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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Containment efforts are winding down for the wildfires that have ravaged Northern California this month, but not all the dangers have passed. A handout is circulating among firefighters that details the warning signs of extreme physical and emotional stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There can be chills, thirst, fatigue nausea, nightmares, uncertainty, fear, guilt,” explained Bob Ellis, a former Eureka fire battalion chief who now oversees a counseling program for \u003ca href=\"http://calfireslo.org/ICISMT/ESS%20Presentation%20updated%209-10-13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Fire’s Employee Support Services.\u003c/a> He’s helping coordinate a relatively new peer counseling program deployed in the field during a destructive wildfire. Business leaders are advised to invest in their employees’ health and well-being so they may seek the services offered at \u003ca href=\"https://www.avensure.com/health-safety-consulting/\">www.avensure.com/health-safety-consulting/\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside a long trailer at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, base camp for the wildfires burning in the North Bay, firefighters can speak to a counselor individually or a fellow firefighter about whatever they may want to get off their chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who have the same training, the same experiences, they can come together and they can talk,” Ellis said. “The thing that we want people to recognize is they are not alone in this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been a lot of anguish and frustration surrounding these fires. Ellis said he’s heard firefighters talk about leaving the profession, along with feelings of sadness and guilt in the peer counseling trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the biggest thing that’s come out is just this feeling of helplessness,” Ellis said. Firefighters are saying, “I felt like I couldn’t do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also another form of field therapy being offered with less talking and more petting. Using the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kratomearth.com/post/strongest-kratom-strains/\">strongest kratom\u003c/a> strains may also help manage extreme negative feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you’re shopping from home or preparing for your next trip, \u003ca href=\"https://buyshrooms.net/\">buyshrooms.net\u003c/a> provides premium wellness products to fit your lifestyle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625139\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/fire-d-bob-dig-ablove-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/fire-d-bob-dig-ablove-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/fire-d-bob-dig-ablove-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/fire-d-bob-dig-ablove-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/fire-d-bob-dig-ablove.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/fire-d-bob-dig-ablove-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/fire-d-bob-dig-ablove-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/fire-d-bob-dig-ablove-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/fire-d-bob-dig-ablove-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/fire-d-bob-dig-ablove-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Fire’s Bob Ellis visits with Canine Companions for Independence handler Michelle Williams and therapy dog Foley. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am a fourth-generation Santa Rosan, and after being sad and grieving and being angry for a while we just decided, ‘Hey, we got to help,’ ” said Michelle Williams of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cci.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canine Companions for Independence.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many pet owners research \u003ca href=\"https://greenrevolutioncbd.com/pages/cbd-for-hyper-dogs\">CBD for Hyper Dogs\u003c/a> as part of their efforts to support their dogs’ overall wellness and daily routines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Rosa-based national organization approached Cal Fire about getting some dogs to circulate among the firefighters at base camp, even though they’re typically trained as assistance dogs for people with physical disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the firefighters that come up, they say, ‘Oh my gosh I haven’t seen my dog. Can I pet your dog?’ ” said Williams as “puppy-in-training” Foley sits obediently at her feet. “They’re so happy to just pet a dog.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occasionally, it’s the therapy dog who seeks out the person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course if you’ve ever had a pet or a therapy dog, you know that dogs sense feelings, and that sometimes when someone is having a tough time the dog will go towards them. They can definitely sense it,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the dog may sense it even before the individual can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be months, it may be years later before somebody realizes, ‘You know, I haven’t slept well since that incident back there,’ ” explained Ellis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such feelings may not even be triggered until the next big fire, which is why Ellis and other counselors want to increase therapy for firefighters — even after the flames of these fires have been fully extinguished.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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SPCA spokeswoman Krista Maloney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By transferring them to San Francisco, we’re helping to make room in North Bay shelters for displaced pets and animals rescued from the fires,” Maloney told KQED in an email. “We’re also freeing up staff time, so the employees and volunteers can focus on helping the new arrivals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/10/how-to-help-animals-affected-by-northern-california-wildfires/\">many efforts\u003c/a> by Bay Area animal shelters, pet stores and animal lovers to support pets and farm animals that have been displaced by the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624357\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11624357 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Denali2-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Denali2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Denali2-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Denali2-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Denali2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Denali2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Denali2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Denali2-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Denali2-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Denali2-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Denali2.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denali was brought to the S.F. 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Most of the cats and dogs have been adopted, but there are a few still available, such as Denali the cat and Franny the dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the San Francisco shelter continues to offer support to shelters in affected areas by \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SFSPCA/photos/a.80242216906.77887.74792741906/10155909601061907/?type=3&theater\">soliciting donations, volunteers and foster homes\u003c/a> to house animals that have been rescued. But according to Maloney, the outpouring of support for North Bay shelters has been so great that they currently don’t need any more supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shelters we’re working with in North Bay are now fully stocked and are no longer accepting in-kind donations,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 420px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11624369 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Miney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Miney.jpg 420w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Miney-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Miney-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Miney-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Miney-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Miney-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Miney-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Miney-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Miney-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Miney-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miney is among the evacuated animals available for adoption at the S.F. 