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(Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All summer, Montague has been a town in trouble. The city sits half an hour south of the Oregon border, in a rugged \u003ca title=\"Wiki - Montague\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague,_California\">patch of Northern California\u003c/a> that offers little refuge from the scorching sun. For water, the roughly 1,500 people who live here depend on snow melting from the slopes of \u003ca title=\"Wiki - Mt. Shasta\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Shasta\">Mount Shasta\u003c/a>, about 20 miles to the south. But the snowpack this past winter was, by all accounts, pitiful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing on a hill near the edge of town at 8:30 in the morning, before the sun and the temperatures have had much time to climb, Chris Tyhurst looks toward the mountain and says, “I think I see two little spots of snow, about a square foot each.” Tyhurst, who has blue eyes and the calm demeanor of a recreational pilot, is joking, but in his nearly four decades as Montague’s water manager, he says this summer has been the toughest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has been \u003ca title=\"Montague - drought page\" href=\"http://ci.montague.ca.us/drought.html\">forced to cut water use\u003c/a> drastically. Tyhurst says folks are using roughly one-third the amount they normally would this time of year. Nearly every lawn in town has turned a crispy blond, except for those belonging to a handful of residents who have their own wells. The city has imposed a monthly limit of 5,000 gallons per home, with fines for running over that. More than a hundred households have gone over the limit this summer. It’s hard not to, a sympathetic official tells me, if you have three kids at home. The worst offenders got letters from the Montague City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Avoiding the ‘Nightmare Scenario’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “nightmare scenario,” as Tyhurst puts it, would be having to truck in water just to keep Montague’s water system pressurized, at an expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Tyhurst figures that would take a procession of some 30 trucks a day, each hauling 3,500 of gallons of water, rumbling from dawn to dusk every half-hour through the normally quiet neighborhood — a place where deer are a routine sight. Any scheduling hiccup could lead to trucks jamming the narrow unpaved road that leads to the town’s reservoir, which resembles a farm pond, complete with fish and turtles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep from resorting to the water convoys, Tyhurst says he’s willing to try just about anything, including a measure that’s rarely been tried in California. It’s a fine, white powder Tyhurst has taken to sprinkling over the three-acre reservoir every few days, using a flour sifter on the end of a long pole. The powder readily dissolves and spreads across the surface, forming what’s called a “monolayer” between the water and the air, aimed at slowing evaporation to buy the town’s water supply a few extra days or weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/monolayer_7078_crop.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20696 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/monolayer_7078_crop.jpg\" alt=\"monolayer (Daniel Potter)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using a modified flour sifter, Tyhurst sprinkles a powder across Montague’s small reservoir. The product, made from palm oil and hydrated lime, spreads to form a ‘monolayer’ across the surface, slowing evaporation and saving precious water for the town. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This particular product, called WaterSavr, is made of hydrated lime, which is often used to treat water supplies, along with palm oil. Officials are also \u003ca title=\"Texas Trib - post\" href=\"http://www.texastribune.org/2014/07/30/four-guys-and-boat-tackle-texas-sized-water-proble/\">trying it out in drought-stricken Texas\u003c/a>. Noting the product’s been approved for use by the National Sanitation Foundation, Tyhurst says so far no one’s complained about it to him, “But we didn’t really broadcast that we were starting to use it,” he adds. “We generally don’t with any of our treatment stuff. It’s NSF approved, and that’s all the health department looks at, so we’re good to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Definitely Real Life’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the town butcher shop, 26-year old Douglas Hamblin says he hears talk from ranchers of having to cash out their chips if the weather doesn’t start cooperating, and soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Shop_7094.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20727\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Shop_7094.jpg\" alt='Hamblin is leaving town to do the shop laundry. 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(An acre foot is about 325,000 gallons, or just enough water to cover an acre one foot deep.) This year, Tyhurst says, the lake started well below 10,000 acre feet, with little in the way of snow on the mountain to help refill it. By late July, parts of the lake seemed to be missing — a blue patch on a map might just turn out to be an empty green field. In one spot, a sign next to a dry, rocky slope advised against swimming or fishing. The lake, or what remained of it, looked to be something of a hike down the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water travels to Montague in what Tyhurst calls “deliveries.” Every few weeks, some 200 acre-feet are released into a 26-mile canal that was constructed with farm irrigation in mind. The unlined ditch is poorly suited to water conservation. Much of it is bare earth, which gulps down a lot of the water long before it reaches the town, to say nothing of what evaporates in transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Pipeline_7044_crop.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20698\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Pipeline_7044_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Workers lower a segment of the new, more efficient pipeline next to where they’re carving a miles-long trench from the Shasta River to Montague’s reservoir. (Daniel Potter)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers lower a new segment of pipeline near where they’re carving a miles-long trench from the Shasta River to Montague’s reservoir. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Avoiding the ‘Nightmare Scenario’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “nightmare scenario,” as Tyhurst puts it, would be having to truck in water just to keep Montague’s water system pressurized, at an expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Tyhurst figures that would take a procession of some 30 trucks a day, each hauling 3,500 of gallons of water, rumbling from dawn to dusk every half-hour through the normally quiet neighborhood — a place where deer are a routine sight. Any scheduling hiccup could lead to trucks jamming the narrow unpaved road that leads to the town’s reservoir, which resembles a farm pond, complete with fish and turtles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep from resorting to the water convoys, Tyhurst says he’s willing to try just about anything, including a measure that’s rarely been tried in California. It’s a fine, white powder Tyhurst has taken to sprinkling over the three-acre reservoir every few days, using a flour sifter on the end of a long pole. The powder readily dissolves and spreads across the surface, forming what’s called a “monolayer” between the water and the air, aimed at slowing evaporation to buy the town’s water supply a few extra days or weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/monolayer_7078_crop.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20696 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/monolayer_7078_crop.jpg\" alt=\"monolayer (Daniel Potter)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using a modified flour sifter, Tyhurst sprinkles a powder across Montague’s small reservoir. The product, made from palm oil and hydrated lime, spreads to form a ‘monolayer’ across the surface, slowing evaporation and saving precious water for the town. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This particular product, called WaterSavr, is made of hydrated lime, which is often used to treat water supplies, along with palm oil. Officials are also \u003ca title=\"Texas Trib - post\" href=\"http://www.texastribune.org/2014/07/30/four-guys-and-boat-tackle-texas-sized-water-proble/\">trying it out in drought-stricken Texas\u003c/a>. Noting the product’s been approved for use by the National Sanitation Foundation, Tyhurst says so far no one’s complained about it to him, “But we didn’t really broadcast that we were starting to use it,” he adds. “We generally don’t with any of our treatment stuff. It’s NSF approved, and that’s all the health department looks at, so we’re good to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Definitely Real Life’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the town butcher shop, 26-year old Douglas Hamblin says he hears talk from ranchers of having to cash out their chips if the weather doesn’t start cooperating, and soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Shop_7094.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20727\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Shop_7094.jpg\" alt='Hamblin is leaving town to do the shop laundry. Without water, he says, \"life gets hectic pretty quickly.\" (Daniel Potter)' width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Douglas Hamblin says the family butcher shop has had to adjust to Montague’s severe water restrictions. Without water, he says, ‘Life gets hectic pretty quick.’ (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely real life,” he says. “It’s definitely water, and everybody needs water.” Without it, he says, “life gets hectic pretty quick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamblin has a tattoo of Jesus Christ on his arm, and big holes through his earlobes from the thick gauges he used to wear. Hamblin’s family only moved to Montague and started running the shop a couple years ago. While it’s equipped with a washing machine for aprons and rags, Hamblin says they haven’t been using it, because of the town’s limit on water use. Instead, his mother drives miles to another town each week to do laundry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new dad, Hamblin is quick to point out there are many people in the world with bigger problems than dead lawns, but says, “It’s kind of a bummer, you know. You have a six-month-old son, you want a little bit of a yard. You look like a jerk if you go ‘Okay, well, if I go over the 5,000 gallon-a-month limit I’ll just pay for it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a close-knit community, he explains: “Of course it’s frowned upon, because everybody has to look out for each other up here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Banking on a Pipeline\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the base of Mount Shasta sits \u003ca title=\"Wiki - Shastina\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shastina\">Lake Shastina\u003c/a>, which in good years can hold more than 30,000 acre-feet of water. (An acre foot is about 325,000 gallons, or just enough water to cover an acre one foot deep.) This year, Tyhurst says, the lake started well below 10,000 acre feet, with little in the way of snow on the mountain to help refill it. By late July, parts of the lake seemed to be missing — a blue patch on a map might just turn out to be an empty green field. In one spot, a sign next to a dry, rocky slope advised against swimming or fishing. The lake, or what remained of it, looked to be something of a hike down the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water travels to Montague in what Tyhurst calls “deliveries.” Every few weeks, some 200 acre-feet are released into a 26-mile canal that was constructed with farm irrigation in mind. The unlined ditch is poorly suited to water conservation. Much of it is bare earth, which gulps down a lot of the water long before it reaches the town, to say nothing of what evaporates in transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Pipeline_7044_crop.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20698\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Pipeline_7044_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Workers lower a segment of the new, more efficient pipeline next to where they’re carving a miles-long trench from the Shasta River to Montague’s reservoir. (Daniel Potter)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers lower a new segment of pipeline near where they’re carving a miles-long trench from the Shasta River to Montague’s reservoir. