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That will secure educational programs for students in exchange for the district’s commitment to recycle and compost 90 percent of what can be recycled and composted by 2020 – the same goal, by the way, that’s been set for cities countywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district will have to work to meet that goal, because as of June 2012 Berkeley schools were diverting – that is recycling and composting — just 36 percent of their total waste (including waste that is not recyclable or compostable). \u003c!--more-->\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-100002\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/Berkeleyside-logo-small.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeleyside-logo-small\" width=\"163\" height=\"38\">Neighboring school districts were doing far better last year: Alameda schools diverted 64 percent of trash, Albany 57 percent and Oakland nearly 50 percent. A typical school’s waste is estimated at about 95 percent recyclable or compostable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How could it be that the Berkeley school district isn’t at the head of the class when it comes to recycling? After all, the city was the \u003ca href=\"http://ecologycenter.org/recycling/about/\">first in the nation to offer curbside recycling pickup \u003c/a>back in 1973, and today the residential diversion rate is 76 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly ironic,” agreed StopWaste’s Spencer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But five and 10 years ago, the schools were actually doing a better job with waste – recycling and composting about half of it, estimate several people involved. That was above average at the time for schools in the county, Spencer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EARLY EFFORTS PAY OFF\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1998, then-Berkeley High parent Beebo Turman volunteered to promote recycling. 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When the city decided to cut the position, Greenhut said she asked the school district to pay her $25,000 a year, showing that recycling efforts were saving the schools $100,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district didn’t or couldn’t offer Greenhut pay – she doesn’t know why — and she, too, moved on to another job in early 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SYSTEM DECAYS FROM NEGLECT, LACK OF LEADERSHIP\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the recycling systems in place, it would seem like the program would continue to run. Not so, say the waste experts. Every year, “trained” students graduate, replaced by kindergartners. Staff and custodians turn over with time. And there is no one to keep the momentum going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenhut said that even summer vacation –when custodians scrub the bins and store them away – can break down the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Longfellow Middle School parent Anushka Drescher launched new composting and recycling efforts this year, recycling was almost nonexistent at the school, she said. Some teachers had classroom bins for paper, most not clearly marked – and didn’t realize those were getting put in the trash, not recycled, by the custodian. There was no recycling at all in the lunchroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, said Spencer at StopWaste, “I would hesitate to blame the schools. They have the same challenges as elsewhere: not enough resources for teaching. 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Then Green Schools got grants from the \u003ca href=\"http://altamonteab.org/\">Altamont Education Advisory Board\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.clifbarfamilyfoundation.org/\">Clif Bar Family Foundation\u003c/a>, and last year the group formed “green teams” of teachers, administrators and parents at Washington, Jefferson, Oxford, John Muir and Rosa Parks elementary schools, Longfellow and King middle schools, and Berkeley High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Schools also organized a districtwide symposium on recycling and composting for custodians last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most schools had some amount of recycling going on, Moore said. But at many of them, for example, “the compost containers had turned into another trash can,” she said. The group’s goals were to increase recycling and composting, and also to reduce contamination (for example, no recyclables in compost, no food in trash).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An audit was done at each school, and the green teams, including students, then improved composting and recycling efforts with signs, education and monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not enough to put out the bins and expect sorting to follow. At Oxford School, during one recent lunch, third-grade monitors Kovas and Lev were on duty to help kids sort trash. Some kids were careful, some were clueless. And try “educating” 6-year olds in a noisy lunchroom; what Kovas and Lev spent most of the time doing was moving food and plastics from the wrong bins to the right ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those efforts have produced results. Oxford teacher Jackie Omania, who heads up the school’s Green Team, pointed to an entry in her class’s log for the cafeteria – March 15: compost, 64 gallons; landfill (trash), 16 gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MAKING PROGRESS WITH NEW FOCUS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, a number of the schools are now showing improvement, Spencer said. John Muir, Rosa Parks and Jefferson are all diverting more than 50 percent of their trash. At King, where paper towels in the bathrooms are being composted, the diversion rate is 63 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Longfellow, Drescher and her student team of “Green Tigers” got composting going in the lunchroom and collection of paper recycling from classrooms. Pickup for one of the school’s three trash dumpsters was canceled. At Berkeley High students have collected about 640 pounds of bottles and cans this year and improved composting in the cafeteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spencer expects Berkeley’s 36 percent diversion rate will go up when all numbers are tallied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, StopWaste provides another set of services to the schools. The agency offers free field trips (bus included) to the\u003ca href=\"http://www.dsgardencenter.com/\"> Davis Street transfer station in San Leandro\u003c/a>, where the kids see a machine sort recyclables and then visit “the pit” – all the garbage destined for landfill – and see how much of that trash is recyclable and compostable. From Berkeley, eight fourth-grade classes and one high school group took the field trip this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>StopWaste also sends educators to fifth-grade classrooms to work on waste-related projects. 