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"content": "\u003cp>Ah, the tranquil sounds of Yosemite Valley in the summertime. Robins singing, leaves rustling in the wind and the loud booming noise of a bear locker being slammed shut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the sweet, sweet sounds of camping in bear country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you camp in Yosemite and other parks with black bears, you can’t just leave your food out on the picnic table or even in your car overnight. You have to store it in a weird contraption called a bear locker, a large metal box that bears cannot open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to go backpacking in Yosemite, up to the top of Half Dome or down to the majestic Tuolumne River, you have to keep all of your food in a portable bear-proof canister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This problem of bears wanting to eat human food in places like Yosemite, it’s a problem we humans created. And for decades, people have been inventing solutions to try to solve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The canister, the locker — all of those things were basically invented here in Yosemite,” says Rachel Mazur, Chief of Wildlife and Visitor Use for Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the problem that these inventions were created to solve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem was not invented here,” Mazur says, “but we sure did a good job of making it a tough one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“In your car, you turn to ‘Classic Rock;’ here you get a bear”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Leahy is on patrol in Yosemite Valley. Leahy looks kind of like a cop — sunglasses, a uniform with a vest full of pockets. He’s armed with a radio and binoculars. Leahy’s a biologist; he’s patrolling for bears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we slowly drive along a back road in Yosemite Valley, he sticks a hand-held antenna out the window. There are up to 500 bears in the park, and Leahy and his team have put GPS and radio collars on a handful of them to be able to track them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially they have radio frequency and we have a receiver,” he explains. When Leahy listens to different frequencies using his antenna, he can hear the beeping noise coming from different bears’ collars. “Like in your car you turn to 104.1 classic rock, but here you get you get a different bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beeping speeds up. “The bear’s pretty close,” Leahy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s plenty of natural food for bears to eat in Yosemite, but they’ve learned that swiping coolers and grocery bags is just easier. So Leahy and his team monitor the bears to try and prevent them from ever getting a taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leahy’s park radio interrupts our quiet listening. One of Leahy’s crew members is trying to get a hold of him, because a mamma bear and cub have been reported in a campground on the opposite side of the park. Then his work cell phone rings. It turns out there’s even another bear down here in the valley. He’s got to move quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a bear in the campground in the middle of the day going after human food,” he explains, “it’s going to probably get worse fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulls over into a parking lot so he can make a plan, which turns out to maybe be a bad idea because now he’s a sitting duck for tourist questions. In the middle of all this chaos, a park visitor approaches his truck window. “Hey, where’s Half Dome?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, the giant granite monolith visible from most places in Yosemite Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leahy is nothing but professional. “After you take a left at the stop sign, look right on the bridge; you’ll see Half Dome. It’s huge. You can’t miss it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than four million people visit Yosemite each year, most only for a day. Many are first-timers and don’t even know their way around the park, let alone how to behave in bear country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bears take advantage of that ignorance, which is why Leahy’s got to get on the road, and drive to the other end of the park to keep these bears from getting into people’s food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the reality of bears and humans trying to coexist in Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did we get here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"There are up to 500 bears in Yosemite, and Ryan Leahy and his team have put GPS and radio collars on a handful. Here, he tracks a bear getting a little too close to a campground.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are up to 500 bears in Yosemite, and Ryan Leahy and his team have put GPS and radio collars on a handful. Here, he tracks a bear getting a little too close to a campground. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From bear-feeding shows to “nuisance bears”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1900s, tourists started visiting Yosemite year-round. This was a time before garbage trucks and even plastic garbage bags were invented, and the tourists needed somewhere to put their trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was crazy!” Rachel Mazur says. “They would have a dump, and that’s where the garbage would go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Mazur worked as Chief of Wildlife in Yosemite, she wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.falcon.com/book/9781493008223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a book\u003c/a> about the history of bears and humans in the park. She says the bears quickly figured out that they could go to the dump and eat campers’ food scraps. Then, the concessionaire for the park figured it could make money off of tourists who’d love to see bears up close and personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’d put bleachers up, bus people in, have on spotlights, and you’d have twenty, thirty bears in there, feeding off the trash but also fighting each other,” Mazur says, and basically becoming conditioned to humans and our food. The dumps drew bears out of the wilderness into Yosemite Valley. They started reproducing in larger numbers because they got so many calories from human food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors were getting too close to the bears and getting injured, and the park realized it had to make some changes. It ended all bear feeding shows in the 1940s and closed the dumps in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you can’t just close dumps and expect these bears that are food-conditioned and used to humans to disappear back into the forest,” Mazur says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt='Rachel Mazur, Chief of Wildlife for Yosemite National Park, by a \"graveyard\" of old bear lockers. She says when bear management is under control, her team can focus on other wildlife efforts, like conservation and restoring endangered species.' width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Mazur, Chief of Wildlife for Yosemite National Park, by a “graveyard” of old bear lockers. She says when bear management is under control, her team can focus on other wildlife efforts, like conservation and restoring endangered species. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the dumps closed, the bears turned their eye toward the campgrounds and visitors’ cars. This lead to even more injuries and rangers killing what they called “nuisance” bears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the type of job that the rangers had signed up for. They wanted to figure out a way to keep bears wild and away from human food, so, Mazur says, they started experimenting. They created special lids for garbage cans, and metal lockers for campers to store their food, with latches complicated enough that they were sure bears wouldn’t be able to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet bears are very smart and they figured out a way in. The rangers tweaked the designs more, adding carabiners and inventing new latches. Mazur has a whole stack of these old bear locker designs outside her office in Yosemite Valley; she calls it the “bear locker graveyard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Staying ahead of the “wily bears”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While rangers experimented with bear-proof storage for car campgrounds, more and more tourists were heading out to hike in the wilderness. This was the late 1960s and the start of the environmental movement. Many young people wanted to go backpacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Durkee was a ranger in Little Yosemite Valley, the popular backcountry area behind Half Dome. Hikers would hike from the valley up to these woods and stay overnight, leaving the next day to climb the famous granite monolith. They didn’t have anywhere to store their food while they camped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would get five or ten people minimum having their food taken every night,” Durkee remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other campers were about to set out for weeks-long trips on the John Muir Trail. They didn’t take kindly to the idea of losing all their food to bears before such a big trip. Durkee remembers one upset camper chasing a bear when it ran off with his food sack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of those cartoon moments,” Durkee laughs. “You see the bear suddenly realizing, ‘Wait a minute, I’m a 200 pound bear. I don’t have to put up with this!’” The bear turned around and swatted the guy across the chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others campers tried using their food as pillows, which Durkee says is a very dangerous idea. “On the one hand, you want to say, ‘This is natural selection at work!’ But you don’t want people to get hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"Retired back country ranger George Durkee helped invent some of the earliest bear-proofing methods.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired back country ranger George Durkee helped invent some of the earliest bear-proofing methods. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Campers would complain to Durkee when they lost their food to bears, so he and other rangers started experimenting with different ways to hang food away from bears’ reach. First, he tried tying the food between two trees, but bears would chew through the rope and pull down the food. Then, Durkee invented something called the counterbalance system. He would throw a rope over a tree branch and hang two food bags of equal weight on each end; that way, there was no rope for the bears to chew through. Instead, bears would climb high into the tree and drop down onto the food from above, knocking it to the ground. Then the bear would run off with the food bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just one thing after another trying to stay ahead of the wily bears!” Durkee says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park tried installing metal poles with hooks that campers could hang their food on, but those got knocked down by an avalanche; then the park helicoptered heavy bear lockers into the backcountry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They tried everything,” Rachel Mazur says. Until finally, “This idea of the canister came about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bear canister: a portable, cylindrical container that bears cannot open, and that holds about five days of food. It looks sort of like a drum. These days, anyone backpacking in Yosemite must use one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Bear canisters like this are required for anyone backpacking in Yosemite. The park has approved 12 different types of bear canisters.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear canisters like this are required for anyone backpacking in Yosemite. The park has approved 12 different types of bear canisters. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea was invented by Barrie Gilbert, a behavioral ecologist, who was researching bears in Yellowstone and got \u003ca href=\"https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/bear-attack-makes-man-a-bear-defender/article_660bc36f-8268-590c-a7be-55d04a41ce50.html\">horribly mauled\u003c/a> by a grizzly. The bear pulled the scalp off his head, ripped off his ears and took out an eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he healed, he decided to send his graduate student to research black bears in Yosemite instead, figuring he’d be safer there. But the graduate student kept losing his food to the bears! (It’s better than losing an eye, but still a problem.) Gilbert wanted to invent a way for his student to be able to bear-proof his food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got the idea while watching a nature show on TV. He saw a frustrated lion pawing at an ostrich egg, trying to eat it, but its shape kept the lion out. That’s when Gilbert “just had this ‘A-ha’ moment,” Mazur says. Gilbert realized if someone could design a contraption that bears would have trouble getting a grip on, and make it lightweight, backpackers might be able to use it to bear-proof their food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilberts’ colleagues working in Yosemite took the idea and ran with it. They hired a machinist from Visalia to make prototypes and gave them to bears at the Fresno Zoo to see if they could break them open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ran through many prototypes, testing them both on bears and humans. “You’re trying to find something that can keep a bear out but that humans can use and will” use, Mazur says. “We learned, for example, if there’s more than two hand motions, people won’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to bears, nothing is foolproof. A few black bears have figured out a way around these canisters. There’s a famously smart bear in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2012/11/a-yellow-yellow-obituary.html\">Adirondack\u003c/a> mountains that taught herself out how to open one of the canister models. Back here in Yosemite, a clever bear realized she can roll canisters off a cliff to break them open. Then she climbs down to get the contents. “It just drives us nuts!” Mazur says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s just one individual bear and the park was able to close that area off from camping. The people on Mazur’s team sometimes have to relocate young bears or even adult bears that have become too conditioned to human food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like the ultimate betrayal,” Mazur says. When visitors don’t bear proof their food, it’s really the