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Under a 2010 agreement signed by former Mayor Gavin Newsom and U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat, the city is to pay the Navy $105 million plus a share of development profits – as long as the Navy meets a series of transfer deadlines, which hinge in part on a timely cleanup of hazardous waste. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state officials have complained that the Navy rushed its evaluation of Treasure Island's radioactive past and present and that the contractors it hired overlooked radioactive contamination and improperly handled soil containing radioactive material, according to internal memos and emails obtained by The Bay Citizen. 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Parks director Ruth Coleman resigned as a result of the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1589, by Assemblymember Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), requires that the Department of Parks & Recreation develop an “action plan” for generating revenue, as well as for collecting unpaid user fees at state parks. A lot of people are anticipating, to offer one example, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmv.ca.gov/online/elp/elp.htm\">special-interest license plate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1589 also allows taxpayers to redirect portions of their tax refunds to the California State Parks Protection Fund in exchange for an annual state park day-use access pass. \u003c!--more-->AB 1478, by Bob Bloomenfield (D-Woodland Hills) appropriates $10 million from the fund for park maintenance projects and $10 million as matching funds for private grants for parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1478 is the more interesting bill for Bob Patrie of the Coe Park Preservation Fund. 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Ranger Cameron Bowers and non-profit advocate Bob Patrie (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>AB 1478 also prohibits the Department of Parks and Recreation from closing or even proposing the closure of a state park until mid-2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For over a year, we were told that there was no alternative [to park closures],” Blumenfield writes KQED. “We were told park closures were a necessary sacrifice as the state faces tough budget challenges. Californians responded by rallying to raise funds to keep them open. This inspiring accomplishment cannot be soiled by the isolated acts of rogue bureaucrats who concealed over $50 million.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About that figure…could be more, could be less. Over the weekend, the Sacramento Bee’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/matt_weiser\">Matthew Weiser\u003c/a> wrote that the figure most everybody is bandying about ($54 million) … \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/02/4780548/numbers-on-hidden-funds-in-california.html\">may not be so correct\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $20 million was in the State Parks and Recreation Fund, as previously mentioned; the rest in “a dedicated pot of money known as the Off Highway Vehicle Trust Fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, Finance Department chief deputy director Michael Cohen says his agency is no longer sure how much money was hidden in the OHV fund, and that answer will have to wait on three separate investigations by the attorney general, the state auditor and the Legislature. Those could take the rest of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OHV fund serves the state’s eight parks dedicated to off-roaders, among other things. The OHV fund has routinely maintained a large balance. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_38327\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/strawberryfumigation.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38327\" title=\"strawberryfumigation\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/strawberryfumigation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: KQED QUEST\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You may have heard the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/09/04/160395259/why-organic-food-may-not-be-healthier-for-you\">NPR story\u003c/a> this morning about the meta-study from Stanford University, \u003ca href=\"http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1355685\">published in the Annals of Internal Medicine\u003c/a>, which found “no significant health benefit” to organic food. 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So this seemed to merit a call to the person who convinced me in the first place that it was okay to pay $4.00 for a head of cauliflower: local journalist, professor, and food advocate Michael Pollan, whose book \u003ca href=\"http://michaelpollan.com/books/the-omnivores-dilemma/\">The Omnivore’s Dilemma\u003c/a> was a major influence in popularizing organic and locally produced food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edited transcript…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So is this meta-study a big deal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MICHAEL POLLAN\u003c/strong>: I’m not sure it’s a big deal. 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This study disputes how significant the differences in antioxidant and nutrient levels are between organic and conventional food. But that’s not central to the discussion of why organic is important, which has a lot more to do with how the soil is managed and the exposure to pesticides, not just in the eater’s diet but to the farmworker. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: The meta study did find that 38 percent of conventional produce tested contained pesticide residues, compared to just 7 percent for organic produce. How important is that in and of itself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MICHAEL POLLAN\u003c/strong>: It’s very important. If you’re concerned about pesticide residues in your food, you’re much better off buying organic. The study said all these pesticide residues in conventional produce are permissible under EPA rules. They may be, but there’s a question of how adequate those rules are. 