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This is the agreement the school board passed last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 10, Green Schools heard that it would get a grant for $32,000 from the Altamont Education Advisory Board to work with the remaining K-12 schools in Berkeley next year: Cragmont, Berkeley Arts Magnet, Malcolm X, Emerson, LeConte and Thousand Oaks elementary schools, Willard Middle School, Berkeley Independent Study and the Berkeley Technology Academy. They’ll continue to work with this year’s schools, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge, recent history shows, will be making the programs sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to figure out how the district can do this on their own,” Moore said. “We want our schools to live up to Berkeley’s values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve seen in other districts,” said StopWaste’s Spencer, “is recycling doesn’t work if you say it’s the custodians' job. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Green Schools’ work, the Berkeley school board \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/06-12-13_packet.pdf\">approved a resolution\u003c/a> at its June 12 meeting to become a “priority partner” with Alameda County Waste Management. That will secure educational programs for students in exchange for the district’s commitment to recycle and compost 90 percent of what can be recycled and composted by 2020 – the same goal, by the way, that’s been set for cities countywide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district will have to work to meet that goal, because as of June 2012 Berkeley schools were diverting – that is recycling and composting — just 36 percent of their total waste (including waste that is not recyclable or compostable). \u003c!--more-->\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-100002\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/Berkeleyside-logo-small.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeleyside-logo-small\" width=\"163\" height=\"38\">Neighboring school districts were doing far better last year: Alameda schools diverted 64 percent of trash, Albany 57 percent and Oakland nearly 50 percent. A typical school’s waste is estimated at about 95 percent recyclable or compostable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How could it be that the Berkeley school district isn’t at the head of the class when it comes to recycling? After all, the city was the \u003ca href=\"http://ecologycenter.org/recycling/about/\">first in the nation to offer curbside recycling pickup \u003c/a>back in 1973, and today the residential diversion rate is 76 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly ironic,” agreed StopWaste’s Spencer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But five and 10 years ago, the schools were actually doing a better job with waste – recycling and composting about half of it, estimate several people involved. That was above average at the time for schools in the county, Spencer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EARLY EFFORTS PAY OFF\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1998, then-Berkeley High parent Beebo Turman volunteered to promote recycling. 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When the city decided to cut the position, Greenhut said she asked the school district to pay her $25,000 a year, showing that recycling efforts were saving the schools $100,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district didn’t or couldn’t offer Greenhut pay – she doesn’t know why — and she, too, moved on to another job in early 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SYSTEM DECAYS FROM NEGLECT, LACK OF LEADERSHIP\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the recycling systems in place, it would seem like the program would continue to run. Not so, say the waste experts. Every year, “trained” students graduate, replaced by kindergartners. Staff and custodians turn over with time. And there is no one to keep the momentum going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenhut said that even summer vacation –when custodians scrub the bins and store them away – can break down the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Longfellow Middle School parent Anushka Drescher launched new composting and recycling efforts this year, recycling was almost nonexistent at the school, she said. Some teachers had classroom bins for paper, most not clearly marked – and didn’t realize those were getting put in the trash, not recycled, by the custodian. There was no recycling at all in the lunchroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, said Spencer at StopWaste, “I would hesitate to blame the schools. They have the same challenges as elsewhere: not enough resources for teaching. 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Then Green Schools got grants from the \u003ca href=\"http://altamonteab.org/\">Altamont Education Advisory Board\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.clifbarfamilyfoundation.org/\">Clif Bar Family Foundation\u003c/a>, and last year the group formed “green teams” of teachers, administrators and parents at Washington, Jefferson, Oxford, John Muir and Rosa Parks elementary schools, Longfellow and King middle schools, and Berkeley High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Schools also organized a districtwide symposium on recycling and composting for custodians last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most schools had some amount of recycling going on, Moore said. But at many of them, for example, “the compost containers had turned into another trash can,” she said. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Susanne Rust and Serene Fang, The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing demand for milk and cheese in China has the potential to bring California’s beleaguered dairy industry back to life – and with it, renewed concern about its damaging effects on the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_99794\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/dairycow.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-99794\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/dairycow-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"China is quickly building its own dairy industry, which experts say is in every way as modern and high-tech as California's. 