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They did so over the \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/warning-about-strawberry-field-chemical-ignored-scientists-say-2495\" target=\"_blank\">objections of state scientists\u003c/a>, who said trace amounts of the chemical would put farm workers and agricultural communities \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/state-scientists-ignored-pesticides-approval-12357\" target=\"_blank\">at risk of cancer\u003c/a>, miscarriage or birth defects. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by William Harless, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/growth-composting-strains-oversight-industry-15166\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58787\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/drainage-ditch.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/drainage-ditch-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"drainage ditch\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58787\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This hole at the Community Recycling & Resource Recovery site leads to a drainage ditch where the Ramirez brothers were overcome by fumes. (Kern County Fire Dept)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s next big step in recycling – composting its meat scraps, broken egg shells, coffee grounds and other detritus of eating – is straining the state’s ability to effectively manage the ever-growing and sometimes dangerous industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, 16-year-old Armando Ramirez and his brother, 22-year-old Heladio Ramirez, died of poisoning after Armando had been cleaning out a stormwater drain at the Community Recycling & Resource Recovery composting facility near Bakersfield. Heladio had gone down a hole and into the drain to rescue his brother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two undocumented workers inhaled hydrogen sulfide, a poisonous gas that sewage can generate. According to county documents, the facility near Lamont used discharged sewage water from an adjacent utility district to moisten its composting piles. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers' mother, Faustina Ramirez, filed a lawsuit in January against Community Recycling & Resource Recovery seeking at least $25,000 in damages, including funeral and burial expenses. She said she believes the company should have hired a professional service to clean the stormwater drains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened with my children was negligence – because they didn’t give them protection and because they knew what was going on in that site, and they sent them,” she said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In 2010, Solano County ordered the city of San Francisco’s private compost hauler, Recology, to cut roughly in half the amount of compost it sends to a facility in Vacaville. Nearby residents had complained of a stench, despite advanced technology at the plant to reduce odors.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The private facility where the brothers were working is the largest of the more than 97 active, permitted composting facilities scattered across the state. Despite years of land-use violations, trash complaints, an order by Kern County to cease operations and a $2.3 million fine, a judge has allowed the Community Recycling site \u003ca href=\"http://www.turnto23.com/news/30392881/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">to remain open\u003c/a> as it battles the county in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility had been taking food scraps from Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and other Southern California cities, but Los Angeles stopped sending residential food scraps to Community Recycling in 2010, when Kern County informed the city that the company didn’t have a permit to accept the scraps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the deaths of the Ramirez brothers, Los Angeles then suspended a roughly $5 million yearly contract with Community Recycling for disposing yard trimmings, which also were dumped in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other California cities have faced problems with the regulation of composting operations. At least four composting facilities other than Community Recycling have been cited for serious health and safety violations between 2006 and 2008, according to federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration documents. The state agency Cal/OSHA, however, does not maintain a compilation of workplace injuries specific to composting facilities because the agency does not classify the industry as high-hazard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Oldfield, a spokesman for the state Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, better known as CalRecycle, said none of the local agencies charged with enforcing state waste regulations have ever shut down a composting facility, but one facility in San Luis Obispo voluntarily shuttered when it could not resolve its odor problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Solano County ordered the city of San Francisco’s private compost hauler, Recology, to cut roughly in half the amount of compost it sends to a facility in Vacaville. Nearby residents had complained of a stench, despite advanced technology at the plant to reduce odors: vacuums that suck air from above covered piles of composting material. Recology says the smell was the result of an initial, faulty installation of the technology, which the company says it has corrected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, trucks now pick up about 570 tons of food waste daily from homes, restaurants, apartment buildings, grocery stores and other facilities and haul much of it about 75 miles away to two facilities south of the city, in Modesto and Gilroy. Some of it still goes to Vacaville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recology said it has taken steps to improve the smell at the Vacaville facility, but county officials say some odor still exists. According to Solano County staff, in 2011, the county health department received 75 complaints from 15 households about odor at the site, though not all of the complaints were verified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack Macy, a waste coordinator for the City and County of San Francisco, said, however, he is concerned that just a few odor complaints could so significantly affect