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San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC7148889068&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:01:01] This is an area up in the Western part of Marin County, really along the coast. It’s kind of a peninsula and extends about 70,000 acres. It’s just vast green hills and fields and there are cattle roaming, branches are kind of nestled in and you know you can see the Pacific Ocean out in the distance. There are 14 cattle and dairy ranches that are actually in the national seashore and there are more outside of it in the surrounding areas. They raise cattle and produce local beef and dairy, which is used by brands that we all know like Strauss Creamery. Most of these are family-run farms that have been operating in the area since really right after the California Gold Rush, so for more than a century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:08] Okay, so a long legacy of ranching in this part of Point Reyes since the gold rush. But then I know that in 1962, Point Reye’s national seashore was established. 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But also it opens them up a lot to litigation, especially over the past decade. Environmental groups have really targeted the area kind of arguing that this should be land that is restored and kept natural and it shouldn’t be used for agriculture anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:55] Tell me a bit more about the lawsuits filed by environmentalists, what’s their argument?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:04:01] In 2016, three environmental groups, the Resource Renewal Institute, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Western Watershed Project, they sued the National Park Service. This lawsuit by environmental groups kind of alleges that the ranchers dump large amounts of pollutants and greenhouse gasses onto the land. It can get into water and violates the Clean Water Act. And they say that it’s causing ecological damage and harming the elk population that grazes in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:35] And what do ranchers say in response to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:04:38] At the time, ranchers hoped and really believed that when they made the deal to sell their land back in the 60s, generations of farmers could keep operating there for years to come. The Point Reyes Act says that the land could continue to be used for existing ranching and dairying purposes, but it also gave the Secretary of Interior oversight over conservation of the natural land there and management of the zone’s natural resources. But overall, I think ranchers thought, you know, we’ve been here a long time, we’re connected to this land and we should be able to continue to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:20] We’re talking about this now because a settlement was reached earlier this year, what happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:05:28] So in January the Nature Conservancy announced that it had helped mediate a settlement between 12 of the 14 ranches that are within the National Seashore Area and the National Park Service. Basically the ranches agreed to be bought out of their lease agreements and stop ranching the land and in exchange the environmental groups would cease their litigation. Total the ranchers believe about. 16,000 of those acres are gonna be rezoned as a scenic landscape zone, which is gonna not allow ranching and really focus on conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:15] When the deal was announced back in January, environmentalists called it a major victory for the native Tule elk. They also listed a whole waterfall of benefits, like less erosion and sediment in streams, restored native grasslands, and more access to trails and campsites for the public. Ranchers, on the other hand, said this would mark the end of a lifestyle as they knew it. Now that the deal is closed, it’s left a big question. What happens to the workers living on the ranches?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:06:53] There’s lots of people who work on the ranches and actually even live on the branches. There are about 100 people who are at risk of being displaced when these branches close. And West Marin and Marin in general doesn’t have enough shelter at the price that these tenants can afford for them really to stay. You know, I think there’s a lot of fear about just what’s going to come next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Bravo \u003c/strong>[00:07:24] There is fear and stress of having to possibly start a new life in another community and possibly, you know, another county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:07:35] Jasmine Bravo works with the Bolinas Land Trust. She is an advocate for tenants in West Marin. Her family actually lived in ranch housing when she was growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Bravo \u003c/strong>[00:07:49] No affordable housing inside West Marin, specifically in Point Reyes and Inverness where people work, go to school, have their daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:07:57] She said this is really a concern because a lot of the community is primarily Spanish-speaking and they’ve developed, you know, really strong ties where they have bilingual doctors, they have teachers that they trust, they have really developed resources that they stand to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Bravo \u003c/strong>[00:08:15] We are at serious risk of people leaving West Marin this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:21] And I imagine there’s this sort of ripple effect. Everyone is already sort of squeezed, right? And there’s already a housing crisis in Marin County. 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Where are we going to go if we Asked to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:49] Coming up, what help is being offered to displaced workers, and what’s next for the Point Reyes National Seashore. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:10] Well, what help is being offered to those 100 people who are being affected and displaced here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:10:18] As part of the settlement deal, the Nature Conservancy is providing some resettlement resources for things like money to move and advising services. In March, the board of supervisors there declared a shelter crisis, in part they say to speed up development of temporary housing for displaced residents. This could mean bringing in tiny homes, bringing in mobile homes, kind of trying to get creative about spaces that. Under normal California law would not be allowed to be created into housing so quickly, but it remains to be seen if they can execute it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:02] Well, I wanna talk about what things will look like moving forward, Katie. What’s the timeline here? I mean, how soon will these ranches close and how soon people will have to leave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:11:13] For these 12 ranches, they have to wrap up their operations within 15 months of the settlement, which puts us at April of next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:26] There are still two ranches sort of hanging on, right? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:01:01] This is an area up in the Western part of Marin County, really along the coast. It’s kind of a peninsula and extends about 70,000 acres. It’s just vast green hills and fields and there are cattle roaming, branches are kind of nestled in and you know you can see the Pacific Ocean out in the distance. There are 14 cattle and dairy ranches that are actually in the national seashore and there are more outside of it in the surrounding areas. They raise cattle and produce local beef and dairy, which is used by brands that we all know like Strauss Creamery. 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And the expectation was that, you know, they would continue to get leases and that would go on for generations. But over the last decade or so, they have had more trouble getting lease renewals, new long term leases, and instead there’s been kind of this patchwork of short term lease extensions, which has really hampered ranchers ability to invest in infrastructure and plan for the future. But also it opens them up a lot to litigation, especially over the past decade. 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And they say that it’s causing ecological damage and harming the elk population that grazes in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:35] And what do ranchers say in response to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:04:38] At the time, ranchers hoped and really believed that when they made the deal to sell their land back in the 60s, generations of farmers could keep operating there for years to come. The Point Reyes Act says that the land could continue to be used for existing ranching and dairying purposes, but it also gave the Secretary of Interior oversight over conservation of the natural land there and management of the zone’s natural resources. But overall, I think ranchers thought, you know, we’ve been here a long time, we’re connected to this land and we should be able to continue to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:20] We’re talking about this now because a settlement was reached earlier this year, what happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:05:28] So in January the Nature Conservancy announced that it had helped mediate a settlement between 12 of the 14 ranches that are within the National Seashore Area and the National Park Service. Basically the ranches agreed to be bought out of their lease agreements and stop ranching the land and in exchange the environmental groups would cease their litigation. Total the ranchers believe about. 16,000 of those acres are gonna be rezoned as a scenic landscape zone, which is gonna not allow ranching and really focus on conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:15] When the deal was announced back in January, environmentalists called it a major victory for the native Tule elk. They also listed a whole waterfall of benefits, like less erosion and sediment in streams, restored native grasslands, and more access to trails and campsites for the public. Ranchers, on the other hand, said this would mark the end of a lifestyle as they knew it. Now that the deal is closed, it’s left a big question. What happens to the workers living on the ranches?