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"content": "\u003cp>In California's drought, the struggling monarch butterfly may have found a sprinkling of hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suburban homeowners ripping out thirsty lawns are dotting their new drought-tolerant landscapes with milkweed native to California's deserts and chaparral -- plants that have the potential to help save water and monarchs at the same time, because the female monarch will lay her eggs only on milkweed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall numbers of the majestic black-and-orange butterflies have dropped from 1 billion to fewer than 60 million over the past two decades, as milkweed nationwide has fallen prey to development and pesticides.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>4 Ways to Help Monarchs:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plant native milkweed\u003c/strong> - Contact the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnps.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Native Plant Society\u003c/a> to find milkweeds native to your area\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Provide nectar plants\u003c/strong> - The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pollinator.org/guides.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Pollinator Partnership\u003c/a> locates native plants by Zip code\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Avoid pesticides\u003c/strong> – Pesticides kill monarchs throughout the life cycle\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Become a citizen scientist\u003c/strong> – Scientists need data to understand all stages of the monarch’s annual cycle. Contact \u003ca href=\"http://monarchjointventure.org/get-involved/study-monarchs-citizen-science-opportunities/\" target=\"_blank\">Monarch Joint Venture\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.monarchparasites.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Monarch Health\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.xerces.org/western-monarchs/\" target=\"_blank\">The Xerces Society\u003c/a> to find out how you can contribute\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a $1.2 million starter investment to restore habitat. Other national projects aim to distribute milkweed seeds by mail and build databases of breeding habitats as alarm grows. 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They were up in the nursery on palm trees. They were everywhere, under tables. We were releasing 500 caterpillars a week on native milkweed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anya Shortridge bought a few milkweed plants last year for her drought garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she grows more than 100 milkweeds and carefully scans them for microscopic monarch eggs. When the eggs hatch, she feeds the tiny black, gold and white-striped caterpillars until they disappear into a shimmering, light-green chrysalis where the mysterious transformation into a butterfly occurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This season, she and her husband have released more than 100 butterflies into the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sign in front of her house on a San Diego hilltop designates her garden as a \"monarch waystation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"fFEYjhCuYea1VqKoTsPCJJ5qptkcZwYg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're finding eggs -- monarch eggs -- on the underside of our milkweed leaves all the time, so if I wanted to I could probably raise thousands,\" said Shortridge, who cajoles and coos at the butterflies as if they were her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts, however, are worried that California homeowners who plant milkweed might actually do harm by trying to do good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because many gardeners unwittingly choose tropical -- or so-called exotic -- milkweed because of its colorful pink and yellow flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plants are more attractive than the desert varieties, but could interfere with the monarch's famed migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10726020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10726020\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MonarchMilkweed-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"A monarch butterfly lands on a kind of milkweed native to California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MonarchMilkweed-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MonarchMilkweed-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MonarchMilkweed-1440x964.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MonarchMilkweed.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MonarchMilkweed-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/MonarchMilkweed-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A monarch butterfly lands on a kind of milkweed native to California. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Native milkweeds go dormant in the winter, leaving the butterflies no choice but to complete their migratory journey. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:30 p.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAll lanes of Interstate 5 are now open in both directions over the Grapevine north of Los Angeles, Caltrans says. The same cannot be said for state Highway 58, which will stay closed at least through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Caltrans9/status/655181438665359360\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LOS ANGELES — Rescuers threw ladders and tarps across mud up to 6 feet deep to help hundreds of trapped people from cars that got caught in a roiling river of mud along a major Southern California trucking route, a California Highway Patrol official said Friday in what he and other witnesses described as a chaotic scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazingly, officials said, no deaths or injuries were reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people rescued from state Highway 58, which crosses the Tehachapi Mountains between Bakersfield and Mojave, were stranded in a powerful storm on Thursday evening. They were rescued in darkness about 10 hours after the storm hit and taken to three shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was terrifying,\" 51-year-old Rhonda Flores of Bakersfield said Friday. \"It was a raging river (of) mud. I've never experienced anything like it, ever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores said she, her mother and her stepfather were driving back to Bakersfield from her sister's funeral in Utah when the storm hit out of nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It started raining, and it kept raining. The water started to build up and the mud started coming,\" Flores said from the church where she, her family and about 150 other people sheltered overnight. \"The water's rushing by, the mud's rushing by, then pieces of trees started coming by, and the water was past our doors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores said the trio was prepared to jump out of the windows if the water got any higher. Luckily, it subsided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm feeling blessed that we are here,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Mario Lopez, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol, was at the scene as people were being rescued and said it was sheer chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've never seen anything like this before,\" Lopez said. \"The whole side of the hill just came down onto state Route 58. ... There's no highway.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storms unleashed flash flood and debris flows along Highway 58, Interstate 5 and in two small mountainside communities, where at least a dozen homes were reported damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez said it will take days to reopen the highway, a mile of which is choked with mud between 2 and 6 feet deep. About 200 cars and semi-trucks were trapped in the now-hardened mud, frozen in place at odd angles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of semis were backed up for 10 miles on the freeway, a heavily traveled shortcut from the lower Central Valley to Interstates 10 and 15 in Barstow. Lopez said they would likely eventually be turned around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency crews were working to dig out head-high mounds of mud from both 58 and I-5, which was also shut down as hundreds of cars were trapped in the mud Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affected section of Interstate 5, one of the state's major north-south arteries, carries traffic among steep mountains over a pass rising to an elevation of more than 4,100 feet between the Central Valley and metropolitan Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The northbound lanes of the freeway were reopened Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Hughes, a tiny mountainside community in northern Los Angeles County, also was in the path of Thursday's storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Nuesca said she and her husband had just picked up their two children from school in the Lake Hughes area when they found themselves surrounded by mud and water. They fled their car in pelting rain and hail, climbed onto the roof, and eventually found their way to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was really scary,\" said Nuesca's 11-year-old daughter, Sarah. \"Me and my brother both thought we were going to die that night.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuesca said the family got out of the car \"just in time\" after she reassured the children, \"We're not going to die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mud covered their car, solidifying inside and filling up the front seat up to the dashboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. Keith Mora said the agency rescued 14 people and eight animals in the Lake Hughes area, some from atop cars. Many more were able to walk to safety after waiting out the flood on top of their own vehicles, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County firefighters were going house to house on Friday, checking on any stranded occupants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least a dozen homes in the area were damaged by the mud flows, said Kerjon Lee, a spokesman for Los Angeles County Department of Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said more than that could be damaged, but crews had to bust through blocked roads before they could get an exact count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Wells, a local rancher, was walking through the area looking for his livestock on Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think my livestock was swept away and penned against the fence. I think they're all dead,\" said Wells, who was near tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thunderstorms were powered by a low pressure system pulling in moisture from the south. As much as 1.45 inches of rain fell in a quick span of time near where the most intense flooding occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National Weather Service meteorologist Robbie Munroe said it's too early to say whether Thursday's storm was connected to the warm sea surface temperatures associated with a developing El Niño pattern in the Pacific Ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, he said, an El Niño doesn't usually bring heavy rain to Southern California before November. This El Niño has been forecast to bring above-average precipitation to Southern California during January, February and March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press reporters Christine Armario, Sue Manning and John Rogers contributed to this report from Los Angeles, and Raquel Dillon contributed from Lake Hughes, Calif.