the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That honestly is a real problem with the way that compost facilities are regulated in the state ... the fact that you can have somebody complain and effectively shut down or roll back a facility,” Macy said in an interview. “I’ve been on that site many times over the years, and there’s less odor at that site now than there has been in the past, and if you’re standing at the site, it barely smells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the southern Central Valley, the situation was more hazardous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drive east along a desolate strip of two-lane road about 20 miles south of central Bakersfield, and odors of garbage, sewage and cow manure hit you hard. Trash litters the road, the air is hazy, and the odors vary from a strong acidic smell to something like rancid beer. Bordering the road are grape fields, two dairies, property belonging to a local sewage treatment agency, and the Community Recycling & Resource Recovery facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armando Ramirez was cleaning out a stormwater drain with a high-pressure hose on Oct. 12 when he was overcome with fumes and lost consciousness. Trying to rescue his brother from the drain, Heladio Ramirez then lost consciousness. Armando died that day, and his brother was taken off life support a few days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armando died in an industrial accident, making a civil suit for his death \u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfield.com/news/business/economy/x1827696911/Mother-of-dead-compost-worker-files-suit-alleging-dangerous-conditions\" target=\"_blank\">difficult to win under the law\u003c/a>. Faustina Ramirez's lawsuit against Community Recycling only mentions the older brother, Heladio, because he worked for A & B Harvesting. Her lawsuit argues that Community Recycling created unsafe conditions for Heladio while he was working on Community Recycling property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faustina Ramirez was in King City, where she worked in celery and lettuce fields, when she received the call that her children had been injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was screaming. I didn’t even know what to do. I wanted to just start running to get here, and it was impossible to get here,” said Faustina Ramirez, speaking at the office of Salvador Partida, a tax preparer and activist in Arvin, near the Community Recycling facility. Partida’s office is a meeting ground for many of the Mexican immigrants who live in the area and work in agricultural fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faustina Ramirez moved to the United States from Mexico 10 years ago. Her sons crossed the border two years ago. She has one other child, an 18-year-old daughter, and a granddaughter who still live in Mexico. In Oaxaca, before she moved to the U.S. to earn more money, Faustina Ramirez made hand-woven baskets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, when the Community Recycling facility opened, the company had to go through a California Environmental Quality Act review and submitted paperwork indicating the composting facility would cause no significant environmental harm, according to Charles Collins, deputy county counsel in Kern County. An environmental impact report was finally ordered in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No government agency was regularly monitoring the facility for hydrogen sulfide, the gas that killed the Ramirez brothers. State investigators have yet to release their findings about how exactly the hydrogen sulfide was generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lorelei Oviatt, director of the Kern County Planning and Community Development Department, told the county’s Board of Supervisors at a meeting after the brothers’ deaths that “our files do not show any evidence of a detailed analysis of the possibilities of these types of gases. Therefore, we would not have made any recommendations, and your board would not have knowledge of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA, which oversees workplace safety regulations in California, issued an order barring entry into the drain soon after the brothers died, but Community Recycling then hired a professional company to clean the drain in violation of the order, according to Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Widess, chief of Cal/OSHA, which is investigating the Ramirezes’ deaths, said the 190-acre Community Recycling site wasn’t on the agency’s radar. “This place was unknown to us,” Widess said in a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community Recycling is the sister company of Crown Disposal, based in Sun Valley. According to Beverly Hills officials, Crown Disposal has a $5.5 million waste disposal contract with that city. Los Angeles has a three-year, $1 million annual contract with Crown Disposal for removal of construction debris from public projects and, until November, maintained a contract with Community Recycling for yard waste disposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crown Disposal and Community Recycling representatives did not return calls for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deaths of the Ramirez brothers highlight the dangerous side of the waste industry. In 2009, three men died of hydrogen sulfide poisoning at a recycling facility in New York that also had been cited by OSHA for prior violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Utterback, a coordinator for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which makes recommendations for worker safety regulations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, lamented that even facilities with prior violations are allowed to operate with potential substantial hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OSHA has far too few inspectors to keep on top of each facility,” Utterback said. “It does prioritize inspections, and re-inspection of serious offenders is a factor. Still, that is likely to occur months to a few years after the initial inspection unless they receive a complaint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Community Recycling site where the Ramirez brothers died, other problems have arisen over the past few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2008, Kern County Code Compliance staff found that “residual plastic bags and wrapping material leftover from the composting process had blown around the site and onto adjacent sites and agricultural crops,” according to a county report. “The perimeter screening fence had also accumulated excessive amounts of trash and debris.