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"content": "\u003cp>Super blooms of two kinds are blossoming in California, thanks to well-timed El Niño rains in the desert: wildflowers and painted lady butterflies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='super-bloom' label='The California Super Bloom']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tourists are making pilgrimages to super bloom meccas like Anza-Borrego State Park near San Diego. And they’re getting a special treat: Millions of painted lady butterflies are swarming the new swaths of flowers, said Art Shapiro, a professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a pleasant surprise after butterfly populations in California hit concerning lows last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year was the worst year at my study sites for butterflies at all elevations, from sea level to tree line, that I have ever observed in 47 years,” Shapiro said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monarch butterflies in particular saw a nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715197/california-monarch-butterfly-population-down-86-percent-in-one-year\">90 percent\u003c/a> drop in population in California. Shapiro has gotten calls from people who have seen the painted ladies and mistaken them for monarchs, which is easy to understand since they share the same striking orange coloring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The migration of the painted lady is, if anything, more spectacular than that of the monarch, but people don’t know about it,” Shapiro said. “What I can tell you is that I’m already getting messages from people who are seeing oodles of painted ladies down in the Southland saying, ‘This is wonderful! The monarch has been saved! Did we do it, or did they save themselves?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then he tells them: “They’re not monarchs, they’re painted ladies”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The super bloom benefits painted ladies because the insects overwinter (similar to hibernating) in the desert, meaning when there is more rain, they have more plants on which they can lay their eggs — creating the perfect storm for a population boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733290\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11733290\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-800x491.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-1020x626.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-1200x736.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A super bloom of wild poppies blankets the hills of Walker Canyon on March 12, 2019, near Lake Elsinore, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last wildflower super bloom was in spring 2017 after several years of drought. According to Casey Schreiner, founder and editor of \u003ca href=\"https://modernhiker.com/\">Modern Hiker\u003c/a>, the term “super bloom” didn’t exist until the last few years; it’s a word made up to mean a bunch of flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California native plant seeds can live for a long time without sprouting. They are fragile and resilient at the same time, Schreiner said Friday, because they need certain conditions to bloom — but once they have them, they really thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schreiner said the tourism onslaught at Anza-Borrego in 2017 — thanks to social media — was so unexpected that restaurants ran out of food and bathrooms were out of service. He said it’s important people stay on trails and don’t disturb the plans because wildflowers like the golden poppy, for example, don’t seed until after they bloom — so the flowers that people are picking or trampling now likely won’t grow back next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on where to find a super bloom near you, visit the \u003ca href=\"http://theodorepayne.org/\">Theodore Payne Foundation\u003c/a>. The Chamber of Commerce in Borrego Springs also has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.borregospringschamber.com/desertflowers.html\">wildflower hotline.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733297\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11733297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman takes in the view of a ‘super bloom’ of wild poppies blanketing the hills of Walker Canyon on March 12, 2019, near Lake Elsinore, California. 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"content": "\u003cp>Wildlife officials plan to lift protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states, re-igniting the legal battle over a predator that’s run into conflicts with farmers and ranchers after rebounding in some regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced the proposal during a Wednesday speech at the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in Denver, a weeklong conservation forum for researchers, government officials and others, said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Spokesman Gavin Shire in an interview with the Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/WolfPupCorrected-1180x636.jpg\" label=\"Gray Wolves in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1925619/california-comeback-for-gray-wolf-hits-farthest-point-south,California Comeback for Gray Wolf Hits Farthest Point South\" link2=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/204165/gray-wolf-pups-found-in-california-first-in-nearly-a-century,Gray Wolf Pups Found in California -- First in Nearly a Century\" link3=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11551637/rare-gray-wolf-pups-born-in-california,Rare Gray Wolf Pups Born in California\"]The decision was based on gray wolves successfully recovering from widespread extermination last century, Shire said. Further details were expected during a formal announcement planned in coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife advocates reacted with outrage and promised to challenge in court any attempt to lift protections. Agriculture groups and lawmakers from Western states are likely to support the administration’s proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long despised by farmers and ranchers, wolves were shot, trapped and poisoned out of existence in most of the country by the mid-20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They received endangered species protections in 1975, when there were about 1,000 left, only in northern Minnesota. Now more than 5,000 of the animals live in the contiguous U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most are in the Western Great Lakes and Northern Rockies regions. Since being reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in the mid-1990s, the population has expanded to parts of Oregon, Washington and California. In 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/204165/gray-wolf-pups-found-in-california-first-in-nearly-a-century\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first gray wolf pups\u003c/a> were found in California in nearly a century. In 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11551637/rare-gray-wolf-pups-born-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a second pack of pups\u003c/a> was spotted in Lassen County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protections for the Northern Rockies population were lifted in 2011 and hundreds of wolves are killed annually by hunters in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/6545954621_cb647443de_z.