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"storify\">\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://storify.com/kqednews/deluge-mudslides-block-southern-calif-highways\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Until Thursday, Oakland A’s executive Billy Beane was a guy fans were mad at because he’d just engineered \u003ca href=\"http://swinginas.com/2015/10/04/oakland-athletics-forgettable-2015-season-comes-to-an-end/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the worst seasons\u003c/a> in his team’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Billy Beane is, at least for today, the face of our new pariah class: the guy who’s hogging water in the middle of the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/eastbaycitizen/status/654850582130233344\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beane, a resident of hot, dry, gated Blackhawk in Contra Costa County, is No. 3 on the East Bay Municipal Utility District’s list of 1,108 residential water users recently issued penalties for excessive water use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility says that in the most recent two-month billing cycle, Beane used 360,000 gallons of water. There are all sorts of way to parse that: If his billing period was exactly 60 days, that comes out to 5,996 gallons a day. That’s 24 times the amount used by East Bay MUD’s average residential customer, 246 gallons a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I like to think of it in more personal terms. Like many people in the Bay Area, our household in Berkeley has heard that it’s been dry for a while. Like many others, we’ve tried to find ways to conserve water. And it shows: Our yard looks like a drought hit it. We’ve got buckets in the kitchen and bathroom to try to make sure that nothing that comes out of the tap is wasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10719979\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GettyImages-85292542-e1445027951867.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10719979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GettyImages-85292542-400x280.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland A's executive Billy Beane, pictured at a 2009 spring training game. \" width=\"400\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A’s executive Billy Beane, pictured at a 2009 spring training game. \u003ccite>(Christian Petersen/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The result is our household water use is down to a total of 50 gallons a day, according to our most recent EBMUD bill. That means we used about 3,000 gallons in the last two-month billing cycle. And Billy Beane? His average use between midnight and noon averaged 3,000 gallons. Every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area News Group, which was the first to publish the EBMUD data, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28976922/billy-beane-among-east-bays-biggest-water-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contacted the A’s exec\u003c/a> to ask him about his water use. His response: “Beane said he has tried to reduce his water use this year but added that he has a large landscaped yard. ‘I certainly pay for it,'” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s good of him. By my calculations, figuring in EBMUD’s basic water rates, drought surcharge and penalty for excessive use, Beane paid around $4,000 for the water he used from mid-July to mid-September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(EBMUD’s penalty scheme seems exceedingly generous, by the way: In the midst of the worst drought in the state’s history, the district asks water guzzlers to pay the penalty only when they exceed a base amount of 1,000 gallons a day. One thousand gallons! That amount is four times the amount used by the average EBMUD residential customer, and it’s more than double the estimated use for a “typical” California household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens if you’re an EBMUD customer who uses more than 1,000 gallons a day? You pay $2 for every billing unit of water over that amount. A billing unit is 100 cubic feet of water, or 748 gallons. )\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/eastbaycitizen/status/654852020268994560\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back to Billy Beane. Let’s not lose sight of the fact he was just No. 3 on EBMUD’s list of top water guzzlers. The top spot went to one of Beane’s Blackhawk neighbors, George Kirkland, a recently retired Chevron executive whom the water district says used about 12,580 gallons of water a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area News Group story says Kirkland, whose spread includes two vineyards, blamed a water leak for the excessive use.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>Where the Water Hogs Are\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The number of customers penalized for excessive water use in towns served by the East Bay Municipal Utility District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda:\u003c/strong> 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Alamo:\u003c/strong> 189\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Albany:\u003c/strong> 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Berkeley:\u003c/strong> 22\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Castro Valley:\u003c/strong> 5\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Danville:\u003c/strong> 211\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>El Sobrante:\u003c/strong> 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hayward:\u003c/strong> 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hercules:\u003c/strong> 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kensington:\u003c/strong> 2\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Lafayette:\u003c/strong> 100\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Moraga:\u003c/strong> 48\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Oakland:\u003c/strong> 53\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Orinda:\u003c/strong> 61\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>Piedmont:\u003c/strong> 51\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Pleasant Hill:\u003c/strong> 17\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Richmond:\u003c/strong> 7\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Leandro:\u003c/strong> 15\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Lorenzo:\u003c/strong> 2\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Pablo:\u003c/strong> 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Ramon:\u003c/strong> 46\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Walnut Creek:\u003c/strong> 269\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The No. 2 spot on the EBMUD list went to Mark Pine, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur residing in Alamo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That top trio reflects a pattern on the EBMUD List of Shame: 80 percent of those hit with penalties for excessive water use live in half a dozen communities in the torrid zone beyond the East Bay hills — Alamo, Danville (which includes Blackhawk), Lafayette, Orinda, San Ramon and Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one sense, that’s unsurprising. It \u003cem>is\u003c/em> hot out there in the summertime. And the rule of thumb in California is that in most locales, about half of all domestic water is used outside — on lawns, landscaping and, in the more well-heeled neighborhoods, for swimming pools. So yes, naturally, it’s an established but nonetheless often grating fact that people out in the warm belt use more water than EBMUD customers who live in the blessed cool zone on the west side of the hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, there might be something else going on here. Just as in a place like Berkeley, where low water use is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/30/berkeley-mayor-tom-bates-state-senator-loni-hancock-water-bill-contest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">something to brag about\u003c/a>, a wealthy place like Blackhawk, which maintains rigorous landscaping standards, might encourage the opposite kind of behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out Billy Beane’s neighborhood, \u003ca href=\"http://www.saddlebackhomeowners.com/saddleback.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a private enclave called Saddleback\u003c/a>. It was dreamed up in the 1970s as a place where horse lovers could live side by side with their horses, and lot sizes range from an acre to 7 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, Beane and his neighbor George Kirkland are the princes of excessive water use there. But EBMUD’s list suggests that about three dozen of the 50 or so customers in the development were hit with excessive use penalties. That may understate the number of water hogs in the development, since not all of them have been billed for recent use yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have to use a lot of water to keep up appearances, well, you just pay for it, like Beane says. The drought and all its consequences — that’s happening in some other world, where people can’t pay to pretend it’s not happening.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I like to think of it in more personal terms. Like many people in the Bay Area, our household in Berkeley has heard that it’s been dry for a while. Like many others, we’ve tried to find ways to conserve water. And it shows: Our yard looks like a drought hit it. We’ve got buckets in the kitchen and bathroom to try to make sure that nothing that comes out of the tap is wasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10719979\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GettyImages-85292542-e1445027951867.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10719979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/GettyImages-85292542-400x280.