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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:50 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill that would mandate safety testing for companies that develop the largest generative AI models has passed the state Assembly by a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047\">vote of 41 to 16\u003c/a>. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But critics, including Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, continue to raise objections as the bill makes its way to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been an enormous amount of work and collaboration and working with people who like the bill and people who don’t like the bill,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047\">SB 1047\u003c/a>. “I’m really, really proud of our coalition and grateful to my colleagues for understanding that, when it comes to technology, innovation and safety are not mutually exclusive. They complement each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill would enact safeguards to prevent AI from being used to conduct cyberattacks on critical infrastructure or develop chemical, nuclear or biological weapons. After passing the assembly and getting another stamp of approval from the senate, the bill goes to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has spent the last year in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000892/ai-safety-testing-bill-heads-for-a-floor-vote-in-sacramento-taking-heavy-fire-from-silicon-valley\">pitched battle\u003c/a> with some of the most prominent figures in the AI industry, including many who warned the measure could stifle the growth of the technology in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Silicon Valley Congress members — Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Rep. Ro Khanna and Pelosi — also spoke out in an effort to kill the bill. Even Wiener’s longtime ally, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1828467847720509652\">open letter\u003c/a> that “more work needs to be done to bring together industry, government, and community stakeholders before moving forward with a legislative solution that doesn’t add unnecessary bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906876/nancy-pelosi-explains-the-art-of-power\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Thursday, Pelosi criticized the bill again.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“California is the home, the birthplace of AI. In our view. It has the knowledge, the technological knowledge, it has the entrepreneurship, and it has the responsibility to do the right thing, not to pass a bill that does not do the job because it is as well-intentioned as it is ill-informed.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also pushed back against the idea that she was speaking out against Wiener’s bill because he might face Pelosi’s daughter in a run for her seat once she leaves office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They don’t know what they’re talking about,” she said about \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2024/08/19/ai-pelosi-house-seat-00174542\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which first reported the story. “I don’t want California going down a bad path on something this serious and has nothing to do with elections.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 has also attracted high-profile supporters, including Elon Musk, who on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1828205685386936567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1828205685386936567%7Ctwgr%5Eefeda0f975043ebdda2707011f803c34424e4ba0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsfstandard.com%2F2024%2F08%2F26%2Felon-musk-openai-scott-wiener-sb1046%2F\">posted on social media site X,\u003c/a> “This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill. For over 20 years, I have been an advocate for AI regulation, just as we regulate any product/technology that is a potential risk to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener acknowledged his unlikely ally. “Elon Musk is not a fan of me, and I’m not a fan of Elon Musk,” Wiener said. “But even people who have very strong disagreements can still find common ground. And, in this area, Elon and I have common ground. He has long, long been an advocate for AI safety. And so this position is very consistent with his long history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he amended the measure to reflect counsel from leaders in the AI space, including safety groups, academics, startups and developers like Amazon-backed Anthropic. The bill no longer allows California’s attorney general to sue AI companies for negligent safety practices before a catastrophic event has occurred. Also, the original text, which would have established a division within the California Department of Technology “to ensure continuous oversight and enforcement,” is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who heads the Senate Budget Committee, told KQED the changes were made in large part to improve the bill’s chances with lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom, given that California is facing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\">massive budget deficit\u003c/a>. “My experience with Gov. Newsom is he gives bills a fair shake and he listens to arguments. He speaks to people who support and people who oppose, and he makes an informed choice. And I’m confident he will do that here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would only affect companies building AI systems that cost more than $100 million to train. However, critics argue the mere threat of legal action from the state attorney general will stifle innovation by discouraging big tech companies from sharing open-source software with smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Anthropic warned in an open letter addressed to Wiener that it could not support the bill unless it was amended to “respect the evolving nature of risk reduction practices while minimizing rigid, ambiguous, or burdensome rules.” Anthropic was the first major generative AI developer to publicly signal a willingness to work with Wiener on SB 1047.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SB 1047 establishes clear, predictable, common sense legal standards for the developers of the biggest, most powerful AI systems to efficiently build in safety across the AI ecosystem startups build on,” wrote Nathan Calvin, Senior Policy Counsel at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the Center for AI Safety, which is one of SB 1047’s co-sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the bill, however, sounded another alarm, including Andrew Ng, the Stanford professor and former Google executive who detailed his concerns in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-252/\">post\u003c/a> viewed by more than 1 million people on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/andrewyng/status/1798753608974139779?s=61\">X\u003c/a>. “SB 1047 will stifle open source AI and hinder AI innovation,” Ng wrote KQED. “It makes a fundamental mistake of trying to regulate AI technology rather than address harmful applications. Worse, by making it harder for developers to release open AI models, it will hamper researchers’ ability to study cutting-edge AI and spot problems, and therefore will make AI less safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked why California lawmakers have pursued dozens of AI bills focused on discrete issues, compared to the European Union and the state of Colorado, which opted for comprehensive legislation, Wiener said, “California’s system is different than these other jurisdictions. We don’t tend to pick a subject matter and do ten different issues combined. We introduce individual bills. We work very hard to harmonize them,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged the pros and cons of this approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But doing it this way does allow us to take a more methodical approach, in terms of not having to solve everything all at once, but addressing specific issues.