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According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, more than 300 dairies have gone out of business in that time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That trend, said UC Davis agricultural economist Leslie Butler, is the result of high feed costs and a vulnerable industry model, which relies heavily on cheap imported grain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past few years, feed prices have skyrocketed, the result of competition with the biofuels industry, a severe drought in the Midwest and increased shipping and transportation costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all hope is lost for the battered industry, said Ross Christieson, a consultant for the California Milk Advisory Board, a trade group for the state’s roughly 1,600\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>dairy farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“China has been going through a major economic growth boom over the last 20 years, and that has fueled consumption of dairy products,” he said. “We know a lot of these markets will grow ten- or twentyfold over the next few decades. 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(Photo by Max Whittaker/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I personally could not continue working on the San Bruno penalty briefs because I concluded that the CPSD recommendations that were to be made in the briefs were unlawful and contrary to what our team had worked to accomplish in the last two and a half years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPSD is the CPUC's Consumer Protection and Safety Division, which is making a penalty recommendation of $2.25 billion to administrative law judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that would be the largest fine ever levied by the CPUC, it has become controversial because the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/50FD5635-30CD-4E9D-9326-95126F75DF59/0/I1201007etalCPSDReplyBriefonFinesandRemedies.pdf\">proposal\u003c/a> calls for the money to be spent on safety improvements, rather than going into the state's general fund. Consumer advocates say that under those recommendations, PG&E would receive tax breaks and credit for improvements it already has made, reducing the penalty by $900 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Bruno explosion and fire killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. 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This would serve as a better deterrent to other utilities that might neglect safety, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/State-reassigns-lawyers-probing-PG-amp-E-4580672.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported that the agency's general counsel, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/aboutus/Legal+Division/franklindh.htm\">Frank Lindh\u003c/a>, ordered the reassignment, after the legal team's leader, Harvey Morris, filed a successful motion challenging PG&E's estimates of the amount it already had spent on improvements. Lindh, a former lawyer for PG&E, had originally recused himself from handling the case because of the potential conflict of interest, the Chronicle reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administrative law judges' decision will come in late summer, the CPUC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> In a statement today, Jack Hagan, the director of the CPUC's Consumer Protection and Safety Division, said the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am aware that some California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) employees are criticizing the $2.25 billion penalty recommendation I made in the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) pipeline safety cases. My proposal is that PG&E be required to spend $2.25 billion of shareholder money on safety improvements to its gas system. Safety is my number one priority. The criticism I am hearing is that some of this money should go to the State’s General Fund as a fine. I have not recommended that approach because of the importance I place on safety. The CPUC’s Commissioners ultimately will decide this, but I stand by my proposal. Make PG&E pay $2.25 billion to fix its broken gas system and make California safer. We owe this to the victims of the San Bruno pipeline rupture and their families.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 7:26 p.m.\u003c/strong> The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/State-lawyer-PG-amp-E-no-fine-penalty-unlawful-4585035.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle is reporting\u003c/a> that Robert Cagen was \"brought out of retirement by the [CPUC] in 2010 to handle PG&E-related cases.\" The Chron also quotes CPSD Director Jack Hagan as saying, \"I checked with the general counsel; he said this was not unlawful.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Paper weighs a lot more than plastic, and so one of the figures you hear a lot from the plastic bag industry is that it takes seven trucks to transport the same number of paper bags versus plastic bags. I have no way of fact-checking that figure, but it’s common sense to think that you’re going to need more trucks to transport paper bags than plastic bags. More trucks mean more air pollution in neighborhoods like West Oakland. More trucks mean greater greenhouse gas impact. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: But what about the landfill and the recycling issue? I can recycle my paper bags but I can’t do that with my plastic bags?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AMY STANDEN\u003c/strong>: One thing you hear from the paper bag advocates is that plastic bags live forever in the landfill. But \u003cem>everything\u003c/em> lives for many, many years in the landfill. You can go to a landfill and find a hot dog that’s literally 25 years old. That’s because landfills are designed not to let the stuff in them biodegrade. They’re anaerobic, no oxygen. And there’s also very little water in landfills. Which means the stuff lasts forever. So a paper bag is not going to decompose in a landfill either, at least not on any meaningful time scale. So you may have more plastic bags than paper, but the paper bags are taking up a lot more space than the plastic bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, frankly, in San Francisco, we’re already diverting 75 percent of our waste away from the landfill. So our landfills aren’t actually taking in a lot of stuff anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What about the marine mammal issue? Environmentalists say marine mammals will try to