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Using controlled fires to burn ground litter and small trees breaks the fuel continuity from the surface to the crowns of trees, where fire is more difficult to control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we take the advice of this paper, we are going to build a real fire program with crews dedicated to lighting managed fires across many different land ownerships,” said Thomas, cochair of a statewide multiparty \u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraforestlegacy.org/Resources/Community/PrescribedFire/FireMOUSigned.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">partnership\u003c/a> dedicated to increasing the use of fire to benefit natural resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The importance of human-fire interactions in the Sierra surprised Trouet, Taylor and their coauthors: Carl N. Skinner of the \u003cspan class=\"caps\">U.S.\u003c/span> Forest Service in Redding and Scott L. Stephens of the University of California, Berkeley. They set out to determine which climatic cycles – the El Niño/La Niña cycle or the longer Pacific Decadal Oscillation – have governed the fire regime in California’s Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team used the fire history recorded in tree rings from 29 sites in the Sierra Nevada. They combined these with 20th-century records of annual areas burned, resulting in a fire index that spans from 1600 to last year. The scientists plotted this 415-year history against past environmental records of temperature and moisture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They expected the fire index to roughly follow the pattern of summer temperatures: a gradual rise with a sharp increase starting around 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they found four periods, each around 55 years long, when the frequency and extent of forest fires clearly differed from the time interlude before or after. That led them to take a closer look at human activity over the entire era since 1600, focusing on whether human land use affected the amount of fuel available for fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earliest period in their study was a time when Native Americans used sophisticated burning techniques to improve hunting and prepare ground for agriculture. The result was a patchy network of burned areas that reduced the ground fuels, hindering the spread of fire, said Trouet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire index nearly doubled with the transition to the Spanish-Mexican period (1769–1847). Once Spanish missionaries arrived, Native American populations declined precipitously. Half the native population in California estimated in 1769 had disappeared by 1845, the study states. Disease and death brought an end to the mosaic of burned and unburned areas Native Americans had created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the mission era fuels built up, exacerbated by the Spanish government’s ban on the use of fire. 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Aided by sparse fuels and, after World War \u003cspan class=\"caps\">II\u003c/span>, more sophisticated fire detection and suppression techniques, fire activity remained well below what the study’s scientists predicted into the late 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That began to change in 1980. As the climate continued to warm, fire frequency increased once again. A century of accumulated forest fuels contributed to fire seasons that are now 78 days longer than in the 1970s, and an acreage of burned area that is expected to double by 2050. This trend is not expected to abate, said Trouet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know the climate is changing. It already has a strong influence on fire activity and will continue to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fires of the future will not necessarily be like the fires of the past, said Taylor, the co-lead author of the study, which has the unwieldy title “Socioecological Transitions Trigger Fire Regime Shifts and Modulate Fire-Climate Interactions in the Sierra Nevada, \u003cspan class=\"caps\">USA\u003c/span>, 1600–2015 \u003cspan class=\"caps\">CE.\u003c/span>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fires of the past were mostly surface fires. “Today we see more canopy-killing fires,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the near-certain future of rising temperatures and increased fire activity, the study’s strong evidence of humans’ effects on fire behavior offers opportunities to change the type and intensity of future burns, said Trouet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1199414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1199414\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner.jpg\" alt=\"A U.S. Forest Service fire professional uses a drip torch to light a low-severity prescribed burn to reduce the fuel load in a mixed-conifer forest in the Goosenest Adaptive Management Area in northern California. \" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Forest Service fire professional uses a drip torch to light a low-severity prescribed burn to reduce the fuel load in a mixed-conifer forest in the Goosenest Adaptive Management Area in northern California. \u003ccite>(C.N. Skinner/USFS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prescribed burning is one way to do that and needs to be emphasized, she said, adding, “Now we know that burning not only helps with fuel loads; it also helps to reduce the effects of climate on fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land managers are increasing their use of prescribed burns as agency officials and the general public understand their importance. But 150 years of low activity and suppression have left an enormous fire deficit, said Thomas. To maintain healthy forests, where flames char trees without widespread destruction, Sierra Nevada land managers need to burn 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares) every year, he said. Current managed ignitions total less than 40,000 acres (16,000 hectares) through California, Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We desperately need to burn tens of thousands of acres on every forest in the Sierra Nevada – every year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rising temperatures are already “locked in,” said Trouet, and there is not much we can do about that for a number of decades. But by deepening our understanding of how humans affect fire regimes we can reach beyond suppression toward a sustainable system of fire management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">“That is the foundation for the development of effective strategies to address the amplified fire effects expected with a warming climate,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article originally appeared on \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=9e4bb0e1a7d74f24ba4684ef2533053d&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newsdeeply.com%2fwater\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water Deeply\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and you can find it \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2016/11/28/new-study-finds-surprising-culprit-drives-forest-fire-behavior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"start\">Temperatures are rising \u003c/span>and forest fires, already larger and more frequent than the historical norm, are projected to increase dramatically with anthropogenic warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The way humans have used land in the Sierra has had more effect on fire behavior than climate change.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s the general consensus among scientists studying the relationship between fire activity and climate change in the Sierra Nevada. But a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/11/08/1609775113.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> released last week found an influence on past fire activity even greater than climate: human beings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1600, the way humans have used land in the Sierra has had more effect on fire behavior than climate change, said Valerie Trouet, associate professor of dendrochronology at the University of Arizona and lead coauthor of the study, published November 14 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This conclusion has profound implications for the future, when higher temperatures are predicted to intensify fire activity in California. Average annual temperatures in the western United States have already risen by \u003cspan class=\"caps\">1.9F\u003c/span> (\u003cspan class=\"caps\">1.1C\u003c/span>) since 1970. With every increase of \u003cspan class=\"caps\">1.8F\u003c/span> (\u003cspan class=\"caps\">1C\u003c/span>), the area burned annually in the Sierra Nevada is projected to increase by as much as 300 percent, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/impacts/infographic-wildfires-climate-change.html#.WDNGj9UrLcs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u003c/a> by the Union of Concerned Scientists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study about humans and fire, coauthored by Alan H. Taylor of Penn State, suggests that land managers and owners can affect fire behavior through activities that make forests more resilient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By changing land use, we can at least buffer some of the effects of climate change,” Trouet said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most useful tool to do that is fire itself, said Craig Thomas, conservation director for \u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraforestlegacy.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sierra Forest Legacy\u003c/a>, a coalition focused on Sierra Nevada national forest issues. Using controlled fires to burn ground litter and small trees breaks the fuel continuity from the surface to the crowns of trees, where fire is more difficult to control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we take the advice of this paper, we are going to build a real fire program with crews dedicated to lighting managed fires across many different land ownerships,” said Thomas, cochair of a statewide multiparty \u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraforestlegacy.org/Resources/Community/PrescribedFire/FireMOUSigned.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">partnership\u003c/a> dedicated to increasing the use of fire to benefit natural resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The importance of human-fire interactions in the Sierra surprised Trouet, Taylor and their coauthors: Carl N. Skinner of the \u003cspan class=\"caps\">U.S.\u003c/span> Forest Service in Redding and Scott L. Stephens of the University of California, Berkeley. They set out to determine which climatic cycles – the El Niño/La Niña cycle or the longer Pacific Decadal Oscillation – have governed the fire regime in California’s Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team used the fire history recorded in tree rings from 29 sites in the Sierra Nevada. They combined these with 20th-century records of annual areas burned, resulting in a fire index that spans from 1600 to last year. The scientists plotted this 415-year history against past environmental records of temperature and moisture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They expected the fire index to roughly follow the pattern of summer temperatures: a gradual rise with a sharp increase starting around 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they found four periods, each around 55 years long, when the frequency and extent of forest fires clearly differed from the time interlude before or after. That led them to take a closer look at human activity over the entire era since 1600, focusing on whether human land use affected the amount of fuel available for fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earliest period in their study was a time when Native Americans used sophisticated burning techniques to improve hunting and prepare ground for agriculture. The result was a patchy network of burned areas that reduced the ground fuels, hindering the spread of fire, said Trouet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire index nearly doubled with the transition to the Spanish-Mexican period (1769–1847). Once Spanish missionaries arrived, Native American populations declined precipitously. Half the native population in California estimated in 1769 had disappeared by 1845, the study states. Disease and death brought an end to the mosaic of burned and unburned areas Native Americans had created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the mission era fuels built up, exacerbated by the Spanish government’s ban on the use of fire. Fires grew larger and more frequent. This is the period where the study finds the closest correlation between fire activity and climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Gold Rush introduced another dramatic change in Sierra Nevada fires. It wasn’t the miners themselves but the enormous influx of people, beginning in 1848, that reduced fire activity. The new settlers brought sheep and cattle, which grazed on the grasses and other plants that would normally have been fuel for forest fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These changes in human land use triggered a shift to lower fire activity that continued to 1904, when the \u003cspan class=\"caps\">U.S.