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Even Wiener’s longtime ally, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1828467847720509652\">open letter\u003c/a> that “more work needs to be done to bring together industry, government, and community stakeholders before moving forward with a legislative solution that doesn’t add unnecessary bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906876/nancy-pelosi-explains-the-art-of-power\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Thursday, Pelosi criticized the bill again.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“California is the home, the birthplace of AI. In our view. It has the knowledge, the technological knowledge, it has the entrepreneurship, and it has the responsibility to do the right thing, not to pass a bill that does not do the job because it is as well-intentioned as it is ill-informed.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also pushed back against the idea that she was speaking out against Wiener’s bill because he might face Pelosi’s daughter in a run for her seat once she leaves office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They don’t know what they’re talking about,” she said about \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2024/08/19/ai-pelosi-house-seat-00174542\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which first reported the story. “I don’t want California going down a bad path on something this serious and has nothing to do with elections.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 has also attracted high-profile supporters, including Elon Musk, who on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1828205685386936567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1828205685386936567%7Ctwgr%5Eefeda0f975043ebdda2707011f803c34424e4ba0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsfstandard.com%2F2024%2F08%2F26%2Felon-musk-openai-scott-wiener-sb1046%2F\">posted on social media site X,\u003c/a> “This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill. For over 20 years, I have been an advocate for AI regulation, just as we regulate any product/technology that is a potential risk to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener acknowledged his unlikely ally. “Elon Musk is not a fan of me, and I’m not a fan of Elon Musk,” Wiener said. “But even people who have very strong disagreements can still find common ground. And, in this area, Elon and I have common ground. He has long, long been an advocate for AI safety. And so this position is very consistent with his long history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he amended the measure to reflect counsel from leaders in the AI space, including safety groups, academics, startups and developers like Amazon-backed Anthropic. The bill no longer allows California’s attorney general to sue AI companies for negligent safety practices before a catastrophic event has occurred. Also, the original text, which would have established a division within the California Department of Technology “to ensure continuous oversight and enforcement,” is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who heads the Senate Budget Committee, told KQED the changes were made in large part to improve the bill’s chances with lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom, given that California is facing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\">massive budget deficit\u003c/a>. “My experience with Gov. Newsom is he gives bills a fair shake and he listens to arguments. He speaks to people who support and people who oppose, and he makes an informed choice. And I’m confident he will do that here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would only affect companies building AI systems that cost more than $100 million to train. However, critics argue the mere threat of legal action from the state attorney general will stifle innovation by discouraging big tech companies from sharing open-source software with smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Anthropic warned in an open letter addressed to Wiener that it could not support the bill unless it was amended to “respect the evolving nature of risk reduction practices while minimizing rigid, ambiguous, or burdensome rules.” Anthropic was the first major generative AI developer to publicly signal a willingness to work with Wiener on SB 1047.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SB 1047 establishes clear, predictable, common sense legal standards for the developers of the biggest, most powerful AI systems to efficiently build in safety across the AI ecosystem startups build on,” wrote Nathan Calvin, Senior Policy Counsel at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the Center for AI Safety, which is one of SB 1047’s co-sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the bill, however, sounded another alarm, including Andrew Ng, the Stanford professor and former Google executive who detailed his concerns in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-252/\">post\u003c/a> viewed by more than 1 million people on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/andrewyng/status/1798753608974139779?s=61\">X\u003c/a>. “SB 1047 will stifle open source AI and hinder AI innovation,” Ng wrote KQED. “It makes a fundamental mistake of trying to regulate AI technology rather than address harmful applications. 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"content": "\u003cp>As fog burned off the Pacific Ocean on Monday evening, Sally and David Maynard headed to the Pacifica Pier in search of whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see a little black mark come up, and we heard a spout,” Sally said. “A couple [told us] that another one stopped and looked like he was playing and leaping, but we missed that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple had made the trek from Menlo Park to spend the whole day scouting for humpbacks along Pacifica’s beaches, joining the throngs of people streaming into the coastal town just south of San Francisco in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They come in search of a whale frenzy not far from shore, intrigued by citizen scientists and semi-professional photographers posting about their sightings on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whales, on the other hand, seem to be driven by a more familiar motivation: food.