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The release was broadcast live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She did great,” he said. “She did about as perfect as you can ask for.” Burnett said the bird had been treated at the Los Angeles Zoo for a wing injury and was testing it in the wild for the first time. She was released less than a mile from her parents and the nest where she was born. Ventana was planning to release three additional condors, but decided against it because of inclement weather, Burnett said. Those birds will be released over the coming weeks.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Update: 10:10 a.m.\u003c/strong> Condor 646 was released and met at the door by a previously released condor — condor 550. The newly-released condor made a short flight before walking up the hill with condor 550 to explore the feeding area and meet other condors. A concern of the biologist is that the released condors are excepted into the group, but it appeared that condor 646 was brought into the fold. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ventanaws.org/condor_cam/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another feeding cam\u003c/a> shows live video of the many wild and rehabilitated condors that gather in the feeding area regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warning: Some of the feeding videos can be fairly graphic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 9:57 a.m.\u003c/strong> The Ventana Wildlife Society has said that only one condor — condor 646 — will be released into the wild today because of changes in the weather forecast. Rain in the Big Sur area on Wednesday and Thursday is delaying the release of the other condors previously scheduled to be released today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>—\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four California condors are being released at 10 a.m. PT today in Big Sur by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ventanaws.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ventana Wildlife Society\u003c/a>. You can watch the release live via a streaming webcam sponsored by the Oakland Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandzoo.org/Condor_Cam.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the condors released at the Oakland Zoo live webcam.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandzoo.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland Zoo\u003c/a>‘s live-streaming camera is located in the hills outside Big Sur. The zoo also has a “Condor Cam” in the recovery center at the zoo. The center is designed for treatment of sick or injured California condors. Upon the birds’ recovery, they will be returned to their natural habitat. According to the Oakland Zoo’s website, prior to the Oakland Zoo partnership with the California Condor Recovery Program, the nearest Veterinary hospital for condor care was in the Los Angeles Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ventana Wildlife Society and Oakland Zoo run \u003ca href=\"http://www.ventanaws.org/condor_cam/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a number of condor cameras\u003c/a> that allow people to see the birds when they are feeding, rehabilitating and flying free. Because the majority of the condor rehabilitation work in the wild takes place in very remote areas, the Condor Cam in Big Sur is both a chance for the public to see the birds and a tool for biologists. 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Unable to perceive glass and enticed by plants and food inside buildings, birds often fly headfirst into windows and die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This issue is being addressed by some of the largest tech companies, many of which line the bay’s sloughs and marshes. Companies such as Intuit, Facebook, Apple and Google have been working and talking with local Audubon societies and other environmental organizations to come up with building and landscape plans that are not only aimed at preventing bird deaths but also providing habitat with landscaping and green roofs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the American Bird Conservancy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/policy/collisions/\">hundreds of millions\u003c/a> of birds die in North America in collisions with man-made structures, mostly plate-glass-covered office buildings. Recent studies have shown that these deaths from window crashes may account for 1 to 5 percent of all bird deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers don’t include other urban threats to birds, including air pollution, habitat loss, artificial lights (which confuse birds), traffic and noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no doubt that birds colliding with buildings is a concern,” said Alicia King, a spokeswoman for U.S. Fish and Wildlife. “In urban areas, it’s an issue, especially ones considered flyways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Going to the Birds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 400 bird species can be found at times in the Bay Area, which falls along the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Flyway\">Pacific Flyway\u003c/a>, a migratory path for birds stretching from Alaska to Argentina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, a few Bay Area cities have implemented bird-friendly building policies. San Francisco started strict regulations in 2011, followed by Oakland last year and Sunnyvale this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>The focus on birds is part of a shift within the sustainability movement, which emphasizes revamping consumption and energy to include nature – something Shani Kleinhaus, an environmental advocate with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scvas.org/index.php\">Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society\u003c/a>, hopes will catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An emphasis on birds would really bring back a lot of other elements of natural ecosystems, like the plants that the birds like,” she said. “If you have birds, you have a really healthy ecosystem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Many of the newer and planned campuses for tech companies have park-like settings, with pathways through greenery. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Birds eat insects, help pollinate plants and disperse seeds in a mutualistic relationship. Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, birds are a bellwether of environmental health — for better or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the newer and planned campuses for tech companies have park-like settings, with pathways through greenery. There is bird nest monitoring for egrets at Google in Mountain View, for example, and one for bluebirds at Intuit, as well as full-grown trees and a living roof at Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social network giant, which implemented many of San Francisco’s standards for bird-safe buildings, plans to minimize light pollution and turn off unnecessary lighting at night during spring and fall migrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook has a commitment to protecting the environment, which is particularly important since the campus is situated adjacent to protected marshland,” said John Tenanes, Facebook’s director of real estate. “Our employees also enjoy spending time outdoors. When we were planning our new building and grounds, we wanted the new facility to fit these values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook, which has headquarters in Menlo Park, wants its new campuses to have an innovative workspace design that inspires creativity in its products, Tenanes said. The idea is that hard-working employees won’t have to go away to get away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple is proud of its new headquarters design, a futuristic doughnut surrounded by a man-made forest, and reached out to environmental groups with concerns on its heavy glass usage. The serene environment in Cupertino is meant to reflect Apple’s principles of “innovation, ease of use and beauty,” Apple said in a project description filed for approval by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Birds and Corporate Values\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By integrating nature within their Silicon Valley campuses, the companies are also creating brick-and-mortar monuments that represent what they say are their company values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t call it restoration because it really is a different creation,” Kleinhaus said. “It’s ‘how do we bring nature into our campuses to create a more harmonious campus?