window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={
"attachmentsReducer": {
"audio_0": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_0",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_1": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_1",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_2": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_2",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_3": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_3",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_4": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_4",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"
}
}
},
"placeholder": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "placeholder",
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"height": 512,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"small": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 64,
"height": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 96,
"height": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 128,
"height": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
}
},
"news_10497235": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10497235",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10497235",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10496914,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car-1038x576.jpeg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car-400x300.jpeg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 300
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car-320x240.jpeg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 240
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car-672x372.jpeg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car.jpeg",
"width": 1632,
"height": 1224
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car-1440x1080.jpeg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1080
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car-96x96.jpeg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car-800x600.jpeg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 600
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car-64x64.jpeg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car-32x32.jpeg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car-1180x885.jpeg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 885
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car-768x576.jpeg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car-75x75.jpeg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/car-128x128.jpeg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1429576909,
"modified": 1429577622,
"caption": "Reporter Katrina Schwartz and KQED listener Kermit Robbins survey the wreck on the Bolinas Ridge Trail (formerly known as the Coastal Trail.) ",
"description": "Reporter Katrina Schwartz and KQED listener Kermit Robbins survey the wreck on the Bolinas Ridge Trail (formerly known as the Coastal Trail.) ",
"title": "car",
"credit": "Adam Grossberg/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10497244": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10497244",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10497244",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10497132,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-400x267.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 267
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-320x213.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 213
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-e1429578757330.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-1440x960.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 960
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-1180x787.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 787
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 512
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16997953945_f1c99c04bc_o-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1429578701,
"modified": 1429578748,
"caption": "The California Aqueduct as it winds its way south through the San Joaquin Valley. ",
"description": null,
"title": "Drought-California Aqueduct",
"credit": "Dan Brekke/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10494131": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10494131",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10494131",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10493892,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive-400x277.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 277
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive-320x221.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 221
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1328
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive-1440x996.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 996
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive-800x553.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 553
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive-1180x816.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 816
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive-768x531.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 531
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideDrive-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1429317207,
"modified": 1429317943,
"caption": "The entrance to a private drive in Woodside.",
"description": "The entrance to a private drive in Woodside.",
"title": "WoodsideDrive",
"credit": "Scott Shafer/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10491687": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10491687",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10491687",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10490169,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer-400x286.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 286
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer-320x229.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 229
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1371
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer-1440x1028.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1028
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer-800x571.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 571
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer-1180x843.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 843
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer-768x548.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 548
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Trailblazer-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1429145628,
"modified": 1429221231,
"caption": "Willy Parker stands by a trail he's helping shore up. 'It should last a couple hundred years. I think that’s pretty awesome.'",
"description": "Willy Parker stands by a trail he's helping shore up. 'It should last a couple hundred years. I think that’s pretty awesome.'",
"title": "Trailblazer",
"credit": "Lisa Morehouse/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10492365": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10492365",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10492365",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10492319,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-400x265.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 265
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-320x212.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 212
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-e1429194776218.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1273
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-1440x955.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 955
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-800x530.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 530
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-1180x782.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 782
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-768x509.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 509
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/5906025661_6e2648319a_o-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1429194696,
"modified": 1429194771,
"caption": "Sardines at Monterey Aquarium. ",
"description": null,
"title": "Sardines",
"credit": "\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/\">Todd Lappin\u003c/a>/Flickr",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_141441": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_141441",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "141441",
"found": true
},
"parent": 141435,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/RS8567_173779091-lpr-e1429124556319.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1440
}
},
"publishDate": 1404935091,
"modified": 1429125858,
"caption": "Marijuana plants. ",
"description": "Getty Images (only caption information available in NewsImage). ",
"title": "Marijuana Plants",
"credit": "Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10490282": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10490282",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10490282",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10379836,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-400x267.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 267
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-320x213.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 213
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-e1429054044461.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-1440x960.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 960
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-1180x787.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 787
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 512
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/16965229929_d9347b9be0_o-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1429053953,
"modified": 1443744710,
"caption": "New Melones Lake, the state's fourth-largest reservoir, pictured in April 2015. ",
"description": "New Melones Lake, the state's fourth-largest reservoir, is at 22 percent of capacity and could be completely drained this summer. ",
"title": "Drought-New Melones Lake",
"credit": "Dan Brekke/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10489844": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10489844",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10489844",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10489797,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-400x267.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 267
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-320x213.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 213
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-e1429025770122.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-1440x960.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 960
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-1180x787.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 787
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 512
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/16690115451_3a8842a1b3_o-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1429025703,
"modified": 1429025755,
"caption": "The entrance to Roberts Ferry Cemetery, east of Modesto. ",
"description": null,
"title": "Cemetery",
"credit": "Dan Brekke/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10490435": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10490435",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10490435",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10488794,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-400x232.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 232
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-320x185.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 185
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-e1429063637221.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1113
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-1440x834.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 834
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-800x464.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 464
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-1180x684.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 684
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-768x445.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 445
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/17151782471_725eee3c66_o-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1429063511,
"modified": 1429063630,
"caption": "The Stanislaus River canyon, an arm of New Melones Lake. The reservoir is 22 percent of normal and could be completely drained by fall. ",
"description": null,
"title": "Drought-Stanislaus River Canyon",
"credit": "Dan Brekke/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10485167": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10485167",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10485167",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10484983,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/concrete-1024x576.jpg",
"width": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/concrete-400x400.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 400
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/concrete-320x320.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 320
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/concrete-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/concrete.jpg",
"width": 1024,
"height": 1024
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/concrete-768x768.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 768
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/concrete-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/concrete-800x800.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 800
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/concrete-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/concrete-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/concrete-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/concrete-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1428679096,
"modified": 1428679289,
"caption": "Piece of cellular cement taken from Glen Echo \nCreek in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood. (Calif. Dept. of Fish & Wildlife) ",
"description": null,
"title": "concrete",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10481786": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10481786",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10481786",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10481490,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 267
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut-320x213.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 213
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 960
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 787
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 512
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa-Baker.JPG-qut-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1428446592,
"modified": 1428508151,
"caption": "Hikers reflect on Harriet Tubman’s connection to nature.",
"description": "Hikers reflecting on Harriet Tubman’s connection to nature.",
"title": "RS14761_Hikers_reflect_on_Tubman-Teresa Baker.JPG-qut",
"credit": "Teresa Baker/KQED News",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_10481561": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_10481561",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10481561",
"found": true
},
"parent": 10481554,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-400x267.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 267
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-320x213.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 213
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-e1428435091944.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-1440x960.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 960
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-1180x787.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 787
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 512
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Tuolomne-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1428435080,
"modified": 1428435169,
"caption": "Damage from the Rim Fire at Berkeley Tuolumne Family Camp, August 2013.",
"description": "Damage from the Rim Fire at Berkeley Tuolumne Family Camp, August 2013.",
"title": "Tuolomne",
"credit": "Grace Rubenstein/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
}
},
"audioPlayerReducer": {
"postId": "stream_live",
"isPaused": true,
"isPlaying": false,
"pfsActive": false,
"pledgeModalIsOpen": true,
"playerDrawerIsOpen": false,
"liveAudioPlayStartedAt": 0,
"liveAudioPlayContext": ""
},
"authorsReducer": {
"byline_news_10492319": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_10492319",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_10492319",
"name": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JeffBarnardAP\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Barnard\u003c/a>\u003cbr />Associated Press\u003c/strong>",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_10491235": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_10491235",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_10491235",
"name": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scoopscout\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Leff\u003c/a>\u003cbr />Associated Press\u003c/strong>",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_10481490": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_10481490",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_10481490",
"name": "Marissa Ortega-Welch",
"isLoading": false
},
"byline_news_10481554": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "byline_news_10481554",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"slug": "byline_news_10481554",
"name": "Emilie Raguso\u003cbr />Berkeleyside",
"isLoading": false
},
"jbrooks": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "80",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "80",
"found": true
},
"name": "Jon Brooks",
"firstName": "Jon",
"lastName": "Brooks",
"slug": "jbrooks",
"email": "jbrooks@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"science"
],
"title": "Digital Editor",
"bio": "Jon Brooks is a former Digital Editor for KQED Science. He is the former editor of KQED’s daily news blog, News Fix. In 2014, he won a California Journalism Award for his coverage of ride services like Uber and Lyft and the taxi industry. A veteran blogger, he previously worked for Yahoo! in various news writing and editing roles. Jon is also a playwright whose work has been produced in San Francisco, New York, Italy, and around the U.S. He has written about film for his own blog and studied film at Boston University.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/98887f7ed1c876ed414d4c915e969584?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "jbrooksfoy",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"Contributor",
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "futureofyou",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "mindshift",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "quest",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Jon Brooks | KQED",
"description": "Digital Editor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/98887f7ed1c876ed414d4c915e969584?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/98887f7ed1c876ed414d4c915e969584?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/jbrooks"
},
"ohubertallen": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "102",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "102",
"found": true
},
"name": "Olivia Allen-Price",
"firstName": "Olivia",
"lastName": "Allen-Price",
"slug": "ohubertallen",
"email": "oallenprice@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Senior Editor",
"bio": "Olivia Allen-Price is senior editor and host of the award-winning Bay Curious podcast. Prior to joining KQED in 2013, Olivia worked at The Baltimore Sun and The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. She holds degrees in journalism and political science from Elon University. Her work has earned awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Hearst Foundation and Hearken. She loves to talk about running and curly hair.\r\n\r\nFollow: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/oallenprice\">@oallenprice\u003c/a>\r\nEmail: \u003ca href=\"mailto:oallenprice@kqed.org\">oallenprice@kqed.org\u003c/a>",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/07f7803c1f6be56f3be58ef276dfa64dce898502e0554408ef4858451a8294f7?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "oallenprice",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "pop",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "bayareabites",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Olivia Allen-Price | KQED",
"description": "Senior Editor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/07f7803c1f6be56f3be58ef276dfa64dce898502e0554408ef4858451a8294f7?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/07f7803c1f6be56f3be58ef276dfa64dce898502e0554408ef4858451a8294f7?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/ohubertallen"
},
"danbrekke": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "222",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "222",
"found": true
},
"name": "Dan Brekke",
"firstName": "Dan",
"lastName": "Brekke",
"slug": "danbrekke",
"email": "dbrekke@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news",
"science"
],
"title": "KQED Editor and Reporter",
"bio": "Dan Brekke is a reporter and editor for KQED News, responsible for coverage of topics ranging from California water issues to the Bay Area's transportation challenges. In a newsroom career that began in Chicago in 1972, Dan has worked for \u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner,\u003c/em> Wired and TechTV and has been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Business 2.0, Salon and elsewhere.\r\n\r\nSince joining KQED in 2007, Dan has reported, edited and produced both radio and online features and breaking news pieces. He has shared as both editor and reporter in four Society of Professional Journalists Norcal Excellence in Journalism awards and one Edward R. Murrow regional award. He was chosen for a spring 2017 residency at the Mesa Refuge to advance his research on California salmon.\r\n\r\nEmail Dan at: \u003ca href=\"mailto:dbrekke@kqed.org\">dbrekke@kqed.org\u003c/a>\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twitter.com/danbrekke\u003c/a>\r\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com/danbrekke\u003c/a>\r\n\u003cstrong>LinkedIn:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke\u003c/a>",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c8126230345efca3f7aa89b1a402be45?s=600&d=mm&r=g",
"twitter": "danbrekke",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/dan.brekke/",
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke/",
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"administrator",
"create_posts"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "quest",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "food",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Dan Brekke | KQED",
"description": "KQED Editor and Reporter",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c8126230345efca3f7aa89b1a402be45?s=600&d=mm&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c8126230345efca3f7aa89b1a402be45?s=600&d=mm&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/danbrekke"
},
"katrinaschwartz": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "234",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "234",
"found": true
},
"name": "Katrina Schwartz",
"firstName": "Katrina",
"lastName": "Schwartz",
"slug": "katrinaschwartz",
"email": "kschwartz@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Producer",
"bio": "Katrina Schwartz is a journalist based in San Francisco. She's worked at KPCC public radio in LA and has reported on air and online for KQED since 2010. She covered how teaching and learning is changing for MindShift between 2012 and 2020. She is the co-host of the MindShift podcast and now produces KQED's Bay Curious podcast.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edb4ee79070447a018538c9aae6eeecf28786515b8a0c30e43b6b7dce5aa44c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "kschwart",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "mindshift",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Katrina Schwartz | KQED",
"description": "Producer",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edb4ee79070447a018538c9aae6eeecf28786515b8a0c30e43b6b7dce5aa44c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edb4ee79070447a018538c9aae6eeecf28786515b8a0c30e43b6b7dce5aa44c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/katrinaschwartz"
},
"scottshafer": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "255",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "255",
"found": true
},
"name": "Scott Shafer",
"firstName": "Scott",
"lastName": "Shafer",
"slug": "scottshafer",
"email": "sshafer@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "Scott Shafer is a senior editor with the KQED Politics and Government desk. He is co-host of Political Breakdown, the award-winning radio show and podcast with a personal take on the world of politics. Scott came to KQED in 1998 to host the statewide\u003cem> California Report\u003c/em>. Prior to that he had extended stints in politics and government\u003cem>.\u003c/em> He uses that inside experience at KQED in his, reporting, hosting and analysis for the politics desk. Scott collaborated \u003cem>Political Breakdown a\u003c/em>nd on \u003cem>The Political Mind of Jerry Brown, \u003c/em>an eight-part series about the life and extraordinary political career of the former governor. For fun, he plays water polo with the San Francisco Tsunami.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a62ebae45b79d7aed1a39a0e3bf68104?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "scottshafer",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Scott Shafer | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a62ebae45b79d7aed1a39a0e3bf68104?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a62ebae45b79d7aed1a39a0e3bf68104?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/scottshafer"
},
"tgoldberg": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "258",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "258",
"found": true
},
"name": "Ted Goldberg",
"firstName": "Ted",
"lastName": "Goldberg",
"slug": "tgoldberg",
"email": "tgoldberg@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "KQED Managing Editor, News and Newscasts",
"bio": "Ted Goldberg is Managing Editor of News and Newscasts at KQED. His main reporting beat is the Bay Area's oil refining industry.\r\n\r\nPrior to joining KQED in 2014, Ted worked at CBS News and WCBS AM in New York and Bay City News and KCBS Radio in San Francisco. He graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1998.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/30ce2e4fe89135e104f89be2394d16225b9d36c121b5b3cb7651ce642978b96f?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "TedrickG",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Ted Goldberg | KQED",
"description": "KQED Managing Editor, News and Newscasts",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/30ce2e4fe89135e104f89be2394d16225b9d36c121b5b3cb7651ce642978b96f?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/30ce2e4fe89135e104f89be2394d16225b9d36c121b5b3cb7651ce642978b96f?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/tgoldberg"
},
"lmorehouse": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "3229",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "3229",
"found": true
},
"name": "Lisa Morehouse",
"firstName": "Lisa",
"lastName": "Morehouse",
"slug": "lmorehouse",
"email": "morehouse.lisa@gmail.com",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "Lisa Morehouse is an award-winning public radio and print journalist, who has filed for National Public Radio, American Public Media, KQED Public Radio, Edutopia, and McSweeney’s. Her reporting has taken her from Samoan traveling circuses to Mississippi Delta classrooms to the homes of Lao refugees in rural Iowa. In addition to reporting, she teaches radio production to at-risk youth in the Bay Area. Her series \u003ca href=\"http://afterthegoldrushradio.com/\">After the Gold Rush\u003c/a> featured the changing industries, populations and identities of rural towns throughout California. She’s now producing \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafoodways.com/\">California Foodways\u003c/a>, a series exploring the intersections of food, culture, economics, history and labor. Follow along on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/californiafoodways?ref=hl\">Facebook page\u003c/a> or on Twitter @cafoodways.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/dae74b002a6e256f39abb19d6f5acaea?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Lisa Morehouse | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/dae74b002a6e256f39abb19d6f5acaea?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/dae74b002a6e256f39abb19d6f5acaea?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/lmorehouse"
}
},
"pagesReducer": {
"news_category_environment": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19906",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19906",
"score": 12.134474
},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Environment",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Environment Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19923,
"slug": "environment",
"isLoading": false,
"title": "Environment",
"pageMeta": {
"site": "news",
"WpPageTemplate": "page-topic-editorial",
"currentPage": 247
},
"blocks": [
{
"blockName": "kqed/post-list",
"attrs": {
"layout": "cardArticle2",
"query": "posts/news?category=environment",
"seeMore": false,
"paginated": true,
"page": 247
}
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/ad"
}
]
}
},
"pfsSessionReducer": {},
"postsReducer": {
"stream_live": {
"type": "live",
"id": "stream_live",
"audioUrl": "https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio",
"title": "Live Stream",
"excerpt": "Live Stream information currently unavailable.",
"link": "/radio",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "KQED Live",
"link": "/"
}
},
"stream_kqedNewscast": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "stream_kqedNewscast",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1",
"title": "KQED Newscast",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "88.5 FM",
"link": "/"
}
},
"news_10496914": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10496914",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10496914",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1429621216000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1429621216,
"format": "video",
"disqusTitle": "What's the Story Behind the Wrecked Car on a Mount Tamalpais Trail?",
"title": "What's the Story Behind the Wrecked Car on a Mount Tamalpais Trail?",
"headTitle": "Bay Curious | News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of our series \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>, we’re answering questions from KQED listeners and readers. Our first question comes from Kermit Robbins, a student at San Francisco State, who wanted to know:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's the story behind the wrecked car on Mount Tamalpais?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mount Tamalpais is known for its staggering redwood groves, sweeping views of the Pacific and well-worn trails popular with Bay Area hikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But high along one of the park's more northern trails sits something you might not expect to find in such a serene and natural setting -- the rusted, hulking carcass of a vintage car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10497295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10497295\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-1440x808.png\" alt=\"Many have left graffiti or engravings on the car over the years.\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-1440x808.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-400x224.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-800x449.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-1180x662.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-768x431.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-320x179.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many have left graffiti or engravings on the car over the years. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED listener Kermit Robbins has hiked by the wreck dozens of times, and always wonders how it got there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was out there with a bunch of friends once, and we did the exact same thing that everyone who comes across this car does,\" he says. \"We investigated it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He regularly finds a group gathered around the car, speculating how it may have come to rest in this unusual spot, about 350 feet below winding Ridgecrest Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10497290\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10497290 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-400x225.png\" alt=\"KQED's Katrina Schwartz and listener Kermit Robbins explore the wreck.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-800x449.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-1440x809.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-1180x663.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-768x431.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-320x180.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED's Katrina Schwartz and listener Kermit Robbins explore the wreck. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Did someone miss a curve in the road on a dark and rainy night? Could it have been a drunken driver? A suicide? Or maybe a mob deal gone wrong? Staring at the twisted metal, one grim thought can't be avoided: Did someone die here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mount Tamalpais Park Ranger Tom Frasier says the people who work there have tried to track down the car's origins in the past -- but they haven't gotten very far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letters \"GM\" are visible on the engine block, but General Motors hasn't helped them identify the vehicle, or who might have owned it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not like today, where everything's accounted for and maintained in a database,\" says Frasier. \"For a lot of these vehicles, especially the early ones, there's not extensive record keeping.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10497292\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10497292\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10497292 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-400x224.png\" alt=\"A sharp turn on Ridgecrest Boulevard sits about 350 feet above the car wreck.\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-400x224.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-800x448.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-1440x806.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-1180x660.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-768x430.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-320x179.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sharp turn on Ridgecrest Boulevard sits about 350 feet above the car wreck. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though Frasier can't tell us how the car got here, he does know that when the trail was constructed in the 1970s, workers had to build it around the wreck because the car was already there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is the Car a Clue?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's easy to tell from looking at the shape of the vehicle that it's not a modern car. But how old is it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Sarcona, owner of Classic Cars West in Oakland, zeroes in on a few key features of our mystery car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an inline 8 [engine], so that eliminates a whole brand of cars that just didn't have inline 8's,\" Sarcona said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grill, fender stamping and steering wheel also offer hints about the era of production and manufacturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about 20 minutes of studying our wreck, Sarcona's face lights up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has to be a '41 Pontiac,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The car's odometer reads 38,297 miles, although it could have also been driven 138,297 miles. There aren't enough digits on the display to show mileage over 99,999, so it's possible the car's odometer rolled over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10497288\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10497288 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement-400x270.jpg\" alt=\"An advertisement of 1941 Pontiacs from a magazine. \" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement-768x518.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement-320x216.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An advertisement of 1941 Pontiacs from a magazine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Given the lower mileage figure, Sarcona estimates the car is most likely to have crashed in the late 1940s or 1950s. If it were the higher mileage figure, it would probably have crashed even later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Digging Through the Archives\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there \u003ci>had been\u003c/i> a devastating accident, chances are good that we might be able to find newspaper reports or other records that document the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nobody has ever found any, says Fred Runner, the historian for Mount Tamalpais' West Point Inn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leads him and other historians to believe that however the mysterious car got here, it may not have been particularly noteworthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the less environmentally aware times, it wasn't unusual to have people take an automobile and push it over a cliff to see what happened,\" says Runner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This matches up with a theory that Kermit Robbins thinks is most likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I imagine that if the car had gone off and somebody died in it, it would've gotten hauled out,\" says Robbins. \"So, I pictured that it was a bunch of kids in the 50s, all up there drinking beers at the top of the hill. They had some old junker car and they decided to just run it off [the hill.]\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/04/20/baycurious.png\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nWhat do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So, here we are -- our very first report in the Bay Curious series and we find ourselves at a dead end. We asked Robbins if he was disappointed that we didn't find the \"real real\" answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ... he let us off the hook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, the real real answer is probably really disappointing anyway. So, no, not at all,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the car will have to remain something of a mystery. It will continue to be a place where hikers stop, investigate and create their own theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe that's more fun anyway.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nGot a question you want KQED's Bay Curious team to investigate? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ask!\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10496914 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10496914",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/21/whats-the-story-behind-the-wrecked-car-on-a-mount-tamalpais-trail/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 917,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 35
