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"content": "\u003cp>Colorful kestrels squawk in an outdoor cage at the \u003ca href=\"http://calmzoo.org/\">California Living Museum\u003c/a> in Bakersfield. The cries sound like they could be coming from hundreds of the small falcons -- but there are only a few small orphan birds in the cage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re talkative because they just came out of the infant-rearing process, so they still think they’re supposed to be fed every time they see us,” says curator Don Richardson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’s seen a big increase in the number of orphaned animals brought into the museum’s wildlife rehab center. The kestrels were likely abandoned because the parents couldn’t find enough prey to feed them. They’ll be released once they learn to hunt and capture live mice and insects Richardson puts in their cage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/227719264\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drought is putting a strain on wildlife rehab centers like the California Living Museum. Richardson says intake has nearly doubled this year because more people are finding weak, emaciated animals near hiking trails and roads, or even stranded in irrigation canals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a great blue heron. She was found on the side of the road,” Richardson says, pointing to another cage across from the kestrels. But unlike the kestrels, this graceful bird isn’t making a peep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson took X-rays because he thought the bird had a leg fracture. But like many animals he’s seen, it was just too hungry to function. Rest and food are what many of these birds need to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the drought, the water levels are dropping,” he says. “Food is not available because fish are dying off, the frogs are dying off, so these guys are going to have more and more of a hard time surviving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713452\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10713452\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Turner and Louise Culver have run Critter Creek Wildlife Station for 30 years. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Turner and Louise Culver have run Critter Creek Wildlife Station for 30 years. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://www.crittercreek.org/\">Critter Creek Wildlife Station\u003c/a>, a wildlife rehab center in the dry Sierra foothills east of Fresno, the phone is ringing more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gotten up to 50 calls a day, even more in baby bird season. I get them at 11 or 12 at night,” says Dan Turner, who operates Critter Creek with his partner, Louise Culver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner and Culver have run the center for 30 years. Or, as they like to say, it’s run them. They operate on a shoestring budget and depend on donations. They say they always need more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve rescued hundreds of shorebirds since the drought – like the 50 or so young egrets they nursed back to health this summer. Turner says once they can fly, they get released. He says it with such conviction that I ask him jokingly if that’s his motto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want to know my motto,” Turner says with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah I do,” I say. “What is it? You’re too old for this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He laughs. “Ha ha! Yeah that’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culver agrees it’s hard work, a 24/7 job. With the drought, she’s seen a big increase in starving western pond turtles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fish and Game just recommends whatever direction they were heading, get them across the road, let them keep going in that direction. But some of them are just so skinny and thin that people have been bringing those to us,” Culver says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713433\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10713433\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Starving, adolescent golden and bald eagles were rescued by concerned citizens and brought to Critter Creek Wildlife Station. They'll be released to the wild soon. \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starving, adolescent golden and bald eagles were rescued by concerned citizens and brought to Critter Creek Wildlife Station. They'll be released to the wild soon. \u003ccite>(Dan Turner/Critter Creek Wildlife Station)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She says they are also getting a lot more calls about “pest” animals, like raccoons. “They’re everywhere in the city, and unfortunately because of the drought, I think a lot of these animals have to interface with people,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rural Critter Creek property is large enough that Turner drives a golf cart to get around. He takes me to one area where there are several outdoor cages he’s rebuilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are old zoo cages, they are probably 50 years old or 60 years old,” Turner says. There’s a hunting cage where birds learn to catch prey. One smaller cage is covered with a tarp. Underneath the tarp is a coyote puppy that someone found sick and emaciated on a road, most likely because of the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so we just nursed him back to health and he’s going back out there soon,” Turner says. The tarp protects the coyote from too much human viewing. He needs to stay wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner drives his cart over what is now a dry creek bed and then up a small hill. He gets out and opens a gate to a 100-foot-long flight cage. He points to a golden eagle and a bald eagle, both perched up high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were both starving,” Turner says. “They were just down flat on the ground. Caring citizens found them lying there, so they called us. A lot of these people don’t even think they are going make it, but they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will take a month or two for them to get their muscles back, he says. Then they’ll be released into the wild, where hopefully they’ll have the strength to survive the drought.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Rest and food are what many of these birds need to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the drought, the water levels are dropping,” he says. “Food is not available because fish are dying off, the frogs are dying off, so these guys are going to have more and more of a hard time surviving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713452\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10713452\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Turner and Louise Culver have run Critter Creek Wildlife Station for 30 years. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/dan-and-louise-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Turner and Louise Culver have run Critter Creek Wildlife Station for 30 years. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://www.crittercreek.org/\">Critter Creek Wildlife Station\u003c/a>, a wildlife rehab center in the dry Sierra foothills east of Fresno, the phone is ringing more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gotten up to 50 calls a day, even more in baby bird season. I get them at 11 or 12 at night,” says Dan Turner, who operates Critter Creek with his partner, Louise Culver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner and Culver have run the center for 30 years. Or, as they like to say, it’s run them. They operate on a shoestring budget and depend on donations. They say they always need more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve rescued hundreds of shorebirds since the drought – like the 50 or so young egrets they nursed back to health this summer. Turner says once they can fly, they get released. He says it with such conviction that I ask him jokingly if that’s his motto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want to know my motto,” Turner says with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah I do,” I say. “What is it? You’re too old for this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He laughs. “Ha ha! Yeah that’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culver agrees it’s hard work, a 24/7 job. With the drought, she’s seen a big increase in starving western pond turtles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fish and Game just recommends whatever direction they were heading, get them across the road, let them keep going in that direction. But some of them are just so skinny and thin that people have been bringing those to us,” Culver says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713433\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10713433\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Starving, adolescent golden and bald eagles were rescued by concerned citizens and brought to Critter Creek Wildlife Station. They'll be released to the wild soon. \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/20151002_164113_resized-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starving, adolescent golden and bald eagles were rescued by concerned citizens and brought to Critter Creek Wildlife Station. They'll be released to the wild soon. \u003ccite>(Dan Turner/Critter Creek Wildlife Station)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She says they are also getting a lot more calls about “pest” animals, like raccoons. “They’re everywhere in the city, and unfortunately because of the drought, I think a lot of these animals have to interface with people,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rural Critter Creek property is large enough that Turner drives a golf cart to get around. He takes me to one area where there are several outdoor cages he’s rebuilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are old zoo cages, they are probably 50 years old or 60 years old,” Turner says. There’s a hunting cage where birds learn to catch prey. One smaller cage is covered with a tarp. 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"content": "\u003cp>The endangered San Joaquin kit fox has an unlikely home in California’s country music capital. No, these bushy-tailed creatures don’t hang out in the honky-tonks in Bakersfield, but they do find plenty of other places to make their dens. Every golf course in town has a family of kit foxes. Industrial parks and school campuses are also popular spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, they’re all over Bakersfield,” says Alan Paradise, principal of North High School. He’s seen many a fox family peering out of dens near the school’s baseball field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225594796\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll know that it’s an active den when you see bones and wrappings around the outside,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food wrappings, that is. These small nocturnal foxes will eat junk food and they’ve been known to dumpster-dive. But they also find plenty of marmots, ground squirrels and insects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paradise says he sees them everywhere. “They seem to do pretty well in Bakersfield,” he says. “They like it here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, they’ve been around for decades. As Bakersfield grew and encroached on their natural habitat, they adapted. Biologists estimate there could be as many as 400 foxes living here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10697084\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10697084\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-800x475.jpg\" alt=\"A kit fox sniffs a trap after being released. She was treated on-site with a topical insecticide for mange.\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-800x475.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-400x238.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-1440x856.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-1180x701.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/FemaleKit-960x571.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A kit fox sniffs a trap after being released. She was treated on-site with a topical insecticide for mange. \u003ccite>(Tory Westall/Endangered Species Recovery Program, CSU Stanislaus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And since the drought, the Bakersfield kit foxes make up the most stable population of this endangered animal. The numbers are declining in wilder areas like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/nlcs/Carrizo_Plain_NM.html\">Carrizo Plain National Monument\u003c/a>, where kit foxes are having trouble finding enough food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most locals take pride in the kit foxes, but sometimes there are conflicts, says California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Victoria Monroe. She educates people on how to coexist with a protected species that is curious and playful, but skittish around humans. Today, she’s fielding a question from a man who says his neighbor tampered with a kit fox den by shoveling dirt into the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe checks the den, which is next to a driveway, and notices tiny paw prints in the sand. She says the kit fox has already started mending the hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re notoriously intelligent,” Monroe says. “Their behavior is