\u003c/span> government established a fire suppression policy on federal lands. Under the regime of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Policy/Fire/Suppression/Suppression.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smokey Bear\u003c/a>,” fire activity dropped to its lowest level since 1600. Aided by sparse fuels and, after World War \u003cspan class=\"caps\">II\u003c/span>, more sophisticated fire detection and suppression techniques, fire activity remained well below what the study’s scientists predicted into the late 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That began to change in 1980. As the climate continued to warm, fire frequency increased once again. A century of accumulated forest fuels contributed to fire seasons that are now 78 days longer than in the 1970s, and an acreage of burned area that is expected to double by 2050. This trend is not expected to abate, said Trouet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know the climate is changing. It already has a strong influence on fire activity and will continue to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fires of the future will not necessarily be like the fires of the past, said Taylor, the co-lead author of the study, which has the unwieldy title “Socioecological Transitions Trigger Fire Regime Shifts and Modulate Fire-Climate Interactions in the Sierra Nevada, \u003cspan class=\"caps\">USA\u003c/span>, 1600–2015 \u003cspan class=\"caps\">CE.\u003c/span>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fires of the past were mostly surface fires. “Today we see more canopy-killing fires,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the near-certain future of rising temperatures and increased fire activity, the study’s strong evidence of humans’ effects on fire behavior offers opportunities to change the type and intensity of future burns, said Trouet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1199414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1199414\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner.jpg\" alt=\"A U.S. Forest Service fire professional uses a drip torch to light a low-severity prescribed burn to reduce the fuel load in a mixed-conifer forest in the Goosenest Adaptive Management Area in northern California. \" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/WD_FirefighterWithDripTorchSkinner-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Forest Service fire professional uses a drip torch to light a low-severity prescribed burn to reduce the fuel load in a mixed-conifer forest in the Goosenest Adaptive Management Area in northern California. \u003ccite>(C.N. Skinner/USFS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prescribed burning is one way to do that and needs to be emphasized, she said, adding, “Now we know that burning not only helps with fuel loads; it also helps to reduce the effects of climate on fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land managers are increasing their use of prescribed burns as agency officials and the general public understand their importance. But 150 years of low activity and suppression have left an enormous fire deficit, said Thomas. To maintain healthy forests, where flames char trees without widespread destruction, Sierra Nevada land managers need to burn 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares) every year, he said. Current managed ignitions total less than 40,000 acres (16,000 hectares) through California, Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We desperately need to burn tens of thousands of acres on every forest in the Sierra Nevada – every year,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rising temperatures are already “locked in,” said Trouet, and there is not much we can do about that for a number of decades. But by deepening our understanding of how humans affect fire regimes we can reach beyond suppression toward a sustainable system of fire management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">“That is the foundation for the development of effective strategies to address the amplified fire effects expected with a warming climate,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published in November 2016 as part of The California Report Magazine's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/hidden-gems\">Hidden Gems\u003c/a>\" series. It re-aired on July 3rd, 2020 for a special show called \"Buckle Up: A (Virtual) Road Trip to CA Hidden Gems.\" Note: \u003ca href=\"http://www.monohotsprings.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The resort\u003c/a> is \u003c/em>\u003cem>open this summer, and visitors are welcome as long as they practice safe social distancing and wear a mask. The restaurant is closed, but you can buy a pre-made Buffalo Meat Burrito for takeout at the store.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The steep, winding road over Kaiser Pass to Mono Hot Springs is listed as one of America’s most\u003ca href=\"http://www.dangerousroads.org/north-america/usa/2646-kaiser-pass-road.html\"> dangerous\u003c/a>. Cars go both ways but it’s not really a two-lane road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you hit a blind corner and there’s a car going the other way, there’s a good chance you’ll have to back up until there’s room enough for the other car to pass. That’s tricky because there are also steep drop-offs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are plenty of potholes and big bumps that cause cars to bottom out, like mine just did. Fortunately, I have two adolescent back-seat drivers. And one of them is hanging out the window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272172973\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are you doing, Atticus?” my 12-year-old son, Asher, asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I was gonna look out of the car to see if there’s gas leaking out of it,” says Atticus, 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s really smart, Atticus!” Asher says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wondering if a rock has put a hole in your car's undercarriage is nothing compared with the treacherous four- or five-day treks people made to Mono Hot Springs before this road was built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003647\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19991_photo-qut-e1467149176372-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Walking to the springs means sometimes getting stuck in mud.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19991_photo-qut-e1467149176372-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19991_photo-qut-e1467149176372-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19991_photo-qut-e1467149176372-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19991_photo-qut-e1467149176372-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19991_photo-qut-e1467149176372.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walking to the springs means sometimes getting stuck in mud.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pack horses and mules would take visitors over Kaiser Pass. And there are accounts of Mono Indians guiding travelers. A vast hydroelectric project to bring more power to Los Angeles was the impetus for building a dirt road here in 1927. It was called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sierranevadageotourism.org/content/southern-california-edison-big-creek-hydroelectric-project/sie5ee9ccaf96c262c3c\">Big Creek Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the engineering feat of the century,” says Jeff Winslow, who runs the historic \u003ca href=\"http://www.monohotsprings.com/\">Mono Hot Springs Resort\u003c/a> with his son, Joe. “The only thing to beat it was the Panama Canal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the road, which wasn’t paved until 1953, came more visitors to the springs. The 1930s were the heyday for enthusiastic soakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003645\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19987_photo-qut-e1467149027168-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Winslow stands by a sign that tells what minerals are in the springs. Asher Boone sits on a rock above.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19987_photo-qut-e1467149027168-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19987_photo-qut-e1467149027168-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19987_photo-qut-e1467149027168-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19987_photo-qut-e1467149027168-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19987_photo-qut-e1467149027168.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Winslow stands by a sign that tells what minerals are in the springs. Asher Boone sits on a rock above. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People loved hot springs. In fact, that was kind of the golden years,” Winslow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fresno County resort opened in 1935. A few years before that, the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps built a campground here, as well as concrete baths to hold in the spring water. Older Japanese American farmers from the Central Valley would set up house in tents for months here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids would bring elders up here all summer,” Winslow says. Then they’d return to the valley to work the farm and come back up to see their parents on the weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these concrete tubs still exist. The trail to them in a meadow along the San Joaquin River is mucky in parts. It kind of grabs you like wet clay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some crazy people, like my kids, jump in the ice-cold Sierra snowmelt. They scream out loud and say they can’t feel their legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then they run up the riverbank to plunge in a hot pool. The water feels pretty nice, but it’s so dark you can’t see the bottom. And there’s lots of algae on the walls of the tub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a more sanitary experience, head to the bathhouse at the Mono Hot Springs Resort. Spring water is piped into clean private tubs where the water is usually a perfect 101 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003643\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19990_photo-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Asher and Atticus Boone enjoy one of the natural springs built by the CCC in the 1930s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19990_photo-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19990_photo-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19990_photo-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19990_photo-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19990_photo-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asher and Atticus Boone enjoy one of the natural springs built by the CCC in the 1930s. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The resort is an easygoing rustic place with stone cabins. Winslow says the people who built the resort had an old Fresno scraper and a mule, and took the stone out of the river and hauled it up to the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a restaurant that serves elk and buffalo burgers and other hearty food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003644\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003644\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19988_photo-qut-e1467148999704-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"The resort's restaurant serves hearty food like elk and buffalo burgers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19988_photo-qut-e1467148999704-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19988_photo-qut-e1467148999704-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19988_photo-qut-e1467148999704-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19988_photo-qut-e1467148999704-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19988_photo-qut-e1467148999704.