},
"modified": 1573237890,
"excerpt": "When the trail was built in the 1970s, the old wrecked car was already there, resting against a rock.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "When the trail was built in the 1970s, the old wrecked car was already there, resting against a rock.",
"title": "What's the Story Behind the Wrecked Car on a Mount Tamalpais Trail? | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "What's the Story Behind the Wrecked Car on a Mount Tamalpais Trail?",
"datePublished": "2015-04-21T06:00:16-07:00",
"dateModified": "2019-11-08T10:31:30-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "whats-the-story-behind-the-wrecked-car-on-a-mount-tamalpais-trail",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2015/04/21/story-behind-wrecked-car-mount-tamalpais/",
"videoEmbed": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQW07UHfUXU",
"path": "/news/10496914/whats-the-story-behind-the-wrecked-car-on-a-mount-tamalpais-trail",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of our series \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>, we’re answering questions from KQED listeners and readers. Our first question comes from Kermit Robbins, a student at San Francisco State, who wanted to know:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's the story behind the wrecked car on Mount Tamalpais?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mount Tamalpais is known for its staggering redwood groves, sweeping views of the Pacific and well-worn trails popular with Bay Area hikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But high along one of the park's more northern trails sits something you might not expect to find in such a serene and natural setting -- the rusted, hulking carcass of a vintage car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10497295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10497295\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-1440x808.png\" alt=\"Many have left graffiti or engravings on the car over the years.\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-1440x808.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-400x224.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-800x449.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-1180x662.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-768x431.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.35.36-PM-320x179.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many have left graffiti or engravings on the car over the years. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED listener Kermit Robbins has hiked by the wreck dozens of times, and always wonders how it got there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was out there with a bunch of friends once, and we did the exact same thing that everyone who comes across this car does,\" he says. \"We investigated it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He regularly finds a group gathered around the car, speculating how it may have come to rest in this unusual spot, about 350 feet below winding Ridgecrest Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10497290\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10497290 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-400x225.png\" alt=\"KQED's Katrina Schwartz and listener Kermit Robbins explore the wreck.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-800x449.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-1440x809.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-1180x663.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-768x431.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-2.13.29-PM1-320x180.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED's Katrina Schwartz and listener Kermit Robbins explore the wreck. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Did someone miss a curve in the road on a dark and rainy night? Could it have been a drunken driver? A suicide? Or maybe a mob deal gone wrong? Staring at the twisted metal, one grim thought can't be avoided: Did someone die here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mount Tamalpais Park Ranger Tom Frasier says the people who work there have tried to track down the car's origins in the past -- but they haven't gotten very far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letters \"GM\" are visible on the engine block, but General Motors hasn't helped them identify the vehicle, or who might have owned it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not like today, where everything's accounted for and maintained in a database,\" says Frasier. \"For a lot of these vehicles, especially the early ones, there's not extensive record keeping.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10497292\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10497292\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10497292 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-400x224.png\" alt=\"A sharp turn on Ridgecrest Boulevard sits about 350 feet above the car wreck.\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-400x224.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-800x448.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-1440x806.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-1180x660.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-768x430.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2015-04-20-at-6.33.47-PM-320x179.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sharp turn on Ridgecrest Boulevard sits about 350 feet above the car wreck. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Though Frasier can't tell us how the car got here, he does know that when the trail was constructed in the 1970s, workers had to build it around the wreck because the car was already there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is the Car a Clue?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's easy to tell from looking at the shape of the vehicle that it's not a modern car. But how old is it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Sarcona, owner of Classic Cars West in Oakland, zeroes in on a few key features of our mystery car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an inline 8 [engine], so that eliminates a whole brand of cars that just didn't have inline 8's,\" Sarcona said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grill, fender stamping and steering wheel also offer hints about the era of production and manufacturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about 20 minutes of studying our wreck, Sarcona's face lights up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has to be a '41 Pontiac,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The car's odometer reads 38,297 miles, although it could have also been driven 138,297 miles. There aren't enough digits on the display to show mileage over 99,999, so it's possible the car's odometer rolled over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10497288\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10497288 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement-400x270.jpg\" alt=\"An advertisement of 1941 Pontiacs from a magazine. \" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement-768x518.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement-320x216.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/advertisement.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An advertisement of 1941 Pontiacs from a magazine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Given the lower mileage figure, Sarcona estimates the car is most likely to have crashed in the late 1940s or 1950s. If it were the higher mileage figure, it would probably have crashed even later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Digging Through the Archives\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there \u003ci>had been\u003c/i> a devastating accident, chances are good that we might be able to find newspaper reports or other records that document the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But nobody has ever found any, says Fred Runner, the historian for Mount Tamalpais' West Point Inn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leads him and other historians to believe that however the mysterious car got here, it may not have been particularly noteworthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the less environmentally aware times, it wasn't unusual to have people take an automobile and push it over a cliff to see what happened,\" says Runner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This matches up with a theory that Kermit Robbins thinks is most likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I imagine that if the car had gone off and somebody died in it, it would've gotten hauled out,\" says Robbins. \"So, I pictured that it was a bunch of kids in the 50s, all up there drinking beers at the top of the hill. They had some old junker car and they decided to just run it off [the hill.]\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/04/20/baycurious.png\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nWhat do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So, here we are -- our very first report in the Bay Curious series and we find ourselves at a dead end. We asked Robbins if he was disappointed that we didn't find the \"real real\" answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ... he let us off the hook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, the real real answer is probably really disappointing anyway. So, no, not at all,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the car will have to remain something of a mystery. It will continue to be a place where hikers stop, investigate and create their own theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe that's more fun anyway.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nGot a question you want KQED's Bay Curious team to investigate? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ask!\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10496914/whats-the-story-behind-the-wrecked-car-on-a-mount-tamalpais-trail",
"authors": [
"102",
"234"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"series": [
"news_17986"
],
"categories": [
"news_19906",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_5718"
],
"featImg": "news_10497235",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10497132": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10497132",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10497132",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1429578907000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 72
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1429578907,
"format": "image",
"disqusTitle": "Southern California Court Strikes Down Town's 'Conservation' Water Rates",
"title": "Southern California Court Strikes Down Town's 'Conservation' Water Rates",
"headTitle": "The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>In a decision that could raise obstacles to water conservation efforts across the state, a Southern California appeals court has rejected the city of San Juan Capistrano's adoption of tiered rates to encourage customers to use less water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruling on a case initiated by taxpayers, a three-judge 4th District Court of Appeal found that the city's water-rate scheme violated provisions of \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/1996/120196_prop_218/understanding_prop218_1296.html\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 218\u003c/a>, a constitutional amendment passed in 1996 to limit service fees imposed by local agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's ruling drew an angry response from Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The practical effect of the court’s decision is to put a straitjacket on local government at a time when maximum flexibility is needed,\" Brown said in a statement. \"My policy is and will continue to be: Employ every method possible to ensure water is conserved across California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout aligncenter\">\n\u003cimg class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mcclure.jpg\">\n\u003ch3>Proposition 218 Fallout\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED's Tara Siler talks to Tim Quinn, executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies, about the potential statewide impact of Monday's appeal court opinion.\u003cbr>\n\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/201951080&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Brown added that state lawyers are studying the court's opinion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 4th District panel's reasoning rests on a series of state court rulings that have held that Prop. 218 requires water rates to reflect the actual cost of providing service to individual properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 4th District panel's ruling Monday (\u003ca href=\"#sjcapistranowater\">embedded below\u003c/a>) found that San Juan Capistrano violated Prop. 218 by imposing tiered water rates. Customers using relatively small volumes of water would pay a low price, but \"very excessive\" users would pay a price 3½ times higher -- without regard to how much it actually cost to provide water to any of its users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for San Juan Capistrano argued:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>That calculating the difference in cost of providing water for various water users was unduly complex and in any case not required by Prop. 218.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That it's obliged to promote conservation by another provision of the state constitution -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterplan.water.ca.gov/docs/cwpu2009/0310final/v4c01a06_cwp2009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Article X, Section 2\u003c/a>, which requires in part that \"the waste or unreasonable use or unreasonable method of use of water be prevented.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That the city also argued that its tiered rate structure represented a penalty system that is exempt from Prop. 218.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The practical effect of the court’s decision is to put a straitjacket on local government at a time when maximum flexibility is needed.'\u003ccite>Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The appeals panel found that while tiered water rates themselves don't violate Proposition 218, they must reflect the additional cost of providing higher volumes of water to some customers. The court's decision, written by Associate Justice William Bedsworth, insisted the city \u003cem>should\u003c/em> be able to calculate the additional costs of providing water to heavy users that might justify higher rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Nothing in our record tells us why, for example, [officials] could not figure out the costs of given usage levels that require [San Juan Capistrano] City Water to tap more expensive supplies, and then bill users in those tiers accordingly. Such computations would seem to satisfy Proposition 218, and City Water has not shown in this record it would be impossible to comply with the Constitutional mandate in this way or some other. As the court pointed out in Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Ass'n v. City of Fresno ... the calculations required by Proposition 218 may be “complex,” but “such a process is now required by the California Constitution.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The court did hand San Juan Capistrano one victory, ruling that it is entitled to charge all ratepayers for a water-recycling plant, even though not all of them get supplies from the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We hope there are future scientists, engineers, and legislators with the wisdom to envision and enact water plans to keep our beloved Cadillac Desert habitable.'\u003ccite>4th District Court of Appeal\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And the court almost ruefully acknowledged that its ruling comes; 1) in the midst of one of the state's worst droughts and; 2) against the background of Southern California's continuing battle to secure water supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Southern California is a “semi-desert with a desert heart.” Visionary engineers and scientists have done a remarkable job of making our home habitable, and too many of us south of the Tehachapis never give a thought to its remarkable reclamation. In his brilliant – if opinionated – classic \"Cadillac Desert,\" the late Marc Reisner laments how little appreciation there is of “how difficult it will be just to hang on to the beachhead they have made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case we deal with parties who have an acute appreciation of how tenuous the beachhead is, and how desperately we all must fight to protect it. But they disagree about what steps are allowable – or required – to accomplish that task. We are called upon to determine not what is the right – or even the more reasonable – approach to the beachhead’s preservation, but what is the one chosen by the state’s voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hope there are future scientists, engineers, and legislators with the wisdom to envision and enact water plans to keep our beloved Cadillac Desert habitable. But that is not the court’s mandate. Our job – and it is daunting enough – is solely to determine what water plans the voters and legislators of the past have put in place, and to determine whether the trial court’s rulings complied with those plans.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/water-658727-capistrano-juan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County Register recounts\u003c/a> the origins of the lawsuit that led to Monday's ruling:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The lawsuit in San Juan Capistrano was brought in August 2012 by Jim Reardon, an aerospace executive and elected member of the Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees, and John Perry, a retired schools administrator who severed ties with the case after being appointed to the San Juan Capistrano City Council in February. They’d long complained of the tiers, which they believe were implemented to help pay for the city’s expensive groundwater recovery plant, for which it still owes about $40 million.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-water-rates-case-20150405-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Los Angeles Times provides\u003c/a> some further context on tiered water rates and their potential role in conservation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power currently uses a two-tier rate structure, but agency officials have said they are preparing to roll out a revised system that would employ four tiers and that would make high water use even more costly than it is now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say 66 percent to 80 percent of California water providers use some type of tiered rates. A 2014 UC Riverside study estimated that tiered rate structures similar to the one used in San Juan Capistrano reduce water use over time by up to 15%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An author of the study, Ken Baerenklau, said the effect was greatest on the heaviest water-users. In a previous interview with The Times, he said that if the court found in favor of the plaintiffs, as it did Monday, the decision “would be a big deal\" because it would \"stand in the face of significant momentum\" toward tiered rates.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"sjcapistranowater\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262514464/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_23874\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10497132 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10497132",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/20/southern-california-court-strikes-down-towns-conservation-water-rates/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": true,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1190,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 25
},
"modified": 1429665170,
"excerpt": "Gov. Brown blasts ruling that some fear could outlaw a valuable tool to enforce water savings.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Gov. Brown blasts ruling that some fear could outlaw a valuable tool to enforce water savings.",
"title": "Southern California Court Strikes Down Town's 'Conservation' Water Rates | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Southern California Court Strikes Down Town's 'Conservation' Water Rates",
"datePublished": "2015-04-20T18:15:07-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-04-21T18:12:50-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "southern-california-court-strikes-down-towns-conservation-water-rates",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/10497132/southern-california-court-strikes-down-towns-conservation-water-rates",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a decision that could raise obstacles to water conservation efforts across the state, a Southern California appeals court has rejected the city of San Juan Capistrano's adoption of tiered rates to encourage customers to use less water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruling on a case initiated by taxpayers, a three-judge 4th District Court of Appeal found that the city's water-rate scheme violated provisions of \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/1996/120196_prop_218/understanding_prop218_1296.html\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 218\u003c/a>, a constitutional amendment passed in 1996 to limit service fees imposed by local agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's ruling drew an angry response from Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The practical effect of the court’s decision is to put a straitjacket on local government at a time when maximum flexibility is needed,\" Brown said in a statement. \"My policy is and will continue to be: Employ every method possible to ensure water is conserved across California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout aligncenter\">\n\u003cimg class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mcclure.jpg\">\n\u003ch3>Proposition 218 Fallout\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED's Tara Siler talks to Tim Quinn, executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies, about the potential statewide impact of Monday's appeal court opinion.\u003cbr>\n\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/201951080&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Brown added that state lawyers are studying the court's opinion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 4th District panel's reasoning rests on a series of state court rulings that have held that Prop. 218 requires water rates to reflect the actual cost of providing service to individual properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 4th District panel's ruling Monday (\u003ca href=\"#sjcapistranowater\">embedded below\u003c/a>) found that San Juan Capistrano violated Prop. 218 by imposing tiered water rates. Customers using relatively small volumes of water would pay a low price, but \"very excessive\" users would pay a price 3½ times higher -- without regard to how much it actually cost to provide water to any of its users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for San Juan Capistrano argued:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>That calculating the difference in cost of providing water for various water users was unduly complex and in any case not required by Prop. 218.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That it's obliged to promote conservation by another provision of the state constitution -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterplan.water.ca.gov/docs/cwpu2009/0310final/v4c01a06_cwp2009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Article X, Section 2\u003c/a>, which requires in part that \"the waste or unreasonable use or unreasonable method of use of water be prevented.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>That the city also argued that its tiered rate structure represented a penalty system that is exempt from Prop. 218.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The practical effect of the court’s decision is to put a straitjacket on local government at a time when maximum flexibility is needed.'\u003ccite>Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The appeals panel found that while tiered water rates themselves don't violate Proposition 218, they must reflect the additional cost of providing higher volumes of water to some customers. The court's decision, written by Associate Justice William Bedsworth, insisted the city \u003cem>should\u003c/em> be able to calculate the additional costs of providing water to heavy users that might justify higher rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Nothing in our record tells us why, for example, [officials] could not figure out the costs of given usage levels that require [San Juan Capistrano] City Water to tap more expensive supplies, and then bill users in those tiers accordingly. Such computations would seem to satisfy Proposition 218, and City Water has not shown in this record it would be impossible to comply with the Constitutional mandate in this way or some other. As the court pointed out in Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Ass'n v. City of Fresno ... the calculations required by Proposition 218 may be “complex,” but “such a process is now required by the California Constitution.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The court did hand San Juan Capistrano one victory, ruling that it is entitled to charge all ratepayers for a water-recycling plant, even though not all of them get supplies from the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We hope there are future scientists, engineers, and legislators with the wisdom to envision and enact water plans to keep our beloved Cadillac Desert habitable.'\u003ccite>4th District Court of Appeal\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And the court almost ruefully acknowledged that its ruling comes; 1) in the midst of one of the state's worst droughts and; 2) against the background of Southern California's continuing battle to secure water supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Southern California is a “semi-desert with a desert heart.” Visionary engineers and scientists have done a remarkable job of making our home habitable, and too many of us south of the Tehachapis never give a thought to its remarkable reclamation. In his brilliant – if opinionated – classic \"Cadillac Desert,\" the late Marc Reisner laments how little appreciation there is of “how difficult it will be just to hang on to the beachhead they have made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case we deal with parties who have an acute appreciation of how tenuous the beachhead is, and how desperately we all must fight to protect it. But they disagree about what steps are allowable – or required – to accomplish that task. We are called upon to determine not what is the right – or even the more reasonable – approach to the beachhead’s preservation, but what is the one chosen by the state’s voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hope there are future scientists, engineers, and legislators with the wisdom to envision and enact water plans to keep our beloved Cadillac Desert habitable. But that is not the court’s mandate. Our job – and it is daunting enough – is solely to determine what water plans the voters and legislators of the past have put in place, and to determine whether the trial court’s rulings complied with those plans.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/water-658727-capistrano-juan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County Register recounts\u003c/a> the origins of the lawsuit that led to Monday's ruling:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The lawsuit in San Juan Capistrano was brought in August 2012 by Jim Reardon, an aerospace executive and elected member of the Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees, and John Perry, a retired schools administrator who severed ties with the case after being appointed to the San Juan Capistrano City Council in February. They’d long complained of the tiers, which they believe were implemented to help pay for the city’s expensive groundwater recovery plant, for which it still owes about $40 million.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-water-rates-case-20150405-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Los Angeles Times provides\u003c/a> some further context on tiered water rates and their potential role in conservation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power currently uses a two-tier rate structure, but agency officials have said they are preparing to roll out a revised system that would employ four tiers and that would make high water use even more costly than it is now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say 66 percent to 80 percent of California water providers use some type of tiered rates. A 2014 UC Riverside study estimated that tiered rate structures similar to the one used in San Juan Capistrano reduce water use over time by up to 15%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An author of the study, Ken Baerenklau, said the effect was greatest on the heaviest water-users. In a previous interview with The Times, he said that if the court found in favor of the plaintiffs, as it did Monday, the decision “would be a big deal\" because it would \"stand in the face of significant momentum\" toward tiered rates.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"sjcapistranowater\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262514464/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_23874\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10497132/southern-california-court-strikes-down-towns-conservation-water-rates",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944",
"news_72"
],
"categories": [
"news_19906",
"news_13",
"news_356"
],
"tags": [
"news_17618",
"news_17286",
"news_17041",
"news_483"
],
"featImg": "news_10497244",
"label": "news_72"
},
"news_10493892": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10493892",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10493892",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1429466415000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 72
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1429466415,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Wealthy Woodside Is Among State's Top Water Wasters",
"title": "Wealthy Woodside Is Among State's Top Water Wasters",
