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"content": "\u003cp>Until recently, strolling through a California forest meant walking in dappled light along a path strewn with leaves or pine needles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But across the state, once-towering pines have collapsed, their desiccated limbs sprawled across forest floors. Toppled oak and tanoak trees, their trunks bleeding, decomposing from the inside out, litter the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choked with the detritus of at least 70 million dead trees, vast tracts of the landscape have become a botanical emergency room, parched by drought, invaded by damaging insects and infected with a deadly organism that may have piggybacked its way to the state on rhododendron leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many communities of the central and southern Sierra Nevada range, “80 percent of trees are dead,” said Ken Pimlott, the state’s top forester as director of Cal Fire, the state forestry and fire-protection agency. “There will be no conifers [there] when this is done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We are literally one spark away from catastrophic fire in these tree mortality areas.’\u003ccite>Ken Pimlott, Cal Fire\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The catastrophic tree loss has taken out 66 million pines and other conifers and more than 5 million oak trees and tanoaks, which are relatives in the beech family. Nearly 60 million more water-starved trees are teetering. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dead and distressed woodlands represent a small fraction of the state’s billions of trees. But the problem is acute because large concentrations of trees — hundreds of acres of forest — are being wiped out. And experts expect the situation to worsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists say that until they learn more about oak disease, or the drought eases, what is now a botanical calamity threatens to become an environmental disaster:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Dead and dying trees are exceptionally flammable, amplifying an already severe wildfire threat after five years of drought.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Treeless slopes foster soil erosion, perilous landslides and a loss of essential watersheds. More than 60 percent of the state’s water originates in the hard-hit Sierra.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Forests absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and long-term tree loss could set back the state’s battle against climate change.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>When trees burn and decay, they release “black carbon,” a highly destructive emission many thousand times more polluting than other greenhouse gases. A wildfire around Yosemite National Park in 2013 discharged as much carbon as 2.3 million cars emit in a year, state officials say.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_912265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-912265\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Rizzo, a professor at UC Davis, walks through an area of trees dead from the effects of sudden oak death near Inverness, Calif. \" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-400x257.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-768x494.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-1440x927.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-1920x1236.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-1180x759.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-960x618.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Rizzo, a professor at UC Davis, walks through an area of trees dead from the effects of sudden oak death near Inverness, Calif. \u003ccite>( Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The problem is playing out mostly along California’s edges. Coast-hugging oaks are dying from Monterey County north to Humboldt County. Pines and other conifers, dried by drought and attacked by bark beetles, are failing along the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B07BADv7t15JUGl5dVl2a2wtOHc/view\">eastern spine\u003c/a> from northern Los Angeles County to the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never experienced a change and impact at this scale,” said Pimlott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State leaders are paying attention. Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency. More than 80 federal, state and local agencies, electric utilities and other organizations have formed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/treetaskforce/\">Tree Mortality Task Force\u003c/a>, co-chaired by Pimlott, to combat the problem. Another \u003ca href=\"http://www.suddenoakdeath.org/\">group\u003c/a> is grappling with what has been called “sudden oak death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some aspects of the problem are not new. Drought has ravaged the state before. Insects have been opportunistically attacking weakened trees for hundreds of years. Disease takes hold. Trees die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the current convergence of drought, bark beetles and oak disease is changing ecosystems enough that scientists cannot say when the tree population might be restored. In addition to the millions of oaks that have died since the mid-2000s, an unknown number may have the disease, and infected oaks can take two to five years to exhibit signs of trouble. [contextly_sidebar id=”WznzxFbrnM2angWaEyL24Eecd4eB66vj”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the disease is confined to 15 of California’s 58 counties, their nursery products quarantined to help prevent further spread. Scientists believe sudden oak death, or \u003cem>Phytophthora ramorum\u003c/em>, was brought to California on plants from commercial nurseries elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the die-off of pines and other conifers is occurring on a scale unprecedented in recent times, those trees evolved along with invasive insects, and healthy ones have the capacity to fight off attacks. When the drought eventually ends, pines are likely to come back, experts say, but even that is not fully understood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oak trees have no natural defense against the mold destroying them – it was identified in the state only about a decade ago — although not all infected oaks die. The question is whether, and how many, oaks can return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_912268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-912268\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-800x949.jpg\" alt='\"Bleeding\" bark is one sign of sudden oak death. ' width=\"800\" height=\"949\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-800x949.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-400x475.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-768x911.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-1440x1708.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-1920x2278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-1180x1400.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-960x1139.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Bleeding” bark is one sign of sudden oak death. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Already researchers are seeing diseased oak stands replaced by chaparral and other fast-growing flora. Tanoaks, scientists say, bear the brunt of the epidemic and may not come back at all or, like the chestnut trees that once flourished in the United States, may ultimately become shrubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diseased oaks were first observed in the state in 1995, in Marin and Santa Cruz counties. Much of the damage didn’t show up until years later, and officials didn’t recognize the potential for the current epidemic. That may have allowed sudden oak death to gain a stranglehold in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of state agencies, county crews and public utilities are removing dead and diseased trees around power lines, roads, bridges and other infrastructure where they might pose a hazard to public safety. The U.S. Forest Service, which manages much of California’s pine forest, has been cutting down dead trees, clearing debris from recreation sites and roads and taking other measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire and other agencies are carting away trees and limbs in places where thousands of dead pines and oaks still stand near homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are literally one spark away from catastrophic fire in these tree mortality areas,” Pimlott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeowners and pest control specialists are spraying or injecting oaks with a chemical concoction aimed at helping them fight infection, hoping to keep the disease at bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of labor-intensive work is not practical on a forest-wide scale, and aerial spraying of chemicals would likely be unacceptable and ineffective\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the pathogen’s spread is accelerating, despite California’s drought, because many of the affected oaks are in coastal areas with damper climates. Researchers are documenting the advancing destruction and looking for ways to protect still-healthy portions of California’s 32 million forested acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters is a non-profit journalism venture dedicated to exploring state policies and politics. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Until recently, strolling through a California forest meant walking in dappled light along a path strewn with leaves or pine needles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But across the state, once-towering pines have collapsed, their desiccated limbs sprawled across forest floors. Toppled oak and tanoak trees, their trunks bleeding, decomposing from the inside out, litter the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choked with the detritus of at least 70 million dead trees, vast tracts of the landscape have become a botanical emergency room, parched by drought, invaded by damaging insects and infected with a deadly organism that may have piggybacked its way to the state on rhododendron leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many communities of the central and southern Sierra Nevada range, “80 percent of trees are dead,” said Ken Pimlott, the state’s top forester as director of Cal Fire, the state forestry and fire-protection agency. “There will be no conifers [there] when this is done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We are literally one spark away from catastrophic fire in these tree mortality areas.’\u003ccite>Ken Pimlott, Cal Fire\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The catastrophic tree loss has taken out 66 million pines and other conifers and more than 5 million oak trees and tanoaks, which are relatives in the beech family. Nearly 60 million more water-starved trees are teetering. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dead and distressed woodlands represent a small fraction of the state’s billions of trees. But the problem is acute because large concentrations of trees — hundreds of acres of forest — are being wiped out. And experts expect the situation to worsen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists say that until they learn more about oak disease, or the drought eases, what is now a botanical calamity threatens to become an environmental disaster:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Dead and dying trees are exceptionally flammable, amplifying an already severe wildfire threat after five years of drought.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Treeless slopes foster soil erosion, perilous landslides and a loss of essential watersheds. More than 60 percent of the state’s water originates in the hard-hit Sierra.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Forests absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and long-term tree loss could set back the state’s battle against climate change.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>When trees burn and decay, they release “black carbon,” a highly destructive emission many thousand times more polluting than other greenhouse gases. A wildfire around Yosemite National Park in 2013 discharged as much carbon as 2.3 million cars emit in a year, state officials say.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_912265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-912265\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Rizzo, a professor at UC Davis, walks through an area of trees dead from the effects of sudden oak death near Inverness, Calif. \" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-400x257.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-768x494.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-1440x927.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-1920x1236.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-1180x759.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Rizzo2-960x618.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Rizzo, a professor at UC Davis, walks through an area of trees dead from the effects of sudden oak death near Inverness, Calif. \u003ccite>( Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The problem is playing out mostly along California’s edges. Coast-hugging oaks are dying from Monterey County north to Humboldt County. Pines and other conifers, dried by drought and attacked by bark beetles, are failing along the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B07BADv7t15JUGl5dVl2a2wtOHc/view\">eastern spine\u003c/a> from northern Los Angeles County to the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never experienced a change and impact at this scale,” said Pimlott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State leaders are paying attention. Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency. More than 80 federal, state and local agencies, electric utilities and other organizations have formed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/treetaskforce/\">Tree Mortality Task Force\u003c/a>, co-chaired by Pimlott, to combat the problem. Another \u003ca href=\"http://www.suddenoakdeath.org/\">group\u003c/a> is grappling with what has been called “sudden oak death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some aspects of the problem are not new. Drought has ravaged the state before. Insects have been opportunistically attacking weakened trees for hundreds of years. Disease takes hold. Trees die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the current convergence of drought, bark beetles and oak disease is changing ecosystems enough that scientists cannot say when the tree population might be restored. In addition to the millions of oaks that have died since the mid-2000s, an unknown number may have the disease, and infected oaks can take two to five years to exhibit signs of trouble. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the disease is confined to 15 of California’s 58 counties, their nursery products quarantined to help prevent further spread. Scientists believe sudden oak death, or \u003cem>Phytophthora ramorum\u003c/em>, was brought to California on plants from commercial nurseries elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the die-off of pines and other conifers is occurring on a scale unprecedented in recent times, those trees evolved along with invasive insects, and healthy ones have the capacity to fight off attacks. When the drought eventually ends, pines are likely to come back, experts say, but even that is not fully understood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oak trees have no natural defense against the mold destroying them – it was identified in the state only about a decade ago — although not all infected oaks die. The question is whether, and how many, oaks can return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_912268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-912268\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-800x949.jpg\" alt='\"Bleeding\" bark is one sign of sudden oak death. ' width=\"800\" height=\"949\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-800x949.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-400x475.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-768x911.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-1440x1708.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-1920x2278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-1180x1400.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/bleeding-bark-960x1139.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Bleeding” bark is one sign of sudden oak death. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Already researchers are seeing diseased oak stands replaced by chaparral and other fast-growing flora. Tanoaks, scientists say, bear the brunt of the epidemic and may not come back at all or, like the chestnut trees that once flourished in the United States, may ultimately become shrubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diseased oaks were first observed in the state in 1995, in Marin and Santa Cruz counties. Much of the damage didn’t show up until years later, and officials didn’t recognize the potential for the current epidemic. That may have allowed sudden oak death to gain a stranglehold in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of state agencies, county crews and public utilities are removing dead and diseased trees around power lines, roads, bridges and other infrastructure where they might pose a hazard to public safety. The U.S. Forest Service, which manages much of California’s pine forest, has been cutting down dead trees, clearing debris from recreation sites and roads and taking other measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire and other agencies are carting away trees and limbs in places where thousands of dead pines and oaks still stand near homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are literally one spark away from catastrophic fire in these tree mortality areas,” Pimlott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeowners and pest control specialists are spraying or injecting oaks with a chemical concoction aimed at helping them fight infection, hoping to keep the disease at bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of labor-intensive work is not practical on a forest-wide scale, and aerial spraying of chemicals would likely be unacceptable and ineffective\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the pathogen’s spread is accelerating, despite California’s drought, because many of the affected oaks are in coastal areas with damper climates. Researchers are documenting the advancing destruction and looking for ways to protect still-healthy portions of California’s 32 million forested acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sand-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">Sand Fire\u003c/a> struck, 19 fire crews trekked into the forest to subdue the flames. U.S. Forest Service Hotshots sling hatchets, shoulder 45-pound packs and often leave their families for weeks at a time during fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/277383617\" 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>The schedule is grueling: 14 days on, two days off for a season that can last from May to January. Hotshots stop the spread of wildfires by cutting away foliage, creating an earth barrier called a dozer line. After the blaze is contained, they stick around to mop up the mess. Then they're often dispatched to the next fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Sand Fire blazed, I spent some time with three families waiting for their Hotshots to come home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Who wouldn’t get worried?'\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“Sometimes I don’t even recognize him because he is covered in smoke and dirt and hasn’t showered in two weeks,” said Rachel Powers. Her husband, Anthony Powers, had only two minutes to FaceTime his wife and their infant son before continuing his 16-hour workday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work can be dangerous. A few years back, Powers’ husband called her from the hospital, saying it was a scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11044981\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11044981 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powers-800x1165.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel and Anthony Powers with their baby Elvis. Anthony missed his first Father's Day because of a firefighting shift. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1165\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powers-800x1165.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powers-400x583.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powers-1180x1719.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Powers-960x1399.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel and Anthony Powers with their baby, Elvis. Anthony missed his first Father's Day because of a firefighting shift. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Powers family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My heart dropped,” Powers said. She raced to the hospital and learned a fallen tree cut away part of his ear and left him with a big scar on the back of his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month later, he returned to fighting flames, saving homes and forests. Fire season still arrives with a gnawing fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If their husband was a police officer or firefighter, doing any dangerous job, who wouldn’t get worried?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Like being a single mom'\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA stressful fire season is often made easier by the tight bonds formed by Hotshot families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I said goodbye to Powers at the family’s West Hills home, we discovered that my next stop was to the home of the Powers' close family friends, the Davidsons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Z. Davidson is one of the few female Hotshots. She fought fires for seven years, often alongside Matt Davidson. At first, he didn’t like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He actually tried getting me fired,” she giggled. “There was already a girl on the crew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she proved tough, and amid fallen trees they fell for each other. After they married, Davidson found herself facing a choice: firefighting or family. Her son is now a year and half old, and Davidson is sitting this fire season out on maternity leave with a second child three months away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not realistic to be mother on a Hotshot crew,” she said. “And, to have both parents gone all the time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phone rings and baby Royce toddles over to it, shouting “da-da, da-da.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fire season lasting several months, Davidson said, most of the child care and chores fall on the spouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s like being a single mom,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"I don’t even tell my kids, 'Oh, Daddy is coming home from the fire' \"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hotshots bounce from fire to fire: It's anyone’s guess which of the more than 150 national forests will set ablaze next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11044978\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11044978\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Huston-800x1014.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Huston, superintendent of Laguna Interagency Hotshot Crew with the U.S. Forest Service, grabs his children Thomas, 7, and Hannah, 3. Hotshot crews can spend weeks at a time away from their families.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Huston-800x1014.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Huston-400x507.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Huston.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Huston-1180x1495.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Huston-960x1217.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Huston, superintendent of Laguna Interagency Hotshot Crew with the U.S. Forest Service, grabs his children, Thomas, 7, and Hannah, 3. Hotshot crews can spend weeks at a time away from their families. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jim Huston)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trish Huston monitors fires on a scanner at the family’s home on a fire station in the rural mountain town of Descanso in San Diego County. Her husband, Jim Huston, recently returned home for lunch after working on a local fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course my daughter was jumping all over him, so excited,\" Huston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she's learned to guess when her husband will be called out by watching for the signs of a growing fire. Sure enough, after they cleared their plates, the call to the Sand Fire came in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was kind of a bummer,” she said. “Because it’s like, ‘Aww, man. We were going to BBQ steaks.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The steaks went into the freezer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple has been married 20 years, and Huston said she can’t count the number of fires they’ve endured as a family. She started a blog, \u003ca href=\"http://wildlandfirefighterwives.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-sister-hood-of-wildland-firefighter.html\">Wildland Firefighter Wives\u003c/a>, where she's posted a \u003ca href=\"http://wildlandfirefighterwives.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-hotshot-prayer.html\">Hotshot prayer\u003c/a> and asked other families to share their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we chat, her cellphone rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband’s calling me real quick -- hold on,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the phone, Huston’s husband says a vendor set up a shop selling commemorative Sand Fire T-shirts -- did she want one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care what color. I just don’t like pink,” I heard her tell him, and she listed the sizes of both their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hoped he would soon be on his way home, T-shirts in hand. But she knows that just because the fire is contained, the work doesn’t stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t even tell my kids, ‘Oh, Daddy is coming home from the fire,’ because a lot can happen between getting released from the fire and actually making it home,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, he hasn't made it home yet. He got called to a fire near Big Sur. Those steaks in the freezer, Huston said, will have to wait another week.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Olive Tambou was shaking when she set up her tent for the first time, on a middle school field trip in Yosemite. She was terrified bears might visit her overnight, but camping beneath massive pine trees changed her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved being outdoors,” Tambou says with a huge smile. “It felt natural, really good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”rJWy0QcvIz0xWUmjJRl1Oz84K4T4jvnz”]Tambou is originally from Cameroon in Central Africa, and her family traditionally doesn’t spend much time outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she takes a bus twice a week from her home in Visitacion Valley to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA). Walking along the San Francisco Bay shoreline at Crissy Field, Tambou says she doesn’t mind the three-hour round trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love going to parks!” Tambou exclaims, as she spreads her arms to the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s part of a high school \u003ca href=\"http://www.parksconservancy.org/learn/youth/leadership/iyel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">internship program\u003c/a> designed to inspire people of many ethnic identities to care about national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Our Green Spaces Are Still So White\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, our country’s most scenic parks and cultural monuments drew more than 300 million visitors, but most of them fell in the U.S. census category of “White, non-Hispanic.” The most recent nationwide visitor \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.nps.gov/socialscience/docs/CompSurvey2008_2009RaceEthnicity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey\u003c/a> in 2009 showed that only one in five tourists was a person of color. Yet the nation is about twice that diverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharedaddy show-for-medium-up\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-900386\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop.png\" alt=\"Diversity_Desktop\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1223\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop-400x255.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop-800x510.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop-768x489.