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:06:53] There’s lots of people who work on the ranches and actually even live on the branches. There are about 100 people who are at risk of being displaced when these branches close. And West Marin and Marin in general doesn’t have enough shelter at the price that these tenants can afford for them really to stay. You know, I think there’s a lot of fear about just what’s going to come next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Bravo \u003c/strong>[00:07:24] There is fear and stress of having to possibly start a new life in another community and possibly, you know, another county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:07:35] Jasmine Bravo works with the Bolinas Land Trust. She is an advocate for tenants in West Marin. Her family actually lived in ranch housing when she was growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Bravo \u003c/strong>[00:07:49] No affordable housing inside West Marin, specifically in Point Reyes and Inverness where people work, go to school, have their daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:07:57] She said this is really a concern because a lot of the community is primarily Spanish-speaking and they’ve developed, you know, really strong ties where they have bilingual doctors, they have teachers that they trust, they have really developed resources that they stand to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Bravo \u003c/strong>[00:08:15] We are at serious risk of people leaving West Marin this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:21] And I imagine there’s this sort of ripple effect. Everyone is already sort of squeezed, right? And there’s already a housing crisis in Marin County. What is the reaction from the broader community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:08:36] You know, not a lot of the tenants have really spoken super publicly about this just because it is so sensitive, but during a recent city council meeting, some of them talked about the way that this is gonna affect whether or not they can stay in West Marin and kind of just what the impact of losing this housing option is gonna be on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ranch worker \u003c/strong>[00:09:06] Hola, buenos dias. Mi nombre es Enrique y vengo representando la comunidad de Ponreyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ranch worker (interpreter) \u003c/strong>[00:09:14] This is the interpretation into English. I am the father of a son with an extreme disability. And as you can imagine, this situation is very, very worrisome. We are extremely concerned. Where are we going to go if we Asked to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:49] Coming up, what help is being offered to displaced workers, and what’s next for the Point Reyes National Seashore. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:10] Well, what help is being offered to those 100 people who are being affected and displaced here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:10:18] As part of the settlement deal, the Nature Conservancy is providing some resettlement resources for things like money to move and advising services. In March, the board of supervisors there declared a shelter crisis, in part they say to speed up development of temporary housing for displaced residents. This could mean bringing in tiny homes, bringing in mobile homes, kind of trying to get creative about spaces that. Under normal California law would not be allowed to be created into housing so quickly, but it remains to be seen if they can execute it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:02] Well, I wanna talk about what things will look like moving forward, Katie. What’s the timeline here? I mean, how soon will these ranches close and how soon people will have to leave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:11:13] For these 12 ranches, they have to wrap up their operations within 15 months of the settlement, which puts us at April of next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:26] There are still two ranches sort of hanging on, right? I mean, what does that mean for all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:11:34] Nicolette Niman is one of two of the ranch operators who is actually not losing their ranch and suing the park service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nicolette Niman \u003c/strong>[00:11:46] In our view, the entire direction of the park in recent years, especially with this settlement now, has been to discourage agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:11:57] They’re saying the park’s service should include the option to lease the land to new generations of farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nicolette Niman \u003c/strong>[00:12:04] Not just the people, but just sort of the presence of people that are working on the lands and producing very high quality food on a smaller scale that’s grass-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:12:18] Nicolette says that the farms that operate in West Marin have really been at the forefront of sustainable and regenerative agricultural methods. She believes that this is a real benefit to ranching in general and is worried about what would happen if that doesn’t get to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nicolette Niman \u003c/strong>[00:12:37] There’s this opportunity here to use this as an example of what agriculture could be, what food production should be and could be in the future. And basically the park is just tossing that whole opportunity aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:52] And I know that Jasmine, one of the women you talked with, is very connected with many of the impacted workers. What did she tell you about how some of those displaced workers are feeling right now and where they’re sort of all at?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:13:10] People are really just feeling scared and unsettled. They don’t have a lot of information about, you know, these possible temporary housing options. They’re also looking at that March deadline and wondering if they should enroll their kids in school next fall, or whether they’re gonna be moving out of the county. And now they’re increasingly worried, too, about federal scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jasmine Bravo \u003c/strong>[00:13:37] Not only are people now facing job insecurity, housing instability, but people are now experiencing fear of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katie DeBenedetti \u003c/strong>[00:13:47] In April, some House Republicans launched a probe into the settlement deal, kind of looking to see if the deal is fair to ranchers. And people are worried. Some of them are undocumented. They don’t want the federal government kind of coming in and trying to speak with ranchers and looking around this deal. When the Congressional probe was launched, really the environmental groups, the ranchers have kind of all come out and said, please let the deal stand, you know, this is kind of our only option forward and it’s untenable to continue ranching in this area at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:38] Um, I mean, so what’s, what is this all going to mean for this area of Point Reyes, Katie? I mean how could this part of the Bay Area change moving forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For decades, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gray-wolf\">gray wolves\u003c/a> were thought to have been hunted and poisoned into extinction in California, with the last sighting of the animal in the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that changed in late 2011, when a wolf wearing a radio collar crossed into the state from Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years since, California’s gray wolf population has grown into the dozens, with most roaming the \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=229435&inline\">far northern part of the state\u003c/a>. State Department of Fish and Wildlife officials say wolfpack activity has been reported in Shasta, Lassen, Plumas and Sierra counties. But in some of those areas, like Modoc County, the wolf’s reappearance is fueling a backlash — especially among \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cattle-ranchers\">cattle ranchers\u003c/a>, who see the apex predator as a growing menace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have lost all fear of humans and are coming in and killing livestock in very close proximity to ranch houses that are occupied with families,” said Ned Coe, a Modoc County supervisor and rancher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that more ranchers in the region are losing their cattle to wolf attacks as the predators shift their hunting targets from wild game to livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What would your choice be? A very fast deer or a large, fast elk? Or a beef animal — out in what oftentimes is a very smooth, wide open pasture — that doesn’t run very fast or very far?” he asked. “Easy dinner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To protect their livestock, ranchers use a variety of non-lethal deterrents to keep the wolves away. That includes electric fencing and air horns programmed to emit blasts of sound at random times. Ranchers also use fladry, which are brightly colored strips of plastic or cloth tied to fences, to exploit wolves’ fear of unfamiliar objects and keep them away from herds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038715\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Vigil, manager of Dixie Valley Ranch in Shasta County, has lost cattle to wolf attacks. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Jessica Vigil said wolves are canny predators that quickly adapt to measures used to scare them off. Vigil, manager of the Dixie Valley Ranch, which spans thousands of acres in Shasta County, said wolf attacks are increasing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a short span of last fall in a month, we had five depredations confirmed by wolves,” Vigil said. “That is a cattle killed by a wolf. And then, last month, we had a set of twin calves that were born, they were killed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the wolves’ return to the state, no people have been injured or killed by the animals. Experts say that’s rare, but Modoc County Sheriff Tex Dowdy fears that could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the absolute fear … that we get a call that somebody’s been attacked by one of these wolves and at that point it’s too late,” he said. “I feel like we haven’t done enough to protect our constituents, our folks, our kids. And that’s why we’re trying to get ahead of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cattle graze in a Modoc County pasture. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, three counties in the state — \u003ca href=\"https://plumassun.org/2025/04/14/emergency-proposal-would-allow-removal-of-wolves/\">Sierra, Plumas and Modoc\u003c/a> — have declared a wolf-related state of emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wolves, which are native to California, are protected by both the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/initiative/protecting-wildlife/gray-wolf-recovery-news-and-updates\">federal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=109405&inline\">state\u003c/a> endangered species acts. Officials and environmental groups, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/gray_wolves/\">Center for Biological Diversity\u003c/a>, want to make sure the animal’s population continues to rebound in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something that was here from the beginning of time is back in California, and that’s amazing,” said Chuck Bonham, the director of California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. He added that the reappearance is a natural process that should be welcomed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our department didn’t go to Oregon. Our department did not go to Washington State. We did not pick up a wolf and bring it here,” he said. “What happened is nature played out, and she’s super tough and resilient if we give her a chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038717\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/PROTECT-OUR-LIVESTOCK-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/PROTECT-OUR-LIVESTOCK-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/PROTECT-OUR-LIVESTOCK-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/PROTECT-OUR-LIVESTOCK-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/PROTECT-OUR-LIVESTOCK-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/PROTECT-OUR-LIVESTOCK-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/PROTECT-OUR-LIVESTOCK-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign outside a Modoc County ranch echoes ranchers’ concerns about the dangers wolves pose. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonham said the department estimates that there are between 50 and 80 gray wolves in California, which he called an “amazing story, ecologically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Fish and Wildlife officials have started a number of programs to make sure the wolf’s reappearance doesn’t come at the expense of people and livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes placing \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive/california-enters-next-phase-of-wolf-conservation-plan-as-states-gray-wolf-population-continues-to-expand\">transmitters on captured wolves\u003c/a> to track their movements and providing financial compensation to ranchers whose livestock have been killed by wolves.[aside postID=news_11862584 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/0-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critical to determining whether wolves are responsible for livestock deaths is an unusual facility in a Sacramento office park. Filled with DNA testing equipment, it’s the state’s only wildlife forensic laboratory and helps lead investigations into “wildlife conflict,” including wolf attacks on livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very similar to a human forensic lab,” said Erin Meredith, a forensic specialist with the Department of Fish and Wildlife. “The only difference is we work with more than one species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meredith and her colleagues receive DNA samples from investigators in the field and analyze them to determine whether wolves are responsible for specific cattle deaths, instead of bears or mountain lions. The investigations also help determine whether a wolf actually attacked and killed cattle, or merely fed on carcasses that died from other causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those people in the field, as they’re doing their investigation, they’re going to collect swabs of the wounds, they’re gonna collect swabs of any areas of the animal that might have been fed on, in hopes of trying to obtain DNA from whatever species that was that did the damage to the animal,” she said. “We’re gonna get those swabs in and we’re gonna sample those for the DNA of that species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038718\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff William “Tex” Dowdy in his office in the Modoc County community of Alturas. Dowdy said he’s concerned about the possible threat of wolves to people, from children living on remote ranches to hikers camping in the backcountry. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in places like Modoc County, ranchers and local officials want more than DNA testing, radio collars on wolves and \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Gray-Wolf/Grants\">financial compensation\u003c/a> for lost cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want the wolves here,” Dowdy said. “I don’t want the wolves here. I wish we would do more to push them out instead of accept them into California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dowdy added he thinks law enforcement should “be able to eliminate that threat when it becomes an imminent threat to public safety.” But wolf defenders say killing even some of the animals would be a tragic replay of what first drove the species to the vanishing point in the state for nearly a century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say that with additional precautions, such as the state studying the release of an online tool to \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive/california-enters-next-phase-of-wolf-conservation-plan-as-states-gray-wolf-population-continues-to-expand\">track GPS-collared wolves\u003c/a>, it’s possible for people and this predator — a symbol of the American West — to coexist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited with help from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom\">The California Newsroom\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Ranchers also use fladry, which are brightly colored strips of plastic or cloth tied to fences, to exploit wolves’ fear of unfamiliar objects and keep them away from herds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038715\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/JESSICA-VIGIL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Vigil, manager of Dixie Valley Ranch in Shasta County, has lost cattle to wolf attacks. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Jessica Vigil said wolves are canny predators that quickly adapt to measures used to scare them off. Vigil, manager of the Dixie Valley Ranch, which spans thousands of acres in Shasta County, said wolf attacks are increasing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a short span of last fall in a month, we had five depredations confirmed by wolves,” Vigil said. “That is a cattle killed by a wolf. And then, last month, we had a set of twin calves that were born, they were killed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the wolves’ return to the state, no people have been injured or killed by the animals. Experts say that’s rare, but Modoc County Sheriff Tex Dowdy fears that could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the absolute fear … that we get a call that somebody’s been attacked by one of these wolves and at that point it’s too late,” he said. “I feel like we haven’t done enough to protect our constituents, our folks, our kids. And that’s why we’re trying to get ahead of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CATTLE-1-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cattle graze in a Modoc County pasture. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, three counties in the state — \u003ca href=\"https://plumassun.org/2025/04/14/emergency-proposal-would-allow-removal-of-wolves/\">Sierra, Plumas and Modoc\u003c/a> — have declared a wolf-related state of emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wolves, which are native to California, are protected by both the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/initiative/protecting-wildlife/gray-wolf-recovery-news-and-updates\">federal\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=109405&inline\">state\u003c/a> endangered species acts. Officials and environmental groups, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/gray_wolves/\">Center for Biological Diversity\u003c/a>, want to make sure the animal’s population continues to rebound in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something that was here from the beginning of time is back in California, and that’s amazing,” said Chuck Bonham, the director of California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. He added that the reappearance is a natural process that should be welcomed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our department didn’t go to Oregon. Our department did not go to Washington State. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critical to determining whether wolves are responsible for livestock deaths is an unusual facility in a Sacramento office park. Filled with DNA testing equipment, it’s the state’s only wildlife forensic laboratory and helps lead investigations into “wildlife conflict,” including wolf attacks on livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very similar to a human forensic lab,” said Erin Meredith, a forensic specialist with the Department of Fish and Wildlife. “The only difference is we work with more than one species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meredith and her colleagues receive DNA samples from investigators in the field and analyze them to determine whether wolves are responsible for specific cattle deaths, instead of bears or mountain lions. The investigations also help determine whether a wolf actually attacked and killed cattle, or merely fed on carcasses that died from other causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those people in the field, as they’re doing their investigation, they’re going to collect swabs of the wounds, they’re gonna collect swabs of any areas of the animal that might have been fed on, in hopes of trying to obtain DNA from whatever species that was that did the damage to the animal,” she said. “We’re gonna get those swabs in and we’re gonna sample those for the DNA of that species.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038718\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SHERIFF-TEX-GOWDY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff William “Tex” Dowdy in his office in the Modoc County community of Alturas. Dowdy said he’s concerned about the possible threat of wolves to people, from children living on remote ranches to hikers camping in the backcountry. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in places like Modoc County, ranchers and local officials want more than DNA testing, radio collars on wolves and \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Gray-Wolf/Grants\">financial compensation\u003c/a> for lost cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want the wolves here,” Dowdy said. “I don’t want the wolves here. I wish we would do more to push them out instead of accept them into California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dowdy added he thinks law enforcement should “be able to eliminate that threat when it becomes an imminent threat to public safety.” But wolf defenders say killing even some of the animals would be a tragic replay of what first drove the species to the vanishing point in the state for nearly a century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say that with additional precautions, such as the state studying the release of an online tool to \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive/california-enters-next-phase-of-wolf-conservation-plan-as-states-gray-wolf-population-continues-to-expand\">track GPS-collared wolves\u003c/a>, it’s possible for people and this predator — a symbol of the American West — to coexist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited with help from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californianewsroom\">The California Newsroom\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It would also bar future similar litigation as the ranches finish out their existing property leases, some of which are set to last nearly 20 more years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, preventing future lawsuits hinges on the ranchers meeting the settlement’s terms for ceasing operations, according to a letter that environmental groups Advocates for the West, the Resource Renewal Institute, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Western Watersheds Project sent Thursday in response to a document request from the House committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ranchers say that there isn’t any turning back on the deal and that the investigation only threatens to upend their protection from litigation