very plastic. And they can change their behaviors in response to human activity to exploit new environments and to really thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now these urban foxes are facing a problem they can’t outwit -- a deadly and highly infectious skin disease called mange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because this is such a high-density population, the disease is spreading pretty rapidly,” says Brian Cypher, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://esrp.csustan.edu/\">Endangered Species Recovery Program \u003c/a>at CSU Stanislaus. “It could spread throughout the entire [urban] population and potentially kill them all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because the drought has already caused a precipitous drop in the numbers of San Joaquin kit foxes out in the wild, this is especially bad news for an endangered animal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cypher says mange, which is caused by mites, has never been seen in kit foxes. It appears to affect only the foxes in Bakersfield, not in the wilder areas. “It seems like in the natural lands, the density is too low to carry the disease,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diseased foxes lose their fur and scratch so much they get wounds on their skin. Cypher says dogs can usually survive mange, but it’s fatal for kit foxes unless it’s treated. If the mange goes untreated, the kit fox will likely die within a few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an urgent situation, so Cypher and his team are trying to tackle the problem by trapping and treating as many kit foxes as possible. So far this year, they’ve treated about 50 kit foxes for mange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10697086\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10697086 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-800x636.jpg\" alt=\"This male kit fox was hospitalized for four weeks at the California Living Museum. This photo was taken before he was released.\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-800x636.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-400x318.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-1440x1145.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-1180x938.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-960x763.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This male kit fox was hospitalized four weeks at the California Living Museum. This photo was taken before he was released. \u003ccite>(Erica Kelly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not sure if we can stop it,” Cypher says. “We’re going to give it our best shot. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The endangered San Joaquin kit fox has an unlikely home in California’s country music capital. No, these bushy-tailed creatures don’t hang out in the honky-tonks in Bakersfield, but they do find plenty of other places to make their dens. Every golf course in town has a family of kit foxes. Industrial parks and school campuses are also popular spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, they’re all over Bakersfield,” says Alan Paradise, principal of North High School. He’s seen many a fox family peering out of dens near the school’s baseball field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225594796&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225594796'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll know that it’s an active den when you see bones and wrappings around the outside,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food wrappings, that is. These small nocturnal foxes will eat junk food and they’ve been known to dumpster-dive. But they also find plenty of marmots, ground squirrels and insects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She was treated on-site with a topical insecticide for mange. \u003ccite>(Tory Westall/Endangered Species Recovery Program, CSU Stanislaus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And since the drought, the Bakersfield kit foxes make up the most stable population of this endangered animal. The numbers are declining in wilder areas like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/nlcs/Carrizo_Plain_NM.html\">Carrizo Plain National Monument\u003c/a>, where kit foxes are having trouble finding enough food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most locals take pride in the kit foxes, but sometimes there are conflicts, says California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Victoria Monroe. She educates people on how to coexist with a protected species that is curious and playful, but skittish around humans. Today, she’s fielding a question from a man who says his neighbor tampered with a kit fox den by shoveling dirt into the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe checks the den, which is next to a driveway, and notices tiny paw prints in the sand. She says the kit fox has already started mending the hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re notoriously intelligent,” Monroe says. “Their behavior is very plastic. 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This photo was taken before he was released.\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-800x636.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-400x318.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-1440x1145.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-1180x938.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/MakeKitFox-960x763.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This male kit fox was hospitalized four weeks at the California Living Museum. This photo was taken before he was released. \u003ccite>(Erica Kelly/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re not sure if we can stop it,” Cypher says. “We’re going to give it our best shot. 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"content": "\u003cp>State Department of Fish and Wildlife officers recently joined law enforcement teams in inspecting pot farms that are believed to be draining a half-million gallons of water a day from Northern California’s Eel River. The visits were part of an effort to crack down on large-scale grows that are illegally diverting water on one hand and winning cooperation from smaller growers in monitoring water use and environmental impacts from marijuana cultivation on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twin campaigns, the focus of \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/1IwNpGV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a feature\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article30964440.