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The resort's restaurant serves hearty food like elk and buffalo burgers. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there’s more to this area than soaking. Rugged Sierra Nevada wilderness is all around, including alpine lakes framed by steep granite cliffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them, Doris Lake, is a great swimming spot. But we’ve been told it's slithering with snakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think I’ll get all the way in,” Atticus says. “I can’t see the bottom and it’s filled with snakes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Atticus, we’ve only seen one snake in here.” Asher says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where there’s one there’s more,” Atticus says. “If I could see the bottom I’d be OK with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003659\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19993_photo-qut-1-e1467149560548-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Doris Lake is a great spot to swim if you don't mind the snakes!\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19993_photo-qut-1-e1467149560548-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19993_photo-qut-1-e1467149560548-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19993_photo-qut-1-e1467149560548-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19993_photo-qut-1-e1467149560548-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19993_photo-qut-1-e1467149560548.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doris Lake is a great spot to swim if you don't mind the snakes!\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Finally the kids get in — and try to catch fish with their hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think fish are pretty elusive,” Atticus says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s that mean?” Asher asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re hard to catch,” says Atticus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No fish in hand, we head back for one last dip in one of the natural mineral pools.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published in November 2016 as part of The California Report Magazine's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/hidden-gems\">Hidden Gems\u003c/a>\" series. It re-aired on July 3rd, 2020 for a special show called \"Buckle Up: A (Virtual) Road Trip to CA Hidden Gems.\" Note: \u003ca href=\"http://www.monohotsprings.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The resort\u003c/a> is \u003c/em>\u003cem>open this summer, and visitors are welcome as long as they practice safe social distancing and wear a mask. The restaurant is closed, but you can buy a pre-made Buffalo Meat Burrito for takeout at the store.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The steep, winding road over Kaiser Pass to Mono Hot Springs is listed as one of America’s most\u003ca href=\"http://www.dangerousroads.org/north-america/usa/2646-kaiser-pass-road.html\"> dangerous\u003c/a>. Cars go both ways but it’s not really a two-lane road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you hit a blind corner and there’s a car going the other way, there’s a good chance you’ll have to back up until there’s room enough for the other car to pass. That’s tricky because there are also steep drop-offs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are plenty of potholes and big bumps that cause cars to bottom out, like mine just did. Fortunately, I have two adolescent back-seat drivers. And one of them is hanging out the window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272172973&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272172973'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are you doing, Atticus?” my 12-year-old son, Asher, asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I was gonna look out of the car to see if there’s gas leaking out of it,” says Atticus, 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s really smart, Atticus!” Asher says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wondering if a rock has put a hole in your car's undercarriage is nothing compared with the treacherous four- or five-day treks people made to Mono Hot Springs before this road was built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003647\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19991_photo-qut-e1467149176372-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Walking to the springs means sometimes getting stuck in mud.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19991_photo-qut-e1467149176372-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19991_photo-qut-e1467149176372-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19991_photo-qut-e1467149176372-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19991_photo-qut-e1467149176372-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19991_photo-qut-e1467149176372.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walking to the springs means sometimes getting stuck in mud.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pack horses and mules would take visitors over Kaiser Pass. And there are accounts of Mono Indians guiding travelers. A vast hydroelectric project to bring more power to Los Angeles was the impetus for building a dirt road here in 1927. It was called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sierranevadageotourism.org/content/southern-california-edison-big-creek-hydroelectric-project/sie5ee9ccaf96c262c3c\">Big Creek Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the engineering feat of the century,” says Jeff Winslow, who runs the historic \u003ca href=\"http://www.monohotsprings.com/\">Mono Hot Springs Resort\u003c/a> with his son, Joe. “The only thing to beat it was the Panama Canal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the road, which wasn’t paved until 1953, came more visitors to the springs. The 1930s were the heyday for enthusiastic soakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003645\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19987_photo-qut-e1467149027168-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Winslow stands by a sign that tells what minerals are in the springs. Asher Boone sits on a rock above.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19987_photo-qut-e1467149027168-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19987_photo-qut-e1467149027168-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19987_photo-qut-e1467149027168-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19987_photo-qut-e1467149027168-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19987_photo-qut-e1467149027168.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Winslow stands by a sign that tells what minerals are in the springs. Asher Boone sits on a rock above. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People loved hot springs. In fact, that was kind of the golden years,” Winslow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fresno County resort opened in 1935. A few years before that, the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps built a campground here, as well as concrete baths to hold in the spring water. Older Japanese American farmers from the Central Valley would set up house in tents for months here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids would bring elders up here all summer,” Winslow says. Then they’d return to the valley to work the farm and come back up to see their parents on the weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these concrete tubs still exist. The trail to them in a meadow along the San Joaquin River is mucky in parts. It kind of grabs you like wet clay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some crazy people, like my kids, jump in the ice-cold Sierra snowmelt. They scream out loud and say they can’t feel their legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then they run up the riverbank to plunge in a hot pool. The water feels pretty nice, but it’s so dark you can’t see the bottom. And there’s lots of algae on the walls of the tub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a more sanitary experience, head to the bathhouse at the Mono Hot Springs Resort. Spring water is piped into clean private tubs where the water is usually a perfect 101 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003643\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19990_photo-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Asher and Atticus Boone enjoy one of the natural springs built by the CCC in the 1930s.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19990_photo-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19990_photo-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19990_photo-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19990_photo-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19990_photo-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asher and Atticus Boone enjoy one of the natural springs built by the CCC in the 1930s. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The resort is an easygoing rustic place with stone cabins. Winslow says the people who built the resort had an old Fresno scraper and a mule, and took the stone out of the river and hauled it up to the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a restaurant that serves elk and buffalo burgers and other hearty food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003644\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003644\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19988_photo-qut-e1467148999704-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"The resort's restaurant serves hearty food like elk and buffalo burgers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19988_photo-qut-e1467148999704-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19988_photo-qut-e1467148999704-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19988_photo-qut-e1467148999704-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19988_photo-qut-e1467148999704-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19988_photo-qut-e1467148999704.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The resort's restaurant serves hearty food like elk and buffalo burgers. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there’s more to this area than soaking. Rugged Sierra Nevada wilderness is all around, including alpine lakes framed by steep granite cliffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them, Doris Lake, is a great swimming spot. But we’ve been told it's slithering with snakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think I’ll get all the way in,” Atticus says. “I can’t see the bottom and it’s filled with snakes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Atticus, we’ve only seen one snake in here.” Asher says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where there’s one there’s more,” Atticus says. “If I could see the bottom I’d be OK with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003659\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19993_photo-qut-1-e1467149560548-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Doris Lake is a great spot to swim if you don't mind the snakes!\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19993_photo-qut-1-e1467149560548-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19993_photo-qut-1-e1467149560548-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19993_photo-qut-1-e1467149560548-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19993_photo-qut-1-e1467149560548-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19993_photo-qut-1-e1467149560548.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doris Lake is a great spot to swim if you don't mind the snakes!\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Finally the kids get in — and try to catch fish with their hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think fish are pretty elusive,” Atticus says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s that mean?” Asher asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re hard to catch,” says Atticus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No fish in hand, we head back for one last dip in one of the natural mineral pools.