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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147602\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfire-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"A California Highway Patrol photo of the King Fire, which spread rapidly north of U.S. 50 near Pollock Pines earlier this month.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Highway Patrol photo of the King Fire, which spread rapidly north of U.S. 50 near Pollock Pines earlier this month.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here's an ongoing debate in our newsroom as we move into autumn and what is often the climax to our fire season: What's the best way to describe the size of a wildfire? In acres? Square miles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hectares? (Just wanted to see if you're paying attention.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An instructive comparison of some kind (\"the Rim Fire has burned an area nearly eight times the size of San Francisco\")?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148243\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 306px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfireoverlay2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-148243\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/kingfireoverlay2.jpg\" alt=\"The Sept. 20 footprint of the King Fire overlaid on a map of the Bay Area. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"306\" height=\"271\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sept. 20 footprint of the King Fire overlaid on a map of the Bay Area. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One reason the question comes up is because the Associated Press, the most widely used U.S. news agency, has switched from using acres to square miles. If the AP announced the rationale for the change, I've never seen it, and I've never gotten around to asking them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, our main firefighting agencies -- Cal Fire for state jurisdictions and the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service, among others, for federal lands -- stick religiously to acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus: Fire managers report the King Fire now burning in El Dorado and Placer counties is 89,574 acres. AP (and news outlets that just repeat what the agency reports) will say 140 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is some editorial disorder that may matter only to those handling news broadcasts and news-type blog posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At KQED, some anchors, reporters and editors use square miles. Some use acres, as I do. My rationale: I'll stick with the unit the fire agencies use. But there's more to it. Part of it might be blind traditionalism -- if acres were good enough for Mark Twain, they're good enough for me. And part of it might be that I can visualize an acre, which was about the size of the lot my parents had when I was growing up in south suburban Chicago. Of course, imagining 89,574 of those lots is a little bit of a stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others say they've got a better handle on what a square mile is than what an acre might be. I know what they mean. I've always thought that Midwest folk knowledge consists in part of the following truths, passed down from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787: that a square mile contains 640 acres; that a square mile is called a section, and that 36 sections in a 6-by-6 grid comprise a township.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The folk knowledge is borne out before your eyes if you fly across the country. When you come to the great Gridland that lies (mostly) east of the Missouri River, north of the Ohio and west of the Alleghenies, you see an endless expanse of land sectioned off into rectangles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In northern Illinois, for instance, most of those rectangles are squares delineated by roads at 1-mile intervals. They thus outline square miles, and if you're in a plane going 540 mph, about 9 of those mile squares will slide by every minute. Check it out on your next fly-0ver journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that gives you something to work with when you're trying to imagine 90,000 acres or 140 square miles or whatever. 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Some of them are among those hardest hit by the drought, as wells across the state are starting to go dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vieiras are hoping to benefit from \u003ca href=\"http://www.stancounty.com/er/pdf/groundwater/loan-application.pdf\">a new Stanislaus County program for homeowners,\u003c/a> especially senior citizens, who need to drill expensive new wells — the first such county program in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vieira and her husband, Lawrence, have lived in this home, surrounded by almond and sweet potato farms, for about 40 years. Like many in the rural community of Denair, south of Modesto, they’re too far from town to hook into a municipal water system. Their household well has always worked fine, even through the 1977 drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very water-conscious. We have been all these years,” says Vieira.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, their kids and grandkids can’t even stay overnight because there’s not enough water. The Vieiras have let their lawn die, let their gardener go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have artificial flowers by my front door. And I hate artificial flowers. But, for a little bit of color,” says Vieira, who takes me on a tour of her dead front lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s trying to save her grandmother’s 100-year-old hydrangea — and her great-grandmother’s even older geranium — by collecting the water she uses to bathe and pouring it into the pots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is my grandmother’s, and it’s just burned and dying,” she says, fingering the dry petals. “But I think it will make it through. What i’m concerned about is, are we going to make it through?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vieiras ran an auto repair shop for many years. Now they’re retired and have nowhere near the $20,000 it would take to drill a new well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband’s 75 and I’m 70. We live on a fixed income,” says Vieira. “We’re not asking for a handout. We just need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>But the Vieiras have slipped through the safety net. The state provides \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/documents/drought/PWSDER%20Final%20Drought%20Fact%20Sheet%20SWRCB.pdf\">drought assistance\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/Smallwatersystems.shtml\">small, rural community water systems\u003c/a>, but not for private property owners who rely on their own wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one has thought about domestic well owners,” says Vieira. “Which is a real shame, because there’s thousands of us, and water is a necessity. You have to have it to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA offers some limited \u003ca href=\"http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2014/06/0118.xml&navid=NEWS_RELEASE&navtype=RT&parentnav=LATEST_RELEASES&edeployment_action=retrievecontent\">federal grants and loans\u003c/a> for extremely low-income individuals with water wells, but nothing for middle-class folks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“ ’Cuz if you’re super rich, you got the money. If you’re super poor, you qualify for the grants. But we’re in between. We’re the middle class, and now we’re old!” Vieira laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly the population Stanislaus County is trying to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Water is such a basic necessity of life,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.stancounty.com/board/bosbios/district1.shtm\">Stanislaus County Supervisor Bill O’Brien\u003c/a>. “Someone doesn’t have water, can’t get a new well, you know, we feel there’s a moral obligation to step in and do something to help ‘em. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Brien and his colleagues — who are all fiscal conservatives — unanimously decided to dig into county coffers to set up a program to help people whose wells are going dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Brien says this is \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a handout. It’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.stancounty.com/er/pdf/groundwater/loan-application.pdf\">loan to be paid back with interes\u003c/a>t — at a very attractive 1 percent interest rate. Loan applicants have to put liens on their homes to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The taxpayer is protected. And that’s why I think you saw a conservative Board of Supervisors approve this program,” says O’Brien.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money comes from a county economic development bank fund. And O’Brien says this project fits that mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really to fund things to spur the economy. If someone doesn’t have water, that’s part of the economy as well. If they have to move out of county, they’re not spending money at the local businesses,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot phase allots only $200,000, which will pay for loans to dig only about 10 wells. No one knows for sure how many wells are going dry in the county, but O’Brien estimates about 100,000 people — a fifth of Stanislaus County’s population — rely on domestic wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Noe Paramo of \u003ca href=\"http://www.crlaf.org/who-we-are/\">California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation\u003c/a> says he’s glad to see the supervisors stepping up to provide a local safety net.