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Facebook photos show a 50-acre, idyllic rural setting with ample grass and pens for rescued horses and sheep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miranda’s Rescue’s website claims the facility is “a no-kill rescue” that “brings relief” to hundreds of animals every year. In 2007, it was recognized by the California State Assembly as the “Best Sanctuary For Abused Animals in Northern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabrina Woods, a volunteer at the Solano County Animal Shelter, said she used to consider Miranda’s Rescue “a Disneyland of rescues.” Woods estimated that about 10 dogs a month were sent there from her shelter, and she was excited when she had the chance to drive a dog to the rescue herself last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she arrived, “something just felt off,” Woods said. The parking lot was almost empty, and she noticed several dogs on the property, including a blue-nose pit bull, who looked sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084788\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260521-Dogs-Euthanized-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260521-Dogs-Euthanized-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260521-Dogs-Euthanized-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260521-Dogs-Euthanized-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dog sheltered at Miranda’s Rescue is seen struggling to get through the fence. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Raymond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ I found out that Shannon did all the training, which I thought was really weird because he’s got to be a really busy guy,” she said. “So I’m like, how does he train all of these dogs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rescue also asked for high transfer fees, around $400 to $500 per dog. Woods said that in her experience, many rescues don’t charge a fee, and if they do, it’s around $100 to $200 to cover vaccinations, sterilization and microchipping. Most dogs coming from municipal shelters have already undergone those procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public tax records show that Miranda’s Rescue brought in $471,000 in revenue in 2024. Miranda’s Rescue also operates two thrift stores in Humboldt County, where people can buy used items and make donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods began doing public records requests into Miranda’s Rescue’s past and where it was getting its animals. She soon learned that another woman in Humboldt County, named Jennifer Raymond, was doing the same work. They started working together and learned that almost 2,000 dogs have been transferred there since 2023. That number does not include private shelters that don’t have a legal obligation to disclose that information, or a handful of public shelters that did not respond.[aside postID=arts_13978816 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00111_TV_qed.jpg']Other rescues in Humboldt County told them they often struggled to find homes for the kind of large dogs that Miranda said he could easily rehome in two to three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymond moved to Humboldt County in 2001 and started a one-woman spay-and-neuter operation to serve the community. She said that around 2004, she started hearing stories from clients about Miranda’s Rescue. Some people alleged that animals were being killed there. Raymond started “snooping” for more info, but was never able to find proof until last year, when the house next to Miranda’s property went up for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I bought it,” Raymond said. “I figured, I need to get closer. I need to watch what’s going on. I’d heard too many disturbing stories to be able to let this go of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymond said right away she was struck by the high turnover at the shelter, despite rarely seeing anyone coming to adopt animals. When Raymond noticed a large mound of dirt next to a hole on Miranda’s property, she decided to act. She and a friend went onto Miranda’s property at night and started digging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes there’s something that is above the law. And to me, this was above the law,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They recovered the bodies of eight dogs. Many of them had what Raymond said looked like gunshot wounds to the head, Raymond said. Many of the dogs were microchipped, and with Woods’s help, they were able to track these dogs back to shelters in Oakland, Berkeley and Palm Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the dogs was traced back to Oakland Animal Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11983504 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/AP24108725783459-scaled-e1779402491682.jpg\" alt=\"A dog sits between two people holding and petting it.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1305\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A newly adopted dog is held at Oakland Animal Services on April 4, 2024, in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Terry Chea/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Director Joe DeVries said Oakland Animal Services has been working with Miranda’s Rescue since 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, it sent 205 dogs to the rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was taking dogs that we had a hard time placing, typically our bigger dogs, and we have a lot of big dogs in Oakland,” DeVries said. For each dog that it took in, Miranda’s Rescue received a fee of around $400. “That fee, you know, was to see that he could take care of them up on this big farm that he had, and give them space and give them a chance to decompress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVries said he’d heard Miranda’s Rescue sometimes charged private shelters $1,000, or in certain cases, where a dog had a history of biting, up to $3,500.[aside postID=news_12022406 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250116_FireAnimalShelter-27_qed.jpg']DeVries said that Miranda was communicative, often checking in to share updates about the dogs and their adoptions. It seemed that the center had a high success rate for placing animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Humboldt County sheriff contacted Oakland Animal Services with questions about its adoption practices and relationship with the rescue. Less than 24 hours later, DeVries received a call from Woods, who told him about what she and Raymond had uncovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was horrible,” said DeVries, who added that Miranda had texted him days earlier to say that the dog identified by Woods had been adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff served a search warrant on the Miranda’s Rescue property on May 1, according to a press release. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miranda’s Rescue’s website claims the facility is “a no-kill rescue” that “brings relief” to hundreds of animals every year. In 2007, it was recognized by the California State Assembly as the “Best Sanctuary For Abused Animals in Northern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabrina Woods, a volunteer at the Solano County Animal Shelter, said she used to consider Miranda’s Rescue “a Disneyland of rescues.” Woods estimated that about 10 dogs a month were sent there from her shelter, and she was excited when she had the chance to drive a dog to the rescue herself last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she arrived, “something just felt off,” Woods said. The parking lot was almost empty, and she noticed several dogs on the property, including a blue-nose pit bull, who looked sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12084788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12084788\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260521-Dogs-Euthanized-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260521-Dogs-Euthanized-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260521-Dogs-Euthanized-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260521-Dogs-Euthanized-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dog sheltered at Miranda’s Rescue is seen struggling to get through the fence. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Raymond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ I found out that Shannon did all the training, which I thought was really weird because he’s got to be a really busy guy,” she said. “So I’m like, how does he train all of these dogs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rescue also asked for high transfer fees, around $400 to $500 per dog. Woods said that in her experience, many rescues don’t charge a fee, and if they do, it’s around $100 to $200 to cover vaccinations, sterilization and microchipping. Most dogs coming from municipal shelters have already undergone those procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public tax records show that Miranda’s Rescue brought in $471,000 in revenue in 2024. Miranda’s Rescue also operates two thrift stores in Humboldt County, where people can buy used items and make donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods began doing public records requests into Miranda’s Rescue’s past and where it was getting its animals. She soon learned that another woman in Humboldt County, named Jennifer Raymond, was doing the same work. They started working together and learned that almost 2,000 dogs have been transferred there since 2023. That number does not include private shelters that don’t have a legal obligation to disclose that information, or a handful of public shelters that did not respond.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Between her two young toddlers, her work as a seaweed farmer on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/humboldt-county\">Humboldt County’s \u003c/a>coast, and a third baby on the way, Leslie Booher doesn’t have a lot of spare time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But her prenatal appointments with her \u003ca href=\"https://midwifemade.com/2509-2/\">midwife, Laura Doyle\u003c/a>, give Booher the opportunity to really focus on the pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, feeling more informed and curious makes you feel much more empowered in your body,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uclahealth.org/medical-services/birthplace/pregnancy-newborn-health/prenatal-education/your-pregnancy/schedule-prenatal-care\">typical\u003c/a> 10- to 15-minute OB check-up, Booher and Doyle spent a full hour together in early March, chatting on a comfortable sofa at \u003ca href=\"https://www.moonstonemidwives.com/\">Moonstone Midwives Birth Center\u003c/a> in Eureka, California. The cozy room where they met has kids’ toys in one corner, calm pastel-colored paintings on the wall, and feels more like a friend’s living room than a clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doyle listened to the baby’s heartbeat, took Booher’s blood pressure, and reviewed her blood test results. 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Yes, I’m feeling babies and their growth. More importantly, I’m like: ‘Who are you? What are the relationships like in your life? Are you supported? Are you fearful?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She continued: “Every little story I get out of somebody is like telling me so much about how they are, and often, how their birth will be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, and across the U.S., there are now fewer places in which to give birth. Hospitals — facing rising costs, staff shortages and falling birth rates — are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/09/new-maternity-care-closures/\">closing\u003c/a> maternity wards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rural parts of the state are especially impacted: many women in these regions must travel for hours in labor to give birth, which can cause \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciline.org/public-health/obstetric-care-rural-america/\">serious complications\u003c/a> for moms and babies, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciline.org/public-health/obstetric-care-rural-america/\">higher risk\u003c/a> of pre-term births, c-sections and infant deaths. In California, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DMCAH/Pages/Health-Topics/Pregnancy-Related-Mortality.aspx\">maternal mortality rate\u003c/a> is higher in rural communities than in urban areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Humboldt and other northwestern parts of the state, two hospitals have closed their labor and delivery units in the past five years, leaving the entire county with just one hospital in which to give birth, Providence St. Joseph in Eureka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007627 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/AGBontaAP1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are coming from a couple hours [away] to have their babies,” Doyle said. “We only have one hospital that is doing deliveries for hours in every direction. It’s super stressful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abundant research has shown that midwifery care leads to \u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/the-value-of-midwives-during-prenatal-care-and-birth/\">better\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29944777/\">outcomes\u003c/a> for many of these challenges. As medically-trained healthcare professionals, midwives offer a different kind of care that can help meet this need. They