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As an alternative, this summer Montague has hustled to finish an emergency pipeline, essentially a straw that stretches a few miles from the \u003ca title=\"CalTrout - Shasta River\" href=\"http://caltrout.org/regions/mount-shasta-region/shasta-river/\">Shasta River\u003c/a> to the town’s reservoir. Tyhurst says normally such a project, which is costing over a million drought emergency dollars from the State Water Board, would’ve taken years to win approval from the numerous government agencies involved. Tyhurst credits the governor’s January declaration of a drought emergency with helping slice through all that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, construction itself hasn’t been easy. The morning I visited, a giant yellow machine was devouring underbrush like a hungry dinosaur to clear a path for the pipeline’s trench. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"audio-wrap\">\n\u003ch2>Listen:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2014/08/20140818science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/seedling.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20640\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/seedling.jpg\" alt=\"A pine tree seedling emerges in a burned area of the Stanislaus National Forest. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pine tree seedling emerges in a burned area of the Stanislaus National Forest. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One year after the record-breaking Rim Fire began in the Sierra Nevada, signs of recovery are appearing. Green ferns and small seedlings dot the forest floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a full recovery expected to take a century or more, forest officials are working on plans to speed it along by planting new trees. Reforestation is common after large fires in the West, but some scientists say it’s time to rethink how forests are replanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rim Fire is the largest wildfire ever recorded in the Sierra Nevada. Fed by high winds and bone-dry conditions, it consumed 257,000 acres – an area nine times the size of San Francisco. A hunter recently pleaded not guilty to charges that he started it with an illegal campfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of acres were severely burned, with trees and vegetation wiped out in about 40 percent of the burned area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The trees in this area have definitely torched out,” says Eric Knapp, a research ecologist with the Forest Service, walking around a burned patch of the Stanislaus National Forest. “You can see the bark char going pretty much all the way up the tree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://projects1.kqed.org/imageslider/rimfireslideshow.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shrubs and ferns have been able to come back quickly in many places, thanks in part to California’s historic drought. Without big winter storms to create soil erosion, plants were able to take hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s remarkable even in one year what can come back,” Knapp says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pine tree seedlings are harder to find. Knapp finally spots a three-inch pine tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The seed source is probably…” he says, looking around for where it came from. “There was green forest over there at least a hundred yards away. But nice thing about these pine seedlings is the seeds have these little wings on them so they get up into the wind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how this kind of mixed-conifer forest regrows in the Sierra Nevada, he says. Green trees on the edges of a burn send their seeds into dead areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the plants and trees can recolonize from the edge, but if your edge is too far away, that becomes more challenging,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the problem in the Rim Fire, he says. There are huge patches of dead trees and seeds can only travel so far, either by the wind or animals. The largest dead patch is more than 60,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20667 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Rimfiregraphic-e1408148390108.jpeg\" alt=\"(David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"816\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We estimate it could take centuries – a couple centuries – to really get that back in because there’s no seed source,” says the Forest Service’s Maria Benech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service is working on a Rim Fire recovery plan that includes reforestation, which could begin in a year and half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all done by hand, so it’s all hand-planted,” she says. “Just little tiny guys that are four, five inches tall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seedlings are usually planted densely, 10 feet apart. Reforestation has been done this way in the West for decades, but planting trees in the Sierra Nevada is no guarantee of success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After fires in 1987, the Forest Service replanted some of the forest, in what’s known as the “Penny Pines” tree plantation. A good part of the plantation was killed by the Rim Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These were fairly young, 20-25 year old stands,” Benech says. “They had branching all the way to the ground – a lot of interlocking branches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire moved easily through the dense foliage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have criticized how close we planted trees,” she says. “But the idea all along was to come in, year seven, year ten, and thin those out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20689\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/DSC01475.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/DSC01475.jpg\" alt=\"Ferns and brush return to the forest floor in the Stanislaus National Forest. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20689\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ferns and brush return to the forest floor in the Stanislaus National Forest. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it takes funding to selectively cut trees and create spaces in the forest. The Forest Service had made plans to do it, but hadn’t gotten the resources yet. Without that, the replanted trees went from restoration to liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Plantations are really prone to burning up,” says Malcolm North, a research scientist with the Forest Service and an affiliate professor at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North says there may be a better way to replant trees after wildfires. Researchers have learned a lot about how Sierra Nevada forests once looked, before Smokey Bear and decades of fire suppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we now know is that we eventually want to produce trees that have kind of a clumped and open – a group-y, gap-y type structure,” he says. “That’s the pattern we find time and time again in these forests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trees could be planted in a way that mimics that natural pattern – in clumps instead of rows. That could make them more resilient to future fires, North says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of scientists and environmental groups has been meeting to work on that idea. There’s still a lot to learn about how do that type of restoration. But that’s the silver lining of the Rim Fire, North says. With such a high profile fire comes the opportunity to learn from it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The largest dead patch is more than 60,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20667 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Rimfiregraphic-e1408148390108.jpeg\" alt=\"(David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"816\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We estimate it could take centuries – a couple centuries – to really get that back in because there’s no seed source,” says the Forest Service’s Maria Benech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service is working on a Rim Fire recovery plan that includes reforestation, which could begin in a year and half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all done by hand, so it’s all hand-planted,” she says. “Just little tiny guys that are four, five inches tall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seedlings are usually planted densely, 10 feet apart. 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(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20689\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ferns and brush return to the forest floor in the Stanislaus National Forest. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it takes funding to selectively cut trees and create spaces in the forest. The Forest Service had made plans to do it, but hadn’t gotten the resources yet. Without that, the replanted trees went from restoration to liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Plantations are really prone to burning up,” says Malcolm North, a research scientist with the Forest Service and an affiliate professor at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North says there may be a better way to replant trees after wildfires. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Kathy Shield\u003cbr>\nIntern, \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s historic drought has lots of gardeners searching for drought-tolerant plants. But what, exactly, makes a plant \u003ca href=\"http://www.laspilitas.com/garden/drought.html\">drought-tolerant\u003c/a>? The term is a “catch-all to describe using plants that use less water,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.floragrubb.com/idx/index.php\">Flora Grubb\u003c/a>, the owner of a San Francisco garden store, explained on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201408121000\">\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Falling into that “catch-all” category are plants that have evolved different physiological strategies to survive the dry times in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to drought-tolerant plants for your yard, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sunset.com/\">Sunset’s\u003c/a> garden editor Kathleen Brenzel has one recommendation: “The best thing you can do is \u003ca href=\"http://plantfinder.sunset.com/plant-home.jsp;jsessionid=3EC5F4B5E3240618C5FABA4A831CEF4C\">choose appropriate plant\u003c/a>s for your region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tiny Hairs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/6958026122_cfe6e3759a_z.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20610 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/6958026122_cfe6e3759a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Twinberry honeysuckle has tiny hairs that help it collect water. (docentjoyce/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"472\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twinberry honeysuckle has tiny hairs that help it collect water. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/docentjoyce/6958026122/in/photolist-5xQfjo-5mWLNt-55Qsz8-87AmdP-gM4ErC-gM4Fo9-acrzCY-bARGKC-nGYZxE-59tqoB-mgyNWX-o3zric-o3LCQ1-5nYjsS-6gAsWQ-SA43Q-SA43s-bWb9Yz-oyfvVD-owhSDQ-74DkMK-cPLrJm-fnLoEX-fqAtLi-fqArwe-fqAwwM-fqAsxa-fqAvfB-fqQFnW-o4GsS5-8488om-cBXuiG-k4pjZ2-5b5NBt-c9XARG-eYcFL2-eYcEUH-eYp4WJ-6tPjJy-6tKbn6-bWGy1L-6KnyoW-9vGCk7-542jV8-546yU9-546z43-9vDzxi-bUgumM-cbCH9o-6PcoSB/\">docentjoyce/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"http://www.perennialresource.com/articles/518_Drought-Tolerant-Perennials.aspx\">drought-tolerant plant\u003c/a>s use trichomes, or tiny hairs, to grab water and hold onto it. These hairs reduce air flow over the leaves of the plant, reducing evaporation. Plants that are native to foggy coastal regions use trichomes to pull water from the air. Some plants can get half of all their water this way. Trichomes cover the flowers and leaves of Twinberry honeysuckle (\u003cem>Lonicera involucrata\u003c/em>), which grows along the coastline from Alaska all the way to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waxy Surfaces \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/5264550029_a664d91bab_z.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20614 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/5264550029_a664d91bab_z.jpg\" alt=\"The waxy surface on the agave helps it retain water. (John Loo/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The waxy surface on the agave helps it retain water. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnloo/5264550029/in/photolist-92dciX-8oS3xS-7EfwYV-aCos9K-duBWcU-aTNC8B-95D7Yg-j8bGVV-7UV7vZ-bFRJPV-7amnyK-a5752R-ko6yV-5Yf4Pd-igtoX-s8Hjj-59zrjS-9J3QQn-7QVZiZ-7Apfg1-m4WEmr-4p5f9h-6oFobe-9PkBBR-6TdDN-7ApdLQ-7SSg7Q-c7Wh6C-nXtd7e-9quDR5-9LMmt5-dmkKDV-bniM9Z-apBS5g-koak1-99PibR-uUMUb-apzjNG-m3wkKe-9xbmtc-dvZZhx-dq8Rpi-cTmEFA-qmtkh-dSL4La-bCfWFW-4uP9Kd-cTmDpA-ajNErQ-9uEv2K\">John Loo/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All plants have a thin waxy cuticle, but many drought-tolerant plants grow thick coatings as a barrier against the environment. Plants in limited water environments develop these coatings to help retain water by limiting transpiration. Agave plants, such as the Southern Californian desert agave (A\u003cem>gave deserti\u003c/em>), have thick waxy layers on their leaves, which insulate the plant from the hot desert sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lateral Roots\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 458px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/1471016030_32d912cf8d_z.