eat them [plastic bags], and those are harmful …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AMY STANDEN\u003c/strong>: Absolutely true. Plastic bags end up being litter more often than we intend for them to. So that is a very real problem. And that is, when it comes down to it, the real reason that you see many cities wanting to have these bans. Another count in paper bags’ favor is they can be composted, so you can fill them with your food scraps and put them in the compost bins. But that’s only meaningful if you live in a city that has a composting program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Well, if paper is not the solution and plastic is not the solution, what is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AMY STANDEN\u003c/strong>: Neither of these types of bags is very good. Plastic bags are recyclable just like paper bags, but neither of those things has a complete cycle. Both of these things are downgraded. Plastic bags don’t get recycled into more plastic bags as you’d want them to; they get recycled into things like plastic flooring or carpets — which in turn are not recyclable or at least very difficult to recycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paper bags get recycled — not usually into more paper bags but into cardboard. That’s a little better because cardboard itself is recyclable. But in neither case is recycling the be-all and end-all, the grand solution. If you care about greenhouse gases and waste, the best solution would be to not get a bag at all. Or to carry a cloth bag or bring your own bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>It should be noted that in 2012, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/New-ordinance-not-quite-everybody-s-bag-3910863.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco passed an ordinance\u003c/a> requiring stores to charge 10 cents per paper bag, in hopes of spurring consumer use of reusable bags. 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You think you’re throwing them in the trash, but actually they’re blowing out of your can, they’re getting into a tree, maybe they’re getting into a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2013/06/05/deep-sea-garbage-caught-on-video/\">waterway\u003c/a>. They’re just a mess, and that’s why they end up as litter so often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you go to a recycling center, you’ll see they gum up the works, and they have to shut down the system every couple of hours for the workers to manually go through and cut them out of the gears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my contrarian view is that other than that, they’re both pretty bad. Plastic and paper both take a lot of energy to produce. Some say paper takes more energy. Paper weighs a lot more than plastic, and so one of the figures you hear a lot from the plastic bag industry is that it takes seven trucks to transport the same number of paper bags versus plastic bags. I have no way of fact-checking that figure, but it’s common sense to think that you’re going to need more trucks to transport paper bags than plastic bags. More trucks mean more air pollution in neighborhoods like West Oakland. More trucks mean greater greenhouse gas impact. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: But what about the landfill and the recycling issue? I can recycle my paper bags but I can’t do that with my plastic bags?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AMY STANDEN\u003c/strong>: One thing you hear from the paper bag advocates is that plastic bags live forever in the landfill. But \u003cem>everything\u003c/em> lives for many, many years in the landfill. You can go to a landfill and find a hot dog that’s literally 25 years old. That’s because landfills are designed not to let the stuff in them biodegrade. They’re anaerobic, no oxygen. And there’s also very little water in landfills. Which means the stuff lasts forever. So a paper bag is not going to decompose in a landfill either, at least not on any meaningful time scale. So you may have more plastic bags than paper, but the paper bags are taking up a lot more space than the plastic bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, frankly, in San Francisco, we’re already diverting 75 percent of our waste away from the landfill. So our landfills aren’t actually taking in a lot of stuff anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What about the marine mammal issue? Environmentalists say marine mammals will try to eat them [plastic bags], and those are harmful …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AMY STANDEN\u003c/strong>: Absolutely true. Plastic bags end up being litter more often than we intend for them to. So that is a very real problem. And that is, when it comes down to it, the real reason that you see many cities wanting to have these bans. Another count in paper bags’ favor is they can be composted, so you can fill them with your food scraps and put them in the compost bins. But that’s only meaningful if you live in a city that has a composting program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Well, if paper is not the solution and plastic is not the solution, what is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>AMY STANDEN\u003c/strong>: Neither of these types of bags is very good. Plastic bags are recyclable just like paper bags, but neither of those things has a complete cycle. Both of these things are downgraded. Plastic bags don’t get recycled into more plastic bags as you’d want them to; they get recycled into things like plastic flooring or carpets — which in turn are not recyclable or at least very difficult to recycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paper bags get recycled — not usually into more paper bags but into cardboard. That’s a little better because cardboard itself is recyclable. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98803\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/coho-salmon-ordinance-in-marin-county/4311923836_80ee57768b_o/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98803\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-98803\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/4311923836_80ee57768b_o-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Marin County's Lagunitas Creek, home to a run of wild coho salmon. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marin County’s Lagunitas Creek, home to a run of wild coho salmon. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Lagunitas Creek watershed in Marin County has been the scene of a low-key drama over the past couple of decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The network of creeks draining toward Tomales Bay from Mount Tamalpais is home to one of the last viable wild populations of coho salmon on our part of the California coast. Coho are an endangered species — listed by both the state and federal governments — and are getting all sorts of help to save them from extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers have transported fish from drying pools to running streams. They have ripped out nonnative blackberry and ivy to plant \u003ca href=\"http://www.mostlynatives.com/plant-characteristics/riparian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">natives\u003c/a>, like big leaf maple or strawberry tree, along creeks. Those efforts, and the return of the big fish to the little creeks with the autumn rains, have provided a feel-good story for Bay Area TV news crews and nature lovers alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the latest effort to help the coho goes further and has angered some of the people who own property along the creeks. A proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/CD/main/comdev/advance/Documents/Draft_SCA_Ordinance_PC%20Revisions_05172013.pdf\">ordinance\u003c/a> would restrict development within 100 feet of streams. Property owners say the ordinance will make their land less valuable; environmentalists say that the law doesn’t go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county Planning Commission unanimously passed the ordinance and it goes before the Board of Supervisors on June 18. As the vote approaches, the two sides have stepped up their campaigning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a possible sign of the tension around the issue — or maybe a simple act of vandalism — someone arrived on the banks of San Geronimo Creek last month and ripped out salmon-monitoring equipment used by \u003ca href=\"http://www.spawnusa.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salmon Protection and Watershed Network\u003c/a>, the group that has led the campaign to save the coho that still come back to the local creeks to spawn every year. The group — yes, it goes by the moniker SPAWN — uploaded this video, showing someone ripping the monitoring station out of the creek:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/jAJGJm9Ht4g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of coho salmon in the Marin streams could have ramifications far beyond the North Bay.\u003c!--more--> What happens to coho salmon there could affect the species throughout North America, said Eric Ettlinger, an aquatic ecologist at the Marin Municipal Water District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the southernmost stable population in North America,” he said. “It’s very important for California because our fish likely have adaptations to live where the water is warmer than it is farther north.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the climate gets warmer, the Marin fish might share these adaptations with coho farther north, providing a measure of protection for the species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Marin coho have gone through a tough time in recent decades. Though biologists did not keep a close count until the 1990s, they estimate that thousands spawned each year in the Lagunitas watershed until half a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the winter of 1995-1996, biologists have estimated the population at about 500 adults. Then in 2008, the number dropped to about 50 adults, low enough that the population might start inbreeding. “A population that stays at that level has a severe risk of extinction,” said Ettlinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dams that provide much of the water for Marin County cut off about half of the salmon’s habitat, Ettlinger said. But he added that the construction of buildings and roads, the introduction of nonnative plants and the removal of wood from streambeds also played a role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists want a buffer along the streams to protect plants that shade the water, provide food for the salmon, prevent erosion and runoff, and slow currents that can harm baby salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its current draft, the ordinance doesn’t go far enough, said SPAWN Executive Director Todd Steiner. “The ordinance creates a 100-foot streamside buffer but has exemptions that allow anyone to develop within it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, it exempts ephemeral streams — those that dry up in the summer — unless they have vegetation of the type that lives on streams. And it exempts additions to buildings if the additions are 500 square feet or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 23, SPAWN released a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/30/98296/letter-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98753\">letter\u003c/a> from 140 scientists calling for a more restrictive ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the debate, the \u003ca href=\"http://sgvstewards.org/news/articles/may2013_petition.html\">San Geronimo Valley Stewards\u003c/a>, a group of property owners, said the ordinance goes too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niz Brown, the group’s treasurer, says she owns three pieces of property on which development would not be possible under the ordinance because it is so restrictive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It makes sense to exempt ephemeral streams because they don’t have fish in them, she said. “They’re really not streams, they’re ditches,” said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said salmon populations are rebounding, so the protections aren’t necessary. She pointed out that the Marin coho population has come back since 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98732\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/30/98296/salmon-redd-counts/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98732\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-98732\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/salmon-redd-counts-300x201.png\" alt=\"Scientists estimate the number of adult salmon by doubling the number of redds, or nests. (Courtesy of the Marin Municipal Water District)\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scientists estimate the number of adult salmon by doubling the number of redds, or nests. (Courtesy of the Marin Municipal Water District)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the winter of 2012-2013, biologists estimated there were about 486 adults. Ettlinger said changes in ocean conditions seem to have played an important part in the recent fall and rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the latest count still falls well short of the 1,300 that would be