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This critical issue of groundwater depletion has hit home. 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(Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s Supreme Court is being pressed to take up a case that could dramatically alter oversight for groundwater, building on a landmark water rights ruling the court made a generation ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, a Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled that rural Siskiyou County in Northern California must consider people downstream who depend on the Scott River before issuing permits to drill wells and pump groundwater nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the high court accepts the case and upholds that ruling, the result could be new controls on groundwater pumping -- in addition to those contained in legislation just signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers note the case is particularly timely given the drought, which has forced many farmers to depend on ever more water pumped from underground. In effect, both sides want to skip a few steps in the appeals process, thereby speeding up a definitive answer from the state’s highest court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147933\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147933 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map.jpg\" alt=\"(David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the case is the Scott River, which runs through Siskiyou County and feeds into the Klamath not far from the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a map, the Scott River runs through Tom Menne’s farm just west of the town of Fort Jones. In reality, the sad patch of rocks next to Menne’s alfalfa fields has scarcely resembled a river at all this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the water’s still flowing here. It just goes underground through here,” Menne said, crunching over gravel where the bottom of the river would be. “In different areas you go, you’ll see it come back up. But there’s just little puddles now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menne has lived on this farm most of his life, working the land like his father before him. He raised his kids to help out in turn. But they’re in college now, and Menne says he’s told them not to depend on the farm being there forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someday there’s not going to be a farm here,\" he said. \"Regulations will make it so hard to make a living that there just won’t be any reason to want to farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfalfa is used mainly for cattle feed and is notoriously thirsty. To slake it, Menne pumps water from underground through giant sprinkler rigs. The energy cost runs to the tens of thousands of dollars a year, which he says is a powerful disincentive against waste. Even so, one of his shallower wells was running dry, slurping loudly like the industrial-grade equivalent of a straw at the bottom of a near-empty cup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147936\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147936\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Menne and his family have grown alfalfa in the Scott Valley for decades, but he’s warned his kids they might not be in the farm business forever. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne.jpg 850w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Menne and his family have grown alfalfa in the Scott Valley for decades, but he’s warned his kids they might not be in the farm business forever. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The reason for that, Menne says, is a lot bigger than his farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Scott River’s flow depends on snowmelt from nearby mountains, but the last few winters haven’t delivered much. “The river was going to go dry anyway. We had no winter. It’s a drought. I didn’t cause the drought, I’m part of the drought. It’s costing me money, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston Harris, who alongside Menne has opposed calls for outside regulation, says, “It’s very easy for people to point at a dry riverbed and see sprinklers going in the background and just say, 'Oh geez, the farmers are completely dewatering the system.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris heads the Scott River Water Trust and says the area makes for a convenient legal testing ground, in which farmers are scapegoated for problems that are much more complex. The endgame, Harris says with a degree of inevitability, would be new rules across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one potential outcome, if the California Supreme Court were to uphold the lower court’s July ruling dealing with safeguards for water in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a landmark 1983 case, the state Supreme Court imposed limits on how much water Los Angeles could divert from streams feeding into Mono Lake, under what’s known as the Public Trust Doctrine. But that ruling dealt with surface water and left unclear to what extent groundwater is also protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Frank, a law professor at UC Davis, argues the Public Trust Doctrine “can and does, in my opinion, limit the unfettered ability of landowners to extract groundwater for their personal consumption.” Frank is co-counsel alongside the Environmental Law Foundation in the 2010 suit targeting groundwater pumping in Siskiyou County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"2W0bWIFQB99hUiWytknnyBpi1ct0Bam9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current drought, he says, has only exacerbated the need for a definitive ruling, and soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have the luxury anymore of treating water as purely private property, a private resource. In my opinion, that’s never been the law -- that’s never been sound policy. But having courts underscore that, emphasize that and make that principle an abiding part of water policy and water law is critically important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And lawyers are careful to say that however the Supreme Court might rule if it takes up the Scott River case, the decision wouldn’t necessarily safeguard every drop of water beneath California -- only what’s tied to surface water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think in the Scott River, there is a clear linkage -- a scientific linkage, an engineering linkage -- between surface water flows and subterranean flow. ... In some cases, that linkage is either uncertain or doesn’t exist as a matter of engineering fact,” Frank says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147939\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Robinson.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Robinson.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal Robinson, a biologist Quartz Valley Indian Reservation, acknowledges the area’s farmers have been dealt a tough hand. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Robinson.jpg 638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Robinson-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal Robinson, a biologist at the Quartz Valley Indian Reservation, acknowledges the area’s farmers have been dealt a tough hand. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the state’s legal apparatus grinds forward, farmers along the Scott River have their fingers crossed for a wet winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And others are watching the river's condition, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crystal Robinson is a biologist with the Quartz Valley Indian Reservation and has also worked for the Karuk Tribe downstream. She backs more oversight of groundwater pumping near the Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing on a bridge near where the underground flow comes to the surface for a short stretch, she pointed toward a couple of lethargic fish, identifying them as steelhead. The water was shallow and not especially pristine, but seemed something of a respite from the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the fish, Robinson said, perhaps not:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The river is coming out of the ground not too far upstream from here, and we’ve got this section of habitat, and it’s going to go subsurface a few miles from here. So this is their spot,” Robinson said: In effect, the fish were trapped. “They’re trying to just chill out and hope that the river comes back soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not unlike a few farmers nearby.