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11731066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/6545954621_cb647443de_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/6545954621_cb647443de_z.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/6545954621_cb647443de_z-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service may remove the gray wolf from the Endangered Species list. \u003ccite>(U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Midwest Region / Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State officials and government biologists have said wolves continue to thrive despite pressure from hunting. The animals are prolific breeders and can adapt to a variety of habitats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wildlife advocates have fought to keep federal protections in place until wolves repopulate more of their historic range that stretched across most of North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1937360\"]The Fish and Wildlife Service has argued for years that gray wolves have recovered in the lower 48 states, despite experts who contend they occupy about 15 percent of the territory they once roamed. Agency officials insist that recovery of wolves everywhere is not required for the species to no longer to be in danger of extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Vucetich, a wildlife biologist at Michigan Technological University, said most wolf experts probably would agree the species is not at imminent risk, but he said he considers dropping federal protections a premature move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he could not pinpoint a threshold at which he would consider the wolves to be recovered but that “it’s nowhere near as small as 15 percent” of the far-flung regions where they once lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people “still find it difficult to live with wolves,” primarily because they kill livestock, as well as the deer and elk that people like to hunt, Vucetich said. If wolves are returned to state management, he said, “I do worry that some of the states could be overly aggressive and that wolves could fare worse than their current condition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/118901/reviled-revered-is-the-gray-wolf-still-an-endangered-species\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The government first proposed revoking the wolf’s protected status in 2013\u003c/a>, but backed off after federal courts struck down its plan for “delisting” the species in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_118901\"]Fish and Wildlife Service officials disclosed to the Associated Press last year that another scientific review of the animal’s status had been launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shire declined to disclose the agency’s rationale for determining the species had recovered, but said members of the public would have a chance to comment before a final decision was reached in coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recovery of the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act is one of our nation’s great conservation successes, with the wolf joining other cherished species, such as the bald eagle, that have been brought back from the brink,” Shire later added in an email statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamie Clark, a former director of the Fish and Wildlife Service now with the Defenders of Wildlife group, said endangered species protections were need to prevent “an all-out war on wolves” in states that would allow hunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have any confidence that wolves will be managed like other wildlife,” she said. “We’re going to fight this in any way possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Yates, director of congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation, applauded the federal agency’s plan and said many farmers and ranchers have lost livestock to wolf kills since the species was granted legal protections. 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"content": "\u003cp>The 2,000-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico traverses hundreds of miles of public lands, including six national parks. Environmentalists have long argued that a border wall has negative impacts on wildlife and on delicate desert and mountainous terrains. With President Trump's national emergency declaration, those concerns will only grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a decade ago, Congress gave the Department of Homeland Security authority to waive environmental regulations for national security reasons. The government can bypass a whole host of laws, including the Endangered Species and Clean Air Acts, in order to expedite border wall construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That concerns environmentalists like Laiken Jordahl, with the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity. On a recent overcast morning, he stood in front of a new section of border fence near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in southern New Mexico. The 20-mile-long steel fence was constructed last year, replacing waist-high vehicle barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11727929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11727929 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/wall1-937797ff260eb587d7c756a5a479566ec095ecc7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"New 18-foot, steel bollard fencing is replacing an old vehicle border near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in New Mexico. Environmentalists are concerned the new fencing will block off wildlife corridors.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New 18-foot steel bollard fencing is replacing an old vehicle border near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in New Mexico. Environmentalists are concerned the new fencing will block off wildlife corridors. \u003ccite>(Mallory Falk/KRWG)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"To think we could do something like this free of significant environmental consequences, it's delusional,\" Jordahl said. \"We're fundamentally changing the landscape here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first glance, the Chihuahuan Desert seems somewhat deserted — mostly sand, spotted with mesquite and soaptree yucca. But it's actually home to lots of wildlife, from mountain lions and coyotes to the endangered Mexican gray wolf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All sorts of animals have evolved for millennia untold to migrate freely through the desert,\" Jordahl said. \"And now we have, really, this landscape-scale obstruction that will stop all species in their tracks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727546/redistributing-funds-to-build-the-wall\">Redistributing Funds to Build the Wall\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727546/redistributing-funds-to-build-the-wall\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/wallfunds_022019_final-1020x716.