"headTitle": "The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>The rural town of Woodside combines the leafy luxury of Marin County with the remoteness of Mendocino. \u003ca href=\"http://www.woodsidetown.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Woodside\u003c/a> is nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley, but its rustic setting off scenic Highway 280 south of San Francisco is anything but high tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodside has a swanky Zip code. And it has something in common with other posh cities like Beverly Hills and Malibu: Woodside is among California’s top water wasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Sieber owns a \u003ca href=\"http://emilyjoubert.com/home/\">local home and garden store\u003c/a>. She says many of her customers live on beautiful pieces of property and can afford luxurious gardens to match. But, she notes, those plants require a lot of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10494142\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"At her home and garden store in Woodside, Judy Sieber is pushing water efficient plants like succulents, and even artificial silk flowers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10494142\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-400x257.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-1440x925.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-768x493.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-320x206.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At her home and garden store in Woodside, Judy Sieber is pushing water efficient plants like succulents, and even artificial silk flowers. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be very interesting to see what they do, how they react\" to calls for conservation, Sieber says. \"If they think, ‘I don’t care, fine me. Whatever,’ ” Sieber says. “And I have friends who say, ‘I think I’m going to let the front [yard] die, but not the back. I’m not giving up the back!’ People want to save face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numbers from the State Water Board reveal that Woodside residents need to save more than face. They need to save \u003cem>water\u003c/em> by cutting their use by 35 percent. Otherwise, their water district could face fines of up to $10,000 a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Woodside’s main gathering places is a local food joint named \u003ca href=\"http://buckswoodside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Buck's\u003c/a> – an unassuming, quirky restaurant decorated with random items like French horns, an alligator (or is it a crocodile?) riding a little red wagon and cowboy-hat lampshades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/201327068\" 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>Buck's owner, Jamis MacNiven, says, \"There's a lot of craziness around the water issue\" in Woodside. He notes that \"the real issue is economic -- we don’t value water enough as a commodity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the cheapest water in the world, and as long as that’s the case, we have problems,” he says. “I mean, if we’re watering giant cemeteries of dead people, as opposed to drinking the water, maybe our values need to be readjusted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacNiven defends his fellow Woodsiders from charges they're water hogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t have giant lawns generally here. It’s not Beverly Hills,” he says. In other words, water waste is a problem, but not \u003cem>here\u003c/em> in Woodside.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Just because you can afford to have a rolling golf course in your backyard doesn’t mean you should.'\u003ccite>Judy Sieber\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At a table in the corner, old-timer Joe Greenback (yes, that's his real name and he's wearing a green polo shirt) admits he \u003cem>does\u003c/em> have a big lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know whether we're gonna have to let it go brown or not,” he says. “We haven't yet, but we're thinking in those terms how we can conserve or cut back. We've got a large investment in landscaping that I don't want to lose. It’d have to get a lot more serious than it is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in Woodside acknowledge the drought is serious -- \u003cem>now\u003c/em>. Sieber stopped watering the boxwood balls lining her driveway. When they died, she used green spray paint to liven them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everybody needs to do their part,” Sieber says. “My motto is: Just because you can afford to have a rolling golf course in your backyard doesn’t mean you \u003cem>should\u003c/em>. I'm probably offending people I know,\" she says, with a roar of laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10494137\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Debbie Mendelson (L) and her son Jason have become the lead proponents of water conservation in Woodside, a town that so far isn't doing its part to save water.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10494137\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-400x274.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-1440x986.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-1180x808.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-768x526.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-320x219.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Mendelson (L) and her son Jason have become the lead proponents of water conservation in Woodside, a town that so far isn't doing its part to save water. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She adds: \"It’s a different time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodside does have a self-appointed water watchdog: Debbie Mendelson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last July, Mendelson marched down to the Town Council armed with a three-ring notebook full of water waste data. She had a strong message for the council -- adopt a water conservation plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know what the people at the high end are doing, but they have to also contribute to making the difference,” Mendelson says. “We all need water. No one is any more special than anyone else in needing water to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living next to the Menlo Country Club and golf course sends Mendelson fuming every time she sees them watering their plush green fairways in the middle of the day with potable water, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water seems to be a family obsession. Her son, Jason Mendelson, chairs the town's Sustainability and Conservation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're gonna be in real trouble, so this is kind of the last chance,” he says. “I think it's that those of us who are, maybe, of means, to take a leadership role in making the changes both culturally and practically so that we can have some water in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been more than eight months since the Mendelsons urged the town to adopt a water conservation plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodside is still thinking about it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10493892 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10493892",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/19/wealthy-woodside-is-among-states-top-water-wasters/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 948,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 26
},
"modified": 1429318587,
"excerpt": "If the rural town doesn't cut use by 35 percent, its water district could face fines up to $10,000 a day.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "If the rural town doesn't cut use by 35 percent, its water district could face fines up to $10,000 a day.",
"title": "Wealthy Woodside Is Among State's Top Water Wasters | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Wealthy Woodside Is Among State's Top Water Wasters",
"datePublished": "2015-04-19T11:00:15-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-04-17T17:56:27-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "wealthy-woodside-is-among-states-top-water-wasters",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/10493892/wealthy-woodside-is-among-states-top-water-wasters",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The rural town of Woodside combines the leafy luxury of Marin County with the remoteness of Mendocino. \u003ca href=\"http://www.woodsidetown.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Woodside\u003c/a> is nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley, but its rustic setting off scenic Highway 280 south of San Francisco is anything but high tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodside has a swanky Zip code. And it has something in common with other posh cities like Beverly Hills and Malibu: Woodside is among California’s top water wasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Sieber owns a \u003ca href=\"http://emilyjoubert.com/home/\">local home and garden store\u003c/a>. She says many of her customers live on beautiful pieces of property and can afford luxurious gardens to match. But, she notes, those plants require a lot of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10494142\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"At her home and garden store in Woodside, Judy Sieber is pushing water efficient plants like succulents, and even artificial silk flowers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10494142\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-400x257.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-1440x925.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-1180x758.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-768x493.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents-320x206.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideSucculents.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At her home and garden store in Woodside, Judy Sieber is pushing water efficient plants like succulents, and even artificial silk flowers. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be very interesting to see what they do, how they react\" to calls for conservation, Sieber says. \"If they think, ‘I don’t care, fine me. Whatever,’ ” Sieber says. “And I have friends who say, ‘I think I’m going to let the front [yard] die, but not the back. I’m not giving up the back!’ People want to save face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numbers from the State Water Board reveal that Woodside residents need to save more than face. They need to save \u003cem>water\u003c/em> by cutting their use by 35 percent. Otherwise, their water district could face fines of up to $10,000 a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Woodside’s main gathering places is a local food joint named \u003ca href=\"http://buckswoodside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Buck's\u003c/a> – an unassuming, quirky restaurant decorated with random items like French horns, an alligator (or is it a crocodile?) riding a little red wagon and cowboy-hat lampshades.\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/201327068&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/201327068'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buck's owner, Jamis MacNiven, says, \"There's a lot of craziness around the water issue\" in Woodside. He notes that \"the real issue is economic -- we don’t value water enough as a commodity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the cheapest water in the world, and as long as that’s the case, we have problems,” he says. “I mean, if we’re watering giant cemeteries of dead people, as opposed to drinking the water, maybe our values need to be readjusted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacNiven defends his fellow Woodsiders from charges they're water hogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t have giant lawns generally here. It’s not Beverly Hills,” he says. In other words, water waste is a problem, but not \u003cem>here\u003c/em> in Woodside.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Just because you can afford to have a rolling golf course in your backyard doesn’t mean you should.'\u003ccite>Judy Sieber\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At a table in the corner, old-timer Joe Greenback (yes, that's his real name and he's wearing a green polo shirt) admits he \u003cem>does\u003c/em> have a big lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know whether we're gonna have to let it go brown or not,” he says. “We haven't yet, but we're thinking in those terms how we can conserve or cut back. We've got a large investment in landscaping that I don't want to lose. It’d have to get a lot more serious than it is now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in Woodside acknowledge the drought is serious -- \u003cem>now\u003c/em>. Sieber stopped watering the boxwood balls lining her driveway. When they died, she used green spray paint to liven them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think everybody needs to do their part,” Sieber says. “My motto is: Just because you can afford to have a rolling golf course in your backyard doesn’t mean you \u003cem>should\u003c/em>. I'm probably offending people I know,\" she says, with a roar of laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10494137\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Debbie Mendelson (L) and her son Jason have become the lead proponents of water conservation in Woodside, a town that so far isn't doing its part to save water.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10494137\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-400x274.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-1440x986.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-1180x808.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-768x526.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving-320x219.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/WoodsideWaterSaving.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Mendelson (L) and her son Jason have become the lead proponents of water conservation in Woodside, a town that so far isn't doing its part to save water. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She adds: \"It’s a different time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodside does have a self-appointed water watchdog: Debbie Mendelson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last July, Mendelson marched down to the Town Council armed with a three-ring notebook full of water waste data. She had a strong message for the council -- adopt a water conservation plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know what the people at the high end are doing, but they have to also contribute to making the difference,” Mendelson says. “We all need water. No one is any more special than anyone else in needing water to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living next to the Menlo Country Club and golf course sends Mendelson fuming every time she sees them watering their plush green fairways in the middle of the day with potable water, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water seems to be a family obsession. Her son, Jason Mendelson, chairs the town's Sustainability and Conservation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're gonna be in real trouble, so this is kind of the last chance,” he says. “I think it's that those of us who are, maybe, of means, to take a leadership role in making the changes both culturally and practically so that we can have some water in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been more than eight months since the Mendelsons urged the town to adopt a water conservation plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodside is still thinking about it.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10493892/wealthy-woodside-is-among-states-top-water-wasters",
"authors": [
"255"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944",
"news_72"
],
"categories": [
"news_19906",
"news_8",
"news_356"
],
"tags": [
"news_17601",
"news_17286",
"news_483",
"news_17782"
],
"featImg": "news_10494131",
"label": "news_72"
},
"news_10490169": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10490169",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10490169",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1429455605000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "california-foodways-feeding-the-trailblazers",
"title": "California Foodways: Feeding the Trailblazers",
"publishDate": 1429455605,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "California Foodways: Feeding the Trailblazers | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 26731,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>“Hard work, low pay, miserable conditions, and more!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the actual motto for the California Conservation Corps, the state program that puts young adults to work in emergency response, park improvements and fire protection. In Marin, many corps members — known affectionately as “C’s” – do hard physical work building and maintaining the world-class trails in places like Point Reyes, Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the young people burn thousands of calories a day, food plays a crucial role for a CCC crew, and their menu has barely changed since the ’30s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/201327335″ 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>After hiking a couple miles up a wooded path, 20-year-old Willy Parker shows me the huge drainage area he and the rest of the crew are shoring up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll last for a couple hundred years,” he tells me. “I think that’s pretty awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re on a section of trail near Devil’s Gulch Camp in West Marin. I’m trying to understand this puzzle of huge rocks that crew members maneuver to fill a huge hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker tells me we’re looking at about 30 rocks, each as heavy as 100 pounds. Crew members roll rocks down the trail and work in teams, using long metal poles to place them correctly. They mark and chisel the rocks to get the perfect size, so they’ll fit snugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all have to be contacting, one edge to another edge,” says Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10491691\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 495px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10491691 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-800x633.jpg\" alt=\"California Conservation Corps members, “Cs” for short, roll rocks as heavy as 500 pounds to their work area, set them into place and chisel them for a snug fit.\" width=\"495\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-800x633.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-400x317.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-1440x1140.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-1180x934.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-768x608.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-320x253.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Conservation Corps members, “C’s” for short, roll rocks as heavy as 500 pounds to their work area, set them into place and chisel them for a snug fit. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s to support the tens of thousands of hikers, mountain bikers and horseback riders expected to use this trail. If you hike this trail in a year or two, Parker says, you won’t be able to see the work that went on here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over time, the dirt, the leaves will fall over it to make it look natural,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker is part of what’s called a spike crew: Members will be working this site off and on for over a year. They spend eight days working, then six days at a residential center near Lake Tahoe. There they get time off and take classes. Like Parker, many work on their GEDs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these corps members prod heavy stones into place, Samantha Pack and Gabino Lopez have left the trail early to report to KP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“KP stands for kitchen patrol, or kitchen police as we call it,” says Lopez. “It’s the person whose duty it is to take care of the kitchen and camp, all the chores like start the fire, clean around the kitchen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kitchen’s really clean, but it’s not much to look at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, it’s an old burlap tent,” says Pack. “It’s set up with our two stoves, both powered by propane. Two chests are filled with our pots, pans, dishes, and the top is our serving table. It’s a tight space!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez is getting creative, chopping onions and slicing oranges and lemon for the fish they’re serving the 20 crew members and two supervisors. “For us KP’s, we try to make something delicious, just to make the crew feel like they’re at their house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, the California Conservation Corps hires about 3,000 men and women between 18 and 25. Each has his or her own reasons for joining, but many here, like Samantha Pack, told me they needed some direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has their different problems, but I was very defiant,” she says. “I didn’t know what I wanted. I was always taught to run from my problems. When I started to realize that running wasn’t getting anything done, my mentality changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10491694\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10491694\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"Gabino Lopez, left, and Samantha Pack hard at work on 'kitchen patrol.' \" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-400x284.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-1440x1023.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-1180x838.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-768x546.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-320x227.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabino Lopez, left, and Samantha Pack hard at work on ‘kitchen patrol.’ \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An alumna told her about the program, and the Bakersfield native found she really loves hands-on trail work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had never done any labor at all. I grew up not going to school, sitting on the couch,” Pack says. “Then all of a sudden being told, ‘Dig this hole, move this there,’ it really gave me what I guess I always needed. Not only that discipline, but having that urgency to get things done the right way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like we’re a big machine as a group, and the KP’s are the batteries to the machine,” says Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since they’re out here for more than a week, the food for each meal is planned and packed ahead. KP’s can use ingredients creatively, but they have to consider coming meals. Lopez pulls out the eight-day food calendar, labeled for breakfast and dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we’re having fish fillet, rice pilaf, carrots and salad,” he explains. “Day Four, we’re having pork chops, red potatoes, with broccoli and salad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few miles away, in his office on Mount Tamalpais, I meet Victor Bjelajac, who oversees maintenance of state parks in Marin. He’s flipping through pages in a binder, looking at old food orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”fSu9GIDgULAADpkMNYluvfByflKgIFTJ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a group of Civilian Conservation Corps members that were working at Mount Tamalpais. This one was from 1939.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And guess what? It sounds a lot like what the KP crew is making tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For supper, there was fillet of sole, mashed potatoes, creamed carrots, bread, butter,” Bjelajac reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The similarities in the menu aren’t sentimental. Camp food has always had to fuel large groups for hard labor. Launched in 1933 as a response to the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps employed millions of young men, many of them veterans, to work on remote, government-owned lands — planting trees, building roadways, updating parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin, they built trails and camps and a beautiful amphitheater, still in use today. The Corps accepted only men, and the crews were segregated by race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems inconceivable today when you look at California Conservation Corps,” says Bjelajac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CCC is about a quarter women, and very diverse. But he says what the two have in common is young people, doing important work as a group for the public good. That, and the food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the culture that’s built around a camp gets built around meals,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10491700\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10491700\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-800x655.jpg\" alt=\"Gabino Lopez tends the fire, also known as the camp TV.\" width=\"800\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-800x655.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-400x327.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-1440x1178.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-1180x966.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-768x628.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-320x262.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabino Lopez tends the fire, also known as the camp TV. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back at camp, Gabino Lopez tends a fire as his fellow corps members start to come off the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would honestly rather sit at the fire and watch it for three hours than sit at home on a couch and just watch TV,” Lopez says. “I’d rather bathe in a creek than shower in a bathroom. It makes me feel more alive, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s happy pan-frying fish and sauteing carrots in a tent. Willy Parker says that after working all day and hiking down, KP is a life-saver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just to get to camp, and the food is smelling good, and everybody just be walking around the KP tent ready to eat,” he says. “So it’s pretty good, we got that right there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of this crew, Parker never went camping or fishing as a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Camping is amazing,” he says with a laugh. “It’s amazing. I hadn’t done none of that till I joined the CCC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just about trying new things. Parker has a 2-year-old daughter at home in Sacramento, and he says being a C gives him purpose, and pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, I feel like it’s a great experience,” he says. “I can bring my daughter up here when she gets older to understand, and be like, ‘I built this.’ It just opens my heart and my mind. I can do something I never thought I could do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he used to look at trails and ask, “I wonder how you build this? Or who built this? Now, I find myself actually answering my own question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The series \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafoodways.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is supported in part by \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhum.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Humanities\u003c/a>. Reporter Lisa Morehouse produced it during a fellowship at \u003ca href=\"http://www.hedgebrook.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hedgebrook\u003c/a>, a residency for women writers. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Camp meals for California Conservation Corps members provide sustenance -- and a helping of camaraderie. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1765232471,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 46,
"wordCount": 1538
},
"headData": {
"title": "California Foodways: Feeding the Trailblazers | KQED",
"description": "Camp meals for California Conservation Corps members provide sustenance -- and a helping of camaraderie. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "California Foodways: Feeding the Trailblazers",
"datePublished": "2015-04-19T08:00:05-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-12-08T14:21:11-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 223,
"slug": "arts-and-culture",
"name": "Arts and Culture"
},
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-10490169",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/10490169/california-foodways-feeding-the-trailblazers",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“Hard work, low pay, miserable conditions, and more!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the actual motto for the California Conservation Corps, the state program that puts young adults to work in emergency response, park improvements and fire protection. In Marin, many corps members — known affectionately as “C’s” – do hard physical work building and maintaining the world-class trails in places like Point Reyes, Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the young people burn thousands of calories a day, food plays a crucial role for a CCC crew, and their menu has barely changed since the ’30s.\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/201327335″&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/201327335″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hiking a couple miles up a wooded path, 20-year-old Willy Parker shows me the huge drainage area he and the rest of the crew are shoring up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll last for a couple hundred years,” he tells me. “I think that’s pretty awesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re on a section of trail near Devil’s Gulch Camp in West Marin. I’m trying to understand this puzzle of huge rocks that crew members maneuver to fill a huge hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker tells me we’re looking at about 30 rocks, each as heavy as 100 pounds. Crew members roll rocks down the trail and work in teams, using long metal poles to place them correctly. They mark and chisel the rocks to get the perfect size, so they’ll fit snugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all have to be contacting, one edge to another edge,” says Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10491691\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 495px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10491691 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-800x633.jpg\" alt=\"California Conservation Corps members, “Cs” for short, roll rocks as heavy as 500 pounds to their work area, set them into place and chisel them for a snug fit.\" width=\"495\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-800x633.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-400x317.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-1440x1140.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-1180x934.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-768x608.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone-320x253.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RockAndStone.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Conservation Corps members, “C’s” for short, roll rocks as heavy as 500 pounds to their work area, set them into place and chisel them for a snug fit. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s to support the tens of thousands of hikers, mountain bikers and horseback riders expected to use this trail. If you hike this trail in a year or two, Parker says, you won’t be able to see the work that went on here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over time, the dirt, the leaves will fall over it to make it look natural,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker is part of what’s called a spike crew: Members will be working this site off and on for over a year. They spend eight days working, then six days at a residential center near Lake Tahoe. There they get time off and take classes. Like Parker, many work on their GEDs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these corps members prod heavy stones into place, Samantha Pack and Gabino Lopez have left the trail early to report to KP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“KP stands for kitchen patrol, or kitchen police as we call it,” says Lopez. “It’s the person whose duty it is to take care of the kitchen and camp, all the chores like start the fire, clean around the kitchen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kitchen’s really clean, but it’s not much to look at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, it’s an old burlap tent,” says Pack. “It’s set up with our two stoves, both powered by propane. Two chests are filled with our pots, pans, dishes, and the top is our serving table. It’s a tight space!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez is getting creative, chopping onions and slicing oranges and lemon for the fish they’re serving the 20 crew members and two supervisors. “For us KP’s, we try to make something delicious, just to make the crew feel like they’re at their house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, the California Conservation Corps hires about 3,000 men and women between 18 and 25. Each has his or her own reasons for joining, but many here, like Samantha Pack, told me they needed some direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has their different problems, but I was very defiant,” she says. “I didn’t know what I wanted. I was always taught to run from my problems. When I started to realize that running wasn’t getting anything done, my mentality changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10491694\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10491694\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"Gabino Lopez, left, and Samantha Pack hard at work on 'kitchen patrol.' \" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-800x568.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-400x284.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-1440x1023.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-1180x838.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-768x546.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin-320x227.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/TentCookin.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabino Lopez, left, and Samantha Pack hard at work on ‘kitchen patrol.’ \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An alumna told her about the program, and the Bakersfield native found she really loves hands-on trail work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had never done any labor at all. I grew up not going to school, sitting on the couch,” Pack says. “Then all of a sudden being told, ‘Dig this hole, move this there,’ it really gave me what I guess I always needed. Not only that discipline, but having that urgency to get things done the right way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like we’re a big machine as a group, and the KP’s are the batteries to the machine,” says Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since they’re out here for more than a week, the food for each meal is planned and packed ahead. KP’s can use ingredients creatively, but they have to consider coming meals. Lopez pulls out the eight-day food calendar, labeled for breakfast and dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we’re having fish fillet, rice pilaf, carrots and salad,” he explains. “Day Four, we’re having pork chops, red potatoes, with broccoli and salad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few miles away, in his office on Mount Tamalpais, I meet Victor Bjelajac, who oversees maintenance of state parks in Marin. He’s flipping through pages in a binder, looking at old food orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a group of Civilian Conservation Corps members that were working at Mount Tamalpais. This one was from 1939.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And guess what? It sounds a lot like what the KP crew is making tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For supper, there was fillet of sole, mashed potatoes, creamed carrots, bread, butter,” Bjelajac reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The similarities in the menu aren’t sentimental. Camp food has always had to fuel large groups for hard labor. Launched in 1933 as a response to the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps employed millions of young men, many of them veterans, to work on remote, government-owned lands — planting trees, building roadways, updating parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin, they built trails and camps and a beautiful amphitheater, still in use today. The Corps accepted only men, and the crews were segregated by race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems inconceivable today when you look at California Conservation Corps,” says Bjelajac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CCC is about a quarter women, and very diverse. But he says what the two have in common is young people, doing important work as a group for the public good. That, and the food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the culture that’s built around a camp gets built around meals,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10491700\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10491700\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-800x655.jpg\" alt=\"Gabino Lopez tends the fire, also known as the camp TV.\" width=\"800\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-800x655.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-400x327.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-1440x1178.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-1180x966.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-768x628.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV-320x262.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CampTV.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabino Lopez tends the fire, also known as the camp TV. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back at camp, Gabino Lopez tends a fire as his fellow corps members start to come off the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would honestly rather sit at the fire and watch it for three hours than sit at home on a couch and just watch TV,” Lopez says. “I’d rather bathe in a creek than shower in a bathroom. It makes me feel more alive, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s happy pan-frying fish and sauteing carrots in a tent. Willy Parker says that after working all day and hiking down, KP is a life-saver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just to get to camp, and the food is smelling good, and everybody just be walking around the KP tent ready to eat,” he says. “So it’s pretty good, we got that right there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of this crew, Parker never went camping or fishing as a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Camping is amazing,” he says with a laugh. “It’s amazing. I hadn’t done none of that till I joined the CCC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just about trying new things. Parker has a 2-year-old daughter at home in Sacramento, and he says being a C gives him purpose, and pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, I feel like it’s a great experience,” he says. “I can bring my daughter up here when she gets older to understand, and be like, ‘I built this.’ It just opens my heart and my mind. I can do something I never thought I could do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he used to look at trails and ask, “I wonder how you build this? Or who built this? Now, I find myself actually answering my own question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The series \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafoodways.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is supported in part by \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhum.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Humanities\u003c/a>. Reporter Lisa Morehouse produced it during a fellowship at \u003ca href=\"http://www.hedgebrook.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hedgebrook\u003c/a>, a residency for women writers. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10490169/california-foodways-feeding-the-trailblazers",