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mark de Bie, deputy director of the waste permitting, compliance and mitigation division of CalRecycle, fully permitted composting facilities such as Community Recycling are subject to monthly, unannounced inspections by the local waste enforcement agency – in this case, Kern County’s Environmental Health Services Division – to ensure they aren’t accepting hazardous waste and other inappropriate materials. The state’s Integrated Waste Management Act doesn’t classify plastic or approved compostable material as hazardous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Denny Larson, executive director of the El Cerrito environmental group Global Community Monitor, said he believes composting facilities, in general, are under-regulated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears that it’s a very good environmentally friendly thing – the compost,” Larson said. But, “I just don’t think we really know what’s really brought into these facilities. ... They take anything from anybody from anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents continue to complain about plastic litter from the site. And an ill wind still runs through Kern County. Faustina Ramirez said she thinks of her children when, on warm days, a foul stench enters the trailer where she lives as she awaits the results of her lawsuit against the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one could stand that smell, that stench,” she said. And her children “were right there. Can you imagine how they suffered?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced as part of a collaboration between California Watch, part of the independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, and the Investigative Reporting Project at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Andrea Valencia translated for this piece.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened with my children was negligence – because they didn’t give them protection and because they knew what was going on in that site, and they sent them,” she said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In 2010, Solano County ordered the city of San Francisco’s private compost hauler, Recology, to cut roughly in half the amount of compost it sends to a facility in Vacaville. Nearby residents had complained of a stench, despite advanced technology at the plant to reduce odors.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The private facility where the brothers were working is the largest of the more than 97 active, permitted composting facilities scattered across the state. Despite years of land-use violations, trash complaints, an order by Kern County to cease operations and a $2.3 million fine, a judge has allowed the Community Recycling site \u003ca href=\"http://www.turnto23.com/news/30392881/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">to remain open\u003c/a> as it battles the county in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility had been taking food scraps from Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and other Southern California cities, but Los Angeles stopped sending residential food scraps to Community Recycling in 2010, when Kern County informed the city that the company didn’t have a permit to accept the scraps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the deaths of the Ramirez brothers, Los Angeles then suspended a roughly $5 million yearly contract with Community Recycling for disposing yard trimmings, which also were dumped in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other California cities have faced problems with the regulation of composting operations. At least four composting facilities other than Community Recycling have been cited for serious health and safety violations between 2006 and 2008, according to federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration documents. The state agency Cal/OSHA, however, does not maintain a compilation of workplace injuries specific to composting facilities because the agency does not classify the industry as high-hazard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Oldfield, a spokesman for the state Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, better known as CalRecycle, said none of the local agencies charged with enforcing state waste regulations have ever shut down a composting facility, but one facility in San Luis Obispo voluntarily shuttered when it could not resolve its odor problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Solano County ordered the city of San Francisco’s private compost hauler, Recology, to cut roughly in half the amount of compost it sends to a facility in Vacaville. Nearby residents had complained of a stench, despite advanced technology at the plant to reduce odors: vacuums that suck air from above covered piles of composting material. Recology says the smell was the result of an initial, faulty installation of the technology, which the company says it has corrected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, trucks now pick up about 570 tons of food waste daily from homes, restaurants, apartment buildings, grocery stores and other facilities and haul much of it about 75 miles away to two facilities south of the city, in Modesto and Gilroy. Some of it still goes to Vacaville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recology said it has taken steps to improve the smell at the Vacaville facility, but county officials say some odor still exists. According to Solano County staff, in 2011, the county health department received 75 complaints from 15 households about odor at the site, though not all of the complaints were verified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack Macy, a waste coordinator for the City and County of San Francisco, said, however, he is concerned that just a few odor complaints could so significantly affect the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That honestly is a real problem with the way that compost facilities are regulated in the state ... the fact that you can have somebody complain and effectively shut down or roll back a facility,” Macy said in an interview. “I’ve been on that site many times over the years, and there’s less odor at that site now than there has been in the past, and if you’re standing at