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>The busy streets of San Francisco seem like the last place you’d find wild parrots. And yet, there they are. How’d they get here? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a new podcast from KQED that’s all about answering your questions about the Bay Area. Find us on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ipi2mc5aqfen4nr2daayiziiyuy\">Google Play\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\">NPR One\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week on the podcast, we answer listener Colleen McClowry’s question:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where did all of the parrots of San Francisco come from? I think they’re probably not native to the city. I’m interested to know how they got there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Are They?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The wild parrots in and around San Francisco are called cherry-headed conures. At one point, a mitred conure joined the flock and bred with the cherry heads. Now the flock is dotted with hybrids. There are a couple ways to differentiate the breeds. Cherry heads have slightly smaller bodies and a red helmet pattern on their heads, whereas mitred conures have a more blotchy pattern of red and feet that are a slightly darker hue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11185798\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11185798 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/3630710620_dd9e0dd0f2_o-800x1204.jpg\" alt=\"A wild conure in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1204\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/3630710620_dd9e0dd0f2_o-800x1204.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/3630710620_dd9e0dd0f2_o-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/3630710620_dd9e0dd0f2_o-1020x1535.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/3630710620_dd9e0dd0f2_o-1180x1776.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/3630710620_dd9e0dd0f2_o-960x1445.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/3630710620_dd9e0dd0f2_o-240x361.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/3630710620_dd9e0dd0f2_o-375x564.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/3630710620_dd9e0dd0f2_o-520x782.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/3630710620_dd9e0dd0f2_o.jpg 1563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wild conure in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Ingrid Taylar/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Where Are They From?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The cherry-headed conures come from a small territory spanning Ecuador and Peru. The mitred conures originated from a large territory ranging from Peru through Bolivia down to northern Argentina.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Did They Get Here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They were brought here to be sold as pets in the exotic pet trade. The U.S. was the largest importer of birds in the world before the government banned the trade of wild exotic birds in 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Did They Get Out?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The founders of the wild flock of conures either escaped or were released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a number of theories. A commonly held belief is that the parrots were released by a woman who was having a psychotic break and subsequently burned down the pet store where they were housed. This is partially true. A pet store did burn down in Pasadena, but the woman was an employee of sound mind simply trying to save the birds. The parrots in San Francisco most likely weren’t released from the fire in Pasadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More likely, the San Francisco conures escaped or were purposely released by pet owners. The conures can live for decades, and they’re loud and demanding pets, so not everyone is suited to caring for them. While some may have escaped, Jamie Yorck, the owner of the now-closed Spectrum Exotic Birds, believes that a few owners may simply have left a window open hoping their birds would join the wild flock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11185801\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11185801 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A wild conure found around San Francisco's Embarcadero.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wild conure found around San Francisco’s Embarcadero. \u003ccite>(Dan_H/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Do They Talk?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While these conures are capable of\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZXKQDFp5V8\"> learning\u003c/a> a word or two, they aren’t the best imitators of human speech. More prone to screeching, cherry-headed conures don’t have the vocal skills of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAp6X0zZfx0\">African Grey\u003c/a> or the memory of a blue parakeet (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Ij-DHHwMs\">one supposedly learned over 1,700 words\u003c/a>). What our wild conures do have is their own dialect. The flock has its own system of calls and responses, distinct from conure populations found elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where Is Their Territory?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They can be found from the Ferry Building in San Francisco all the way south to Brisbane and Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Telegraph Hill is a misnomer,” says the author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.markbittner.net/wild_parrots_book.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill,”\u003c/a> Mark Bittner. “Even [when I wrote the book] the parrots were going as far as Mission Dolores. I’ll be correcting that for the rest of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11185790\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11185790\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Bittner with two rescued conures.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Bittner with two rescued conures. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Where Do They Sleep?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The conures sleep in holes they find in trees. They don’t build nests. Bittner says the conures prefer the Canary Island date palm.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Do They Eat?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Turns out seeds are junk food to the conures. A healthy diet for the parrots might include fruits, vegetables, berries, stems, flowers and blossoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Many Are There?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hard to say, exactly. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mickaboo.org/\">Mickaboo\u003c/a>, a parrot rescue organization, estimates there are more than 300 conures roosting in the Bay Area. However, the health of the wild flock is under threat. Many of the adolescent conures have contracted a strange unnamed disease that affects their balance and has them flying into windows. Many of the parrots will die from this illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187243\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187243\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Mickaboo2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chloe Redon and John Graziano run Mickaboo, a parrot rescue organization.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chloe Redon and John Graziano run Mickaboo, a parrot rescue organization. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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While some may have escaped, Jamie Yorck, the owner of the now-closed Spectrum Exotic Birds, believes that a few owners may simply have left a window open hoping their birds would join the wild flock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11185801\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11185801 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A wild conure found around San Francisco's Embarcadero.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/355558918_81506fb084_o-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wild conure found around San Francisco’s Embarcadero. \u003ccite>(Dan_H/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Do They Talk?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While these conures are capable of\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZXKQDFp5V8\"> learning\u003c/a> a word or two, they aren’t the best imitators of human speech. More prone to screeching, cherry-headed conures don’t have the vocal skills of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAp6X0zZfx0\">African Grey\u003c/a> or the memory of a blue parakeet (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Ij-DHHwMs\">one supposedly learned over 1,700 words\u003c/a>). What our wild conures do have is their own dialect. The flock has its own system of calls and responses, distinct from conure populations found elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where Is Their Territory?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They can be found from the Ferry Building in San Francisco all the way south to Brisbane and Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Telegraph Hill is a misnomer,” says the author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.markbittner.net/wild_parrots_book.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill,”\u003c/a> Mark Bittner. “Even [when I wrote the book] the parrots were going as far as Mission Dolores. I’ll be correcting that for the rest of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11185790\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11185790\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Bittner with two rescued conures.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_3604-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Bittner with two rescued conures. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Where Do They Sleep?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The conures sleep in holes they find in trees. They don’t build nests. Bittner says the conures prefer the Canary Island date palm.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Do They Eat?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Turns out seeds are junk food to the conures. A healthy diet for the parrots might include fruits, vegetables, berries, stems, flowers and blossoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Many Are There?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hard to say, exactly. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mickaboo.org/\">Mickaboo\u003c/a>, a parrot rescue organization, estimates there are more than 300 conures roosting in the Bay Area. However, the health of the wild flock is under threat. 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"content": "\u003cp>A woman protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline who was wounded earlier this week might lose her arm as a result of the injury, her family says. Sophia Wilansky’s injury is the most gruesome to date of the months-long standoff at Standing Rock, N.D. [contextly_sidebar id=”XAgkg28oYedqvyTdjhliHTXeOv2zGFje”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The doctor just said she may need as many as 20 surgeries over very many months to have any hope of saving her arm and her hand,” Wilansky’s father, Wayne Wilansky, told a group of reporters outside a Minneapolis hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police and protesters — who call themselves water protectors — have very different explanations for how Sophia Wilansky was injured early Monday morning. Protesters say she was struck by a police weapon; police suggest she might have been involved in an explosion caused by protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both sides agree that the overnight protest got tense, but that’s where any agreement ends,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/11/23/503108890/protester-could-lose-her-arm-after-being-injured-in-n-d-pipeline-protests\">reports Amy Sisk\u003c/a>, a journalist with the public media collaboration Inside Energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/503120449/503121979\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sisk, who has been reporting on the protest for NPR for months, says the clash on Sunday night saw 400 protesters and police facing off over a bridge that had been closed by authorities, blocking access to the pipeline construction site:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“As protesters took to the bridge, police deployed tear gas and sponge bullets. They also sprayed water on demonstrators while the temperature was below freezing, sparking concerns about hypothermia. Protest leaders report numerous injuries requiring hospitalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Linda Black Elk is a medic at the protesters’ camp. ‘It seems like with every action with every conflict that takes place they escalate their violent tactics by using some new type of weaponry,’ [she says].