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video\u003c/a> in the Sacramento Bee on Sunday, are getting a mixed reception from cannabis advocates. They applauded the focus on oversight and permitting of growers under the state’s existing medical marijuana laws. But many are angered that police raids on pot farms haven’t stopped. Fish and Wildlife wardens still regularly assist local law enforcement in raids on commercial-scale marijuana growers accused of fouling the environment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new compliance efforts are an ambitious experiment in a state with an estimated 50,000 marijuana gardens spanning Central Valley foothills, the Sierra Nevada and the North Coast. In Humboldt County, where the value of marijuana production is estimated at $1 billion, authorities say there are more than 4,000 outdoor cannabis gardens, and an unknown number of indoor sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the state’s prolonged drought, Gov. Jerry Brown last year approved $3 million in funding to dispatch oversight officers and environmental scientists to identify and inspect water-thirsty pot gardens in sensitive natural settings. Officials from the State Water Resources Control Board and Department of Fish and Wildlife so far have visited 150 sites with growers’ approval. They have issued instructions on water conservation and filed 50 notices of environmental violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compliance program kicked off with 11 full-time officers from the state water board and seven from Fish and Wildlife. The specialized team primarily has focused on small and medium-scale marijuana growers in the upper Central Valley and North Coast. Under pending legislation, the program stands to be expanded statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At their first inspection of 20 cannabis farms during a two-day operation in late July, a team met brothers Steve and Howard Harvey. Steve, 74, is a retired attorney, and Howard, 71, a former construction engineering contractor. They have adjoining properties where they have grown pot for more than 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers allowed the team of environmental scientists, led by Connor McIntee of the water board and Tobi Freeny of Fish and Wildlife, to inspect Howard’s 50-plant marijuana garden. The fenced ridge-top plot was modest compared with the vast cultivations common in the area, but appeared to exceed county marijuana guidelines, which allow up to 200 square feet of growing space on larger properties. No citation was issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody up here when we bought this place just grew a lot of pot. It wasn’t an industry,” Steve Harvey said. He described seeing “not dozens, but literally hundreds” of water tanks hauled up into the forest in recent years to store siphoned water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, police raids continue. In June, Fish and Wildlife agents joined sheriff’s narcotics enforcement teams from Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity counties in raiding pot farms near Island Mountain on the North Coast. The teams eradicated 86,000 marijuana plants, saying the farms were causing environmental harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities described the farms as commercial operations with thousands of plants that were draining an estimated 500,000 gallons of water a day from tributaries to the Eel River. One operation featured a huge rubber bladder that had impounded nearly 600,000 gallons of water — about enough to supply four California households for a year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know how they got it there. But that water either came from springs feeding into the Eel River or the Eel River itself. Either way, the river lost,” Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials say they have no choice but to pursue both avenues. The compliance program brings in farmers willing to cooperate with authorities, and the raids hold accountable scofflaws operating with blatant disregard of guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The South Africa exhibit at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park is home to more than 100 animals, and rhinos are at the top of the pecking order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sweeping enclosure is designed to replicate their African habitat. This is Jane Kennedy’s domain. She is lead keeper and she knows many of the animals by name. The unquestioned star is Nola, a 40-something northern white rhino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy’s truck pulls up to Nola’s feeding trough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So what we’re doing here is preparing the medication for Nola,” Kennedy said. “She’s got a little bit of a sinus infection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy delivers a plastic tub full of food pellets and apples with medicine sprinkled in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/194624400″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nola is a senior citizen nearing the end of her life, and Kennedy said that’s why the sinus infection is so serious. The rhino gave keepers a scare in December when she first got sick. Nola’s energy level plummeted as the sickness grabbed hold. But a few weeks of medicine and some hands-on care did a world of good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keepers are restoring her health, but the situation isn’t so bright for her species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>War and poaching in the Democratic Republic of Congo extinguished northern white rhinos in the wild. Besides Nola, there is a northern white rhino in a Czech Republic zoo, and three more on a reserve in Kenya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like to try to think that Nola isn’t different than any other animal. But she is,” Kennedy said. “She’s one of five northern white rhinos left in the world. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegozooglobal.org/institute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And what we humans do makes a difference for the extinction of this animal\u003c/a>. I’m sorry, it makes a difference what we do here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/ON2o2WP6Tf4?list=PL_wiEYr9F4elrC6Utl6IlRo4H_qHnW6al\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large part of Kennedy’s job with Nola is to make sure the animal is comfortable. It is hospice care. That can mean a friendly early-morning ear rub for the 4,000-pound animal. It can be making sure Nola gets the proper medical attention. Or it can be a comforting presence as she works through the final hours of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy is ready for whatever happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve known quite a few rhinos over the years. She truly is the sweetest rhino I’ve ever known. I can walk up to her any day and I can read her personality,” Kennedy said. “And she sees me in the morning. She’ll actually get up and she’ll greet me. She’ll make that shuffle and blow and it’s like, ‘Hi, Jane. How ya doing?