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Center for Biological Diversity and other groups have filed numerous lawsuits challenging the government's authority to waive environmental regulations. So far, most have failed. Now, the Center has joined two other conservation groups in \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2019/border-wall-02-16-2019.php\">a new lawsuit\u003c/a> against the national emergency declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customs and Border Protection takes issue with claims that the wall is damaging local environments. A CBP official explained that the agency \"conducts all necessary research and surveys to include environmental clearances prior to beginning any construction to identify and avoid or mitigate potential impacts to sensitive locations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some conservationists remain skeptical and frustrated with the rhetoric around border barriers. \"There's a lot of silly semantics going on in the national debate over whether it's a wall or a fence,\" says Kevin Bixby, with the Southwest Environmental Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico. \"From our perspective, if it's a big structure that prevents the passage of wildlife, it's a wall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of new wall construction is expected along the Rio Grande River in Texas. CBP says they have engaged local, state, federal and non-governmental organizations there to \"identify and address potential impacts to cultural, historical and natural resources that may be within planned barrier alignment in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. This is an example of our efforts to protect the environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But new border fencing in the Rio Grande Valley could end up cutting through critical floodplains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josiah Heyman directs the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies at the University of Texas, El Paso. \"The fence-wall is a huge barrier to the normal movement of water,\" he says. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some conservationists remain skeptical and frustrated with the rhetoric around border barriers. \"There's a lot of silly semantics going on in the national debate over whether it's a wall or a fence,\" says Kevin Bixby, with the Southwest Environmental Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico. \"From our perspective, if it's a big structure that prevents the passage of wildlife, it's a wall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of new wall construction is expected along the Rio Grande River in Texas. CBP says they have engaged local, state, federal and non-governmental organizations there to \"identify and address potential impacts to cultural, historical and natural resources that may be within planned barrier alignment in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. This is an example of our efforts to protect the environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But new border fencing in the Rio Grande Valley could end up cutting through critical floodplains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josiah Heyman directs the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies at the University of Texas, El Paso. \"The fence-wall is a huge barrier to the normal movement of water,\" he says. Trash and debris can clog the structure, effectively forming a dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/696372731/696399021\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a border wall was constructed in 2008 in parts of Arizona, monsoon floodwaters built up behind the wall and poured into the Mexican city of Nogales. Heyman says something similar could happen on both sides of the border in the Rio Grande Valley — especially if a hurricane blows in from the Gulf of Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We really do share the same water, and it's something that you can't build a wall through,\" Heyman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20190211/CRPT-116hrpt9.pdf\">newly signed border security bill\u003c/a>, some south Texas environmental sites were specifically protected, like the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge and the National Butterfly Garden. But it's not clear what might happens to those sites now that President Trump has declared a national emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 KRWG. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.krwg.org\">KRWG\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Critics+Say+Border+Wall+Could+Harm+Wildlife+Corridors+And+Sensitive+Desert+Terrain&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The National Butterfly Center, in danger of losing access to most of its wildlife nature preserve along the Rio Grande, is asking a court to stop federal officials from building a border wall across its land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The North American Butterfly Association \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/364442-butterfly-group-sues-trump-administration-over-border-wall\">first sued\u003c/a> more than a year ago after government officials allegedly cut down trees and cleared brush on its Texas property. The planned wall would cut the 100-acre property in two, with as much as 70 percent of the land inaccessible between the wall and the Rio Grande, Butterfly Center Executive Director Marianna Trevino Wright has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/01/660671247/butterfly-preserve-on-the-border-threatened-by-trumps-wall\">told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trevino Wright \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/politics/trump-border-wall-texas-butterfly-center/index.html\">told CNN\u003c/a> last week that the case had been \"languishing\" in the court since then and that she was exploring further legal action. This week, she asked the court to stop the government from bringing heavy machinery onto its land, until the court can rule on its original 2017 request.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715197/california-monarch-butterfly-population-down-86-percent-in-one-year\">California Monarch Butterfly Population Down 86 Percent in One Year\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715197/california-monarch-butterfly-population-down-86-percent-in-one-year\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34542_monarch-feature-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It's the latest court challenge brought by environmental groups that lament the damage caused by construction of barriers between U.S. and Mexico. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a federal court ruled that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/693777466/government-can-waive-environmental-laws-to-build-border-wall-prototypes-court-ru\">the Trump administration has broad authority\u003c/a> to waive environmental laws in the name of border security. 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"content": "\u003cp>On January 28, 1969, an oil well off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., experienced a blowout. The result was an oil spill that at the time ranked as the largest in U.S. waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disaster, which made headlines across the nation, helped create the modern environmental movement. It also led to restrictions on offshore drilling — restrictions the Trump Administration is trying to loosen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The events that led to the spill began one morning on Platform A, a rig located about six miles from the coast and operated at the time by Union Oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers had already drilled four wells from the platform and were drilling a fifth when they ran into a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You punch into some of these oil reservoirs and you get a lot of back pressure,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.eemb.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/mccauley\">Douglas McCauley\u003c/a>, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCauley has brought me out to Platform A on a boat, which circles the rig as he talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells me that in this case, the back pressure overwhelmed the well's safety systems. This allowed crude oil and natural gas trapped thousands of feet down to rocket toward the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So they're taking these big drilling pipes and shoving them back down the hole and these gigantic steel blocks on top of that to seal off this blowout,\" McCauley says. It worked, but only for a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They had capped off the blowout successfully,\" McCauley says. \"But they created so much pressure at the bottom of this well that it actually broke open the seabed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11721587 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-1020x735.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-1200x865.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb.jpg 1773w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"They had capped off the blowout successfully,\" says Douglas McCauley, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. \"But they created so much pressure at the bottom of this well that it actually broke open the seabed.\" \u003ccite>(Jon Hamilton/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Better reinforcement of the well might have prevented the spill. But Union Oil had received a waiver from the government that allowed the company to drill without installing steel casing pipe to the depth usually required by federal regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unimpeded, oil and gas under tremendous pressure opened five separate gashes in the soft sandstone seabed. So much gas bubbled to the surface near Platform A that the water appeared to boiling. And oil from the underwater fissures began to form a slick that would eventually cover an area nearly the size of Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effect on marine life was profound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right where we're sitting right now you transformed from this ecosystem of amazing richness, amazing biodiversity, amazing biological activity into a sort of Armageddon of blackness,\" McCauley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a few days for the oil to reach Santa Barbara's famous beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I smelled it long before I saw it; it really stank around here,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.es.ucsb.edu/people/j-marc-mcginnes\">Marc McGinnes\u003c/a>, a lawyer who came down from San Francisco. \"And when I looked at the oil on the beach, I cried.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGinnes left his job at a big law firm to help launch a legal response to the spill. He would go on to become a key figure in the environmental efforts that grew out the event as well as a faculty member at UCSB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721590\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11721590 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cleanup-11_enl-a5cb2fa688fdf35f4517047e09007d7d62a82997-1-800x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleanup workers rake oil-soaked hay along a Santa Barbara beach in 1969, after an oil spill that was then the largest in U.S. history.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spill received enough media attention that President Richard Nixon made a trip to survey the damage in a helicopter. He also visited an oil-soaked beach near Santa Barbara Harbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nixon spent his time on the beach \"walking around gingerly\" to avoid stepping on the sticky blobs of oil, McGinnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil killed thousands of birds and an unknown number of sea mammals. Hundreds of oiled birds that were still alive were taken to the Santa Barbara Zoo, which is just a few steps from the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the time there was really no place or process to care for the oiled wildlife that was showing up on the beaches,\" says Nancy McToldridge, the zoo's director. \"So the zoo closed its doors and concentrated its time and energy into taking in these oiled birds, treating them and then rehabbing them back out into the wild.