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rob Keller with the Morton County Sheriff’s Department says protesters refused to obey police orders, and some pelted officers with rocks. He defends police crowd control methods:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>” ‘Had they not been utilized, that line would probably have been overrun and we’d have a worse situation than we have now.’ “\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Protesters say police threw a concussion grenade that hit 21-year-old Wilansky and caused her injury. Wilansky’s father \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/7fe0b7af0704467eac22b76244ac1982/Pipeline-protester-seriously-injured;-conflicting-accounts\">told The Associated Press\u003c/a> that there were multiple witnesses — “and my daughter, who was completely conscious, said they threw a grenade right at her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say they did not use any equipment that could have caused Wilansky’s injury. A statement from the sheriff’s office said propane tanks were recovered at the site and suggested demonstrators might have been intentionally puncturing them to rig them to explode, the AP reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one was arrested for making explosives, a sheriff’s spokeswoman \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-dakota-access-pipeline-protests-20161121-story.html\">told the L.A. Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests at Standing Rock are “likely to continue,” Sisk reports, with protesters vowing to stay until the construction of the pipeline is stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Two-Way \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/21/502865857/police-protesters-clash-near-dakota-access-pipeline-route\">has reported\u003c/a>, the $3.8 billion pipeline would cross the Missouri River just upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The tribe is opposed because it says the pipeline would interrupt sacred lands and could contaminate drinking water if it ruptures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said last week that it \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/14/502069069/army-wants-further-study-of-dakota-access-pipeline-route\">needs more time\u003c/a> to evaluate whether the pipeline should be built on its planned route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR’s Jeff Brady \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/11/21/502918072/for-many-dakota-access-pipeline-protesters-the-fight-is-personal\">reported earlier this week\u003c/a>, the protest has attracted activists from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/503120449/503121897\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the long-term protesters are Native Americans. Others cycle through, some staying for weeks and others just a few days,” Brady reported. He says people are joining the cause for ideological, spiritual and personal reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One demonstrator, Cameron Lisondra of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, said it meant a lot to be able to connect with other Native Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lisondra says he doubts this large a gathering of indigenous people from around the world will happen again in his lifetime,” Brady says. “He predicts whatever the outcome, this protest and the thousands who’ve played a role will be talked about for generations to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>You’d think a bird would have an easy time finding a watery rest stop along the over 260-mile-long Klamath River. That should be especially true in the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, a huge marshland along the Pacific Flyway. But in 2012 a dry year cut water supplies, which then chopped available wetlands in half and accelerated the spread of avian cholera. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/29/avian-cholera-kills-thousands-of-birds-in-northern-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Up to 20,000 birds died off\u003c/a>, including snow geese, ducks and coots. [contextly_sidebar id=”ghXf9rnPFabzxPxngj4vForak4etwSMY”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water rights along the Klamath River have always been a matter of survival, and birds aren’t the only ones competing for water — they’re just the last in line. The federal government manages a complex hierarchy of rights along the river, claimed by irrigators, tribes and fish in the two states it runs through: California and Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And shortages are becoming more common. “The challenges we have here are because we’ve promised too much water to too many people,” says Trout Unlimited’s Chrysten Lambert. “We’ve promised more water than there is here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the November election has brought stories of uncertainty and division, in the Klamath Basin a sprawling and unlikely group of allies has been working across political lines for years to establish a sustainable sense of the river. Six years ago, they hashed out a huge compromise deal, to take out dams, sort out rights and allocate water. Without congressional support, that agreement died. But earlier this year, the dams’ owner, PacifiCorp, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/27/will-the-klamath-river-be-renewed-owner-applies-to-remove-4-of-5-dams/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to abandon its interests\u003c/a>, a move that doesn’t require congressional approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With dam removal now in process, sharing water remains a separate negotiation. Several parties to the original deal confirm talks about water rights and water allocation have begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11186151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"The headwaters of Upper Klamath Lake, seen from the Wood River Valley in Oregon, are subject to a number of competing water rights from different groups.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The headwaters of Upper Klamath Lake, seen from the Wood River Valley in Oregon, are subject to a number of competing water rights from different groups. \u003ccite>(Chrysten Lambert/Trout Unlimited)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is a water allocation that’s needed,” says John Bezdek, a special counsel to the federal Secretary of the Interior. He points to the Department of the Interior’s many interests in the region: managing water and dams, managing tribal rights, and maintaining the health of fisheries. “Dam removal makes a lot of that easier, but dam removal does not finish the job on any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finishing the job is a delicate operation. Paul Simmons, a lawyer for farmers and ranchers, says water rights are personal here for everyone. “It really is their identity and it’s an essential part of their culture,” he says. “When you start talking about changing that, it certainly is something that raises the stakes or makes the stakes different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overlapping and Personal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federally recognized tribes in Oregon claim the most senior water rights in the Klamath Basin. Three years ago, the state of Oregon recognized that the Klamath Tribes’ claim on Upper Klamath Lake dates to “time immemorial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I want the kids to be able to go down to the river and fish and bring home fish for their family.’\u003ccite>Wendy Ferris-George, a Karuk tribal member\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the lower basin, three more tribes in California — the Karuk, the Yurok and the Hoopa — claim water, too. And, while their rights vary, they share an interest in keeping enough water in the river to keep fish healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Ferris-George, a Karuk tribal member, gets emotional when she talks about it. “I want the kids to be able to go down to the river and fish and bring home fish for their family,” she says, her voice quavering. “I want the grandmothers and grandfathers not to have to worry about their families starving. That’s what’s happening on the river. Our people are living in poverty, but to native people it’s our life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Endangered Species Act also claims water, to sustain and nurture sucker fish in Upper Klamath Lake, and salmon and steelhead downriver. Complicating all of this, farmers and irrigators say they need water first promised to them by the federal government a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, when there’s not enough water, federal and state programs have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on habitat restoration, fishery management, and even emergency aid for farmers. The Department of the Interior’s John Bezdek \u003ca href=\"http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=962447c3-e51d-4fff-8581-da2529d18dec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says\u003c/a> an agreement would save money in the long run. “I believe that the longer we go without settlement, the more resources are hurting and the more it causes people to re-evaluate where they are,” Bezdek says. “But I also believe that this basin and this group of stakeholders, they’ve been to the edge and back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Back From The Edge\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186145\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11186145 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-800x693.jpg\" alt=\"A former G.I. picks a homestead number out of a pickle jar -- one way a number of families ended up in the Klamath Basin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-800x693.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-160x139.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-1020x884.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-1180x1023.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-960x832.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-240x208.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-375x325.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-520x451.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former GI picks a homestead number out of a pickle jar — one way a number of families ended up in the Klamath Basin. \u003ccite>(U.S. Bureau of Reclamation/Courtesy OIT Klamath Waters Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those stakeholders are farmers and ranchers on a quarter-million acres of land, some of it former marshes drained by the federal government more than a century ago after it dammed the Klamath and began storing water for irrigation in Upper Klamath Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The edge that Bezdek is talking about came 15 years ago, when water shortages forced the federal government to turn off the spigot to more than a quarter-million acres of land. That decision sent guys like Scott Seus, a third-generation farmer in Tulelake, scrambling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on a busy fall day, Seus hops into a combine to harvest mint. He says he wants to make sure a fourth-generation Seus can farm here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandfather was a homesteader here in 1947. He drew a number out of the pickle jar,” says Seus. Former GIs would draw a number and then stick a pin in a map to show where they wanted to homestead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually lived in one of the barracks that was part of the Japanese internment camp here,” he says. “The people that survived here were the tough ones. And since 2001, our community gets smaller and smaller, and there’s less and less people here that are survivors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seus has survived by diversifying risk and cost in his crops. He grows mint, horseradish, onions, garlic and grain. The amount, and his income, depend on the water available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got to know that I’ve got water next year to get through,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11186150\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Seus farms organic mint for tea. His crops are watered by the Klamath River through a federal irrigation project.