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20616 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/1471016030_32d912cf8d_z.jpg\" alt=\"The California oak's roots extend far and wide. (Josh Mazgelis/Flickr)\" width=\"458\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California oak’s roots extend far and wide. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshmaz/1471016030/in/photolist-3eZkPm-2avEto-n7vJwK-7LHm1M-dXewFc-6fJhek-ovtSFg-ovYFg4\">Josh Mazgelis/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plants native to different regions have evolved different root structures. In general, trees grow a single, wide tap root deep into the ground, which gives the tree dependable moisture. In regions with dry summers, trees also grow lateral root systems along the surface, which give the tree stability and the majority of the moisture and the nutrients it needs. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiaoaks.org/ExtAssets/CareOfCAsNativeOaks.pdf\">California oak tree (\u003cem>Quercus agrifolia\u003c/em>)\u003c/a> has a root system that extends as far as 90 feet beyond its branches, adapted to wet winters and long, dry summers throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water Storage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/8542281037_c954fb85d3_z.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20617 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/8542281037_c954fb85d3_z.jpg\" alt=\"Succulents can store water in their leaves to hold them over during dry periods. 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They often have thick, fleshy leaves, like spiral aloe (\u003cem>Aloe polyphylla\u003c/em>) a non-native plant that does well in regions with variable water supply, including the Bay Area. Some succulents can also store water in their stems and roots, including certain bulbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For tips on creating a drought-friendly garden, listen to the full \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201408121000\">Forum\u003c/a>\u003c/em> episode:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162865882&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\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Mary Flaherty/Berkeleyside) \u003ccite>((Mary Flaherty/Berkeleyside))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city of Berkeley’s project to convert thousands of old streetlights to LEDs is well underway, and the changes have not gone unnoticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Berkeley City Council voted to allow the city manager to seek a $3.5 million loan from the state to swap out its old high-pressure sodium and metal halide lamps with light-emitting diode fixtures. Better light quality, improved energy efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions were among the project’s main goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city began its investigation into the possibility of LED streetlights in 2012 with a council referral to the Public Works and Energy commissions. In 2012 and 2013, more than 100 streetlights were replaced with LED lights at the Berkeley Marina and along Telegraph Avenue. This year, the city plans to finish the job, and is slated to replace all 8,000 of its old streetlights with LEDs.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘No care is taken to shield emission onto and into houses, living spaces and sleeping rooms with these ultra high output fixtures.’\u003ccite>— Robert Remikert,\u003cbr>\nUnhappy with Berkeley LEDs\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So far, roughly 25 percent of the lights have been replaced, according to city spokesman Matthai Chakko. The new bulbs use 65 percent to 85 percent less energy than the old high-pressure sodium lights and should last 15 to 17 years, Chakko said. The old lights required replacement every few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project began in June, and Chakko said the city has received about 40 comments on the new lights so far. Most have been positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many like the lights, particularly since it gives truer light that covers more area,” Chakko said. “It’s better for pedestrian safety at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone has been pleased with the conversion. (Check the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/08/06/berkeley-residents-weigh-in-on-new-led-streetlights/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comments section on the original Berkeleyside version of this story\u003c/a> for a sampling of some of the most pointed pro and con comments.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten comments came to the city from people who were concerned with the brightness, Chakko said. Some community members expressed a preference to walk in dimmer light. But whereas most cities that put up LED lights get about four complaints per light, he said, Berkeley has received closer to two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents have also taken to social media to discuss the replacements. While many have expressed enthusiasm about the energy savings, others have said they aren’t thrilled about the intensity of the LEDs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate these new lights. So bright they hurt,” wrote Gina on Twitter in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chiming in on the dislike side. Way too bright,” added a user named symbiotic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria Wesson, who lives in North Berkeley near Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Cedar Street, said only one light near her house has been changed to an LED, but that it already has made a noticeable impact. She said she will need to hang blackout curtains to reduce the glare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hue of the light is blue/white and [the] intensity of the light is hugely different,” she said. “The one light that’s been changed is at the front of our house. This light is bright enough to light our living room and we look at it head-on from our bedroom window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Berkeleyside commenter expressed similar sentiments about the brightness earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“NO care is taken to shield emission onto and into houses, living spaces and sleeping rooms with these ultra high output fixtures,” said architect Robert Remikert. “I’m all for efficiency, but accompanied by sensitive design, or careful fixture selection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley resident Phillip Price said he is also supportive of the project, but feels many Berkeley neighborhoods were already light enough. He also said he fears that excessive artificial light could disrupt animal sleep and feeding cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Plus, I would like to be able to see a few stars,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others were more enthusiastic about the prospect of having brighter streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our neighborhood was upgraded this week. The white light is much more pleasant then the ugly old, orange sodium streetlights,” wrote Stefan Lasiewski on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Replied Teresa Gonzalez: “We got ours this week, what a difference!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The white light is much more pleasant then the ugly old, orange sodium streetlights.’\u003ccite>— Stefan Lasiewski,\u003cbr>\nPro-LED Berkeley resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Meryl Siegal, who lives in West Berkeley, said her streets get so dark at night that walking becomes impractical and can make her feel unsafe. Siegal said she is excited about the new lights and hopes they come to her neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons I chose where I live is because of the walkability, I love walking. But if I go to San Francisco and come home at, say, 9 p.m., it was so dark walking down my street that I didn’t know what to do,” Siegal said. “People should be able to walk home from the BART station if they live within a quarter of the mile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her neighbors have high fences, so no light from their yards spills onto the sidewalk, and streetlights only light the road for cars. In the winter, she said people would wait at her local bus stop with flashlights so buses would see them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did say, however, she would have liked for the city to have asked for more input about the project from residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to concerns, Chakko said the city will address complaints individually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new technology will save the city of Berkeley about $400,000 annually, Chakko said. The city said previously that it cost more than $600,000 to power the city’s streetlights each year. Regarding funding for the project, the city expects to save more money than it will spend on loan repayment due to better energy efficiency along with PG&E incentives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a staff report from October, the old lights generated more than 1,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year, which accounted for 13 percent of the city’s emissions. The LED conversion could reduce overall municipal emissions by 6.5 percent, according to the staff report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate Berkeleyside 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\" rel=\"noopener\">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",
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As a result, KQED will no longer be adding to its running “California Fire Update” post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who wants to keep informed on the status of these fires can check \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Fire\u003c/a>, the website of the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/state/5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InciWeb\u003c/a>, the incident information system of the U.S. Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, be sure to check out some of the work KQED has done on the fires, including a story and video on \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/08/01/californias-smokejumpers-fight-the-hardest-to-reach-wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smokejumpers, \u003c/a>NASA’s satellite \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/01/california-fires-nasa-satellite-view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">images\u003c/a> of the fires and a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/05/17/interactive-wildfire-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">real-time California wildfire tracker.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:40 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> The Shasta County town of Burney, which was being menaced by the Eiler Fire, can now relax. The wildfire is 35 percent contained. So far, it has consumed 31,085 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta County’s other large blaze, the Bald Fire, is 68 percent contained and has burned 39,926 acres. As Cal Fire described it: “Fire behavior minimal overnight with wet airmass bringing higher humidities and lower temperatures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Molly Samuel of KQED reports that 240 California National Guard soldiers are training to work on the ground fighting wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going through a week of pretty intensive instruction by Cal Fire to work as hand crews,” said Capt. Kara Seipmann. The guard pitches in almost every summer, she said, but the last time troops were called up to help out on the ground was in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Guard troops will clear brush ahead of a fire and mop up hot spots. The Guard has also sent helicopters and airplanes to aid in firefighting efforts. Seipmann said it’s too early in the weeklong training to know what fires the troops would be sent to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to depend on the disposition of the fire and the weather and the ability of state agencies to fight it without us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Forest Service will soon have to tap into programs designed to prevent wildfires so that it can meet the expenses of fighting this summer’s round of fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here’s a good fire roundup from the Associated Press:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires, like earthquakes, are a frightening fact of life in California, just more predictable. So as thousands of firefighters made progress in taming more than a dozen blazes that have pockmarked