"authors": [
"3229"
],
"programs": [
"news_72",
"news_26731"
],
"series": [
"news_17045"
],
"categories": [
"news_223",
"news_18540",
"news_19906",
"news_33520"
],
"tags": [
"news_17286",
"news_17041"
],
"featImg": "news_10491687",
"label": "news_26731"
},
"news_10492319": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10492319",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10492319",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1429195194000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 72
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1429195194,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Agency Halts Sardine Fishing as Population Collapses",
"title": "Agency Halts Sardine Fishing as Population Collapses",
"headTitle": "The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Federal fishery regulators on Wednesday approved an early closure of the commercial sardine season off Oregon, Washington and California -- shutting down the harvest of the highly sought fish for at least the next 14 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting in Rohnert Park, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Fishery Management Council\u003c/a> voted to direct NOAA Fisheries to halt the current season as early as possible, affecting about 100 fishing boats with sardine permits, though far fewer are actively fishing at the moment. The season normally would end June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council decided earlier in the week to shut down the 2015-16 sardine season, which was to start July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action was taken based on revised estimates of sardine populations, which found the fish were declining in numbers faster than earlier believed, and on fears that without action sardines could soon reach the status of being overfished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council acted over protests from some in the fishing industry, and members said they understood the pain the closure would impose on some communities and workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council member Michele Culver, representing the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the shutdown is necessary because a new assessment of sardine stocks showed they were much lower than estimated last year, when harvest quotas were set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We may be in an overfished state in a couple of years,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Enticknap of the conservation group Oceana urged the council to take emergency action, arguing that sardines have been overfished since 2009 due to declining reproduction. He added that 90 percent of this year's class of sea lion pups were starving for lack of sardines to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The sardine populations have crashed 91 percent since 2007,\" he said after the vote. \"We would have liked to see this happen much sooner, but now we can start to rebuild this sardine population that is so important to the health of the ocean.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mike Okoniewski, a seafood processor from Washington who serves on an advisory panel, told the council that sardines were not being overfished, and shutting down the remainder of the current season would deprive fishing communities of $1 million worth of landings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that fishermen were seeing signs of more sardines moving into Southern California waters, and large numbers of fish spawning off Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The once-thriving sardine industry crashed in the 1940s, before modern fisheries management that sets harvest quotas and tries to prevent overfishing. Since it revived in the 1990s, most of the West Coast catch is exported to Asia and Europe, where some is canned, and the rest goes for bait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sardine population estimates have been declining since 2006, and catch values since 2012, when they hit $21 million. The reasons are not well understood, though it is widely accepted that huge population swings are natural and generally are related to water temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 100 boats have permits to fish for sardines on the West Coast. That's about half the number during the heyday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10492319 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10492319",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/16/agency-halts-sardine-fishing-as-population-collapses/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 493,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 16
},
"modified": 1429220511,
"excerpt": "Fishery council ends harvest through at least mid-2016 as stocks decline by 90 percent. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Fishery council ends harvest through at least mid-2016 as stocks decline by 90 percent. ",
"title": "Agency Halts Sardine Fishing as Population Collapses | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Agency Halts Sardine Fishing as Population Collapses",
"datePublished": "2015-04-16T07:39:54-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-04-16T14:41:51-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "agency-halts-sardine-fishing-as-population-collapses",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JeffBarnardAP\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Barnard\u003c/a>\u003cbr />Associated Press\u003c/strong>",
"path": "/news/10492319/agency-halts-sardine-fishing-as-population-collapses",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Federal fishery regulators on Wednesday approved an early closure of the commercial sardine season off Oregon, Washington and California -- shutting down the harvest of the highly sought fish for at least the next 14 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting in Rohnert Park, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcouncil.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Fishery Management Council\u003c/a> voted to direct NOAA Fisheries to halt the current season as early as possible, affecting about 100 fishing boats with sardine permits, though far fewer are actively fishing at the moment. The season normally would end June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council decided earlier in the week to shut down the 2015-16 sardine season, which was to start July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action was taken based on revised estimates of sardine populations, which found the fish were declining in numbers faster than earlier believed, and on fears that without action sardines could soon reach the status of being overfished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council acted over protests from some in the fishing industry, and members said they understood the pain the closure would impose on some communities and workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council member Michele Culver, representing the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the shutdown is necessary because a new assessment of sardine stocks showed they were much lower than estimated last year, when harvest quotas were set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We may be in an overfished state in a couple of years,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Enticknap of the conservation group Oceana urged the council to take emergency action, arguing that sardines have been overfished since 2009 due to declining reproduction. He added that 90 percent of this year's class of sea lion pups were starving for lack of sardines to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The sardine populations have crashed 91 percent since 2007,\" he said after the vote. \"We would have liked to see this happen much sooner, but now we can start to rebuild this sardine population that is so important to the health of the ocean.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mike Okoniewski, a seafood processor from Washington who serves on an advisory panel, told the council that sardines were not being overfished, and shutting down the remainder of the current season would deprive fishing communities of $1 million worth of landings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that fishermen were seeing signs of more sardines moving into Southern California waters, and large numbers of fish spawning off Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The once-thriving sardine industry crashed in the 1940s, before modern fisheries management that sets harvest quotas and tries to prevent overfishing. Since it revived in the 1990s, most of the West Coast catch is exported to Asia and Europe, where some is canned, and the rest goes for bait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sardine population estimates have been declining since 2006, and catch values since 2012, when they hit $21 million. The reasons are not well understood, though it is widely accepted that huge population swings are natural and generally are related to water temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 100 boats have permits to fish for sardines on the West Coast. That's about half the number during the heyday.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10492319/agency-halts-sardine-fishing-as-population-collapses",
"authors": [
"byline_news_10492319"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944",
"news_72"
],
"categories": [
"news_19906",
"news_356"
],
"tags": [
"news_18008"
],
"featImg": "news_10492365",
"label": "news_72"
},
"news_10491235": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10491235",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10491235",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1429126422000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 72
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1429126422,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Medical Pot Growers Lobby Legislature to Regulate Industry",
"title": "Medical Pot Growers Lobby Legislature to Regulate Industry",
"headTitle": "The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — California's marijuana farmers have existed in a legal gray area during the 18 years since the state became the first to allow residents to use the drug for medical purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, veteran cannabis growers are emerging from the shadows to make their voices heard at the Capitol as the groundwork is being laid to legalize pot for recreational use in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana producers from Northern California's Emerald Triangle are hiring veteran lobbyists, forming political action committees and taking elected officials on fact-finding tours — even though large-scale pot farms remain illegal under federal law and growers risk being raided and prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The more consistent we can be in reminding people that unregulated agriculture is the problem ... the better off we'll be.'\u003ccite>Hezekiah Allen,\u003cbr>\nExecutive director, Emerald Growers Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The growers' coalition says it's worth the risk to ensure their interests are represented as lawmakers, and ultimately voters, consider regulations that could allow them to do business aboveboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is democracy in action,\" said Casey O'Neill, who grows flowers, vegetables and marijuana in Mendocino County and serves as secretary of the 750-member \u003ca href=\"http://www.emeraldgrowers.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Emerald Growers Association\u003c/a>. \"Every other industry sends lobbyists to tell government how to think, so finally as an industry we are realizing if this is how it works in America, we are going to have to play ball.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their first at-bat is a Wednesday hearing for a bill that would require medical marijuana growers to obtain permits and subject them to environmental inspections. The association is bringing members to Sacramento for advocacy training and to support the legislation with visits to legislators' offices and T-shirts reading, \"I am a farmer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the bill, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0201-0250/ab_243_bill_20150408_amended_asm_v98.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AB243\u003c/a>, is Assemblyman Jim Wood, a Democrat whose sprawling, 300-mile-long district encompasses the prime marijuana territory of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties. Wood said he doesn't know how his constituents will be received, but he hopes his colleagues will keep open minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's one of those things that here in Sacramento, when you start talking about it, some people, if you don't live in the world where this comes from, they are uncomfortable,\" Wood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prepare for\u003ca href=\"http://agri.assembly.ca.gov/hearings\" target=\"_blank\"> the hearing of the Assembly Agriculture Committee\u003c/a>, nine members of the growers' association put on slacks and dresses for a meeting in their lobbyist's 25th floor office within blocks of the Capitol to plot strategy and messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They decided to highlight their community as consisting largely of responsible farmers who are good environmentalists and employers but have been forced to operate as outlaws and unfairly lumped in with unscrupulous drug gangs that steal water for illegal pot grows on public lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more consistent we can be in reminding people that unregulated agriculture is the problem, and for all of the problems the solution is regulation, the better off we'll be,\" said Emerald Growers Association Executive Director Hezekiah Allen, a third-generation pot farmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oregon, Colorado and Washington state, where marijuana already has been legalized for recreational use by adults, pot growers have engaged in political advocacy in concert with and in opposition to consumer and business groups that fought for full legalization. Ongoing issues include price differences between medical and recreational pot and whether longtime growers are getting locked out of a more tightly regulated environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's growers want to avoid such scenarios. Association members say the state's medical marijuana laws are too loose to offer guidance or protection, so they have been collaborating with the drug reform groups that are crafting ballot language for a 2016 legalization campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growers' organization says pot farms should be overseen by the state agriculture department, as vineyards are, and that any licensing system should employ a tiered approach that leaves room for small \"craft cultivators.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One sign that the growers are being heard was a two-day field trip that \u003ca href=\"http://humboldtcounty.nationbuilder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">California Cannabis Voice Humboldt\u003c/a>, an advocacy group, organized last week for two members of the state tax board, which is providing input for the drafters of the legalization initiative on how recreational weed could be taxed. The officials toured a seedling nursery, a pair of specialty farms and a horticulture supply company, posing after the outing for a group photo with their hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A farmer made that happen,\" said group treasurer Luke Bruner, who organized the visit. \"The weed fairy doesn't bring this stuff to the dispensary.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10491235 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10491235",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/15/medical-pot-growers-lobby-legislature-to-regulate-industry/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 746,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 18
},
"modified": 1429134084,
"excerpt": "Northern California cannabis growers say they're backing bill that would bring order to industry.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Northern California cannabis growers say they're backing bill that would bring order to industry.",
"title": "Medical Pot Growers Lobby Legislature to Regulate Industry | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Medical Pot Growers Lobby Legislature to Regulate Industry",
"datePublished": "2015-04-15T12:33:42-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-04-15T14:41:24-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "medical-pot-growers-lobby-legislature-to-regulate-industry",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scoopscout\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Leff\u003c/a>\u003cbr />Associated Press\u003c/strong>",
"path": "/news/10491235/medical-pot-growers-lobby-legislature-to-regulate-industry",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — California's marijuana farmers have existed in a legal gray area during the 18 years since the state became the first to allow residents to use the drug for medical purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, veteran cannabis growers are emerging from the shadows to make their voices heard at the Capitol as the groundwork is being laid to legalize pot for recreational use in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana producers from Northern California's Emerald Triangle are hiring veteran lobbyists, forming political action committees and taking elected officials on fact-finding tours — even though large-scale pot farms remain illegal under federal law and growers risk being raided and prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The more consistent we can be in reminding people that unregulated agriculture is the problem ... the better off we'll be.'\u003ccite>Hezekiah Allen,\u003cbr>\nExecutive director, Emerald Growers Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The growers' coalition says it's worth the risk to ensure their interests are represented as lawmakers, and ultimately voters, consider regulations that could allow them to do business aboveboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is democracy in action,\" said Casey O'Neill, who grows flowers, vegetables and marijuana in Mendocino County and serves as secretary of the 750-member \u003ca href=\"http://www.emeraldgrowers.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Emerald Growers Association\u003c/a>. \"Every other industry sends lobbyists to tell government how to think, so finally as an industry we are realizing if this is how it works in America, we are going to have to play ball.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their first at-bat is a Wednesday hearing for a bill that would require medical marijuana growers to obtain permits and subject them to environmental inspections. The association is bringing members to Sacramento for advocacy training and to support the legislation with visits to legislators' offices and T-shirts reading, \"I am a farmer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the bill, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0201-0250/ab_243_bill_20150408_amended_asm_v98.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AB243\u003c/a>, is Assemblyman Jim Wood, a Democrat whose sprawling, 300-mile-long district encompasses the prime marijuana territory of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties. Wood said he doesn't know how his constituents will be received, but he hopes his colleagues will keep open minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's one of those things that here in Sacramento, when you start talking about it, some people, if you don't live in the world where this comes from, they are uncomfortable,\" Wood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prepare for\u003ca href=\"http://agri.assembly.ca.gov/hearings\" target=\"_blank\"> the hearing of the Assembly Agriculture Committee\u003c/a>, nine members of the growers' association put on slacks and dresses for a meeting in their lobbyist's 25th floor office within blocks of the Capitol to plot strategy and messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They decided to highlight their community as consisting largely of responsible farmers who are good environmentalists and employers but have been forced to operate as outlaws and unfairly lumped in with unscrupulous drug gangs that steal water for illegal pot grows on public lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The more consistent we can be in reminding people that unregulated agriculture is the problem, and for all of the problems the solution is regulation, the better off we'll be,\" said Emerald Growers Association Executive Director Hezekiah Allen, a third-generation pot farmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oregon, Colorado and Washington state, where marijuana already has been legalized for recreational use by adults, pot growers have engaged in political advocacy in concert with and in opposition to consumer and business groups that fought for full legalization. Ongoing issues include price differences between medical and recreational pot and whether longtime growers are getting locked out of a more tightly regulated environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's growers want to avoid such scenarios. Association members say the state's medical marijuana laws are too loose to offer guidance or protection, so they have been collaborating with the drug reform groups that are crafting ballot language for a 2016 legalization campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growers' organization says pot farms should be overseen by the state agriculture department, as vineyards are, and that any licensing system should employ a tiered approach that leaves room for small \"craft cultivators.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One sign that the growers are being heard was a two-day field trip that \u003ca href=\"http://humboldtcounty.nationbuilder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">California Cannabis Voice Humboldt\u003c/a>, an advocacy group, organized last week for two members of the state tax board, which is providing input for the drafters of the legalization initiative on how recreational weed could be taxed. The officials toured a seedling nursery, a pair of specialty farms and a horticulture supply company, posing after the outing for a group photo with their hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A farmer made that happen,\" said group treasurer Luke Bruner, who organized the visit. \"The weed fairy doesn't bring this stuff to the dispensary.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10491235/medical-pot-growers-lobby-legislature-to-regulate-industry",
"authors": [
"byline_news_10491235"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944",
"news_72"
],
"categories": [
"news_19906",
"news_6188",
"news_13"
],
"tags": [
"news_102",
"news_431",
"news_17286"
],
"featImg": "news_141441",
"label": "news_72"
},
"news_10379836": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10379836",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10379836",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1429054212000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 72
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1429054212,
"format": "image",
"disqusTitle": "April Drought Update: How Do the Reservoirs Look? Low, and Getting Lower",
"title": "April Drought Update: How Do the Reservoirs Look? Low, and Getting Lower",
"headTitle": "The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, April 14, 2015:\u003c/strong> This is our final update of a post that started out in December asking how fast the state's big reservoirs were filling up, as \"an outlandish volume\" of water poured down on California. Through the subsequent dry months -- in some locales, January through March this year marked the driest winter since record keeping began in the 19th century -- the question \"so how do those reservoirs look\" has taken on a much different cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They don't look good. At least one of the state's 10 biggest reservoirs -- the mammoth New Melones Lake, on the Stanislaus River -- may be emptied entirely before next fall's hoped-for rains. New Melones, which is backed up by a dam of the same name operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, supplies water for farmers and cities in the northeastern San Joaquin Valley; some of the water is also used to maintain flows on the Stanislaus for threatened chinook salmon and steelhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"VfLflD6dhqavX6XtZ0C7Q71ZfhE3LsDV\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation at New Melones is not unique. Although December's heavy rains and a handful of big storms since then did bolster supplies at the state's biggest artificial lakes, Shasta and Oroville, their levels remain far below normal -- 72 percent and 61 percent respectively. With the state's mountain ranges virtually bare of snow, there's no prospect for spring runoff that would add to those lakes' supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, none of the above really rates as news, and all of us will be living with the consequences in the months to come, and perhaps far longer. To follow our coverage of the drought, please check out our ongoing updates at \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/series/california-drought-watch/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's Drought Watch 2015\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, March 24, 2015:\u003c/strong> So, we started this season's water-watching in December with an eye to what early winter storms were doing to replenish the state's critically low water reservoirs. We all know what's happened since:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wet December followed by one of the driest Januaries on record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a couple of nice shots of rain in Northern California, with scant precipitation farther south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then March. It's not one of California's Big Three months for precipitation. But in 1991, an occasion that water-watchers recall with increasing wistfulness, March produced such a bounty of rain and snow that it's still known as a \u003ca href=\"http://snowbrains.com/miracle-march-1991-march-saved-tahoe/\" target=\"_blank\">miracle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week before the end of the month, it's clear \u003ca href=\"http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/2995\" target=\"_blank\">we'll witness no miracle\u003c/a> this time. What we're seeing instead is nothing short of shocking. The April 1 snowpack, to be officially reported next week, will be the lowest on record. And \"lowest on record\" doesn't quite convey how extreme the situation really is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the \"snow-water equivalent\" in the thin blanket of white covering California's mountains stood at a shade under 25 percent of its historic average. That beat the record, a hair over 25 percent, set during the severe drought season of 1976-77.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this year's snowpack?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The network of electronic sensors sending in reports from highland locations from the Trinity Alps down to the southern Sierra is showing that statewide, \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/DLYSWEQ\" target=\"_blank\">the snowpack is at \u003cem>9 percent\u003c/em> of average\u003c/a> -- not even half of where it was last year, when it was at its record low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the standard California water lecture is to talk about our \"frozen reservoir\" in the mountains -- a reference to the fact that anywhere between a third and a half of the water we use each year falls as snow, melts gradually as the weather warms, then comes tumbling down to our valleys as clear, cold water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, that's not happening this year. Regardless of what the statistical summaries say about our reservoirs -- our big Northern California lakes are still in good shape relative to last year, though \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES\" target=\"_blank\">far below average\u003c/a> for the date -- the near-total absence of snow means California, its 38 million people and its giant farm economy are headed into unknown territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unknown, except that it will be very dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/snowapp/sweq.action\" width=\"100%\" height=\"1000\" align=\"alignleft\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, March 3, 2015:\u003c/strong> As others have written -- notably Paul Rogers, managing editor of KQED's Science unit and environmental writer for the San Jose Mercury News -- one of the strong patterns that has \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_27494057/california-drought-divide-emerging-northern-california-getting-much\" target=\"_blank\">emerged this winter\u003c/a> is an atypical divide between how much precipitation Northern California has gotten this \"wet\" season and how much is falling south of the latitude of, say, San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just to be clear, climatic records show that Northern California gets more rain than Southern California, period. But this winter, many locations in Northern California are at -- or even a little above -- their seasonal average for precipitation, thanks mostly to a very wet December, while to the south, many locations are lagging far behind seasonal precipitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, San Jose has gotten 11.74 inches of rain since Oct. 1, which is 104 percent of \"normal.\" Fresno, in the San Joaquin Valley, has gotten 4.58 inches, or 58 percent of normal. (Here's a short list of these and other stations \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/awipsProducts/RNOWRKCLI.php\" target=\"_blank\">from the California Nevada River Forecast Center\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result of this general pattern is that there's been a healthy increase in storage at big reservoirs in Northern California. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=SHA&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Shasta Lake\u003c/a>, the state's biggest reservoir, is at 78 percent of average for this date (though it's just 58 percent full). \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=ORO&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Oroville\u003c/a>, the second-biggest storage facility, is at 70 percent of average and 49 percent full. Both are running far ahead of storage levels at this time last year. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=FOL&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Folsom Lake\u003c/a> is actually above average, at 103 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to the south, the bigger reservoirs are mostly in abysmal shape. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=NML&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">New Melones\u003c/a>, on the Stanislaus River and the state's fourth-biggest storage facility, is 25 percent full and 48 percent of average. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=NML&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Don Pedro\u003c/a>, the No. 5 reservoir, is 43 percent full and 60 percent of normal. (See the Department of Water Resources' \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES\" target=\"_blank\">daily summary of major reservoirs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the state's 10 biggest reservoirs, none is in as bad shape as \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=EXC&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake McClure\u003c/a>, on the Merced River downstream from Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month ago, Feb. 3, Lake McClure fell to its lowest level since it was filled in the 1960s. Per statistics from the state Department of Water Resources, its volume shrank to 63,489 acre-feet (remember, capacity is 1 million) and its surface was at 585.99 feet above sea level. That broke a record set during the six-year drought of 1986-1992, when the lake fell to 66,228 acre-feet, 588.48 surface elevation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lake McClure nadir during the terrible drought of 1976-77 -- the drought that saw Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville, among others, fall to their record lows -- was 72,200 acre-feet, 594 surface elevation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's an update to the update: The Department of Water Resources conducted its \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/news/newsreleases/2015/030315.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">third monthly snow survey\u003c/a> of the season earlier Tuesday. The measurement, taken in a meadow near Echo Summit on U.S. 50 high above Lake Tahoe, confirmed what the state's network of electronic monitoring stations has been reporting on a daily basis: the Sierra snowpack remains shockingly thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the survey location itself, near Phillips Station, the water content of the snow is just 5 percent of its historical March 3 average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DWR said its network of 103 stations has a composite average of 19 percent of the snow-water content typical for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department notes that the only year in which snow was as scant as it is now was 1991. Then, the state's water supply was saved by a \"Miracle March\" deluge that built up the snowpack and also dramatically increased the tiny volume of water stored in Lake McClure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To play forecast-watcher for a moment, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/610day/fxus06.html\" target=\"_blank\">six-to-10-day outlook\u003c/a> is showing a relatively high chance of above-median precipitation for most of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When might we see rain instead of just a forecast of rain?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area office in Monterey says models are pointing to \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">the possibility of a wet storm\u003c/a> arriving around the middle of next week. Between now and then, a familiar word: dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Feb. 9, 2015:\u003c/strong> As expected, the big rains that have fallen in the northern half of California have boosted storage at the state's principal reservoirs. So now we're confronted with a glass half-full/half-empty proposition when we appraise how they're looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: The federal Central Valley Project's \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=SHA&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Shasta Lake\u003c/a>, the state's biggest reservoir, which has risen to almost precisely 50 percent capacity as of Monday. About 9.5 inches of rain have fallen at Shasta Dam in the past week, typical of the heavy precipitation that's fallen in the 6,700-square-mile watershed that feeds the lake. That's dumped about 220,000 acre-feet of water into the reservoir since the first of the month and lifted it to 71 percent of normal for this time of year, up from 52 percent in mid-December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Water Project's \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=ORO&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Oroville\u003c/a>, California's second-biggest reservoir, has gotten much less rain recently -- about 3 inches at Oroville Dam since Thursday, with totals up to 10 inches in the 3,200-square-mile drainage basin. About 100,000 acre-feet have flowed into the reservoir since Feb. 1, raising it to 43 percent full and 64 percent of average for this time of year. That's up from 53 percent of normal in mid-December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta is storing about one-third more water than it was at this time last year; Oroville has about one-sixth more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other reservoirs of note:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=SNL&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">San Luis Reservoir\u003c/a>, the joint federal-state lake just west of Los Banos in the San Joaquin Valley -- a facility that's wholly dependent on water pumped down from the Delta -- is at 70 percent of average for early February and, thanks largely to our wet December, holds nearly double the water it did a year ago.