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Another Door Closing’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nola’s sudden December illness hit the Safari Park team especially hard because of Angalifu. The male northern white rhino died just a week before Nola got sick. He was old and suffering from arthritis, but the death was still unexpected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s only one other male left. And unfortunately, he’s not fertile. So this was the last fertile male that we had. And losing that, I mean, that was really tough because that was another door closing,” said Randy Rieches, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s curator of mammals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”oGQUdxxmFfGVkqTVivdhbCYMg6Nub9p7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That slamming door prompted a “Come to Jesus” meeting for zoo staff, Rieches said. Veterinarians, researchers, keepers and administrators did some soul-searching. They asked themselves if this was it. Was the northern white rhino essentially extinct? Did they fail?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every species that we have brought on grounds — that we have put into our collection — and we had a breeding group of, we have reproduced here. Except the northern white rhinoceros,” Rieches said. “It’s our only animal that we have not reproduced. And that in itself kinda goes down hard. But not to have reproduced it and then to watch it go down to extinction, that’s something that none of us want to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Management, Conservation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is hope. There was a successful revitalization of the closely related southern white rhino. There were fewer than 100 of those animals a century ago. Careful management and conservation allowed the population to swell to more than 20,000 today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10449905\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 486px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10449905\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Northern white rhino Nola lingers near a Safari Park truck, Jan. 16, 2015.\" width=\"486\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-320x180.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern white rhino Nola lingers near a Safari Park truck on Jan. 16, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the San Diego Safari Park, more than 80 southern whites have been born. But that success story is the exception, not the rule for rhinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern white rhinos are the only rhino species \u003ca href=\"http://kpbs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2015/02/09/rhinos_project-0215.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not considered critically endangered\u003c/a>. The large animals are poached and their habitat is squeezed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rieches worries the Javan rhino is slipping into the danger zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With a species that has a 16-month gestation period and 3.5-year birth interval, they’re only putting one calf on the ground every 3½ years. You have that in conjunction with the number that are being poached. We could be at the exact same place in a very short period of time with another of the rhino species,” Rieches said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clock Keeps Ticking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building the body of knowledge about rhinos is an ongoing process. Having success with one species could boost the future prospects of another. And the clock keeps ticking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Saving a species that still currently lives is one thing. Going back and looking at saving a species that has already passed into extinction is a whole other issue,” Rieches said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That puts the northern white rhino’s future in the hands of researchers like Barbara Durrant. She filled a plastic tub with liquid nitrogen so she can show a box of frozen samples. The nitrogen is required to keep the samples colder than 135 degrees centigrade. Viability of the sperm degrades quickly at warmer temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/nov/19/san-diego-researchers-discuss-bringing-back-extinc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frozen samples could be a key\u003c/a> to the northern white’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sperm might be used to impregnate a southern white rhino female, creating a blended offspring, Durrant said. Tissue cells might be used to develop northern white eggs for laboratory fertilization. Or the frozen cells could be the basis for the development of a clone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We try to use the simplest possible technique that involves the least amount of manipulation. Because we change the way genes express themselves when we manipulate cells,” Durrant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The science for reviving the northern white rhino in the lab is still being developed, but there is enough potential there to create hope. Durrant is confident that the species can still persevere, even if the five remaining rhinos die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Key Piece\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can wait for the technology,” Durrant said. “We can work on things in the meantime, with non-endangered model species. We can develop our skills. We can communicate with the other communities that are doing this work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10449906\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 449px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Durrant_at_FZoo_t250.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10449906\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Durrant_at_FZoo_t250.