the northern half of the state, fire officials and anxious residents of drought-afflicted rural communities breathed a shallow sigh of relief they knew might not last long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Light rain and an infusion of personnel and equipment from as far away as San Diego allowed fire crews to continue gaining momentum Wednesday on a pair of wildfires that exploded over the weekend in a national forest filled with moisture-starved fallen trees and have burned more than 110 square miles, officials said. The two fires burning about 7 miles apart in Shasta and Lassen counties were among nine major wildfires that erupted in a 24-hour period last week, most sparked by lightning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters “are a finite resource, and we hit all the fires that we can as quickly as we can and we are successful most of the time keeping the fires at less than 10 acres,” said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Jim Mackensen. “When you get that many fires in remote locations and they all hit at once, we ran out of folks essentially, so they got bigger and we had to play catch-up a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight homes, a historic post office and a restaurant were lost in the smaller of the two fires that started in Lassen National Forest and threatened Burney, a town of about 3,000 people in Shasta County. An evacuation advisory for Burney was lifted on Tuesday, and about 2,000 or so people in nearby communities who were under mandatory evacuation orders were allowed to return home, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Tom Piranio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Firefighters continue to make great progress in strengthening containment lines and mopping up hot spots around the perimeter,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spread of the second blaze had also slowed enough that people living in its path who had been evacuated since Friday night were allowed to return home on Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooler temperatures and scattered showers also helped firefighters hold the line on four fires that have torched 51 square miles of wilderness and range and prompted evacuations in the state’s farthest reaches, including one that started in Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The precipitation was a mixed blessing, however, since thunderstorms forecast for Northern California and Southern Oregon could bring winds that would exacerbate existing fires and lightning that could cause new ones. And after Wednesday, the regions were expected to heat up again through next week. In Washington, two large fires grew amid warnings of strong winds and low relative humidity on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not out of the woods yet,” Mark Ghilarducci, director of the California Office of Emergency Services, said after surveying the Shasta and Lassen fires from a helicopter on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in California, Oregon and Washington have been warning the public about a heightened danger for summer wildfires because of unusually dry conditions and above normal temperatures, so the latest flurry did not come as a surprise. In Northern California, air and ground fire crews have been staffed at peak levels and on high alert since the spring, so when the weekend blazes broke out, “we just threw everything we could at them,” Ghilarducci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to tell you, it could have been a heck of a lot worse,” he added. “If we were in more populated areas, there would have been greater losses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought made it harder for aerial fire crews to secure water to douse the flames of the last few days, fire officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho said Tuesday that there have been fewer wildfires than usual across the nation so far this year and they have burned a combined area that is less than half the size of the 10-year average. In the West, however, it’s a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oregon and Washington, the number of fires is running 15 percent above average and they have consumed nearly three times as much land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of wildfires in Northern California is at 123 percent of average, but the amount of acreage left blackened is almost half of the decade average since many of the blazes have been small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, where the worst fires typically come with the fall Santa Ana winds, the number of fires has been just under average and the number of acres burned two-thirds below average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire center predicted this month that given the record dry fuels on forest floors and no significant rain in the forecast, the potential for significant fires will remain high in California, Oregon and Washington though at least September. But drought, or the absence of it, is only one of the factors that drives destructive fires, spokesman Mike Ferris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stage is set for large, intense wildfires in many areas due to long-term factors, such as climate change, hazardous fuel buildups, insect and disease outbreaks, invasive species infestations, and drought,” Ferris said. “When short-term weather conditions come into play — such as above-average temperatures, low relative humidities, high winds, and lightning, we can expect to see extreme fire behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.redding.com/news/fires/fire-camp-to-fight-eiler-bald-fires-dwarfs-many-towns-its-set-to-protect_91091490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Record Searchlight in Redding\u003c/a> says the fire camps set up to fight the Bald and Eiler fires are a major presence:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The number of firefighters combating the Bald and Eiler fires burning in eastern Shasta County has grown to dwarf the populations of many of the towns they’re assigned to protect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,000 firefighters are currently living at the Intermountain Fairgrounds in McArthur, a small town along Highway 299 near the Modoc County line with a population of just 338 residents, according to 2010 Census data.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here’s the latest on other major fires still burning on Wednesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Day Fire (Modoc County):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Burning north of the Eiler and Bald fires, has burned about 13,047 acres and is 75 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4036/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Beaver Fire (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>:\u003c/a>Burning west of Interstate 5, just south of the Oregon border and about 20 miles northwest of Yreka. Rapidly growing fire has burned just over 15,230 acres, prompting evacuation advisories. It’s still only 5 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4035/22998/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>The July Complex (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: A group of fires burning in mountainous terrain about 40 miles west of Mount Shasta. The fires have burned a total of 8,144 acres and are 13 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4038/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Little Deer Fire (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>:\u003c/a> Burning northeast of Weed along U.S. 97. The fire has consumed 5,279 acres and is 77 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>The Lodge Lightning Complex (Mendocino County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Burning northwest of Laytonville. Has consumed about 4,000 acres with 20 percent containment.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4012/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>El Portal Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, in Yosemite National Park, is holding steady at 4,689 acres. It’s fully contained, and fire crews are being released to respond to other incidents\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4013/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>French Fire\u003c/strong>,\u003c/a> in Sierra National Forest on the upper San Joaquin River, has burned 13,835 acres and is reported 60 percent contained. Officials say the fire was caused by an abandoned campfire and are \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4013/22939/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeking the public’s help\u003c/a> in finding the persons responsible.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other fire-related news from the Associated Press:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday that about $400 million to $500 million in projects will have to be put on hold in what has become a routine exercise toward the end of the fiscal year. He predicted that the money set aside strictly for firefighting will run out by the end of August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we begin to run out of money we have to dip into the very programs that will reduce the risk of these fires over time,” Vilsack said in a telephone interview with AP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 30 large fires are working their way through federal and state forests in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. With lawmakers back home for the August recess and the public’s attention focused on those efforts, Vilsack is lobbying for the administration’s request for an additional $615 million to fight wildfires this fiscal year and next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers from both parties generally agree the current funding model is broken. They say it’s self-defeating to curtail activities designed to prevent forest fires, such as thinning overgrown forests and clearing underbrush, to cover the full costs of fighting blazes that have become more destructive over the past decade. But there is disagreement about how to fix the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration and some lawmakers have called for tapping the government’s fund for battling natural disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes to pay for the most devastating forest fires. They say the change would not impact the government’s response to other types of disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House Budget Committee, led by Rep. Paul Ryan, has said it would be better to work within existing spending caps to fully fund both the firefighting efforts and prevention work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would mean finding savings through other the Department of Agriculture and Interior programs. House Republicans also argue that a bill they passed last year requiring greater timber harvesting on federal lands could help reduce the amount of money needed for fire prevention efforts. The administration opposed that bill saying it undermined several laws and rules established to protect the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Democrats overwhelmingly support efforts to treat the worst wildfires like other natural disasters. Vilsack said it’s important to put the most devastating wildfires on a par with other natural disasters. “And that’s what a forest fire started by lightning most definitely is,” Vilsack said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is also making the case that diverting money to fight forest fires isn’t just a problem for the Western states. He said it forces officials to scale back forestry projects in every state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two years, the Forest Service has transferred about $950 million from other accounts to battle fires, and over the past 12 years, the amount transferred totals about $3.2 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday 2 p.m.:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQYwzFNVB_U&w=640&h=360]\u003cstrong>Update, 1 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>There’s good news overall on most of the state’s various fire fronts, thanks to light rain and increased humidity, although the threat of thunderstorms could complicate things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4037/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eiler Fire \u003c/a>in Shasta County is now 20 percent contained and has burned 28,600 acres, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The conflagration, 4 miles south of the town of Burney, is likely to be contained by Aug. 20, fire officials say. Now 1,171 firefighters are battling the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire reports that the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4022/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bald Fire\u003c/a>, also in Shasta County, is 30 percent contained and has consumed 39,850 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It burned less actively into the night and spread mostly to the south. Although the cooler and wetter weather is calming things down, there’s a chance of thunderstorms, which could bring winds and instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials don’t expect containment until Aug. 17. The Bald Fire began on July 30. There are 949 fire personnel fighting the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the latest on other major fires still burning on Tuesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4034/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Oregon Gulch (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Burning on the California-Oregon border east of Interstate 5 and about 20 miles southeast of Ashland. The fire has burned roughly 36,723 acres and is 30 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Day Fire (Modoc County):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Burning north of the Eiler and Bald fires, has burned about 13,047 acres and is 65 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4036/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Beaver Fire (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>: \u003c/a> Burning west of Interstate 5, just south of the Oregon border and about 20 miles northwest of Yreka. Rapidly growing fire has burned just over 11,488 acres, prompting evacuation advisories. It’s still only 2 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4035/22998/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>The July Complex (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: A group of fires burning in mountainous terrain about 40 miles west of Mount Shasta. The fires have burned a total of 6,897 acres and are uncontained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4038/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Little Deer Fire (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>:\u003c/a> Burning northeast of Weed along U.S. 97. The fire has consumed 5,279 acres and is 60 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>The Lodge Lightning Complex (Mendocino County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Burning northwest of Laytonville. Has consumed about 3,527 acres with 15 percent containment.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4012/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>El Portal Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, in Yosemite National Park, is holding steady at 4,689 acres. It’s fully contained, and fire crews are being released to respond to other incidents\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4013/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>French Fire\u003c/strong>,\u003c/a> in Sierra National Forest on the upper San Joaquin River, has burned 13,717 acres and is reported 40 percent contained. Officials say the fire was caused by an abandoned campfire and are \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4013/22939/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeking the public’s help\u003c/a> in finding the persons responsible.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:30 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong> We’ve updated the post to reflect latest reported statistics (below) from federal and state fire agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:50 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>There are a couple of major shifts affecting the series of big fires that sprang up in Northern California late last week. As we reported this morning, the weather is better for firefighting: overcast, cooler, moister with a chance of rain. There’s also been a major influx of firefighting help, especially on the Eiler and Bald fires burning in what some locals call the “intermountain” region northeast of Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”VIxNsOwpN1nSMW83gzFn23PE9MRGrt1I”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday, a total of fewer than 1,000 personnel were fighting the two fires. \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4022/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bald Fire\u003c/a> grew to a shade under 40,000 acres — about 30 percent larger than the city of San Francisco — and was reported just 5 percent contained Sunday evening. \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4037/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Eiler Fire\u003c/a>, at just under 26,000 acres, had made a weekend run for the town of Burney and was reported completely uncontained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With crews rushing to the area from around the state, including engine companies from San Francisco and Marin counties, the force fighting the two fires Monday totals more than 2,100, with about 1,170 on the Eiler Fire and 950 on the Bald Fire (as reported late Monday night). Containment on the Bald Fire had grown from 5 percent to 20 percent; the Eiler Fire officially remains at 0 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those incidents are just two among half a dozen fires of 10,000 acres or more burning around the state (a week ago, there were no fires of that magnitude in California) and numerous smaller fires in challenging, remote terrain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Mackensen, the U.S. Forest Service public information officer working the Eiler and Bald fires, said from the Shasta County town of McArthur on Monday that one of the main challenges facing fire managers now is finding crews to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at in Northern California what we call Preparedness Level Five, which is our highest level of preparedness,” Mackensen said. “We are bringing in resources from all over the country, flying in hand crews, having engines drive out. We’re trying to catch up, but it’s a major campaign right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire managers briefing firefighting crew leaders Monday morning in McArthur said that some progress had been made in bulldozing new fire lines and setting backfires to prevent the Eiler Fire from continuing its run north to Burney, a town of about 3,500. Nevertheless, they said, the fire still has a very high potential to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s in part because of the impact of the state’s prolonged drought, which has left even living vegetation ready to burn and turned dead brush and wood on forest floors into tinder just awaiting a spark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s bad. The fuels are very, very dry,” Mackensen said. “The analogy I try to put in people’s mind is that we measure fuel moisture — how much moisture is in these dead fuels on the forest floor. When you go to your Home Depot lumberyard, your two-by-fours and four-by-fours come from the sawmill at about 9 percent water volume in it. The fuels on the forest floor in most of this area now has a water volume of anywhere from 3 to 6 percent. So the fuels you find lying around on the forest floor are drier than what you’d find in a lumberyard, so it really does not take a lot to get started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that brings us back to the weather. Monday’s cooler, overcast conditions come with the threat of thunderstorms. The upside to that: a somewhat small chance of wetting rains that could make help firefighters. The downside: the potential for winds that can supercharge fires and dry lightning that could spark new blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other major fires burning \u003cstrong>Monday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4034/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Oregon Gulch (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Burning on the California-Oregon border east of Interstate 5 and about 20 miles southeast of Ashland. The fire has burned roughly 36,500 acres, including 9,500 in California, and is 20 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Day Fire (Modoc County):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Burning north of the Eiler and Bald fires, has burned about 13,000 acres and is 60 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4036/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Beaver Fire (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>: \u003c/a> Burning west of Interstate 5, just south of the Oregon border and about 20 miles northwest of Yreka. Rapidly growing fire has burned just over 11,000 acres. It’s 2 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4035/22998/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>The July Complex (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: A group of fires burning in mountainous terrain about 40 miles west of Mount Shasta. The fires have burned a total of 6,900 acres and are uncontained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4038/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Little Deer Fire (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>:\u003c/a> Burning northeast of Weed along U.S. 97. The fire has consumed 5,279 acres and is 54 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>The Lodge Lightning Complex (Mendocino County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Burning northwest of Laytonville. Has consumed about 3,527 acres with 15 percent containment.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4012/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>El Portal Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, in Yosemite National Park, is holding steady at 4,689 acres. It’s reported to be 96 percent contained, and fire crews are being released to respond to other incidents\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4013/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>French Fire\u003c/strong>,\u003c/a> in Sierra National Forest on the upper San Joaquin River, has burned 13,267 acres and is reported 40 percent contained. Officials say the fire was caused by an abandoned campfire and are \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4013/22939/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeking the public’s help\u003c/a> in finding the persons responsible.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday 8:25 a.m.:\u003c/strong> We’re still waiting for updated acreage numbers on the major fires burning in Shasta, Siskiyou and Modoc counties, but cooler, moister, overcast weather looks like it will give firefighters a bit of a break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while temperatures are expected to stay in the low to mid-80s throughout much of the region, with lighter winds and higher humidity than over the weekend, the National Weather Service has issued \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sto&wwa=red%20flag%20warning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">red-flag warnings\u003c/a> because of the threat of thunderstorms beginning later this morning. Although scattered rain is forecast, too, the danger posed by the storms is dry lightning — the culprit in the big fires that started across the northern part of California late last week and have blown up into major conflagrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll update specific fires later, but here are a couple of other links for Monday morning fire information:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inciweb:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/state/5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">List of California fires in federal jurisdiction\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Cal Fire: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">List of all current incidents\u003c/a> (mostly state jurisdiction)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find our earlier fire coverage of the past week’s here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/03/cal-fire-gains-ground-on-mother-lode-blaze-2nd-fire-burns-near-yosemite/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Fire Update: Big North State Fires Continue to Spread\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Ted Goldberg contributed to this post. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_144085\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Lassen-National-Forest.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144085\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Lassen-National-Forest.jpg\" alt=\"The Lassen National Forest has been hit hard by wildfires. (Photo courtesy of Cal OES)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lassen National Forest has been hit hard by wildfires. (Photo courtesy of Cal OES)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:15 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> The wildfires raging in Northern California have settled down, thanks to a big shift in the weather, which has brought rain and moisture, and a huge infusion of firefighting personnel and equipment. As a result, KQED will no longer be adding to its running “California Fire Update” post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who wants to keep informed on the status of these fires can check \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Fire\u003c/a>, the website of the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/state/5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InciWeb\u003c/a>, the incident information system of the U.S. Forest Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, be sure to check out some of the work KQED has done on the fires, including a story and video on \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/08/01/californias-smokejumpers-fight-the-hardest-to-reach-wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smokejumpers, \u003c/a>NASA’s satellite \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/01/california-fires-nasa-satellite-view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">images\u003c/a> of the fires and a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/05/17/interactive-wildfire-map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">real-time California wildfire tracker.