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland A's executive Billy Beane, pictured at a 2009 spring training game. \" width=\"400\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A’s executive Billy Beane, pictured at a 2009 spring training game. \u003ccite>(Christian Petersen/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The result is our household water use is down to a total of 50 gallons a day, according to our most recent EBMUD bill. That means we used about 3,000 gallons in the last two-month billing cycle. And Billy Beane? His average use between midnight and noon averaged 3,000 gallons. Every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area News Group, which was the first to publish the EBMUD data, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28976922/billy-beane-among-east-bays-biggest-water-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contacted the A’s exec\u003c/a> to ask him about his water use. His response: “Beane said he has tried to reduce his water use this year but added that he has a large landscaped yard. ‘I certainly pay for it,'” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s good of him. By my calculations, figuring in EBMUD’s basic water rates, drought surcharge and penalty for excessive use, Beane paid around $4,000 for the water he used from mid-July to mid-September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(EBMUD’s penalty scheme seems exceedingly generous, by the way: In the midst of the worst drought in the state’s history, the district asks water guzzlers to pay the penalty only when they exceed a base amount of 1,000 gallons a day. One thousand gallons! That amount is four times the amount used by the average EBMUD residential customer, and it’s more than double the estimated use for a “typical” California household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens if you’re an EBMUD customer who uses more than 1,000 gallons a day? You pay $2 for every billing unit of water over that amount. A billing unit is 100 cubic feet of water, or 748 gallons. )\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Back to Billy Beane. Let’s not lose sight of the fact he was just No. 3 on EBMUD’s list of top water guzzlers. The top spot went to one of Beane’s Blackhawk neighbors, George Kirkland, a recently retired Chevron executive whom the water district says used about 12,580 gallons of water a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area News Group story says Kirkland, whose spread includes two vineyards, blamed a water leak for the excessive use.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>Where the Water Hogs Are\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The number of customers penalized for excessive water use in towns served by the East Bay Municipal Utility District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda:\u003c/strong> 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Alamo:\u003c/strong> 189\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Albany:\u003c/strong> 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Berkeley:\u003c/strong> 22\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Castro Valley:\u003c/strong> 5\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Danville:\u003c/strong> 211\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>El Sobrante:\u003c/strong> 3\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hayward:\u003c/strong> 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hercules:\u003c/strong> 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kensington:\u003c/strong> 2\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Lafayette:\u003c/strong> 100\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Moraga:\u003c/strong> 48\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Oakland:\u003c/strong> 53\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Orinda:\u003c/strong> 61\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>Piedmont:\u003c/strong> 51\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Pleasant Hill:\u003c/strong> 17\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Richmond:\u003c/strong> 7\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Leandro:\u003c/strong> 15\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Lorenzo:\u003c/strong> 2\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Pablo:\u003c/strong> 1\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Ramon:\u003c/strong> 46\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Walnut Creek:\u003c/strong> 269\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The No. 2 spot on the EBMUD list went to Mark Pine, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur residing in Alamo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That top trio reflects a pattern on the EBMUD List of Shame: 80 percent of those hit with penalties for excessive water use live in half a dozen communities in the torrid zone beyond the East Bay hills — Alamo, Danville (which includes Blackhawk), Lafayette, Orinda, San Ramon and Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one sense, that’s unsurprising. It \u003cem>is\u003c/em> hot out there in the summertime. And the rule of thumb in California is that in most locales, about half of all domestic water is used outside — on lawns, landscaping and, in the more well-heeled neighborhoods, for swimming pools. So yes, naturally, it’s an established but nonetheless often grating fact that people out in the warm belt use more water than EBMUD customers who live in the blessed cool zone on the west side of the hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, there might be something else going on here. Just as in a place like Berkeley, where low water use is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/30/berkeley-mayor-tom-bates-state-senator-loni-hancock-water-bill-contest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">something to brag about\u003c/a>, a wealthy place like Blackhawk, which maintains rigorous landscaping standards, might encourage the opposite kind of behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out Billy Beane’s neighborhood, \u003ca href=\"http://www.saddlebackhomeowners.com/saddleback.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a private enclave called Saddleback\u003c/a>. It was dreamed up in the 1970s as a place where horse lovers could live side by side with their horses, and lot sizes range from an acre to 7 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, Beane and his neighbor George Kirkland are the princes of excessive water use there. But EBMUD’s list suggests that about three dozen of the 50 or so customers in the development were hit with excessive use penalties. That may understate the number of water hogs in the development, since not all of them have been billed for recent use yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have to use a lot of water to keep up appearances, well, you just pay for it, like Beane says. The drought and all its consequences — that’s happening in some other world, where people can’t pay to pretend it’s not happening.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Writers and rock bands, from Raymond Chandler and Joan Didion to the Beach Boys and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdGmXIq5Ho8\">Survivor\u003c/a>, have summoned the seasonal hot blast of Santa Ana winds to imbue their work with a sense of dread and menace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his short story “Red Wind,” Chandler writes of the hot dry winds that sweep down from the mountain passes to curl you hair and set your nerves on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight,” he writes. “Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. Anything can happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228212339″ 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>“They call it the Devil Winds,” says Tony Bell, spokesman for L.A. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Anas can uproot trees, blow out windows and whip a modest brush fire into a monstrous inferno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hotter than Hades, and when you add on top of that four years of drought, you’re looking at a potential for devastating wildfires,” says Bell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One deadly example is the October, 2006 Esperanza Fire in Riverside County. The arson-ignited inferno was deliberately started at night, just as Santa Ana winds were reaching a fever peak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crew of five U.S. Forest Service firefighters was pinned down at the top of a ridge and killed by the fast-moving flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10718790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/EsperanzaFire-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters battle the deadly, wind-fed Esperanza Fire before dawn in the San Jacinto Mountains on October 27, 2006.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10718790\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/EsperanzaFire-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/EsperanzaFire-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/EsperanzaFire-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/EsperanzaFire.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/EsperanzaFire-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/EsperanzaFire-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters battle the deadly, wind-fed Esperanza Fire before dawn in the San Jacinto Mountains on October 27, 2006. \u003ccite>(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County beefed up firefighting resources this month, when Santa Ana winds tend to be at their most fierce. That includes leasing a fleet of water-dumping aircraft from Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also another seasonal resource for firefighters and for residents in fire-prone parts of the region designed for just this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s called the \u003ca href=\"http://sawti.fs.fed.us/#8/33.995/-119.192\">Santa Ana Wildfire Threat Index\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service developed the threat index with climate experts at UCLA and San Diego Gas and Electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Forest Service meteorologist Thomas Rolinski says it uses data culled from past wind events to get a better idea of how incoming Santa Anas will mix with fire-prone conditions on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can measure the severity in terms of how that event is going to impact the fire environment, how likely will it be that we get a major wildfire,” says Rolinski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”kfrbG60DtcxckZHktLXttUmExsUN6PYT”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The index assigns a color to each threat level. 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"content": "\u003cp>A few weeks ago, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/19/hundreds-of-millions-in-drought-relief-failing-to-reach-many-californians\" target=\"_blank\">I reported on the challenges\u003c/a> for farmworker families who have run out of water in rural Tulare County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I profiled Maria Medina, who has been cooking, bathing and washing dishes from little plastic water bottles for the last year and a half since her household well went dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228541690\" 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>While some of her neighbors who own their homes have been able to get a portable water tank installed outside their houses, renters like the Medinas haven't been eligible for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the Tulare County Board of Supervisors has given the green light for the county Office of Emergency Services (OES) to provide water for renters, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"JfluRL8zr530BiRXemYvhpyGsBSugQ3G\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a go-ahead, but with limitations,\" says Andrew Lockman, who heads up the Tulare County OES. Landlords still have to pay for the tanks and install them, but the county will deliver water to renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lockman's staff had recommended against expanding the program because it is concerned that the county may not be able to find enough alternative sources of water to fill portable tanks for renters. They're getting 40-50 requests a week from homeowners whose wells have run dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Should we be conservative here and have some resilience if we lose a water source if we have a dry winter? It’s something I’ve personally grappled with for months,\" Lockman told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next step is for the Tulare County Board of Supervisors to consider how to crack down on landlords that still continue to rent properties without running water. They'll take that issue up on Nov. 3.