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers note the case is particularly timely given the drought, which has forced many farmers to depend on ever more water pumped from underground. In effect, both sides want to skip a few steps in the appeals process, thereby speeding up a definitive answer from the state’s highest court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147933\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147933 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map.jpg\" alt=\"(David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the case is the Scott River, which runs through Siskiyou County and feeds into the Klamath not far from the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a map, the Scott River runs through Tom Menne’s farm just west of the town of Fort Jones. In reality, the sad patch of rocks next to Menne’s alfalfa fields has scarcely resembled a river at all this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the water’s still flowing here. It just goes underground through here,” Menne said, crunching over gravel where the bottom of the river would be. “In different areas you go, you’ll see it come back up. But there’s just little puddles now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menne has lived on this farm most of his life, working the land like his father before him. He raised his kids to help out in turn. But they’re in college now, and Menne says he’s told them not to depend on the farm being there forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someday there’s not going to be a farm here,\" he said. \"Regulations will make it so hard to make a living that there just won’t be any reason to want to farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfalfa is used mainly for cattle feed and is notoriously thirsty. To slake it, Menne pumps water from underground through giant sprinkler rigs. The energy cost runs to the tens of thousands of dollars a year, which he says is a powerful disincentive against waste. Even so, one of his shallower wells was running dry, slurping loudly like the industrial-grade equivalent of a straw at the bottom of a near-empty cup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147936\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147936\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Menne and his family have grown alfalfa in the Scott Valley for decades, but he’s warned his kids they might not be in the farm business forever. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne.jpg 850w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Menne and his family have grown alfalfa in the Scott Valley for decades, but he’s warned his kids they might not be in the farm business forever. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The reason for that, Menne says, is a lot bigger than his farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Scott River’s flow depends on snowmelt from nearby mountains, but the last few winters haven’t delivered much. “The river was going to go dry anyway. We had no winter. It’s a drought. I didn’t cause the drought, I’m part of the drought. It’s costing me money, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston Harris, who alongside Menne has opposed calls for outside regulation, says, “It’s very easy for people to point at a dry riverbed and see sprinklers going in the background and just say, 'Oh geez, the farmers are completely dewatering the system.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris heads the Scott River Water Trust and says the area makes for a convenient legal testing ground, in which farmers are scapegoated for problems that are much more complex. The endgame, Harris says with a degree of inevitability, would be new rules across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one potential outcome, if the California Supreme Court were to uphold the lower court’s July ruling dealing with safeguards for water in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a landmark 1983 case, the state Supreme Court imposed limits on how much water Los Angeles could divert from streams feeding into Mono Lake, under what’s known as the Public Trust Doctrine. 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"content": "\u003cp>[vimeo 106178808 w=640 h=360]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 a.m.: \u003c/strong>Cal Fire spokesman Dennis Mathisen confirms that 20 of the 21 structures burned in the Courtney Fire south of Yosemite National Park on Sunday were homes. Mathisen also says the fire was definitely human-caused -- either accident or arson -- though the exact origin hasn't yet been pinned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is still threatening about 400 homes near Bass Lake, just northeast of the town of Oakhurst. This is the third fire to have broken out near the town, located at the junction of Highways 41 and 49, in the past month. The first of those, the Junction Fire, burned eight homes. The cause of all three blazes is under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> A few updated numbers on some of the fires burning throughout the state:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">The King Fire\u003c/a>, just north of U.S. 50 near Pollock Pines, is now reported to have burned 3,900 acres and is 10 percent contained. The fire is burning to the north and east of the unincorporated community of 7,000, and firefighters are expected to benefit from cooler, more humid weather Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Meadow Fire\u003c/a> in the backcountry of Yosemite National Park has burned 4,772 acres, park officials say, the same as reported Sunday. The statistical change: The fire is now reported as 80 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing new to report on the weekend's most destructive blaze, the Courtney Fire near Oakhurst and the resort area of Bass Lake south of Yosemite. The fire, featured in the video above, has reportedly burned 320 acres and is 20 percent contained. It burned about 21 structures, including an undetermined number of homes, soon after it started around 1:40 p.m. Sunday. More details on the destruction are in our original post, below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Sunday night):\u003c/strong> State and federal firefighting agencies scrambled to contain a series of blazes that broke out over the weekend, including a fast-moving fire that destroyed or damaged 21 structures near the southern gateway to Yosemite and another that swept through several square miles of forest near the main highway to Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire and the Madera County Sheriff's Office announced late Sunday that \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/2014/factsheets/Courtney_Fire_9-14-14_2100.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the Courtney Fire\u003c/a> near Oakhurst had burned nearly two dozen buildings -- no exact count on the number of homes involved -- as it sped across 320 acres Sunday afternoon. The fire, which forced residents out of about 400 homes and resorts at Bass Lake, is about 20 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/14/4123537_wildfire-near-oakhurst-prompts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno Bee detailed\u003c/a> what was known of the damage late Sunday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cal Fire Battalion Chief Chris Christopherson said he believed more than 10 homes had been lost, the majority off of Road 426 near Manzanita Drive on the crest of the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is gut-wrenching,\" Christopherson said. \"It makes you sick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Cunningham was among the unlucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham, 72, was home when he smelled the fire and saw the orange sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham told his wife there was a fire coming. Then he turned and saw the black smoke coming from the other side of the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife and I looked back and saw our backyard was burning,\" he said. \"So we didn't take much time. She drove one car, I drove the other car and we just left.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple grabbed what they could: one suitcase each, a computer and some business records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photo albums, handmade furniture, a 1930s piano, tools and everything else stayed behind and burned.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Well to the north, near the unincorporated community of Pollock Pines on U.S. 50, a fire that started as a 20-acre blaze Saturday blew up to 3,000 acres by late Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The King Fire spread through rough, heavily forested terrain just north of the town of 7,000, about 50 miles northeast of downtown Sacramento. The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office ordered about 120 homes evacuated in the fire zone and advised residents of about 400 other homes that they should leave. As of late Sunday, there were no reports of residences destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 800 firefighters were on the lines Sunday, with many more expected during the day Monday. The fire was 10 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very hot, dry weather and the effects of the state's prolonged drought played a big part in the fire's rapid spread Sunday, Cal Fire officials said. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/14/6705663/wildfires-remain-active-in-nevada.html\" target=\"_blank\">From the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Conditions are awful,” said Lynne Tolmachoff, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “Because of the fuel in here after three years of drought, it’s burning really well. ...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Tolmachoff’s advice to residents: “If you are in the path, get out and get out early. It’s moving fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools will be closed Monday for the “safety of our children, staff and our families,” said a notice on the Pollock Pines Elementary School District website. Pinewood Elementary School, which is close to the blaze, is being used as a staging area for fire suppression equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of roads also have been shut down because of the fire, according to Cal Fire officials.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The good news on the King Fire: Forecasters are calling for cooler weather with a chance of showers on Monday, which should slow the fire's spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in California:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/2014/factsheets/Black_Fire_9-14-14_PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Black Fire\u003c/a>, which broke out in Mendocino County north of Ukiah on Saturday, had burned 417 acres and was 50 percent contained as of late Sunday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Dog Bar Fire, in Nevada County, had burned 247 acres and was 55 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/2014/factsheets/GULCHUPDATESEPT-14-2014PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Gulch Fire\u003c/a>, which broke out last Wednesday northeast of Redding, was 95 percent contained after burning 1,300 acres.