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop-1440x917.png 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop-1180x752.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop-960x612.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"show-for-small-only\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-900387\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Mobile.png\" alt=\"Diversity_Mobile\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Mobile.png 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Mobile-400x711.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t feel a sense of connection,” says \u003ca href=\"http://userwww.sfsu.edu/nroberts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nina Roberts\u003c/a>, professor at San Francisco State University. “They just don’t feel that relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts researches race and culture in outdoor recreation. She says the parks have struggled to welcome people of all backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Parks For All,’ ‘Parks Forever,’ ‘America’s Best Idea’ — a lot of those are clichés in minority communities,” says Roberts, “because they’re still trying to figure out, ‘Okay, I hear that, but I’m not seeing the changes.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts says the parks \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2015/03/26/national-park-service-director-on-the-future-of-americas-parks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">need to make changes\u003c/a> that would show people of all backgrounds they’re welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service does preserve places that are historically and culturally significant to many peoples. Think of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/cech/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">birthplace of the farmworker movement\u003c/a> in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/azru/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aztec ruins \u003c/a>in New Mexico, and an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/afbg/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African burial ground\u003c/a> in Manhattan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_895965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3824px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-895965\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers.jpg\" alt=\"Park rangers explain flora and fauna at Chrissy Field to a group of visitors from the Mission District who took free shuttles to Chrissy Field. \" width=\"3824\" height=\"2868\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers.jpg 3824w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3824px) 100vw, 3824px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Park rangers explain flora and fauna at Crissy Field to a group of visitors from the Mission District who took free shuttles to Crissy Field. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But across the system, most park employees are Caucasian. The uniforms make rangers look like immigration officials. And, Roberts says, many African-Americans, particularly elders, fear the outdoors and carry the scars of slavery and lynchings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What people do for leisure, historically, was not spending time in the outdoors,” Roberts says, “because they worked in the outdoors or they were killed in the outdoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Urban Parks for City People\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park Service leaders are aware of these barriers and, since the 1970s, they’ve been trying, somewhat unsuccessfully it appears, to increase diversity to catch up with the country’s shifting demographics. During that decade, Congress created the country’s first urban parks — GGNRA was one of them — and one goal was to attract minorities and low-income people to parks that were closer to cities, so people didn’t have to travel for hours to experience a national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘What people do for leisure, historically, was not spending time in the outdoors, because they worked in the outdoors or they were killed in the outdoors.’\u003ccite>Nina Roberts, San Francisco State University\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We have got to bring the natural world back to the people,” said Interior Secretary Walter Hickel in 1970, “rather than have them live in an environment where everything is paved over with concrete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime San Francisco activist Amy Meyer remembers a heated Sierra Club meeting one night in the early 1970s, when a woman from Chinatown spoke confidently to the group of white activists discussing land preservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer says the woman told them, “‘Look if you don’t get the people from Chinatown to understand what you’re talking about, the next generation is going to pave over Yosemite.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On October 27, 1972 Congress established both the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the Gateway National Recreation Area in New York City. It was the beginning of a wave of urban parks, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/samo/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Monica Mountains\u003c/a> in greater Los Angeles, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/cuva/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cuyahoga Valley\u003c/a> near Cleveland. Today you can visit a national park site in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/urban/upload/UrbanAgenda_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40 of the country’s 50 \u003c/a>most populated cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Strategies to Lure New Visitors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years the Park Service has tried numerous outreach programs such as summer camps and free days, designed to attract people of color. Currently, GGNRA is offering free shuttles to the park every Saturday from designated libraries in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the parks have stumbled occasionally in their outreach. For example, youth programs used to accept students on a first-come, first-served basis. So for years, the programs filled with white kids from private schools who had savvy parents. In another example, inner city kids are often recruited for beach clean-ups. So their first experience with the outdoors is picking up someone else’s trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are subtle ways the park has discriminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a local park here in Washington D.C., for a time, the only signs in Spanish were “No drinking allowed in the park,'” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/people/alan-spears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Spears\u003c/a>, director of cultural resources with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Parks Conservation Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_895963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3264px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-895963\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Point-ReyesFrom-left-to-right-Lurleen-Frazier-Sarah-Hoang-Olive-Tambou-Stela-Zouradakis.jpg\" alt=\"Youth intership camping trip at Point Reyes, CA. 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From left to right: Lurleen Frazier, Sarah Hoang, Olive Tambou, Stela Zouradakis \u003ccite>(Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Securing the Parks’ Futures\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spears says the marketing to people of color hasn’t worked. The message has to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we say to them is not, ‘We’ve got a cure for your crappy life with National Parks,’” says Spears. “But rather, ‘We’ve got a park system. It’s increasingly relevant to you and your community and, boy, we really need your help.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Help in protecting the park’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2050 whites will no longer be the U.S. majority. So Spears says minority votes will be increasingly important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every session of Congress,” he says, “we get someone who thinks it would be a good idea to sell off a portion of a national park in order to put up an outlet mall or something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s not just votes to preserve wild lands. It’s votes to preserve the places that tell the stories of all Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, the NPS has published a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2011/08/national-park-service-issues-5-year-call-action-plan-moving-toward-its-second-century8687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Call to Action\u003c/a> which outlines priorities for the organization’s future. It states: “In our second century, we will fully represent our nation’s ethnically and culturally diverse communities.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s part of a high school \u003ca href=\"http://www.parksconservancy.org/learn/youth/leadership/iyel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">internship program\u003c/a> designed to inspire people of many ethnic identities to care about national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Our Green Spaces Are Still So White\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, our country’s most scenic parks and cultural monuments drew more than 300 million visitors, but most of them fell in the U.S. census category of “White, non-Hispanic.” The most recent nationwide visitor \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.nps.gov/socialscience/docs/CompSurvey2008_2009RaceEthnicity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey\u003c/a> in 2009 showed that only one in five tourists was a person of color. Yet the nation is about twice that diverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharedaddy show-for-medium-up\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-900386\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop.png\" alt=\"Diversity_Desktop\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1223\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop-400x255.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop-800x510.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop-768x489.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop-1440x917.png 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop-1180x752.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Desktop-960x612.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"show-for-small-only\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-900387\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Mobile.png\" alt=\"Diversity_Mobile\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Mobile.png 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Diversity_Mobile-400x711.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t feel a sense of connection,” says \u003ca href=\"http://userwww.sfsu.edu/nroberts/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nina Roberts\u003c/a>, professor at San Francisco State University. “They just don’t feel that relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts researches race and culture in outdoor recreation. She says the parks have struggled to welcome people of all backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Parks For All,’ ‘Parks Forever,’ ‘America’s Best Idea’ — a lot of those are clichés in minority communities,” says Roberts, “because they’re still trying to figure out, ‘Okay, I hear that, but I’m not seeing the changes.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts says the parks \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2015/03/26/national-park-service-director-on-the-future-of-americas-parks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">need to make changes\u003c/a> that would show people of all backgrounds they’re welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service does preserve places that are historically and culturally significant to many peoples. Think of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/cech/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">birthplace of the farmworker movement\u003c/a> in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/azru/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aztec ruins \u003c/a>in New Mexico, and an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/afbg/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African burial ground\u003c/a> in Manhattan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_895965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3824px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-895965\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers.jpg\" alt=\"Park rangers explain flora and fauna at Chrissy Field to a group of visitors from the Mission District who took free shuttles to Chrissy Field. \" width=\"3824\" height=\"2868\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers.jpg 3824w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/nat-parks-rangers-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3824px) 100vw, 3824px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Park rangers explain flora and fauna at Crissy Field to a group of visitors from the Mission District who took free shuttles to Crissy Field. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But across the system, most park employees are Caucasian. The uniforms make rangers look like immigration officials. And, Roberts says, many African-Americans, particularly elders, fear the outdoors and carry the scars of slavery and lynchings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What people do for leisure, historically, was not spending time in the outdoors,” Roberts says, “because they worked in the outdoors or they were killed in the outdoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Urban Parks for City People\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park Service leaders are aware of these barriers and, since the 1970s, they’ve been trying, somewhat unsuccessfully it appears, to increase diversity to catch up with the country’s shifting demographics. During that decade, Congress created the country’s first urban parks — GGNRA was one of them — and one goal was to attract minorities and low-income people to parks that were closer to cities, so people didn’t have to travel for hours to experience a national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘What people do for leisure, historically, was not spending time in the outdoors, because they worked in the outdoors or they were killed in the outdoors.’