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:40 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> The Shasta County town of Burney, which was being menaced by the Eiler Fire, can now relax. The wildfire is 35 percent contained. So far, it has consumed 31,085 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta County’s other large blaze, the Bald Fire, is 68 percent contained and has burned 39,926 acres. As Cal Fire described it: “Fire behavior minimal overnight with wet airmass bringing higher humidities and lower temperatures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Molly Samuel of KQED reports that 240 California National Guard soldiers are training to work on the ground fighting wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going through a week of pretty intensive instruction by Cal Fire to work as hand crews,” said Capt. Kara Seipmann. The guard pitches in almost every summer, she said, but the last time troops were called up to help out on the ground was in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Guard troops will clear brush ahead of a fire and mop up hot spots. The Guard has also sent helicopters and airplanes to aid in firefighting efforts. Seipmann said it’s too early in the weeklong training to know what fires the troops would be sent to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to depend on the disposition of the fire and the weather and the ability of state agencies to fight it without us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Forest Service will soon have to tap into programs designed to prevent wildfires so that it can meet the expenses of fighting this summer’s round of fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here’s a good fire roundup from the Associated Press:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfires, like earthquakes, are a frightening fact of life in California, just more predictable. So as thousands of firefighters made progress in taming more than a dozen blazes that have pockmarked the northern half of the state, fire officials and anxious residents of drought-afflicted rural communities breathed a shallow sigh of relief they knew might not last long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Light rain and an infusion of personnel and equipment from as far away as San Diego allowed fire crews to continue gaining momentum Wednesday on a pair of wildfires that exploded over the weekend in a national forest filled with moisture-starved fallen trees and have burned more than 110 square miles, officials said. The two fires burning about 7 miles apart in Shasta and Lassen counties were among nine major wildfires that erupted in a 24-hour period last week, most sparked by lightning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters “are a finite resource, and we hit all the fires that we can as quickly as we can and we are successful most of the time keeping the fires at less than 10 acres,” said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Jim Mackensen. “When you get that many fires in remote locations and they all hit at once, we ran out of folks essentially, so they got bigger and we had to play catch-up a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight homes, a historic post office and a restaurant were lost in the smaller of the two fires that started in Lassen National Forest and threatened Burney, a town of about 3,000 people in Shasta County. An evacuation advisory for Burney was lifted on Tuesday, and about 2,000 or so people in nearby communities who were under mandatory evacuation orders were allowed to return home, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Tom Piranio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Firefighters continue to make great progress in strengthening containment lines and mopping up hot spots around the perimeter,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spread of the second blaze had also slowed enough that people living in its path who had been evacuated since Friday night were allowed to return home on Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooler temperatures and scattered showers also helped firefighters hold the line on four fires that have torched 51 square miles of wilderness and range and prompted evacuations in the state’s farthest reaches, including one that started in Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The precipitation was a mixed blessing, however, since thunderstorms forecast for Northern California and Southern Oregon could bring winds that would exacerbate existing fires and lightning that could cause new ones. And after Wednesday, the regions were expected to heat up again through next week. In Washington, two large fires grew amid warnings of strong winds and low relative humidity on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not out of the woods yet,” Mark Ghilarducci, director of the California Office of Emergency Services, said after surveying the Shasta and Lassen fires from a helicopter on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in California, Oregon and Washington have been warning the public about a heightened danger for summer wildfires because of unusually dry conditions and above normal temperatures, so the latest flurry did not come as a surprise. In Northern California, air and ground fire crews have been staffed at peak levels and on high alert since the spring, so when the weekend blazes broke out, “we just threw everything we could at them,” Ghilarducci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to tell you, it could have been a heck of a lot worse,” he added. “If we were in more populated areas, there would have been greater losses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought made it harder for aerial fire crews to secure water to douse the flames of the last few days, fire officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho said Tuesday that there have been fewer wildfires than usual across the nation so far this year and they have burned a combined area that is less than half the size of the 10-year average. In the West, however, it’s a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oregon and Washington, the number of fires is running 15 percent above average and they have consumed nearly three times as much land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of wildfires in Northern California is at 123 percent of average, but the amount of acreage left blackened is almost half of the decade average since many of the blazes have been small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, where the worst fires typically come with the fall Santa Ana winds, the number of fires has been just under average and the number of acres burned two-thirds below average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire center predicted this month that given the record dry fuels on forest floors and no significant rain in the forecast, the potential for significant fires will remain high in California, Oregon and Washington though at least September. But drought, or the absence of it, is only one of the factors that drives destructive fires, spokesman Mike Ferris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stage is set for large, intense wildfires in many areas due to long-term factors, such as climate change, hazardous fuel buildups, insect and disease outbreaks, invasive species infestations, and drought,” Ferris said. “When short-term weather conditions come into play — such as above-average temperatures, low relative humidities, high winds, and lightning, we can expect to see extreme fire behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.redding.com/news/fires/fire-camp-to-fight-eiler-bald-fires-dwarfs-many-towns-its-set-to-protect_91091490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Record Searchlight in Redding\u003c/a> says the fire camps set up to fight the Bald and Eiler fires are a major presence:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The number of firefighters combating the Bald and Eiler fires burning in eastern Shasta County has grown to dwarf the populations of many of the towns they’re assigned to protect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,000 firefighters are currently living at the Intermountain Fairgrounds in McArthur, a small town along Highway 299 near the Modoc County line with a population of just 338 residents, according to 2010 Census data.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here’s the latest on other major fires still burning on Wednesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Day Fire (Modoc County):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Burning north of the Eiler and Bald fires, has burned about 13,047 acres and is 75 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4036/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Beaver Fire (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>:\u003c/a>Burning west of Interstate 5, just south of the Oregon border and about 20 miles northwest of Yreka. Rapidly growing fire has burned just over 15,230 acres, prompting evacuation advisories. It’s still only 5 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4035/22998/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>The July Complex (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: A group of fires burning in mountainous terrain about 40 miles west of Mount Shasta. The fires have burned a total of 8,144 acres and are 13 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4038/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Little Deer Fire (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>:\u003c/a> Burning northeast of Weed along U.S. 97. The fire has consumed 5,279 acres and is 77 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>The Lodge Lightning Complex (Mendocino County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Burning northwest of Laytonville. Has consumed about 4,000 acres with 20 percent containment.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4012/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>El Portal Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, in Yosemite National Park, is holding steady at 4,689 acres. It’s fully contained, and fire crews are being released to respond to other incidents\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4013/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>French Fire\u003c/strong>,\u003c/a> in Sierra National Forest on the upper San Joaquin River, has burned 13,835 acres and is reported 60 percent contained. Officials say the fire was caused by an abandoned campfire and are \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4013/22939/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeking the public’s help\u003c/a> in finding the persons responsible.