can place IVs, do sutures, and give antibiotics — but they don’t administer epidurals or perform c-sections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing unmedicated birth means we’re relying on preventative care, so good nutrition, really good sleep, low stress and getting these babies in an optimal position,” Doyle said. “Unfortunately, standard medical practice doesn’t have time for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they offer women longer prenatal appointments, safe birth outside a hospital setting, and regular postpartum check-ups —a crucial time, because \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK592630/\">most pregnancy-related deaths\u003c/a> occur in the postpartum period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the vast majority of people can’t afford midwifery care. Midwives are not covered by most insurers, and incredibly low reimbursement rates mean that most midwives also can’t accept low-income clients on Medi-Cal. Holly Smith, a midwife and co-lead of \u003ca href=\"https://www.midwiferyaccessca.org/\">Midwifery Access California\u003c/a>, estimated that Medi-Cal reimburses around $3,000 per birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Midwives across the state have told us that the minimum they need is $7,000-$8,000 per birth, in order to sustain their practice,” said Smith, adding that the actual cost is around $14,000-$15,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doyle has found a way to serve low-income families in Humboldt, where the median household income is about 60% of the state median.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always say, we’re all working hard to be poor,” Doyle said. “The stress is real for most people in this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_16-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082736\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Midwife Laura Doyle at Moonstone Midwives Birth Center in Eureka on May 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12082737 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_29-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_29-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_29-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_29-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Midwife Laura Doyle (right) chats with expecting parent Kaylee Biane and her daughter Josie in the waiting room at Moonstone Midwives Birth Center in Eureka on May 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a year of meetings, Doyle was able to negotiate a better deal with the local Medi-Cal payer in Humboldt, Partnership Healthplan. This makes her birth center one of the very few in California able to accept low-income families. Around 75% of current Moonstone clients are on Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so frustrating to know that you can only have this if you can afford it,” said Doyle. “That is just wrong. Everybody should have access to good midwifery care. It’s really been the motivator of my career: people should be empowered in their birth experience no matter who they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moonstone is located opposite Humboldt’s last remaining labor and delivery ward, at Providence St. Joseph, so that if a birthing person wants an epidural, needs surgery or the baby has to go to the NICU, the transfer is quick and easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always been able to reach out to doctors and consult with them,” Doyle said, of the hospital staff. “We’ve built that rapport; they trust us and we trust them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community midwives, meaning those who don’t work in a hospital, attend around \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MaternityCareAlmanac2023.pdf\">1% of births\u003c/a> in California — but \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ListeningMothersCAFullSurveyReport2018.pdf\">research\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource/advancing-midwifery-birth-equity-california/\">has shown\u003c/a> that more birthing people would like to have this kind of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some women seek midwifery care because they’ve had a difficult experience in the hospital. Claire Henderson gave birth at Mad River Community Hospital nearby in Arcata, before it closed its maternity ward in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had three birthing rooms and at that time I think nine babies were being born, or were just born, so there was no room for me,” Henderson said. “But I was in full labor, so they stuck me in this little exam room we called a ‘closet,’ and that’s where I had my baby.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson said she felt unheard by the hospital staff, who kept offering her medicine she didn’t want. Even though her baby was born healthy, she felt overwhelmed — so when she got pregnant a second time, she knew she wanted a midwife instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in hospital births, but I knew I wanted a natural, physiological birth,” she said, “uninterrupted as much as possible, and to have everything calm down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12080800 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20260309_MIGNON_20-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Moonstone, Henderson gave birth in a birth suite with the lights dimmed low. “I was very present in my body and brain. The midwives checked the baby here and there, but I wasn’t on continuous monitoring — they left us alone a lot of the time. I was laughing in between contractions. It felt so natural.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Henderson said: “Birth is really hard. It was still one of the most intense pains of my life. But I didn’t need anything for [it]. I just needed to feel secure and safe – and that was my team and the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doyle said she gave birth to her first baby at home in a very remote area, supported by midwives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most impactful thing was their patience, and [the way they] really listened to me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doyle trained as a midwife herself and after many years of attending home births, she opened Moonstone with \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">co-owner Calista Young\u003c/span> in 2014. It’s still the county’s only birth center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we have a really unique culture in Humboldt,” she said. “I always call it the ‘707 culture.’ It’s like a different way of being, and a lot of it was driven by the outlaw culture of marijuana growing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doyle believes that mindset has influenced birthing people’s approach to their healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these women are like, ‘No, I’m not doing that. I’m declining this, I’m declining that,” she said. “‘I want to do it this way.