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The towering walls of flame that rampaged across an area more than double the size of San Francisco are gone. Lake County's \u003ca href=\"http://www.record-bee.com/general-news/20150429/lake-county-ranked-first-in-nation-for-clean-air-third-year-in-a-row\" target=\"_blank\">famous clean mountain air\u003c/a> no longer carries the acrid smell of creosote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But clouds of smoke have been replaced by a fog of uncertainty as the county tries to tackle a host of challenges in the wake of the Valley Fire, which burned more than 76,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest job facing the county as it tries to recover, officials say, is making sure that the thousands of residents who lost their homes in the blaze can stay. That means rebuilding the 1,280 single-family residences and 27 multifamily buildings \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\">the fire destroyed.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228211689\" 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>Katy English, whose house in Cobb burned down, is among the estimated 3,000 Lake County residents the fire made homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Housing was already hard to find before the fire,\" she said. English and her three kids, ages 3, 10 and 11, have been living with her mother in Kelseyville for about a month now.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s been a helluva 90 days for the county of Lake.'\u003ccite>State Sen. Mike McGuire\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"If they want people to stay in this county, they're going to have to step up and help,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But concerns about the mountains of toxic ash left by the fire are slowing the rebuilding process. A widely anticipated \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/09/02/floods-in-a-drought-how-a-monster-el-nino-could-bring-relief-and-misery-to-california/\" target=\"_blank\">wet El Niño winter\u003c/a> could also unleash landslides that carry toxic materials into local waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that we will lose some people,\" said Jack Long, Lake County's director of economic development. \"But I think it'll be much less than what most people would expect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Mountain Community'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the loss of housing, Long estimates 10 percent of businesses in Lake County have been either damaged or destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many surviving businesses have reopened. Others are waiting on insurance claims for smoke damage or to replace stocks of perishable goods lost in the weeks that communities like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/19/hope-amid-devastation-residents-displaced-by-valley-fire-return-to-middletown\" target=\"_blank\">Middletown\u003c/a>, Cobb, Loch Lomond, Anderson Springs and Hidden Valley Lake were under mandatory evacuation orders and without electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10711934\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10711934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Nicolaides stands at the counter of Dino's Loch Lomond Market on Sept. 29, 2015. The store had yet to reopen following the Valley Fire that destroyed Nicolaides' home along with about 1,300 others.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1256\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-1440x942.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-1180x772.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350-960x628.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Nicolaides stands at the counter of Dino's Loch Lomond Market on Sept. 29, 2015. The store had yet to reopen following the massive Valley Fire that destroyed Nicolaides' home, along with about 1,300 others. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dean Nicolaides owns Dino's Loch Lomond Market at the intersection of Highway 175 and Loch Lomond Road. Firefighters staged for one of the early battles against the Valley Fire in his parking lot, Nicolaides said, which is likely why his shop and other tenant businesses in his building were saved. But houses all around, including his own, were burned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Literally 1,200 out of maybe 2,000 houses are gone, and the ones that are left might not find it agreeable to be in a construction zone,\" he said. \"I consider this area devastated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, he and his wife Lena are committed to staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to, of course,\" he said. \"We're the store owners here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said most people he knows want to rebuild and will stay in Lake County for as long as they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a mountain community,\" he said. \"They're an unselfish lot, and I think that they're here because they loved it to begin with. It's not an easy life up here. It's not a life with a lot of amenities, just beauty and trails. People who like that tend to want to stay in it\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/226663820\" 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>\u003cstrong>Among State's Poorest Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County isn't an affluent place. The Census Bureau says one-quarter of the population lives below the federal poverty level. \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/cgi/dataanalysis/areaselection.asp?tablename=labforce\" target=\"_blank\">State data\u003c/a> show the county's unemployment rate rose to more than 17 percent at the height of the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Damage Assessment via Lake County and Cal Fire\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=ed1fce5bf14141349cebcb9cc0beccf1&extent=-122.8339,38.6771,-122.3333,38.9064&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=false&legend=true&basemap_toggle=true&alt_basemap=satellite&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The state has not been as active or engaged as they should have been in Lake County,\" says state Sen. Mark McGuire, who represents the region. \"It's one of the poorest counties in the state. It's one of the unhealthiest counties in the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recounted preliminary estimates of the Valley Fire's impact on the county's revenue: a 12 percent loss to sales tax, 5 percent to property tax, 35 percent to hotel tax and 16 percent to energy royalties from the damaged \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/29/wildfire-damage-at-renewable-energy-complex-estimated-at-35-million\" target=\"_blank\">Geysers geothermal plant\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a helluva 90 days for the county,\" McGuire said, mentioning the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/rocky-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/11/firefighters-make-significant-progress-on-jerusalem-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Jerusalem\u003c/a> fires that together burned nearly 100,000 acres north and east of the Valley Fire in late July and August. \"There have been economic struggles here for years, and this fire is only going to impact those struggles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Assets/Auditor/Financial+Reporting/2014+Comprehensive+Annual+Financial+Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reported last year\u003c/a> that the county was finally recovering from the recession, with declining unemployment and rising hotel taxes. In August, the county reported a 6.6 percent unemployment rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we were on a strong track to start growth back here before the fire,\" Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Living Demon'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But early on the afternoon of Sept. 12, a small fire started outside a residence on Cobb Mountain. Within hours, the blaze had turned into a wind-driven monster that put thousands of residents to flight and devoured homes by the hundred. By dawn the next day, the fire had burned more than 60 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Spence fled from Cobb Mountain with her infant son and many of her neighbors to Middletown, where they watched the flames barrel down toward them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712542\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10712542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on Sept. 13 in Middletown.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on Sept. 13 in Middletown. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I felt like it was its own kind of entity,\" she said in a phone interview a couple of weeks later from Santa Rosa, where she's been staying with family. \"It was this living demon almost, which is kind of strange to say, but it felt like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire consumed her home but spared her little coffee shop. which she opened a couple of years ago in Loch Lomond. It was a dream to own and operate a gathering place for her community, she said. Now she's unsure if it can stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know how many people are going to move back, how many people want to live in a place where all the trees are completely scorched and basically looks like a bomb went off,\" she said. \"And because I have an 8-month-old son, I'm particularly concerned about the air quality and environmental quality during the cleanup. ... I don't really think it's worth it to keep going and to reopen and expose him to that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the dangers in the charred landscape: asbestos and heavy metals left behind from burned homes and outbuildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Office of Emergency Services \u003ca href=\"https://caloesnewsroom.wordpress.com/2015/10/05/states-emergency-services-director-requests-federal-public-assistance-funds-for-valley-and-butte-fire-recovery/\" target=\"_blank\">recently requested\u003c/a> about $67 million in federal funds to aid the cleanup from the Valley Fire and the Butte Fire, which burned hundreds of homes in Amador and Calaveras counties. If the Federal Emergency Management Agency agrees to pay, it would cover about two-thirds