and their payouts from the Nature Conservancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One ranch has already closed down,” according to the letter from the members of the Point Reyes Seashore Ranchers Association. “Another ranch has purchased property elsewhere. Many of the families are currently cleaning out their ranch buildings and surroundings and removing possessions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021428\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PointReyesCattleGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PointReyesCattleGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PointReyesCattleGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PointReyesCattleGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PointReyesCattleGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PointReyesCattleGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PointReyesCattleGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cows in a meadow in Point Reyes National Seashore, located in Marin County, California, on Nov. 17, 2017. \u003ccite>(Gili Yaari/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An attorney writing on behalf of three additional dairies sent a second letter to the Committee on Natural Resources last week, requesting that it allow the settlement to move forward without requiring their confidential mediation documents to be revealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My clients are asking that their decisions be respected and that they be allowed to fulfill their\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>legal obligations under the agreements to close down their ranches in an orderly and appropriate manner and complete the transaction within the agreed timeline,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the environmental groups targeted by the congressional investigation handed over more than 3,500 pages of documents related to the deal but said their mediation documents would not be released, citing attorney-client privilege and work product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they amplified the ranchers’ request to allow the settlement to continue, the environmental groups didn’t echo the ranchers’ other plea to Congress: to strengthen legal protections for ranchers on public lands elsewhere.[aside postID=news_12029675 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/NimanRanchGetty-1020x680.jpg']The dairies called for additional protections against “predatory litigation” by environmental activists, which they said has made it impossible for them to remain in Marin and the wider Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dairies said they “urge our elected officials to examine how and why a state like California, where dairy, made up almost entirely of family farms, has been strangled by hostile regulations, activism, and litigation instead of being protected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029675/niman-ranch-challenges-point-reyes-seashore-settlement-in-lawsuit-over-ranching\">lawsuits fighting the settlement\u003c/a> deal have already been filed on behalf of ranching families and tenants who have long resided there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill and Nicolette Niman, who operate one of the two ranches that isn’t party to the settlement, sued the National Park Service, alleging that its move to bar agricultural operations on most of the 28,000-acre seashore fails to account for Congress’ goal to preserve the area’s “ranching and agricultural heritage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They believe the land should continue to be available to future generations of ranchers, even after those who have signed onto the settlement leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other remaining ranch owner, David Evans, joined the Nimans’ suit, and in his own letter to the House committee, he urged it to provide protections from “green groups,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/most-point-reyes-seashore-ranchers-signal-support-for-buyout-deal-after-hou/?ref=home-icymysmallstories\">reporting by the \u003cem>Press Democrat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congress, when it authorized the seashore and created the seashore, granted the park service and the Secretary of the Interior the authority — should the initial ranchers decide to leave, as most have now done — to lease that land to a new generation of ranchers,” said Peter Prows, the attorney representing the Nimans. “That alternative of leasing it to others is something that the park service hasn’t considered in violation of the law, and it’s really unfortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Congress has launched an investigation into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021426/point-reyes-ranching-will-all-but-end-under-new-deal-capping-decades-long-conflict\">controversial settlement deal\u003c/a> that is set to end most dairy and cattle ranching along the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/point-reyes\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a>, according to a letter this week from Republican members, including many on the House Committee on Natural Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jared Huffman, the committee’s ranking Democrat, said the move could “blow up” the historic land deal, which had seemed poised to end years of environmental strife over the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement was announced in January, when the National Park Service said that a dozen ranchers had agreed to cede their leases in exchange for a buyout from the Nature Conservancy. The park service also said it would revise its general management plan to rezone about 16,000 acres of the seashore to disallow most agricultural operations and add \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936802/cattle-ranching-is-at-the-center-of-a-battle-brewing-in-point-reyes\">protections for the tule elk\u003c/a> population there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the letter sent Thursday to the Nature Conservancy and other environmental organizations who were party to the deal, Congress members are concerned about the “lack of transparency” and potential “environmental and legal consequences” of the deal, as well as the environmental nonprofit’s part in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The terms of the deal have been kept mostly private, and ranchers had to sign non-disclosure agreements related to the settlement and their compensation, according to the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress members are now alleging that the NDAs have “muzzled” lessies who agreed to the deal and that many aren’t happy with its terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC5237-scaled-e1672877098790.jpg\" alt=\"Four male elk walk down a grassy hillside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once abundant in Point Reyes, Tule elk were nearly hunted to extinction. In the 1970s, the Parks Service designated the northern tip of Point Reyes as an elk preserve. \u003ccite>(Amanda Font/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The committee understands that not only are some parties uncomfortable with the settlement agreement, but also that [Nature Conservancy] donors and environmental advocates have expressed displeasure with the settlement,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nature Conservancy said in a statement that it “was not part of the Point Reyes litigation, but was asked by all of the litigating parties, including the ranchers, to join their mediation as an honest broker and help find a compromise to end the long-standing conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an organization, we have a long history of partnering with ranchers, farmers and communities who work closest to the land to help conserve the lands and waters that sustain us all,” the statement reads. “We have long considered farmers and ranchers some of our greatest conservation allies.”[aside postID=news_12029675 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/NimanRanchGetty-1020x680.jpg']The settlement came after three environmental groups — Resource Renewal Institute, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Western Watersheds Project — sued the park service in 2022, faulting it for part of the ecological damage done by ranchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the deal spurred anger and anxiety within the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/marin-county\">West Marin\u003c/a> community, where ranching had been an economic backbone for generations. One rancher who agreed to the buyout told KQED at the time that even though he ultimately took the settlement, he and other ranchers “felt so much in a corner that [they] didn’t know what else to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicolette Hahn Niman and her husband, William, who own Niman Ranch, refused the deal and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029675/niman-ranch-challenges-point-reyes-seashore-settlement-in-lawsuit-over-ranching\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against the park service in March, saying that the move to bar ranching would cause environmental damage and failed to account for Congress’ goal to preserve the “ranching and agricultural heritage” of the seashore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second lawsuit filed against the park service, Nature Conservancy and Department of Interior alleges that they conspired to pay off the ranchers. West Marin attorney Andrew Giacomini filed the suit on behalf of local workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002972/west-marin-worker-housing-often-substandard-and-faulty-new-report-finds\">who live in housing on the ranches\u003c/a> — one of few affordable options in the area — and are now poised to be evicted in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The members of Congress are requesting wide-ranging communication records between the Nature Conservancy, the environmental groups that brought the 2022 suit, the National Park Service, and the ranchers who are party to the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240426_DeptofLaborAnnouncement-11_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240426_DeptofLaborAnnouncement-11_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240426_DeptofLaborAnnouncement-11_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240426_DeptofLaborAnnouncement-11_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240426_DeptofLaborAnnouncement-11_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240426_DeptofLaborAnnouncement-11_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240426_DeptofLaborAnnouncement-11_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Congressman Jared Huffman speaks during a press conference in Santa Rosa on April 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also seem to be reviewing the Nature Conservancy’s new role helping manage the seashore under the park service’s revision to the General Management Plan this year, which they believe could be a conflict of interest because of the nonprofit’s part in the land deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman, whose district includes West Marin, said he didn’t have any advance knowledge that the probe was being launched and that the representatives investigating never asked for information regarding the settlement before