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_37-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082740\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_37-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_37-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_37-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_37-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of Moonstone Midwives Birth Center in Eureka on May 4, 2026. The midwives moved to this location in January of 2026 in order to be closer to Providence St. Joseph, the one remaining hospital with a labor and delivery unit in Humboldt county. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a typical day at the birth center, pregnant women will come in for their check-ups or group prenatal classes, while new moms can join postpartum support groups. Moonstone has two birth suites which resemble hotel rooms: comfy queen beds and large tubs for water birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occasionally a mom will drop by with her newborn and a box of cookies or muffins for the midwives, as a little token of thanks. Doyle has lost count of how many babies she’s delivered, but estimated she’s passed the 1,000 mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can tell that’s what’s happened when I’m going through the grocery store,” she said, laughing, “because I see everybody and it’s hard to get anywhere, which is the sweet thing about being in a small town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Clare Wiley is a Los Angeles based reporter covering women’s health. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was co-published and supported by the journalism nonprofit the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F705e1645.streak-link.com%2FC1mohHHz81VdDMSRUwkUFhI3%2Fhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.economichardship.org%252F&data=05%7C02%7C%7C2df2b5528d9e466cdb2608de94ebfbf4%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C639111938429288639%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0NPfR6pRTwbXNJHuUbcNiAt3kkjrCO%2Bl7shM6fBqucc%3D&reserved=0\">\u003cem>Economic Hardship Reporting Project\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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They can place IVs, do sutures, and give antibiotics — but they don’t administer epidurals or perform c-sections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doing unmedicated birth means we’re relying on preventative care, so good nutrition, really good sleep, low stress and getting these babies in an optimal position,” Doyle said. “Unfortunately, standard medical practice doesn’t have time for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they offer women longer prenatal appointments, safe birth outside a hospital setting, and regular postpartum check-ups —a crucial time, because \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK592630/\">most pregnancy-related deaths\u003c/a> occur in the postpartum period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the vast majority of people can’t afford midwifery care. Midwives are not covered by most insurers, and incredibly low reimbursement rates mean that most midwives also can’t accept low-income clients on Medi-Cal. Holly Smith, a midwife and co-lead of \u003ca href=\"https://www.midwiferyaccessca.org/\">Midwifery Access California\u003c/a>, estimated that Medi-Cal reimburses around $3,000 per birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Midwives across the state have told us that the minimum they need is $7,000-$8,000 per birth, in order to sustain their practice,” said Smith, adding that the actual cost is around $14,000-$15,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doyle has found a way to serve low-income families in Humboldt, where the median household income is about 60% of the state median.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always say, we’re all working hard to be poor,” Doyle said. “The stress is real for most people in this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_16-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082736\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Midwife Laura Doyle at Moonstone Midwives Birth Center in Eureka on May 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12082737 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_29-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_29-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_29-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/KQED_RURALMATERNALHEALTH_HIRES_29-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Midwife Laura Doyle (right) chats with expecting parent Kaylee Biane and her daughter Josie in the waiting room at Moonstone Midwives Birth Center in Eureka on May 4, 2026. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hootnick for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a year of meetings, Doyle was able to negotiate a better deal with the local Medi-Cal payer in Humboldt, Partnership Healthplan. This makes her birth center one of the very few in California able to accept low-income families. Around 75% of current Moonstone clients are on Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so frustrating to know that you can only have this if you can afford it,” said Doyle. “That is just wrong. Everybody should have access to good midwifery care. It’s really been the motivator of my career: people should be empowered in their birth experience no matter who they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moonstone is located opposite Humboldt’s last remaining labor and delivery ward, at Providence St. Joseph, so that if a birthing person wants an epidural, needs surgery or the baby has to go to the NICU, the transfer is quick and easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always been able to reach out to doctors and consult with them,” Doyle said, of the hospital staff. “We’ve built that rapport; they trust us and we trust them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community midwives, meaning those who don’t work in a hospital, attend around \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MaternityCareAlmanac2023.pdf\">1% of births\u003c/a> in California — but \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ListeningMothersCAFullSurveyReport2018.pdf\">research\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource/advancing-midwifery-birth-equity-california/\">has shown\u003c/a> that more birthing people would like to have this kind of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some women seek midwifery care because they’ve had a difficult experience in the hospital. 