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suffering and deaths of so many animals helped get the public's attention and spur lawmakers to action. And 1969 marked a turning point for environmental activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Santa Barbara oil spill really helped to take an issue that was growing and really convert it into legislative action and a whole body of environmental law at the federal level and also at the state level that we still have with us today,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.es.ucsb.edu/people/peter-alagona\">Peter Alagona\u003c/a>, a historian at UCSB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/688219307/689252708\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first \u003ca href=\"https://www.earthday.org/\">Earth Day\u003c/a> took place just over a year later in April of 1970. The Environmental Protection Agency was created in December of that year. Environmental laws passed or strengthened during this period included the Clean Air, \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/history-clean-water-act\">Clean Water\u003c/a> and Endangered Species Acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason the 1969 oil spill had such an impact was that Santa Barbara was home to a lot of wealthy Republicans who had helped elect Nixon, Alagona says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nixon himself was no environmentalist, Alagona says, \"but he realized during a time when there were many other extremely controversial, divisive issues like the Vietnam War for instance, that as American public concern grew about damage to the environment that this could potentially be a winning issue for him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Nixon signed the environmental legislation, even though many in his own party opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721596\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/rig-17_enl-335db3bf6117d4fa390f96f28775f014030af2a3-1-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The oil slick visible around Platform A in the Santa Barbara Channel emanated from fissures in the seabed.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, Santa Barbara is much better prepared for an oil spill than it was in 1969. There's a 46-foot fast-response vessel in the harbor. And animals exposed to oil are cared for by a statewide group called the \u003ca href=\"https://owcn.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/\">Oiled Wildlife Care Network\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response system got a test in 2015, when an oil pipeline burst a few miles up the coast. Workers deployed thousands of feet of floating boom to help contain the spill and skimmer boats began removing the oil from the water's surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, members of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network sprang into action, rescuing and caring for oiled animals. And those animals were more likely to survive than the ones oiled in 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many more animals survive now than they would have back in the '60s or '70s or even the '80s,\" says Julie Barnes, a veterinarian and vice president for animal health and care at the Santa Barbara Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's partly because of what animal care experts learned from the Santa Barbara spill, Barnes says. But they've learned even more from the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989 and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's got to the point that there's so many spills that for animals there's a highly organized system in place,\" Barnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721586\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-1200x814.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-1920x1302.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A duck covered in a thick coating of crude oil, picked up when it lighted on waters off Carpinteria State Beach in Santa Barbara County, Calif., after the oil spill in January 1969. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, the greatest environmental danger from oil probably isn't another spill, McCauley says. It's the climate change caused by burning all that oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Barbara got a preview of what that might mean a year ago, he says. It came in the form of a mudslide that careened through the community of Montecito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were boulders and trees traveling at like 22 miles per hour down the street,\" McCauley says. \"It destroyed 100 houses and killed 21 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's difficult to peg any one incident to climate change. But the mudslide followed the sort of extreme weather thought to accompany global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think of that as being the most insidious, the worst thing the oil industry has done to our community,\" McCauley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An end to offshore drilling would help reduce the effects of climate change by reducing the supply of oil, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Trump Administration seems headed in the other direction. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On January 28, 1969, an oil well off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., experienced a blowout. The result was an oil spill that at the time ranked as the largest in U.S. waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disaster, which made headlines across the nation, helped create the modern environmental movement. It also led to restrictions on offshore drilling — restrictions the Trump Administration is trying to loosen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The events that led to the spill began one morning on Platform A, a rig located about six miles from the coast and operated at the time by Union Oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers had already drilled four wells from the platform and were drilling a fifth when they ran into a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You punch into some of these oil reservoirs and you get a lot of back pressure,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.eemb.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/mccauley\">Douglas McCauley\u003c/a>, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCauley has brought me out to Platform A on a boat, which circles the rig as he talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells me that in this case, the back pressure overwhelmed the well's safety systems. This allowed crude oil and natural gas trapped thousands of feet down to rocket toward the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So they're taking these big drilling pipes and shoving them back down the hole and these gigantic steel blocks on top of that to seal off this blowout,\" McCauley says. It worked, but only for a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They had capped off the blowout successfully,\" McCauley says. \"But they created so much pressure at the bottom of this well that it actually broke open the seabed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11721587 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-800x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-1020x735.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb-1200x865.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/mccauley-18_enl-c408eab6d551532cc7b1cee94d3df29fb6d97bbb.jpg 1773w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"They had capped off the blowout successfully,\" says Douglas McCauley, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. \"But they created so much pressure at the bottom of this well that it actually broke open the seabed.