now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing to hide here,” he said. “I would have gladly brought them to Point Reyes, had them sit down and talk to the ranchers. There’s nothing controversial or scandalous in any of this, it’s just a painful and difficult business decision that these ranching families have made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that the probe has the possibility to reverse the historic deal unless the ranchers who agreed to it back it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranching families who “have largely been silent for the last few months … [are] going to need to explain that they want this deal and that people should knock it off and stop politicizing it,” Huffman said. “If they do that, then we can probably still move forward, but if they’ve changed their minds, then we’re probably in a new place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Point Reyes ranchers are suing the National Parks Service after it announced it would rezone the coastal land where multigenerational family farms have operated for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicolette Hahn Niman and her husband William are suing the park service, alleging that barring agricultural operations on most of the 28,000-acre seashore will cause irreparable damage and fails to account for Congress’s goal to preserve the “ranching and agricultural heritage” of the seashore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants’ refusal to consider allowing farming and ranching to continue, even though Congress has specifically authorized Defendants to do so, violates the law and will cause significant and irreparable harm to this agricultural heritage, to the environment, to the community, to the regional food supply, and to the health of the nation,” their suit, filed Feb. 25, reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021426/point-reyes-ranching-will-all-but-end-under-new-deal-capping-decades-long-conflict\">historic deal\u003c/a> between a dozen Point Reyes cattle ranches and dairies, The Nature Conservatory and the National Parks Service in January will end most ranching on the seashore by 2026. Under the agreement, ranchers will relinquish their leases in exchange for compensation from The Nature Conservatory, according to a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement stemmed from a 2022 lawsuit by three environmental groups, which argued that the park service’s decision to continue leasing seashore land to commercial beef and dairy ranches caused ecological damage and threatened the region’s tule elk population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many have praised the decision as an ecological win, the Nimans — one of only two Point Reyes Seashore ranches that refused the settlement — disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel like we’re fighting for the continuation of this agricultural community here,” she told KQED. “Not just the people, but the presence of people that are working on the land and producing very high-quality food, focused on a smaller scale that’s grass-based and is really not based on the industrial methods that are used in most of agriculture in the United States today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niman said the Point Reyes area has long followed a unique model where ranchers are deeply connected to the land, using regenerative farming to work in harmony with the environment. Expanding these methods, she said, is both economically and ecologically sustainable — especially as the U.S. works to reshape its food system.[aside postID=news_12021426 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/PointReyesCattleGetty-1020x680.jpg']The lawsuit claims the park service is violating the law by refusing to lease ceded land to other ranchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congress, when it authorized the seashore and created the seashore, granted the park service and the Secretary of the Interior the authority — should the initial ranchers decide to leave, as most have now done — to lease that land to a new generation of ranchers,” said Peter Prows, the attorney representing the Nimans. “That alternative of leasing it to others is something that the park service hasn’t considered in violation of the law, and it’s really unfortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleges that the National Park Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the 1976 Tule Elk Law and the Coastal Zone Management Act, among other regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit argues that the park service failed to prepare an “adequate” environmental impact statement when revising its management plan this year, as required by the NEPA before any federal action “significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niman said that new restrictions had been placed on their ranch over the years, making it financially unfeasible to continue — and marking a significant shift in the use of their 800-acre property, part of which they own and part they lease from the park service. Over time, the lease has imposed more stringent restrictions on operations, including a reduction in the number of cattle the ranch can host.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029746\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029746\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cattle are seen during heavy fog at Point Reyes National Seashore of Inverness in Marin County on Jan. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The park service \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/getinvolved/planning_gmp_amendment.htm\">said on its website\u003c/a> that it could issue a revised management plan without doing a new environmental impact report because it consists of elements considered already in alternative plans and is within the spectrum of those alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also claims that a sustainable management plan for the Tule Elk population has not been developed despite the elk’s health being at the center of the legal battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit is the second filed against the National Park Service since January’s settlement. Last week, a suit was filed on behalf of workers on the ranches who are at risk of eviction when they shutter. It alleges that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ptreyeslight.com/news/suit-alleges-conspiracy-at-park-service/\">park service conspired with the Nature Conservancy\u003c/a> to get ranchers to lease their properties to the conservatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niman hopes her lawsuit will prompt the park service to lean into regenerative farming at the North Bay seashore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this opportunity here, there has been for a long time, to use this as an example of what agriculture could be, what food production should be and could be in the future,” she said. “We feel like we’re kind of fighting for the soul of this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The lawsuit claims the park service is violating the law by refusing to lease ceded land to other ranchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congress, when it authorized the seashore and created the seashore, granted the park service and the Secretary of the Interior the authority — should the initial ranchers decide to leave, as most have now done — to lease that land to a new generation of ranchers,” said Peter Prows, the attorney representing the Nimans. “That alternative of leasing it to others is something that the park service hasn’t considered in violation of the law, and it’s really unfortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleges that the National Park Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the 1976 Tule Elk Law and the Coastal Zone Management Act, among other regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit argues that the park service failed to prepare an “adequate” environmental impact statement when revising its management plan this year, as required by the NEPA before any federal action “significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niman said that new restrictions had been placed on their ranch over the years, making it financially unfeasible to continue — and marking a significant shift in the use of their 800-acre property, part of which they own and part they lease from the park service. Over time, the lease has imposed more stringent restrictions on operations, including a reduction in the number of cattle the ranch can host.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029746\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029746\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PointReyesNationalSeashoreGetty-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cattle are seen during heavy fog at Point Reyes National Seashore of Inverness in Marin County on Jan. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The park service \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/getinvolved/planning_gmp_amendment.htm\">said on its website\u003c/a> that it could issue a revised management plan without doing a new environmental impact report because it consists of elements considered already in alternative plans and is within the spectrum of those alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also claims that a sustainable management plan for the Tule Elk population has not been developed despite the elk’s health being at the center of the legal battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit is the second filed against the National Park Service since January’s settlement. Last week, a suit was filed on behalf of workers on the ranches who are at risk of eviction when they shutter. It alleges that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ptreyeslight.com/news/suit-alleges-conspiracy-at-park-service/\">park service conspired with the Nature Conservancy\u003c/a> to get ranchers to lease their properties to the conservatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Niman hopes her lawsuit will prompt the park service to lean into regenerative farming at the North Bay seashore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s this opportunity here, there has been for a long time, to use this as an example of what agriculture could be, what food production should be and could be in the future,” she said. “We feel like we’re kind of fighting for the soul of this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It will phase out a dozen ranches that have lined the North Bay shoreline since before the California Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal comes after three environmental groups sued the park service in 2022, faulting it for part of the ecological damage done by ranchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thanks to agreements between The Nature Conservancy and the closing ranch operations, the park’s future management will include additional opportunities for visitors, non-lethal management of native tule elk, and honors the co-stewardship agreement with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria,” Point Reyes National Seashore Superintendent Anne Altman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Lunny, a third-generation rancher on the peninsula, said relations between the park service and the ranchers, who lease their land, had deteriorated over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I knew it was coming, it’s super hard,” he said. “Even though