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=CLE&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Trinity Lake\u003c/a>, the big federal reservoir northwest of Redding, has seen a spike in flows during the past week's rains. But it's still only at 41 percent of capacity and 58 percent of its average for early February. Trinity Lake was tapped last summer to provide higher flows on the Trinity and Klamath rivers to head off a massive die-off of migrating chinook salmon.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reservoirs in the southern half of the state have not enjoyed even the partial recovery seen up north. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=EXC&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake McClure\u003c/a>, the major reservoir on the Merced River, is at just 6 percent of capacity. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=PNF&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Pine Flat Reservoir\u003c/a>, on the King's River, is at 14 percent of capacity.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Jan. 20, 2015:\u003c/strong> Just over a month ago, we were watching rain gauges fill up and going to sleep at night with visions of our reservoirs rising again after a long, punishing drought. We'd had one of the rainiest Decembers in Bay Area history, with \u003ca href=\"http://ggweather.com/calif/dec2014.htm\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco getting\u003c/a> 2½ times its normal rainfall for the year's final month; San Jose's total was three times normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainfall around the state's two biggest reservoirs -- \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?SHA&d=20-Jan-2015+16:32&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Shasta Lake\u003c/a>, on the Sacramento River north of Redding, and \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?ORO&d=20-Jan-2015+16:37&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Oroville\u003c/a>, on the Feather River just upstream from its namesake city -- was just as copious as it was here on the coast. Shasta Dam got 23.5 inches of rain and Oroville got just over 13 inches, the highest December totals in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total volume of water stored in those two reservoirs jumped about 60 percent in just 31 days -- about 1.3 million acre-feet, or roughly enough water for the entire Bay Area for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time we saw real rain here in the Bay Area was Christmas Eve, when a front blew through the Bay Area and gave us a short, intense burst of precipitation. Since then, \u003ca href=\"http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/2853\" target=\"_blank\">meteorologists say\u003c/a>, we've seen the re-emergence of atmospheric conditions similar to those that kept us dry the last couple of winters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how do the reservoirs look now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Data Exchange Center, the go-to resource for state water data, publishes a \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES\" target=\"_blank\">daily summary of reservoir conditions\u003c/a>, and that snapshot shows a collection of key state reservoirs at 61 percent of normal for this time of year. That's better than things looked a month ago, and that's good news. The bad news, naturally, is that the torrents that were pouring into the Northern California reservoirs a month ago have slowed to a relative trickle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continuing to scrape for something that looks positive, we'll note that Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville are holding more water than they did a year ago at this time -- about 18 percent more in Shasta's case, about 12 percent for Oroville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far to the south of the big northern lakes, San Luis Reservoir, a facility that's crucial to San Joaquin Valley farmers and to Southern California water districts, has about 60 percent more water than it did at this time last year. But it's still only half full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One other dire fact to mention in this update: The Sierra snowpack is about one-third of normal. Here's the California Weather Blog's \u003ca href=\"http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/2853\">synopsis\u003c/a> of the reasons for the snow drought:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>December’s very heavy coastal rainfall did not translate to nearly as much mountain snowfall as might have been expected in a typical year, and mid-January snow water equivalent is tracking at near record-low levels once again–and is in fact on a very similar trajectory to both 1976-1977 and 2013-2014. The extremely minimal Sierra snowpack this year is the combined result of both regionally below-average precipitation to date across eastern California and well-above average (record-breaking) temperatures. Much of the moisture from December’s extremely wet “atmospheric river” event fell near the coast, and never made it all the way inland to parts of the state that are critically important for snowpack storage. Both daytime and nighttime temperatures have been well-above average in the Sierra for several consecutive winters (in some cases, elevations as high as 10,000 feet have been experiencing mean temperatures above freezing in mid-winter!), and has caused precipitation in this typically snowy region to fall primarily as rain. 2014 has officially gone down in the record books as California’s warmest year in recorded history (by a very wide margin), and one of the most visible manifestations of that record warmth is apparent in California’s extremely low snowpack.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Dec. 15, 2014):\u003c/strong> It's raining again, and if you believe weather forecasters and the computer models on which they rely, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">we're in for wet weather\u003c/a> for most of this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comes on top of an outlandish volume of water that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/09/our-next-storm-very-windy-and-very-wet\" target=\"_blank\">fell across the state \u003c/a>last week, variously computed as between \u003ca href=\"http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/will-the-barrage-of-storms-end/38770784\" target=\"_blank\">17 million and 100 million gallons per square mile\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-10-trillion-gallons-drench-california-20141212-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 trillion gallons statewide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's great news in our parched state, for sure. By now you know, though, that there always has to be a \"but,\" or in this case, several.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>That's great news, but remember how it quit raining after a beautiful wet December two years ago? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>That's great news, but the Sierra snowpack is still unseasonably thin. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>That's great news, but the state's reservoirs are still way below normal. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the biggest \"but\" of all: \u003cem>That's great news, but when will we know for sure the drought's over? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That final question is tough to answer, and the truth is that unless something surprising (though not unprecedented) happens, we'll be able to say whether the drought is really over only months and months from now. So I'm going to exercise my privilege as executive blogger and stick to what we can say objectively now, based on the mountain of daily statistics from the state Department of Water Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the snow, the DWR California Data Exchange Center publishes \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/DLYSWEQ\" target=\"_blank\">a daily summary\u003c/a> of water content for the Sierra Nevada snowpack. It's an important number because the state relies heavily on runoff from the Sierra snows to help fill reservoirs. (How much water is stored in the snowpack? About 15 million acre-feet in an \"average\" year, according to past DWR calculations. An acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons, and one rule of thumb says that's about enough to supply two average California households for a year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the snowpack so far this year? As of Monday, it's 41 percent of normal for the date. That's not great. If you're looking for a silver lining to that meager-sounding number, here it is: We're still early in the season, and historically most of the snowpack is built during January and February. So there's still lots of time to catch up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can say the same about reservoir levels. Right now, storage at the big artificial lakes the state uses to manage its water supply is running far behind normal. A \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES\" target=\"_blank\">daily state report\u003c/a> on conditions at major reservoirs says they're at about 55 percent of the average for mid-December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The picture is about the same when you drill down to Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville, the state's two biggest reservoirs. Shasta, a federal facility, and Oroville, the main storehouse for the State Water Project, have a combined capacity of 8 million acre-feet and are used to direct water to farms throughout the Central Valley and to cities from the Bay Area all the way down to San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=ORO&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Oroville\u003c/a> was at 53 percent of average for this time of year and \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=SHA&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Shasta\u003c/a> was at 52 percent. Both lakes are less than one-third of capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it's good news that water has been pounding into those big reservoirs, which together have added more than 500,000 acre-feet since Dec. 3, with each rising about 30 feet. Still, Shasta Lake is just a few feet higher today than it was in late August, when the picture above was taken. And that's proof enough that -- the beauty, relief and occasional havoc the recent rains have brought notwithstanding -- our long dry spell isn't quite behind us.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10379836 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10379836",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/14/its-raining-so-how-do-those-reservoirs-look/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 3097,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 64
},
"modified": 1429056152,
"excerpt": "Disappointing season gives way to steadily dropping lake levels as we look to next wet season for hope.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Disappointing season gives way to steadily dropping lake levels as we look to next wet season for hope.",
"title": "April Drought Update: How Do the Reservoirs Look? Low, and Getting Lower | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "April Drought Update: How Do the Reservoirs Look? Low, and Getting Lower",
"datePublished": "2015-04-14T16:30:12-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-04-14T17:02:32-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "its-raining-so-how-do-those-reservoirs-look",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2014/12/15/its-raining-so-how-do-those-reservoirs-look/",
"path": "/news/10379836/its-raining-so-how-do-those-reservoirs-look",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, April 14, 2015:\u003c/strong> This is our final update of a post that started out in December asking how fast the state's big reservoirs were filling up, as \"an outlandish volume\" of water poured down on California. Through the subsequent dry months -- in some locales, January through March this year marked the driest winter since record keeping began in the 19th century -- the question \"so how do those reservoirs look\" has taken on a much different cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They don't look good. At least one of the state's 10 biggest reservoirs -- the mammoth New Melones Lake, on the Stanislaus River -- may be emptied entirely before next fall's hoped-for rains. New Melones, which is backed up by a dam of the same name operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, supplies water for farmers and cities in the northeastern San Joaquin Valley; some of the water is also used to maintain flows on the Stanislaus for threatened chinook salmon and steelhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation at New Melones is not unique. Although December's heavy rains and a handful of big storms since then did bolster supplies at the state's biggest artificial lakes, Shasta and Oroville, their levels remain far below normal -- 72 percent and 61 percent respectively. With the state's mountain ranges virtually bare of snow, there's no prospect for spring runoff that would add to those lakes' supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, none of the above really rates as news, and all of us will be living with the consequences in the months to come, and perhaps far longer. To follow our coverage of the drought, please check out our ongoing updates at \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/series/california-drought-watch/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's Drought Watch 2015\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, March 24, 2015:\u003c/strong> So, we started this season's water-watching in December with an eye to what early winter storms were doing to replenish the state's critically low water reservoirs. We all know what's happened since:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wet December followed by one of the driest Januaries on record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a couple of nice shots of rain in Northern California, with scant precipitation farther south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then March. It's not one of California's Big Three months for precipitation. But in 1991, an occasion that water-watchers recall with increasing wistfulness, March produced such a bounty of rain and snow that it's still known as a \u003ca href=\"http://snowbrains.com/miracle-march-1991-march-saved-tahoe/\" target=\"_blank\">miracle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week before the end of the month, it's clear \u003ca href=\"http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/2995\" target=\"_blank\">we'll witness no miracle\u003c/a> this time. What we're seeing instead is nothing short of shocking. The April 1 snowpack, to be officially reported next week, will be the lowest on record. And \"lowest on record\" doesn't quite convey how extreme the situation really is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the \"snow-water equivalent\" in the thin blanket of white covering California's mountains stood at a shade under 25 percent of its historic average. That beat the record, a hair over 25 percent, set during the severe drought season of 1976-77.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this year's snowpack?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The network of electronic sensors sending in reports from highland locations from the Trinity Alps down to the southern Sierra is showing that statewide, \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/DLYSWEQ\" target=\"_blank\">the snowpack is at \u003cem>9 percent\u003c/em> of average\u003c/a> -- not even half of where it was last year, when it was at its record low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the standard California water lecture is to talk about our \"frozen reservoir\" in the mountains -- a reference to the fact that anywhere between a third and a half of the water we use each year falls as snow, melts gradually as the weather warms, then comes tumbling down to our valleys as clear, cold water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, that's not happening this year. Regardless of what the statistical summaries say about our reservoirs -- our big Northern California lakes are still in good shape relative to last year, though \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES\" target=\"_blank\">far below average\u003c/a> for the date -- the near-total absence of snow means California, its 38 million people and its giant farm economy are headed into unknown territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unknown, except that it will be very dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/snowapp/sweq.action\" width=\"100%\" height=\"1000\" align=\"alignleft\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, March 3, 2015:\u003c/strong> As others have written -- notably Paul Rogers, managing editor of KQED's Science unit and environmental writer for the San Jose Mercury News -- one of the strong patterns that has \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_27494057/california-drought-divide-emerging-northern-california-getting-much\" target=\"_blank\">emerged this winter\u003c/a> is an atypical divide between how much precipitation Northern California has gotten this \"wet\" season and how much is falling south of the latitude of, say, San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just to be clear, climatic records show that Northern California gets more rain than Southern California, period. But this winter, many locations in Northern California are at -- or even a little above -- their seasonal average for precipitation, thanks mostly to a very wet December, while to the south, many locations are lagging far behind seasonal precipitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, San Jose has gotten 11.74 inches of rain since Oct. 1, which is 104 percent of \"normal.\" Fresno, in the San Joaquin Valley, has gotten 4.58 inches, or 58 percent of normal. (Here's a short list of these and other stations \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/awipsProducts/RNOWRKCLI.php\" target=\"_blank\">from the California Nevada River Forecast Center\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result of this general pattern is that there's been a healthy increase in storage at big reservoirs in Northern California. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=SHA&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Shasta Lake\u003c/a>, the state's biggest reservoir, is at 78 percent of average for this date (though it's just 58 percent full). \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=ORO&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Oroville\u003c/a>, the second-biggest storage facility, is at 70 percent of average and 49 percent full. Both are running far ahead of storage levels at this time last year. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=FOL&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Folsom Lake\u003c/a> is actually above average, at 103 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to the south, the bigger reservoirs are mostly in abysmal shape. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=NML&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">New Melones\u003c/a>, on the Stanislaus River and the state's fourth-biggest storage facility, is 25 percent full and 48 percent of average. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=NML&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Don Pedro\u003c/a>, the No. 5 reservoir, is 43 percent full and 60 percent of normal. (See the Department of Water Resources' \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES\" target=\"_blank\">daily summary of major reservoirs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the state's 10 biggest reservoirs, none is in as bad shape as \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=EXC&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake McClure\u003c/a>, on the Merced River downstream from Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month ago, Feb. 3, Lake McClure fell to its lowest level since it was filled in the 1960s. Per statistics from the state Department of Water Resources, its volume shrank to 63,489 acre-feet (remember, capacity is 1 million) and its surface was at 585.99 feet above sea level. That broke a record set during the six-year drought of 1986-1992, when the lake fell to 66,228 acre-feet, 588.48 surface elevation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lake McClure nadir during the terrible drought of 1976-77 -- the drought that saw Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville, among others, fall to their record lows -- was 72,200 acre-feet, 594 surface elevation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's an update to the update: The Department of Water Resources conducted its \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/news/newsreleases/2015/030315.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">third monthly snow survey\u003c/a> of the season earlier Tuesday. The measurement, taken in a meadow near Echo Summit on U.S. 50 high above Lake Tahoe, confirmed what the state's network of electronic monitoring stations has been reporting on a daily basis: the Sierra snowpack remains shockingly thin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the survey location itself, near Phillips Station, the water content of the snow is just 5 percent of its historical March 3 average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DWR said its network of 103 stations has a composite average of 19 percent of the snow-water content typical for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department notes that the only year in which snow was as scant as it is now was 1991. Then, the state's water supply was saved by a \"Miracle March\" deluge that built up the snowpack and also dramatically increased the tiny volume of water stored in Lake McClure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To play forecast-watcher for a moment, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/610day/fxus06.html\" target=\"_blank\">six-to-10-day outlook\u003c/a> is showing a relatively high chance of above-median precipitation for most of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When might we see rain instead of just a forecast of rain?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area office in Monterey says models are pointing to \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">the possibility of a wet storm\u003c/a> arriving around the middle of next week. Between now and then, a familiar word: dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Feb. 9, 2015:\u003c/strong> As expected, the big rains that have fallen in the northern half of California have boosted storage at the state's principal reservoirs. So now we're confronted with a glass half-full/half-empty proposition when we appraise how they're looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: The federal Central Valley Project's \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=SHA&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Shasta Lake\u003c/a>, the state's biggest reservoir, which has risen to almost precisely 50 percent capacity as of Monday. About 9.5 inches of rain have fallen at Shasta Dam in the past week, typical of the heavy precipitation that's fallen in the 6,700-square-mile watershed that feeds the lake. That's dumped about 220,000 acre-feet of water into the reservoir since the first of the month and lifted it to 71 percent of normal for this time of year, up from 52 percent in mid-December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Water Project's \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=ORO&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Oroville\u003c/a>, California's second-biggest reservoir, has gotten much less rain recently -- about 3 inches at Oroville Dam since Thursday, with totals up to 10 inches in the 3,200-square-mile drainage basin. About 100,000 acre-feet have flowed into the reservoir since Feb. 1, raising it to 43 percent full and 64 percent of average for this time of year. That's up from 53 percent of normal in mid-December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta is storing about one-third more water than it was at this time last year; Oroville has about one-sixth more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other reservoirs of note:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=SNL&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">San Luis Reservoir\u003c/a>, the joint federal-state lake just west of Los Banos in the San Joaquin Valley -- a facility that's wholly dependent on water pumped down from the Delta -- is at 70 percent of average for early February and, thanks largely to our wet December, holds nearly double the water it did a year ago.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=CLE&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Trinity Lake\u003c/a>, the big federal reservoir northwest of Redding, has seen a spike in flows during the past week's rains. But it's still only at 41 percent of capacity and 58 percent of its average for early February. Trinity Lake was tapped last summer to provide higher flows on the Trinity and Klamath rivers to head off a massive die-off of migrating chinook salmon.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Reservoirs in the southern half of the state have not enjoyed even the partial recovery seen up north. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=EXC&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake McClure\u003c/a>, the major reservoir on the Merced River, is at just 6 percent of capacity. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=PNF&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Pine Flat Reservoir\u003c/a>, on the King's River, is at 14 percent of capacity.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Jan. 20, 2015:\u003c/strong> Just over a month ago, we were watching rain gauges fill up and going to sleep at night with visions of our reservoirs rising again after a long, punishing drought. We'd had one of the rainiest Decembers in Bay Area history, with \u003ca href=\"http://ggweather.com/calif/dec2014.htm\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco getting\u003c/a> 2½ times its normal rainfall for the year's final month; San Jose's total was three times normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainfall around the state's two biggest reservoirs -- \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?SHA&d=20-Jan-2015+16:32&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Shasta Lake\u003c/a>, on the Sacramento River north of Redding, and \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?ORO&d=20-Jan-2015+16:37&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Oroville\u003c/a>, on the Feather River just upstream from its namesake city -- was just as copious as it was here on the coast. Shasta Dam got 23.5 inches of rain and Oroville got just over 13 inches, the highest December totals in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total volume of water stored in those two reservoirs jumped about 60 percent in just 31 days -- about 1.3 million acre-feet, or roughly enough water for the entire Bay Area for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time we saw real rain here in the Bay Area was Christmas Eve, when a front blew through the Bay Area and gave us a short, intense burst of precipitation. Since then, \u003ca href=\"http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/2853\" target=\"_blank\">meteorologists say\u003c/a>, we've seen the re-emergence of atmospheric conditions similar to those that kept us dry the last couple of winters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how do the reservoirs look now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Data Exchange Center, the go-to resource for state water data, publishes a \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES\" target=\"_blank\">daily summary of reservoir conditions\u003c/a>, and that snapshot shows a collection of key state reservoirs at 61 percent of normal for this time of year. That's better than things looked a month ago, and that's good news. The bad news, naturally, is that the torrents that were pouring into the Northern California reservoirs a month ago have slowed to a relative trickle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Continuing to scrape for something that looks positive, we'll note that Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville are holding more water than they did a year ago at this time -- about 18 percent more in Shasta's case, about 12 percent for Oroville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far to the south of the big northern lakes, San Luis Reservoir, a facility that's crucial to San Joaquin Valley farmers and to Southern California water districts, has about 60 percent more water than it did at this time last year. But it's still only half full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One other dire fact to mention in this update: The Sierra snowpack is about one-third of normal. Here's the California Weather Blog's \u003ca href=\"http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/2853\">synopsis\u003c/a> of the reasons for the snow drought:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>December’s very heavy coastal rainfall did not translate to nearly as much mountain snowfall as might have been expected in a typical year, and mid-January snow water equivalent is tracking at near record-low levels once again–and is in fact on a very similar trajectory to both 1976-1977 and 2013-2014. The extremely minimal Sierra snowpack this year is the combined result of both regionally below-average precipitation to date across eastern California and well-above average (record-breaking) temperatures. Much of the moisture from December’s extremely wet “atmospheric river” event fell near the coast, and never made it all the way inland to parts of the state that are critically important for snowpack storage. Both daytime and nighttime temperatures have been well-above average in the Sierra for several consecutive winters (in some cases, elevations as high as 10,000 feet have been experiencing mean temperatures above freezing in mid-winter!), and has caused precipitation in this typically snowy region to fall primarily as rain. 2014 has officially gone down in the record books as California’s warmest year in recorded history (by a very wide margin), and one of the most visible manifestations of that record warmth is apparent in California’s extremely low snowpack.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Dec. 15, 2014):\u003c/strong> It's raining again, and if you believe weather forecasters and the computer models on which they rely, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">we're in for wet weather\u003c/a> for most of this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That comes on top of an outlandish volume of water that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/09/our-next-storm-very-windy-and-very-wet\" target=\"_blank\">fell across the state \u003c/a>last week, variously computed as between \u003ca href=\"http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/will-the-barrage-of-storms-end/38770784\" target=\"_blank\">17 million and 100 million gallons per square mile\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-10-trillion-gallons-drench-california-20141212-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 trillion gallons statewide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's great news in our parched state, for sure. By now you know, though, that there always has to be a \"but,\" or in this case, several.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>That's great news, but remember how it quit raining after a beautiful wet December two years ago? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>That's great news, but the Sierra snowpack is still unseasonably thin. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>That's great news, but the state's reservoirs are still way below normal. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the biggest \"but\" of all: \u003cem>That's great news, but when will we know for sure the drought's over? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That final question is tough to answer, and the truth is that unless something surprising (though not unprecedented) happens, we'll be able to say whether the drought is really over only months and months from now. So I'm going to exercise my privilege as executive blogger and stick to what we can say objectively now, based on the mountain of daily statistics from the state Department of Water Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the snow, the DWR California Data Exchange Center publishes \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/DLYSWEQ\" target=\"_blank\">a daily summary\u003c/a> of water content for the Sierra Nevada snowpack. It's an important number because the state relies heavily on runoff from the Sierra snows to help fill reservoirs. (How much water is stored in the snowpack? About 15 million acre-feet in an \"average\" year, according to past DWR calculations. An acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons, and one rule of thumb says that's about enough to supply two average California households for a year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the snowpack so far this year? As of Monday, it's 41 percent of normal for the date. That's not great. If you're looking for a silver lining to that meager-sounding number, here it is: We're still early in the season, and historically most of the snowpack is built during January and February. So there's still lots of time to catch up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can say the same about reservoir levels. Right now, storage at the big artificial lakes the state uses to manage its water supply is running far behind normal. A \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES\" target=\"_blank\">daily state report\u003c/a> on conditions at major reservoirs says they're at about 55 percent of the average for mid-December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The picture is about the same when you drill down to Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville, the state's two biggest reservoirs. Shasta, a federal facility, and Oroville, the main storehouse for the State Water Project, have a combined capacity of 8 million acre-feet and are used to direct water to farms throughout the Central Valley and to cities from the Bay Area all the way down to San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Monday, \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=ORO&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Oroville\u003c/a> was at 53 percent of average for this time of year and \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=SHA&d=&span=1month\" target=\"_blank\">Shasta\u003c/a> was at 52 percent. Both lakes are less than one-third of capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it's good news that water has been pounding into those big reservoirs, which together have added more than 500,000 acre-feet since Dec. 3, with each rising about 30 feet. Still, Shasta Lake is just a few feet higher today than it was in late August, when the picture above was taken. And that's proof enough that -- the beauty, relief and occasional havoc the recent rains have brought notwithstanding -- our long dry spell isn't quite behind us.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10379836/its-raining-so-how-do-those-reservoirs-look",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944",
"news_72"
],
"categories": [
"news_19906",
"news_356"
],
"tags": [
"news_17601",
"news_4175",
"news_17286",
"news_483"
],
"featImg": "news_10490282",
"label": "news_72"
},
"news_10489797": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10489797",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10489797",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1429026143000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1429026143,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "'Behold This Compost!' Revisiting How We Deal With Our Earthly Remains",