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A social media-fueled, whale-watching craze\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Groups like \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/352947586172817\">Pacifica Whalespotting\u003c/a> started to blow up in early July as what one resident called “oodles and oodles of whales” began to appear off the Bay Area’s beaches, closer to the coast than veteran watchers are used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was thinking in June, this is shaping up to just be the worst whale summer in my time here. Then in July, it’s like a light switch flipped,” said Chris Campo, a Pacifica resident and admin in the Pacifica Whalespotting group. He and some other serious whale watchers, including the group’s founder, Robin Brun, have been posting updates in the Whalespotting group since 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A playful lobtailing session captures a unique moment as a cormorant is perfectly framed by the whale’s fluke. The whale, upside down and lying on its back beneath the water, reveals its underside during this impressive tail slap. \u003ccite>(Courtesy David Chamberlin.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through the years, the group has been sleepy — mostly just a spot for locals to post their best photos and share tips when fan-favorite whales are putting on an especially good show. But this year, it’s taken off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, instead of the group just being kind of this small ‘Pacifica local folks who are interested in whales’ group, it’s become more of a Bay Area and even beyond Bay Area group. … Our group now contains people from Sacramento and areas that are far beyond,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of the summer, there were about 4,000 people in Pacifica Whalespotting, said David Chamberlin, another group admin. As of Wednesday, it boasts more than 24,700 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the beaches have been busy too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Previous to this year, when I would go to one of what I consider the standard viewing locations, I would often be the only photographer out there, or sometimes there would be two or three more,” Chamberlin said. Recently, though, “the pier was lined with photographers all up and down each side. I don’t want to give an exact number, but there must have been at least 30 to 40 people out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photographers, families with binoculars and fishers have congregated on the pier. Some are following an alert of a sighting in the Whalespotting group; others come in hopes of being the first to see a humpback and getting to do the honors of pointing it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002271\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pinky (left), a local celebrity in the whale-spotting community, lunges out of the ocean alongside a companion near the Pacifica Pier. The two whales have become a familiar sight, often seen traveling and breaching together in the waters off Pacifica. \u003ccite>(Courtesy David Chamberlin.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chamberlin said there’s a lot of excitement along the pier when a whale shows up, especially one of their local “celebrities,” including two whales known to the group as Pinky and Fast Willy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When one of those two show up, especially because they’re known and named, it’s, ‘Oh, it’s Pinky! Everybody, Pinky is here,’” Chamberlin said. “We saw Fast Willy, and it was just half jogging one direction, stopping, taking photos, and then half jogging again to try and get to another spot because he moves around a lot. Everybody’s excite,d and there’s a great sense of community and participation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason this year’s season has been so exciting, both longtime whale watchers and scientists say, is because more whales are gathering close to the shore. But why they’re doing this, and what it could mean in the long term, is still somewhat of a mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are whales so close to the shore?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The leading theory for why more whales are showing off along the coast is that their food source is abundant in shallow waters this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local populations of anchovies, one of the humpbacks’ major food sources, have seen a boom in the last few years, according to Will Oestreich, a researcher at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11953794 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230622-ORCAS-KILLER-WHALES-GETTY-FG-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now they’re showing up more in the shallows — driven in large part by rising ocean temperatures, said Elliott Hazen, a research ecologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When there’s less cold water, this upwell, nutrient-rich [water] — I call it the ‘oasis’ to a lot of the global warming we have going on in the Pacific — compresses towards the shore, [and] you tend to see more life, more activity in that same close-to-shore habitat,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts also say that more whales are congregating in the area as the region’s population starts to recover from the devastating effects of whaling. One of the last whaling stations in the U.S., located in Richmond, shut down in the 1970s. For animals with longer life cycles, it can take decades to see population recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the population of humpback whales, which remain endangered in some parts of the world, appears to be increasing. These baleen whales have always traveled through the Bay Area, heading south to breeding grounds off mainland Mexico and Baja California in the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this is fun for whale watchers, it can pose safety risks to whales and raises questions about how their populations are shifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are experts worried?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are watching for potential issues such as an increased risk of ship strikes, entanglement and competition for food, but it seems like the Bay Area has been a “really good success story for conservation,” said Ari Friedlaender, a professor in the ocean sciences department at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hazen added that with recovering populations, there will inevitably be more chances for human-wildlife interactions since there are just more whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fast Willy, Pacifica’s other local “celebrity” whale, lunges through the early morning light during a stunning feeding display. \u003ccite>(Courtesy David Chamberlin.