bears who pay the price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what’s driven rangers and researchers over the years to invent these bear-proof contraptions. Yet even once the park knew that the canisters and lockers worked, it took decades to get the funding and the support to put all the infrastructure in place and get visitors to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“If we backslide, everything backslides”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with tons of education and enforcement, and requiring the use of bear lockers and canisters, Yosemite has reduced their human-bear incidents, from a high of 1,500 a year to under 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mazur says, that’s exciting. “But what’s also amazing is in the old days, all we did was bear management – nothing else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, she’s technically the Chief of Wildlife, not just bears. Now she’s able to focus on reintroducing endangered species like the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep and yellow-legged frog. But Mazur says, the park still has to stay on top of bear management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we backslide, everything backslides,” she says. “We won’t just lose our grip on the human-bear issue. We’ll lose our grip on all the good wildlife work that we’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mazur says, it’s ultimately up to the tourists to behave properly in bear country. She says, many times campers have told her they didn’t really believe how bad the bear-human food issue was until they lost food to a bear themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If everyone had to lose their food to a bear before they stored it, we’d be in a world of trouble,” she says. At some point, you have to just agree that this is the right thing to do and take it from what’s been learned in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ah, the tranquil sounds of Yosemite Valley in the summertime. Robins singing, leaves rustling in the wind and the loud booming noise of a bear locker being slammed shut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the sweet, sweet sounds of camping in bear country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you camp in Yosemite and other parks with black bears, you can’t just leave your food out on the picnic table or even in your car overnight. You have to store it in a weird contraption called a bear locker, a large metal box that bears cannot open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to go backpacking in Yosemite, up to the top of Half Dome or down to the majestic Tuolumne River, you have to keep all of your food in a portable bear-proof canister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This problem of bears wanting to eat human food in places like Yosemite, it’s a problem we humans created. And for decades, people have been inventing solutions to try to solve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The canister, the locker — all of those things were basically invented here in Yosemite,” says Rachel Mazur, Chief of Wildlife and Visitor Use for Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the problem that these inventions were created to solve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem was not invented here,” Mazur says, “but we sure did a good job of making it a tough one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“In your car, you turn to ‘Classic Rock;’ here you get a bear”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Leahy is on patrol in Yosemite Valley. Leahy looks kind of like a cop — sunglasses, a uniform with a vest full of pockets. He’s armed with a radio and binoculars. Leahy’s a biologist; he’s patrolling for bears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we slowly drive along a back road in Yosemite Valley, he sticks a hand-held antenna out the window. There are up to 500 bears in the park, and Leahy and his team have put GPS and radio collars on a handful of them to be able to track them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially they have radio frequency and we have a receiver,” he explains. When Leahy listens to different frequencies using his antenna, he can hear the beeping noise coming from different bears’ collars. “Like in your car you turn to 104.1 classic rock, but here you get you get a different bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beeping speeds up. “The bear’s pretty close,” Leahy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s plenty of natural food for bears to eat in Yosemite, but they’ve learned that swiping coolers and grocery bags is just easier. So Leahy and his team monitor the bears to try and prevent them from ever getting a taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leahy’s park radio interrupts our quiet listening. One of Leahy’s crew members is trying to get a hold of him, because a mamma bear and cub have been reported in a campground on the opposite side of the park. Then his work cell phone rings. It turns out there’s even another bear down here in the valley. He’s got to move quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a bear in the campground in the middle of the day going after human food,” he explains, “it’s going to probably get worse fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulls over into a parking lot so he can make a plan, which turns out to maybe be a bad idea because now he’s a sitting duck for tourist questions. In the middle of all this chaos, a park visitor approaches his truck window. “Hey, where’s Half Dome?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, the giant granite monolith visible from most places in Yosemite Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leahy is nothing but professional. “After you take a left at the stop sign, look right on the bridge; you’ll see Half Dome. It’s huge. You can’t miss it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than four million people visit Yosemite each year, most only for a day. Many are first-timers and don’t even know their way around the park, let alone how to behave in bear country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bears take advantage of that ignorance, which is why Leahy’s got to get on the road, and drive to the other end of the park to keep these bears from getting into people’s food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the reality of bears and humans trying to coexist in Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did we get here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"There are up to 500 bears in Yosemite, and Ryan Leahy and his team have put GPS and radio collars on a handful. Here, he tracks a bear getting a little too close to a campground.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are up to 500 bears in Yosemite, and Ryan Leahy and his team have put GPS and radio collars on a handful. Here, he tracks a bear getting a little too close to a campground. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From bear-feeding shows to “nuisance bears”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1900s, tourists started visiting Yosemite year-round. This was a time before garbage trucks and even plastic garbage bags were invented, and the tourists needed somewhere to put their trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was crazy!” Rachel Mazur says. “They would have a dump, and that’s where the garbage would go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Mazur worked as Chief of Wildlife in Yosemite, she wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.falcon.com/book/9781493008223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a book\u003c/a> about the history of bears and humans in the park. She says the bears quickly figured out that they could go to the dump and eat campers’ food scraps. Then, the concessionaire for the park figured it could make money off of tourists who’d love to see bears up close and personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’d put bleachers up, bus people in, have on spotlights, and you’d have twenty, thirty bears in there, feeding off the trash but also fighting each other,” Mazur says, and basically becoming conditioned to humans and our food. The dumps drew bears out of the wilderness into Yosemite Valley. They started reproducing in larger numbers because they got so many calories from human food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors were getting too close to the bears and getting injured, and the park realized it had to make some changes. It ended all bear feeding shows in the 1940s and closed the dumps in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you can’t just close dumps and expect these bears that are food-conditioned and used to humans to disappear back into the forest,” Mazur says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt='Rachel Mazur, Chief of Wildlife for Yosemite National Park, by a \"graveyard\" of old bear lockers. She says when bear management is under control, her team can focus on other wildlife efforts, like conservation and restoring endangered species.' width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Mazur, Chief of Wildlife for Yosemite National Park, by a “graveyard” of old bear lockers. She says when bear management is under control, her team can focus on other wildlife efforts, like conservation and restoring endangered species. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the dumps closed, the bears turned their eye toward the campgrounds and visitors’ cars. This lead to even more injuries and rangers killing what they called “nuisance” bears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the type of job that the rangers had signed up for. They wanted to figure out a way to keep bears wild and away from human food, so, Mazur says, they started experimenting. They created special lids for garbage cans, and metal lockers for campers to store their food, with latches complicated enough that they were sure bears wouldn’t be able to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet bears are very smart and they figured out a way in. The rangers tweaked the designs more, adding carabiners and inventing new latches. Mazur has a whole stack of these old bear locker designs outside her office in Yosemite Valley; she calls it the “bear locker graveyard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Staying ahead of the “wily bears”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While rangers experimented with bear-proof storage for car campgrounds, more and more tourists were heading out to hike in the wilderness. This was the late 1960s and the start of the environmental movement. Many young people wanted to go backpacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Durkee was a ranger in Little Yosemite Valley, the popular backcountry area behind Half Dome. Hikers would hike from the valley up to these woods and stay overnight, leaving the next day to climb the famous granite monolith. They didn’t have anywhere to store their food while they camped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would get five or ten people minimum having their food taken every night,” Durkee remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other campers were about to set out for weeks-long trips on the John Muir Trail. They didn’t take kindly to the idea of losing all their food to bears before such a big trip. Durkee remembers one upset camper chasing a bear when it ran off with his food sack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of those cartoon moments,” Durkee laughs. “You see the bear suddenly realizing, ‘Wait a minute, I’m a 200 pound bear. I don’t have to put up with this!’” The bear turned around and swatted the guy across the chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others campers tried using their food as pillows, which Durkee says is a very dangerous idea. “On the one hand, you want to say, ‘This is natural selection at work!’ But you don’t want people to get hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"Retired back country ranger George Durkee helped invent some of the earliest bear-proofing methods.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired back country ranger George Durkee helped invent some of the earliest bear-proofing methods. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Campers would complain to Durkee when they lost their food to bears, so he and other rangers started experimenting with different ways to hang food away from bears’ reach. First, he tried tying the food between two trees, but bears would chew through the rope and pull down the food. Then, Durkee invented something called the counterbalance system. He would throw a rope over a tree branch and hang two food bags of equal weight on each end; that way, there was no rope for the bears to chew through. Instead, bears would climb high into the tree and drop down onto the food from above, knocking it to the ground. Then the bear would run off with the food bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just one thing after another trying to stay ahead of the wily bears!” Durkee says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park tried installing metal poles with hooks that campers could hang their food on, but those got knocked down by an avalanche; then the park helicoptered heavy bear lockers into the backcountry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They tried everything,” Rachel Mazur says. Until finally, “This idea of the canister came about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bear canister: a portable, cylindrical container that bears cannot open, and that holds about five days of food. It looks sort of like a drum. These days, anyone backpacking in Yosemite must use one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Bear canisters like this are required for anyone backpacking in Yosemite. The park has approved 12 different types of bear canisters.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear canisters like this are required for anyone backpacking in Yosemite. The park has approved 12 different types of bear canisters. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea was invented by Barrie Gilbert, a behavioral ecologist, who was researching bears in Yellowstone and got \u003ca href=\"https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/bear-attack-makes-man-a-bear-defender/article_660bc36f-8268-590c-a7be-55d04a41ce50.html\">horribly mauled\u003c/a> by a grizzly. The bear pulled the scalp off his head, ripped off his ears and took out an eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he healed, he decided to send his graduate student to research black bears in Yosemite instead, figuring he’d be safer there. But the graduate student kept losing his food to the bears! (It’s better than losing an eye, but still a problem.) Gilbert wanted to invent a way for his student to be able to bear-proof his food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got the idea while watching a nature show on TV. He saw a frustrated lion pawing at an ostrich egg, trying to eat it, but its shape kept the lion out. That’s when Gilbert “just had this ‘A-ha’ moment,” Mazur says. Gilbert realized if someone could design a contraption that bears would have trouble getting a grip on, and make it lightweight, backpackers might be able to use it to bear-proof their food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilberts’ colleagues working in Yosemite took the idea and ran with it. They hired a machinist from Visalia to make prototypes and gave them to bears at the Fresno Zoo to see if they could break them open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ran through many prototypes, testing them both on bears and humans. “You’re trying to find something that can keep a bear out but that humans can use and will” use, Mazur says. “We learned, for example, if there’s more than two hand motions, people won’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to bears, nothing is foolproof. A few black bears have figured out a way around these canisters. There’s a famously smart bear in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2012/11/a-yellow-yellow-obituary.html\">Adirondack\u003c/a> mountains that taught herself out how to open one of the canister models. Back here in Yosemite, a clever bear realized she can roll canisters off a cliff to break them open. Then she climbs down to get the contents. “It just drives us nuts!” Mazur says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s just one individual bear and the park was able to close that area off from camping. The people on Mazur’s team sometimes have to relocate young bears or even adult bears that have become too conditioned to human food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like the ultimate betrayal,” Mazur says. When visitors don’t bear proof their food, it’s really the bears who pay the price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what’s driven rangers and researchers over the years to invent these bear-proof contraptions. Yet even once the park knew that the canisters and lockers worked, it took decades to get the funding and the support to put all the infrastructure in place and get visitors to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“If we backslide, everything backslides”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with tons of education and enforcement, and requiring the use of bear lockers and canisters, Yosemite has reduced their human-bear incidents, from a high of 1,500 a year to under 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mazur says, that’s exciting. “But what’s also amazing is in the old days, all we did was bear management – nothing else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, she’s technically the Chief of Wildlife, not just bears. Now she’s able to focus on reintroducing endangered species like the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep and yellow-legged frog. But Mazur says, the park still has to stay on top of bear management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we backslide, everything backslides,” she says. “We won’t just lose our grip on the human-bear issue. We’ll lose our grip on all the good wildlife work that we’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mazur says, it’s ultimately up to the tourists to behave properly in bear country. She says, many times campers have told her they didn’t really believe how bad the bear-human food issue was until they lost food to a bear themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California Peeps: Do you have a horror story about the wait to get something ever so simple accomplished at the DMV in the last six months? It took me 2½ hours, for instance, to register my car in February at the San Jose DMV. And I showed up right when it opened. The only appointments available online were a month or so out. Was your story worse? Please lemme know! (Researching for a KQED story.)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That was the Facebook post I put up earlier this summer as stories began to multiply about the ballooning lines at \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Motor Vehicles\u003c/a> field offices across the state. Now, DMV visits have never been fun, but the agency acknowledges that wait times have gotten worse, starting around April of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, DMV Director Jean Shiomoto has been speaking to state lawmakers about the hellaciously long lines, and attempting to fend off calls for a state audit, by publicizing a new set of measures the agency will be taking to shorten those lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to do better and we will do better. Our customers deserve it,” Shiomoto said at an Assembly meeting Tuesday. Lawmakers have been airing their grievances publicly and sharing stories, like this retweet from San Mateo County Supervisor Warren Slocum by Assemblyman Phil Ting of San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/warrenslocum/status/1019661351306682368\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How bad it is\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When I started asking around for DMV horror stories, my Facebook feed was flooded with stories, and also smug advice from people urging the rest of us to make an appointment online, even though appointments are typically booked months out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11685687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.11.48-AM-800x127.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.11.48-AM-800x127.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.11.48-AM-160x25.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.11.48-AM-1020x162.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.11.48-AM-960x152.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.11.48-AM-240x38.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.11.48-AM-375x59.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.11.48-AM-520x82.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.11.48-AM.png 1136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11685688\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.12.10-AM-800x125.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.12.10-AM-800x125.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.12.10-AM-160x25.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.12.10-AM-1020x159.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.12.10-AM-960x150.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.12.10-AM-240x37.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.12.10-AM-375x58.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.12.10-AM-520x81.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-11.12.10-AM.png 1142w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11685707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-12.45.32-PM-800x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-12.45.32-PM-800x181.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-12.45.32-PM-160x36.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-12.45.32-PM-1020x231.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-12.45.32-PM-960x217.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-12.45.32-PM-240x54.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-12.45.32-PM-375x85.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-12.45.32-PM-520x118.