\" \u003ccite>(Jon Hamilton/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Better reinforcement of the well might have prevented the spill. But Union Oil had received a waiver from the government that allowed the company to drill without installing steel casing pipe to the depth usually required by federal regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unimpeded, oil and gas under tremendous pressure opened five separate gashes in the soft sandstone seabed. So much gas bubbled to the surface near Platform A that the water appeared to boiling. And oil from the underwater fissures began to form a slick that would eventually cover an area nearly the size of Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effect on marine life was profound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right where we're sitting right now you transformed from this ecosystem of amazing richness, amazing biodiversity, amazing biological activity into a sort of Armageddon of blackness,\" McCauley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a few days for the oil to reach Santa Barbara's famous beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I smelled it long before I saw it; it really stank around here,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.es.ucsb.edu/people/j-marc-mcginnes\">Marc McGinnes\u003c/a>, a lawyer who came down from San Francisco. \"And when I looked at the oil on the beach, I cried.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGinnes left his job at a big law firm to help launch a legal response to the spill. He would go on to become a key figure in the environmental efforts that grew out the event as well as a faculty member at UCSB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721590\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11721590 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/cleanup-11_enl-a5cb2fa688fdf35f4517047e09007d7d62a82997-1-800x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleanup workers rake oil-soaked hay along a Santa Barbara beach in 1969, after an oil spill that was then the largest in U.S. history.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The spill received enough media attention that President Richard Nixon made a trip to survey the damage in a helicopter. He also visited an oil-soaked beach near Santa Barbara Harbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nixon spent his time on the beach \"walking around gingerly\" to avoid stepping on the sticky blobs of oil, McGinnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil killed thousands of birds and an unknown number of sea mammals. Hundreds of oiled birds that were still alive were taken to the Santa Barbara Zoo, which is just a few steps from the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the time there was really no place or process to care for the oiled wildlife that was showing up on the beaches,\" says Nancy McToldridge, the zoo's director. \"So the zoo closed its doors and concentrated its time and energy into taking in these oiled birds, treating them and then rehabbing them back out into the wild.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suffering and deaths of so many animals helped get the public's attention and spur lawmakers to action. And 1969 marked a turning point for environmental activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Santa Barbara oil spill really helped to take an issue that was growing and really convert it into legislative action and a whole body of environmental law at the federal level and also at the state level that we still have with us today,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.es.ucsb.edu/people/peter-alagona\">Peter Alagona\u003c/a>, a historian at UCSB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/688219307/689252708\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first \u003ca href=\"https://www.earthday.org/\">Earth Day\u003c/a> took place just over a year later in April of 1970. The Environmental Protection Agency was created in December of that year. Environmental laws passed or strengthened during this period included the Clean Air, \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/history-clean-water-act\">Clean Water\u003c/a> and Endangered Species Acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason the 1969 oil spill had such an impact was that Santa Barbara was home to a lot of wealthy Republicans who had helped elect Nixon, Alagona says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nixon himself was no environmentalist, Alagona says, \"but he realized during a time when there were many other extremely controversial, divisive issues like the Vietnam War for instance, that as American public concern grew about damage to the environment that this could potentially be a winning issue for him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Nixon signed the environmental legislation, even though many in his own party opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721596\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721596\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/rig-17_enl-335db3bf6117d4fa390f96f28775f014030af2a3-1-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The oil slick visible around Platform A in the Santa Barbara Channel emanated from fissures in the seabed.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, Santa Barbara is much better prepared for an oil spill than it was in 1969. There's a 46-foot fast-response vessel in the harbor. And animals exposed to oil are cared for by a statewide group called the \u003ca href=\"https://owcn.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/\">Oiled Wildlife Care Network\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response system got a test in 2015, when an oil pipeline burst a few miles up the coast. Workers deployed thousands of feet of floating boom to help contain the spill and skimmer boats began removing the oil from the water's surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, members of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network sprang into action, rescuing and caring for oiled animals. And those animals were more likely to survive than the ones oiled in 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many more animals survive now than they would have back in the '60s or '70s or even the '80s,\" says Julie Barnes, a veterinarian and vice president for animal health and care at the Santa Barbara Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's partly because of what animal care experts learned from the Santa Barbara spill, Barnes says. But they've learned even more from the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989 and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's got to the point that there's so many spills that for animals there's a highly organized system in place,\" Barnes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721586\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11721586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-800x543.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-1200x814.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/oilducksb-8jpg_enl-2c83d6410107d85220e82ec0e835f537ac22bc2c-1920x1302.