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He’d heard chatter on the paramedics’ radio that the massive Tubbs Fire was heading toward their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mollard woke her 15-year old daughter, Sophie, and told her to get dressed. Then she took some belongings out to the car and saw the glow in the sky — it was the color of merlot. A few minutes later, she knew they were in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image8-7606286760e94d6654e2d8ecee8f7da22e89305e-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"The green pastures where Lucy and Ethel grazed before the Tubbs Fire decimated parts of Northern California wine country.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624207\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The green pastures where Lucy and Ethel grazed before the Tubbs Fire decimated parts of Northern California wine country. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Josh Weil)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The whole sky was red now and the wind was blowing like crazy,” Mollard recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was the noise that struck her most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so loud, just roaring, howling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She raced inside, yelled for Sophie, and grabbed the family’s two dogs. They could see the flames just 100 yards away. Mollard made one last dash into the house to find their cat, but it was too dark and smoky. The power was out. She opened doors and windows, hoping he’d escape. By then, the fire was “raining down on us,” Mollard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they sped away, she saw their goats, Lucy and Ethel. They were standing solemn in the pasture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”R1aaOekIHT9gXUw8GzpJSbYwd52WmKCE”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little farther north, in the mountains of Sonoma County near Calistoga, Roland Hendel and his 14-year old daughter, Ariel, were also in trouble. The smell of smoke had been thick in the air all evening. Around 11 o’clock, Hendel went to a small deck on the roof of his house. He watched the sky glow orange, and then he saw the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just stood there and watched as the flames got bigger and bigger,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then he ran. He and his daughter managed to get Tessa, one of their two Great Pyrenees herding dogs, into the car, but the other one, Odin, wouldn’t leave the goats. The Hendels have eight pet goats that they rescued from slaughter as newborns. His daughter bottle-fed them all. They were part of the family, and it was Odin’s job to watch over and protect them from predators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Odin is sitting there and he’s looking at me and he’s not going anywhere,” Hendel said. “So I said, ‘OK, take care of them.’ Then we got the hell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image31-8f82cf86d4515949ba78a675845ff4fe6bd9bcdd-800x599.jpe\" alt=\"Lucy and Ethel stand next to the charred ruins of Josh Weil and Claire Mollard's home in Santa Rosa, Calif. 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Someone, likely firefighters, gave the goats a bowl of water. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Josh Weil)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two days after Hendel and his daughter fled for their lives, they went back to their land in the redwoods. It was dangerous — the main roads were blocked and fires were still burning. But they were desperate to check on Odin and the goats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expected either that the entire property would be decimated and Odin and the goats would be dead or that the fire would have missed us, and the house, the land and the animals would be OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they discovered was both the worst and the best of outcomes. The house was gone, the trucks were gone, everything was ash and gray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except for the goats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All eight of them had survived. Odin did, too, limping, with singed fur and melted whiskers. But his tail still wagged. Hendel thinks he knows what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”inLXhJSq1dK6Z7C8iYflZcPpJQt3QhjP”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I think is Odin herded the goats into the middle of the pasture where there are a bunch of large rocks and kept them there. That’s what saved them, I think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of his goats, Hendel said, “They are magical beings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After another few days of anxious waiting, the entire herd and the dogs, Odin and Tessa, were taken to safety. They are now being cared for at a temporary farm-animal shelter at the Sonoma County fairgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Weil was finally able to get back to his home late Tuesday afternoon. When he approached the long drive leading up to his house, he was hopeful. The mailbox was still standing, with a letter his wife had put in the day the fire struck perfectly intact. The house itself was up around a bend. When he made the turn, there was nothing left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image21-82d47994f312ccd99a05b35b1415e998cffbac4b-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"Claire Mollard managed to get her 15-year-old daughter, Sophie, and the family's two dogs out before wildfire consumed their home in Santa Rosa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624209\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claire Mollard managed to get her 15-year-old daughter, Sophie, and the family’s two dogs out before wildfire consumed their home in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Josh Weil)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was a gut punch,” Weil said. “Everything was just ash and total destruction. I was trying to figure out where the entry way was and the garage. 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A few minutes later, she knew they were in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image8-7606286760e94d6654e2d8ecee8f7da22e89305e-800x600.jpe\" alt=\"The green pastures where Lucy and Ethel grazed before the Tubbs Fire decimated parts of Northern California wine country.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11624207\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The green pastures where Lucy and Ethel grazed before the Tubbs Fire decimated parts of Northern California wine country. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Josh Weil)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The whole sky was red now and the wind was blowing like crazy,” Mollard recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was the noise that struck her most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so loud, just roaring, howling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She raced inside, yelled for Sophie, and grabbed the family’s two dogs. 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He and his daughter managed to get Tessa, one of their two Great Pyrenees herding dogs, into the car, but the other one, Odin, wouldn’t leave the goats. The Hendels have eight pet goats that they rescued from slaughter as newborns. His daughter bottle-fed them all. They were part of the family, and it was Odin’s job to watch over and protect them from predators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Odin is sitting there and he’s looking at me and he’s not going anywhere,” Hendel said. “So I said, ‘OK, take care of them.’ Then we got the hell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11624206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/image31-8f82cf86d4515949ba78a675845ff4fe6bd9bcdd-800x599.jpe\" alt=\"Lucy and Ethel stand next to the charred ruins of Josh Weil and Claire Mollard's home in Santa Rosa, Calif. 