\u003ccite>Nina Roberts, San Francisco State University\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We have got to bring the natural world back to the people,” said Interior Secretary Walter Hickel in 1970, “rather than have them live in an environment where everything is paved over with concrete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime San Francisco activist Amy Meyer remembers a heated Sierra Club meeting one night in the early 1970s, when a woman from Chinatown spoke confidently to the group of white activists discussing land preservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meyer says the woman told them, “‘Look if you don’t get the people from Chinatown to understand what you’re talking about, the next generation is going to pave over Yosemite.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On October 27, 1972 Congress established both the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the Gateway National Recreation Area in New York City. It was the beginning of a wave of urban parks, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/samo/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Monica Mountains\u003c/a> in greater Los Angeles, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/cuva/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cuyahoga Valley\u003c/a> near Cleveland. Today you can visit a national park site in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/urban/upload/UrbanAgenda_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40 of the country’s 50 \u003c/a>most populated cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Strategies to Lure New Visitors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years the Park Service has tried numerous outreach programs such as summer camps and free days, designed to attract people of color. Currently, GGNRA is offering free shuttles to the park every Saturday from designated libraries in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the parks have stumbled occasionally in their outreach. For example, youth programs used to accept students on a first-come, first-served basis. So for years, the programs filled with white kids from private schools who had savvy parents. In another example, inner city kids are often recruited for beach clean-ups. So their first experience with the outdoors is picking up someone else’s trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are subtle ways the park has discriminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a local park here in Washington D.C., for a time, the only signs in Spanish were “No drinking allowed in the park,'” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/people/alan-spears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Spears\u003c/a>, director of cultural resources with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Parks Conservation Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_895963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3264px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-895963\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/Point-ReyesFrom-left-to-right-Lurleen-Frazier-Sarah-Hoang-Olive-Tambou-Stela-Zouradakis.jpg\" alt=\"Youth intership camping trip at Point Reyes, CA. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s drought is taking its toll on wildlife. Years of sub-par precipitation have cut the amount of water available for wildlife refuges that supply critical habitat and food for \u003ca title=\"Link: http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/Dying-of-Thirst/index.php?cparticle=3&siarticle=2\" href=\"http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/Dying-of-Thirst/index.php?cparticle=3&siarticle=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waterfowl and other migratory birds\u003c/a>. Reduced river flows are pushing endangered fish species to the brink. Riparian forests have also been impacted by the drought, as well as by groundwater over-pumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As well as the drought, increased development, population growth, pollution and other pressures have almost eliminated most of the vital riparian and wetland habitat that a number of endangered species need to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Rice farms get a bad rap often for the amount of water used to produce rice in California, but rice farming can produce benefits for waterfowl species.’\u003ccite>Ann Hayden, Environmental Defense Fund\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To combat this, the Environmental Defense Fund, along with a partner organization, has launched the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edf.org/ecosystems/central-valley-habitat-exchange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Valley Habitat Exchange\u003c/a>, a voluntary program that gives landowners — farmers and ranchers — incentives to create wildlife habitats on their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand how a market-based system for habitat protection works and who benefits, Water Deeply spoke to Ann Hayden, the senior director of the California Habitat Exchange and Western Water program at the Environmental Defense Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: Can you explain what the Habitat Exchange is and why you chose to focus efforts in the Central Valley?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Hayden: The Habitat Exchange program we are developing throughout the country is aimed at creating incentives for farmers and ranchers to create habitat benefits on their land while maintaining agricultural productivity. In a sense, they would be getting paid to grow habitat in the same way they grow crops — it’s an additional commodity they would get paid for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We started looking at the Central Valley out of the recognition that over 90 percent of habitat for wetlands and floodplains and riparian habitat-types have been decimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since so much of our state is in farmland, it seems like a natural fit that farmers and ranchers should be brought into the fold to help meet conservation goals, and not just rely on land acquisition or looking to conservation banks. Those are valid tools that exist, but we think bringing farmers and ranchers to the table will bring in so much more habitat, while allowing agricultural productivity to be maintained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: What kind of species are you focusing on in trying to create a habitat?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: It helps to have a driver like the Endangered Species Act because when listed species are impacted it will have to be mitigated, so there will be a need to offset that habitat somehow. We’ve focused largely on a handful of listed species at the state or federal level — Swainson’s hawk, the giant garter snake, Chinook salmon, Monarch butterflies and riparian songbirds, within which there are a couple of listed species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: At what stage of development is the project?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: We’ve been in development since 2012. We got a U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation innovation grant, which is a three-year grant that helped develop the infrastructure for the program, and flesh out habitat quantification tools — the mechanism to measure the quality of a parcel of land for a particular species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve developed a better understanding of what sort of legal and financial assurances need to be in place in order to get the regulatory agencies to have confidence in this approach being a viable tool in the toolkit for conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are well under way. We’re at the point where we are developing credit-ready projects. We have a number of parcels in the Central Valley. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2016/07/27/birds-snakes-and-butterflies-farming-for-more-than-crops-and-cash/?_ga=1.108139010.1473386416.1470251594\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davis Ranch\u003c/a> is one of them, where we are working with willing landowners and going out to their property, testing and using the tool on these properties to do a site assessment to understand the baseline of habitat quality on the land. From that can really understand what sort of changes in management practices or additional restoration should happen in to increase that score, the habitat function of that site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now we are at the point of trying to match it with demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: Are there other landowners who have committed?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: One development is a property in Yolo County called Elliott Ranch and we just received funding through the [Sacramento-San Joaquin] Delta Conservancy, as part of their Proposition 1 funding, to implement some restoration on Elliott Ranch. We’ll be doing some crop shifting to pasture that provides better foraging habitat for Swainson’s hawk and then we’ll also be planting some hedgerows to increase the foraging habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is our first transaction through the Habitat Exchange. For the first time we are going to have a clear indication of how our public dollars for restoration are being spent. That’s been a challenge with bond funding, for example, where we’ve had huge amounts of money being invested in restoration efforts with not a very clear idea of the outcomes that have been achieved. We are trying to change that paradigm through the Habitat Exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also have preliminary agreements from a handful of other landowners in the Central Valley to work with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: Besides using Proposition 1 money, how else would the project be funded?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: Any entity that is interested in either meeting a conservation goal, such as the Delta Conservancy, or meeting a mitigation mandate, such as a water agency that is doing some levee setback projects or a developer that is implementing a project — those projects that would impact habitat for certain species — would be a buyer of habitat credits through the habitat exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: What has the response been from the agricultural community?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: The feedback we’ve received is that there is a lot of interest to participate in an effort like the Habitat Exchange, but so far the barriers of entry into the conservation mitigation market have been so high that it has been difficult to know how they even get there — it’s complicated or costly. So we are trying to lower the barriers of entry for folks in the agricultural community to be part of the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: What is the process for someone who does want to participate and are there upfront costs?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: We would work directly with them to do a site assessment with the use of the habitat quantification tool to understand the existing habitat quality, habitat function on the land. And then we talk with them about what sort of management practices they are currently implementing and where they might be open to shifting those somewhat to increase the habitat quality for species. We’d work with them on developing a management plan. There has to be a willingness to put a conservation easement on their land but that would be paid for by the buyer of credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: How do you measure the success of the projects?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: That’s the crux of the Habitat Exchange and where we see this approach being somewhat different from other approaches that exist today. It’s really through the use of the habitat quantification tool that’s a method for tracking and monitoring how the landscape is responding over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is to use the tool initially to understand the baseline conditions and then have some sort of agreement to go back after a time to the property and run the habitat quantification tool again to see how the habitat is responding. This is not a tool that involves counting populations of species — it’s really looking at the habitat quality on the landscape. That will tell us how well it can support species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: One of the species you mentioned is Chinook salmon. Can you explain why fish can benefit from agricultural lands?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: There is really innovative work going on at \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2016/04/01/flooding-rice-fields-provide-hope-for-salmon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knaggs Ranch\u003c/a>, near the Yolo Bypass. Rice farms get a bad rap often for the amount of water used to produce rice in California, but rice farming can produce benefits for waterfowl species; and there are ways you can extend the flooding of rice lands during some critical periods of the year to simulate juvenile salmon-rearing habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been some experiments done through the work of Trout Unlimited and UC Davis where they have determined that juvenile salmon reared in these rice fields during these critical months end up as “big fatties” — they come out stronger and much bigger than juvenile salmon coming down the Sacramento River which don’t have access to the food or protection from predators [as on the flooded rice fields]. Rice farms can simulate what the floodplain used to do before we changed the plumbing so much in the state and redirected water from these floodplains during these critical times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Deeply: What’s most exciting about the impact this project can have?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayden: We’re really excited about the Habitat Exchange driving better conservation outcomes on the ground by working side-by-side with farmers who are original stewards. We think they have a critical role to play and we are going to have a much better chance of maintaining, and hopefully restoring, habitat that’s needed by working closely with working landowners.