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But people should take a hard look. So much of the story depends on what do you mean by “significant health benefit?” The meta study found less pesticide residue, higher levels of anti-oxidants – plant phytochemicals thought to be important to human health; and less antibiotic-resistant microbes in organic meat. But then they say it might not be significant. I don’t think they defined signficant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Let’s say you’re a consumer standing there at your grocery store and you have a choice between an organically grown piece of produce grown far away and a conventionally grown piece grown locally. All things considered, which is the best choice?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MICHAEL POLLAN\u003c/strong>: It depends on your values. If you’re concerned about nutritional value and taste, you might find that the local food, which is more likely to have been picked when it was ripe, is better. 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"content": "\u003cp>By Christina Jewett, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/calif-scientists-calls-warn-yosemite-visitors-virus-went-unheeded-17784\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California public health scientists have twice recommended in the past five years that Yosemite National Park authorities educate visitors about hantavirus, a rare disease that is linked to the deaths of two park visitors, one illness and a possible fourth this summer. Yet park officials did not warn visitors until after the disease showed up in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74818\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Yosemite1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74818\" title=\"Yosemite\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Yosemite1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yosemite (Jame Change/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a 2010 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/414390-yose-hcps-risk-assessment-tm-lodge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">risk assessment document\u003c/a>, state inspectors explicitly asked Yosemite officials to educate those staying in the tent cabins linked to the hantavirus cases about the fatal disease. The risk assessment was performed after a 54-year-old park visitor fell ill with hantavirus in 2010 after staying in the type of tent cabin inhabited by the 2012 victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Provide each cabin with information on (hantavirus),” the 2010 risk assessment recommended. “Together with the bear safety guidance, guests should be advised to minimize contact with rodents and to report signs of rodent intrusion (e.g., droppings, chewed items) to Tuolumne Meadows Lodge management.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, state vector-borne disease sector scientists \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/vbds/Documents/VBDSAnnualReport07.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommended that Yosemite\u003c/a> “minimize risk to staff and visitors through an active prevention program that includes the following elements: education … and active rodent removal within buildings and developed areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Charles Higgins, who has been director of the public health office for the National Park Service for eight years, said he is not aware of any effort prior to this summer’s outbreak to warn tent cabin renters about the disease. He said the risk of disease transmission was thought to be low and there was potential for guests to tune out an overabundance of warning messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s always a dilemma because people have message fatigue,” Higgins said. “Their eyes glaze over, they quit paying attention to messaging. It’s a little bit of an art form on when to (issue warnings) and how to approach it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite park ranger Kristen Kosick said Yosemite staff were trained about the risks of hantavirus and how to avoid transmission. “There’d been no outreach to visitors but there had been to staff,” Kosick said. “It’s a general virus people should be aware of if they’re in Western states and outdoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Training on hantavirus is given to Yosemite employees in the spring and throughout the year, said Kari Cobb, a park ranger. She said education on the disease is mandatory for employees who open up closed buildings after each year’s thaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park authorities announced this week that they notified 1,700 people who were possibly exposed to the mouse-spread disease after staying in Curry Village tent cabins. Two people who stayed in the cabins have been reported dead. One other fell ill with a respiratory disease, and there is a possible fourth case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have found that the risk for the disease is concentrated in buildings within California’s national forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giorgio Cosentino, an East Bay microbiologist, said one of the deceased 2012 hantavirus victims is a physician and a family friend. He said even though the risk of hantavirus transmission is low, the park should have warned visitors that it existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can’t get rid of the rodent problem completely and you can’t get rid of the virus completely, the safety net includes educating visitors so if they do become ill, they can get to a hospital sooner,” Cosentino said. “That still doesn’t guarantee that they’ll live, but chances of survival are better if you get to a hospital sooner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rare but deadly disease is spread by white-bellied deer mice and most readily caught by inhaling mouse feces or urine dust inside of buildings. Symptoms begin one to six weeks after exposure and include fever, headache, muscle aches and, later, difficulty breathing. The disease kills more than a third of those infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1993, 