of the estimated cleanup cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal OES Deputy Directory Nancy Ward says the faster environmental cleanup is finished, the faster people can start rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It very much is an economic recovery issue,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebuilding Boom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the time being, Lake County's economy is being propped up by a myriad of revenue sources related to the disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4240\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA funding\u003c/a> is flowing to those who lost property in the fire. The federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba.gov/offices/disaster/dfocw/declaration/1490294\" target=\"_blank\">Small Business Administration\u003c/a> is offering low-interest loans of up to $2 million to those whose saw their enterprises destroyed or damaged. A local \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcu.org/lakecountyfirevictims\" target=\"_blank\">credit union\u003c/a> is offering $5,000 one-year, no-interest loans to Valley Fire victims. Out-of-towners, including firefighters, PG&E crews, tree trimmers, Red Cross volunteers, news crews and others, are spending money at local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now there's a tremendous amount of help,\" said Spence, the Loch Lomond coffee shop owner. \"But how long that is available, what it actually means after, and when the real cleanup and rebuilding starts, is up for debate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials can't pinpoint a date when fire and environmental cleanup trucks will be replaced with those carrying lumber, tools and carpenters to job sites, but it's safe to say Lake County is banking on a building boom to carry it through the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of this rebuild that's going to happen in this county is going to create jobs like we haven't had in five years,\" Economic Development Director Jack Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"3V8DKKZkgwxxCGfXF7Ebe5Ou2ACWQ6xd\"]\u003cbr>\nContractors and out-of-work carpenters are already getting ready. The county hosted a job fair in Kelseyville to connect them in late September. Hundreds crowded the high school auditorium to pass out resumes to dozens of contractors posted at folding tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middletown resident Geoffrey Huckabay showed up looking for some general carpentry work. His job as an electrician at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/15/harbin-hot-springs-a-love-letter\" target=\"_blank\">Harbin Hot Springs\u003c/a> burned up with the famed retreat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do need a job,\" he said, adding that he wasn't that concerned about finding work, given the expected surge in construction. He said he'd moved to Lake County to work at Harbin -- a dream job. And even though the retreat plans to rebuild, that's not why he's decided to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reason I've decided to stay at this time, even though Harbin is no longer there, is people are real,\" he said. \"People who we wouldn't normally have talked to or connected with are just coming together, and we can recognize each other and really see each other. It's a very unique experience and I want to be a part of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sukey Lewis of KQED contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The towering walls of flame that rampaged across an area more than double the size of San Francisco are gone. Lake County's \u003ca href=\"http://www.record-bee.com/general-news/20150429/lake-county-ranked-first-in-nation-for-clean-air-third-year-in-a-row\" target=\"_blank\">famous clean mountain air\u003c/a> no longer carries the acrid smell of creosote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But clouds of smoke have been replaced by a fog of uncertainty as the county tries to tackle a host of challenges in the wake of the Valley Fire, which burned more than 76,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest job facing the county as it tries to recover, officials say, is making sure that the thousands of residents who lost their homes in the blaze can stay. That means rebuilding the 1,280 single-family residences and 27 multifamily buildings \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\" target=\"_blank\">the fire destroyed.\u003c/a>\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/228211689&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/228211689'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy English, whose house in Cobb burned down, is among the estimated 3,000 Lake County residents the fire made homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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A widely anticipated \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/09/02/floods-in-a-drought-how-a-monster-el-nino-could-bring-relief-and-misery-to-california/\" target=\"_blank\">wet El Niño winter\u003c/a> could also unleash landslides that carry toxic materials into local waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that we will lose some people,\" said Jack Long, Lake County's director of economic development. \"But I think it'll be much less than what most people would expect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Mountain Community'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the loss of housing, Long estimates 10 percent of businesses in Lake County have been either damaged or destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many surviving businesses have reopened. Others are waiting on insurance claims for smoke damage or to replace stocks of perishable goods lost in the weeks that communities like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/19/hope-amid-devastation-residents-displaced-by-valley-fire-return-to-middletown\" target=\"_blank\">Middletown\u003c/a>, Cobb, Loch Lomond, Anderson Springs and Hidden Valley Lake were under mandatory evacuation orders and without electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10711934\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10711934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16934_IMG_2835.JPG-alt_350.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Nicolaides stands at the counter of Dino's Loch Lomond Market on Sept. 29, 2015. 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The store had yet to reopen following the massive Valley Fire that destroyed Nicolaides' home, along with about 1,300 others. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dean Nicolaides owns Dino's Loch Lomond Market at the intersection of Highway 175 and Loch Lomond Road. Firefighters staged for one of the early battles against the Valley Fire in his parking lot, Nicolaides said, which is likely why his shop and other tenant businesses in his building were saved. But houses all around, including his own, were burned to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Literally 1,200 out of maybe 2,000 houses are gone, and the ones that are left might not find it agreeable to be in a construction zone,\" he said. \"I consider this area devastated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, he and his wife Lena are committed to staying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to, of course,\" he said. \"We're the store owners here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said most people he knows want to rebuild and will stay in Lake County for as long as they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a mountain community,\" he said. \"They're an unselfish lot, and I think that they're here because they loved it to begin with. It's not an easy life up here. It's not a life with a lot of amenities, just beauty and trails. People who like that tend to want to stay in it\"\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/226663820&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/226663820'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Among State's Poorest Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake County isn't an affluent place. The Census Bureau says one-quarter of the population lives below the federal poverty level. \u003ca href=\"http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/cgi/dataanalysis/areaselection.asp?tablename=labforce\" target=\"_blank\">State data\u003c/a> show the county's unemployment rate rose to more than 17 percent at the height of the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">Damage Assessment via Lake County and Cal Fire\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=ed1fce5bf14141349cebcb9cc0beccf1&extent=-122.8339,38.6771,-122.3333,38.9064&home=true&zoom=true&scale=true&search=true&searchextent=false&legend=true&basemap_toggle=true&alt_basemap=satellite&disable_scroll=false&theme=light\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The state has not been as active or engaged as they should have been in Lake County,\" says state Sen. Mark McGuire, who represents the region. \"It's one of the poorest counties in the state. It's one of the unhealthiest counties in the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recounted preliminary estimates of the Valley Fire's impact on the county's revenue: a 12 percent loss to sales tax, 5 percent to property tax, 35 percent to hotel tax and 16 percent to energy royalties from the damaged \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/29/wildfire-damage-at-renewable-energy-complex-estimated-at-35-million\" target=\"_blank\">Geysers geothermal plant\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a helluva 90 days for the county,\" McGuire said, mentioning the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/rocky-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/11/firefighters-make-significant-progress-on-jerusalem-fire\" target=\"_blank\">Jerusalem\u003c/a> fires that together burned nearly 100,000 acres north and east of the Valley Fire in late July and August. \"There have been economic struggles here for years, and this fire is only going to impact those struggles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Assets/Auditor/Financial+Reporting/2014+Comprehensive+Annual+Financial+Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reported last year\u003c/a> that the county was finally recovering from the recession, with declining unemployment and rising hotel taxes. In August, the county reported a 6.6 percent unemployment rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we were on a strong track to start growth back here before the fire,\" Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Living Demon'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But early on the afternoon of Sept. 12, a small fire started outside a residence on Cobb Mountain. Within hours, the blaze had turned into a wind-driven monster that put thousands of residents to flight and devoured homes by the hundred. By dawn the next day, the fire had burned more than 60 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Spence fled from Cobb Mountain with her infant son and many of her neighbors to Middletown, where they watched the flames barrel down toward them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10712542\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10712542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on Sept. 13 in Middletown.