the site, it barely smells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the southern Central Valley, the situation was more hazardous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drive east along a desolate strip of two-lane road about 20 miles south of central Bakersfield, and odors of garbage, sewage and cow manure hit you hard. Trash litters the road, the air is hazy, and the odors vary from a strong acidic smell to something like rancid beer. Bordering the road are grape fields, two dairies, property belonging to a local sewage treatment agency, and the Community Recycling & Resource Recovery facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armando Ramirez was cleaning out a stormwater drain with a high-pressure hose on Oct. 12 when he was overcome with fumes and lost consciousness. Trying to rescue his brother from the drain, Heladio Ramirez then lost consciousness. Armando died that day, and his brother was taken off life support a few days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armando died in an industrial accident, making a civil suit for his death \u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfield.com/news/business/economy/x1827696911/Mother-of-dead-compost-worker-files-suit-alleging-dangerous-conditions\" target=\"_blank\">difficult to win under the law\u003c/a>. Faustina Ramirez's lawsuit against Community Recycling only mentions the older brother, Heladio, because he worked for A & B Harvesting. Her lawsuit argues that Community Recycling created unsafe conditions for Heladio while he was working on Community Recycling property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faustina Ramirez was in King City, where she worked in celery and lettuce fields, when she received the call that her children had been injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was screaming. I didn’t even know what to do. I wanted to just start running to get here, and it was impossible to get here,” said Faustina Ramirez, speaking at the office of Salvador Partida, a tax preparer and activist in Arvin, near the Community Recycling facility. Partida’s office is a meeting ground for many of the Mexican immigrants who live in the area and work in agricultural fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faustina Ramirez moved to the United States from Mexico 10 years ago. Her sons crossed the border two years ago. She has one other child, an 18-year-old daughter, and a granddaughter who still live in Mexico. In Oaxaca, before she moved to the U.S. to earn more money, Faustina Ramirez made hand-woven baskets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1993, when the Community Recycling facility opened, the company had to go through a California Environmental Quality Act review and submitted paperwork indicating the composting facility would cause no significant environmental harm, according to Charles Collins, deputy county counsel in Kern County. An environmental impact report was finally ordered in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No government agency was regularly monitoring the facility for hydrogen sulfide, the gas that killed the Ramirez brothers. State investigators have yet to release their findings about how exactly the hydrogen sulfide was generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lorelei Oviatt, director of the Kern County Planning and Community Development Department, told the county’s Board of Supervisors at a meeting after the brothers’ deaths that “our files do not show any evidence of a detailed analysis of the possibilities of these types of gases. Therefore, we would not have made any recommendations, and your board would not have knowledge of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA, which oversees workplace safety regulations in California, issued an order barring entry into the drain soon after the brothers died, but Community Recycling then hired a professional company to clean the drain in violation of the order, according to Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Widess, chief of Cal/OSHA, which is investigating the Ramirezes’ deaths, said the 190-acre Community Recycling site wasn’t on the agency’s radar. “This place was unknown to us,” Widess said in a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community Recycling is the sister company of Crown Disposal, based in Sun Valley. According to Beverly Hills officials, Crown Disposal has a $5.5 million waste disposal contract with that city. Los Angeles has a three-year, $1 million annual contract with Crown Disposal for removal of construction debris from public projects and, until November, maintained a contract with Community Recycling for yard waste disposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crown Disposal and Community Recycling representatives did not return calls for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deaths of the Ramirez brothers highlight the dangerous side of the waste industry. In 2009, three men died of hydrogen sulfide poisoning at a recycling facility in New York that also had been cited by OSHA for prior violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Utterback, a coordinator for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which makes recommendations for worker safety regulations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, lamented that even facilities with prior violations are allowed to operate with potential substantial hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OSHA has far too few inspectors to keep on top of each facility,” Utterback said. “It does prioritize inspections, and re-inspection of serious offenders is a factor. Still, that is likely to occur months to a few years after the initial inspection unless they receive a complaint.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Community Recycling site where the Ramirez brothers died, other problems have arisen over the past few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2008, Kern County Code Compliance staff found that “residual plastic bags and wrapping material leftover from the composting process had blown around the site and onto adjacent sites and agricultural crops,” according to a county report. “The perimeter screening fence had also accumulated excessive amounts of trash and debris.