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If they congregate in shipping lanes in and out of the Port of San Francisco, whales are at a higher risk of ship strike, which is a leading cause of human-related death. NOAA has developed technology to detect when there is high whale activity in shipping lanes and issue requests for ships to slow down. There’s no binding rule that requires them to slow down, but many do, Hazen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t seen a huge uptick in ship strikes on the West Coast. But it’s very difficult because ship strikes most often go undetected because it happened,” Hazen told KQED. He noted that increased ship strikes occurred along the East Coast when the North Atlantic right whale population shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s Dungeness crab fishery also has to work dynamically depending on whale movement since the whales can also get entangled in fishing nets. In 2024, the commercial Dungeness crab season ended early to protect whale populations, \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive/cdfw-closes-commercial-dungeness-crab-fishery-and-restricts-recreational-crab-traps-in-the-central-management-area-limits-commercial-fishing-to-inside-30-f#gsc.tab=0\">according to the Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other thing scientists are keeping an eye on is just how much food the whales have as populations recover. But humpbacks aren’t called the “farmers of the ocean” for no reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are feeding on prey deep down in the ocean, some species, and then they come up into the photic zone where there’s light, and they poop,” Hazen said. This “fertilizes the ocean and then can actually support these prey populations through increased chlorophyll and then increased forage fish like anchovies or krill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whale watching season seems to be slowing down, Chamberlin and Campo said, but there are still a few popping up along the coast of Pacifica, and experts expect that in future years, they’ll probably continue coming close to shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who do choose to grab a pair of binoculars and search for a humpback, Campo urges visitors to be respectful of the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you come to Pacifica, drop some cash in our restaurants, be respectful of the beach, don’t leave trash,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The whale, upside down and lying on its back beneath the water, reveals its underside during this impressive tail slap. \u003ccite>(Courtesy David Chamberlin.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through the years, the group has been sleepy — mostly just a spot for locals to post their best photos and share tips when fan-favorite whales are putting on an especially good show. But this year, it’s taken off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, instead of the group just being kind of this small ‘Pacifica local folks who are interested in whales’ group, it’s become more of a Bay Area and even beyond Bay Area group. … Our group now contains people from Sacramento and areas that are far beyond,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the beginning of the summer, there were about 4,000 people in Pacifica Whalespotting, said David Chamberlin, another group admin. 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For animals with longer life cycles, it can take decades to see population recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the population of humpback whales, which remain endangered in some parts of the world, appears to be increasing. These baleen whales have always traveled through the Bay Area, heading south to breeding grounds off mainland Mexico and Baja California in the winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this is fun for whale watchers, it can pose safety risks to whales and raises questions about how their populations are shifting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are experts worried?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are watching for potential issues such as an increased risk of ship strikes, entanglement and competition for food, but it seems like the Bay Area has been a “really good success story for conservation,” said Ari Friedlaender, a professor in the ocean sciences department at UC Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hazen added that with recovering populations, there will inevitably be more chances for human-wildlife interactions since there are just more whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/WhaleSightings4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fast Willy, Pacifica’s other local “celebrity” whale, lunges through the early morning light during a stunning feeding display. \u003ccite>(Courtesy David Chamberlin.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If they congregate in shipping lanes in and out of the Port of San Francisco, whales are at a higher risk of ship strike, which is a leading cause of human-related death. NOAA has developed technology to detect when there is high whale activity in shipping lanes and issue requests for ships to slow down. There’s no binding rule that requires them to slow down, but many do, Hazen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t seen a huge uptick in ship strikes on the West Coast. But it’s very difficult because ship strikes most often go undetected because it happened,” Hazen told KQED. He noted that increased ship strikes occurred along the East Coast when the North Atlantic right whale population shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s Dungeness crab fishery also has to work dynamically depending on whale movement since the whales can also get entangled in fishing nets. In 2024, the commercial Dungeness crab season ended early to protect whale populations, \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive/cdfw-closes-commercial-dungeness-crab-fishery-and-restricts-recreational-crab-traps-in-the-central-management-area-limits-commercial-fishing-to-inside-30-f#gsc.tab=0\">according to the Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other thing scientists are keeping an eye on is just how much food the whales have as populations recover. But humpbacks aren’t called the “farmers of the ocean” for no reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are feeding on prey deep down in the ocean, some species, and then they come up into the photic zone where there’s light, and they poop,” Hazen said. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Lynda Hopkins made an out-of-the-blue call to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-county\">Sonoma County\u003c/a> property owner, she didn’t think there was much hope of stopping the logging project planned on his land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins, a Sonoma County supervisor, said it was an “11th-hour” effort to see if the owner would be open to selling their family’s nearly 400-acre expanse of land, mostly covered in redwood trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To my shock, the property owner actually said yes,” Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So began a patchwork effort from community organizers, county leaders and a nonprofit partner to purchase the land for preservation. The $6 million deal is expected to be finalized next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, county officials voted to approve the funds needed to purchase the land known as the Russian River Redwoods. 