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Electrical poles hang by their lines, the bottoms chewed by fire. Cars in yards have been reduced to just their tops, like ashy eggshells. Gates to estates look like they’ve been bombed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pulling up to Safari West, it feels like … life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sprinklers are watering green grass, flamingos splash in their oasis, giraffes teeter in the hazy background. Lang, who resembles a rustic, rosy-cheeked Sean Connery, points out the aviary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean one lit branch laying on that, I mean, it would have pssh, up in flames,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lang and his staff have been working tirelessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Hf8K3I7ezBFodWDVKTEXSvtzhC9bywaG”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Didn’t lose an animal, didn’t lose a bird, didn’t lose a structure,” says Lang. “Did lose my home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of the evacuations, he was at his home a mile down the road with his wife. They fled, and came here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They wanted everybody to evacuate here, and I couldn’t leave,” explains Lang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11623355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11623355\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SafariWestAnimals-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"Flamingos stand in the foreground as giraffes roam in the smoky distance at Safari West. The park houses a huge range of animals, from a wide variety of bird species to cheetah, antelope, buffalo and primates.\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SafariWestAnimals-800x569.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SafariWestAnimals-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SafariWestAnimals-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SafariWestAnimals-1180x839.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SafariWestAnimals-960x682.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SafariWestAnimals-240x171.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SafariWestAnimals-375x266.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SafariWestAnimals-520x370.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/SafariWestAnimals.jpg 1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flamingos stand in the foreground as giraffes roam in the smoky distance at Safari West. The park houses a huge range of animals, from a wide variety of bird species to cheetahs, antelopes, buffaloes and primates. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All night, he put out small fires that could have gotten big. At one point, he had to push a huddle of cornered, reluctant nyala antelopes through a ring of fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe in souls, and all these critters do have souls. And it was my responsibility to save those souls,” says Lang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the morning, even without power, some employees managed to find their way back up to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”3Jmkl2XvDkmv4U11nwbKVDcV3heeku4E”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Dickerson has been fixing cheetah fences and caring for the 1,000 animals, which also include rhinos. He says the animals are important, and he likes working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said every animal has been accounted for, even the birds they let out to fly. They got everyone back,” says Dickerson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remarkably, Lang says, they’re fine. As for Lang?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I’m a pretty emotionally solid person,” he says. “But it can hit you hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/IntBirdRescue/status/918200150274609152\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does he replay that decision to fight it out here, rather than at his own home?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not for a second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had to do it here, ya truly,” says Lang, as he fights back tears. “Had to do it here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lang says he and his wife are luckier than most. Now, they call their park “home.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An organized effort by Bay Area animal shelters, pet stores and animal-lovers is attempting to support pets and farm animals that have been displaced by the Northern California wildfires. Several shelters are offering free supplies and emergency boarding at no cost, and they say they need as much help as they can get.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Facebook resource groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/NapaSantaRosaFireAnimalEvacuations/\">Napa/Sonoma Fires Animal Evacuations\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/510555622431697/?notif_id=1507654368141846¬if_t=group_r2j_approved\">Solano County Horse/Livestock Fire Evacuation Help Page\u003c/a>, have become resource hubs for donation information, volunteer recruitment and pet-owner reunification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622331\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A dog, whose owner evacuated, receives free emergency boarding at the Marin Humane Society in Novato, California on Oct. 10, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dog, whose owner evacuated, receives free emergency boarding at the Marin Humane Society in Novato, California on Oct. 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay Area shelters are in need of fosters, volunteers and adoptions to clear more space for displaced animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhumane.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marin Humane Society\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> tries to make room for animals from an evacuated shelter, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.petslifeline.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sonoma Pets Lifeline\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, shelters in other areas of the bay area have been opening their doors to dogs and cats who were located at the north bay shelters prior to the fires.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco’s Animal Care and Control took in kittens from the Marin Humane Society last night, and they are waiving the fee for adoptions to encourage people to help clear space for more animals to be transferred to the shelter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622346\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11622346 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cowboy and Kona stand with their evacuated owner at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, which has free dog food and supplies for those who need it in Petaluma, California on Oct. 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Animal Evacuation Tips\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The best thing is for people to take their pets with them,” said Lisa Bloch, spokesperson for the Marin Humane Society. “But if they can’t, certainly there’s a lot of people out there to help. We want people to know we’re here to help you.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is also important to attach a form of identification to your dog or cat whether you keep your animal with you or bring it to a temporary shelter, according to Bloch. A \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nesrSo-IzKernUDA4GfL0Uql9jlqWrM2P_qTgVJpLQs/edit#gid=0\">spreadsheet \u003c/a>of people available to offer assistance has been posted on the Napa/Sonoma Fires Animal Evacuations Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have time to prepare for evacuating with your pet, you can pack leashes, food and vet records. However, many evacuation sites and emergency boarding shelters have free supplies and will take in animals without medical records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Marin Humane Society has supplies and pet food available for free due to an abundance of donations. The shelter is offering two free weeks of boarding for any evacuees who are unable to take their pets with them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622344\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer walks a horse receiving temporary boarding at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds evacuation center in Petaluma, California on Oct. 