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-08-at-12.45.32-PM.png 1130w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst story came from \u003ca href=\"https://susanvalot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan Valot,\u003c/a> a freelance reporter who lives in Southern California. For the record, she knows you can make appointments online in advance. But like so many of us, she was too late getting her act together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to put myself at the mercy of the DMV because my driver’s license expired,” Valot says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was last fall, before the rollout of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/8e621ce2-f744-4333-a32f-04d5283766b7/REAL_ID_FactSheet.pdf?MOD=AJPERES\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real ID\u003c/a>, a driver’s license that can be used to board domestic flights starting in October 2020. The Real ID requires an in-person visit, and it’s the foremost reason for the current surge in wait times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even back then, Valot researched to find out which local DMV had the shortest lines, on what days and at what times. She waited only an hour to get a temporary license at the field office in San Pedro, not including the time it took her to park. Then, she waited for her permanent license to come in the mail, but weeks passed and the temporary license approached its expiration date.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Listen to The Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684797/how-the-dmv-got-worse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How the DMV Got Worse\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/h3>\u003cp>Finally, she called and talked to a sympathetic customer service representative, who informed Valot the system had no record of her application for a license, “and if you’re caught driving with an expired license, they might take your car away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valot was dismayed, mortified and incensed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I have the temporary license. I can prove that I applied for a license.” she told the man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He replied, “I believe you, but nothing ever came through on our system. You have to go back down to the DMV and have \u003ci>them\u003c/i> fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second trip to the San Pedro DMV took twice as long, and there again, the customer service representative was sympathetic. Valot said the woman told her: “There’s some kind of glitch in the system, and it doesn’t go through to the state, and the state knew about it.” The woman, whom Valot described as frustrated because it hadn’t been fixed, added, “Believe me, you’re not the first person this has happened to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, if Valot now wants to get a driver’s license that’s a Real ID, she’d have to go back a third time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have my passport, so I’m not going to put myself through that hell,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFbpgXY5jdg]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The hacker’s perspective\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I asked Michelle Thong, co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.codeforsanjose.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code for San Jose\u003c/a>, to join me at a local DMV. The group is one of more than 70 \u003ca href=\"https://www.codeforamerica.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code for America\u003c/a> chapters around the country made up of techies keen to volunteer their skills for the civic good.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many engineers and designers get a lot of satisfaction working on problems that make people’s lives better,” Thong says, explaining that civic hacking is more collaborative or complementary than confrontational. For example, she proudly points to a local renters’ rights website that Code for San Jose built recently: \u003ca href=\"http://rentersrightsguide.org\">Rentersrightsguide.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been years since Thong herself went to a DMV field office. \u003cem>She’s\u003c/em> had success with the DMV website. So we take a moment to observe the system most large field offices use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are actually two lines in operation. The first: to get in the door and have somebody confirm you have the proper paperwork to get your need met. The second: to get a number so you can wait to be called to a desk. Both of these waits can last hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surely, I ask her, there’s a more efficient way to process all these people. Thong takes a moment. Her assessment seems obvious, \u003ci>once she says it\u003c/i>: Figure out who, exactly, is in that first line, so it can be shrunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it turns out a lot of people are coming in person when they don’t need to, then maybe it’s more of an educational campaign to catch people before they come in and add to the wait times for everyone else who really needs to be here,” Thong opines.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The DMV has an action plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps not surprisingly, given the demand for testimony at the state Capitol, the DMV has just announced plans to reduce the number of reasons you have to come to a field office in person — like say, getting a duplicate driver’s license. Also, while there are a number of places you can go to use DMV Now self-service terminals to get your registration renewed, DMV spokeswoman Jessica Gonzalez says there will be more coming soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re putting those into 10 additional field offices this month. We currently have them in 60 field offices. Later this year, we’re going to expand to 50 additional grocery stores. We’re already in 40 retail locations, so this’ll bring our total to 160 statewide,” Gonzalez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds there will be more self-service check-in kiosks, too, at field offices, “If you know that you have everything you need and you’re ready, you can head on over to that free-standing kiosk and check in and get your service number right then and there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11685393/california-lawmakers-to-question-dmv-about-long-lines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Lawmakers to Question DMV About Long Lines\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The DMV’s answer for the second line: text notifications “about 30 minutes or so before your number’s going to be called,” Gonzalez says. “So that way, you can go to the store, or do something else other than stand there and wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This might kill what appears to be a new line of business for a California startup called\u003ca href=\"https://yogov.org/dmv/california/line-waiting-concierge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> YoGov\u003c/a> that offers “live waiting concierge service,” as well as automated support booking a field office appointment online. The company has gotten a fair bit of media attention in recent months, but it is not working with the DMV’s cooperation or approval. Gonzalez says the agency is “investigating” YoGov, though she would not provide more details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency recently opened 60 field offices on Saturday for a half-day. Now it promises to shift nearly 300 employees from DMV headquarters and other state agencies to field offices to help triage the longer lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal, DMV director Shiomoto told lawmakers, is to reduce wait times back to what the agency considers to be the norm: 15 minutes for customers with an appointment, 45 minutes for those without.