deep down we believe it’s the right thing, and we did it voluntarily … we felt so much in a corner that we didn’t know what else to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three groups — Resource Renewal Institute (RRI), the Center for Biological Diversity and the Western Watersheds Project — \u003ca href=\"https://www.rri.org/newsroom/a-new-era-for-point-reyes\">sued the park service\u003c/a> in 2016 and 2022 over its decision to continue issuing leasing land to commercial beef and dairy ranches on the seashore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the nonprofit In Defense of Animals, the ranches dump millions of pounds of manure, millions of gallons of urine and tens of thousands of pounds of methane into the area, causing ecological damage. Tule elk have also been starved of resources and contracted diseases, the group said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC5237-scaled-e1672877098790.jpg\" alt=\"Four male elk walk down a grassy hillside\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once abundant along the Point Reyes National Seashore, tule elk will be able to roam freely when the majority of ranching ends in the next year and a half. \u003ccite>(Amanda Font/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erik Molvar, the executive director of Western Watersheds Project, called the settlement a “major victory” for the tule elk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The elk will now have the ability to move freely throughout the national seashore … and expand their populations to a natural population level,” he said, noting that previously, fences had constricted their movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the benefits will extend beyond the elk, too, Molvar said. While at least two ranches plan to continue operating, the 12 that close through the settlement will reduce the number of cattle in the area from more than 10,000 to around 200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This reduction in grazing will help restore native coastal grasslands, he said, and give other native species dependent on those grasses a better chance to thrive. In turn, those native grasses should help streams see less sedimentation and erosion, improving salmon and steelhead runs, as well, he said. And, the public will get more access to expanded trails and camping sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Molvar said that despite the victory, he wasn’t breaking out the champagne.[aside postID=news_11936802 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Cows-in-Point-Reyes-e1672879647911.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a compromise,” he said. “We had to accept some outcomes that we didn’t like in order to get the outcomes that we really wanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement will reduce the amount of land used for ranching by roughly 85%. Lessees leaving the seashore will split a sum of around $40 million, and employees on the ranches will divide about $2.5 million in relocation assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Bell, director of protection at the Nature Conservancy in California, which was brought in to mediate and is footing the bill for the ranchers’ settlement, acknowledged the agreement is a profound cultural shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big transformative land use change,” he said. “There were all the emotions, but also a lot of pride that all the parties were able to get [to a solution], and a lot of determination to make this a success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lunny, however, the decision to leave the seashore is more bitter than sweet. As the ranchers, workers and their families relocate, the community that supports them will also be affected, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re losing our rural character,” Lunny said. “We know that our agreeing to this has profound repercussions on our community. 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There have been no documented cases of human-to-human transmission, state health officials say, and the general public’s risk is low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current bird flu surveillance strategy places the majority of the responsibility on farmers to self-report disease among animals and employees, which is problematic, said Elizabeth Strater, a spokesperson for United Farm Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Workers are actively avoiding testing, I can assure you,” Strater said. “We have heard directly from farmworker communities and veterinarians that they can see that there are workers out there who are sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers, who often have low income, can’t afford the 10-day isolation period with no pay if they are positive, Strater said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions of poultry have been slaughtered since the virus first took hold in California farms two years ago, and this year, the highly transmissible virus jumped to cattle, posing a new threat to those who work with the animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities have confirmed bird flu infections at 178 California dairies since it first emerged in August, according to the state Department of Food and Agriculture, and there is no sign of infections among cows slowing. The transmission from cows to humans is thought to occur through close and prolonged contact with sick animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most concerning data we have is how little data we have,” Strater said. “Hundreds of herds have tested positive, and the number of people tested is in the dozens — that’s a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Erica Pan, chief epidemiologist with the state health department, said about 20 to 30 people are screened weekly for various influenza variants, including bird flu, in the course of routine flu monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference between testing for bird flu and COVID-19, which requires widespread surveillance, Pan said, is that the eye needs to be swabbed, which must be done by a clinician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about looking for symptoms and then testing for them instead of testing people without symptoms,” Pan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California distributes PPE for bird flu\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state and local health departments are focusing on distributing protective gear and educating workers on how to use it, Pan said. More than 3.3 million pieces of PPE have been distributed to local health departments and farms, according to the state health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state also deployed 5,000 doses of seasonal flu vaccine for farm workers. Although that vaccine won’t protect against bird flu, it reduces the chances of a severe coinfection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/bird-flu-farmworkers-emails-tracking-human-cases-obstacles-california/\">KFF Health News\u003c/a> reported that farmers in other states have refused to cooperate with local health departments and disease investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tricia Stever Blattler, executive director of the Tulare County Farm Bureau, said she has not heard of any instances of local employers refusing to cooperate with authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://tchhsa.org/eng/public-health/avian-influenza-h5n1-bird-flu/\">Tulare County\u003c/a>, the nation’s largest milk producer, has been the epicenter of the outbreak among cattle and dairy workers, reporting the state’s first human cases in early October. Cases have since been reported in surrounding counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in October, when temperatures soared above 100 degrees, it was difficult to get workers to don additional protective equipment, said Stever Blattler, but that concern has abated with cooling temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dairies surprised by bird flu\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The severity of the disease for cattle and its rapid spread among herds caught the industry off-guard, Stever Blattler said, and has had “a huge economic ripple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our dairies are really trying to fast-track their learning on the situation,” Stever Blattler said. “They’re trying to create an appropriate and safe workplace, and they’re also trying to increase the care and monitoring of the cattle itself.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12007854,news_11990735,news_11993547\"]Carrie Monteiro, a spokesperson for Tulare public health, said farmers in the county have cooperated with efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really are reporting and making sure we’re getting the care to their workers and the medication to help their employees recover from this illness,” Monteiro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has increased its testing capacity to include 15 community doctors, although they are still relying on people with symptoms coming forward. If someone tests positive, they and their household are monitored for 10 days and given antiviral flu medication, Monteiro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Strater said she’d like to see the state do more to assure farmworkers, who often work grueling jobs for low pay, that they will be compensated if they get sick on the job. Doing so would encourage workers to come forward if they are sick. The federal government has committed \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/10/24/usda-hhs-fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-new-action-halt-spread-bird-flu-california-washington.html\">financial assistance to farmers\u003c/a> to help pay for lost milk, PPE and measures to prevent infection, but no such offerings have been made to workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the state Department of Industrial Relations, workers who get sick with bird flu qualify for workers’ compensation regardless of immigration status. Employers are required to give employees a workers’ compensation claim form, and they are also \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/avian-flu/For-Employers.html\">required to report cases to the local health department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to see public health agencies working together with (industrial relations) and doing a push to reassure people to get tested,” Strater said. “If you test positive, all of your lost wages should be compensated by workers comp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit www.chcf.org to learn more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current bird flu surveillance strategy places the majority of the responsibility on farmers to self-report disease among animals and employees, which is problematic, said Elizabeth Strater, a spokesperson for United Farm Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Workers are actively avoiding testing, I can assure you,” Strater said. “We have heard directly from farmworker communities and veterinarians that they can see that there are workers out there who are sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers, who often have low income, can’t afford the 10-day isolation period with no pay if they are positive, Strater said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions of poultry have been slaughtered since the virus first