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4104/\" target=\"_blank\">Meadow Fire in the Yosemite National Park backcountry\u003c/a> is 50 percent contained and has burned 4,772 acres.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And finally, \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\">the Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a>, the state's largest so far this year, has now burned across about 112,000 acres in Siskiyou County south of the Klamath River. The fire is said to be 55 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing new to report on the weekend's most destructive blaze, the Courtney Fire near Oakhurst and the resort area of Bass Lake south of Yosemite. The fire, featured in the video above, has reportedly burned 320 acres and is 20 percent contained. It burned about 21 structures, including an undetermined number of homes, soon after it started around 1:40 p.m. Sunday. More details on the destruction are in our original post, below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Sunday night):\u003c/strong> State and federal firefighting agencies scrambled to contain a series of blazes that broke out over the weekend, including a fast-moving fire that destroyed or damaged 21 structures near the southern gateway to Yosemite and another that swept through several square miles of forest near the main highway to Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire and the Madera County Sheriff's Office announced late Sunday that \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/2014/factsheets/Courtney_Fire_9-14-14_2100.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the Courtney Fire\u003c/a> near Oakhurst had burned nearly two dozen buildings -- no exact count on the number of homes involved -- as it sped across 320 acres Sunday afternoon. The fire, which forced residents out of about 400 homes and resorts at Bass Lake, is about 20 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/14/4123537_wildfire-near-oakhurst-prompts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno Bee detailed\u003c/a> what was known of the damage late Sunday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cal Fire Battalion Chief Chris Christopherson said he believed more than 10 homes had been lost, the majority off of Road 426 near Manzanita Drive on the crest of the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is gut-wrenching,\" Christopherson said. \"It makes you sick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Cunningham was among the unlucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham, 72, was home when he smelled the fire and saw the orange sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham told his wife there was a fire coming. Then he turned and saw the black smoke coming from the other side of the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife and I looked back and saw our backyard was burning,\" he said. \"So we didn't take much time. She drove one car, I drove the other car and we just left.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple grabbed what they could: one suitcase each, a computer and some business records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photo albums, handmade furniture, a 1930s piano, tools and everything else stayed behind and burned.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Well to the north, near the unincorporated community of Pollock Pines on U.S. 50, a fire that started as a 20-acre blaze Saturday blew up to 3,000 acres by late Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The King Fire spread through rough, heavily forested terrain just north of the town of 7,000, about 50 miles northeast of downtown Sacramento. The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office ordered about 120 homes evacuated in the fire zone and advised residents of about 400 other homes that they should leave. As of late Sunday, there were no reports of residences destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 800 firefighters were on the lines Sunday, with many more expected during the day Monday. The fire was 10 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very hot, dry weather and the effects of the state's prolonged drought played a big part in the fire's rapid spread Sunday, Cal Fire officials said. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/14/6705663/wildfires-remain-active-in-nevada.html\" target=\"_blank\">From the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Conditions are awful,” said Lynne Tolmachoff, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “Because of the fuel in here after three years of drought, it’s burning really well. ...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Tolmachoff’s advice to residents: “If you are in the path, get out and get out early. It’s moving fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools will be closed Monday for the “safety of our children, staff and our families,” said a notice on the Pollock Pines Elementary School District website. Pinewood Elementary School, which is close to the blaze, is being used as a staging area for fire suppression equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of roads also have been shut down because of the fire, according to Cal Fire officials.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The good news on the King Fire: Forecasters are calling for cooler weather with a chance of showers on Monday, which should slow the fire's spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in California:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/2014/factsheets/Black_Fire_9-14-14_PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Black Fire\u003c/a>, which broke out in Mendocino County north of Ukiah on Saturday, had burned 417 acres and was 50 percent contained as of late Sunday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Dog Bar Fire, in Nevada County, had burned 247 acres and was 55 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/2014/factsheets/GULCHUPDATESEPT-14-2014PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Gulch Fire\u003c/a>, which broke out last Wednesday northeast of Redding, was 95 percent contained after burning 1,300 acres.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4104/\" target=\"_blank\">Meadow Fire in the Yosemite National Park backcountry\u003c/a> is 50 percent contained and has burned 4,772 acres.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And finally, \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\">the Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a>, the state's largest so far this year, has now burned across about 112,000 acres in Siskiyou County south of the Klamath River. The fire is said to be 55 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15004532959_c22b5646ae_o.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15004532959_c22b5646ae_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The Happy Camp Complex fire burns in Siskiyou County earlier this week. (Kari Greer via Flickr and California Interagency Incident Management Team 1)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Happy Camp Complex fire burns in Siskiyou County earlier this week. (Kari Greer via Flickr and California Interagency Incident Management Team 1)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:10 a.m. \u003c/strong>Yosemite National Park says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.recreation.gov/wildernessAreaDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=79064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half Dome Cables\u003c/a>, which hikers use to ascend the rock formation, will reopen to the public on Saturday, Sept. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More info from the park:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The trail to Half Dome via Little Yosemite Valley is open to day-use only. No overnight camping in any areas impacted by the fire is permitted. All other area closures, including Little Yosemite Valley, Sunrise High Sierra Camp area, Echo Valley, and Clouds Rest, are still in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visible smoke in the early morning hours may be present in and around Yosemite Valley and the Half Dome Hike. Visitors who are sensitive to smoke should consider rescheduling their hike to Half Dome or their visit to Yosemite National Park. Visitors are urged to check the park’s website to get updated information on the smoke impacts to the park. Updated information can be found at\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose\"> www.nps.gov/yose\u003c/a> or\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\"> http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Kari Cobb, a park ranger at Yosemite, told KQED’s Ted Goldberg that an investigative team has determined that the fire was caused by embers from a previous blaze, which park officials had opted to let burn. Cobb said that decision was made because the original fire was burning in a wilderness area, with no threat to structures or people. Also, it had been a while since the area had been impacted by a fire, which can be beneficial to the ecosystem, Cobb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire was first reported Sunday around noon, Cobb said, firefighters were not able to enter the area until late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning; until then, all efforts at containment occurred from the air. “The fire’s actually located in wilderness,” Cobb said, “about 10-12 miles from the nearest trailhead. It’s a really steep hike to get up there. We needed to find crews that could handle carrying all that weight up such a steep trail and so far back there. …. Making sure everyone was safe and everyone was prepared took a couple of days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, another fire has broken out northeast of Redding. From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A fast-moving wildfire in Northern California is threatening more than 100 homes, at least some of which are under mandatory evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire about 15 miles northeast of Redding in Shasta County had burned through nearly 2 square miles of grass, brush and oak timber as of Thursday morning, a day after it began. It was 15 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, which began as a vehicle fire, was fueled by dry, gusty winds and 100-degree temperatures. Fire crews were expecting the same conditions Thursday and have called in hundreds of additional firefighters to battle the blaze.