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mark de Bie, deputy director of the waste permitting, compliance and mitigation division of CalRecycle, fully permitted composting facilities such as Community Recycling are subject to monthly, unannounced inspections by the local waste enforcement agency – in this case, Kern County’s Environmental Health Services Division – to ensure they aren’t accepting hazardous waste and other inappropriate materials. 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"content": "\u003cp>OR7, the lone gray wolf from a pack in Oregon, crossed back into his home state last Thursday after two months of wandering in Northern California. OR7’s trek made him the first wolf in California in almost 90 years. Officials say it’s possible the wolf will continue to travel both states. (\u003cstrong>Update Mar 5\u003c/strong>: Apparently so. California Fish and Game reports today that OR7 has crossed back into California.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58422\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Wolf-OR7-snow-track-Tanya-Dronoff.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Wolf-OR7-snow-track-Tanya-Dronoff-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wolf-OR7-snow-track-Tanya-Dronoff\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wolf track in the snow. Tanya Dronoff/Dept of Fish and Game\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With OR7’s arrival, California has been thrown into a national debate about how to manage wolves. Environmentalists want to see a wolf population restored in the state. For others, OR7 is not a welcome visitor. In Lassen County, where OR7 has spent the bulk of his time, wolf opposition is heating up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"If it's killing my cattle, I'm gonna kill it.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent county board of supervisors meeting in Susanville, a town in the state’s rural northeast corner, Fish and Game biologist Karen Kovacs takes the podium. “What we’re here today to do is just to share what we know about wolves in California,” she says to the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kovacs’ agency gets daily downloads about the two-year-old male wolf’s location through its radio collar. “Are there other wolves in California? That’s a $64 million dollar question,” she says. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/06/interview-retired-wolf-recovery-coordinator-on-or7-and-california/\">\u003cstrong>Interview: Retired U.S. Wolf Recovery Coordinator on Wolves and California\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If there's one thing Kovacs has learned since OR7 arrived, it’s that wolves make people emotional. For several weeks, Kovacs and other wildlife officials have attended a number of public meetings about California’s wolf. In the state’s northern counties, the reaction has been vocal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The protection afforded something that doesn’t belong here in the first place doesn’t make any sense,” says Susanville resident Len Grizwold. Says another resident: “Be cautious, folks. They’re here to tell you there’s nothing to worry about.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reception from county supervisor and rancher Bob Pyle isn’t any warmer. “I really don’t care what it is. If it’s killing my cattle, I’m gonna kill it,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any wolf in California is considered endangered,” responds Susan Moore of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. “And if you should take it, kill it, it is a $100,000 fine or a year in jail, or both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>If it's killing my cattle, I'm gonna kill it.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This dichotomy of sentiment has followed wolves from the moment they were reintroduced in the West almost 20 years ago. In states like Idaho and Montana, where wolf populations have rebounded, an all-out war has broken out between ranchers and hunters, who say wolves kill too many livestock and elk, and environmentalists, who see the animals as a key part of a healthy ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With OR7’s arrival, that debate has come to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the Wolf’s Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a quiet pine forest outside of Susanville, Kovacs and Fish and Game biologist Richard Callas walk through a light layer of snow. OR7 crossed a major highway nearby a few weeks ago, not far from where California’s last wolf was trapped and killed in 1924. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way we find his tracks is because they’re pretty darn big,” says Kovacs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31958\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=42104&inline=true\">\u003cimg src=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2012/03/Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Map\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31958\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to see a larger map of where OR7 has traveled.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the wolf's protection, his exact location is kept secret. But once he leaves an area, Kovacs and Callas descend to see what he’s been eating. “We know that OR7 has fed on two deer. We don’t know if he killed them or scavenged them,” Callas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life isn’t easy for a wolf on his own. But there’s a reason OR7 has traveled 2,000 miles since he left his pack in Oregon last September. “His love life hasn’t been much to brag about lately,” Callas says. “But he’s certainly looking for a mate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other states, it’s taken about 10 years for a pack to get established after the first wolf showed up. But biologists aren’t sure how successful wolves will be here. “Our elk population is smaller than some state like Montana, Colorado and Wyoming. Our deer numbers were lower than they were,” Callas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oregon’s wolf packs live hundreds of miles from the border, it could be some time before another wolf wanders this way. But for the Department of Fish and Game, that may not matter. Groups on both sides are calling for some kind of plan to manage wolves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are entities out there who are ready to litigate at the drop of a hat,” says Kovacs. “Can we get those stakeholders here in California to the table to collectively meet to move forward?