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A duck covered in a thick coating of crude oil, picked up when it lighted on waters off Carpinteria State Beach in Santa Barbara County, Calif., after the oil spill in January 1969. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days, the greatest environmental danger from oil probably isn't another spill, McCauley says. It's the climate change caused by burning all that oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Barbara got a preview of what that might mean a year ago, he says. It came in the form of a mudslide that careened through the community of Montecito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were boulders and trees traveling at like 22 miles per hour down the street,\" McCauley says. \"It destroyed 100 houses and killed 21 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's difficult to peg any one incident to climate change. But the mudslide followed the sort of extreme weather thought to accompany global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think of that as being the most insidious, the worst thing the oil industry has done to our community,\" McCauley says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An end to offshore drilling would help reduce the effects of climate change by reducing the supply of oil, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With eyes swollen shut and burns covering her face, Feather the goat listened to the familiar sound of her owner’s voice as he guided her from the trailer into the veterinary clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feather isn't your ordinary milk goat, but rather a member of the family, Jim, her owner, told Trina Wood, a spokeswoman for the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feather was more like a dog, Wood recalled Jim as saying. But the days where the pair would go on their daily walk to the mailbox are gone: Jim lost everything he owned in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\">Camp Fire that continues to tear through Butte County\u003c/a> -- but he didn’t lose Feather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706151\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11706151\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46077506_10156836010569031_8347665365257420800_o-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46077506_10156836010569031_8347665365257420800_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46077506_10156836010569031_8347665365257420800_o-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46077506_10156836010569031_8347665365257420800_o-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46077506_10156836010569031_8347665365257420800_o-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46077506_10156836010569031_8347665365257420800_o.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feather the goat is led out of a trailer by her owner, Jim, into the veterinary clinic at UC-Davis on Nov. 11, 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Feather arrived at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, where a team of veterinarians, technicians and students worked over the holiday weekend to care for dozens of animals injured in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vets were treating a few dozen cats, four pigs, three goats and a sheep. People were bringing koi and fancy goldfish to the university's Center for Aquatic Biology and Aquaculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most animals were being treated for burns, said Dr. Steve Epstein, chief of the veterinary hospital's emergency and critical care service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706153\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11706153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pancho the donkey was discharged Tuesday after being treated for fire-related injuries. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A donkey — nicknamed “Pancho” by one of the veterinarians — was admitted Monday and discharged Tuesday. The school’s \u003ca href=\"https://give.ucdavis.edu/VETM/V435VRT\">Veterinary Emergency Response Team\u003c/a> brought in Pancho; the animal did not suffer from burns but was collapsing and in need of more critical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VERT also was treating animals at the Butte County Fairgrounds evacuation center for various flight-related injuries, which include stress, dehydration and burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706158\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11706158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine treats a dog at Butte County Fairgrounds. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the injured animals are being treated at no cost, thanks to the \u003ca href=\"https://give.ucdavis.edu/VMTH/V6TH631?fbclid=IwAR2sbKhfIYUU9uLC4zng33W_xCcT_jQr-e-3EO5DP8bP62JWIydWndiROUo\">Veterinary Catastrophic Need Fund\u003c/a>, a fund for animals hurt in wildfires or other natural disasters or accidents.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706157\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46056261_10156835977979031_662293131093344256_n.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11706157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46056261_10156835977979031_662293131093344256_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46056261_10156835977979031_662293131093344256_n.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46056261_10156835977979031_662293131093344256_n-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A piglet is treated by the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the hospital has identified owners for most of the animals being treated, some remain unknown, including a group of cats. On its \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pg/UCDavisVetMed/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10156837838369031\">Facebook page\u003c/a>, the school shares photos of such unclaimed animals who will be treated until they're healthy enough to be released to foster homes or adoption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Feather, she appeared perkier by Tuesday morning after receiving care for her burns. Her face was less swollen and she could peer over the top of her enclosure at passers-by, Wood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She still faces a long recovery,” Wood said. “But the veterinarians are optimistic that she will in time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But the days where the pair would go on their daily walk to the mailbox are gone: Jim lost everything he owned in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705243/california-wildfires-what-you-need-to-know\">Camp Fire that continues to tear through Butte County\u003c/a> -- but he didn’t lose Feather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706151\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11706151\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46077506_10156836010569031_8347665365257420800_o-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46077506_10156836010569031_8347665365257420800_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46077506_10156836010569031_8347665365257420800_o-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46077506_10156836010569031_8347665365257420800_o-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46077506_10156836010569031_8347665365257420800_o-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46077506_10156836010569031_8347665365257420800_o.