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other fire-related news from the Associated Press:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday that about $400 million to $500 million in projects will have to be put on hold in what has become a routine exercise toward the end of the fiscal year. He predicted that the money set aside strictly for firefighting will run out by the end of August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we begin to run out of money we have to dip into the very programs that will reduce the risk of these fires over time,” Vilsack said in a telephone interview with AP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 30 large fires are working their way through federal and state forests in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. With lawmakers back home for the August recess and the public’s attention focused on those efforts, Vilsack is lobbying for the administration’s request for an additional $615 million to fight wildfires this fiscal year and next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers from both parties generally agree the current funding model is broken. They say it’s self-defeating to curtail activities designed to prevent forest fires, such as thinning overgrown forests and clearing underbrush, to cover the full costs of fighting blazes that have become more destructive over the past decade. But there is disagreement about how to fix the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration and some lawmakers have called for tapping the government’s fund for battling natural disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes to pay for the most devastating forest fires. They say the change would not impact the government’s response to other types of disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House Budget Committee, led by Rep. Paul Ryan, has said it would be better to work within existing spending caps to fully fund both the firefighting efforts and prevention work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would mean finding savings through other the Department of Agriculture and Interior programs. House Republicans also argue that a bill they passed last year requiring greater timber harvesting on federal lands could help reduce the amount of money needed for fire prevention efforts. The administration opposed that bill saying it undermined several laws and rules established to protect the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Democrats overwhelmingly support efforts to treat the worst wildfires like other natural disasters. Vilsack said it’s important to put the most devastating wildfires on a par with other natural disasters. “And that’s what a forest fire started by lightning most definitely is,” Vilsack said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is also making the case that diverting money to fight forest fires isn’t just a problem for the Western states. He said it forces officials to scale back forestry projects in every state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two years, the Forest Service has transferred about $950 million from other accounts to battle fires, and over the past 12 years, the amount transferred totals about $3.2 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday 2 p.m.:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/FQYwzFNVB_U'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/FQYwzFNVB_U'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>There’s good news overall on most of the state’s various fire fronts, thanks to light rain and increased humidity, although the threat of thunderstorms could complicate things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4037/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eiler Fire \u003c/a>in Shasta County is now 20 percent contained and has burned 28,600 acres, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The conflagration, 4 miles south of the town of Burney, is likely to be contained by Aug. 20, fire officials say. Now 1,171 firefighters are battling the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire reports that the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4022/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bald Fire\u003c/a>, also in Shasta County, is 30 percent contained and has consumed 39,850 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It burned less actively into the night and spread mostly to the south. Although the cooler and wetter weather is calming things down, there’s a chance of thunderstorms, which could bring winds and instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials don’t expect containment until Aug. 17. The Bald Fire began on July 30. There are 949 fire personnel fighting the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the latest on other major fires still burning on Tuesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4034/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Oregon Gulch (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Burning on the California-Oregon border east of Interstate 5 and about 20 miles southeast of Ashland. The fire has burned roughly 36,723 acres and is 30 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Day Fire (Modoc County):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Burning north of the Eiler and Bald fires, has burned about 13,047 acres and is 65 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4036/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Beaver Fire (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>: \u003c/a> Burning west of Interstate 5, just south of the Oregon border and about 20 miles northwest of Yreka. Rapidly growing fire has burned just over 11,488 acres, prompting evacuation advisories. It’s still only 2 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4035/22998/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>The July Complex (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: A group of fires burning in mountainous terrain about 40 miles west of Mount Shasta. The fires have burned a total of 6,897 acres and are uncontained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4038/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Little Deer Fire (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>:\u003c/a> Burning northeast of Weed along U.S. 97. The fire has consumed 5,279 acres and is 60 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>The Lodge Lightning Complex (Mendocino County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Burning northwest of Laytonville. Has consumed about 3,527 acres with 15 percent containment.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4012/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>El Portal Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, in Yosemite National Park, is holding steady at 4,689 acres. It’s fully contained, and fire crews are being released to respond to other incidents\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4013/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>French Fire\u003c/strong>,\u003c/a> in Sierra National Forest on the upper San Joaquin River, has burned 13,717 acres and is reported 40 percent contained. Officials say the fire was caused by an abandoned campfire and are \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4013/22939/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeking the public’s help\u003c/a> in finding the persons responsible.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:30 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong> We’ve updated the post to reflect latest reported statistics (below) from federal and state fire agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:50 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>There are a couple of major shifts affecting the series of big fires that sprang up in Northern California late last week. As we reported this morning, the weather is better for firefighting: overcast, cooler, moister with a chance of rain. There’s also been a major influx of firefighting help, especially on the Eiler and Bald fires burning in what some locals call the “intermountain” region northeast of Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday, a total of fewer than 1,000 personnel were fighting the two fires. \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4022/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bald Fire\u003c/a> grew to a shade under 40,000 acres — about 30 percent larger than the city of San Francisco — and was reported just 5 percent contained Sunday evening. \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4037/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Eiler Fire\u003c/a>, at just under 26,000 acres, had made a weekend run for the town of Burney and was reported completely uncontained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With crews rushing to the area from around the state, including engine companies from San Francisco and Marin counties, the force fighting the two fires Monday totals more than 2,100, with about 1,170 on the Eiler Fire and 950 on the Bald Fire (as reported late Monday night). Containment on the Bald Fire had grown from 5 percent to 20 percent; the Eiler Fire officially remains at 0 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those incidents are just two among half a dozen fires of 10,000 acres or more burning around the state (a week ago, there were no fires of that magnitude in California) and numerous smaller fires in challenging, remote terrain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Mackensen, the U.S. Forest Service public information officer working the Eiler and Bald fires, said from the Shasta County town of McArthur on Monday that one of the main challenges facing fire managers now is finding crews to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at in Northern California what we call Preparedness Level Five, which is our highest level of preparedness,” Mackensen said. “We are bringing in resources from all over the country, flying in hand crews, having engines drive out. We’re trying to catch up, but it’s a major campaign right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire managers briefing firefighting crew leaders Monday morning in McArthur said that some progress had been made in bulldozing new fire lines and setting backfires to prevent the Eiler Fire from continuing its run north to Burney, a town of about 3,500. Nevertheless, they said, the fire still has a very high potential to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s in part because of the impact of the state’s prolonged drought, which has left even living vegetation ready to burn and turned dead brush and wood on forest floors into tinder just awaiting a spark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s bad. The fuels are very, very dry,” Mackensen said. “The analogy I try to put in people’s mind is that we measure fuel moisture — how much moisture is in these dead fuels on the forest floor. When you go to your Home Depot lumberyard, your two-by-fours and four-by-fours come from the sawmill at about 9 percent water volume in it. The fuels on the forest floor in most of this area now has a water volume of anywhere from 3 to 6 percent. So the fuels you find lying around on the forest floor are drier than what you’d find in a lumberyard, so it really does not take a lot to get started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that brings us back to the weather. Monday’s cooler, overcast conditions come with the threat of thunderstorms. The upside to that: a somewhat small chance of wetting rains that could make help firefighters. The downside: the potential for winds that can supercharge fires and dry lightning that could spark new blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other major fires burning \u003cstrong>Monday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4034/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Oregon Gulch (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Burning on the California-Oregon border east of Interstate 5 and about 20 miles southeast of Ashland. The fire has burned roughly 36,500 acres, including 9,500 in California, and is 20 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Day Fire (Modoc County):\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> Burning north of the Eiler and Bald fires, has burned about 13,000 acres and is 60 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4036/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Beaver Fire (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>: \u003c/a> Burning west of Interstate 5, just south of the Oregon border and about 20 miles northwest of Yreka. Rapidly growing fire has burned just over 11,000 acres. It’s 2 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4035/22998/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>The July Complex (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: A group of fires burning in mountainous terrain about 40 miles west of Mount Shasta. The fires have burned a total of 6,900 acres and are uncontained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4038/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Little Deer Fire (Siskiyou County)\u003c/strong>:\u003c/a> Burning northeast of Weed along U.S. 97. The fire has consumed 5,279 acres and is 54 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>The Lodge Lightning Complex (Mendocino County)\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>: Burning northwest of Laytonville. Has consumed about 3,527 acres with 15 percent containment.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4012/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>El Portal Fire\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, in Yosemite National Park, is holding steady at 4,689 acres. It’s reported to be 96 percent contained, and fire crews are being released to respond to other incidents\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4013/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>French Fire\u003c/strong>,\u003c/a> in Sierra National Forest on the upper San Joaquin River, has burned 13,267 acres and is reported 40 percent contained. Officials say the fire was caused by an abandoned campfire and are \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4013/22939/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeking the public’s help\u003c/a> in finding the persons responsible.