\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/2016/08/04/new-program-pays-central-valley-farmers-to-grow-wildlife-habitat\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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We got a U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation innovation grant, which is a three-year grant that helped develop the infrastructure for the program, and flesh out habitat quantification tools — the mechanism to measure the quality of a parcel of land for a particular species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve developed a better understanding of what sort of legal and financial assurances need to be in place in order to get the regulatory agencies to have confidence in this approach being a viable tool in the toolkit for conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are well under way. We’re at the point where we are developing credit-ready projects. 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For the first time we are going to have a clear indication of how our public dollars for restoration are being spent. That’s been a challenge with bond funding, for example, where we’ve had huge amounts of money being invested in restoration efforts with not a very clear idea of the outcomes that have been achieved. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has taken the national stage to tout California’s fight against global warming, telling cheering throngs at the Democratic National Convention that the state has “the toughest climate laws in the country.” Yet inside the state Capitol, the fate of the policy’s centerpiece—legislation to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions—is in peril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ominous sign: The Democratic leader of the Assembly has not thrown his weight behind the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it’s not imperative that it get done this year,” said Anthony Rendon, who has a background as an environmentalist but \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/gripping-power-for-the-long-term/\">rose to speaker\u003c/a> this year with support from a powerful bloc of business-friendly Democrats. “It’s a program that has had its success, but at the same time there are some corrections that could be made. We just want to make sure that if we’re going to set something up for the long term, that we get it right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 32 is shaping up as the biggest fight lawmakers are likely to tackle in what remains of the legislative year. It pits environmentalist Democrats, mostly from the state’s more prosperous coastal areas, against Democrats and Republicans from struggling inland areas who side with oil companies and other businesses, and whose constituents could be harder hit by rising energy prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which sets ambitious targets to cut planet-warming emissions by 2030, faces a critical deadline with the Legislature set to wrap up for the year on Aug. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11040582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11040582\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"California State Sen. Fran Pavley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-400x286.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-960x686.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Sen. Fran Pavley. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Fran Pavley—the Agoura Hills Democrat widely regarded as an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/sen-fran-pavley-a-quiet-force-in-the-climate-storm/\">environmental champion\u003c/a>—authored the legislation to build on a pioneering climate change agenda the Legislature enacted a decade ago, when it passed her Assembly Bill 32. That bill set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and led to California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/cap-and-trade-in-two-and-half-minutes-video/\">cap and trade system\u003c/a>, which limits how much climate-warming gas businesses can emit while allowing them to buy and sell permits to pollute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavley, now serving her last year in the Legislature, wants to extend the approach further into the future. But the Legislature has changed a lot since her earlier bill passed in 2006—no one currently in the Assembly was in office then—and the lower house rejected SB 32 last year amid \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/ad-blitz-heats-up-climate-change-fight/\">intense lobbying\u003c/a> by the oil industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failure again this month would indicate a major about-face for the California Legislature, reversing course on the environmental leadership role that Brown routinely boasts of in national and international appearances. It would also mark defeat for Pavley, a maverick in the war on global warming who is leaving the Capitol because of term limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really not about me,” she said, but about the Legislature’s commitment to keep combatting climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This should be easier to pass this year than it was 10 years ago, because now we can show that putting a cap on emissions and rolling it back does send signals for investment (in clean energy businesses). And we’re seeing those new jobs here in California. We have success stories to tell but the challenge has been that the Assembly, of course, hasn’t been paying close attention because they weren’t here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/static/iframes/20150709_greenhouse/\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her effort is backed by a big advertising push from environmental groups. NextGen Climate, headed by San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/climate-soulmates/\">billionaire Tom Steyer\u003c/a>, is spending $1.2 million to air \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znS2E_IU9BM&feature=youtu.be\">television ads\u003c/a> around the state criticizing oil companies for “trying to weaken our clean air laws.” The California League of Conservation Voters has launched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ecovote/posts/10153782360091245\">social media campaign\u003c/a> urging voters to contact Democrats who helped defeat SB 32 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw what happened last year,” said spokeswoman Jenesse Miller, “so this year going in we knew we were going to have to ask those lawmakers to do the right thing and vote the way their constituents want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1200\">polling\u003c/a> found that a majority of Californians support reducing greenhouse gas emissions, even if it means paying more for gas and electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But businesses that use lots of electricity say their costs have already \u003ca href=\"http://www.cmta.net/multimedia/20160614_ca_electricity_premium_for_classes_since_2010.pdf\">gone up\u003c/a> too much—and they fear SB 32 will trigger continual increases without enough oversight from legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re moving from 2020 to 2030, we need to understand what the policies are going to be that will be available to be used,” said Dorothy Rothrock, president of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association, which opposes the bill. “With simply a goal with nothing else attached to it, it’s throwing it all over to (\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/battling-climate-change-agency-draws-controversy/\">the Air Resources Board\u003c/a>) to do whatever they want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That board, largely made up of Brown appointees and beyond the Legislature’s control, is already at work on a Plan B—drafting rules that could act as a back-up for Brown’s environmental agenda in case SB 32 withers. But environmentalists want the state’s climate policy to have the political backing of the Legislature, knowing that it’s hard to reverse a law. If the policy is carried out simply as the go-it-alone work of a governor who will leave office in two years, it could be undone, or face a legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”xR11dKfqMQ4IaeasVIF1ippPmHkXGcuI”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the board’s work to require emissions cuts and continue cap and trade—along with a Chamber of Commerce lawsuit asserting that cap and trade is an illegal tax—could also stymie climate policy action in the Legislature. Dean Florez, a former state lawmaker who now sits on the air board, said he’s talked to lawmakers who feel less pressure to vote for a controversial bill because the governor is pursuing his agenda without them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are ‘sitting pretty’ because they can say the Governor has spoken and the courts will ultimately decide and thus there’s no hurry to act on SB 32 now,” Florez said by text message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Democrats “can have their cake and eat it too,” he wrote. “They get to say they are with the Governor AND with the oil companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor himself won’t say whether he’s pulling for SB 32 or is satisfied to let the air board decide policy. All Brown’s office would say, via an email from spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman is: “We will not meet our world-leading clean air and emission reduction targets unless we solidify and redouble our commitment to the state’s cap and trade program and climate goals beyond 2020 and we will work hard to get that done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate supporters of SB 32, meanwhile, say they remain undaunted. Senate President pro Tem Kevin de Leon, a Democrat, said extending the targets past 2020 “will get done one way or the other.” And Pavley is getting creative and seeking new allies to rescue her bill. One of those is Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, a Coachella Democrat who did not support SB 32 last year. The two got to know each other during the global climate negotiations \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-a-climate-model-for-the-world-has-work-to-do-at-home/\">in Paris\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Garcia is carrying a bill to give legislators more oversight of the Air Resources Board, and it is linked to Pavley’s emissions reductions bill—each one can only pass if the other one does too. The alliance illustrates how Pavley is working to win over previous opponents, particularly Democrats who represent people in struggling inland areas who could be hit harder by rising gas and electricity prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to be more encompassing of California’s economically disadvantaged communities,” Garcia said of his bill. “I think it is a piece of the puzzle in order to get people closer to supporting Senate Bill 32.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another puzzle piece: money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jim Cooper, an Elk Grove Democrat who leads the caucus of moderate Democrats, argues that too many incentives for solar panels and electric vehicles have gone to California’s wealthy enclaves. “Take care of the poor people first,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats who objected to SB 32 last year could be persuadable if, say, their districts get new money for environmental projects. And it just so happens the state is sitting on $1.4 billion from cap and trade auctions—money that legally must be spent on projects that reduce emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters is a nonprofit journalism venture dedicated to exploring state policy and politics. For more stories by Laurel Rosenhall, go to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has taken the national stage to tout California’s fight against global warming, telling cheering throngs at the Democratic National Convention that the state has “the toughest climate laws in the country.” Yet inside the state Capitol, the fate of the policy’s centerpiece—legislation to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions—is in peril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ominous sign: The Democratic leader of the Assembly has not thrown his weight behind the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it’s not imperative that it get done this year,” said Anthony Rendon, who has a background as an environmentalist but \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/gripping-power-for-the-long-term/\">rose to speaker\u003c/a> this year with support from a powerful bloc of business-friendly Democrats. “It’s a program that has had its success, but at the same time there are some corrections that could be made. We just want to make sure that if we’re going to set something up for the long term, that we get it right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 32 is shaping up as the biggest fight lawmakers are likely to tackle in what remains of the legislative year. It pits environmentalist Democrats, mostly from the state’s more prosperous coastal areas, against Democrats and Republicans from struggling inland areas who side with oil companies and other businesses, and whose constituents could be harder hit by rising energy prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which sets ambitious targets to cut planet-warming emissions by 2030, faces a critical deadline with the Legislature set to wrap up for the year on Aug. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11040582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11040582\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"California State Sen. Fran Pavley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-400x286.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-960x686.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Sen. Fran Pavley. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Fran Pavley—the Agoura Hills Democrat widely regarded as an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/sen-fran-pavley-a-quiet-force-in-the-climate-storm/\">environmental champion\u003c/a>—authored the legislation to build on a pioneering climate change agenda the Legislature enacted a decade ago, when it passed her Assembly Bill 32. That bill set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and led to California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/cap-and-trade-in-two-and-half-minutes-video/\">cap and trade system\u003c/a>, which limits how much climate-warming gas businesses can emit while allowing them to buy and sell permits to pollute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavley, now serving her last year in the Legislature, wants to extend the approach further into the future. But the Legislature has changed a lot since her earlier bill passed in 2006—no one currently in the Assembly was in office then—and the lower house rejected SB 32 last year amid \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/ad-blitz-heats-up-climate-change-fight/\">intense lobbying\u003c/a> by the oil industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failure again this month would indicate a major about-face for the California Legislature, reversing course on the environmental leadership role that Brown routinely boasts of in national and international appearances. It would also mark defeat for Pavley, a maverick in the war on global warming who is leaving the Capitol because of term limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really not about me,” she said, but about the Legislature’s commitment to keep combatting climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This should be easier to pass this year than it was 10 years ago, because now we can show that putting a cap on emissions and rolling it back does send signals for investment (in clean energy businesses). And we’re seeing those new jobs here in California. We have success stories to tell but the challenge has been that the Assembly, of course, hasn’t been paying close attention because they weren’t here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/static/iframes/20150709_greenhouse/\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her effort is backed by a big advertising push from environmental groups. NextGen Climate, headed by San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/climate-soulmates/\">billionaire Tom Steyer\u003c/a>, is spending $1.2 million to air \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znS2E_IU9BM&feature=youtu.be\">television ads\u003c/a> around the state criticizing oil companies for “trying to weaken our clean air laws.” The California League of Conservation Voters has launched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ecovote/posts/10153782360091245\">social media campaign\u003c/a> urging voters to contact Democrats who helped defeat SB 32 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw what happened last year,” said spokeswoman Jenesse Miller, “so this year going in we knew we were going to have to ask those lawmakers to do the right thing and vote the way their constituents want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1200\">polling\u003c/a> found that a majority of Californians support reducing greenhouse gas emissions, even if it means paying more for gas and electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But businesses that use lots of electricity say their costs have already \u003ca href=\"http://www.cmta.net/multimedia/20160614_ca_electricity_premium_for_classes_since_2010.pdf\">gone up\u003c/a> too much—and they fear SB 32 will trigger continual increases without enough oversight from legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re moving from 2020 to 2030, we need to understand what the policies are going to be that will be available to be used,” said Dorothy Rothrock, president of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association, which opposes the bill. “With simply a goal with nothing else attached to it, it’s throwing it all over to (\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/battling-climate-change-agency-draws-controversy/\">the Air Resources Board\u003c/a>) to do whatever they want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That board, largely made up of Brown appointees and beyond the Legislature’s control, is already at work on a Plan B—drafting rules that could act as a back-up for Brown’s environmental agenda in case SB 32 withers. But environmentalists want the state’s climate policy to have the political backing of the Legislature, knowing that it’s hard to reverse a law. If the policy is carried out simply as the go-it-alone work of a governor who will leave office in two years, it could be undone, or face a legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the board’s work to require emissions cuts and continue cap and trade—along with a Chamber of Commerce lawsuit asserting that cap and trade is an illegal tax—could also stymie climate policy action in the Legislature. Dean Florez, a former state lawmaker who now sits on the air board, said he’s talked to lawmakers who feel less pressure to vote for a controversial bill because the governor is pursuing his agenda without them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are ‘sitting pretty’ because they can say the Governor has spoken and the courts will ultimately decide and thus there’s no hurry to act on SB 32 now,” Florez said by text message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Democrats “can have their cake and eat it too,” he wrote. “They get to say they are with the Governor AND with the oil companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor himself won’t say whether he’s pulling for SB 32 or is satisfied to let the air board decide policy. All Brown’s office would say, via an email from spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman is: “We will not meet our world-leading clean air and emission reduction targets unless we solidify and redouble our commitment to the state’s cap and trade program and climate goals beyond 2020 and we will work hard to get that done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate supporters of SB 32, meanwhile, say they remain undaunted. Senate President pro Tem Kevin de Leon, a Democrat, said extending the targets past 2020 “will get done one way or the other.” And Pavley is getting creative and seeking new allies to rescue her bill. One of those is Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, a Coachella Democrat who did not support SB 32 last year. The two got to know each other during the global climate negotiations \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-a-climate-model-for-the-world-has-work-to-do-at-home/\">in Paris\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Garcia is carrying a bill to give legislators more oversight of the Air Resources Board, and it is linked to Pavley’s emissions reductions bill—each one can only pass if the other one does too. The alliance illustrates how Pavley is working to win over previous opponents, particularly Democrats who represent people in struggling inland areas who could be hit harder by rising gas and electricity prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to be more encompassing of California’s economically disadvantaged communities,” Garcia said of his bill. “I think it is a piece of the puzzle in order to get people closer to supporting Senate Bill 32.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another puzzle piece: money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jim Cooper, an Elk Grove Democrat who leads the caucus of moderate Democrats, argues that too many incentives for solar panels and electric vehicles have gone to California’s wealthy enclaves. “Take care of the poor people first,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats who objected to SB 32 last year could be persuadable if, say, their districts get new money for environmental projects. And it just so happens the state is sitting on $1.4 billion from cap and trade auctions—money that legally must be spent on projects that reduce emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 4:\u003c/strong> The massive Soberanes Fire burning near Big Sur grew by more than 4,000 acres overnight and has now burned about 51,000 acres, or nearly 80 square miles, according to Cal Fire. The fire is 27 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damage reports remain unchanged, with 57 homes and 11 outbuildings destroyed. Another 2,000 are under threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire investigators have determined the blaze was started by an illegal, abandoned campfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/761203260581478400\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 3:\u003c/strong> The incident command on the Soberanes Fire, burning in the mountains along the Big Sur coast south of Carmel, said early Wednesday the blaze has consumed 45,800 acres -- 72 square miles, or nearly equivalent to the area of Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weather forecasters say the 5,500 people now assigned to corral the Sobranes blaze are about to get a break, with a deepening layer of moist marine air and lower temperatures replacing the hot, sunny conditions that have aided the fire's spread along ridge tops and river bottoms. The fire is just 25 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wind shift combined with \u003ca href=\"http://calfireinformation.weebly.com/goose-fire-updates.html\" target=\"_blank\">a fire burning in the Sierra foothills\u003c/a> northeast of Fresno has triggered \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=air%20quality%20alert\" target=\"_blank\">an air quality alert\u003c/a> from Bakersfield to the Delta -- the entire San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damage reports remain unchanged, with 57 homes and 11 outbuildings destroyed. Another 2,000 residences in an area stretching from Carmel Valley down to Tassajara Hot Springs on the fire's eastern flank remain under threat. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person has been killed fighting the fire. Robert Reagan III, a bulldozer operator, died when his machine overturned during the first week of the blaze. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities announced Tuesday they had determined an illegal campfire in a remote part of Garrapata State Park sparked the fire on July 22. Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo said those responsible for the fire could face criminal charges:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.montereyherald.com/general-news/20160802/soberanes-fire-started-by-illegal-campfire-officials-say\" target=\"_blank\">the Monterey Herald\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We have a death that occurred — the bulldozer driver — we have structural damage and all of that will have to be sorted out,” Flippo said. “You’re looking at negligence as opposed to intentional, but it’s criminal liability. ...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Cal Fire officials are urging anyone who might have been in the area the day of and the days leading up to the start of the fire to contact the agency at 1-800-468-4408.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the cause of this fire, we’re appealing to the community for any additional information,” Cal Fire spokesman Jonathan Cox said. “We appeal to anyone to please come forward and give any information they have, no matter how inconsequential they think it is.”\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Soberanes Fire burning along the northern Big Sur coast was caused by an abandoned campfire, according to a tweet from Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/760609806365265924\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Fire information officer Deborah McClain said Tuesday that investigators determined the blaze started July 22 in an area of Garrapata State Park where campfires are prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClain says officials are still trying to determine who started the campfire and are asking for information from campers who were in the area before the massive blaze charred 67 square miles and destroyed 57 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bulldozer operator working the fire lines was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/02/employer-of-worker-killed-in-soberanes-fire-under-scrutiny/\" target=\"_blank\">killed last week\u003c/a> in a rollover accident in steep, forested ridges.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2:\u003c/strong> The Soberanes Fire has burned 43,400 acres, or nearly 68 square miles, and remains 18 percent contained, according to Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has destroyed 57 homes and 11 outbuildings. An additional three structures and two outbuildings were damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,000 structures are threatened, according to Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteorologists say the weather is not expected to aid the more than 5,400 fire personnel battling the blaze. For the next few days temperatures in the fire area, along the northern Big Sur coast, are expected to stay in the mid-to-high 90s, with cool coastal air failing to reach the fire during the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know it's typical summer-type weather with steep temperature contrasts from inland areas to the coast,\" National Weather Service meteorologist Rick Canepa said. \"Really, we don't see too much change actually through the week and probably pretty much through the month.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/760490564278071296/photo/1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Update, 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 1:\u003c/strong> The Soberanes Fire continues to chew through rugged, drought-stressed terrain along the northern Big Sur coast, exacting a rising toll in property damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/276412680\" 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>Fire managers said that as of Monday morning, the fire has burned nearly 41,000 acres -- about 63.4 square miles, an area about three-quarters the size of Oakland. The blaze is 18 percent contained and has destroyed 57 homes and 11 outbuildings since it began in Garrapata State Park on July 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze threatens as many as 2,000 more homes, Cal Fire says. Several hundred people in the area -- inland and southeast of the town of Carmel, have been forced to leave their residences as the fire has spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"http://firetracker.scpr.org/soberanes-fire-monterey-county-2016/embed\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An extraordinarily large force of fire personnel -- nearly 5,300 people -- has been deployed to contain the blaze. Fire managers said last week that full containment could take until Aug. 31; they added over the weekend that in the worst case, the blaze could grow more than fourfold from its current area and reach 170,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that scenario comes to pass, the Soberanes would join \u003ca href=\"http://baynature.org/article/forged-by-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">two other Big Sur fires\u003c/a> as \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">among the largest\u003c/a> in modern California history. The Marble Cone Fire, a lightning-sparked blaze, torched 177,866 drought-desiccated acres in 1977. The Basin Complex Fire burned 162,818 acres in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its southern flank, the Soberanes Fire has burned into the footprint left by the Basin conflagration. Fire managers have commented that the fuels in the area, including fallen logs and dead or dying standing trees called snags, are heavier than expected for an area that burned so recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those concerned about the fire's impact are grape growers and winemakers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kionrightnow.com/news/local-news/smoke-from-soberanes-fire-threatens-grapes/40951008\" target=\"_blank\">According to KION\u003c/a>, the local CBS outlet in Salinas:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Monterey County's wine industry is worth more than $100 million. Even though Carmel Valley only produces one percent of the county's wine, the fire could shake things up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Soberanes Fire is burning seven to eight miles away from the nearest vineyard in Carmel Valley, but it carries a more immediate threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to worry about something called smoke taint, which is when ash and smoke affects the skins of the grapes. And then if it affects the skins of the grapes, it can affect the wine,\" said Kim Stemler, executive director of Monterey County Vintners and Growers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear if it will happen but if it does, there are ways in the production line where it can be treated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of the grapes in Carmel Valley have not gone through veraison,\" Stemler said. \"Veraison is where the grapes change colors. After veraison, they're really susceptible to smoke taint, so since it's still really early, it's a good sign.