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Durrant prepares to retrieve samples from the frozen zoo, on Jan. 16, 2015. \" width=\"449\" height=\"252\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Durrant prepares to retrieve samples from the frozen zoo on Jan. 16, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker /KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One key piece of the rhino’s future lies in another tank full of frozen samples. It contains cell tissue from 12 individual northern white rhinos. That’s a bigger pool of genetic diversity than what exists in the living population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durrant said researchers are working on techniques that will allow them to turn the tissue cells into eggs and sperm. She said that idea hasn’t yet made the transition to the lab, but the potential energizes researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting the foundation pieces together,” Durrant said. “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegozooglobal.org/what_we_do_banking_genetic_resources/frozen_zoo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We’re saving the things we need to save\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then we go one step at a time. I think what drives us is the image in our imagination of Angalifu’s babies sometime in the future. A little rhino prancing in a field in South Africa that has Angi’s genes,” Durrant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The northern white rhino is likely rumbling toward extinction, but researchers hope that disappearance may not be permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Update: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/mar/02/san-diego-zoo-gets-funding-help-save-northern-whit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego Zoo Gets Funding To Help Save Northern White Rhinos\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And losing that, I mean, that was really tough because that was another door closing,” said Randy Rieches, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s curator of mammals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That slamming door prompted a “Come to Jesus” meeting for zoo staff, Rieches said. Veterinarians, researchers, keepers and administrators did some soul-searching. They asked themselves if this was it. Was the northern white rhino essentially extinct? Did they fail?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every species that we have brought on grounds — that we have put into our collection — and we had a breeding group of, we have reproduced here. Except the northern white rhinoceros,” Rieches said. “It’s our only animal that we have not reproduced. And that in itself kinda goes down hard. 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Careful management and conservation allowed the population to swell to more than 20,000 today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10449905\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 486px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10449905\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Northern white rhino Nola lingers near a Safari Park truck, Jan. 16, 2015.\" width=\"486\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920-320x180.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/Nola_by_Truck1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern white rhino Nola lingers near a Safari Park truck on Jan. 16, 2015. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the San Diego Safari Park, more than 80 southern whites have been born. But that success story is the exception, not the rule for rhinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern white rhinos are the only rhino species \u003ca href=\"http://kpbs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2015/02/09/rhinos_project-0215.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not considered critically endangered\u003c/a>. The large animals are poached and their habitat is squeezed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rieches worries the Javan rhino is slipping into the danger zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With a species that has a 16-month gestation period and 3.5-year birth interval, they’re only putting one calf on the ground every 3½ years. You have that in conjunction with the number that are being poached. We could be at the exact same place in a very short period of time with another of the rhino species,” Rieches said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clock Keeps Ticking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building the body of knowledge about rhinos is an ongoing process. Having success with one species could boost the future prospects of another. And the clock keeps ticking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Saving a species that still currently lives is one thing. Going back and looking at saving a species that has already passed into extinction is a whole other issue,” Rieches said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That puts the northern white rhino’s future in the hands of researchers like Barbara Durrant. She filled a plastic tub with liquid nitrogen so she can show a box of frozen samples. The nitrogen is required to keep the samples colder than 135 degrees centigrade. Viability of the sperm degrades quickly at warmer temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/nov/19/san-diego-researchers-discuss-bringing-back-extinc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frozen samples could be a key\u003c/a> to the northern white’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sperm might be used to impregnate a southern white rhino female, creating a blended offspring, Durrant said. Tissue cells might be used to develop northern white eggs for laboratory fertilization. Or the frozen cells could be the basis for the development of a clone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We try to use the simplest possible technique that involves the least amount of manipulation. Because we change the way genes express themselves when we manipulate cells,” Durrant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The science for reviving the northern white rhino in the lab is still being developed, but there is enough potential there to create hope. Durrant is confident that the species can still persevere, even if the five remaining rhinos die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One Key Piece\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can wait for the technology,” Durrant said. “We can work on things in the meantime, with non-endangered model species. We can develop our skills. 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That’s a bigger pool of genetic diversity than what exists in the living population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durrant said researchers are working on techniques that will allow them to turn the tissue cells into eggs and sperm. She said that idea hasn’t yet made the transition to the lab, but the potential energizes researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting the foundation pieces together,” Durrant said. “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegozooglobal.org/what_we_do_banking_genetic_resources/frozen_zoo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We’re saving the things we need to save\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then we go one step at a time. I think what drives us is the image in our imagination of Angalifu’s babies sometime in the future. 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