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday 8:25 a.m.:\u003c/strong> We’re still waiting for updated acreage numbers on the major fires burning in Shasta, Siskiyou and Modoc counties, but cooler, moister, overcast weather looks like it will give firefighters a bit of a break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while temperatures are expected to stay in the low to mid-80s throughout much of the region, with lighter winds and higher humidity than over the weekend, the National Weather Service has issued \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sto&wwa=red%20flag%20warning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">red-flag warnings\u003c/a> because of the threat of thunderstorms beginning later this morning. Although scattered rain is forecast, too, the danger posed by the storms is dry lightning — the culprit in the big fires that started across the northern part of California late last week and have blown up into major conflagrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll update specific fires later, but here are a couple of other links for Monday morning fire information:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inciweb:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/state/5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">List of California fires in federal jurisdiction\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Cal Fire: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">List of all current incidents\u003c/a> (mostly state jurisdiction)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find our earlier fire coverage of the past week’s here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/03/cal-fire-gains-ground-on-mother-lode-blaze-2nd-fire-burns-near-yosemite/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Fire Update: Big North State Fires Continue to Spread\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_144153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/177649093.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-144153\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/177649093-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Flames from Rim Fire consume trees on Aug. 25, 2013 near Groveland, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flames from Rim Fire consume trees on Aug. 25, 2013 near Groveland, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 32-year-old man from the Tuolumne County town of Columbia has been charged by a federal grand jury with starting the devastating \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/22/rim-fire-before-after-pictures\" target=\"_blank\">Rim Fire. \u003c/a>Federal prosecutors say that Keith Matthew Emerald faces a four-count indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The August 2013 conflagration -- the third largest in California history -- lasted for nine weeks and burned more than 250,000 acres, including large section of Yosemite National Park and the Stanislaus National Forest. It was the biggest fire ever in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"#indictment\">indictment\u003c/a>, Emerald kindled a fire on Aug. 17, 2013 in the Stanislaus National Forest and let it spread beyond his control, despite temporary fire restrictions that banned fires. He is also charged with lying to a federal agent by saying he did not start the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court documents indicate that Emerald was rescued by helicopter from the Clavey River canyon part of the Stanislaus National Forest -- near the place where the Rim Fire originated -- about an hour after the fire was reported. According to a press release, \"Emerald was carrying bow hunting equipment with him and advised authorities that he had been on a solo hunting trip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, who announced the indictment jointly with U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Regional Forester Randy Moore, stated: “The Rim Fire was one of the largest in California history and caused tremendous economic and environmental harm. While those harms cannot be undone, today we have brought criminal charges relating to the cause of that fire. I want to commend the Forest Service agents for their diligent and extensive investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore added: “The impacts of the Rim Fire on our public lands will continue for years to come. This devastating fire caused risk to firefighters, citizens and private property, and over $125 million were spent in fire suppression costs on this beautiful and popular landscape. We’re still dealing with hazardous trees and erosion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_144203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 501px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Rim-fire-graphic.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Rim-fire-graphic-501x640.jpg\" alt=\"RIm Fire Graphic (David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"501\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-144203\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RIm Fire Graphic (David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Emerald, who is expected to appear in federal court in Fresno soon, could face a $250,000 fine and a maximum statutory penalty of five years in prison if he's convicted of setting timber afire or for false statements made to a government agency. The two other counts involve leaving a fire unattended and violating a fire restriction order. Each count has a maximum penalty of six months in prison and a $5,000 fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sentence would be at the discretion of the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Harris, U.S. Forest Service special agent in charge of the Pacific Southwest Region, said: “The cooperative work of the criminal investigators from the U.S. Forest Service, Tuolumne County District Attorney's Office, and prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office that led to the indictment is commendable. Through this investigative partnership and support from the community, we have discovered the origin, cause and identified a suspect for the massive Rim Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"indictment\">\u003c/a>Read the indictment\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe id=\"doc_28814\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/236171927/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-EMjd1hwNoZFndMPuiMS1&show_recommendations=false\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore added: “The impacts of the Rim Fire on our public lands will continue for years to come. This devastating fire caused risk to firefighters, citizens and private property, and over $125 million were spent in fire suppression costs on this beautiful and popular landscape. We’re still dealing with hazardous trees and erosion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_144203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 501px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Rim-fire-graphic.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Rim-fire-graphic-501x640.jpg\" alt=\"RIm Fire Graphic (David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"501\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-144203\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RIm Fire Graphic (David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Emerald, who is expected to appear in federal court in Fresno soon, could face a $250,000 fine and a maximum statutory penalty of five years in prison if he's convicted of setting timber afire or for false statements made to a government agency. The two other counts involve leaving a fire unattended and violating a fire restriction order. Each count has a maximum penalty of six months in prison and a $5,000 fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sentence would be at the discretion of the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Harris, U.S. Forest Service special agent in charge of the Pacific Southwest Region, said: “The cooperative work of the criminal investigators from the U.S. Forest Service, Tuolumne County District Attorney's Office, and prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office that led to the indictment is commendable. Through this investigative partnership and support from the community, we have discovered the origin, cause and identified a suspect for the massive Rim Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"indictment\">\u003c/a>Read the indictment\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe id=\"doc_28814\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/236171927/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-EMjd1hwNoZFndMPuiMS1&show_recommendations=false\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/162143268&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/RS9144_476374685-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20423\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/RS9144_476374685-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Prices at the pump are widely expected to go up early next year. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prices at the pump are widely expected to go up early next year.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s cap-and-trade system expands next year. And while the program has already discreetly impacted energy prices, consumers will likely get their first direct glimpse at cap and trade’s effect on markets when it’s applied to transportation fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fact has many politicians nervous, including a group of Democrats who are urging Governor Jerry Brown to hit the breaks on cap and trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘What The Hell Is Going On?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no day-to-day cost that smacks you right in the face quite like gasoline. You fill your car up, and you stare straight at the price as it climbs higher and higher. So it’s no surprise that when a recent poll asked whether Californians would keep supporting the state’s cap-and-trade system, even if its new phase leads to higher gas prices, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/blog_detail.asp?i=1566\">support suddenly tanked by nearly 40 points.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic political consultant Garry South doubts many people really understand what the program does. “I think it’s just so far out of the typical person’s viewfinder that the impact of this is not going to be known until gasoline prices actually start occurring,” he said, “and people say, ‘Hey what the hell’s going on here?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s going on is, in fact, \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/cap-and-trade-101-how-californias-carbon-market-works/\">a kind of stock market for pollution\u003c/a>. Companies buy and sell the right to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses. Right now, the system covers industrial sources like power plants. And the direct consumer impact has been blunted a bit by rebates and other breaks for power utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, cap-and-trade expands to cover transportation fuels. Oil companies will be charged that assessment up front, and then pass the cost along to consumers. State officials say that could lead to a price spike of as much as 30 cents a gallon, though most experts think it will actually be around 10 cents. “The actual price increase will depend on a wide variety of economic, technological and regulatory factors that are difficult to predict,”\u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/Letters/2014/Perea-Gasoline-Cap-and-Trade-080414.pdf\"> the Legislative Analyst’s Office noted this week.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, Republicans and business groups have latched on to the potential price increase, which they’re calling a “hidden gas tax.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Democratic Pushback\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even some cap-and-trade supporters are having doubts. “I represent a district in southern Fresno County that is very poor,” explained Assemblyman Henry Perea, a Democrat. “My constituents are going to be hurt a lot more than constituents in other parts of the state where the economy’s stronger, and people are making a lot more money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perea is leading the effort to delay cap-and-trade’s expansion to transportation fuels. Fifteen other Democrats are supporting a slow-down. Perea said the push is about the economy, not the environment. He’s framing the debate as Valley Vs. Coast, Rich Vs. Poor, pointing out the geographic divide between the lawmakers supporting a slowdown, and those pushing to stay the course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-year delay, he said, would allow policymakers to ask some questions. “How do we meet the goals of AB 32, how do we reduce greenhouse gasses and how do we do that in a meaningful way through fuels, and not have a large economic impact on everyday people who are struggling to make ends meet?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Higher Prices Discourage Demand’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be hard to do, though, since the entire point of cap-and-trade is to make carbon emissions more expensive. That’s not the sort of thing politicians say in front of crowds. But Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg did just that during an unusually blunt speech earlier this year. “It may not be popular to say, but that’s necessary. Higher prices discourage demand,” he told the Sacramento Press Club. “If carbon pricing doesn’t sting, at least a little bit, we won’t change our habits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not exactly a populist argument. But the push to delay the cap-and-trade expansion may still come up short. 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