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local Ranchers Concerned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a cold morning at Willow Creek Ranch outside of Susanville, Jack Hanson is getting ready to feed 300 hungry cattle. A few weeks ago, OR7 wasn’t far from here. “About 17 or 18 miles as the crow flies,” says Hanson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31954\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2012/03/DSC00093.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2012/03/DSC00093.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ranch\" width=\"320\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31954\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OR7 wandered close to Willow Creek Ranch outside of Susanville.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanson says it’s not OR7 that’s he’s worried about. It’s that wolf populations could grow. In other states, some ranchers are trying out tools to deter wolves, like special fencing and loud noises. Some even get text messages when wolves are close. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most ranchers see wolves as one more thing to deal with in an already tough industry, says Hanson. Still, he wants to be part of the discussion. “We’ll be able to have a dialogue with agencies. I don’t think it will ever come to exactly where we want it, which is not to have them back in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State and Federal Protections\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolves are currently protected in California under the federal Endangered Species Act, but several environmental groups are petitioning the state to protect them under California law as well. That would require the Department of Fish and Game to figure out how many wolves belong in California and how they’ll recover. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government is also considering whether to specially protect California wolves. Populations in Idaho, Montana and parts of Oregon and Washington have already been taken off the endangered species list, but this week the agency recommended removing protection for wolves in some of the remaining parts of the lower 48 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California wolves may still be protected, however. Fish and Wildlife is considering whether to specially protect wolves in parts of Oregon, Washington and California. If so, the agency would consider writing a recovery plan for what would be known as the Pacific Northwest population. That decision is due by September 30th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see California as being essential to the recovery of wolves. It’s not prime wolf habitat,” says Dan Ashe, director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. “But certainly, wolves will move hopefully in the future and will find some hospitable territory in California. Some may establish themselves there, but hopefully they’ll be well-managed under state law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weathering the Debate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is: Can California avoid the battles that other states have seen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, I don’t think so,” says Ed Bangs, the recently retired Wolf Recovery Coordinator at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He’s been in the middle of the Western wolf debate for two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to remember wolves and wolf management has nothing to do with reality. I mean we can give you facts, you know all this biology stuff. That isn’t what people talk about. They’re talking about what wolves mean to them symbolically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he thinks that debate isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “Imagine if it was the way it was before when no one cared at all about natural resources or wildlife? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>OR7, the lone gray wolf from a pack in Oregon, crossed back into his home state last Thursday after two months of wandering in Northern California. OR7’s trek made him the first wolf in California in almost 90 years. Officials say it’s possible the wolf will continue to travel both states. (\u003cstrong>Update Mar 5\u003c/strong>: Apparently so. California Fish and Game reports today that OR7 has crossed back into California.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58422\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Wolf-OR7-snow-track-Tanya-Dronoff.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Wolf-OR7-snow-track-Tanya-Dronoff-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wolf-OR7-snow-track-Tanya-Dronoff\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wolf track in the snow. Tanya Dronoff/Dept of Fish and Game\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With OR7’s arrival, California has been thrown into a national debate about how to manage wolves. Environmentalists want to see a wolf population restored in the state. For others, OR7 is not a welcome visitor. In Lassen County, where OR7 has spent the bulk of his time, wolf opposition is heating up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"If it's killing my cattle, I'm gonna kill it.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent county board of supervisors meeting in Susanville, a town in the state’s rural northeast corner, Fish and Game biologist Karen Kovacs takes the podium. “What we’re here today to do is just to share what we know about wolves in California,” she says to the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kovacs’ agency gets daily downloads about the two-year-old male wolf’s location through its radio collar. “Are there other wolves in California? That’s a $64 million dollar question,” she says. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/06/interview-retired-wolf-recovery-coordinator-on-or7-and-california/\">\u003cstrong>Interview: Retired U.S. Wolf Recovery Coordinator on Wolves and California\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If there's one thing Kovacs has learned since OR7 arrived, it’s that wolves make people emotional. For several weeks, Kovacs and other wildlife officials have attended a number of public meetings about California’s wolf. In the state’s northern counties, the reaction has been vocal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The protection afforded something that doesn’t belong here in the first place doesn’t make any sense,” says Susanville resident Len Grizwold. Says another resident: “Be cautious, folks. They’re here to tell you there’s nothing to worry about.