"title": "'Behold This Compost!' Revisiting How We Deal With Our Earthly Remains",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>The New York Times, in its Science section Tuesday, takes up \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/science/a-project-to-turn-corpses-into-compost.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">a question\u003c/a> that touches on the ultimate fate of us all: When we die, what do we want done with these used-up bodies of ours?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We all know the standard choices in mainstream U.S. culture: cemetery burial and cremation. A few choose other means, such as donating their no-longer-needed corporeal self to research. I know one person who has done that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other traditions out there, of course. For instance, some Native American tribes have practiced scaffold or tree burials, placing corpses on raised platforms in the open air. Sky burials are practiced \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sky-burial\" target=\"_blank\">among Tibetan Buddhists\u003c/a> and India's \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/160401322/vanishing-vultures-a-grave-matter-for-indias-parsis\" target=\"_blank\">Zoroastrian community\u003c/a>. I've often thought that when my time comes, that might not be a bad means of disposal (family members who have heard me say that are not fans of the idea.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Times turns its attention to a different style of disposal -- composting -- one that the poet Walt Whitman rhapsodized over in his poem, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/compost\" target=\"_blank\">This Compost\u003c/a>\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Behold this compost! behold it well!\u003cbr>\nPerhaps every mite has once form’d part of a sick person — yet behold!\u003cbr>\nThe grass of spring covers the prairies,\u003cbr>\nThe bean bursts noiselessly through the mould in the garden,\u003cbr>\nThe delicate spear of the onion pierces upward,\u003cbr>\nThe apple-buds cluster together on the apple-branches,\u003cbr>\nThe resurrection of the wheat appears with pale visage out of its graves,\u003cbr>\nThe tinge awakes over the willow-tree and the mulberry-tree ...\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Times story focuses on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandeathproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Death Project\u003c/a>, an effort to develop a practical (and ceremonial) way to compost human bodies. Here's how creator Katrina Spade, a Seattle architect, says it would work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ms. Spade has designed a building for human composting that aims to marry the efficiency of this biological process with the ritual and symbolism that mourners crave. Each Urban Death facility would be centered around a three-story vault that she calls “the core.” Loved ones would carry their deceased, wrapped in a shroud, up a circular ramp to the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, during a “laying in” ceremony, mourners would place the body inside the core, which could hold perhaps 30 corpses at a time. Over the next several weeks, each body would move down the core until the first stage of composting was complete. In a second stage, material would be screened, along with any remaining bones, and the compost would be cured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Spade estimates that each body, combined with the necessary materials such as wood chips and sawdust, would yield enough compost to fill a cube three feet by three feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks or months later, survivors could collect some of the compost to use as they saw fit, perhaps in their garden or to plant a tree. Ms. Spade foresees the rest going to nearby parks or conservation lands. Each human composting would cost about $2,500, a fraction of the price of conventional burial, Ms. Spade estimates.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I think Walt Whitman would observe and approve. He gets \u003ca href=\"http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174745\" target=\"_blank\">the last word\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,\u003cbr>\nIf you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,\u003cbr>\nBut I shall be good health to you nevertheless,\u003cbr>\nAnd filter and fibre your blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,\u003cbr>\nMissing me one place search another,\u003cbr>\nI stop somewhere waiting for you.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10489797 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10489797",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/14/behold-this-compost-its-aunt-wanda/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 590,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 16
},
"modified": 1429048179,
"excerpt": "Project would create facilities to dispose of human remains in a natural -- and reusable -- fashion. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Project would create facilities to dispose of human remains in a natural -- and reusable -- fashion. ",
"title": "'Behold This Compost!' Revisiting How We Deal With Our Earthly Remains | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "'Behold This Compost!' Revisiting How We Deal With Our Earthly Remains",
"datePublished": "2015-04-14T08:42:23-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-04-14T14:49:39-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "behold-this-compost-its-aunt-wanda",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/10489797/behold-this-compost-its-aunt-wanda",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The New York Times, in its Science section Tuesday, takes up \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/science/a-project-to-turn-corpses-into-compost.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">a question\u003c/a> that touches on the ultimate fate of us all: When we die, what do we want done with these used-up bodies of ours?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We all know the standard choices in mainstream U.S. culture: cemetery burial and cremation. A few choose other means, such as donating their no-longer-needed corporeal self to research. I know one person who has done that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other traditions out there, of course. For instance, some Native American tribes have practiced scaffold or tree burials, placing corpses on raised platforms in the open air. Sky burials are practiced \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sky-burial\" target=\"_blank\">among Tibetan Buddhists\u003c/a> and India's \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/160401322/vanishing-vultures-a-grave-matter-for-indias-parsis\" target=\"_blank\">Zoroastrian community\u003c/a>. I've often thought that when my time comes, that might not be a bad means of disposal (family members who have heard me say that are not fans of the idea.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Times turns its attention to a different style of disposal -- composting -- one that the poet Walt Whitman rhapsodized over in his poem, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/compost\" target=\"_blank\">This Compost\u003c/a>\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Behold this compost! behold it well!\u003cbr>\nPerhaps every mite has once form’d part of a sick person — yet behold!\u003cbr>\nThe grass of spring covers the prairies,\u003cbr>\nThe bean bursts noiselessly through the mould in the garden,\u003cbr>\nThe delicate spear of the onion pierces upward,\u003cbr>\nThe apple-buds cluster together on the apple-branches,\u003cbr>\nThe resurrection of the wheat appears with pale visage out of its graves,\u003cbr>\nThe tinge awakes over the willow-tree and the mulberry-tree ...\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Times story focuses on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandeathproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Death Project\u003c/a>, an effort to develop a practical (and ceremonial) way to compost human bodies. Here's how creator Katrina Spade, a Seattle architect, says it would work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ms. Spade has designed a building for human composting that aims to marry the efficiency of this biological process with the ritual and symbolism that mourners crave. Each Urban Death facility would be centered around a three-story vault that she calls “the core.” Loved ones would carry their deceased, wrapped in a shroud, up a circular ramp to the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, during a “laying in” ceremony, mourners would place the body inside the core, which could hold perhaps 30 corpses at a time. Over the next several weeks, each body would move down the core until the first stage of composting was complete. In a second stage, material would be screened, along with any remaining bones, and the compost would be cured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Spade estimates that each body, combined with the necessary materials such as wood chips and sawdust, would yield enough compost to fill a cube three feet by three feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks or months later, survivors could collect some of the compost to use as they saw fit, perhaps in their garden or to plant a tree. Ms. Spade foresees the rest going to nearby parks or conservation lands. Each human composting would cost about $2,500, a fraction of the price of conventional burial, Ms. Spade estimates.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I think Walt Whitman would observe and approve. He gets \u003ca href=\"http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174745\" target=\"_blank\">the last word\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,\u003cbr>\nIf you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,\u003cbr>\nBut I shall be good health to you nevertheless,\u003cbr>\nAnd filter and fibre your blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,\u003cbr>\nMissing me one place search another,\u003cbr>\nI stop somewhere waiting for you.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10489797/behold-this-compost-its-aunt-wanda",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_19906",
"news_356"
],
"featImg": "news_10489844",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10488794": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10488794",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10488794",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1428962743000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 72
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1428962743,
"format": "image",
"disqusTitle": "Satellite Imagery, Photos Bring Home Magnitude of California Drought",
"title": "Satellite Imagery, Photos Bring Home Magnitude of California Drought",
"headTitle": "The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Last November, to illustrate the severity of the drought, we published these \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/14/drought-photos-see-lake-oroville-fall-near-historic-low-over-20-months\" target=\"_blank\">photos of Lake Oroville\u003c/a> over a 20-month period. (The lake was \"sort of a drought poster child,\" wrote Lisa Pickoff-White.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that same vein, here are three satellite images from NASA of the Lake Tahoe region, from February 2011 to February 2014, showing the diminishing amount of snow. The images come from the agency's site \u003ca href=\"http://climate.nasa.gov/state_of_flux#Qori-Kalis-930px-80-v2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Images of Change\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10488797 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"Images taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus onboard Landsat 7 and the Operational Land Imager onboard Landsat 8. \" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-1440x900.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-768x480.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-320x200.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things have only worsened since then. Check out this \u003ca href=\"http://i.imwx.com/web/news/ca-snowpack-15vs14-650.gif\" target=\"_blank\">gif of the Sierra snowpack\u003c/a> comparing satellite images from April 2014 with March 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, courtesy of NASA again, here's Yosemite's shrinking Lyell Glacier:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10488802\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"U.S National Parks Service\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-1440x900.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-768x480.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-320x200.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From NASA:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Lyell Glacier, larger of the two glaciers in Yosemite National Park and second largest in the Sierra Nevada mountains, has thinned noticeably even in just the last few years. Newly exposed bedrock is visible on the east (left) side of the 2014 image. The glacier is currently estimated to be 15 to 20 feet thick, losing about three feet of thickness each year.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some more stark images from our drought collection:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10488921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10488921\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Bear tracks in the mud at Shasta Lake. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear tracks in the mud at Shasta Lake. \u003ccite>(Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10488930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10488930 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-800x1093.jpg\" alt=\"Before And After: Statewide Drought Takes Toll On California's Lake Oroville Water Level\" width=\"800\" height=\"1093\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-800x1093.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-400x546.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-1440x1967.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-1180x1612.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-768x1049.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-320x437.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OROVILLE, CA - JULY 20: In this before-and-after composite image, (Top) The Enterprise Bridge passes over full water levels at a section of Lake Oroville on July 20, 2011, in Oroville, California. (Photo by Paul Hames/California Department of Water Resources via Getty Images) OROVILLE, CA - AUGUST 19: (Bottom) The Enterprise Bridge passes over a section of Lake Oroville that is nearly dry on Aug. 19, 2014, in Oroville, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10488925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10488925 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-800x537.jpg\" alt=\" A car sits in dried and cracked earth of what was the bottom of the Almaden Reservoir on January 28, 2014 in San Jose, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-400x269.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-1440x967.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-768x516.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-320x215.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car sits in dried and cracked earth of what was the bottom of the Almaden Reservoir on Jan. 28, 2014, in San Jose, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10488928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10488928 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Drought5\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Russian River, near Badger Park in Healdsburg, on Feb. 1, 2014. Low flows have created isolated pools, stranding some fish and forcing officials to close many rivers to fishing.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More drought photos:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dramatic-California-drought-before-and-after-5756861.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexnaidus/california-drought-images\">Buzzfeed before and after\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/california-drought-drains-lakes/14/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/California-SoCal-Weather-Forecast-Rain-Storms-Drought-Water-Dry-246934731.html#\">NBC Los Angeles\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/infospigot/with/16826363699/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr page of KQED News Fix editor/blogger Dan Brekke\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10488794 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10488794",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/13/satellite-imagery-photos-bring-home-magnitude-of-california-drought/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 357,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 12
},
"modified": 1429063660,
"excerpt": "Images from KQED and around the web.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Images from KQED and around the web.",
"title": "Satellite Imagery, Photos Bring Home Magnitude of California Drought | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Satellite Imagery, Photos Bring Home Magnitude of California Drought",
"datePublished": "2015-04-13T15:05:43-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-04-14T19:07:40-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "satellite-imagery-photos-bring-home-magnitude-of-california-drought",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/10488794/satellite-imagery-photos-bring-home-magnitude-of-california-drought",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last November, to illustrate the severity of the drought, we published these \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/14/drought-photos-see-lake-oroville-fall-near-historic-low-over-20-months\" target=\"_blank\">photos of Lake Oroville\u003c/a> over a 20-month period. (The lake was \"sort of a drought poster child,\" wrote Lisa Pickoff-White.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that same vein, here are three satellite images from NASA of the Lake Tahoe region, from February 2011 to February 2014, showing the diminishing amount of snow. The images come from the agency's site \u003ca href=\"http://climate.nasa.gov/state_of_flux#Qori-Kalis-930px-80-v2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Images of Change\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10488797 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"Images taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus onboard Landsat 7 and the Operational Land Imager onboard Landsat 8. \" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-1440x900.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-768x480.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200-320x200.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought_California_1920x1200.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things have only worsened since then. Check out this \u003ca href=\"http://i.imwx.com/web/news/ca-snowpack-15vs14-650.gif\" target=\"_blank\">gif of the Sierra snowpack\u003c/a> comparing satellite images from April 2014 with March 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, courtesy of NASA again, here's Yosemite's shrinking Lyell Glacier:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10488802\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"U.S National Parks Service\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-1440x900.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-768x480.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200-320x200.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Lyell_Glacier_1920x1200.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From NASA:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Lyell Glacier, larger of the two glaciers in Yosemite National Park and second largest in the Sierra Nevada mountains, has thinned noticeably even in just the last few years. Newly exposed bedrock is visible on the east (left) side of the 2014 image. The glacier is currently estimated to be 15 to 20 feet thick, losing about three feet of thickness each year.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some more stark images from our drought collection:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10488921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10488921\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Bear tracks in the mud at Shasta Lake. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear tracks in the mud at Shasta Lake. \u003ccite>(Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10488930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10488930 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-800x1093.jpg\" alt=\"Before And After: Statewide Drought Takes Toll On California's Lake Oroville Water Level\" width=\"800\" height=\"1093\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-800x1093.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-400x546.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-1440x1967.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-1180x1612.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-768x1049.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought6-320x437.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OROVILLE, CA - JULY 20: In this before-and-after composite image, (Top) The Enterprise Bridge passes over full water levels at a section of Lake Oroville on July 20, 2011, in Oroville, California. (Photo by Paul Hames/California Department of Water Resources via Getty Images) OROVILLE, CA - AUGUST 19: (Bottom) The Enterprise Bridge passes over a section of Lake Oroville that is nearly dry on Aug. 19, 2014, in Oroville, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10488925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10488925 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-800x537.jpg\" alt=\" A car sits in dried and cracked earth of what was the bottom of the Almaden Reservoir on January 28, 2014 in San Jose, California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-400x269.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-1440x967.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-1180x793.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-768x516.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/drought3-320x215.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car sits in dried and cracked earth of what was the bottom of the Almaden Reservoir on Jan. 28, 2014, in San Jose, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10488928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10488928 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Drought5\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Drought5-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Russian River, near Badger Park in Healdsburg, on Feb. 1, 2014. Low flows have created isolated pools, stranding some fish and forcing officials to close many rivers to fishing.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More drought photos:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dramatic-California-drought-before-and-after-5756861.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexnaidus/california-drought-images\">Buzzfeed before and after\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/california-drought-drains-lakes/14/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/California-SoCal-Weather-Forecast-Rain-Storms-Drought-Water-Dry-246934731.html#\">NBC Los Angeles\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/infospigot/with/16826363699/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr page of KQED News Fix editor/blogger Dan Brekke\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10488794/satellite-imagery-photos-bring-home-magnitude-of-california-drought",
"authors": [
"80"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944",
"news_72"
],
"categories": [
"news_19906",
"news_356"
],
"featImg": "news_10490435",
"label": "news_72"
},
"news_10484983": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10484983",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10484983",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1428700511000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1428700511,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Cement Spill in Oakland Creek Bigger Than It First Seemed",
"title": "Cement Spill in Oakland Creek Bigger Than It First Seemed",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Friday, 2:10 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utility and wildlife officials say they've discovered as much as 200 more feet of Oakland's Glen Echo Creek impacted by a cement spill this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews had been clearing about 12 truckloads of what California Fish and Wildlife spokesman Andrew Hughan calls \"light and fluffy\" cellular cement. Hughan said they missed seeing the additional affected area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"100 percent of our effort was focused on that immediate triage. And, yeah, looking back, we'll do better next time on surveying the entire site beginning to end, and that's what we're doing today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughan said his teams are scouting the whole creek today, and he expects the cleanup to extend into next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is investigating how a nonstandard valve was left open during a water pipeline replacement Wednesday by the East Bay Municipal Utility District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The valve at the center of two investigations into a major cement spill in a creek in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood was inspected nearly a week ago, a spokeswoman for the East Bay Municipal Utility District said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonstandard valve, which closes in a counterclockwise direction, may have been opened accidentally or misidentified by an inspector, EBMUD spokeswoman Abbie Figueroa confirmed to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Anything living in that creekbed ... in that half-mile is gone (or) killed.' \u003ccite>Andrew Hughan, California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When a contractor working on an EBMUD water pipeline project was feeding cement into an older pipe that had apparently had the valve open on Wednesday morning, up to 106 cubic yards -- equivalent to 12 truckloads -- of the gooey substance spilled into Glen Echo Creek, killing off wildlife and prompting a major cleanup effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ninety minutes after the sludge spilled out of the older pipe, crews were able to shut off the valve and stop the flow of cement into the creek, but not before it traveled a half-mile into the watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews closed storm drains to divert the cement into the sewer system and away from Lake Merritt, but the spill has seriously impacted the creek's ecology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anything living in that creek, all the bugs, all the plants, everything that was living in that creekbed in that half-mile is gone (or) killed, unfortunately,\" said Andrew Hughan, a spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBMUD has been taking water samples to determine if the spill's impact stretches farther. Late Thursday, Figueroa said cement had affected an area near the Claremont Country Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cleanup Could Take Long\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Figueroa has said the cleanup should take several days, Hughan said it would last much longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is going to take several weeks, months or even into next year to get this out because we can't just go in with a digger,\" Hughan said. \"This is a very environmentally sensitive area, so it's probably going to have be done with shovels and buckets one at a time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said the contractor involved in the project is also using vacuums to suck up the cement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After the cleanup is done, then the restoration begins,\" Figueroa said. \"We will return this to as close to the way it was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughan said re-establishing the area for wildlife will take a long time. \"When the water starts flowing again and when the contractor gets this removed, the waterway will fix itself over the next couple of years,\" he said. \"It's going to be a long process to make it right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said the main contractor on the project to replace 2 miles of aging pipe in the Oakland hills is Ranger Pipelines, a San Francisco-based utility-engineering firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Cuddihy, the company's operations manager, responded to a request for comment by emailing a statement. \"Ranger Pipelines has no comment on what happened as the cement spill that occurred is an internal EBMUD matter and we are assisting EBMUD in their cleanup efforts,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subcontractor, Figueroa said, is Cell-Crete Corp. That company describes itself as the largest installer of lightweight insulated concrete in the western United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was an unfortunate accident,\" said Patrick Barclay, Cell-Crete's vice president. \"Cell-Crete is grateful to see the responsible party, EBMUD, accept responsibility for the accident and clear Cell-Crete's name from any wrongdoing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBMUD and the law enforcement division at Fish and Wildlife are investigating.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10484983 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10484983",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/10/oakland-creek-cement-spill-could-take-a-year-to-clean-up/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 741,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 27
},
"modified": 1428703341,
"excerpt": "Anything living in part of Glen Echo Creek 'is gone (or) killed,' said California Fish and Wildlife.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Anything living in part of Glen Echo Creek 'is gone (or) killed,' said California Fish and Wildlife.",
"title": "Cement Spill in Oakland Creek Bigger Than It First Seemed | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Cement Spill in Oakland Creek Bigger Than It First Seemed",
"datePublished": "2015-04-10T14:15:11-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-04-10T15:02:21-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "oakland-creek-cement-spill-could-take-a-year-to-clean-up",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/10484983/oakland-creek-cement-spill-could-take-a-year-to-clean-up",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Friday, 2:10 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utility and wildlife officials say they've discovered as much as 200 more feet of Oakland's Glen Echo Creek impacted by a cement spill this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews had been clearing about 12 truckloads of what California Fish and Wildlife spokesman Andrew Hughan calls \"light and fluffy\" cellular cement. Hughan said they missed seeing the additional affected area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"100 percent of our effort was focused on that immediate triage. And, yeah, looking back, we'll do better next time on surveying the entire site beginning to end, and that's what we're doing today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughan said his teams are scouting the whole creek today, and he expects the cleanup to extend into next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is investigating how a nonstandard valve was left open during a water pipeline replacement Wednesday by the East Bay Municipal Utility District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The valve at the center of two investigations into a major cement spill in a creek in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood was inspected nearly a week ago, a spokeswoman for the East Bay Municipal Utility District said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonstandard valve, which closes in a counterclockwise direction, may have been opened accidentally or misidentified by an inspector, EBMUD spokeswoman Abbie Figueroa confirmed to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Anything living in that creekbed ... in that half-mile is gone (or) killed.' \u003ccite>Andrew Hughan, California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When a contractor working on an EBMUD water pipeline project was feeding cement into an older pipe that had apparently had the valve open on Wednesday morning, up to 106 cubic yards -- equivalent to 12 truckloads -- of the gooey substance spilled into Glen Echo Creek, killing off wildlife and prompting a major cleanup effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ninety minutes after the sludge spilled out of the older pipe, crews were able to shut off the valve and stop the flow of cement into the creek, but not before it traveled a half-mile into the watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews closed storm drains to divert the cement into the sewer system and away from Lake Merritt, but the spill has seriously impacted the creek's ecology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anything living in that creek, all the bugs, all the plants, everything that was living in that creekbed in that half-mile is gone (or) killed, unfortunately,\" said Andrew Hughan, a spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBMUD has been taking water samples to determine if the spill's impact stretches farther. Late Thursday, Figueroa said cement had affected an area near the Claremont Country Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cleanup Could Take Long\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Figueroa has said the cleanup should take several days, Hughan said it would last much longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is going to take several weeks, months or even into next year to get this out because we can't just go in with a digger,\" Hughan said. \"This is a very environmentally sensitive area, so it's probably going to have be done with shovels and buckets one at a time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said the contractor involved in the project is also using vacuums to suck up the cement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After the cleanup is done, then the restoration begins,\" Figueroa said. \"We will return this to as close to the way it was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hughan said re-establishing the area for wildlife will take a long time. \"When the water starts flowing again and when the contractor gets this removed, the waterway will fix itself over the next couple of years,\" he said. \"It's going to be a long process to make it right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said the main contractor on the project to replace 2 miles of aging pipe in the Oakland hills is Ranger Pipelines, a San Francisco-based utility-engineering firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Cuddihy, the company's operations manager, responded to a request for comment by emailing a statement. \"Ranger Pipelines has no comment on what happened as the cement spill that occurred is an internal EBMUD matter and we are assisting EBMUD in their cleanup efforts,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subcontractor, Figueroa said, is Cell-Crete Corp. That company describes itself as the largest installer of lightweight insulated concrete in the western United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was an unfortunate accident,\" said Patrick Barclay, Cell-Crete's vice president. \"Cell-Crete is grateful to see the responsible party, EBMUD, accept responsibility for the accident and clear Cell-Crete's name from any wrongdoing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBMUD and the law enforcement division at Fish and Wildlife are investigating.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10484983/oakland-creek-cement-spill-could-take-a-year-to-clean-up",
"authors": [
"258"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_19906",
"news_8",
"news_356"
],
"tags": [
"news_17973"
],
"featImg": "news_10485167",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10481490": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10481490",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10481490",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1428508187000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1428508187,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "African-American Hiking Group Turns to Nature For Beauty and Community",