60 cases have been reported in California, including 2000 and 2010 cases at Yosemite, and 587 in the U.S., according to the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higgins said his office, in Washington, D.C., has deployed several scientists to study what gave rise to the cluster of hantavirus cases at Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are opportunities to contribute to the science, to make the effort to understand as deeply possible what the risk factors were that were so different and in the effort help everyone refine their (prevention) strategies,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicki Kramer, chief of the state vector-borne disease section of the Department of Public Health, said scientists have worked closely with Yosemite for three years to examine rodent-, tick- and flea-spread diseases. The park has trapped and tested deer mice to monitor the hantavirus problem and urged authorities to educate visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is federal land,” Kramer said. “Certainly we can make recommendations, but it’s up to Yosemite on what further steps to take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, a 54-year-old San Mateo woman reported she became ill from hantavirus after she stayed in a Yosemite tent cabin. She recovered after three days in a hospital. According to a state summary of the case, she reported seeing one or two mice in the cabin and swept the room with the broom that was provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the 2010 Yosemite case, state Department of Public Health scientists \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/vbds/Documents/VBDSAnnualReport10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">examined the Tuolumne Meadows \u003c/a>area and found rodent hiding places, such as stacked firewood, and deficiencies that would allow rodent access to cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to removal/correction of these factors, (state scientists) recommended providing staff and guests with information and supplies to safely clean and decontaminate cabins,” the 2010 report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reviews by state vector-borne disease scientists show that hantavirus\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>infection, before the Curry Village cases, has tended to be isolated and spread out among rural counties such as Nevada, Mono and Inyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kosick, the Yosemite ranger, said park staff and concessioners were given a 12-page directive that details warning signs of the disease, precautionary measures to prevent infection and protective gear to wear. Kosick said park staff are now handing pamphlets to visitors informing them about hantavirus and expect to continue doing so indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Risk for the disease and prevalence in rodents is routinely monitored in California’s national forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Department of Public Health scientists \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18256445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published a 2008 study\u003c/a> showing that 20 percent of the deer mice in U.S. Forest Service areas tested positive for the virus, higher than the statewide rate of 12 percent of deer mice. They also concluded that nearly all of the buildings they examined showed signs of rodent access or infestation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodent testing in the Tuolumne Meadows area of Yosemite in a separate 2008 review showed that 24 percent – about twice the statewide average – of deer mice tested positive for hantavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study of U.S. Forest Service areas also showed that the disease tends to impact workers, who are often the first people inside buildings inhabited by mice after a snowy winter. In California, those workers comprised 27 percent of the hantavirus cases reported through 2008 and included a camp counselor, ranch hand, sanitation worker and U.S. Forest Service employee.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It’s a little bit of an art form on when to (issue warnings) and how to approach it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite park ranger Kristen Kosick said Yosemite staff were trained about the risks of hantavirus and how to avoid transmission. “There’d been no outreach to visitors but there had been to staff,” Kosick said. “It’s a general virus people should be aware of if they’re in Western states and outdoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Training on hantavirus is given to Yosemite employees in the spring and throughout the year, said Kari Cobb, a park ranger. She said education on the disease is mandatory for employees who open up closed buildings after each year’s thaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park authorities announced this week that they notified 1,700 people who were possibly exposed to the mouse-spread disease after staying in Curry Village tent cabins. Two people who stayed in the cabins have been reported dead. 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The disease kills more than a third of those infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1993, 60 cases have been reported in California, including 2000 and 2010 cases at Yosemite, and 587 in the U.S., according to the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higgins said his office, in Washington, D.C., has deployed several scientists to study what gave rise to the cluster of hantavirus cases at Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are opportunities to contribute to the science, to make the effort to understand as deeply possible what the risk factors were that were so different and in the effort help everyone refine their (prevention) strategies,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicki Kramer, chief of the state vector-borne disease section of the Department of Public Health, said scientists have worked closely with Yosemite for three years to examine rodent-, tick- and flea-spread diseases. 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