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reception from county supervisor and rancher Bob Pyle isn’t any warmer. “I really don’t care what it is. If it’s killing my cattle, I’m gonna kill it,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any wolf in California is considered endangered,” responds Susan Moore of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. “And if you should take it, kill it, it is a $100,000 fine or a year in jail, or both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>If it's killing my cattle, I'm gonna kill it.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This dichotomy of sentiment has followed wolves from the moment they were reintroduced in the West almost 20 years ago. In states like Idaho and Montana, where wolf populations have rebounded, an all-out war has broken out between ranchers and hunters, who say wolves kill too many livestock and elk, and environmentalists, who see the animals as a key part of a healthy ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With OR7’s arrival, that debate has come to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the Wolf’s Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a quiet pine forest outside of Susanville, Kovacs and Fish and Game biologist Richard Callas walk through a light layer of snow. OR7 crossed a major highway nearby a few weeks ago, not far from where California’s last wolf was trapped and killed in 1924. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way we find his tracks is because they’re pretty darn big,” says Kovacs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31958\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=42104&inline=true\">\u003cimg src=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2012/03/Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Map\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31958\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to see a larger map of where OR7 has traveled.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the wolf's protection, his exact location is kept secret. But once he leaves an area, Kovacs and Callas descend to see what he’s been eating. “We know that OR7 has fed on two deer. We don’t know if he killed them or scavenged them,” Callas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life isn’t easy for a wolf on his own. But there’s a reason OR7 has traveled 2,000 miles since he left his pack in Oregon last September. “His love life hasn’t been much to brag about lately,” Callas says. “But he’s certainly looking for a mate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other states, it’s taken about 10 years for a pack to get established after the first wolf showed up. But biologists aren’t sure how successful wolves will be here. “Our elk population is smaller than some state like Montana, Colorado and Wyoming. Our deer numbers were lower than they were,” Callas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oregon’s wolf packs live hundreds of miles from the border, it could be some time before another wolf wanders this way. But for the Department of Fish and Game, that may not matter. Groups on both sides are calling for some kind of plan to manage wolves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are entities out there who are ready to litigate at the drop of a hat,” says Kovacs. “Can we get those stakeholders here in California to the table to collectively meet to move forward?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local Ranchers Concerned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a cold morning at Willow Creek Ranch outside of Susanville, Jack Hanson is getting ready to feed 300 hungry cattle. A few weeks ago, OR7 wasn’t far from here. “About 17 or 18 miles as the crow flies,” says Hanson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31954\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2012/03/DSC00093.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2012/03/DSC00093.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ranch\" width=\"320\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31954\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OR7 wandered close to Willow Creek Ranch outside of Susanville.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanson says it’s not OR7 that’s he’s worried about. It’s that wolf populations could grow. In other states, some ranchers are trying out tools to deter wolves, like special fencing and loud noises. Some even get text messages when wolves are close. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most ranchers see wolves as one more thing to deal with in an already tough industry, says Hanson. Still, he wants to be part of the discussion. “We’ll be able to have a dialogue with agencies. I don’t think it will ever come to exactly where we want it, which is not to have them back in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State and Federal Protections\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolves are currently protected in California under the federal Endangered Species Act, but several environmental groups are petitioning the state to protect them under California law as well. That would require the Department of Fish and Game to figure out how many wolves belong in California and how they’ll recover. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government is also considering whether to specially protect California wolves. Populations in Idaho, Montana and parts of Oregon and Washington have already been taken off the endangered species list, but this week the agency recommended removing protection for wolves in some of the remaining parts of the lower 48 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California wolves may still be protected, however. Fish and Wildlife is considering whether to specially protect wolves in parts of Oregon, Washington and California. If so, the agency would consider writing a recovery plan for what would be known as the Pacific Northwest population. That decision is due by September 30th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see California as being essential to the recovery of wolves. It’s not prime wolf habitat,” says Dan Ashe, director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. “But certainly, wolves will move hopefully in the future and will find some hospitable territory in California. 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