snapshot of biodiversity, and the ranges of individual species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the project’s second year, and there are plans to make it an annual event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do this every year, we can see how species’ ranges are changing,” says Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coastal animal’s range can change for a variety of reasons such as invasive species, diseases such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.eeb.ucsc.edu/pacificrockyintertidal/data-products/sea-star-wasting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sea star wasting syndrome\u003c/a>, and warming waters due to climate change. Biodiversity data is also essential in order to answer questions about the efficacy of marine protected areas and other conservation measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1787232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1787232\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/06/RJohnson_PillarPoint_Tidepoolers_2017.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tidepoolers at Pillar Point look for marine life to photograph, during this year’s bio-blitz. \u003ccite>(Rebecca Johnson/California Academy of Sciences)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>iNaturalist is an phone app and website that aggregates geo-located photos of species. And you don’t have to be an expert to use it. Users can either enter identify their observations themselves or tag something as ‘unknown.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have to know what you’re looking at,” says Johnson, “you just have to take good enough pictures that someone else can identify it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snapshot Cal Coast is also a way for amateur naturalists, who know a lot about one place, to contribute to a larger-scale observation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Over the last week, 400 participants have uploaded 8,000 observations of coastal organisms, representing close to 900 species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smart phones with great cameras, and apps like iNaturalist, make a model of citizen science possible that was never possible before. And Johnson says using a phone outdoors doesn’t have to distract from relaxing and observing natural spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technology and looking at a screen gets a bad rap for disconnecting people from each other,” she says. “Through the work that we do, we have really been able to use that technology to build community and connect people to nature and each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Demystifying Science \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the greatest beneficiaries of Snapshot Cal Coast are the citizen scientists themselves. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two dozen people who work in agricultural fields in the Salinas and Watsonville areas were hospitalized after chemical drifts apparently made them ill in the last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state agencies that regulate pesticide and workplace safety are not investigating the incidents, and in one case authorities are not releasing the name of the companies that employed the sickened workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent incident involved several different chemicals that may have drifted into an area where six raspberry pickers were working near State Route 152 in Watsonville Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farmworkers got sick in a field off East Lake and Wagner avenues shortly after 8 a.m. Some of them were vomiting, according to Watsonville Fire Department Division Chief Rudy Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters partially decontaminated the workers on scene and then rushed them to Watsonville Community Hospital, where they were cleaned further, Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the workers were released from the hospital Thursday afternoon, Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juan Hidalgo, the Santa Cruz County agricultural commissioner, has launched an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is top priority,\" Hidalgo said. \"We want to know what happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said investigators believe the workers may have come in contact with four chemicals: Pristine Fungicide, Rally 40WSP, DiPel-DF and Widespread Max. Leaf samples from the field have been collected for testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hidalgo refused to disclose the names of the companies that employed the workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to make sure that the growers we need to talk to, that they can feel free to talk to us about what happened,\" he said. \"I don't want to jeopardize my investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fields where the incident took place are used by several growers and it's unclear which ones were responsible for the chemical releases and which ones had hired the workers, Hidalgo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case comes a week after 18 celery workers were rushed to the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System emergency room, complaining of dizziness, nausea and stomach pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 22, a crew of workers employed by the produce company Tanimura & Antle got sick about an hour into their shift with one of them vomiting, according to Bob Roach, an assistant agricultural commissioner in Monterey County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Emergency Department immediately called a code triage, activated a command center and deployed a mobile decontamination trailer,\" according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.svmh.com/SVMHS-News/2017/June/Salinas-Valley-Memorial-Healthcare-System-Respon.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a> from the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chemical that sickened the workers may have been the insecticide Methomyl, according to the hospital, who attributed that to a supervisor for the company that hired the workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two nearby fields were sprayed with a set of chemicals the night before the employees got sick, Roach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County inspectors have interviewed the workers, all but one of whom returned to work the next day, according to Roach, who said the county is investigating the incident to determine whether Tanimura & Antle violated any safety laws. Samples from the workers' clothing have been collected for testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) and Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR) are aware of the two cases but are not leading investigations into them, representatives for both agencies said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal/OSHA spokesman said in an email that California pesticide regulators had state oversight over the two cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CDPR spokesman said the Santa Cruz and Monterey agricultural commissions were the primary investigating agencies.