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California Peeps: Do you have a horror story about the wait to get something ever so simple accomplished at the DMV in the last six months? It took me 2½ hours, for instance, to register my car in February at the San Jose DMV. And I showed up right when it opened. The only appointments available online were a month or so out. Was your story worse? Please lemme know! (Researching for a KQED story.)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That was the Facebook post I put up earlier this summer as stories began to multiply about the ballooning lines at \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Motor Vehicles\u003c/a> field offices across the state. Now, DMV visits have never been fun, but the agency acknowledges that wait times have gotten worse, starting around April of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, DMV Director Jean Shiomoto has been speaking to state lawmakers about the hellaciously long lines, and attempting to fend off calls for a state audit, by publicizing a new set of measures the agency will be taking to shorten those lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to do better and we will do better. Our customers deserve it,” Shiomoto said at an Assembly meeting Tuesday. Lawmakers have been airing their grievances publicly and sharing stories, like this retweet from San Mateo County Supervisor Warren Slocum by Assemblyman Phil Ting of San Francisco:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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For the record, she knows you can make appointments online in advance. But like so many of us, she was too late getting her act together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to put myself at the mercy of the DMV because my driver’s license expired,” Valot says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was last fall, before the rollout of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/8e621ce2-f744-4333-a32f-04d5283766b7/REAL_ID_FactSheet.pdf?MOD=AJPERES\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real ID\u003c/a>, a driver’s license that can be used to board domestic flights starting in October 2020. The Real ID requires an in-person visit, and it’s the foremost reason for the current surge in wait times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even back then, Valot researched to find out which local DMV had the shortest lines, on what days and at what times. She waited only an hour to get a temporary license at the field office in San Pedro, not including the time it took her to park. Then, she waited for her permanent license to come in the mail, but weeks passed and the temporary license approached its expiration date.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Listen to The Bay\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11684797/how-the-dmv-got-worse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How the DMV Got Worse\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/h3>\u003cp>Finally, she called and talked to a sympathetic customer service representative, who informed Valot the system had no record of her application for a license, “and if you’re caught driving with an expired license, they might take your car away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valot was dismayed, mortified and incensed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I have the temporary license. I can prove that I applied for a license.” she told the man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He replied, “I believe you, but nothing ever came through on our system. You have to go back down to the DMV and have \u003ci>them\u003c/i> fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second trip to the San Pedro DMV took twice as long, and there again, the customer service representative was sympathetic. Valot said the woman told her: “There’s some kind of glitch in the system, and it doesn’t go through to the state, and the state knew about it.” The woman, whom Valot described as frustrated because it hadn’t been fixed, added, “Believe me, you’re not the first person this has happened to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, if Valot now wants to get a driver’s license that’s a Real ID, she’d have to go back a third time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have my passport, so I’m not going to put myself through that hell,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/KFbpgXY5jdg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/KFbpgXY5jdg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The hacker’s perspective\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I asked Michelle Thong, co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.codeforsanjose.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code for San Jose\u003c/a>, to join me at a local DMV. The group is one of more than 70 \u003ca href=\"https://www.codeforamerica.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code for America\u003c/a> chapters around the country made up of techies keen to volunteer their skills for the civic good.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many engineers and designers get a lot of satisfaction working on problems that make people’s lives better,” Thong says, explaining that civic hacking is more collaborative or complementary than confrontational. For example, she proudly points to a local renters’ rights website that Code for San Jose built recently: \u003ca href=\"http://rentersrightsguide.org\">Rentersrightsguide.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been years since Thong herself went to a DMV field office. \u003cem>She’s\u003c/em> had success with the DMV website. So we take a moment to observe the system most large field offices use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are actually two lines in operation. The first: to get in the door and have somebody confirm you have the proper paperwork to get your need met. The second: to get a number so you can wait to be called to a desk. Both of these waits can last hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surely, I ask her, there’s a more efficient way to process all these people. Thong takes a moment. Her assessment seems obvious, \u003ci>once she says it\u003c/i>: Figure out who, exactly, is in that first line, so it can be shrunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it turns out a lot of people are coming in person when they don’t need to, then maybe it’s more of an educational campaign to catch people before they come in and add to the wait times for everyone else who really needs to be here,” Thong opines.