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS16631_Valley-Fire-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car burns in front of a burning home during Valley Fire on Sept. 13 in Middletown. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I felt like it was its own kind of entity,\" she said in a phone interview a couple of weeks later from Santa Rosa, where she's been staying with family. \"It was this living demon almost, which is kind of strange to say, but it felt like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire consumed her home but spared her little coffee shop. which she opened a couple of years ago in Loch Lomond. It was a dream to own and operate a gathering place for her community, she said. Now she's unsure if it can stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know how many people are going to move back, how many people want to live in a place where all the trees are completely scorched and basically looks like a bomb went off,\" she said. \"And because I have an 8-month-old son, I'm particularly concerned about the air quality and environmental quality during the cleanup. ... I don't really think it's worth it to keep going and to reopen and expose him to that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the dangers in the charred landscape: asbestos and heavy metals left behind from burned homes and outbuildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Office of Emergency Services \u003ca href=\"https://caloesnewsroom.wordpress.com/2015/10/05/states-emergency-services-director-requests-federal-public-assistance-funds-for-valley-and-butte-fire-recovery/\" target=\"_blank\">recently requested\u003c/a> about $67 million in federal funds to aid the cleanup from the Valley Fire and the Butte Fire, which burned hundreds of homes in Amador and Calaveras counties. If the Federal Emergency Management Agency agrees to pay, it would cover about two-thirds of the estimated cleanup cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal OES Deputy Directory Nancy Ward says the faster environmental cleanup is finished, the faster people can start rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It very much is an economic recovery issue,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebuilding Boom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the time being, Lake County's economy is being propped up by a myriad of revenue sources related to the disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4240\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA funding\u003c/a> is flowing to those who lost property in the fire. The federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba.gov/offices/disaster/dfocw/declaration/1490294\" target=\"_blank\">Small Business Administration\u003c/a> is offering low-interest loans of up to $2 million to those whose saw their enterprises destroyed or damaged. A local \u003ca href=\"https://www.redwoodcu.org/lakecountyfirevictims\" target=\"_blank\">credit union\u003c/a> is offering $5,000 one-year, no-interest loans to Valley Fire victims. Out-of-towners, including firefighters, PG&E crews, tree trimmers, Red Cross volunteers, news crews and others, are spending money at local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now there's a tremendous amount of help,\" said Spence, the Loch Lomond coffee shop owner. \"But how long that is available, what it actually means after, and when the real cleanup and rebuilding starts, is up for debate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials can't pinpoint a date when fire and environmental cleanup trucks will be replaced with those carrying lumber, tools and carpenters to job sites, but it's safe to say Lake County is banking on a building boom to carry it through the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of this rebuild that's going to happen in this county is going to create jobs like we haven't had in five years,\" Economic Development Director Jack Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nContractors and out-of-work carpenters are already getting ready. The county hosted a job fair in Kelseyville to connect them in late September. Hundreds crowded the high school auditorium to pass out resumes to dozens of contractors posted at folding tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middletown resident Geoffrey Huckabay showed up looking for some general carpentry work. His job as an electrician at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/15/harbin-hot-springs-a-love-letter\" target=\"_blank\">Harbin Hot Springs\u003c/a> burned up with the famed retreat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do need a job,\" he said, adding that he wasn't that concerned about finding work, given the expected surge in construction. He said he'd moved to Lake County to work at Harbin -- a dream job. 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"content": "\u003cp>Colorful kestrels squawk in an outdoor cage at the \u003ca href=\"http://calmzoo.org/\">California Living Museum\u003c/a> in Bakersfield. The cries sound like they could be coming from hundreds of the small falcons -- but there are only a few small orphan birds in the cage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re talkative because they just came out of the infant-rearing process, so they still think they’re supposed to be fed every time they see us,” says curator Don Richardson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’s seen a big increase in the number of orphaned animals brought into the museum’s wildlife rehab center. The kestrels were likely abandoned because the parents couldn’t find enough prey to feed them. 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I get them at 11 or 12 at night,” says Dan Turner, who operates Critter Creek with his partner, Louise Culver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner and Culver have run the center for 30 years. Or, as they like to say, it’s run them. They operate on a shoestring budget and depend on donations. They say they always need more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve rescued hundreds of shorebirds since the drought – like the 50 or so young egrets they nursed back to health this summer. Turner says once they can fly, they get released. He says it with such conviction that I ask him jokingly if that’s his motto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want to know my motto,” Turner says with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah I do,” I say. “What is it? You’re too old for this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He laughs. “Ha ha! Yeah that’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culver agrees it’s hard work, a 24/7 job. 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"content": "\u003cp>Along a picture-postcard stretch of coast in Carlsbad near San Diego, fishermen cast their lines into an emerald seawater lagoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few short weeks, the lagoon will also be feeding a steady supply of water into what will be the \u003ca href=\"http://carlsbaddesal.com/\" target=\"_blank\">largest operating desalination facility\u003c/a> in North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227004723&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a kayak fisherman, this is our recreational area for those of us who live here, and of course we want it to be the best project it can be,” says Mark Lambert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert runs the American branch of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ide-tech.com/company-profile/global-offices/ide-north-america/\" target=\"_blank\">IDE\u003c/a>, an Israeli company hired by the San Diego County Water Authority to design and operate the plant. It’s just one of hundreds designed by IDE around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four hundred facilities globally in 40 different countries,\" says Lambert, sitting at a long conference table inside the Carlsbad offices of Poseidon Water, a firm working with IDE on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When up and running, the Carlsbad plant will pipe around 50 million gallons of water a day to households across the San Diego area. That's about 7 percent of the region's overall usage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10707292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10707292\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A fisherman casts his line into Agua Hedionda Lagoon, just across the shore from the Carlsbad desalination plant. The facility was designed and will be operated by Israel-based IDE Americas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fisherman casts his line into Agua Hedionda Lagoon, just across the shore from the Carlsbad desalination plant. The facility was designed and will be operated by Israel-based IDE Americas. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's a modest amount compared to Israel, where about 40 percent of the nation's potable water flows directly from a network of seawater desalination plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert says the desalination business starting booming in Israel in the late 1990s in the midst of a historic drought not unlike California's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Israel is probably the most well known for developing the technology to the state of the art,” says Lambert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of hours east in the sweltering Coachella Valley, an Israeli date farmer named \u003ca href=\"http://www.agweb.com/article/every_last_drop_a_water_conservation_qa_NAA_Ben_Potter/\" target=\"_blank\">Moshe Kirat\u003c/a> is watering date trees from a laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I want to stop the water for example, you see the meter running,\" says Kirat scrolling around a virtual control panel lined with columns of numbers and percentages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirat left his own farm in Israel a couple of years ago to run day-to-day operations at Kohl Ranch, a sprawling date farm east of Palm Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He installed a high-tech drip irrigation system that precisely monitors water flow. It's a way of farming that's alien to many Coachella Valley farmers, who still rely on more water-intensive flood irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kirat says that kind of irrigation is wasteful and potentially harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulls up a picture that shows a flood-irrigated field after the water has receded. Kirat points to the salty residue the water left behind -- salt that can seep into a tree’s root system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when I saw this I was in shock. I didn’t understand,” says Kirat, his voice rising. “You come to a field and you’ll see this! You don’t think to improve something or to change something?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10707295\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10707295 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mosche Kirat left his own farm in Israel to take a job managing the date groves at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, one of the few farms in the area employing drip irrigation. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moshe Kirat left his own farm in Israel to take a job managing the date groves at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, one of the few farms in the area employing drip irrigation. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An Israeli grower pays around $2,800 for one acre-foot of water. That's about 326,000 gallons -- enough water to flood a football field to a depth of 12 inches or supply two California households for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers in the Coachella Valley, who get most of their water from the Colorado River under a 1947 agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, pay about $30 an acre-foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While down in San Diego County, where Mauricio Tapia used to grow avocados, it’s about $1,500 for that same acre-foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven months ago, Tapia walked away from those avocado trees and took a job at Kohl Ranch assisting Kirat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This situation we have here in California today, it’s going to be more difficult to get water to irrigate (what) we have planted today,\" says Tapia referring to the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Technology like (Kirat) is applying and Israeli people are applying are going to help us,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said pretty much the same thing last year when he inked an agreement with Gov. Jerry Brown to encourage Israel and California to work together on water issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California doesn’t need to have a water problem. By coming together we can overcome this,” said Netanyahu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month Los Angeles County cemented its own water knowledge exchange program with Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/pw/resources/system/sources/desalination.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Barbara\u003c/a> and Huntington Beach, are working on ocean desalination projects of their own with Israeli firm IBE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what’s the incentive for transitioning to a big, expensive drip irrigation system if water in some places is still so cheap? Or, wonders Richard Atwater of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.socalwater.org/news/press-releases/23-southern-california-water-committee-appoints-richard-w-atwater-as-executive-director\" target=\"_blank\">Southern California Water Committee\u003c/a>, for building a billion-dollar ocean desalination plant that can only serve a small part of California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s any water planner who thinks we’re going to take desalted seawater from down on the coast and pipe it up to downtown LA or the San Fernando Valley,\" says Atwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would be really, really expensive. We have better solutions than that,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10707297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10707297\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-800x593.jpg\" alt=\"Dates plucked fresh from the tree at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, where hundreds of acres are watered through a high-tech drip irrigation system pioneered in Israel. \" width=\"800\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-800x593.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-400x296.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-1440x1067.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-1180x875.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-960x712.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dates plucked fresh from the tree at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, where hundreds of acres are watered through a high-tech drip irrigation system pioneered in Israel. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Atwater points to wastewater recycling that he and other supporters believe California has yet to fully take advantage of. He's also quick to point out that Israelis don't have the love affair with lush green lawns and golf courses that we do in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the big differences between Israel and California is in the cities, and the desire to have lush green landscapes,\" says Atwater. \"Half of our water use is outdoor water use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Kohl Ranch, Moshe Kirat and Mauricio Tapia are clearing weeds so they can get a better look at the flow from a drip irrigation line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weeds and the soil are bone dry. But the dates are tender to the touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirat plucks a handful and offers them to me, saying that Israelis believe you should eat seven dates a day to insure good health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the drip irrigation system, says Tapia, the trees drink up just what they need and nothing more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Tapia what he thinks it'll take for other farmers here and in other parts of California to adopt this kind of high-tech drip irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More expensive water perhaps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the key,\" says Tapia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he pauses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And more politics, more population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he says, more drought.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four hundred facilities globally in 40 different countries,\" says Lambert, sitting at a long conference table inside the Carlsbad offices of Poseidon Water, a firm working with IDE on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When up and running, the Carlsbad plant will pipe around 50 million gallons of water a day to households across the San Diego area. That's about 7 percent of the region's overall usage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10707292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10707292\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A fisherman casts his line into Agua Hedionda Lagoon, just across the shore from the Carlsbad desalination plant. The facility was designed and will be operated by Israel-based IDE Americas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-fisher-21-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fisherman casts his line into Agua Hedionda Lagoon, just across the shore from the Carlsbad desalination plant. The facility was designed and will be operated by Israel-based IDE Americas. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's a modest amount compared to Israel, where about 40 percent of the nation's potable water flows directly from a network of seawater desalination plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert says the desalination business starting booming in Israel in the late 1990s in the midst of a historic drought not unlike California's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Israel is probably the most well known for developing the technology to the state of the art,” says Lambert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of hours east in the sweltering Coachella Valley, an Israeli date farmer named \u003ca href=\"http://www.agweb.com/article/every_last_drop_a_water_conservation_qa_NAA_Ben_Potter/\" target=\"_blank\">Moshe Kirat\u003c/a> is watering date trees from a laptop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I want to stop the water for example, you see the meter running,\" says Kirat scrolling around a virtual control panel lined with columns of numbers and percentages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirat left his own farm in Israel a couple of years ago to run day-to-day operations at Kohl Ranch, a sprawling date farm east of Palm Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He installed a high-tech drip irrigation system that precisely monitors water flow. It's a way of farming that's alien to many Coachella Valley farmers, who still rely on more water-intensive flood irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kirat says that kind of irrigation is wasteful and potentially harmful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulls up a picture that shows a flood-irrigated field after the water has receded. Kirat points to the salty residue the water left behind -- salt that can seep into a tree’s root system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when I saw this I was in shock. I didn’t understand,” says Kirat, his voice rising. “You come to a field and you’ll see this! You don’t think to improve something or to change something?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10707295\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10707295 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mosche Kirat left his own farm in Israel to take a job managing the date groves at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, one of the few farms in the area employing drip irrigation. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/is-dro-mosche-tending-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moshe Kirat left his own farm in Israel to take a job managing the date groves at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, one of the few farms in the area employing drip irrigation. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An Israeli grower pays around $2,800 for one acre-foot of water. That's about 326,000 gallons -- enough water to flood a football field to a depth of 12 inches or supply two California households for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers in the Coachella Valley, who get most of their water from the Colorado River under a 1947 agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, pay about $30 an acre-foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While down in San Diego County, where Mauricio Tapia used to grow avocados, it’s about $1,500 for that same acre-foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven months ago, Tapia walked away from those avocado trees and took a job at Kohl Ranch assisting Kirat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This situation we have here in California today, it’s going to be more difficult to get water to irrigate (what) we have planted today,\" says Tapia referring to the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Technology like (Kirat) is applying and Israeli people are applying are going to help us,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said pretty much the same thing last year when he inked an agreement with Gov. Jerry Brown to encourage Israel and California to work together on water issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California doesn’t need to have a water problem. By coming together we can overcome this,” said Netanyahu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month Los Angeles County cemented its own water knowledge exchange program with Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/pw/resources/system/sources/desalination.