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Seventy-one million. That's the number of bees Max Nikolaychuk tends in the rolling hills east of Fresno. Each is worth a fraction of a cent, but together they make up a large part of his livelihood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikolaychuk makes most of his money during almond pollination season, renting out the bees to California's almond orchards. This year, a thief stole four stacks of his hives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He knew about the bees, because he went through every bee colony I had and only took the good ones,\" he says. \"But, you know, the bee yards -- I don't have no security there, no fences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of security means his bees have been stolen more than once. And it's a type of theft that's been playing out all over the state's orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"hV3N9Qn9qT3aLUbyBzBWwuvz9X7zVajG\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Literally billions of bees are needed to pollinate California's almond crop. 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Most of the time, he says, beehive thieves turn out to be \"someone within the bee community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11535591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/2502746-bee-rustling-photos-14-_custom-f12e2e50d988cbdee8609cbfc6188c5e566c0168-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Earlier this year, California authorities uncovered this 'beehive chop-shop' in a field in Fresno County. A single bee is worth a fraction of a cent, but there can be as many as 65,000 bees in each hive.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earlier this year, California authorities uncovered this 'beehive chop shop' in a field in Fresno County. A single bee is worth a fraction of a cent, but there can be as many as 65,000 bees in each hive. \u003ccite>(Ezra Romero/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That was the case in the giant heist earlier this year. The alleged thief, Pavel Tveretinov, was a beekeeper from Sacramento who used the stolen bees for pollination and then stashed them on a plot of land in Fresno County. He was arrested and could face around 10 years of jail time. And authorities say he didn't act alone. His alleged accomplice, Vitaliy Yeroshenko, has been charged and a warrant is out for his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Godlin with the California State Beekeepers Association says the problem of hive theft gets worse every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There used to be kind of a code of honor that you didn't mess with another man's bees,\" Godlin says. But the alleged perpetrators of this giant hive theft broke that code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He went way, way over the line,\" Godlin says. \"It's just, you know, heartbreaking when you go out and your bees are gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11467018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11467018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-800x808.jpg\" alt=\"The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov.\" width=\"800\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-160x162.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-240x242.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-375x379.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-520x525.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov. \u003ccite>(Fresno County Sheriff's Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Godlin has had hives stolen in the past. He and many other beekeepers make their income not just from renting out hives but also from selling the honey the bees produce. So when bees are stolen, beekeepers lose out on both sources of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godlin says it takes time to develop a new hive by introducing a new queen and developing honey. \"Bees, you know, we have been hit by everything from vandals to bears to thieves. But the vandalism and thieving is the worst. You know, the one that hurts the most.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godlin says his organization will pay a reward of up to $10,000 for tips leading to the prosecution of bee thieves. But that only relieves some of the sting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 Valley Public Radio. 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Arley Terrence with the Fresno County Sheriff's Department says it was a \"beehive chop shop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/534128664/534597247\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were so many different beehives and bee boxes owned by so many different victims,\" Terrence says. \"All of these stolen bee boxes that we recovered — none of them were stolen in Fresno County.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bees were stolen from across California, but they belong to beekeepers from around the country. A few thousand bee boxes disappear every year, but this bee heist was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the biggest bee theft investigation that we've had,\" Terrence says. 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A single bee is worth a fraction of a cent, but there can be as many as 65,000 bees in each hive. \u003ccite>(Ezra Romero/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That was the case in the giant heist earlier this year. The alleged thief, Pavel Tveretinov, was a beekeeper from Sacramento who used the stolen bees for pollination and then stashed them on a plot of land in Fresno County. He was arrested and could face around 10 years of jail time. And authorities say he didn't act alone. His alleged accomplice, Vitaliy Yeroshenko, has been charged and a warrant is out for his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Godlin with the California State Beekeepers Association says the problem of hive theft gets worse every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There used to be kind of a code of honor that you didn't mess with another man's bees,\" Godlin says. But the alleged perpetrators of this giant hive theft broke that code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He went way, way over the line,\" Godlin says. \"It's just, you know, heartbreaking when you go out and your bees are gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11467018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11467018\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-800x808.jpg\" alt=\"The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov.\" width=\"800\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-160x162.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-240x242.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-375x379.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-520x525.