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feather the goat is led out of a trailer by her owner, Jim, into the veterinary clinic at UC-Davis on Nov. 11, 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Feather arrived at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, where a team of veterinarians, technicians and students worked over the holiday weekend to care for dozens of animals injured in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vets were treating a few dozen cats, four pigs, three goats and a sheep. People were bringing koi and fancy goldfish to the university's Center for Aquatic Biology and Aquaculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most animals were being treated for burns, said Dr. Steve Epstein, chief of the veterinary hospital's emergency and critical care service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706153\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11706153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46079484_10156836010549031_6137132688273833984_o-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pancho the donkey was discharged Tuesday after being treated for fire-related injuries. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A donkey — nicknamed “Pancho” by one of the veterinarians — was admitted Monday and discharged Tuesday. The school’s \u003ca href=\"https://give.ucdavis.edu/VETM/V435VRT\">Veterinary Emergency Response Team\u003c/a> brought in Pancho; the animal did not suffer from burns but was collapsing and in need of more critical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VERT also was treating animals at the Butte County Fairgrounds evacuation center for various flight-related injuries, which include stress, dehydration and burns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706158\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11706158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/46099036_10156835977944031_7059055608862867456_o-e1542164854282-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine treats a dog at Butte County Fairgrounds. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the injured animals are being treated at no cost, thanks to the \u003ca href=\"https://give.ucdavis.edu/VMTH/V6TH631?fbclid=IwAR2sbKhfIYUU9uLC4zng33W_xCcT_jQr-e-3EO5DP8bP62JWIydWndiROUo\">Veterinary Catastrophic Need Fund\u003c/a>, a fund for animals hurt in wildfires or other natural disasters or accidents.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Wildlife biologists in Marin County are in the midst of a study that will help conservation efforts for a still somewhat mysterious creature: bats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Reyes, a biologist with the United States Geological Survey, says there are some common misconceptions surrounding bats. They've been described as flying rodents, and thanks to Hollywood, some may even think of them as fearsome critters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're actually not [flying rodents],” says Reyes. “They're more closely related to the common ancestors of camels and whales. They're really nothing to be afraid of. I think they're all adorable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have to admit that I also think they’re pretty cute. But seriously, Reyes says bats play an important role in our ecosystem. They’re the primary consumers of nocturnal insects like mosquitoes and other agricultural pests. So, you can think of them as winged exterminators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without bats gobbling up bugs all night we would be spending way more money on pesticides, and that can have other impacts worldwide,” says Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also plant pollinators and seed dispersers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next time you drink a margarita, thank a bat — we wouldn't have tequila without bats pollinating agave plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a lot more we don't know about bats, such as what the population or habitat is like in Marin. So the USGS, along with conservation group \u003ca href=\"http://onetam.org/bat-monitoring\">One Tam\u003c/a>, set out to fill those data gaps last year. It hasn’t been easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702087\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 340px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11702087\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33467_acoustic-monitoring-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33467_acoustic-monitoring-qut.jpg 340w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33467_acoustic-monitoring-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33467_acoustic-monitoring-qut-240x320.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acoustic monitoring devices like this one were placed in several areas throughout Marin. \u003ccite>(USGS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They're incredibly challenging to study,” says Reyes. “They're silent. They fly around at night. They live in really hard-to-access places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things like tiny radio transmitters and ultrasonic microphones help. The first step of the study was to set up acoustic monitoring devices, or bat detectors, at 36 sites throughout the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the survey has picked up the calls of 13 bat species in the county. One Tam’s community science program manager, Lisette Arellano, says that number speaks to the incredible diversity of bats in Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have something like 17 terrestrial mammal species that are bigger than a squirrel,” says Arellano. \"When you compare that 17 to the 13 flying mammals, it just gives you some context as to how diverse the mammal community is when it comes to bats.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://prd-wret.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/atoms/audio/ca-myotis.mp3\" Image=\"https://prd-wret.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/c-california-myotisPhotoAndCall.jpg\" Title=\"Listen to a Slowed-Down Call of the California Myotis Bat\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the bats found in Marin are tiny. Some are as small as a thumbnail and are about as heavy as a nickel. Heftier species weigh close to five nickels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second step of the study was to actually capture the bats through mist netting, a fine mesh net that bats fly into. 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