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/759745873374916609\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Friday, July 29): \u003c/strong>A virtual army of firefighters -- nearly 4,300 people -- has entered the second week of its battle to contain a major wildfire spreading through the mountains just inland of the northern Big Sur coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says that the Soberanes Fire, which started in Garrapata State Park last Friday morning, has burned 31,386 acres. That's 49 square miles, roughly the same area as San Francisco. The blaze is just 15 percent contained, with full containment forecast to take another month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the fire continues to prompt \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/communications-and-outreach/publications/news-releases/2016/2016-041-sta-alert-thirteenth-072816-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\">Spare the Air alerts\u003c/a> in the Bay Area and is \u003ca href=\"http://www.valleyair.org/recent_news/Media_releases/2016/PR-Fire-07-27-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">contributing to poor air quality\u003c/a> throughout the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say that the fire has burned 41 homes so far and threatens as many as 2,000 others. About 350 residents of the sparsely populated area have been forced from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11035745\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanes072916.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11035745\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanes072916-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A wall of fire advances up a ridge east of Monterey County's Big Sur coast on Thursday.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanes072916-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanes072916-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanes072916.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wall of fire advances up a ridge east of Monterey County's Big Sur coast on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Alameda County Fire Department via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire reports the blaze is just 15 percent contained. Full containment is not expected for another month, and a glance at \u003ca href=\"http://ftp.nifc.gov/incident_specific_data/calif_s/CALFIRE/2016_Incidents/CA-BEU-003422_Soberanes/IAP/20160729/Soberanes_IAP_20160729.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the daily battle plan\u003c/a> put together by federal and state fire commanders suggests why weeks of hard work lie ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in most of California's backland wildfires, fire crews and heavy equipment operators are contending with precipitously steep terrain. On top of that, the last five years of drought have left the heavily forested fire locale full of dead, dying and diseased trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although the weather hasn't been terrible -- winds have been light, for instance -- it hasn't really been a friend to firefighters either. The marine layer -- the stratum of cool, moist air that brings cooling fog to inland locales during the summer months -- has been very shallow since the fire started. And persistent high pressure over California and the Southwest has led to a temperature inversion in which a layer of very warm air is lying over cool air at the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11035798\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanesnasa160729a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11035798\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanesnasa160729a-400x262.jpg\" alt=\"Satellite image Thursday, July 28, of smoke emitted from Soberanes Fire in Monterey County.\" width=\"400\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanesnasa160729a-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanesnasa160729a-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanesnasa160729a-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanesnasa160729a-960x629.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanesnasa160729a.jpg 1508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satellite image Thursday, July 28, of smoke emitted from Soberanes Fire in Monterey County. \u003ccite>(NASA Worldview)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those factors have led to intensely smoky conditions in the fire zone that have occasionally limited the use of firefighting aircraft. Weather above the marine layer -- in terrain above an elevation of 500 to 1,000 feet east of Highway 1 -- has been sunny, hot and dry and, except for the relatively light winds, is ideal for burning. What's more, low humidity after nightfall -- often a time when moisture increases and fire behavior may moderate -- has offered little relief to firefighters. Little change in these conditions is expected in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has claimed one life so far. On Thursday, Cal Fire identified a bulldozer driver killed earlier this week as Robert Reagan III of Friant, a town just north of Fresno. Reagan reportedly suffered fatal injuries when his machine overturned on a steep slope.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weather forecasters say the 5,500 people now assigned to corral the Sobranes blaze are about to get a break, with a deepening layer of moist marine air and lower temperatures replacing the hot, sunny conditions that have aided the fire's spread along ridge tops and river bottoms. The fire is just 25 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wind shift combined with \u003ca href=\"http://calfireinformation.weebly.com/goose-fire-updates.html\" target=\"_blank\">a fire burning in the Sierra foothills\u003c/a> northeast of Fresno has triggered \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=air%20quality%20alert\" target=\"_blank\">an air quality alert\u003c/a> from Bakersfield to the Delta -- the entire San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damage reports remain unchanged, with 57 homes and 11 outbuildings destroyed. Another 2,000 residences in an area stretching from Carmel Valley down to Tassajara Hot Springs on the fire's eastern flank remain under threat. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person has been killed fighting the fire. Robert Reagan III, a bulldozer operator, died when his machine overturned during the first week of the blaze. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities announced Tuesday they had determined an illegal campfire in a remote part of Garrapata State Park sparked the fire on July 22. Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo said those responsible for the fire could face criminal charges:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.montereyherald.com/general-news/20160802/soberanes-fire-started-by-illegal-campfire-officials-say\" target=\"_blank\">the Monterey Herald\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We have a death that occurred — the bulldozer driver — we have structural damage and all of that will have to be sorted out,” Flippo said. “You’re looking at negligence as opposed to intentional, but it’s criminal liability. ...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Cal Fire officials are urging anyone who might have been in the area the day of and the days leading up to the start of the fire to contact the agency at 1-800-468-4408.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the cause of this fire, we’re appealing to the community for any additional information,” Cal Fire spokesman Jonathan Cox said. “We appeal to anyone to please come forward and give any information they have, no matter how inconsequential they think it is.”\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Soberanes Fire burning along the northern Big Sur coast was caused by an abandoned campfire, according to a tweet from Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>According to the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Fire information officer Deborah McClain said Tuesday that investigators determined the blaze started July 22 in an area of Garrapata State Park where campfires are prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClain says officials are still trying to determine who started the campfire and are asking for information from campers who were in the area before the massive blaze charred 67 square miles and destroyed 57 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bulldozer operator working the fire lines was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/02/employer-of-worker-killed-in-soberanes-fire-under-scrutiny/\" target=\"_blank\">killed last week\u003c/a> in a rollover accident in steep, forested ridges.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2:\u003c/strong> The Soberanes Fire has burned 43,400 acres, or nearly 68 square miles, and remains 18 percent contained, according to Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire has destroyed 57 homes and 11 outbuildings. An additional three structures and two outbuildings were damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,000 structures are threatened, according to Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteorologists say the weather is not expected to aid the more than 5,400 fire personnel battling the blaze. For the next few days temperatures in the fire area, along the northern Big Sur coast, are expected to stay in the mid-to-high 90s, with cool coastal air failing to reach the fire during the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know it's typical summer-type weather with steep temperature contrasts from inland areas to the coast,\" National Weather Service meteorologist Rick Canepa said. \"Really, we don't see too much change actually through the week and probably pretty much through the month.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>/photo/1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Update, 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 1:\u003c/strong> The Soberanes Fire continues to chew through rugged, drought-stressed terrain along the northern Big Sur coast, exacting a rising toll in property damage.\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/276412680&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/276412680'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire managers said that as of Monday morning, the fire has burned nearly 41,000 acres -- about 63.4 square miles, an area about three-quarters the size of Oakland. The blaze is 18 percent contained and has destroyed 57 homes and 11 outbuildings since it began in Garrapata State Park on July 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze threatens as many as 2,000 more homes, Cal Fire says. Several hundred people in the area -- inland and southeast of the town of Carmel, have been forced to leave their residences as the fire has spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"http://firetracker.scpr.org/soberanes-fire-monterey-county-2016/embed\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An extraordinarily large force of fire personnel -- nearly 5,300 people -- has been deployed to contain the blaze. Fire managers said last week that full containment could take until Aug. 31; they added over the weekend that in the worst case, the blaze could grow more than fourfold from its current area and reach 170,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that scenario comes to pass, the Soberanes would join \u003ca href=\"http://baynature.org/article/forged-by-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">two other Big Sur fires\u003c/a> as \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">among the largest\u003c/a> in modern California history. The Marble Cone Fire, a lightning-sparked blaze, torched 177,866 drought-desiccated acres in 1977. The Basin Complex Fire burned 162,818 acres in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its southern flank, the Soberanes Fire has burned into the footprint left by the Basin conflagration. Fire managers have commented that the fuels in the area, including fallen logs and dead or dying standing trees called snags, are heavier than expected for an area that burned so recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those concerned about the fire's impact are grape growers and winemakers. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kionrightnow.com/news/local-news/smoke-from-soberanes-fire-threatens-grapes/40951008\" target=\"_blank\">According to KION\u003c/a>, the local CBS outlet in Salinas:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Monterey County's wine industry is worth more than $100 million. Even though Carmel Valley only produces one percent of the county's wine, the fire could shake things up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Soberanes Fire is burning seven to eight miles away from the nearest vineyard in Carmel Valley, but it carries a more immediate threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to worry about something called smoke taint, which is when ash and smoke affects the skins of the grapes. And then if it affects the skins of the grapes, it can affect the wine,\" said Kim Stemler, executive director of Monterey County Vintners and Growers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear if it will happen but if it does, there are ways in the production line where it can be treated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of the grapes in Carmel Valley have not gone through veraison,\" Stemler said. \"Veraison is where the grapes change colors. After veraison, they're really susceptible to smoke taint, so since it's still really early, it's a good sign.