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/PavelT-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The suspect in the beehive theft, 51-year-old Pavel Tveretinov. \u003ccite>(Fresno County Sheriff's Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Godlin has had hives stolen in the past. He and many other beekeepers make their income not just from renting out hives but also from selling the honey the bees produce. So when bees are stolen, beekeepers lose out on both sources of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godlin says it takes time to develop a new hive by introducing a new queen and developing honey. \"Bees, you know, we have been hit by everything from vandals to bears to thieves. But the vandalism and thieving is the worst. You know, the one that hurts the most.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Godlin says his organization will pay a reward of up to $10,000 for tips leading to the prosecution of bee thieves. But that only relieves some of the sting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 Valley Public Radio. 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"content": "\u003cp>LOS ANGELES — Anya Sellsted had scaled scary snow-covered passes and forded frightening rivers during her solo hike from Mexico to Canada when the hazards of California's gargantuan winter finally caught up to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While crossing a partly submerged log in Yosemite National Park, Sellsted was sucked under the tree and down the rushing creek. She gasped for air as the weight of her 55-pound (25-kilogram) backpack pushed her under the frigid water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one was within miles as she was battered and scraped on rocks before grasping branches and saving herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I couldn't stop screaming and shaking and crying,\" said Sellsted, who swigged whiskey to calm her nerves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sellsted is one of several hikers who reported harrowing incidents tackling the 2,650-mile (4,265-kilometer) Pacific Crest Trail across this year's massive snowpack, which has fed swift streams and turned the dream trip of a lifetime into a near-death nightmare for some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fanya.ivanova.12%2Fposts%2F10154741148638105&width=500\" width=\"800\" height=\"742\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hikers have survived an avalanche, falls on snow and close calls in raging rivers. Most have retreated to lower ground and detoured the hazardous Sierra Nevada — the highest, most rugged section of the scenic trail running the length of California and through Oregon and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiking the trail is an arduous endurance test, but not particularly perilous. It has become more popular each year and draws more than 3,000 hikers from around the world trying to cover the entire length within six months, though fewer than a quarter finished last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ygoIWLji7U\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the length and likelihood of snow in the Sierra and Cascades, most hikers start in the Southern California desert in early spring with the hope that snow will melt by the time they reach alpine elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With hundreds of so-called thru-hikers entering the high Sierra early in the season, their experiences can serve as cautionary tales for others planning summer wilderness escapes. More than a dozen people have drowned in Sierra rivers at lower elevations, including one in Yosemite and three in Sequoia National Park, and rangers are warning hikers to think twice about crossing swift water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcus Mazzaferri, 25, of Seattle, narrowly survived an ordeal after falling in a swollen Yosemite creek and abandoning his pack so he could get to shore before being swept over a waterfall. He lost all his gear and had to do jumping jacks and run in circles all night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got lost hiking for help the next day and was beginning to despair when he heard a beeping sound and discovered a snow-plowing crew that took him to a ranger station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember the feeling of not being sure if I would survive or not,\" Mazzaferri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tf1AwuyHnQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photos and videos on social media show whitewater churning beneath shaky log crossings and shirtless hikers wading chest-deep in still waters with packs over their heads. On cliff-hanging Forester Pass, the trail's highest point at 13,200 feet (4,000 meters), snow cover makes for precarious footing. Majestic landscapes display endless expanses of white framed by craggy black and gray peaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack Haskel of the Pacific Crest Trail Association urged hikers two weeks ago on Facebook to let more snow melt, saying he was worried someone would die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not really ready for us yet,\" he said. \"Conditions are more like mountaineering than backpacking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPCTAFan%2Fposts%2F10155698880662985&width=500\" width=\"800\" height=\"595\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brien Bower, 25, an experienced mountaineer from Seattle, said there were two mindsets among hikers approaching the high Sierra: those who said everyone was going to die and those going for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bower, who completed the trail two years ago, planned to turn around if he sensed danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was climbing on skis near the top of 11,978-foot (3,651-meter) Glen Pass in Kings Canyon National Park in late May when he stopped to check the snow's stability and triggered an avalanche. He hardly realized what happened before it carried him 400 feet (120 meters) — and off a 20-foot (6-meter) cliff — in about four seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His hip was sore, but remarkably, he stayed atop the slide and wasn't badly hurt. He left the mountains for a few days and returned farther north, where intimidating waters drove him from the trail again and he eventually quit after becoming sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are either continuing to get lucky or learning the skills on the job very fast,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"nMED9fXsx0HwjSkyOu6RkYWpwfrhF5py\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jake Gustafson, 21, a McDonald's manager from Pennsylvania, was pressing on with a friend despite \"fear mongering\" he read on social media. The worst thing he encountered were sunburned nostrils from solar reflection off snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're considered the daredevils,\" said Gustafson, who sends a \"Not dead yet\" message by satellite to his mother each night. \"We like the sense of danger, I guess.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sellsted, 31, who works at a Seattle architecture firm, lost track of how many times she used her ice ax to arrest falls on steep and slick snow. She had gotten accustomed to chilly water crossings before she nearly drowned June 5 in Rancheria Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After drying her gear, she carried on. 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