took hold in California farms two years ago, and this year, the highly transmissible virus jumped to cattle, posing a new threat to those who work with the animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities have confirmed bird flu infections at 178 California dairies since it first emerged in August, according to the state Department of Food and Agriculture, and there is no sign of infections among cows slowing. The transmission from cows to humans is thought to occur through close and prolonged contact with sick animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most concerning data we have is how little data we have,” Strater said. “Hundreds of herds have tested positive, and the number of people tested is in the dozens — that’s a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Erica Pan, chief epidemiologist with the state health department, said about 20 to 30 people are screened weekly for various influenza variants, including bird flu, in the course of routine flu monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference between testing for bird flu and COVID-19, which requires widespread surveillance, Pan said, is that the eye needs to be swabbed, which must be done by a clinician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about looking for symptoms and then testing for them instead of testing people without symptoms,” Pan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California distributes PPE for bird flu\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state and local health departments are focusing on distributing protective gear and educating workers on how to use it, Pan said. More than 3.3 million pieces of PPE have been distributed to local health departments and farms, according to the state health department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state also deployed 5,000 doses of seasonal flu vaccine for farm workers. Although that vaccine won’t protect against bird flu, it reduces the chances of a severe coinfection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/bird-flu-farmworkers-emails-tracking-human-cases-obstacles-california/\">KFF Health News\u003c/a> reported that farmers in other states have refused to cooperate with local health departments and disease investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tricia Stever Blattler, executive director of the Tulare County Farm Bureau, said she has not heard of any instances of local employers refusing to cooperate with authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://tchhsa.org/eng/public-health/avian-influenza-h5n1-bird-flu/\">Tulare County\u003c/a>, the nation’s largest milk producer, has been the epicenter of the outbreak among cattle and dairy workers, reporting the state’s first human cases in early October. Cases have since been reported in surrounding counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in October, when temperatures soared above 100 degrees, it was difficult to get workers to don additional protective equipment, said Stever Blattler, but that concern has abated with cooling temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dairies surprised by bird flu\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The severity of the disease for cattle and its rapid spread among herds caught the industry off-guard, Stever Blattler said, and has had “a huge economic ripple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our dairies are really trying to fast-track their learning on the situation,” Stever Blattler said. “They’re trying to create an appropriate and safe workplace, and they’re also trying to increase the care and monitoring of the cattle itself.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When ranchers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/08/shasta-river-water-standoff/\">violated an emergency order\u003c/a> to stop pumping water from the drought-plagued Shasta River last year, state officials fined them $4,000, or roughly $50 each. Now California legislators are weighing \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB460\">a bill that would triple fines for such infractions\u003c/a> — and could allow the penalty to climb higher than a million dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authored by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, a Democrat from San Ramon, the bill cleared the Assembly in a 43-to-20 vote last week and is now awaiting discussion in Senate committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed legislation aims to give California’s water enforcers more muscle to act swiftly and levy larger penalties for water agencies, irrigation districts and landowners who violate state orders and policies by pumping from rivers and streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More On Water' link1='https://www.kqed.org/news/11931467/california-has-bold-plans-to-address-water-security-and-boost-supply-but-will-they-succeed,California Has Bold Plans to Address Water Security and Boost Supply']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bauer-Kahan introduced AB 460 after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/11/california-ranchers-drought-fine/\">CalMatters reported\u003c/a> in November that the state had imposed minimal fines on about 80 Siskiyou County ranchers — served by the Shasta River Water Association — who had violated an emergency order to stop pumping. \u003ca href=\"https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/11517500/#parameterCode=00060&startDT=2022-08-16&endDT=2022-08-26\">The river’s flows plunged by more than half\u003c/a>, threatening ecosystems and rare fish such as salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet in a public demonstration of the state’s limited powers, the ranchers kept the pumps on for eight days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Paying the fines was worth it to them to take what they took, and that shows a real weakness in what we have done,” Bauer-Kahan said. “It was so clear that our law was not working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Water Resources Control Board’s maximum fine under existing law is $500 per day. The state also can issue a cease and desist order, which carries maximum fines of $10,000 per day, but it requires a 20-day waiting period and allows the users to seek a public hearing. Such provisions allow the violations to continue for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The board doesn’t have the tools to act quickly,” said Michael Kiparsky, water program director at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at UC Berkeley School of Law. “The fish don’t care if the lawyers are trying to figure out who’s right or wrong if they’re dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/06/09/80-ranchers-ignored-emergency-water-orders-and-kept-pumping-will-tripling-the-fines-stop-them/082922-shasta-river-water-mhn-cm-02/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11952643\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952643 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-02.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man in jeans and a t-shirt, with a baseball cap, stands next to an empty pond with farm buildings and fields in the background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-02.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Scala, a rancher in Siskiyou County, looks out over his dry stock pond in Montague on Aug. 29, 2022. Scala and others defied a state order to stop pumping water from the Shasta River. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rick Lemos, a fifth-generation rancher and board member of the Shasta River Water Association, said the ranchers turned their pumps on last August because their cattle were at risk without more water. Costs from hauling water and buying hay were climbing, and the ranchers faced the prospect of selling off cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have kept going for $500 a day,” Lemos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had the Assembly bill been in force then, the ranchers could have faced daily fines between $1,500 and $10,000, plus $2,500 for every acre-foot of water diverted, which could reach more than $1,000,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Arron 'Troy' Hockaday, member, Karuk Tribal Council\"]‘The fine doesn’t fit the crime. What’s gonna stop them from doing it again this year, or next year? Or anytime they want?’[/pullquote]Lemos said if fines had reached $10,000 per day, “we definitely could have had to rethink it. That’s for damn sure.” Yet, he also added, “I’m not so sure we wouldn’t have done it again. When you got cattle out of water and you have no other options, what are you gonna do? “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve got 5,000 head of cattle that are worth $1,200 apiece, and they’re starting to die, I mean, how much can you spend for eight or 10 days to remedy the problem?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law would target landowners, water agencies and districts that take water from rivers and streams, not individual consumers who turn on their taps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsored by conservation groups — California Trout, the Planning and Conservation League and Trout Unlimited — the bill is also supported by the Karuk and Yurok Tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fine doesn’t fit the crime,” Karuk Tribal Council Member Arron “Troy” Hockaday said. “What’s gonna stop them from doing it again this year, or next year? Or anytime they want? I mean, you got 80 farmers only paying $50 apiece. They’re gonna keep doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/06/09/80-ranchers-ignored-emergency-water-orders-and-kept-pumping-will-tripling-the-fines-stop-them/082922-shasta-river-water-mhn-cm-11/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11952642\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952642 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-11.jpg\" alt=\"A larger Native man in a plaid button up shirt, with a long string of bright blue beads around his neck, stands in front of a river.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-11.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arron ‘Troy’ Hockaday, a council member of the Karuk Tribe, looks out on the Klamath River in Happy Camp. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But water providers, builders and agricultural groups oppose the bill, saying it is so broad that even those diverting water legally could be ensnared in the expanded water board powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If (the bill) did nothing else but raise penalties, that would stop what went on on the Shasta,” said Kristopher Anderson, the Association of California Water Agencies’ legislative advocate. But he said, by expanding other authorities, “this bill systematically stacks the deck against water right holders in favor of the water board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One new authority would be issuing interim relief orders to stop diversions or address potential harms. In urgent cases, these could take effect immediately “to prevent imminent or irreparable injury to other legal users of water, or to instream beneficial uses,” the bill says. Water users who ignore an interim relief order could face fines of $10,000 per day and $2,500 per acre-foot diverted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Pierre, general manager of the State Water Contractors, an association of public water agencies, said vague definitions in the bill such as ‘irreparable injury’ create uncertainty over what water would actually be available to suppliers in the future, which could impede development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson added he would prefer to see enforcement run through the courts rather than state-issued fines — an avenue that the water board could have but did not pursue with the Siskiyou County ranchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But water board officials said in the Shasta River case, seeking a court order would have kicked off a lengthy, resource-intensive battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got both parties who are going to be subject to extensive litigation and litigation costs,” said Yvonne West, director of the water board’s Office of Enforcement. “We thought we could react quicker … In hindsight, we see that we didn’t gain the compliance we were hoping for from those initial actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/06/09/80-ranchers-ignored-emergency-water-orders-and-kept-pumping-will-tripling-the-fines-stop-them/082922-shasta-river-water-mhn-cm-13/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11952641\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-13.jpg\" alt=\"A river flowing between pine trees\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-13.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Klamath River flows outside Happy Camp in August 2022. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bauer-Kahan’s bill is one of several taking aim at the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-water-solutions/#2104d2c3-4a7a-4116-b1c9-3eedc45d49c7\">byzantine, Gold Rush-era water rights system\u003c/a> that state analysts warn has \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/resources/2009/water_rights_issues_perspectives_031009.pdf\">promised more water than is available (PDF)\u003c/a>. The system, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/about_us/water_boards_structure/history_water_rights.html\">establishes priority\u003c/a> among users, is facing mounting criticism for its history of inequality and exclusion of Native peoples and people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1337\">Another bill\u003c/a> would expand the state’s powers to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/04/california-water-rights-battle-legislature/\">curtail pumping from rivers and streams\u003c/a> even by water users with claims that predate the \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_info/water_rights_process.html\">state’s water rights law\u003c/a>, enacted in 1914. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB389\">A third bill\u003c/a> would allow the board to investigate the legitimacy of senior water rights claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three face opposition from builders, water providers and agriculture. So far they have cleared their houses of origin and are continuing through the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California water watchers say it’s critical to bolster the state’s power to enforce water laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is the genie out of the bottle now?” Berkeley’s Kiparsky asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens during the next drought now that it’s been very publicly demonstrated that water users can in essence treat the water board’s enforcement actions as an additional, and sometimes very modest, cost of doing business?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet in a public demonstration of the state’s limited powers, the ranchers kept the pumps on for eight days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Paying the fines was worth it to them to take what they took, and that shows a real weakness in what we have done,” Bauer-Kahan said. “It was so clear that our law was not working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Water Resources Control Board’s maximum fine under existing law is $500 per day. The state also can issue a cease and desist order, which carries maximum fines of $10,000 per day, but it requires a 20-day waiting period and allows the users to seek a public hearing. Such provisions allow the violations to continue for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The board doesn’t have the tools to act quickly,” said Michael Kiparsky, water program director at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at UC Berkeley School of Law. “The fish don’t care if the lawyers are trying to figure out who’s right or wrong if they’re dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/06/09/80-ranchers-ignored-emergency-water-orders-and-kept-pumping-will-tripling-the-fines-stop-them/082922-shasta-river-water-mhn-cm-02/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11952643\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952643 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-02.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man in jeans and a t-shirt, with a baseball cap, stands next to an empty pond with farm buildings and fields in the background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-02.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Scala, a rancher in Siskiyou County, looks out over his dry stock pond in Montague on Aug. 29, 2022. Scala and others defied a state order to stop pumping water from the Shasta River. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rick Lemos, a fifth-generation rancher and board member of the Shasta River Water Association, said the ranchers turned their pumps on last August because their cattle were at risk without more water. Costs from hauling water and buying hay were climbing, and the ranchers faced the prospect of selling off cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have kept going for $500 a day,” Lemos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had the Assembly bill been in force then, the ranchers could have faced daily fines between $1,500 and $10,000, plus $2,500 for every acre-foot of water diverted, which could reach more than $1,000,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lemos said if fines had reached $10,000 per day, “we definitely could have had to rethink it. That’s for damn sure.” Yet, he also added, “I’m not so sure we wouldn’t have done it again. When you got cattle out of water and you have no other options, what are you gonna do? “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve got 5,000 head of cattle that are worth $1,200 apiece, and they’re starting to die, I mean, how much can you spend for eight or 10 days to remedy the problem?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law would target landowners, water agencies and districts that take water from rivers and streams, not individual consumers who turn on their taps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsored by conservation groups — California Trout, the Planning and Conservation League and Trout Unlimited — the bill is also supported by the Karuk and Yurok Tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fine doesn’t fit the crime,” Karuk Tribal Council Member Arron “Troy” Hockaday said. “What’s gonna stop them from doing it again this year, or next year? Or anytime they want? I mean, you got 80 farmers only paying $50 apiece. They’re gonna keep doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/06/09/80-ranchers-ignored-emergency-water-orders-and-kept-pumping-will-tripling-the-fines-stop-them/082922-shasta-river-water-mhn-cm-11/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11952642\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952642 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-11.jpg\" alt=\"A larger Native man in a plaid button up shirt, with a long string of bright blue beads around his neck, stands in front of a river.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-11.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arron ‘Troy’ Hockaday, a council member of the Karuk Tribe, looks out on the Klamath River in Happy Camp. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But water providers, builders and agricultural groups oppose the bill, saying it is so broad that even those diverting water legally could be ensnared in the expanded water board powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If (the bill) did nothing else but raise penalties, that would stop what went on on the Shasta,” said Kristopher Anderson, the Association of California Water Agencies’ legislative advocate. But he said, by expanding other authorities, “this bill systematically stacks the deck against water right holders in favor of the water board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One new authority would be issuing interim relief orders to stop diversions or address potential harms. In urgent cases, these could take effect immediately “to prevent imminent or irreparable injury to other legal users of water, or to instream beneficial uses,” the bill says. Water users who ignore an interim relief order could face fines of $10,000 per day and $2,500 per acre-foot diverted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Pierre, general manager of the State Water Contractors, an association of public water agencies, said vague definitions in the bill such as ‘irreparable injury’ create uncertainty over what water would actually be available to suppliers in the future, which could impede development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson added he would prefer to see enforcement run through the courts rather than state-issued fines — an avenue that the water board could have but did not pursue with the Siskiyou County ranchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But water board officials said in the Shasta River case, seeking a court order would have kicked off a lengthy, resource-intensive battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got both parties who are going to be subject to extensive litigation and litigation costs,” said Yvonne West, director of the water board’s Office of Enforcement. “We thought we could react quicker … In hindsight, we see that we didn’t gain the compliance we were hoping for from those initial actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/06/09/80-ranchers-ignored-emergency-water-orders-and-kept-pumping-will-tripling-the-fines-stop-them/082922-shasta-river-water-mhn-cm-13/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11952641\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-13.jpg\" alt=\"A river flowing between pine trees\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-13.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-13-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-13-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-13-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/082922-SHASTA-RIVER-WATER-MHN-CM-13-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Klamath River flows outside Happy Camp in August 2022. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bauer-Kahan’s bill is one of several taking aim at the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-water-solutions/#2104d2c3-4a7a-4116-b1c9-3eedc45d49c7\">byzantine, Gold Rush-era water rights system\u003c/a> that state analysts warn has \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/resources/2009/water_rights_issues_perspectives_031009.pdf\">promised more water than is available (PDF)\u003c/a>. 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