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Seus farms organic mint for tea. His crops are watered by the Klamath River through a federal irrigation project. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Seus says, he’s gained an understanding of the needs of others along the Klamath. In 2002, a year after his water was shut off, tens of thousands of salmon died downstream, in Yurok country, near Blue Creek. It was a devastating loss to the tribes downriver, and one which galvanized their efforts to remove four dams that have long blocked fish passage up the main stem of the Klamath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy for them that they’re going to get the dams out … and it’s going to make everything right,” he says, about the tribes, which farmers like him used to only see as opponents. His support is genuine, but tempered. “I’m not here to say, ‘Don’t do that,’ but I am expecting them to understand that I need to farm, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years of drought appear to be ending in the Klamath Basin, and predictions suggest a snowy winter. But Seus still supports an agreement to share water, because he says the real enemy for farmers like him now is doubt. “There is only one path forward,” says Seus. “That’s that everybody’s got to get back together and try to see this thing through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Klamath water users say they don’t know what to expect from the incoming Trump administration. So far, it’s brought uncertainty, the exact thing that guys like Scott Seus try to avoid. For now, water users in this area stand by the idea that the best solution to their problems still lies with each other.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>You’d think a bird would have an easy time finding a watery rest stop along the over 260-mile-long Klamath River. That should be especially true in the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, a huge marshland along the Pacific Flyway. But in 2012 a dry year cut water supplies, which then chopped available wetlands in half and accelerated the spread of avian cholera. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/29/avian-cholera-kills-thousands-of-birds-in-northern-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Up to 20,000 birds died off\u003c/a>, including snow geese, ducks and coots. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water rights along the Klamath River have always been a matter of survival, and birds aren’t the only ones competing for water — they’re just the last in line. The federal government manages a complex hierarchy of rights along the river, claimed by irrigators, tribes and fish in the two states it runs through: California and Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And shortages are becoming more common. “The challenges we have here are because we’ve promised too much water to too many people,” says Trout Unlimited’s Chrysten Lambert. “We’ve promised more water than there is here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the November election has brought stories of uncertainty and division, in the Klamath Basin a sprawling and unlikely group of allies has been working across political lines for years to establish a sustainable sense of the river. Six years ago, they hashed out a huge compromise deal, to take out dams, sort out rights and allocate water. Without congressional support, that agreement died. But earlier this year, the dams’ owner, PacifiCorp, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/27/will-the-klamath-river-be-renewed-owner-applies-to-remove-4-of-5-dams/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to abandon its interests\u003c/a>, a move that doesn’t require congressional approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With dam removal now in process, sharing water remains a separate negotiation. Several parties to the original deal confirm talks about water rights and water allocation have begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11186151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"The headwaters of Upper Klamath Lake, seen from the Wood River Valley in Oregon, are subject to a number of competing water rights from different groups.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The headwaters of Upper Klamath Lake, seen from the Wood River Valley in Oregon, are subject to a number of competing water rights from different groups. \u003ccite>(Chrysten Lambert/Trout Unlimited)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is a water allocation that’s needed,” says John Bezdek, a special counsel to the federal Secretary of the Interior. He points to the Department of the Interior’s many interests in the region: managing water and dams, managing tribal rights, and maintaining the health of fisheries. “Dam removal makes a lot of that easier, but dam removal does not finish the job on any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finishing the job is a delicate operation. Paul Simmons, a lawyer for farmers and ranchers, says water rights are personal here for everyone. “It really is their identity and it’s an essential part of their culture,” he says. “When you start talking about changing that, it certainly is something that raises the stakes or makes the stakes different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overlapping and Personal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federally recognized tribes in Oregon claim the most senior water rights in the Klamath Basin. Three years ago, the state of Oregon recognized that the Klamath Tribes’ claim on Upper Klamath Lake dates to “time immemorial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I want the kids to be able to go down to the river and fish and bring home fish for their family.’\u003ccite>Wendy Ferris-George, a Karuk tribal member\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the lower basin, three more tribes in California — the Karuk, the Yurok and the Hoopa — claim water, too. And, while their rights vary, they share an interest in keeping enough water in the river to keep fish healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Ferris-George, a Karuk tribal member, gets emotional when she talks about it. “I want the kids to be able to go down to the river and fish and bring home fish for their family,” she says, her voice quavering. “I want the grandmothers and grandfathers not to have to worry about their families starving. That’s what’s happening on the river. Our people are living in poverty, but to native people it’s our life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Endangered Species Act also claims water, to sustain and nurture sucker fish in Upper Klamath Lake, and salmon and steelhead downriver. Complicating all of this, farmers and irrigators say they need water first promised to them by the federal government a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, when there’s not enough water, federal and state programs have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on habitat restoration, fishery management, and even emergency aid for farmers. The Department of the Interior’s John Bezdek \u003ca href=\"http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=962447c3-e51d-4fff-8581-da2529d18dec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says\u003c/a> an agreement would save money in the long run. “I believe that the longer we go without settlement, the more resources are hurting and the more it causes people to re-evaluate where they are,” Bezdek says. “But I also believe that this basin and this group of stakeholders, they’ve been to the edge and back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Back From The Edge\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186145\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11186145 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-800x693.jpg\" alt=\"A former G.I. picks a homestead number out of a pickle jar -- one way a number of families ended up in the Klamath Basin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-800x693.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-160x139.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-1020x884.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-1180x1023.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-960x832.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-240x208.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-375x325.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-520x451.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former GI picks a homestead number out of a pickle jar — one way a number of families ended up in the Klamath Basin. \u003ccite>(U.S. Bureau of Reclamation/Courtesy OIT Klamath Waters Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those stakeholders are farmers and ranchers on a quarter-million acres of land, some of it former marshes drained by the federal government more than a century ago after it dammed the Klamath and began storing water for irrigation in Upper Klamath Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The edge that Bezdek is talking about came 15 years ago, when water shortages forced the federal government to turn off the spigot to more than a quarter-million acres of land. That decision sent guys like Scott Seus, a third-generation farmer in Tulelake, scrambling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on a busy fall day, Seus hops into a combine to harvest mint. He says he wants to make sure a fourth-generation Seus can farm here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandfather was a homesteader here in 1947. He drew a number out of the pickle jar,” says Seus. Former GIs would draw a number and then stick a pin in a map to show where they wanted to homestead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually lived in one of the barracks that was part of the Japanese internment camp here,” he says. “The people that survived here were the tough ones. And since 2001, our community gets smaller and smaller, and there’s less and less people here that are survivors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seus has survived by diversifying risk and cost in his crops. He grows mint, horseradish, onions, garlic and grain. The amount, and his income, depend on the water available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got to know that I’ve got water next year to get through,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11186150\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Seus farms organic mint for tea. His crops are watered by the Klamath River through a federal irrigation project.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Seus farms organic mint for tea. His crops are watered by the Klamath River through a federal irrigation project. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Seus says, he’s gained an understanding of the needs of others along the Klamath. In 2002, a year after his water was shut off, tens of thousands of salmon died downstream, in Yurok country, near Blue Creek. It was a devastating loss to the tribes downriver, and one which galvanized their efforts to remove four dams that have long blocked fish passage up the main stem of the Klamath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy for them that they’re going to get the dams out … and it’s going to make everything right,” he says, about the tribes, which farmers like him used to only see as opponents. His support is genuine, but tempered. “I’m not here to say, ‘Don’t do that,’ but I am expecting them to understand that I need to farm, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years of drought appear to be ending in the Klamath Basin, and predictions suggest a snowy winter. But Seus still supports an agreement to share water, because he says the real enemy for farmers like him now is doubt. “There is only one path forward,” says Seus. “That’s that everybody’s got to get back together and try to see this thing through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ear after year, volunteers return to tributaries of the Klamath River, just like the fish they’re trying to help do the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimmy Peterson, a fisheries project coordinator for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mkwc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Mid-Klamath Watershed Council\u003c/a>, places rocks and stones to make fish passages in Fort Goff Creek, 60 miles up from the river’s mouth on California's North Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This creek has extremely awesome habitat up top here,” Peterson says. “Extremely awesome.