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gulch Fire\u003c/a> started last night and is 15 percent contained. The Redding Record Searchlight has \u003ca href=\"http://www.redding.com/news/local-news/fire-burning-in-jones-valley-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:15 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4104/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meadow Fire\u003c/a> in Yosemite National Park is now spread over 4,906 acres as of about 8:30 a.m. today. The fire, in a wilderness area within Little Yosemite Valley, east of Half Dome, is 23 percent contained. The National Wildlife Coordinating Group’s InciWeb site reports little growth in the fire overnight. The highest priority is to open the trail to Half Dome, the site reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One obstacle to firefighting efforts: bears. “Bears continue to be a major issue with fire crew safety in spike camps and along the fire line. Extensive measures are being taken not to attract bears to the food and other supplies. Trash is being backhauled daily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a> in the Klamath National Forest has expanded to 107,359 acres and is 30 percent contained. \u003ca href=\"http://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/klamath/alerts-notices/?aid=24768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire-related closures here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Sept. 9 \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/Publications/News%20Releases/2014/wildfire_140909.ashx?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smoke advisory\u003c/a> for the Bay Area-related the fires up north is still in effect throughout today. You can check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state&stateid=5&mapcenter=0&tabs=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current air quality for all of California here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:45 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Some updated numbers on the backcountry fire burning in Yosemite National Park. Spokeswoman Kari Cobb says the fire has burned 4,532 acres and is 10 percent contained with about 400 firefighters and eight helicopters working to limit its spread. The fire’s growth has slowed dramatically since midday Tuesday, when it was reported to be about 4,400 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”QpAB6FD5ZxHSPpOCEUchynMExMT88O4B”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Cobb also said that the impact of smoke in the park is expected to be much less than on Tuesday, when a thick haze shrouded Yosemite Valley. The park remains open to visitors, though several trails east and northeast of Yosemite Valley are closed, including those in the Echo Creek drainage to Little Yosemite Valley, the Sunrise Creek drainage to Little Yosemite Valley, the Merced River corridor to Merced Lake Ranger Station, and the Sunrise Trail to Clouds Rest from Tenaya Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/Publications/News%20Releases/2014/wildfire_140909.ashx?la=en\">a smoke advisory\u003c/a>, as the Yosemite fire and a much larger blaze in far Northern California continue to emit thick plumes into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Forest Service says \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Happy Camp Complex fire\u003c/a> — a combination of the lightning-sparked Frying Pan and Falkstein fires — is now 105,198 acres and 30 percent contained. Windy weather Monday and Tuesday pushed the blaze rapidly to the east and southeast and prompted the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office to issue new evacuation \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/sites/default/files/docs/SO-20140909_MandatoryEvacuationNotice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orders\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/sites/default/files/docs/SO_20140909PIOEvacuationAdvisoryNoticeUpdatedHCNorthandSouth.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advisories\u003c/a>. During the course of the fire, which started Aug. 11, it has threatened hundreds of homes and triggered a series of evacuation alerts. So far, eight structures have been destroyed or damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further details, by way of the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kerry Greene, a spokeswoman for the fire in the Klamath National Forest, says two homes were destroyed this week when winds fueled the blaze. Another two homes were destroyed earlier. The fire has also damaged or destroyed four other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Forest Service spokesman Rudy Evenson says 274 residents are under mandatory evacuation orders, and at least that many people have been told to be ready to leave home if the fire worsens.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If you’re not conversant with Northern California geography, the fire is burning about 20 to 30 miles west of Interstate 5 and 15 miles or so south of the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Yosemite officials say the smoldering blaze that roared to life in the national park’s backcountry has grown to more than 4,400 acres, up from about 2,600 Monday afternoon. The fire is 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the park remains open, Yosemite Valley and other areas are experiencing heavy smoke. The blaze, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/Meadow-Fire-Update-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dubbed the Meadow Fire\u003c/a>, grew out of a lightning strike on Aug. 16. Yosemite fire managers had been monitoring the small fire that resulted but did not attempt to contain it. Before it blew up during windy, dry conditions Sunday, it had consumed just 20 acres in three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far, far to the north, meantime, the long-running \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex fire\u003c/a> has grown to nearly 104,000 acres and continues to defy efforts to keep it from spreading. Brisk northwesterly winds on Monday sparked spot fires on the blaze’s eastern and southeastern perimeter and prompted \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4078/24321/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new evacuation orders \u003c/a>for areas near the Scott River south of where it flows into the Klamath River. Despite the massive acreage burned so far, in an area south of the Klamath and west of Interstate 5 near the Oregon border, just two structures have been reported destroyed or damaged to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,500 personnel are fighting the blaze, which is 30 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Yosemite officials say the fire that flared up Sunday, forcing the helicopter evacuation of about 185 visitors from trails in relatively remote parts of the park, has burned nearly 2,600 acres. They also say the weather Monday — less windy and somewhat more humid than Sunday — should slow the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said Monday that officials decided to pick up about 100 people in the Little Yosemite Valley area and another 85 from Half Dome because they wanted to clear the fire zone as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would take all those individuals several hours to come out of the backcountry, come out of the location where the fire is,” Cobb told KQED’s Ted Goldberg. “We wanted to make sure our visitors were safe and that we weren’t putting them in a position where they were unable to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobb also said that at least some of those evacuated seemed to get a thrill out of their once-in-a-lifetime Yosemite chopper flight:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I was actually able to talk to some of those people that came off the helicopter, and most of them were really excited that they got to have a helicopter ride in Yosemite. It’s not every day you get to fly over Yosemite like that.