"title": "African-American Hiking Group Turns to Nature For Beauty and Community",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Rue Mapp grew up spending her summers playing outside on her family’s ranch in Lake County. But as an adult, she kept finding herself the only African-American on organized hikes. Tired of being “the only one,\" she started \u003ca href=\"http://www.outdoorafro.com\">Outdoor Afro\u003c/a> and found out she wasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that when you identify all the only ones, and people did identify themselves as such, we were actually quite numerous,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now there are Outdoor Afro chapters across the country. Volunteers like Zoe Polk lead hikes, camping trips and bird walks to help African-Americans reconnect with the outdoors and with each other. The group uses social media, too -- to post resources, tips and photos of black people enjoying the outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mapp is challenging the myth that African-Americans don’t get out in nature. Sure, she says, if you're hiking through Yellowstone or even Yosemite, places far from cities, you don’t see a lot of black people. But if you take a place like Lake Merritt in the heart of downtown Oakland, she says, “It looks like the United Nations. So that’s a classic example of here’s a place that’s right in the middle of where people live, where people work, that they can access, and they’re using it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heading to Oakland Hills\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Friday evening, 30 people, most of them African- American, headed to the Oakland Hills for a hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trip leader Zoe Polk tells them what to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this is your first time with Outdoor Afro, a couple of things to know about us,” she says. “We are not a competitive hiking group. Our purpose is to have community in nature and share with each other. So we’re not going to be leaving anyone behind today!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group starts uphill through the woods, chatting and laughing along the way. The trail soon opens up into rolling grassy hills. There’s Mount Diablo to the east and the sun setting over the Golden Gate Bridge to the west. Polk stops the group by a lupine bush, its purple flowers in bloom. She asks if anyone has read Alice Walker’s \"The Color Purple.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/110038-i-think-it-pisses-god-off-if-you-walk-by\">Is there a famous line in that book that talks about nature\u003c/a>?” she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the color purple,” shouts one participant, paraphrasing the famous quote. “You just don’t walk past it and not notice it!” Everyone cheers in approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it pissed God off if you walked by the color purple in a field and didn't notice it,\" Polk paraphrases from the book. “We’re going to pass by the color purple. And I invite you to notice it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harriet Tubman, Outdoorswoman\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-Americans have a long history of connecting to nature. Mapp tells her group to think about someone like Harriet Tubman. “She was a wilderness leader,” she says. “She’s someone who led people in the cover of night through the wild. Think about all the skill sets you have to have in order to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this hike, Outdoor Afro is partnering with \u003ca href=\"http://www.girltrek.org\">GirlTrek\u003c/a>, a black women’s walking group, to honor Tubman, the leader of the Underground Railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoe Polk stops the group at a view along the trail. She asks everyone to think of one word that represents Tubman. They go around in a circle and share: “Inspiration. Liberation. Courage…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk adds a few words of her own that we don’t normally associate with Tubman: hiker, botanist, astronomer. She reminds everyone that Tubman collected wild plants to treat the underground passengers' illnesses and she used the stars to navigate her way to freedom. “I actually love it when I remember to think of Harriet Tubman when I’m looking up in the sky,” Polk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hiking to Heal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor Afro has always turned to nature as a tool to connect African-Americans with history and community. So when the nation was shaken by the violent events in Ferguson and Staten Island, Rue Mapp again turned to nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was this moment where I wanted to do something, and I knew that going to the streets was not something that felt right for me,” Mapp says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she organized healing hikes here in the Bay Area and called on Outdoor Afro groups across the country to do the same. The hikes have given people a chance to come together, talk and grieve. “I wanted to get away from people with other agendas and just create a platform where people could share and be heard,” says Mapp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Zoe Polk, being out in nature is always healing. Getting out on a hike “just allows you to put some breath into your life and just be honored and inspired by the beauty in the world and be able to hold that as well as the ugliness in the world that we also have to endure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk leads the group back to the parking lot just as it's getting dark. People say their goodbyes and drive off, taking a little bit of this peace and beauty with them.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10481490 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10481490",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/08/african-american-hiking-group-turns-to-nature-for-beauty-and-community/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 905,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 25
},
"modified": 1428537097,
"excerpt": "Outdoor Afro is challenging the myth that black people don't get out in nature.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Outdoor Afro is challenging the myth that black people don't get out in nature.",
"title": "African-American Hiking Group Turns to Nature For Beauty and Community | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "African-American Hiking Group Turns to Nature For Beauty and Community",
"datePublished": "2015-04-08T08:49:47-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-04-08T16:51:37-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "african-american-hiking-group-turns-to-nature-for-beauty-and-community",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "Marissa Ortega-Welch",
"path": "/news/10481490/african-american-hiking-group-turns-to-nature-for-beauty-and-community",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rue Mapp grew up spending her summers playing outside on her family’s ranch in Lake County. But as an adult, she kept finding herself the only African-American on organized hikes. Tired of being “the only one,\" she started \u003ca href=\"http://www.outdoorafro.com\">Outdoor Afro\u003c/a> and found out she wasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that when you identify all the only ones, and people did identify themselves as such, we were actually quite numerous,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now there are Outdoor Afro chapters across the country. Volunteers like Zoe Polk lead hikes, camping trips and bird walks to help African-Americans reconnect with the outdoors and with each other. The group uses social media, too -- to post resources, tips and photos of black people enjoying the outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mapp is challenging the myth that African-Americans don’t get out in nature. Sure, she says, if you're hiking through Yellowstone or even Yosemite, places far from cities, you don’t see a lot of black people. But if you take a place like Lake Merritt in the heart of downtown Oakland, she says, “It looks like the United Nations. So that’s a classic example of here’s a place that’s right in the middle of where people live, where people work, that they can access, and they’re using it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heading to Oakland Hills\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Friday evening, 30 people, most of them African- American, headed to the Oakland Hills for a hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trip leader Zoe Polk tells them what to expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this is your first time with Outdoor Afro, a couple of things to know about us,” she says. “We are not a competitive hiking group. Our purpose is to have community in nature and share with each other. So we’re not going to be leaving anyone behind today!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group starts uphill through the woods, chatting and laughing along the way. The trail soon opens up into rolling grassy hills. There’s Mount Diablo to the east and the sun setting over the Golden Gate Bridge to the west. Polk stops the group by a lupine bush, its purple flowers in bloom. She asks if anyone has read Alice Walker’s \"The Color Purple.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/110038-i-think-it-pisses-god-off-if-you-walk-by\">Is there a famous line in that book that talks about nature\u003c/a>?” she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like the color purple,” shouts one participant, paraphrasing the famous quote. “You just don’t walk past it and not notice it!” Everyone cheers in approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it pissed God off if you walked by the color purple in a field and didn't notice it,\" Polk paraphrases from the book. “We’re going to pass by the color purple. And I invite you to notice it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Harriet Tubman, Outdoorswoman\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>African-Americans have a long history of connecting to nature. Mapp tells her group to think about someone like Harriet Tubman. “She was a wilderness leader,” she says. “She’s someone who led people in the cover of night through the wild. Think about all the skill sets you have to have in order to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this hike, Outdoor Afro is partnering with \u003ca href=\"http://www.girltrek.org\">GirlTrek\u003c/a>, a black women’s walking group, to honor Tubman, the leader of the Underground Railroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoe Polk stops the group at a view along the trail. She asks everyone to think of one word that represents Tubman. They go around in a circle and share: “Inspiration. Liberation. Courage…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk adds a few words of her own that we don’t normally associate with Tubman: hiker, botanist, astronomer. She reminds everyone that Tubman collected wild plants to treat the underground passengers' illnesses and she used the stars to navigate her way to freedom. “I actually love it when I remember to think of Harriet Tubman when I’m looking up in the sky,” Polk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hiking to Heal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor Afro has always turned to nature as a tool to connect African-Americans with history and community. So when the nation was shaken by the violent events in Ferguson and Staten Island, Rue Mapp again turned to nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was this moment where I wanted to do something, and I knew that going to the streets was not something that felt right for me,” Mapp says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she organized healing hikes here in the Bay Area and called on Outdoor Afro groups across the country to do the same. The hikes have given people a chance to come together, talk and grieve. “I wanted to get away from people with other agendas and just create a platform where people could share and be heard,” says Mapp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Zoe Polk, being out in nature is always healing. Getting out on a hike “just allows you to put some breath into your life and just be honored and inspired by the beauty in the world and be able to hold that as well as the ugliness in the world that we also have to endure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polk leads the group back to the parking lot just as it's getting dark. People say their goodbyes and drive off, taking a little bit of this peace and beauty with them.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10481490/african-american-hiking-group-turns-to-nature-for-beauty-and-community",
"authors": [
"byline_news_10481490"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_223",
"news_19906",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_17925"
],
"featImg": "news_10481786",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_10481554": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_10481554",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "10481554",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1428437485000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1428437485,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Berkeley Almost Ready for Input on Tuolumne Camp",
"title": "Berkeley Almost Ready for Input on Tuolumne Camp",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>April might be the biggest month in quite some time for those interested in the fate of the popular Berkeley Tuolumne Family Camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A public process focused on how Berkeley may one day rebuild the camp is expected to kick off in the next few weeks, according to city staff. There’s also a special event related to the camp set for April 14 at Freight & Salvage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the Rim Fire devastated the camp in 2013, the city has worked to come to an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service about what could eventually be rebuilt on the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"p1mcxJSBvCt8jhN1SgG4u8YQDyZQ7rKb\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the city and forest service have finally reached that agreement, Berkeley parks director Scott Ferris told the Berkeley City Council at a work session in late March. Officials have said previously that the earliest a rebuild might happen is 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferris said a community process is slated to begin at the end of April and is likely to last four to five months. The city will collect feedback from camp supporters, including the board of the Friends of Berkeley Tuolumne Camp, as well as Berkeley city staff and the community of Groveland, where the camp had operated since 1922.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That input, in turn, will become part of the documentation needed for environmental approvals that will later be required for the rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 24, Ferris read a statement to city officials outlining the basics of the recent city-forest service compromise. Ferris described the deal as “a big step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he had been working with the legal department and forest service for more than a year to negotiate a set of guidelines for the camp’s master development plan. That plan will guide any rebuilding that could take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The formal acceptance of the latest conceptual plan sets the stage for us to move forward,” Ferris told the council. “So that’s good news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the agreement sets out about a half-dozen guidelines for the rebuild, but he declined to discuss the specifics with the council, saying officials would receive a memo about the details in early April. That information also will be posted on the city website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given these guidelines, what should camp look like?” Ferris said, describing what people who take part in the public process will be asked. “We’ll get that feedback. It’ll come together as part of the master development plan” used to pursue the necessary environmental approvals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10481565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 602px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Rim-Fire-Photo-US-Forest-Service-720x405.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10481565\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Rim-Fire-Photo-US-Forest-Service-720x405.jpeg\" alt=\"Rim-Fire-Photo-US-Forest-Service-720x405\" width=\"602\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Rim-Fire-Photo-US-Forest-Service-720x405.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Rim-Fire-Photo-US-Forest-Service-720x405-400x225.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Rim-Fire-Photo-US-Forest-Service-720x405-320x180.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2013 Rim Fire was the third-largest in California history. (U.S. Forest Service) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty confident that camp will be rebuilt,” he said, adding that the guidelines “give us enough room to contain a lot of those essential elements that really made up camp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Laurie Capitelli said it would be vital for the community to be realistic, and to respect those guidelines throughout the public process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important that our citizens understand that there are some parameters to this process so that we don’t start going way off into the weeds,” he observed, “and a two-year process turns into a four-year process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capitelli also asked Ferris who would pay for the public process, particularly if outreach needs to be done in Groveland, which is about 2½ hours from Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferris said costs associated with the public process would primarily comprise staff and consultant time, which are paid for out of the camps fund as well as from the insurance money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Have we settled the insurance issue?” asked Capitelli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a constant negotiation,” Ferris replied. “It’s going to take awhile. At some point, as we’re farther down the road, we’ll have more of an update on what the insurance is funding and what they’re not funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates congratulated Ferris on the deal, and said much work remains to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did visit the camp. It was devastating,” Bates said. “There’s so many issues that have to be involved to restore that camp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferris told the council the city is also working on making improvements at its Echo Lake Camp, some of which have been necessitated by the increased demand on the facility, given the current closure of Tuolumne Camp. The city plans to spend $50,000 in fiscal year 2015-16 to rebuild several cabins, and another $50,000 the following year on leach fields, which are part of the camp’s sewage system. He said the city has recently completed some repairs, too, of the dining hall trellis and lodge deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camp event comes to Freight & Salvage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the Friends of Berkeley Tuolumne Camp is holding a special event April 14 at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse at 2020 Addison St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the organizers: “The Rim Fire was one of the nation’s worst disasters and one of the worst fires California has ever had. Come see an amazing and powerful presentation, and ask questions about the Rim Fire and its effects on the land we love by the U.S. Forest Service, as they work towards reforesting an area the size of Los Angeles!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event is set to include rare footage showing camp life in 1948, a slideshow of the camp from this past December and an update from city staff about where things currently stand. Attendees also will have a chance to learn from the U.S. Forest Service and area volunteers about how to play a role in the future of the Stanislaus Forest after the Rim Fire. Learn more on the\u003ca href=\"http://www.fobtc.com/the-impact-of-the-rim-fire-and-the-future-of-the-stanislaus-forest/\" target=\"_blank\"> Friends website\u003c/a>, RSVP on the\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/407800972740774/\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook event page\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-impact-of-the-rim-fire-and-the-future-of-our-forest-tickets-16006453734\" target=\"_blank\">purchase tickets\u003c/a> (for about $11).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connect with the Friends of Berkeley Tuolumne Camp on its \u003ca href=\"http://www.fobtc.com/\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a> and on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Berkeley-Tuolumne-Camp/158320396277\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyside.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4851428a10883a05193b1dd6c&id=aad4b5ee64\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "10481554 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10481554",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/07/berkeley-almost-ready-for-input-on-tuolumne-camp/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1057,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 30
},
"modified": 1428441725,
"excerpt": "The city and forest service have reached agreement on rebuilding the camp, damaged in the 2013 Rim Fire.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The city and forest service have reached agreement on rebuilding the camp, damaged in the 2013 Rim Fire.",
"title": "Berkeley Almost Ready for Input on Tuolumne Camp | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Berkeley Almost Ready for Input on Tuolumne Camp",
"datePublished": "2015-04-07T13:11:25-07:00",
"dateModified": "2015-04-07T14:22:05-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "berkeley-almost-ready-for-input-on-tuolumne-camp",
"status": "publish",
"nprByline": "Emilie Raguso\u003cbr />Berkeleyside",
"path": "/news/10481554/berkeley-almost-ready-for-input-on-tuolumne-camp",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>April might be the biggest month in quite some time for those interested in the fate of the popular Berkeley Tuolumne Family Camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A public process focused on how Berkeley may one day rebuild the camp is expected to kick off in the next few weeks, according to city staff. There’s also a special event related to the camp set for April 14 at Freight & Salvage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the Rim Fire devastated the camp in 2013, the city has worked to come to an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service about what could eventually be rebuilt on the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the city and forest service have finally reached that agreement, Berkeley parks director Scott Ferris told the Berkeley City Council at a work session in late March. Officials have said previously that the earliest a rebuild might happen is 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferris said a community process is slated to begin at the end of April and is likely to last four to five months. The city will collect feedback from camp supporters, including the board of the Friends of Berkeley Tuolumne Camp, as well as Berkeley city staff and the community of Groveland, where the camp had operated since 1922.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That input, in turn, will become part of the documentation needed for environmental approvals that will later be required for the rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 24, Ferris read a statement to city officials outlining the basics of the recent city-forest service compromise. Ferris described the deal as “a big step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he had been working with the legal department and forest service for more than a year to negotiate a set of guidelines for the camp’s master development plan. That plan will guide any rebuilding that could take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The formal acceptance of the latest conceptual plan sets the stage for us to move forward,” Ferris told the council. “So that’s good news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the agreement sets out about a half-dozen guidelines for the rebuild, but he declined to discuss the specifics with the council, saying officials would receive a memo about the details in early April. That information also will be posted on the city website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given these guidelines, what should camp look like?” Ferris said, describing what people who take part in the public process will be asked. “We’ll get that feedback. It’ll come together as part of the master development plan” used to pursue the necessary environmental approvals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10481565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 602px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Rim-Fire-Photo-US-Forest-Service-720x405.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10481565\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Rim-Fire-Photo-US-Forest-Service-720x405.jpeg\" alt=\"Rim-Fire-Photo-US-Forest-Service-720x405\" width=\"602\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Rim-Fire-Photo-US-Forest-Service-720x405.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Rim-Fire-Photo-US-Forest-Service-720x405-400x225.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Rim-Fire-Photo-US-Forest-Service-720x405-320x180.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2013 Rim Fire was the third-largest in California history. (U.S. Forest Service) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty confident that camp will be rebuilt,” he said, adding that the guidelines “give us enough room to contain a lot of those essential elements that really made up camp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Laurie Capitelli said it would be vital for the community to be realistic, and to respect those guidelines throughout the public process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really important that our citizens understand that there are some parameters to this process so that we don’t start going way off into the weeds,” he observed, “and a two-year process turns into a four-year process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capitelli also asked Ferris who would pay for the public process, particularly if outreach needs to be done in Groveland, which is about 2½ hours from Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferris said costs associated with the public process would primarily comprise staff and consultant time, which are paid for out of the camps fund as well as from the insurance money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Have we settled the insurance issue?” asked Capitelli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a constant negotiation,” Ferris replied. “It’s going to take awhile. At some point, as we’re farther down the road, we’ll have more of an update on what the insurance is funding and what they’re not funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates congratulated Ferris on the deal, and said much work remains to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did visit the camp. It was devastating,” Bates said. “There’s so many issues that have to be involved to restore that camp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferris told the council the city is also working on making improvements at its Echo Lake Camp, some of which have been necessitated by the increased demand on the facility, given the current closure of Tuolumne Camp. The city plans to spend $50,000 in fiscal year 2015-16 to rebuild several cabins, and another $50,000 the following year on leach fields, which are part of the camp’s sewage system. He said the city has recently completed some repairs, too, of the dining hall trellis and lodge deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camp event comes to Freight & Salvage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the Friends of Berkeley Tuolumne Camp is holding a special event April 14 at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse at 2020 Addison St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the organizers: “The Rim Fire was one of the nation’s worst disasters and one of the worst fires California has ever had. Come see an amazing and powerful presentation, and ask questions about the Rim Fire and its effects on the land we love by the U.S. Forest Service, as they work towards reforesting an area the size of Los Angeles!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event is set to include rare footage showing camp life in 1948, a slideshow of the camp from this past December and an update from city staff about where things currently stand. Attendees also will have a chance to learn from the U.S. Forest Service and area volunteers about how to play a role in the future of the Stanislaus Forest after the Rim Fire. Learn more on the\u003ca href=\"http://www.fobtc.com/the-impact-of-the-rim-fire-and-the-future-of-the-stanislaus-forest/\" target=\"_blank\"> Friends website\u003c/a>, RSVP on the\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/407800972740774/\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook event page\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-impact-of-the-rim-fire-and-the-future-of-our-forest-tickets-16006453734\" target=\"_blank\">purchase tickets\u003c/a> (for about $11).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connect with the Friends of Berkeley Tuolumne Camp on its \u003ca href=\"http://www.fobtc.com/\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a> and on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Berkeley-Tuolumne-Camp/158320396277\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyside.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4851428a10883a05193b1dd6c&id=aad4b5ee64\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/10481554/berkeley-almost-ready-for-input-on-tuolumne-camp",
"authors": [
"byline_news_10481554"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_19906",
"news_8"
],
"affiliates": [
"news_5078"
],
"featImg": "news_10481561",
"label": "news_6944"
}
},
"podcastsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"podcasts": {}
},
"radioProgramsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"radioPrograms": {}
},
"radioSearchSegmentsReducer": {},
"programsReducer": {
"all-things-considered": {
"id": "all-things-considered",
"title": "All Things Considered",
"info": "Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/all-things-considered"
},
"american-suburb-podcast": {
"id": "american-suburb-podcast",
"title": "American Suburb: The Podcast",
"tagline": "The flip side of gentrification, told through one town",
"info": "Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 19
},
"link": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"
}
},
"baycurious": {
"id": "baycurious",
"title": "Bay Curious",
"tagline": "Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time",
"info": "KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Bay Curious",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/baycurious",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 3
},
"link": "/podcasts/baycurious",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9a90d476-aa04-455d-9a4c-0871ed6216d4/bay-curious",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"
}
},
"bbc-world-service": {
"id": "bbc-world-service",
"title": "BBC World Service",
"info": "The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "BBC World Service"
},
"link": "/radio/program/bbc-world-service",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/",
"rss": "https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"
}
},
"californiareport": {
"id": "californiareport",
"title": "The California Report",
"tagline": "California, day by day",
"info": "KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareport",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 8
},
"link": "/californiareport",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/26099305-72af-4542-9dde-ac1807fe36d5/kqed-s-the-california-report",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"
}
},
"californiareportmagazine": {
"id": "californiareportmagazine",
"title": "The California Report Magazine",
"tagline": "Your state, your stories",
"info": "Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.",
"airtime": "FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report Magazine",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareportmagazine",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 10
},
"link": "/californiareportmagazine",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"
}
},
"city-arts": {
"id": "city-arts",
"title": "City Arts & Lectures",
"info": "A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.cityarts.net/",
"airtime": "SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "City Arts & Lectures"
},
"link": "https://www.cityarts.net",
"subscribe": {
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/",
"rss": "https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"
}
},
"closealltabs": {
"id": "closealltabs",
"title": "Close All Tabs",
"tagline": "Your irreverent guide to the trends redefining our world",
"info": "Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CAT_2_Tile-scaled.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Close All Tabs",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 1
},
"link": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-all-tabs/id214663465",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC6993880386",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/92d9d4ac-67a3-4eed-b10a-fb45d45b1ef2/close-all-tabs",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6LAJFHnGK1pYXYzv6SIol6?si=deb0cae19813417c"
}
},
"code-switch-life-kit": {
"id": "code-switch-life-kit",
"title": "Code Switch / Life Kit",
"info": "\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />",
"airtime": "SUN 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"
}
},
"commonwealth-club": {
"id": "commonwealth-club",
"title": "Commonwealth Club of California Podcast",
"info": "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.",
"airtime": "THU 10pm, FRI 1am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Commonwealth Club of California"
},
"link": "/radio/program/commonwealth-club",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"
}
},
"forum": {
"id": "forum",
"title": "Forum",
"tagline": "The conversation starts here",
"info": "KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/forum",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 9
},
"link": "/forum",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"
}
},
"freakonomics-radio": {
"id": "freakonomics-radio",
"title": "Freakonomics Radio",
"info": "Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://freakonomics.com/",
"airtime": "SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/freakonomics-radio",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"
}
},
"fresh-air": {
"id": "fresh-air",
"title": "Fresh Air",
"info": "Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/fresh-air",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"
}
},
"here-and-now": {
"id": "here-and-now",
"title": "Here & Now",
"info": "A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/here-and-now",
"subsdcribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hidden-brain": {
"id": "hidden-brain",
"title": "Hidden Brain",
"info": "Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain",
"airtime": "SUN 7pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "NPR"
},
"link": "/radio/program/hidden-brain",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"
}
},
"how-i-built-this": {
"id": "how-i-built-this",
"title": "How I Built This with Guy Raz",
"info": "Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this",
"airtime": "SUN 7:30pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/how-i-built-this",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hyphenacion": {
"id": "hyphenacion",
"title": "Hyphenación",
"tagline": "Where conversation and cultura meet",
"info": "What kind of no sabo word is Hyphenación? For us, it’s about living within a hyphenation. Like being a third-gen Mexican-American from the Texas border now living that Bay Area Chicano life. Like Xorje! Each week we bring together a couple of hyphenated Latinos to talk all about personal life choices: family, careers, relationships, belonging … everything is on the table. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hyphenacion_FinalAssets_PodcastTile.png",
"imageAlt": "KQED Hyphenación",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 15
},
"link": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hyphenaci%C3%B3n/id1191591838",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2p3Fifq96nw9BPcmFdIq0o?si=39209f7b25774f38",
"youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/c/kqedarts",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6c3dd23c-93fb-4aab-97ba-1725fa6315f1/hyphenaci%C3%B3n",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC2275451163"
}
},
"jerrybrown": {
"id": "jerrybrown",
"title": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"tagline": "Lessons from a lifetime in politics",
"info": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 18
},
"link": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/",
"tuneIn": "http://tun.in/pjGcK",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/44420f75-3b0e-4301-ab3b-16da6b09e543/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown"
}
},
"latino-usa": {
"id": "latino-usa",
"title": "Latino USA",
"airtime": "MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm",