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Get the animals secure and join as many rescue sites as possible,” wrote Jenny Mosher, an admin of the Napa/Sonoma Animal Evacuations Facebook page, in a Facebook message to KQED. “There are resources out there and people willing to do temporary fosters or hunt down evacuation sites that allow animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For larger animals like horses and livestock, there are several shelters available where they can stay, as well as volunteers willing to pick them up through a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ufs95-s6-VxXFU3KS1sR10rWIqwUscMeCq8JpXD_Odk/edit#gid=0\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spreadsheet\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> posted on the \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Solano County Horse/Livestock Fire Evacuation Help Page\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is crucial to leave open any gates or fences and mark your animal with information using a luggage tag, said Liz J. Rogers, another admin of the Napa/Santa Rosa Animal Evacuations Page. If you have a horse, be sure to remove any halters or fly masks, which can possibly burn or get snagged.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622347\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622347\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emus whose owners have evacuated are temporarily kept at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds evacuation center in Petaluma, California on Oct. 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Lost Animals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you lost an animal during the evacuation process, you can check local shelters’ social media pages. Many shelters, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SonomaHumane/?hc_ref=ARTC-vxqM7X1piTIIwER5FxAOXqe0i-VhULejKJHY-8E8ozeOPjWb2aWMzzKF4FvSFE\">Sonoma Humane Society\u003c/a>, have been updating their Facebook and Twitter pages with found pets, according to Bloch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you find an animal that is lost, you should keep it in the county in which it was found for the best chance for reunification with its owner, according to Bloch. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“A lot of times people with good intentions make the mistake of taking the animal to another county,” Bloch said. “They can go to the nearest animal shelter or veterinarian to scan them for a microchip. If they are staying in the area, is it also helpful if they can keep the animal with them for the time being.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622350\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Lamont, Social Media Coordinator at the Marin Humane Society, holds a chicken in the barn that is accepting small livestock in Novato, California on Oct. 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Resource Lists\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shelters and stores all over the Bay Area are accepting donations for pets who have been displaced or are in need. Several shelters have already received an abundance of cat and dog food, but may have other specific requests. If possible, call ahead to see if any needs have changed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Animal shelters available for emergency boarding:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Horses/Livestock\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Sonoma County Fairgrounds \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vallejo Fairgrounds\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">South Bay Horse Ranch \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Napa County Fairgrounds\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Solano County Fairgrounds\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SPCA Solano County\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Small animals:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marin Humane Society\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sonoma Humane Society\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Napa County Animal Shelter\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mendocino County Animal Shelter\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Second Chance Conure Rescue\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sonoma County Animal Services (also providing no-cost veterinary care to animals affected by the fire)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622345\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622345\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donations for dogs, cats and livestock pile up at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds evacuation center in Petaluma, California on Oct. 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Donation and Volunteer Opportunities:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Bay: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vallejo Fairgrounds: needs volunteers, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">feed for farm animals, wheelbarrows, hay carts, muck forks, shovels, shavings, first aid supplies\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Milo Foundation: needs fosters\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marin Humane Society: needs \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhumane.org/get-involved/ways-to-give/\">financial donations\u003c/a> to cover boarding costs\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SPCA Solano County: needs food and supplies\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sonoma Humane Society: Amazon \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/37RED1YZVRSYA/ref=cm_sw_su_w\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">wishlist\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sonoma Hills Farm: needs volunteers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Western Ranch and Pet Supply\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sonoma County Animal Services: needs \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SonomaCountyAnimalServices/posts/1312877402157202\">supplies\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Solano County Fairgrounds: needs \u003ca href=\"http://www.scfair.com/EvacCenter2017.html\">supplies\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Clearlake Animal Control: needs \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofClearlakeAnimalShelter/photos/a.510390745966880.1073741831.510184165987538/532087733797181/?type=3&theater\">fosters and volunteers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">East Bay:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocket Dog Rescue: needs fosters and volunteers\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hopalong & Second Chance Animal Rescue: needs fosters\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Contra Costa County Animal Services: accepting food and supplies\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>El Sobrante 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An organized effort by Bay Area animal shelters, pet stores and animal-lovers is attempting to support pets and farm animals that have been displaced by the Northern California wildfires. Several shelters are offering free supplies and emergency boarding at no cost, and they say they need as much help as they can get.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Facebook resource groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/NapaSantaRosaFireAnimalEvacuations/\">Napa/Sonoma Fires Animal Evacuations\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/510555622431697/?notif_id=1507654368141846¬if_t=group_r2j_approved\">Solano County Horse/Livestock Fire Evacuation Help Page\u003c/a>, have become resource hubs for donation information, volunteer recruitment and pet-owner reunification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622331\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A dog, whose owner evacuated, receives free emergency boarding at the Marin Humane Society in Novato, California on Oct. 10, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27413_IMG_9328-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dog, whose owner evacuated, receives free emergency boarding at the Marin Humane Society in Novato, California on Oct. 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay Area shelters are in need of fosters, volunteers and adoptions to clear more space for displaced animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhumane.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marin Humane Society\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> tries to make room for animals from an evacuated shelter, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.petslifeline.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sonoma Pets Lifeline\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, shelters in other areas of the bay area have been opening their doors to dogs and cats who were located at the north bay shelters prior to the fires.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco’s Animal Care and Control took in kittens from the Marin Humane Society last night, and they are waiving the fee for adoptions to encourage people to help clear space for more animals to be transferred to the shelter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622346\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11622346 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27421_IMG_9479-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, 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400\">“The best thing is for people to take their pets with them,” said Lisa Bloch, spokesperson for the Marin Humane Society. “But if they can’t, certainly there’s a lot of people out there to help. We want people to know we’re here to help you.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is also important to attach a form of identification to your dog or cat whether you keep your animal with you or bring it to a temporary shelter, according to Bloch. A \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nesrSo-IzKernUDA4GfL0Uql9jlqWrM2P_qTgVJpLQs/edit#gid=0\">spreadsheet \u003c/a>of people available to offer assistance has been posted on the Napa/Sonoma Fires Animal Evacuations Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have time to prepare for evacuating with your pet, you can pack leashes, food and vet records. However, many evacuation sites and emergency boarding shelters have free supplies and will take in animals without medical records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Marin Humane Society has supplies and pet food available for free due to an abundance of donations. The shelter is offering two free weeks of boarding for any evacuees who are unable to take their pets with them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622344\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27419_IMG_9460-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer walks a horse receiving temporary boarding at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds evacuation center in Petaluma, California on Oct. 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Get the animals secure and join as many rescue sites as possible,” wrote Jenny Mosher, an admin of the Napa/Sonoma Animal Evacuations Facebook page, in a Facebook message to KQED. “There are resources out there and people willing to do temporary fosters or hunt down evacuation sites that allow animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For larger animals like horses and livestock, there are several shelters available where they can stay, as well as volunteers willing to pick them up through a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ufs95-s6-VxXFU3KS1sR10rWIqwUscMeCq8JpXD_Odk/edit#gid=0\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spreadsheet\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> posted on the \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Solano County Horse/Livestock Fire Evacuation Help Page\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is crucial to leave open any gates or fences and mark your animal with information using a luggage tag, said Liz J. Rogers, another admin of the Napa/Santa Rosa Animal Evacuations Page. If you have a horse, be sure to remove any halters or fly masks, which can possibly burn or get snagged.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622347\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622347\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27416_IMG_9438-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emus whose owners have evacuated are temporarily kept at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds evacuation center in Petaluma, California on Oct. 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Lost Animals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you lost an animal during the evacuation process, you can check local shelters’ social media pages. Many shelters, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SonomaHumane/?hc_ref=ARTC-vxqM7X1piTIIwER5FxAOXqe0i-VhULejKJHY-8E8ozeOPjWb2aWMzzKF4FvSFE\">Sonoma Humane Society\u003c/a>, have been updating their Facebook and Twitter pages with found pets, according to Bloch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you find an animal that is lost, you should keep it in the county in which it was found for the best chance for reunification with its owner, according to Bloch. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“A lot of times people with good intentions make the mistake of taking the animal to another county,” Bloch said. “They can go to the nearest animal shelter or veterinarian to scan them for a microchip. If they are staying in the area, is it also helpful if they can keep the animal with them for the time being.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622350\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622350\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27415_IMG_9379-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Lamont, Social Media Coordinator at the Marin Humane Society, holds a chicken in the barn that is accepting small livestock in Novato, California on Oct. 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Resource Lists\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shelters and stores all over the Bay Area are accepting donations for pets who have been displaced or are in need. Several shelters have already received an abundance of cat and dog food, but may have other specific requests. If possible, call ahead to see if any needs have changed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Animal shelters available for emergency boarding:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Horses/Livestock\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Sonoma County Fairgrounds \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vallejo Fairgrounds\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">South Bay Horse Ranch \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Napa County Fairgrounds\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Solano County Fairgrounds\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SPCA Solano County\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Small animals:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marin Humane Society\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sonoma Humane Society\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Napa County Animal Shelter\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mendocino County Animal Shelter\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Second Chance Conure Rescue\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sonoma County Animal Services (also providing no-cost veterinary care to animals affected by the fire)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622345\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622345\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS27420_IMG_9472-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, 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"content": "\u003cp>The rising sun cast a golden glow upon the rocky mountains that rise above Coyote Canyon in \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=638\">Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We bounced along in a four-wheel drive SUV down \u003ca href=\"http://www.abdnha.org/pages/06_exploring/north/roads/022/coyotecanyon.htm\">Coyote Canyon Road\u003c/a>, bumping over rocks and, at one point, trying to figure out what winter rains did with the dirt road. The SUV was stuffed with volunteer sheep counters and what they need to survive extreme heat: shade structures, food and loads of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We made our way up to “second crossing.” This is where Coyote Creek crosses the road for the second time. The first crossing was bone-dry. Second crossing is where we would camp out for 2½ days to count sheep for the \u003ca href=\"http://theabf.org/calling-all-sheep-counters\">47th year of the Anza-Borrego Bighorn Sheep Count\u003c/a>, which attracted counters from as far as Arizona and Oregon and from as near as San Diego and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11551788\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11551788\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second crossing of Coyote Creek is one of the watering holes for peninsular bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Shortly beyond this, a gate closes the area during the summer so bighorn sheep are not bothered as they try to seek out water in extreme heat. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This road up a canyon wash is pretty much the same route explorer Juan Bautista de Anza took on his trek from Mexico to establish the first non-native settlement at San Francisco Bay. Somewhere out here is a marker commemorating that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on this adventure, we weren't here to look for a marker. We were here to look for peninsular bighorn sheep, also known as Nelson bighorn sheep, as extreme heat forces them down to known watering holes. The movement allows volunteers to see the sheep and count them, determining how many lambs have survived since they were born, and scope out the health of the herd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through other programs, some sheep are tagged. Others wear radio collars. It all contributes to knowledge about the subspecies that was declared endangered in 1998 after its local population dropped to 280 sheep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, former park superintendent Mark Jorgensen, one of this year’s volunteer count organizers, said developers had 21 golf courses planned inside bighorn sheep habitat in nearby Coachella Valley. The combination of development, predation and disease was taking its toll. The endangered declaration stopped the proposed development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorgensen estimated that some 900 sheep now live in the park, which stretches down to the Mexican border. He said they’ve seen bighorn sheep expanding back into their historic range, into canyons and ranges where they haven’t been seen in 20 or 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11554067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11554067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"A desert bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-960x589.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-240x147.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-375x230.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-520x319.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A desert bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The count helps to keep tabs on the sheep in the summer, when sheep researchers are gone. Jorgensen said the annual event is the longest continuous volunteer survey of bighorn sheep anywhere in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just one of the greatest examples of citizen science, especially when you consider the elements that these people are subjecting themselves to,” Jorgensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was already starting to heat up as we made our 25-minute drive down Coyote Canyon. We arrived at a sandy spot along the road, pulled over to the side and set up shade shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then we waited. And waited. And drank water. And waited. Tried to identify a nearby bird. And waited. Had a snack. And waited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hot desert wind toyed with the shade tarp as the temperature reached 109 degrees. The sand on the ground became super-heated to more than 150 degrees, radiating heat upward. It was like sitting in an oven. The volunteers used binoculars and scopes to scan the rocky hillside for bighorn sheep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sand-colored animals with horns that look like something out of “Star Wars” are stealthy. In this landscape, they look like rocks. Volunteer Gloria Kendall, who works at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, said you have to scan for their white butts or a glimpse of their curved horns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, when I finally spot 'em, I go, ‘How long have they been standing up on that hillside watching me?’ \" she said. “They could have been there for hours. But if they're holding still and they're laying down, in the shade of a big boulder, you probably wouldn't even notice 'em.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the day wore on, Kendall joked that she was snacking on munchies and salted cucumbers just to stay awake. The desert heat zaps your energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it can take more than that. On average, more than a dozen people die in this park each year from heat stroke and lack of water. This includes migrants, who make their way illegally across the border from Mexico and into the unforgiving Colorado Desert. Over the Fourth of July weekend count, three volunteers dealt with heat exhaustion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendall said it is worth suffering in the heat to get a glimpse of the endangered bighorn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11551802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11551802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteer Michele Gaffney of Escondido scans the horizon for endangered peninsular bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego's Coyote Canyon. Gaffney has been volunteering for the annual bighorn sheep count for about 20 years. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is an endangered species right in our own backyard, an hour and 45 minutes away from my house, that I can come and have a chance of seeing and helping add to the knowledge for the state park,” Kendall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, she said she has never been “skunked,” meaning she has seen at least one bighorn sheep at each of the 20 or so counts she’s come out to. That even includes the year a dust devil, sounding like a jet plane, came through their count site, snapping their shade structures and even pulling a camera off someone’s lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retiree Phillip Roullard of San Diego has also had some adventures at the sheep count. At his first one in 1980, a sheep counter in a nearby canyon started a wildfire by following the Sierra Club protocol at the time and burning his toilet paper. Part of that count was canceled, including Roullard’s site, so firefighters could battle the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not always that exciting. At a sheep count site at Borrego Palm Campground this year, Roullard called it tranquil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's nice to be out in someplace where there is no noise. It's very quiet. You can hear lots of birds, quail,” Roullard said. “It's the adrenaline rush when you do see sheep, at last, and you want to see more after that. They're magnificent animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Coyote Creek second crossing, we were having no luck. But after about 7½ hours, fellow spotter Michele Gaffney noticed something in her binoculars. At first, she wasn’t sure. She sat for a little bit, staring quietly with her binoculars at a spot in the rocks about a half-mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm sitting here looking at him going, ‘It looks like a mass of horns,’ ” Gaffney said. “And I said, ‘That's weird.’ And I finally had to wait for one of them to move their head and I went, ‘OK, that's a sheep.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We finally saw our first bighorn sheep of the trip, as three rams almost magically appeared, scoping out their watering hole on Coyote Creek. But the sheep did not move. They looked. They waited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The counters assumed that a group in a truck that had passed the count site earlier had stopped to play in the water. The sheep seemed hesitant. Hesitant, but hot, as they visibly panted in the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rams hung out for nearly an hour. We joked that they must be a bachelor party and “What happens in Borrego, stays in Borrego.” But then, the truck left the watering hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11551847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11551847\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the last day of the 47th Anza-Borrego Bighorn Sheep Count, volunteers at neighboring count sites compare notes to make sure they don't have any duplicate sheep counts. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Fantastic,” Kendall exclaimed, until she noticed the sheep were not going toward the life-saving water. “Oh, the sheep are running! To the left! The sheep are running away from 'em.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three peninsular bighorn rams had not come back by an hour and a half later, when the count ended for the day. This year's volunteers counted \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AnzaBorregoFoundation/photos/a.326151277483602.70665.215883108510420/1292484600850260/?type=3&theater\">207 sheep\u003c/a>. That is fewer than last year's \u003ca href=\"http://anzaborrego.ucnrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Sheep-Count-Results-2016.pdf\">296\u003c/a>, but one of the most popular watering holes dried up this year, and it's unclear where those sheep have gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the volunteers said they would come back to count them again next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if I fail, I really enjoy a good challenge,” volunteer Collette Perry of San Bernardino County said, as she sat at a count site that saw zero sheep this year. She was also wiped out by heat exhaustion the first day. “Even though this happened, that’s fine. Life goes on. I can’t wait to come back next year and do it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some volunteers at the final gathering to tally the total count joked that they've got an entire year to block out memories of the extreme heat, and remember how cool it is to spot an endangered desert bighorn sheep in California's largest state park.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The rising sun cast a golden glow upon the rocky mountains that rise above Coyote Canyon in \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=638\">Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We bounced along in a four-wheel drive SUV down \u003ca href=\"http://www.abdnha.org/pages/06_exploring/north/roads/022/coyotecanyon.htm\">Coyote Canyon Road\u003c/a>, bumping over rocks and, at one point, trying to figure out what winter rains did with the dirt road. The SUV was stuffed with volunteer sheep counters and what they need to survive extreme heat: shade structures, food and loads of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We made our way up to “second crossing.” This is where Coyote Creek crosses the road for the second time. The first crossing was bone-dry. Second crossing is where we would camp out for 2½ days to count sheep for the \u003ca href=\"http://theabf.org/calling-all-sheep-counters\">47th year of the Anza-Borrego Bighorn Sheep Count\u003c/a>, which attracted counters from as far as Arizona and Oregon and from as near as San Diego and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11551788\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11551788\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25907_IMG_4540-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second crossing of Coyote Creek is one of the watering holes for peninsular bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Shortly beyond this, a gate closes the area during the summer so bighorn sheep are not bothered as they try to seek out water in extreme heat. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This road up a canyon wash is pretty much the same route explorer Juan Bautista de Anza took on his trek from Mexico to establish the first non-native settlement at San Francisco Bay. Somewhere out here is a marker commemorating that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on this adventure, we weren't here to look for a marker. We were here to look for peninsular bighorn sheep, also known as Nelson bighorn sheep, as extreme heat forces them down to known watering holes. The movement allows volunteers to see the sheep and count them, determining how many lambs have survived since they were born, and scope out the health of the herd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through other programs, some sheep are tagged. Others wear radio collars. It all contributes to knowledge about the subspecies that was declared endangered in 1998 after its local population dropped to 280 sheep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, former park superintendent Mark Jorgensen, one of this year’s volunteer count organizers, said developers had 21 golf courses planned inside bighorn sheep habitat in nearby Coachella Valley. The combination of development, predation and disease was taking its toll. The endangered declaration stopped the proposed development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorgensen estimated that some 900 sheep now live in the park, which stretches down to the Mexican border. He said they’ve seen bighorn sheep expanding back into their historic range, into canyons and ranges where they haven’t been seen in 20 or 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11554067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11554067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"A desert bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-1180x723.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-960x589.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-240x147.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-375x230.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/DesertBighorn-520x319.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A desert bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The count helps to keep tabs on the sheep in the summer, when sheep researchers are gone. Jorgensen said the annual event is the longest continuous volunteer survey of bighorn sheep anywhere in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just one of the greatest examples of citizen science, especially when you consider the elements that these people are subjecting themselves to,” Jorgensen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was already starting to heat up as we made our 25-minute drive down Coyote Canyon. We arrived at a sandy spot along the road, pulled over to the side and set up shade shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then we waited. And waited. And drank water. And waited. Tried to identify a nearby bird. And waited. Had a snack. And waited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hot desert wind toyed with the shade tarp as the temperature reached 109 degrees. The sand on the ground became super-heated to more than 150 degrees, radiating heat upward. It was like sitting in an oven. The volunteers used binoculars and scopes to scan the rocky hillside for bighorn sheep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sand-colored animals with horns that look like something out of “Star Wars” are stealthy. In this landscape, they look like rocks. Volunteer Gloria Kendall, who works at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, said you have to scan for their white butts or a glimpse of their curved horns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, when I finally spot 'em, I go, ‘How long have they been standing up on that hillside watching me?’ \" she said. “They could have been there for hours. But if they're holding still and they're laying down, in the shade of a big boulder, you probably wouldn't even notice 'em.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the day wore on, Kendall joked that she was snacking on munchies and salted cucumbers just to stay awake. The desert heat zaps your energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it can take more than that. On average, more than a dozen people die in this park each year from heat stroke and lack of water. This includes migrants, who make their way illegally across the border from Mexico and into the unforgiving Colorado Desert. Over the Fourth of July weekend count, three volunteers dealt with heat exhaustion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendall said it is worth suffering in the heat to get a glimpse of the endangered bighorn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11551802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11551802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25908_IMG_4543-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteer Michele Gaffney of Escondido scans the horizon for endangered peninsular bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego's Coyote Canyon. Gaffney has been volunteering for the annual bighorn sheep count for about 20 years. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is an endangered species right in our own backyard, an hour and 45 minutes away from my house, that I can come and have a chance of seeing and helping add to the knowledge for the state park,” Kendall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, she said she has never been “skunked,” meaning she has seen at least one bighorn sheep at each of the 20 or so counts she’s come out to. That even includes the year a dust devil, sounding like a jet plane, came through their count site, snapping their shade structures and even pulling a camera off someone’s lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retiree Phillip Roullard of San Diego has also had some adventures at the sheep count. At his first one in 1980, a sheep counter in a nearby canyon started a wildfire by following the Sierra Club protocol at the time and burning his toilet paper. Part of that count was canceled, including Roullard’s site, so firefighters could battle the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not always that exciting. At a sheep count site at Borrego Palm Campground this year, Roullard called it tranquil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's nice to be out in someplace where there is no noise. It's very quiet. You can hear lots of birds, quail,” Roullard said. “It's the adrenaline rush when you do see sheep, at last, and you want to see more after that. They're magnificent animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Coyote Creek second crossing, we were having no luck. But after about 7½ hours, fellow spotter Michele Gaffney noticed something in her binoculars. At first, she wasn’t sure. She sat for a little bit, staring quietly with her binoculars at a spot in the rocks about a half-mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm sitting here looking at him going, ‘It looks like a mass of horns,’ ” Gaffney said. “And I said, ‘That's weird.’ And I finally had to wait for one of them to move their head and I went, ‘OK, that's a sheep.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We finally saw our first bighorn sheep of the trip, as three rams almost magically appeared, scoping out their watering hole on Coyote Creek. But the sheep did not move. They looked. They waited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The counters assumed that a group in a truck that had passed the count site earlier had stopped to play in the water. The sheep seemed hesitant. Hesitant, but hot, as they visibly panted in the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rams hung out for nearly an hour. We joked that they must be a bachelor party and “What happens in Borrego, stays in Borrego.” But then, the truck left the watering hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11551847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11551847\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/RS25911_IMG_4619-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the last day of the 47th Anza-Borrego Bighorn Sheep Count, volunteers at neighboring count sites compare notes to make sure they don't have any duplicate sheep counts. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Fantastic,” Kendall exclaimed, until she noticed the sheep were not going toward the life-saving water. “Oh, the sheep are running! To the left! The sheep are running away from 'em.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three peninsular bighorn rams had not come back by an hour and a half later, when the count ended for the day. This year's volunteers counted \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AnzaBorregoFoundation/photos/a.326151277483602.70665.215883108510420/1292484600850260/?type=3&theater\">207 sheep\u003c/a>. That is fewer than last year's \u003ca href=\"http://anzaborrego.ucnrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Sheep-Count-Results-2016.pdf\">296\u003c/a>, but one of the most popular watering holes dried up this year, and it's unclear where those sheep have gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the volunteers said they would come back to count them again next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if I fail, I really enjoy a good challenge,” volunteer Collette Perry of San Bernardino County said, as she sat at a count site that saw zero sheep this year. She was also wiped out by heat exhaustion the first day. “Even though this happened, that’s fine. Life goes on. I can’t wait to come back next year and do it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago spelled disaster for the dinosaurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But scientists say they’ve found one silver lining to the mass extinction — turns out, it was really good for frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resilient animals date back some 200 million years. And in the aftermath of the extinction event, they survived and thrived, taking advantage of an ecological vacuum other animals left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 9 in 10 frog species today evolved from three frog lineages that survived the event, which occurred at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods, according to research published Monday in \u003cem>Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing of this rapid diversification came as a surprise, UC Berkeley herpetologist and report co-author \u003ca href=\"https://ib.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/waked\">David Wake\u003c/a> tells The Two-Way. It’s about 35 million years later than previous research suggested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”ERfE34XcCSdSZgUfudGFFOGIPkK0kmSP”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Chinese and American researchers \u003ca href=\"https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/uoc--dlw062917.php\">noted in a press release\u003c/a>, the previous estimate was puzzling, “since Earth’s environment was stable at that time. A changing environment typically drives evolution.” They say that “analysis of molecular evolution in mitochondrial DNA [like in previous studies] often produces dates for lineage divergence that are too old.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new research focuses on nuclear genes instead, which Wake says can provide a “much clearer picture of what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frogs are “master survivors,” Wake says, able to go underground and live through long periods of inactivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scientists aren’t sure why three main lineages ultimately outperformed all the others that were living at the time of the asteroid strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There continue to be remnants of other pre-asteroid lineages around the world, the scientists say, and they’re “just as diverse today in their habitats and breeding strategies” as those descended from the three dominant lineages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”b0MngMeXz4lEIlizpFw1G7NzoEPgA5oK”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the primary ancestors of today’s frogs seized the ecological opportunity after mass extinction, explosively evolving new species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s these three lineages that were at the right place and the right time and they just took off like crazy,” Wake says, adding that they also “rapidly increased in their use of habitats and their use of resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, seed-bearing trees and other flowering plants suddenly dominated the landscape. All three of the frog lineages contain species that started to dwell in trees, which was not previously seen in frogs. It was a sign, Wake says, of frogs “experimenting with new ways of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the new frog species also started to lay their eggs on land, skipping the tadpole phase and growing directly into a small frog. There are currently about 6,775 known frog species, and Wake says this trait is now found in about half of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What this research shows, Wake says, is that frogs have the proven ability to “[take] advantage of opportunities — in this case [an] ecological vacuum that existed following the mass extinction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the scientists want to study what it was about these lineages that allowed them to perform so much better than the others that survived the extinction event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+Frogs+Benefited+From+The+Dinosaurs%27+Extinction&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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