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he translates: “The water stays really cold and there’s plenty of nice spawning gravel that go up fairly far into the watershed. There’s not a lot of human activity up there either, so it’s fairly untouched.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists estimate that a century ago, hundreds of thousands of coho may have run up the Klamath’s streams and tributaries. Now it’s a few thousand. Federal and private grants fund the council’s work, helping coho access \"extremely awesome\" habitat because coho are threatened with extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dams aren’t the only reason salmon, trout and other fish need help on the Klamath. But they are a big one. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/24/removal-of-klamath-dams-would-be-largest-river-restoration-in-u-s-history/\" target=\"_blank\">The promise of dam removal\u003c/a> is free passage for fish up to cooler spots and native headwaters. And the Klamath River, near California’s northern border, may become the next big western river to see that happen. Federal energy regulators are considering a plan that would open hundreds of miles of the Klamath to the potential of the largest river restoration in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You could see the fish pounding their faces against that dam.'\u003ccite>Interior Secretary Sally Jewell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Three of the dams are on the California side of the river. The lowest of these is Iron Gate Dam, near Hornbrook, in Siskiyou County, which has trapped silty sand, clay and rocks behind its walls. Reservoirs behind multiple dams slow water down and heat it up into a toxic algae breeding ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Winding Path to Dam Removal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years ago, these dams almost went away as part of a locally driven deal among fishery advocates, tribal and farming interests from two states, above the dams and below. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger touted the plan’s goals: removing dams, sharing water, and, yes, helping fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can see already, the salmon fishes screaming, 'I’ll be back,'” he said to a roomful of laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Congress sat on the deal for five years, and it fizzled in Washington. Now, dam removal is moving forward again, without Congress this time, thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/06/historic-agreements-would-take-down-four-dams-on-the-klamath-river/\" target=\"_blank\">an agreement signed in April\u003c/a> at the mouth of the Klamath. At the ceremony, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell remembered visiting another big dam: the Elwha, in Washington state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11184488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The 132-foot-high Copco 1 Dam, on the Klamath River upstream of the Siskiyou County hamlet of Hornbrook, has generated power for nearly a century.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 132-foot-high Copco 1 Dam, on the Klamath River upstream of the Siskiyou County hamlet of Hornbrook, has generated power for nearly a century. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You could see the fish pounding their faces against that dam,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the Klamath to that river, Jewell sees a lot of potential for fish restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To see in that dam removal project how fast the salmon have returned, way up into the tributaries, faster than the scientists thought they ever would,” she said. “And to see how fast the shoreline has been healed, which will happen right here at the mouth of the Klamath River, is a true inspiration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the Dynamite\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demolition crews blasted through the last dam on the Elwha River two years ago. That river is still healing. And the Klamath is somewhat bigger: Its dams hold more silt and gravel behind them than the Elwha dams did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muddy, turbid waters aren’t good for salmon and steelhead. So to minimize harm, the plan for the Klamath is to drain the existing reservoirs in winter, sending water and silt downriver and toward the sea. Crews would destroy all of the dams in the same year. A stubborn plug of dirt would stay behind; proponents of removal expect time and rain to gradually spread it downriver. [contextly_sidebar id=\"5eXGF4ypC5X5SXqrpwqufqEkRRtTMAcH\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Trout’s Curtis Knight says those first turbulent and dirty years are often hard on salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what you see quite quickly is a rebound and an ability of that river, now that it’s running free, to move that sediment,” he says. Without sediment feeding it, the riverbed downstream has dropped in elevation. Knight says as the river channels fill in, fish will have an easier time getting upstream to spawning areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there’s some uncertainty how fast after dam removal the river and its fish might recover. The complexity of the river system makes some elements of a comprehensive recovery plan uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are we going to restore it back to?” asks NOAA Fisheries specialist Bob Pagliuco. “I don’t think we’re ever going to restore it back to pre-European times. Or if we want to bring it back to where it was 10,000 years ago, I don’t think we’re going to be able to do that. So I think we’re going to essentially enhance things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without dams, water quality problems remain. Some of the issues are natural, some are from farming and grazing, land uses that have replaced wetland marshes upriver, around the Klamath’s headwaters. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon alfalfa grower Gary Derry is like many farmers: a fisherman, too. He’s mostly worried about his bottom line. So he wants to know restoration plans will work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184517\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11184517\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Removing dams on the Klamath River could help more coho salmon get upriver to reach tributaries with cool secluded pools.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Removing dams on the Klamath River could help more coho salmon get upriver to reach tributaries with cool secluded pools. \u003ccite>(Jimmy Peterson & Will Harling/Mid Klamath Watershed Council)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we're going to do something, if something's going to happen, if the fish need more water, let's make sure that water benefits the fish. Let's not just say, ‘Well, we thought it was going to help, but it didn't.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Glimpses of the Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upriver and down, efforts are underway to rehabilitate land around the Klamath’s waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadly, the goal is to do what Jimmy Peterson does in places like Fort Goff Creek. According to NOAA's Pagliuco, one federal study has found that fish grow up to six times faster in those habitat types than in adjacent, unimproved habitats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't really know that restoration as a whole is going to work on the Klamath, but we do have snapshots that these fish are growing bigger, that they're utilizing these projects,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Oregon, Trout Unlimited’s Chrysten Lambert says restoration projects are already working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely see responses in the native fish populations when we remove passage barriers, when we decrease temperature and when we restore complexity of habitat to provide them with important areas we need for spawning and rearing,” she says. “We do see responses in the native fish populations oftentimes immediately from that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert also works with private landowners to modify land use to minimize nutrient runoff. With help from her organization, some ranchers have put up fencing to keep cattle from wandering into and damaging streams. Keeping cattle out also helps the recovery of streamside vegetation that helps filter pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where farmers and cattlemen have been around four or five generations, even small changes like these can prompt major discussion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what’s challenging is, you’re talking about people changing how much land they have to graze and when they graze it,\" Lambert said. \"Which goes straight to the bottom line of their operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon rancher Becky Hyde says she has idled land, or put it into dry-land crop rather than irrigating it. \"That changes how much money we can make, which we have to think through,\" she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hyde also sees a value. \"We still graze our river, but we changed the timing of when we graze, so that it's more beneficial for the grasses and the healing of the river.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11184522\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Klamath River is prime habitat for coho salmon, like these juveniles. Coho in the Klamath River region are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Klamath River is prime habitat for coho salmon, like these juveniles. Coho in the Klamath River region are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. \u003ccite>(Jimmy Peterson & Will Harling/Mid Klamath Watershed Council)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Salmon Since Time Immemorial\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along California’s North Coast, the stakes for salmon recovery are a matter of identity. Native tribal culture revolves around fish, and the Yurok tribe has federally protected rights to salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it hasn’t always been that way, says the tribe’s vice chief, David Gensaw Jr. He remembers in 1978 when the state banned tribal and sport fishing in the Klamath River estuary. Federal agents with billy clubs grabbed Yurok tribal members and the salmon they had caught with gillnets. The federal government eventually returned rights to the tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gensaw’s sense of stewardship has been constant. And this year, the outlook for the salmon fishery was bleak. Fishery managers allotted the Yurok less than one salmon a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our ancestors told us, when the fish are gone, so are the Yurok people,” he says. “And we don’t plan to go anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yurok aren’t alone: Other interests have water rights here, too. Taking the dams out doesn’t settle who gets the water they want. Now, once again, people in the Klamath Basin are negotiating over a way to share.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dams aren’t the only reason salmon, trout and other fish need help on the Klamath. But they are a big one. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/24/removal-of-klamath-dams-would-be-largest-river-restoration-in-u-s-history/\" target=\"_blank\">The promise of dam removal\u003c/a> is free passage for fish up to cooler spots and native headwaters. And the Klamath River, near California’s northern border, may become the next big western river to see that happen. Federal energy regulators are considering a plan that would open hundreds of miles of the Klamath to the potential of the largest river restoration in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You could see the fish pounding their faces against that dam.'