"info": "Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://latinousa.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/latino-usa",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"
}
},
"marketplace": {
"id": "marketplace",
"title": "Marketplace",
"info": "Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.marketplace.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "American Public Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/marketplace",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/",
"rss": "https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"
}
},
"masters-of-scale": {
"id": "masters-of-scale",
"title": "Masters of Scale",
"info": "Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.",
"airtime": "Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://mastersofscale.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WaitWhat"
},
"link": "/radio/program/masters-of-scale",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "http://mastersofscale.app.link/",
"rss": "https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"
}
},
"mindshift": {
"id": "mindshift",
"title": "MindShift",
"tagline": "A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids",
"info": "The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/mindshift/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 12
},
"link": "/podcasts/mindshift",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"
}
},
"morning-edition": {
"id": "morning-edition",
"title": "Morning Edition",
"info": "\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3am-9am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/morning-edition"
},
"onourwatch": {
"id": "onourwatch",
"title": "On Our Watch",
"tagline": "Deeply-reported investigative journalism",
"info": "For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "On Our Watch from NPR and KQED",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 11
},
"link": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw",
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"
}
},
"on-the-media": {
"id": "on-the-media",
"title": "On The Media",
"info": "Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wnyc"
},
"link": "/radio/program/on-the-media",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"
}
},
"pbs-newshour": {
"id": "pbs-newshour",
"title": "PBS NewsHour",
"info": "Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "pbs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pbs-newshour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/",
"rss": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"
}
},
"perspectives": {
"id": "perspectives",
"title": "Perspectives",
"tagline": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991",
"info": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Perspectives_Tile_Final.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Perspectives",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/perspectives/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 14
},
"link": "/perspectives",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"
}
},
"planet-money": {
"id": "planet-money",
"title": "Planet Money",
"info": "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/planet-money",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"
}
},
"politicalbreakdown": {
"id": "politicalbreakdown",
"title": "Political Breakdown",
"tagline": "Politics from a personal perspective",
"info": "Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.",
"airtime": "THU 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Political Breakdown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 5
},
"link": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e0c2d153-ad36-4c8d-901d-f1da6a724824/political-breakdown",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"
}
},
"possible": {
"id": "possible",
"title": "Possible",
"info": "Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.possible.fm/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Possible"
},
"link": "/radio/program/possible",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"
}
},
"pri-the-world": {
"id": "pri-the-world",
"title": "PRI's The World: Latest Edition",
"info": "Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "PRI"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pri-the-world",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/",
"rss": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"
}
},
"radiolab": {
"id": "radiolab",
"title": "Radiolab",
"info": "A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.",
"airtime": "SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/radiolab",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/",
"rss": "https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"
}
},
"reveal": {
"id": "reveal",
"title": "Reveal",
"info": "Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.",
"airtime": "SAT 4pm-5pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/reveal",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/",
"rss": "http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"
}
},
"rightnowish": {
"id": "rightnowish",
"title": "Rightnowish",
"tagline": "Art is where you find it",
"info": "Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 16
},
"link": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"
}
},
"science-friday": {
"id": "science-friday",
"title": "Science Friday",
"info": "Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.",
"airtime": "FRI 11am-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/science-friday",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"
}
},
"snap-judgment": {
"id": "snap-judgment",
"title": "Snap Judgment",
"tagline": "Real stories with killer beats",
"info": "The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap's musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling... with a BEAT!! Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs on over 450 public radio stations and is brought to the airwaves by KQED & PRX.",
"airtime": "SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Snap-Judgment-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Snap Judgment",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 4
},
"link": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snap-judgment/id283657561",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/449018144/snap-judgment",
"stitcher": "https://www.pandora.com/podcast/snap-judgment/PC:241?source=stitcher-sunset",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cct7ZWmxHNAtLgBTqjC5v",
"rss": "https://snap.feed.snapjudgment.org/"
}
},
"soldout": {
"id": "soldout",
"title": "SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America",
"tagline": "A new future for housing",
"info": "Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/soldout",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 13
},
"link": "/podcasts/soldout",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america",
"tunein": "https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/"
}
},
"spooked": {
"id": "spooked",
"title": "Spooked",
"tagline": "True-life supernatural stories",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Spooked-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Spooked",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 7
},
"link": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spooked/id1279361017",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/549547848/snap-judgment-presents-spooked",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/76571Rfl3m7PLJQZKQIGCT",
"rss": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/TBotaapn"
}
},
"tech-nation": {
"id": "tech-nation",
"title": "Tech Nation Radio Podcast",
"info": "Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.",
"airtime": "FRI 10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://technation.podomatic.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "Tech Nation Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tech-nation",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"
}
},
"ted-radio-hour": {
"id": "ted-radio-hour",
"title": "TED Radio Hour",
"info": "The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/ted-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"
}
},
"thebay": {
"id": "thebay",
"title": "The Bay",
"tagline": "Local news to keep you rooted",
"info": "Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Bay",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/thebay",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 2
},
"link": "/podcasts/thebay",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d800ea4c-7a2c-42f2-b861-edaf78a5db0b/the-bay",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"
}
},
"thelatest": {
"id": "thelatest",
"title": "The Latest",
"tagline": "Trusted local news in real time",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Latest-2025-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Latest",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/thelatest",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 6
},
"link": "/thelatest",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-latest-from-kqed/id1197721799",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1257949365/the-latest-from-k-q-e-d",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/5KIIXMgM9GTi5AepwOYvIZ?si=bd3053fec7244dba",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9137121918"
}
},
"theleap": {
"id": "theleap",
"title": "The Leap",
"tagline": "What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?",
"info": "Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Leap",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/theleap",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 17
},
"link": "/podcasts/theleap",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"
}
},
"the-moth-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-moth-radio-hour",
"title": "The Moth Radio Hour",
"info": "Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.",
"airtime": "SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://themoth.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "prx"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/",
"rss": "http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"
}
},
"the-new-yorker-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"title": "The New Yorker Radio Hour",
"info": "The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.",
"airtime": "SAT 10am-11am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"
}
},
"the-sam-sanders-show": {
"id": "the-sam-sanders-show",
"title": "The Sam Sanders Show",
"info": "One of public radio's most dynamic voices, Sam Sanders helped launch The NPR Politics Podcast and hosted NPR's hit show It's Been A Minute. Now, the award-winning host returns with something brand new, The Sam Sanders Show. Every week, Sam Sanders and friends dig into the culture that shapes our lives: what's driving the biggest trends, how artists really think, and even the memes you can't stop scrolling past. Sam is beloved for his way of unpacking the world and bringing you up close to fresh currents and engaging conversations. The Sam Sanders Show is smart, funny and always a good time.",
"airtime": "FRI 12-1pm AND SAT 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Sam-Sanders-Show-Podcast-Tile-400x400-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "KCRW"
},
"link": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feed.cdnstream1.com/zjb/feed/download/ac/28/59/ac28594c-e1d0-4231-8728-61865cdc80e8.xml"
}
},
"the-splendid-table": {
"id": "the-splendid-table",
"title": "The Splendid Table",
"info": "\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.splendidtable.org/",
"airtime": "SUN 10-11 pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-splendid-table"
},
"this-american-life": {
"id": "this-american-life",
"title": "This American Life",
"info": "This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.",
"airtime": "SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wbez"
},
"link": "/radio/program/this-american-life",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"rss": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"
}
},
"tinydeskradio": {
"id": "tinydeskradio",
"title": "Tiny Desk Radio",
"info": "We're bringing the best of Tiny Desk to the airwaves, only on public radio.",
"airtime": "SUN 8pm and SAT 9pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/300x300-For-Member-Station-Logo-Tiny-Desk-Radio-@2x.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-52030/tiny-desk-radio",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tinydeskradio",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/g-s1-52030/rss.xml"
}
},
"wait-wait-dont-tell-me": {
"id": "wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"title": "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!",
"info": "Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.",
"airtime": "SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"
}
},
"weekend-edition-saturday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-saturday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Saturday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.",
"airtime": "SAT 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"
},
"weekend-edition-sunday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-sunday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Sunday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.",
"airtime": "SUN 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"
}
},
"racesReducer": {},
"racesGenElectionReducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026Reducer": {},
"radioSchedulesReducer": {},
"listsReducer": {
"posts/news?category=environment": {
"isFetching": false,
"latestQuery": {
"from": 2952,
"size": 12
},
"vitalsOnly": false,
"totalRequested": 12,
"isLoading": false,
"isLoadingMore": true,
"total": {
"value": 3960,
"relation": "eq"
},
"items": [
"news_10496914",
"news_10497132",
"news_10493892",
"news_10490169",
"news_10492319",
"news_10491235",
"news_10379836",
"news_10489797",
"news_10488794",
"news_10484983",
"news_10481490",
"news_10481554"
],
"complete": true
}
},
"recallGuideReducer": {
"intros": {},
"policy": {},
"candidates": {}
},
"savedArticleReducer": {
"articles": [],
"status": {}
},
"newslettersReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"newsletters": {},
"isSubscribing": false,
"isUnsubscribing": false,
"subscribedNewsletters": {}
},
"termsReducer": {
"about": {
"name": "About",
"type": "terms",
"id": "about",
"slug": "about",
"link": "/about",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"arts": {
"name": "Arts & Culture",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"description": "KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts",
"slug": "arts",
"link": "/arts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"artschool": {
"name": "Art School",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "artschool",
"slug": "artschool",
"link": "/artschool",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareabites": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareabites",
"slug": "bayareabites",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareahiphop": {
"name": "Bay Area Hiphop",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareahiphop",
"slug": "bayareahiphop",
"link": "/bayareahiphop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"campaign21": {
"name": "Campaign 21",
"type": "terms",
"id": "campaign21",
"slug": "campaign21",
"link": "/campaign21",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"careers": {
"name": "Careers",
"type": "terms",
"id": "careers",
"slug": "careers",
"link": "/careers",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"checkplease": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "checkplease",
"slug": "checkplease",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"education": {
"name": "Education",
"grouping": [
"education"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "education",
"slug": "education",
"link": "/education",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"elections": {
"name": "Elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "elections",
"slug": "elections",
"link": "/elections",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"events": {
"name": "Events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "events",
"slug": "events",
"link": "/events",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"event": {
"name": "Event",
"alias": "events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "event",
"slug": "event",
"link": "/event",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"filmschoolshorts": {
"name": "Film School Shorts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "filmschoolshorts",
"slug": "filmschoolshorts",
"link": "/filmschoolshorts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"food": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "food",
"slug": "food",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"forum": {
"name": "Forum",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/forum?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "forum",
"slug": "forum",
"link": "/forum",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"futureofyou": {
"name": "Future of You",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "futureofyou",
"slug": "futureofyou",
"link": "/futureofyou",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"jpepinheart": {
"name": "KQED food",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/food,bayareabites,checkplease",
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "jpepinheart",
"slug": "jpepinheart",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"liveblog": {
"name": "Live Blog",
"type": "terms",
"id": "liveblog",
"slug": "liveblog",
"link": "/liveblog",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"livetv": {
"name": "Live TV",
"parent": "tv",
"type": "terms",
"id": "livetv",
"slug": "livetv",
"link": "/livetv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"lowdown": {
"name": "The Lowdown",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/lowdown?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "lowdown",
"slug": "lowdown",
"link": "/lowdown",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"mindshift": {
"name": "Mindshift",
"parent": "news",
"description": "MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "mindshift",
"slug": "mindshift",
"link": "/mindshift",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news": {
"name": "News",
"grouping": [
"news",
"forum"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "news",
"slug": "news",
"link": "/news",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"newsletters": {
"name": "newsletters",
"type": "terms",
"id": "newsletters",
"slug": "newsletters",
"link": "/newsletters",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"perspectives": {
"name": "Perspectives",
"parent": "radio",
"type": "terms",
"id": "perspectives",
"slug": "perspectives",
"link": "/perspectives",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"podcasts": {
"name": "Podcasts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "podcasts",
"slug": "podcasts",
"link": "/podcasts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pop": {
"name": "Pop",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop",
"slug": "pop",
"link": "/pop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pressroom": {
"name": "Pressroom",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pressroom",
"slug": "pressroom",
"link": "/pressroom",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"quest": {
"name": "Quest",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "quest",
"slug": "quest",
"link": "/quest",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"radio": {
"name": "Radio",
"grouping": [
"forum",
"perspectives"
],
"description": "Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "radio",
"slug": "radio",
"link": "/radio",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"root": {
"name": "KQED",
"image": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"imageWidth": 1200,
"imageHeight": 630,
"headData": {
"title": "KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California",
"description": "KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."
},
"type": "terms",
"id": "root",
"slug": "root",
"link": "/root",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"science": {
"name": "Science",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"description": "KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "science",
"slug": "science",
"link": "/science",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"stateofhealth": {
"name": "State of Health",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "stateofhealth",
"slug": "stateofhealth",
"link": "/stateofhealth",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"support": {
"name": "Support",
"type": "terms",
"id": "support",
"slug": "support",
"link": "/support",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"thedolist": {
"name": "The Do List",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "thedolist",
"slug": "thedolist",
"link": "/thedolist",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"trulyca": {
"name": "Truly CA",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "trulyca",
"slug": "trulyca",
"link": "/trulyca",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"tv": {
"name": "TV",
"type": "terms",
"id": "tv",
"slug": "tv",
"link": "/tv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"voterguide": {
"name": "Voter Guide",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "voterguide",
"slug": "voterguide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"guiaelectoral": {
"name": "Guia Electoral",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "guiaelectoral",
"slug": "guiaelectoral",
"link": "/guiaelectoral",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news_category_environment": {
"isLoading": true
},
"news_19906": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19906",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19906",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Environment",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Environment Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19923,
"slug": "environment",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/environment"
},
"news_6944": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6944",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6944",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/News-Fix-Logo-Web-Banners-04.png",
"name": "News Fix",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "The News Fix is a daily news podcast from KQED that breaks down the latest headlines and provides in-depth analysis of the stories that matter to the Bay Area.",
"title": "News Fix - Daily Dose of Bay Area News | KQED",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6968,
"slug": "news-fix",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/news-fix"
},
"news_17986": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17986",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17986",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BayCuriousLogoFinal01-e1493662037229.png",
"name": "Bay Curious",
"description": "\u003ch2>A podcast exploring the Bay Area one question at a time\u003c/h2>\r\n\r\n\u003caside>\r\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; padding-right: 20px;\">\r\n\r\nKQED’s \u003cstrong>Bay Curious\u003c/strong> gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.\r\n\u003cbr />\r\n\u003cspan class=\"alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1172473406\">\u003cimg width=\"75px\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/app/playmusic?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Ipi2mc5aqfen4nr2daayiziiyuy?t%3DBay_Curious\">\u003cimg width=\"75px\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/div>\r\n\u003c/aside> \r\n\u003ch2>What's your question?\u003c/h2>\r\n\u003cdiv id=\"huxq6\" class=\"curiosity-module\" data-pym-src=\"//modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/curiosity_modules/133\">\u003c/div>\r\n\u003cscript src=\"//assets.wearehearken.com/production/thirdparty/p.m.js\">\u003c/script>\r\n\u003ch2>Bay Curious monthly newsletter\u003c/h2>\r\nWe're launching it soon! \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEtzbyNbSQkRHCCAkKhoGiAl3Bd0zWxhk0ZseJ1KH_o_ZDjQ/viewform\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up\u003c/a> so you don't miss it when it drops.\r\n",
"taxonomy": "series",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "A podcast exploring the Bay Area one question at a time KQED’s Bay Curious gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers. What's your question? Bay Curious monthly newsletter We're launching it soon! Sign up so you don't miss it when it drops.",
"title": "Bay Curious Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18020,
"slug": "baycurious",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/series/baycurious"
},
"news_8": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_8",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "8",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 8,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/news"
},
"news_5718": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_5718",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "5718",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Mount Tamalpais",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Mount Tamalpais Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5742,
"slug": "mount-tamalpais",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/mount-tamalpais"
},
"news_72": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_72",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "72",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/TCR-2-Logo-Web-Banners-03.png",
"name": "The California Report",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "The California Report Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6969,
"slug": "the-california-report",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/the-california-report"
},
"news_13": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_13",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "13",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Politics",
"slug": "politics",
"taxonomy": "category",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Politics | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 13,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/politics"
},
"news_356": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_356",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "356",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Science",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Science Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 364,
"slug": "science",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/science"
},
"news_17618": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17618",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17618",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Drought Watch 2015",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Drought Watch 2015 Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17652,
"slug": "drought-watch-2015",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/drought-watch-2015"
},
"news_17286": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17286",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17286",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "tcr",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "tcr Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17318,
"slug": "tcr",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/tcr"
},
"news_17041": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17041",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17041",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "the-california-report-featured",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "the-california-report-featured Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17067,
"slug": "the-california-report-featured",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/the-california-report-featured"
},
"news_483": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_483",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "483",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "water",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "water Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 492,
"slug": "water-2",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/water-2"
},
"news_17601": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17601",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17601",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Drought",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Drought Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17635,
"slug": "drought",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/drought"
},
"news_17782": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17782",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17782",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Woodside",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Woodside Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17816,
"slug": "woodside",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/woodside"
},
"news_26731": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_26731",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "26731",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "The California Report Magazine",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "The California Report Magazine Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 26748,
"slug": "the-california-report-magazine",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/the-california-report-magazine"
},
"news_17045": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17045",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17045",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California Foodways",
"description": "\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafoodways.com/\" target=\"_blank\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is a series by independent producer Lisa Morehouse. She's traveling county by county reporting on people and places at the intersection of food, culture, history and economy.\r\n\r\nFollow the series on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/californiafoodways\">Facebook\u003c/a> and Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/cafoodways\">@cafoodways.\r\n\u003c/a>\r\n\u003cem>Funded in part by \u003ca href=\"http://www.calhum.org/\">Cal Humanities\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>",
"taxonomy": "series",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "California Foodways is a series by independent producer Lisa Morehouse. She's traveling county by county reporting on people and places at the intersection of food, culture, history and economy. Follow the series on Facebook and Twitter @cafoodways. Funded in part by Cal Humanities.",
"title": "California Foodways Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17073,
"slug": "california-foodways",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/series/california-foodways"
},
"news_223": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_223",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "223",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Arts and Culture",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Arts and Culture Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 231,
"slug": "arts-and-culture",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/arts-and-culture"
},
"news_18540": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18540",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18540",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Education",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Education Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2595,
"slug": "education",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/education"
},
"news_33520": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33520",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33520",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Podcast",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Podcast Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33537,
"slug": "podcast",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/podcast"
},
"news_18008": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18008",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18008",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "fishing",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "fishing Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18042,
"slug": "fishing",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/fishing"
},
"news_6188": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6188",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6188",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Law and Justice",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Law and Justice Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6212,
"slug": "law-and-justice",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/law-and-justice"
},
"news_102": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_102",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "102",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "marijuana",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "marijuana Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 106,
"slug": "marijuana",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/marijuana"
},
"news_431": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_431",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "431",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "medical marijuana",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "medical marijuana Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 440,
"slug": "medical-marijuana",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/medical-marijuana"
},
"news_4175": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4175",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4175",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Lake Oroville",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Lake Oroville Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4194,
"slug": "lake-oroville",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/lake-oroville"
},
"news_17973": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17973",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17973",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Rockridge",
"slug": "rockridge",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Rockridge | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null,
"metaRobotsNoIndex": "noindex"
},
"ttid": 18007,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/rockridge"
},
"news_17925": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17925",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17925",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "hiking",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "hiking Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17959,
"slug": "hiking",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/hiking"
},
"news_5078": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_5078",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "5078",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Berkeleyside",
"description": "Berkeleyside is Berkeley, California’s independently owned local news site. We report on the extraordinary diversity of people, issues, events, food and environment in our city on the Bay.",
"taxonomy": "affiliate",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "Berkeleyside is Berkeley, California’s independently owned local news site. We report on the extraordinary diversity of people, issues, events, food and environment in our city on the Bay.",
"title": "Berkeleyside Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5099,
"slug": "berkeleyside-2",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/affiliate/berkeleyside-2"
}
},
"userPermissionsReducer": {
"wpLoggedIn": false
},
"eventsReducer": {},
"fssReducer": {},
"tvDailyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer": {},
"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer": {},
"userAccountReducer": {
"user": {
"email": null,
"emailStatus": "EMAIL_UNVALIDATED",
"loggedStatus": "LOGGED_OUT",
"loggingChecked": false,
"articles": [],
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"phoneNumber": null,
"fetchingMembership": false,
"membershipError": false,
"memberships": [
{
"id": null,
"startDate": null,
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"familyNumber": null,
"memberNumber": null,
"memberSince": null,
"expirationDate": null,
"pfsEligible": false,
"isSustaining": false,
"membershipLevel": "Prospect",
"membershipStatus": "Non Member",
"lastGiftDate": null,
"renewalDate": null,
"lastDonationAmount": null
}
]
},
"authModal": {
"isOpen": false,
"view": "LANDING_VIEW"
},
"error": null
},
"youthMediaReducer": {},
"checkPleaseReducer": {
"filterData": {
"region": {
"key": "Restaurant Region",
"filters": [
"Any Region"
]
},
"cuisine": {
"key": "Restaurant Cuisine",
"filters": [
"Any Cuisine"
]
}
},
"restaurantDataById": {},
"restaurantIdsSorted": [],
"error": null
},
"userAgentReducer": {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"isBot": true
}
}