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The DMV has an action plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps not surprisingly, given the demand for testimony at the state Capitol, the DMV has just announced plans to reduce the number of reasons you have to come to a field office in person — like say, getting a duplicate driver’s license. Also, while there are a number of places you can go to use DMV Now self-service terminals to get your registration renewed, DMV spokeswoman Jessica Gonzalez says there will be more coming soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re putting those into 10 additional field offices this month. We currently have them in 60 field offices. Later this year, we’re going to expand to 50 additional grocery stores. We’re already in 40 retail locations, so this’ll bring our total to 160 statewide,” Gonzalez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds there will be more self-service check-in kiosks, too, at field offices, “If you know that you have everything you need and you’re ready, you can head on over to that free-standing kiosk and check in and get your service number right then and there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11685393/california-lawmakers-to-question-dmv-about-long-lines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Lawmakers to Question DMV About Long Lines\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The DMV’s answer for the second line: text notifications “about 30 minutes or so before your number’s going to be called,” Gonzalez says. “So that way, you can go to the store, or do something else other than stand there and wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This might kill what appears to be a new line of business for a California startup called\u003ca href=\"https://yogov.org/dmv/california/line-waiting-concierge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> YoGov\u003c/a> that offers “live waiting concierge service,” as well as automated support booking a field office appointment online. 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"content": "\u003cp>For more than 15 years, Oakland's police department has been under federal oversight following a police abuse and racial profiling scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a negotiated settlement in 2003, the city agreed to work toward sweeping police reforms. The Riders Settlement mandated ongoing monitoring of the department, including the collection of data on police stops and an end to discriminatory policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's mounting frustration that federal oversight and better data collection have not led to real change, despite a massive price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past few years, Stanford University researchers have helped the Oakland Police Department analyze the data collected from every police stop and arrest. Studies carried out by the \u003ca href=\"https://sparq.stanford.edu/opd-reports\">Stanford team show\u003c/a> that Oakland officers are still far more likely to stop, search and handcuff black people than white people during a traffic or pedestrian stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysis of bodycam footage also showed that, during traffic stops, officers spoke less respectfully to black motorists than whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this, Oakland's police department says the studies have proved invaluable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of agencies collect data. But we have gone and worked with Stanford to say 'teach us how to ask the questions of that data, teach us how to think.' I want a change of how we think about policing. And when you think differently you're going to have culture change,\" says Oakland police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11253123/after-long-search-oakland-naming-new-police-chief\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She was hired less than two years ago\u003c/a> in the wake of a different police scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what the police chief and the city's mayor had hoped would become a national model for a data-driven reduction in racially biased policing has become the latest flashpoint for Oakland's troubled department.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201409190930/stanford-psychologist-wins-genius-grant-for-work-on-racial-bias\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford Psychologist Wins 'Genius' Grant for Work on Racial Bias\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Activist residents and some local politicians protested the recent renewal of the Stanford professor, Jennifer Eberhardt's $500,000 two-year contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't understand why she needs to come back and ask for more money,\" says Cathy Leonard, founder of Oakland Neighborhoods for Equity. \"Fifteen years and a lot of money. 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Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars' editor at large, wrote, \"Spotify has now completely banned Infowars too. Apple, Facebook, Spotify all within 12 hours of each other. This isn't enforcement of [terms of service], it's coordinated big tech censorship. This is real election meddling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones is currently facing five separate defamation suits. He has been accused of knowingly spreading false information about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting this year, the violence in Charlottesville, Va., last year and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/08/02/hearings-conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones\">Three\u003c/a> of the defamation cases have been filed by families of Sandy Hook victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the tech companies recently started pushing back on Infowars, Jones, a syndicated radio host, released a video in which he encouraged his audience to go directly to his website and sign up for its newsletter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So there's no way the censors can get between us,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Jones stated that \"America has been sold out\" and the Infowars Twitter feed declared that the moves against his company were \"communist style censorship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones also urged people to go to his online store and buy a T-shirt, with slogans that back his site and President Trump's re-election campaign. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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He has been accused of knowingly spreading false information about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting this year, the violence in Charlottesville, Va., last year and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/08/02/hearings-conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones\">Three\u003c/a> of the defamation cases have been filed by families of Sandy Hook victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the tech companies recently started pushing back on Infowars, Jones, a syndicated radio host, released a video in which he encouraged his audience to go directly to his website and sign up for its newsletter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So there's no way the censors can get between us,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Jones stated that \"America has been sold out\" and the Infowars Twitter feed declared that the moves against his company were \"communist style censorship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones also urged people to go to his online store and buy a T-shirt, with slogans that back his site and President Trump's re-election campaign. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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