\u003ccite>Interior Secretary Sally Jewell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Three of the dams are on the California side of the river. The lowest of these is Iron Gate Dam, near Hornbrook, in Siskiyou County, which has trapped silty sand, clay and rocks behind its walls. Reservoirs behind multiple dams slow water down and heat it up into a toxic algae breeding ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Winding Path to Dam Removal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years ago, these dams almost went away as part of a locally driven deal among fishery advocates, tribal and farming interests from two states, above the dams and below. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger touted the plan’s goals: removing dams, sharing water, and, yes, helping fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can see already, the salmon fishes screaming, 'I’ll be back,'” he said to a roomful of laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Congress sat on the deal for five years, and it fizzled in Washington. Now, dam removal is moving forward again, without Congress this time, thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/06/historic-agreements-would-take-down-four-dams-on-the-klamath-river/\" target=\"_blank\">an agreement signed in April\u003c/a> at the mouth of the Klamath. At the ceremony, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell remembered visiting another big dam: the Elwha, in Washington state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11184488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The 132-foot-high Copco 1 Dam, on the Klamath River upstream of the Siskiyou County hamlet of Hornbrook, has generated power for nearly a century.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 132-foot-high Copco 1 Dam, on the Klamath River upstream of the Siskiyou County hamlet of Hornbrook, has generated power for nearly a century. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You could see the fish pounding their faces against that dam,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the Klamath to that river, Jewell sees a lot of potential for fish restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To see in that dam removal project how fast the salmon have returned, way up into the tributaries, faster than the scientists thought they ever would,” she said. “And to see how fast the shoreline has been healed, which will happen right here at the mouth of the Klamath River, is a true inspiration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the Dynamite\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demolition crews blasted through the last dam on the Elwha River two years ago. That river is still healing. And the Klamath is somewhat bigger: Its dams hold more silt and gravel behind them than the Elwha dams did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muddy, turbid waters aren’t good for salmon and steelhead. So to minimize harm, the plan for the Klamath is to drain the existing reservoirs in winter, sending water and silt downriver and toward the sea. Crews would destroy all of the dams in the same year. A stubborn plug of dirt would stay behind; proponents of removal expect time and rain to gradually spread it downriver. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Trout’s Curtis Knight says those first turbulent and dirty years are often hard on salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what you see quite quickly is a rebound and an ability of that river, now that it’s running free, to move that sediment,” he says. Without sediment feeding it, the riverbed downstream has dropped in elevation. Knight says as the river channels fill in, fish will have an easier time getting upstream to spawning areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there’s some uncertainty how fast after dam removal the river and its fish might recover. The complexity of the river system makes some elements of a comprehensive recovery plan uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are we going to restore it back to?” asks NOAA Fisheries specialist Bob Pagliuco. “I don’t think we’re ever going to restore it back to pre-European times. Or if we want to bring it back to where it was 10,000 years ago, I don’t think we’re going to be able to do that. So I think we’re going to essentially enhance things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without dams, water quality problems remain. Some of the issues are natural, some are from farming and grazing, land uses that have replaced wetland marshes upriver, around the Klamath’s headwaters. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon alfalfa grower Gary Derry is like many farmers: a fisherman, too. He’s mostly worried about his bottom line. So he wants to know restoration plans will work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184517\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11184517\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Removing dams on the Klamath River could help more coho salmon get upriver to reach tributaries with cool secluded pools.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Removing dams on the Klamath River could help more coho salmon get upriver to reach tributaries with cool secluded pools. \u003ccite>(Jimmy Peterson & Will Harling/Mid Klamath Watershed Council)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we're going to do something, if something's going to happen, if the fish need more water, let's make sure that water benefits the fish. Let's not just say, ‘Well, we thought it was going to help, but it didn't.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Glimpses of the Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upriver and down, efforts are underway to rehabilitate land around the Klamath’s waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadly, the goal is to do what Jimmy Peterson does in places like Fort Goff Creek. According to NOAA's Pagliuco, one federal study has found that fish grow up to six times faster in those habitat types than in adjacent, unimproved habitats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't really know that restoration as a whole is going to work on the Klamath, but we do have snapshots that these fish are growing bigger, that they're utilizing these projects,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Oregon, Trout Unlimited’s Chrysten Lambert says restoration projects are already working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely see responses in the native fish populations when we remove passage barriers, when we decrease temperature and when we restore complexity of habitat to provide them with important areas we need for spawning and rearing,” she says. “We do see responses in the native fish populations oftentimes immediately from that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert also works with private landowners to modify land use to minimize nutrient runoff. With help from her organization, some ranchers have put up fencing to keep cattle from wandering into and damaging streams. Keeping cattle out also helps the recovery of streamside vegetation that helps filter pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where farmers and cattlemen have been around four or five generations, even small changes like these can prompt major discussion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what’s challenging is, you’re talking about people changing how much land they have to graze and when they graze it,\" Lambert said. \"Which goes straight to the bottom line of their operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon rancher Becky Hyde says she has idled land, or put it into dry-land crop rather than irrigating it. \"That changes how much money we can make, which we have to think through,\" she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hyde also sees a value. \"We still graze our river, but we changed the timing of when we graze, so that it's more beneficial for the grasses and the healing of the river.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11184522\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Klamath River is prime habitat for coho salmon, like these juveniles. Coho in the Klamath River region are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Klamath River is prime habitat for coho salmon, like these juveniles. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of protesters toting signs reading, \"Keep It In The Ground,\" and chanting, \"Water is sacred, water is life!\" marched from San Francisco Civic Center Plaza down Market Street to the office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers early Tuesday in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest was one of many taking place nationwide in a coordinated day of action. The controversial pipeline, which has galvanized environmental and indigenous rights protesters, would bring crude oil from central North Dakota to Illinois. Its current route crosses the Missouri River near Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it needed additional information before deciding whether to allow construction of the pipeline along the proposed route, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/14/502069069/army-wants-further-study-of-dakota-access-pipeline-route\">The Associated Press reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11175399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22110_DAPL_SF-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A protest over the Dakota Access Pipeline marches down Market Street in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11175399\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22110_DAPL_SF-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22110_DAPL_SF-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22110_DAPL_SF-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22110_DAPL_SF-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22110_DAPL_SF-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22110_DAPL_SF-qut-960x541.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22110_DAPL_SF-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22110_DAPL_SF-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22110_DAPL_SF-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protest over the Dakota Access Pipeline marches down Market Street in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2016 \u003ccite>(Matt Beagle/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Isabella Zizi, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.idlenomoresfbay.org/\">Idle No More SF Bay\u003c/a>, who helped to organize the protest, said it was an attempt to influence the Obama administration to take action against the pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's important that we here in the Bay Area are in solidarity with those out in Standing Rock,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11175400\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22113_Dapl4_Beagle_IMG_20161115_100832745-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters met at City Hall before marching down Market Street and stopping in front of the U.S Army Corps of Engineers offices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11175400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22113_Dapl4_Beagle_IMG_20161115_100832745-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22113_Dapl4_Beagle_IMG_20161115_100832745-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22113_Dapl4_Beagle_IMG_20161115_100832745-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22113_Dapl4_Beagle_IMG_20161115_100832745-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22113_Dapl4_Beagle_IMG_20161115_100832745-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22113_Dapl4_Beagle_IMG_20161115_100832745-qut-960x541.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22113_Dapl4_Beagle_IMG_20161115_100832745-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22113_Dapl4_Beagle_IMG_20161115_100832745-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22113_Dapl4_Beagle_IMG_20161115_100832745-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters met at City Hall before marching down Market Street and stopping in front of the U.S Army Corps of Engineers offices. \u003ccite>(Matt Beagle/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Protesters met at City Hall before marching down Market Street and stopping in front of the U.S Army Corps of Engineers offices. About a dozen protesters blocked the building entrance and dozens more sat in the street before the protest closed with a chanting circle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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