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The blaze is just 15 percent contained, with full containment forecast to take another month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the fire continues to prompt \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/communications-and-outreach/publications/news-releases/2016/2016-041-sta-alert-thirteenth-072816-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\">Spare the Air alerts\u003c/a> in the Bay Area and is \u003ca href=\"http://www.valleyair.org/recent_news/Media_releases/2016/PR-Fire-07-27-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">contributing to poor air quality\u003c/a> throughout the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say that the fire has burned 41 homes so far and threatens as many as 2,000 others. About 350 residents of the sparsely populated area have been forced from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11035745\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanes072916.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11035745\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanes072916-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A wall of fire advances up a ridge east of Monterey County's Big Sur coast on Thursday.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanes072916-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanes072916-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/soberanes072916.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wall of fire advances up a ridge east of Monterey County's Big Sur coast on Thursday. \u003ccite>(Alameda County Fire Department via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire reports the blaze is just 15 percent contained. Full containment is not expected for another month, and a glance at \u003ca href=\"http://ftp.nifc.gov/incident_specific_data/calif_s/CALFIRE/2016_Incidents/CA-BEU-003422_Soberanes/IAP/20160729/Soberanes_IAP_20160729.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the daily battle plan\u003c/a> put together by federal and state fire commanders suggests why weeks of hard work lie ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in most of California's backland wildfires, fire crews and heavy equipment operators are contending with precipitously steep terrain. On top of that, the last five years of drought have left the heavily forested fire locale full of dead, dying and diseased trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although the weather hasn't been terrible -- winds have been light, for instance -- it hasn't really been a friend to firefighters either. The marine layer -- the stratum of cool, moist air that brings cooling fog to inland locales during the summer months -- has been very shallow since the fire started. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 4:\u003c/strong> More than 600 fire personnel continue to battle the Cold Fire, which has grown to 4,700 acres burned, or just over 7 square miles, according to Cal Fire. The blaze, burning southeast of Lake Berryessa in Yolo County, is 15 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cold Fire is the third big fire in the region in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/761195093931888640\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Original post (Wednesday, Aug. 3):\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of firefighters are fanning out in rough terrain near the southeast end of Lake Berryessa to try to rein in a wind-driven wildfire that sprang up Tuesday afternoon and forced evacuations from a nearby campground and subdivision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1366\">Cold Fire\u003c/a> has burned 4,000 acres since it started Tuesday afternoon. It is 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crews worked all night long building containment lines,\" said Linda Green, a spokeswoman for Cal Fire's Sonoma-Lake-Napa unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that work, the battle has just begun, said Marin County Sheriff's Lt. Doug Pittman, who is serving as a Cal Fire spokesman at the incident command center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We still have a long, long way to go,\" Pittman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze started around 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday when the area was experiencing gusty afternoon winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fire quickly moved into some very steep, hilly terrain ... very difficult for firefighters to get to and unfortunately very easy for the fire to quickly run up the mountainside and get away from us,\" Pittman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cold Fire, in an area that saw big fires in both 2014 and 2015, prompted mandatory evacuations in two areas in the hills west of Winters: the Golden Bear Estates, a subdivision north of Highway 128 and just east of Lake Berryessa, and the Canyon Creek Resort, along Putah Creek immediately below Monticello Dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Sharton of San Mateo said she and her husband were returning to the Canyon Creek Resort from an outing at Lake Berryessa when the fire broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we got back to the camp we started packing up just in case we had to go,\" Sharton said Wednesday. \"We thought the wind would take it the other direction, but then it hit the ridge, right where we could see it, and then it started coming down towards Canyon Creek.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharton and her family were also forced to leave the campground when a fire broke out two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highway 128 \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi?roadnumber=128&submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">remained closed\u003c/a> Wednesday for 7.5 miles, from Pleasants Valley Road to the Markley Cove resort. An evacuation center has been set up at the Winters Public Safety Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says a total of 700 personnel are fighting the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with Cal Fire, the Napa County, Winters, Dixon and Vacaville fire departments are on the fire lines. Sheriff's deputies from Napa, Solano and Yolo counties, as well as the California Highway Patrol, are assisting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire has brought some of the resources that have been used in the \u003ca href=\"http://calfireinformation.weebly.com/soberanes-fire-updates.html\">Soberantes Fire\u003c/a> to help contain the Cold Fire, Pittman said. Firefighters from other parts of the state and possibly Oregon and Nevada are expected to assist, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather is expected to be a major factor later Wednesday, Pittman said, as breezes increase. Fire officials are anticipating winds of up to 20 mph this afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is going to be a problem for us,\" Pittman said. \"That's going to help push that fire faster and farther than we're going to want it to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cold Fire is the third big fire near Monticello Dam in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The night of July 4, 2014, illegal fireworks sparked the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/07/monticello-fire-lake-berryessa-yolo-county/\" target=\"_blank\">Monticello Fire\u003c/a> along Highway 128, a few miles to the east of the dam. The blaze posed an immediate threat to Golden Bear Estates and some other residences and prompted the Canyon Creek Resort to shut down. It burned about 7,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 22, 2015, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/24/lake-berryessa-fire-timelapse-poetry-of-smoke-and-light/\" target=\"_blank\">Wragg Fire\u003c/a> started along Highway 128 just northwest of the dam. The blaze was ignited when a driver pulled a vehicle off the road into some tall grass. It burned about 9,000 acres. Golden Bear Estates, Canyon Creek Resort and other residential areas were threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Tiffany Camhi, Tena Rubio and Dan Brekke contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In 2015, the planet saw a number of such records set, from the hottest global temperature measured to the largest annual increase in carbon dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those records — along with numerous other indicators of the considerable change wrought on land, in the oceans and air, and to ecosystems — are detailed in the annual \u003ca href=\"https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/state-of-the-climate/\">State of the Climate Report\u003c/a> released Tuesday by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We have to understand how the planet is changing and varying…in order to understand where we may be going in the future.’\u003ccite>Thomas Karl, NOAA\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The report, now in its 26th year and published as a special edition of the journal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, was put together by 456 authors in 62 countries and provides a checkup of Earth’s health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to understand how the planet is changing and varying . . . in order to understand where we may be going in the future,” Thomas Karl, director of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, said during a press teleconference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a strong El Niño provided a boost to global temperatures last year, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/global-warming-key-driver-record-heat-19734\">main driver of the planet’s temperature surge\u003c/a>, as well as other climate trends, is the warming caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just as many of the records of 2015 broke those set only one year earlier, 2016 has broken or is poised to break several of 2015’s records:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Global Temperature\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average temperature for the world in 2015 was record warm in all four major datasets, which are run independently by different U.S. and international agencies. 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The latest model forecasts are less confident that a La Niña will form, which would mean 2016 has a better chance of besting 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s quite possible that 2016 will set a new global temperature record,” Jessica Blunden, a NOAA climatologist and lead author of the report, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carbon Dioxide\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenhouse gas levels — the driver behind the steady warming of the planet — also set records in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual average of carbon dioxide levels at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, which keeps the longest-running record of atmospheric CO2, was 400.8 parts per million. That was the first time the measurement was over 400 ppm for the year. 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Loss of this ice has ramifications for polar ecosystems, as well as potentially to weather patterns in Europe, Asia, and North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arctic sea ice reaches its peak at the end of the winter; last year that winter peak \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/arctic-sea-hits-record-low-winter-peak-18795\">set a record low\u003c/a>. That record has \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/arctic-sea-ice-peak-record-low-again-20183\">already been beaten this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/arctic-sea-ice-breaks-may-record-20415\">May\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/arctic-sea-ice-record-low-for-june-20508\">June\u003c/a> this year also saw record low sea ice levels, though the decline eased off in July. 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"content": "\u003cp>Federal prosecutors asked a judge Tuesday to cut nearly all of a potential $562 million fine against Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in a criminal case alleging the utility violated pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas explosion in San Bruno and later \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/29/pge-charged-obstructing-justice-San-Bruno/\" target=\"_blank\">obstructed investigators\u003c/a> looking into the blast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the government's filing, federal judge Thelton Henderson approved the dismissal of enhanced fines, and PG&E agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney's Office made the request in a brief court filing that did not give any reasons. 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Engineers did not think the pipelines posed a safety risk, and the company did not intend to mislead investigators, PG&E attorney Steven Bauer said during the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility inadvertently sent officials a draft policy about its standard for identifying high-risk pipes, not one the company was actually following, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators have blamed the blast in part on poor PG&E record keeping that was based on incomplete and inaccurate pipeline information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate case, the California Public Utilities Commission \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/09/cpuc-approves-1-6-billion-fine-for-pge-over-san-bruno-disaster/\" target=\"_blank\">imposed a $1.6 billion fine\u003c/a> against PG&E last year for it's role in the San Bruno explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Bruno mayor Ruane reiterated calls Tuesday for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/18/San-Bruno-Seeks-Monitor-PGE/\" target=\"_blank\">greater oversight\u003c/a> of PG&E, in addition to the California Public Utilities Commission. 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