required to change the fish’s status from “endangered” to “threatened,” and is a small fraction of the 2,600 that would classify them as “recovered,” said Charlotte Ambrose, recovery coordinator for the National Marine Fisheries Service in Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Ettlinger said ephemeral streams really \u003cem>are\u003c/em> important to salmon. Unlike artificial ditches, ephemeral streams flow into larger streams, affecting the water quality. Even when they appear dry, Steiner said, water flows beneath the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That brings us back to the banks of a creek you can see flowing all year round, San Geronimo, the scene of last month’s vandalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person shown on the 31-second SPAWN video — you can’t see much about who it is, though the individual appears to be Caucasian, barefoot and have jeans rolled up—destroys a monitoring station consisting of a net that funnels the fish into a box where researchers count and examine them before releasing them back into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SPAWN’s Todd Steiner said some of the equipment belonged to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and some to his group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SPAWN is offering $500 for information leading to the conviction of the culprit. The organization requested that anyone with useful information contact Andy Harris at andy@tirn.net or call the SPAWN office at (415) 663-8590.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, SPAWN has repaired the equipment, and plans to continue monitoring the rise and fall of the rare fish.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a possible sign of the tension around the issue — or maybe a simple act of vandalism — someone arrived on the banks of San Geronimo Creek last month and ripped out salmon-monitoring equipment used by \u003ca href=\"http://www.spawnusa.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salmon Protection and Watershed Network\u003c/a>, the group that has led the campaign to save the coho that still come back to the local creeks to spawn every year. The group — yes, it goes by the moniker SPAWN — uploaded this video, showing someone ripping the monitoring station out of the creek:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/jAJGJm9Ht4g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of coho salmon in the Marin streams could have ramifications far beyond the North Bay.\u003c!--more--> What happens to coho salmon there could affect the species throughout North America, said Eric Ettlinger, an aquatic ecologist at the Marin Municipal Water District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the southernmost stable population in North America,” he said. “It’s very important for California because our fish likely have adaptations to live where the water is warmer than it is farther north.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the climate gets warmer, the Marin fish might share these adaptations with coho farther north, providing a measure of protection for the species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Marin coho have gone through a tough time in recent decades. Though biologists did not keep a close count until the 1990s, they estimate that thousands spawned each year in the Lagunitas watershed until half a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the winter of 1995-1996, biologists have estimated the population at about 500 adults. Then in 2008, the number dropped to about 50 adults, low enough that the population might start inbreeding. “A population that stays at that level has a severe risk of extinction,” said Ettlinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dams that provide much of the water for Marin County cut off about half of the salmon’s habitat, Ettlinger said. But he added that the construction of buildings and roads, the introduction of nonnative plants and the removal of wood from streambeds also played a role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists want a buffer along the streams to protect plants that shade the water, provide food for the salmon, prevent erosion and runoff, and slow currents that can harm baby salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its current draft, the ordinance doesn’t go far enough, said SPAWN Executive Director Todd Steiner. “The ordinance creates a 100-foot streamside buffer but has exemptions that allow anyone to develop within it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, it exempts ephemeral streams — those that dry up in the summer — unless they have vegetation of the type that lives on streams. And it exempts additions to buildings if the additions are 500 square feet or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 23, SPAWN released a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/30/98296/letter-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98753\">letter\u003c/a> from 140 scientists calling for a more restrictive ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the debate, the \u003ca href=\"http://sgvstewards.org/news/articles/may2013_petition.html\">San Geronimo Valley Stewards\u003c/a>, a group of property owners, said the ordinance goes too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niz Brown, the group’s treasurer, says she owns three pieces of property on which development would not be possible under the ordinance because it is so restrictive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It makes sense to exempt ephemeral streams because they don’t have fish in them, she said. “They’re really not streams, they’re ditches,” said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said salmon populations are rebounding, so the protections aren’t necessary. She pointed out that the Marin coho population has come back since 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98732\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/30/98296/salmon-redd-counts/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98732\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-98732\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/salmon-redd-counts-300x201.png\" alt=\"Scientists estimate the number of adult salmon by doubling the number of redds, or nests. (Courtesy of the Marin Municipal Water District)\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scientists estimate the number of adult salmon by doubling the number of redds, or nests. (Courtesy of the Marin Municipal Water District)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the winter of 2012-2013, biologists estimated there were about 486 adults. 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