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The trunk is so huge. It’s almost like an ecosystem unto itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the nearly 2,000-year-old Clar Tree was not at risk of being cut down in the timber harvest, community members were worried about how the loss of surrounding trees would affect its ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Redwoods are a communal species,” Hopkins said. “Their roots actually link together under the ground. And when it comes to strong wind events, it’s actually the collective strength of the redwood forest, not the strength of individual trees, that actually enables that forest to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surrounding forest also became important to community activists, who formed the Guerneville Forest Coalition to try to preserve the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guerneville was previously partly a logging town. There is an old nickname for Guerneville called Stumptown. But things changed in the 21st century,” Ed Yates, the GFC attorney, said. “The Guerneville area was no longer Stumptown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001758\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-16-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-16-web.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-16-web-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-16-web-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-16-web-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-16-web-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Tuesday, county officials voted to approve the funds needed to purchase the land known as the Russian River Redwoods. The land will be transferred to the Russian River Sanitation District, which will, according to a press release, ensure its “natural resources are conserved forever.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Save the Redwoods League)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said that the coalition was concerned with maintaining the area’s natural beauty, preserving its biodiversity and protecting its ability to sequester carbon. When the owner of the Russian River Redwoods filed a timber harvest plan in 2020 and was eventually approved to begin logging in 2022, GFC initiated legal action to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins made her call and learned that a sale was on the table — if it could be completed within months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That short window didn’t give the county’s Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District, which can make purchases to protect natural resources, time to go through the lengthy approval process to complete the transaction, so a nonprofit partner stepped in to make an interim purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11953504 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS40604_GettyImages-177068762-qut-1020x681.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Save the Redwoods League, a nonprofit that works to preserve redwood forests, agreed to lead a fundraising effort and closed on the property last September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That really took away a lot of the risk of the property immediately being harvested or sold to somebody else and gave us the time needed to put together the deal that you’re now seeing, where we’re spending a little over $6.1 million of local Sonoma County sales tax dollars to permanently conserve the property and its associated resources,” Misti Arias, the general manager of Sonoma County’s Agriculture and Open Space District, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russian River County Sanitation District, managed by Sonoma Water, will become the owner of the land thanks to funding from the county’s Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District, which will hold a conservation easement and recreation covenant to ensure that the property’s resources are conserved. 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The land will be transferred to the Russian River Sanitation District, which will, according to a press release, ensure its “natural resources are conserved forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001756\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12001756\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-18-web-800x1199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-18-web-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-18-web-1020x1528.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-18-web-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-18-web-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-18-web.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonoma County’s purchase of 394 acres along the Russian River, home to the county’s tallest redwood, has been approved, paving the way for protection and future research and public use. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Save the Redwoods League)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some trace the work of community advocates to protect the redwoods to one tree, one of the the tallest in Sonoma County, that sits on the property: the Clar Tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s magnificent, and it’s hard to describe something that’s so immense,” Hopkins said. “You feel so small when you stand in front of it. 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But things changed in the 21st century,” Ed Yates, the GFC attorney, said. “The Guerneville area was no longer Stumptown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001758\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-16-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-16-web.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-16-web-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-16-web-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-16-web-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Russian-River-Redwoods-vivianchen-16-web-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Tuesday, county officials voted to approve the funds needed to purchase the land known as the Russian River Redwoods. The land will be transferred to the Russian River Sanitation District, which will, according to a press release, ensure its “natural resources are conserved forever.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Save the Redwoods League)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said that the coalition was concerned with maintaining the area’s natural beauty, preserving its biodiversity and protecting its ability to sequester carbon. When the owner of the Russian River Redwoods filed a timber harvest plan in 2020 and was eventually approved to begin logging in 2022, GFC initiated legal action to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins made her call and learned that a sale was on the table — if it could be completed within months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That short window didn’t give the county’s Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District, which can make purchases to protect natural resources, time to go through the lengthy approval process to complete the transaction, so a nonprofit partner stepped in to make an interim purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Last month, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass new legislation to force landlords with 50 or more units to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/07/16/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-major-new-actions-to-lower-housing-costs-by-limiting-rent-increases-and-building-more-homes/\">cap annual rent increases at 5%\u003c/a> or risk losing certain federal tax breaks. 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