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird-friendly design is one way these companies also hope to encourage innovation and improve workers’ cognitive abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Intuit has this core value of owning your responsibilities,” said Michael Gulasch, real estate director of Intuit, based in Mountain View. “We are part of this community, we need to be good citizens, it’s our responsibility to own the habitat concerns and wildlife concerns because we (abut) right adjacent to the parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Bird-friendly design is one way these companies also hope to encourage innovation and improve workers’ cognitive abilities. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The bird element is a natural extension of Intuit’s ideas about sustainability and community, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, you might ask, what about that well-known local tech company that has a bird as its icon? 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Water levels in the extensive network of artificial lakes is edging up as the state awaits the arrival of \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=mtr&sid=MTR&pil=SPS\" target=\"_blank\">a lackluster Pacific storm on Tuesday\u003c/a> — with the possibility of a stronger system arriving for the weekend. But reservoirs are perilously low as the state nears the end of what's typically the wet season and faces a long, long stretch before fall rains can be expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a reservoir obsessive, you probably already know about the state Department of Water Resources \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Reservoir Storage Summary\u003c/a>. The summary doesn't show you everything that's happening with California water. Rather, it's a quick take on 44 key storage sites, from Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville — the two biggest reservoirs in the state and crucial to Central Valley farms and cities from the South Bay to Southern California — to relatively modest-sized sites like Hetch Hetchy, the key reservoir for residents of San Francisco and most of the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's summary shows the 44 reservoirs collectively at 62 percent of normal for the date. That may not sound so bad — hey, it's nearly two-thirds of what we usually have, right? To understand how scary that level is, you need to look at the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which typically holds at least half of all the water that will flow to the state's farms and cities each year. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/DLYSWEQ\" target=\"_blank\">DWR's daily summary\u003c/a> of snow-water equivalents shows the snowpack at just one-fourth of its normal level. With so little water stored in the mountains, runoff will be much lower than normal and the reservoirs won't see the typical spring-early summer surge. Those lake levels we see today? They won't be improving much over the next month or so, and then we'll begin drawing them down as we move into summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did we get here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lowdown\u003c/a> blog has published \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/03/18/into-the-drought-californias-shrinking-reservoirs/\" target=\"_blank\">a cool visualization\u003c/a> by web developer Victor Powell. It depicts the rise and fall of the key reservoirs during rainy years (2010 and 2011) and the current series of dry, drier and driest years (2012-2014) and dramatizes how low the water level is at a key point in the season. Click on the screen grab below for the full interactive visualization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/03/18/into-the-drought-californias-shrinking-reservoirs/\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-130295\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/reservoir-levels-582x640.jpg\" alt=\"Reservoir Levels \" width=\"582\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And, some other drought notes: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>According to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/25/6266813/sacramento-drought-busters-write.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, the city of Sacramento has issued 350 violations to drought-flouters. Sacramento has enacted no-water days because of the drought, of which many residents are unaware. A first violation gets the water users a written notice explaining the rules. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"single-image\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/8pitAGlz5x0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, you might notice groups of people headed for high ground in the Bay Area. Don't worry — they'll be participating in evacuation drills as part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.tsunamizone.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Tsunami Preparedness Week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nationwide event is timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Alaska's 1964 \u003ca href=\"http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/quakes/Alaska_1964_earthquake.html\" target=\"_blank\">Good Friday Earthquake\u003c/a>, a 9.2-magnitude temblor that unleashed tsunamis that killed more than 130 people along the Alaska, Oregon and California coasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the places devastated by those quake-generated waves was \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5007869\" target=\"_blank\">Crescent City\u003c/a>, in Del Norte County on the North Coast. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/73888-crescent-city.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Eleven people were killed there\u003c/a> as tsunami surges destroyed the town's harbor and business districts (see video above). Although a warning had been issued, townspeople didn't evacuate — in part because nothing had happened during past alerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town has taken that history to heart. The tsunami spawned by the 2011 Japan earthquake \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2011/03/13/crescent-city-its-a-mess-all-right/\" target=\"_blank\">devastated the town's harbor\u003c/a>, but no one died. And this week, \u003ca href=\"http://www.triplicate.com/News/Local-News/1964-Tsunami-Anniversary-Tracing-the-path-of-the-waves\" target=\"_blank\">Crescent City is holding a series of events\u003c/a> to commemorate the 1963 disaster and teach a new generation of residents what to do when the next tsunami warning comes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Miller heads \u003ca href=\"http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/geologic_hazards/tsunami/inundation_maps/pages/index.aspx#tsunamiweek\" target=\"_blank\">the tsunami program for the state's Emergency Management Agency\u003c/a>. He points out that the best way for many people to seek safety when a tsunami warning has been issued is often on foot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Certainly in California, safe high ground is relatively close by in most cases,\" Miller says. \"So in the event of little time to evacuate, they could potentially walk to safety instead of getting into their cars and getting into a traffic jam.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later this week, you can participate in practice evacuation walks and other events at various Bay Area locations, including at Marin County's Muir Beach Community Center, San Francisco's Marina Green and the Exploratorium. You can find a complete calendar here: \u003ca href=\"http://www.tsunamizone.org/calendar/index.php?active=1&a=Bay%20Area\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area Calendar of Tsunami Week Activities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's a tsunami explainer from the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/TxItCVRd02k\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Charla Bear.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Farmworker families that have no work, two or three families are living in the same small space so those crowded conditions can lead to conflict, to stress, to the inability to concentrate and do your homework,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/140449652&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farmers protest in Fresno\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House Natural Resources Committee was greeted by hundreds of farmworkers at Fresno City Hall protesting what they say are unfair water allotments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some workers held signs that read, \"Warning: No Water! No Food!\" and, \"Water — the hub of life.\" Chants of \"Water! 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