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Barbara\u003c/a> and Huntington Beach, are working on ocean desalination projects of their own with Israeli firm IBE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what’s the incentive for transitioning to a big, expensive drip irrigation system if water in some places is still so cheap? Or, wonders Richard Atwater of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.socalwater.org/news/press-releases/23-southern-california-water-committee-appoints-richard-w-atwater-as-executive-director\" target=\"_blank\">Southern California Water Committee\u003c/a>, for building a billion-dollar ocean desalination plant that can only serve a small part of California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s any water planner who thinks we’re going to take desalted seawater from down on the coast and pipe it up to downtown LA or the San Fernando Valley,\" says Atwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would be really, really expensive. We have better solutions than that,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10707297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10707297\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-800x593.jpg\" alt=\"Dates plucked fresh from the tree at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, where hundreds of acres are watered through a high-tech drip irrigation system pioneered in Israel. \" width=\"800\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-800x593.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-400x296.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-1440x1067.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-1180x875.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IS-DRO-dates-960x712.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dates plucked fresh from the tree at Kohl Ranch in the Coachella Valley community of Thermal, where hundreds of acres are watered through a high-tech drip irrigation system pioneered in Israel. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Atwater points to wastewater recycling that he and other supporters believe California has yet to fully take advantage of. He's also quick to point out that Israelis don't have the love affair with lush green lawns and golf courses that we do in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the big differences between Israel and California is in the cities, and the desire to have lush green landscapes,\" says Atwater. \"Half of our water use is outdoor water use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Kohl Ranch, Moshe Kirat and Mauricio Tapia are clearing weeds so they can get a better look at the flow from a drip irrigation line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weeds and the soil are bone dry. But the dates are tender to the touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirat plucks a handful and offers them to me, saying that Israelis believe you should eat seven dates a day to insure good health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the drip irrigation system, says Tapia, the trees drink up just what they need and nothing more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask Tapia what he thinks it'll take for other farmers here and in other parts of California to adopt this kind of high-tech drip irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More expensive water perhaps?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the key,\" says Tapia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he pauses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And more politics, more population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10706109\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 374px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/donedwards.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10706109\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/donedwards.jpg\" alt=\"Late Congressman Don Edwards, 1915-2015.\" width=\"374\" height=\"459\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Late Congressman Don Edwards, 1915-2015. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Don Edwards, a champion of civil rights and the environment who represented his native San Jose in Congress for more than three decades, has died at the age of 100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards' son, retired Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Len Edwards, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28912287/former-rep-don-edwards-1915-2015\" target=\"_blank\">told the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> the former congressman died Thursday evening at his home in Carmel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He died peacefully and with a great deal of grace,\" Len Edwards said. \"He died as he lived, an elegant man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/us/politics/don-edwards-congressman-who-championed-civil-rights-dies-at-100.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times summarizes\u003c/a> Edwards' record as a lawmaker focused on preserving and expanding civil rights protections:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He entered Congress in 1963, in time to vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After becoming chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights, he managed the Equal Rights Amendment on the House floor in 1971 and was the floor manager for all other civil rights bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Effective at working with Republicans, among them Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York, he was the chief House architect on civil rights bills through the 1991 law that overturned eight Supreme Court decisions narrowly interpreting the employment rights of women and minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Edwards was able to work easily with Republicans on rights measures even though they rarely voted alike on anything else. He was an all-out liberal on issues from the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon to the 1991 Persian Gulf war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He retired in 1994 with a lifetime rating of 97 percent from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, which he headed from 1965 to 1967. In 20 of his 32 years in Congress, he had a 100 percent score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the most important of the civil rights bills he handled was the 1982 extension of the Voting Rights Act. In response to written questions in 2012, he said, “If you can’t vote, you are not a real citizen.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Edwards was not gentle in his criticism of those in government and the courts who failed to uphold rights guaranteed by the law and the Constitution. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/14/opinion/should-rehnquist-be-promoted-no-he-has-advocated-segregation.html\" target=\"_blank\">a 1986 op-ed in The New York Times\u003c/a>, he argued against President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist to become the tribunal's chief justice. As a Justice Department lawyer, Edwards noted, Rehnquist had proposed a constitutional amendment that would effectively legalize racial discrimination in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chief Justice of the United States should symbolize the nation's commitment to equal justice under law,\" Edwards wrote. \"William Rehnquist's amendment provides conclusive proof of what his record on the bench has so long suggested -- that he has never accepted the fundamental constitutional principle that no official should engage in invidious discrimination on the basis of race. He is a relic of a shameful era in our history when the law was perverted into an instrument for segregating society. He should not be confirmed to our highest judicial office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(The Senate later \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/22/AR2007082200931.html\" target=\"_blank\">voted 65-33 to confirm Rehnquist\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edwards was equally dedicated to environmental causes. The San Jose Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28912287/former-rep-don-edwards-1915-2015\" target=\"_blank\">recounts\u003c/a> Edwards' role in securing permanent protection for a large swath of southern San Francisco Bay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Edwards wrote the bill that President Richard Nixon signed in 1972 establishing the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. In setting up the first urban national wildlife refuge in the United States, the law preserved a broad expanse of South Bay wetlands, for fish, wildlife and public recreation -- blocking the type of development that had filled in large sections of San Francisco Bay in prior decades. Congress renamed the 30,000-acre refuge for Edwards in 1995, and he remained a hero to Bay Area environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Back then the bay was something to use -- for sewer outfalls, garbage dumps, anything you didn't want you put in the bay,\" said Florence LaRiviere, a longtime Palo Alto environmentalist who worked with Edwards in the early 1970s to create the refuge. \"He listened to us. Without Mr. Edwards, there would be development right up to the edge of the bay. All of the wonderful wildlife would be gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His family said the permanent protection for the South Bay shoreline was something Edwards remained proud of, long after his retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an open area for families to enjoy and for our environment to be saved that will last forever,\" Len Edwards said. \"That to me is the most wonderful gift he could give.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>William Donlon \"Don\" Edwards was born Jan. 6, 1915, in San Jose. Here's the Times again on his early life and the beginning of his congressional career:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He graduated in 1936 from Stanford University, where he starred on the golf team. He played into his 90s. In 1950, he won the Bing Crosby Clambake at Pebble Beach as an amateur teamed with the professional golfer Marty Furgol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After attending law school at Stanford, he passed the bar in 1939 and became an F.B.I. agent the next year. He joined the Navy in 1942 and served as an intelligence officer ashore and then as a gunnery officer on fast, armed cargo ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being discharged in 1945, he joined his father’s land title firm. But when he divorced his first wife, his father, who disapproved of the divorce, forced him out. So in 1951, Mr. Edwards founded the Valley Title Insurance Company with his second wife. It prospered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He became politically active in the 1950s, first as president of the California Young Republicans while Earl Warren, a moderate Republican, was governor. “But the Republicans were mostly too conservative,” he said in 2012, “and I was basically liberal. I became disillusioned and moved away from the party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California’s growing population led to the creation of eight new congressional districts in 1962, Mr. Edwards ran in one in San Jose. 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