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lightning ignited the blaze, called the Meadow Fire, on Aug. 16. National Park Service fire managers elected to monitor the fire instead of immediately suppress it. The fire spread very slowly, and last Thursday it was reported to have burned through 19 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park says a force of 120 firefighters is combating the backcountry blaze, aided by seven helicopters and two fixed-wing airplanes. Trails near the Half Dome area, the Little Yosemite Valley area, Merced Lake and Sunrise High Sierra Camps, Clouds Rest and Echo Valley are closed. The trail to Half Dome, east of Nevada Fall and including the cables to the peak, is closed through at least Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post, based mainly on Associated Press reports:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:10 a.m.:\u003c/strong> A small backcountry wildfire burning for weeks in Yosemite National Park burst to life on Sunday, forcing the helicopter evacuation of about 100 park visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said Monday the Meadow Fire, which was started by lightning in mid-August, had grown to 2,500 acres from a reported 700 Sunday evening. The fire is at 0 percent containment. Some of those evacuated from the fire zone on Sunday included hikers who had climbed the park’s iconic Half Dome peak, rising nearly 5,000 feet above Yosemite Valley. Others had to be airlifted from campgrounds and hiking trails in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads into the park are open, but several trails are closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters had monitored the lightning-sparked fire that started Aug. 16 between Little Yosemite Valley and Half Dome, and last Thursday the park reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the fire had covered about 19 acres\u003c/a>. But the flames were fueled by strong winds and high temperatures Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just got unbelievable crazy winds and unexpected hot conditions,” Tim Ludington, the park’s chief of roads and trails, told the Fresno Bee. “The fire behavior totally changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/07/4110706_yosemite-hikers-evacuated-as-backcountry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While the fire was originally allowed to burn for forest restoration and other objectives, firefighters are now working to fully suppress the flames, park officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the scene Sunday afternoon were seven helicopters, three air tankers and one air attack plane, according to a Yosemite fire information update posted online. Additionally, six hotshot crews of 20 people each arrived Sunday evening along with Yosemite fire crews. It takes firefighters about a day to hike into the remote area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>About 15 miles southwest of the park, firefighters were slowly gaining the upper hand on a wildfire near the town of Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 300-acre blaze was 70 percent contained, and an evacuation order already has been lifted for the 300 homes most threatened by the fire, Cal Fire said. A portion of Highway 49 was briefly closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steep terrain in the area and the dry conditions brought on by California’s drought initially hampered firefighters, one of whom received a minor injury Friday, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Siskiyou County, the state’s biggest fire of 2014 grew to nearly 100,000 acres over the weekend. The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex\u003c/a>, a group of lightning-sparked fires that have burned together south of the Klamath River in the mountains west of Yreka, is about 30 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is one of several that has caused prolonged air-quality alerts in Northern California and southern Oregon, and has grown to nearly 100,000 acres. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/2014-SmokeAdvisory-091614.ashx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued an advisory \u003c/a>over the weekend that smoke from the north could affect much of the Bay Area, and a smoky haze was visible over much of the region Sunday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 3,000 firefighters have been involved in fighting the Happy Camp blaze since it broke out Aug. 11. The cost of fighting the fire, which has threatened several rural communities but hasn’t yet destroyed any structures, is estimated at $57.6 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"storify\">[\u003ca href=\"//storify.com/kqednews/fire-burns-near-half-dome-in-yosemite-national-par\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the story “Fire Burns Near Half Dome in Yosemite National Park” on Storify\u003c/a>]\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15004532959_c22b5646ae_o.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15004532959_c22b5646ae_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The Happy Camp Complex fire burns in Siskiyou County earlier this week. (Kari Greer via Flickr and California Interagency Incident Management Team 1)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Happy Camp Complex fire burns in Siskiyou County earlier this week. (Kari Greer via Flickr and California Interagency Incident Management Team 1)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:10 a.m. \u003c/strong>Yosemite National Park says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.recreation.gov/wildernessAreaDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=79064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half Dome Cables\u003c/a>, which hikers use to ascend the rock formation, will reopen to the public on Saturday, Sept. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More info from the park:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The trail to Half Dome via Little Yosemite Valley is open to day-use only. No overnight camping in any areas impacted by the fire is permitted. All other area closures, including Little Yosemite Valley, Sunrise High Sierra Camp area, Echo Valley, and Clouds Rest, are still in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visible smoke in the early morning hours may be present in and around Yosemite Valley and the Half Dome Hike. Visitors who are sensitive to smoke should consider rescheduling their hike to Half Dome or their visit to Yosemite National Park. Visitors are urged to check the park’s website to get updated information on the smoke impacts to the park. Updated information can be found at\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose\"> www.nps.gov/yose\u003c/a> or\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\"> http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Kari Cobb, a park ranger at Yosemite, told KQED’s Ted Goldberg that an investigative team has determined that the fire was caused by embers from a previous blaze, which park officials had opted to let burn. Cobb said that decision was made because the original fire was burning in a wilderness area, with no threat to structures or people. Also, it had been a while since the area had been impacted by a fire, which can be beneficial to the ecosystem, Cobb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire was first reported Sunday around noon, Cobb said, firefighters were not able to enter the area until late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning; until then, all efforts at containment occurred from the air. “The fire’s actually located in wilderness,” Cobb said, “about 10-12 miles from the nearest trailhead. It’s a really steep hike to get up there. We needed to find crews that could handle carrying all that weight up such a steep trail and so far back there. …. Making sure everyone was safe and everyone was prepared took a couple of days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, another fire has broken out northeast of Redding. From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A fast-moving wildfire in Northern California is threatening more than 100 homes, at least some of which are under mandatory evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire about 15 miles northeast of Redding in Shasta County had burned through nearly 2 square miles of grass, brush and oak timber as of Thursday morning, a day after it began. It was 15 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, which began as a vehicle fire, was fueled by dry, gusty winds and 100-degree temperatures. Fire crews were expecting the same conditions Thursday and have called in hundreds of additional firefighters to battle the blaze.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gulch Fire\u003c/a> started last night and is 15 percent contained. The Redding Record Searchlight has \u003ca href=\"http://www.redding.com/news/local-news/fire-burning-in-jones-valley-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:15 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4104/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meadow Fire\u003c/a> in Yosemite National Park is now spread over 4,906 acres as of about 8:30 a.m. today. The fire, in a wilderness area within Little Yosemite Valley, east of Half Dome, is 23 percent contained. The National Wildlife Coordinating Group’s InciWeb site reports little growth in the fire overnight. The highest priority is to open the trail to Half Dome, the site reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One obstacle to firefighting efforts: bears. “Bears continue to be a major issue with fire crew safety in spike camps and along the fire line. Extensive measures are being taken not to attract bears to the food and other supplies. Trash is being backhauled daily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a> in the Klamath National Forest has expanded to 107,359 acres and is 30 percent contained. \u003ca href=\"http://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/klamath/alerts-notices/?aid=24768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire-related closures here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Sept. 9 \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/Publications/News%20Releases/2014/wildfire_140909.ashx?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smoke advisory\u003c/a> for the Bay Area-related the fires up north is still in effect throughout today. You can check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state&stateid=5&mapcenter=0&tabs=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current air quality for all of California here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:45 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Some updated numbers on the backcountry fire burning in Yosemite National Park. Spokeswoman Kari Cobb says the fire has burned 4,532 acres and is 10 percent contained with about 400 firefighters and eight helicopters working to limit its spread. The fire’s growth has slowed dramatically since midday Tuesday, when it was reported to be about 4,400 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Cobb also said that the impact of smoke in the park is expected to be much less than on Tuesday, when a thick haze shrouded Yosemite Valley. The park remains open to visitors, though several trails east and northeast of Yosemite Valley are closed, including those in the Echo Creek drainage to Little Yosemite Valley, the Sunrise Creek drainage to Little Yosemite Valley, the Merced River corridor to Merced Lake Ranger Station, and the Sunrise Trail to Clouds Rest from Tenaya Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/Publications/News%20Releases/2014/wildfire_140909.ashx?la=en\">a smoke advisory\u003c/a>, as the Yosemite fire and a much larger blaze in far Northern California continue to emit thick plumes into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Forest Service says \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Happy Camp Complex fire\u003c/a> — a combination of the lightning-sparked Frying Pan and Falkstein fires — is now 105,198 acres and 30 percent contained. Windy weather Monday and Tuesday pushed the blaze rapidly to the east and southeast and prompted the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office to issue new evacuation \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/sites/default/files/docs/SO-20140909_MandatoryEvacuationNotice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orders\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/sites/default/files/docs/SO_20140909PIOEvacuationAdvisoryNoticeUpdatedHCNorthandSouth.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advisories\u003c/a>. During the course of the fire, which started Aug. 11, it has threatened hundreds of homes and triggered a series of evacuation alerts. So far, eight structures have been destroyed or damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further details, by way of the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kerry Greene, a spokeswoman for the fire in the Klamath National Forest, says two homes were destroyed this week when winds fueled the blaze. Another two homes were destroyed earlier. The fire has also damaged or destroyed four other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Forest Service spokesman Rudy Evenson says 274 residents are under mandatory evacuation orders, and at least that many people have been told to be ready to leave home if the fire worsens.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If you’re not conversant with Northern California geography, the fire is burning about 20 to 30 miles west of Interstate 5 and 15 miles or so south of the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Yosemite officials say the smoldering blaze that roared to life in the national park’s backcountry has grown to more than 4,400 acres, up from about 2,600 Monday afternoon. The fire is 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the park remains open, Yosemite Valley and other areas are experiencing heavy smoke. The blaze, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/Meadow-Fire-Update-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dubbed the Meadow Fire\u003c/a>, grew out of a lightning strike on Aug. 16. Yosemite fire managers had been monitoring the small fire that resulted but did not attempt to contain it. Before it blew up during windy, dry conditions Sunday, it had consumed just 20 acres in three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far, far to the north, meantime, the long-running \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex fire\u003c/a> has grown to nearly 104,000 acres and continues to defy efforts to keep it from spreading. Brisk northwesterly winds on Monday sparked spot fires on the blaze’s eastern and southeastern perimeter and prompted \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4078/24321/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new evacuation orders \u003c/a>for areas near the Scott River south of where it flows into the Klamath River. Despite the massive acreage burned so far, in an area south of the Klamath and west of Interstate 5 near the Oregon border, just two structures have been reported destroyed or damaged to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,500 personnel are fighting the blaze, which is 30 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Yosemite officials say the fire that flared up Sunday, forcing the helicopter evacuation of about 185 visitors from trails in relatively remote parts of the park, has burned nearly 2,600 acres. They also say the weather Monday — less windy and somewhat more humid than Sunday — should slow the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said Monday that officials decided to pick up about 100 people in the Little Yosemite Valley area and another 85 from Half Dome because they wanted to clear the fire zone as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would take all those individuals several hours to come out of the backcountry, come out of the location where the fire is,” Cobb told KQED’s Ted Goldberg. “We wanted to make sure our visitors were safe and that we weren’t putting them in a position where they were unable to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobb also said that at least some of those evacuated seemed to get a thrill out of their once-in-a-lifetime Yosemite chopper flight:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I was actually able to talk to some of those people that came off the helicopter, and most of them were really excited that they got to have a helicopter ride in Yosemite. It’s not every day you get to fly over Yosemite like that.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lightning ignited the blaze, called the Meadow Fire, on Aug. 16. National Park Service fire managers elected to monitor the fire instead of immediately suppress it. The fire spread very slowly, and last Thursday it was reported to have burned through 19 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park says a force of 120 firefighters is combating the backcountry blaze, aided by seven helicopters and two fixed-wing airplanes. Trails near the Half Dome area, the Little Yosemite Valley area, Merced Lake and Sunrise High Sierra Camps, Clouds Rest and Echo Valley are closed. The trail to Half Dome, east of Nevada Fall and including the cables to the peak, is closed through at least Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post, based mainly on Associated Press reports:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:10 a.m.:\u003c/strong> A small backcountry wildfire burning for weeks in Yosemite National Park burst to life on Sunday, forcing the helicopter evacuation of about 100 park visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said Monday the Meadow Fire, which was started by lightning in mid-August, had grown to 2,500 acres from a reported 700 Sunday evening. The fire is at 0 percent containment. Some of those evacuated from the fire zone on Sunday included hikers who had climbed the park’s iconic Half Dome peak, rising nearly 5,000 feet above Yosemite Valley. Others had to be airlifted from campgrounds and hiking trails in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads into the park are open, but several trails are closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters had monitored the lightning-sparked fire that started Aug. 16 between Little Yosemite Valley and Half Dome, and last Thursday the park reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the fire had covered about 19 acres\u003c/a>. But the flames were fueled by strong winds and high temperatures Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just got unbelievable crazy winds and unexpected hot conditions,” Tim Ludington, the park’s chief of roads and trails, told the Fresno Bee. “The fire behavior totally changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/07/4110706_yosemite-hikers-evacuated-as-backcountry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While the fire was originally allowed to burn for forest restoration and other objectives, firefighters are now working to fully suppress the flames, park officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the scene Sunday afternoon were seven helicopters, three air tankers and one air attack plane, according to a Yosemite fire information update posted online. Additionally, six hotshot crews of 20 people each arrived Sunday evening along with Yosemite fire crews. It takes firefighters about a day to hike into the remote area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>About 15 miles southwest of the park, firefighters were slowly gaining the upper hand on a wildfire near the town of Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 300-acre blaze was 70 percent contained, and an evacuation order already has been lifted for the 300 homes most threatened by the fire, Cal Fire said. A portion of Highway 49 was briefly closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steep terrain in the area and the dry conditions brought on by California’s drought initially hampered firefighters, one of whom received a minor injury Friday, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Siskiyou County, the state’s biggest fire of 2014 grew to nearly 100,000 acres over the weekend. The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex\u003c/a>, a group of lightning-sparked fires that have burned together south of the Klamath River in the mountains west of Yreka, is about 30 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is one of several that has caused prolonged air-quality alerts in Northern California and southern Oregon, and has grown to nearly 100,000 acres. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/2014-SmokeAdvisory-091614.ashx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued an advisory \u003c/a>over the weekend that smoke from the north could affect much of the Bay Area, and a smoky haze was visible over much of the region Sunday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Shadow Cliffs, a Popular Pleasanton Park, Hit Hard by Drought",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/geese.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147351 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/geese-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Geese at Shadow Cliffs have begun spending time on the beach and their waste likely contributed to high E. coli readings in the swim area. (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian geese at Shadow Cliffs have begun spending time on the beach, and their waste has likely contributed to high E. coli readings in the swim area. (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Aaron Mendelson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shadow Cliffs Regional Recreation Area can draw more than 50,000 people during the hot, dry summer months in the East Bay suburb of Pleasanton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former quarry site, the park’s lake sparkles under the summer sun. That spring-fed, 80-acre lake has long been a draw to beachgoers, grillers and anglers. But three years into California’s historic drought, that lake has shrunk to about 75 acres, according to park supervisor Bill Kaminski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep up with the receding lake, Shadow Cliffs’ swim area keeps getting pushed farther and farther out. A creek here has gone dry, stranding fish. And the park’s pumps are now above the lake’s water, unable to provide water for trees or lawns. Instead, the park fills up a truck from a fire hydrant, and waters the trees in hopes of keeping them alive. Many are losing leaves, visibly struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shadow Cliffs has seen the most severe effects of the drought of any park in the East Bay Regional Park District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the early 1980s, Sunol resident Sue Hadley has been a regular at Shadow Cliffs. She’s part of a group that comes here for \u003ca href=\"http://sowat-swimming.org/\" target=\"_blank\">“open water” swimming\u003c/a>, logging a couple miles early in the morning. She describes the routine: “it’s like a nonstop swimming. So there’s no lane lines, no chlorine. You’re just focused on swimming a straight line to where your destination is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>Hadley tries to swim every day. But for six days in July, no one could swim at Shadow Cliffs. “It’s never been closed for the length of time that it was closed this year,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Regional Park District had to shut down the swimming areas due to high levels of E. coli. Park supervisor Bill Kaminski says that warm weather and swimmers kicking up bacteria in the newly extended swim areas contributed to the high readings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/167165832&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another source of that E. coli sits on the shore, just a few feet from the water: a gaggle of Canadian geese, and their waste. Shadow Cliffs’ geese didn’t always hang out at the beach. They began once the park stopped watering grassy areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the water was cut off -- due to the park’s pumps sitting uselessly above the water -- those grassy areas have gone from green to brown to dust. “It’s almost depressing,” says Bob Hargrove, who ran a concession and boat rental stand here this summer for a company called Rocky Mountain Recreation. “So it’s not as pretty as it would normally be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 11 a.m. on a recent Friday, the weather was starting to heat up. Hargrove says his stand gets well over 100 degrees on hot days -- too hot to stock ice cream treats. So he sits out front on a table, keeping an eye on the boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since the water’s so low on our docks, we had to moor our boats out and we took most of our electric boats out,” Hargrove says, pointing toward the dock that’s nearly on dry land. “Because it's just too hard to get ‘em in and out of the water. It’s so low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business has taken a hit at the stand. Hargrove estimates it’s down about 40 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147352\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/fishing.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147352 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/fishing-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Fishing is a popular pastime at Shadow Cliffs. Tony Soleta, pictured, says “the lake needs some more water.” (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishing is a popular pastime at Shadow Cliffs.Tony Soleta, pictured here, says the lake needs some more water. (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other parks around the state also have felt the impacts of the drought. The state’s Department of Parks and Recreation shut down camping at Portola Redwoods Park, citing a lack of drinking water. The Hearst Castle Visitor Center closed its bathrooms, and a leaky pool at the castle was allowed to drain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Shadow Cliffs, after Hargrove’s shift ends in the early afternoon, Kaminski hops in a pickup to demonstrate the effects of the drought on this 265-acre park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulls up in front of the lake, just past Hargrove’s stand. It’s down more than 10 feet, he says, gesturing at the shimmering blue water. That puts the lake here at or past its all-time low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All our boat docks and piers are basically resting on mud right now. Where they’d normally be in about 8-to-10 feet of water,” Kaminski says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the lake continues to lose half an inch of water -- or more -- every day. But the park’s problems don’t end with the lake. Trees are shedding their leaves early. Attendance was down sharply in July and August. And anglers say that it’s tough to catch fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the park from the lake, a creek is going dry: bad news for bass and bluegills. “They just get stuck in pools and don’t realize that those pools are evaporating,” Kaminski says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/sign.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147353\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/sign-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The East Bay Regional Park District implemented its “brown is the new green” policy in response to the drought. (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The East Bay Regional Park District implemented its “brown is the new green” policy in response to the drought. (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the park isn’t in crisis mode. Not yet. At this point, Kaminski says, there’s little he can do but wait and hope for rain. If the state gets a wet winter, things could get back to normal at Shadow Cliffs. But as Kaminski pulls his truck up in front of his office, he says it’s been a frustrating summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’d be one thing if it was a matter of funding, or a matter of not being able to get the right permits, you know, or not having enough staff to do the work. But that’s all in place. We just don’t have the one thing that we need most, and that’s water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaminski says the park will stay open, and that the lake here is still beautiful. 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They began once the park stopped watering grassy areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the water was cut off -- due to the park’s pumps sitting uselessly above the water -- those grassy areas have gone from green to brown to dust. “It’s almost depressing,” says Bob Hargrove, who ran a concession and boat rental stand here this summer for a company called Rocky Mountain Recreation. “So it’s not as pretty as it would normally be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 11 a.m. on a recent Friday, the weather was starting to heat up. Hargrove says his stand gets well over 100 degrees on hot days -- too hot to stock ice cream treats. So he sits out front on a table, keeping an eye on the boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since the water’s so low on our docks, we had to moor our boats out and we took most of our electric boats out,” Hargrove says, pointing toward the dock that’s nearly on dry land. “Because it's just too hard to get ‘em in and out of the water. 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The state’s Department of Parks and Recreation shut down camping at Portola Redwoods Park, citing a lack of drinking water. The Hearst Castle Visitor Center closed its bathrooms, and a leaky pool at the castle was allowed to drain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Shadow Cliffs, after Hargrove’s shift ends in the early afternoon, Kaminski hops in a pickup to demonstrate the effects of the drought on this 265-acre park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulls up in front of the lake, just past Hargrove’s stand. It’s down more than 10 feet, he says, gesturing at the shimmering blue water. That puts the lake here at or past its all-time low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All our boat docks and piers are basically resting on mud right now. Where they’d normally be in about 8-to-10 feet of water,” Kaminski says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the lake continues to lose half an inch of water -- or more -- every day. But the park’s problems don’t end with the lake. Trees are shedding their leaves early. 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