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A recent intensive academy at Fresno City College addressed this need by training working professionals. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Advocates are criticizing the state’s tracking of evictions, saying California has failed to accurately count them for decades, and drumming up support for a bill that would more closely monitor it. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Humboldt County Supervisors are looking at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2026-04-30/humboldt-county-sheriff-oversight-committee\">creating a civilian oversight committee\u003c/a> for the sheriff’s office. They’re trying to get ahead of a possible citizen initiative.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/education/2026-05-06/new-fresno-based-training-teaches-first-responders-to-find-human-remains-after-wildfires\">\u003cstrong>New Fresno-based training teaches first responders to find human remains after wildfires\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, Fresno County Deputy Coroner Bianca Torres was kneeling at the base of a burned up car. Nearby was a grisly sight: a skeleton found in the driver’s seat – but not the whole skeleton. “Because that person was seated there in the driver’s seat, we know that we’re missing pieces,” she said – specifically, missing bones. She was looking for bone fragments with a team of professionals including a firefighter, an arson investigator, a forensic anthropologist and a homicide detective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, not all of them would have been doing this work, but they were enrolled in a training – and this scene was staged as part of the inaugural \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.firedeathacademy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Central California Forensic Fire Death Investigation Academy\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. The intensive, weeklong course took place mid-April at Fresno City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As wildfires become more destructive in California, the need for forensic investigations afterward is increasing — specifically, the need for identifying bodies. The academy teaches first responders how to assist and recover human remains after fatal wildfire mass disasters. So as Torres swept and sifted through debris, others were pulling out pieces of the car’s carpet. It was a team effort, because they learned every piece found during an investigation is crucial. “Body preservation, bone preservation, that’s very important to us, the medical examiner and the anthropologists,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five-day academy consisted of three days of lectures that taught attendees how a body burns and how to recover remains without accidentally damaging critical evidence. The last two days, students were set into groups to study a fire scenario and recover the remains within it. Some scenarios simulated houses, while others revolved around cars. Chelsey Juarez, a forensic anthropologist and a professor at Fresno State, led the academy. She said wildfires are becoming increasingly fatal. “As someone who responds to fire, the best time to prepare is right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last ten years, at least \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/calfire-website/our-impact/fire-statistics/top-20-deadliest-ca-wildfires.pdf?rev=0d4612ff0cb447fb827fa0ac6c309d3d&hash=34718653A215C315C5E3CB5BB6A4E550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>180 people\u003c/u>\u003c/a> have died from fires in California, including the Camp and Palisades fires that wiped out parts of Butte and Los Angeles counties. So, Juarez said, if fires at that scale continue, more people might be pulled into investigating wildfire deaths – and she wants them to have a chance to learn before the next big wildfire occurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>New report shows gaps in eviction data reporting across the state\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates are criticizing the state’s tracking of evictions, saying California has failed to accurately count them for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://civilinjustice.net/report\">report by Strategic Actions for a Just Economy\u003c/a> covers data on eviction case outcomes in the state dating back to 2010. Its author, Kyle Nelson, said that while evictions are believed to drive homelessness in California, lawmakers are trying to prevent it without complete data. “This invites two questions: why are lawmakers crafting eviction prevention policies without fully understanding eviction data? And how do they know if these policy interventions are working?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, advocates are drumming up support for a bill that would more closely monitor eviction data. SB 1160 would require local courts to provide California’s Judicial Council with information on eviction filings, aggregated by zip code, and require the Council to make that data public. State Senator Maria Elena Durazo supports the legislation. “Essentially we’re navigating homelessness prevention without a map. So this bill shines light on the eviction process by using eviction data from the courts,” Durazo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>The report shows the counties with the most eviction filings report the least amount of data. It also shows multiple counties file more evictions now than they did prior to the pandemic.\u003c/div>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2026-04-30/humboldt-county-sheriff-oversight-committee\">\u003cstrong>Humboldt County takes first step toward sheriff oversight panel\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Humboldt County supervisors are considering creating a civilian oversight committee for the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors said they trust current Sheriff William Honsal but argued that now is the time to establish oversight, before any incident could undermine that trust. Supervisor Steve Madrone introduced the idea last month, saying some community members remain skeptical of the department because complaints are investigated internally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the avenue forward to improve that trust,” Madrone said. “I believe that as we improve that trust, it increases the number of people that want to become deputies. Because for them, morale goes up because they’re more trusted in the community by verifiable actions that involves people outside of law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honsal pushed back, telling supervisors that existing oversight is sufficient. “Why fix something that’s not broken?” he said. “I’ve yet to hear why, other than you have a small group of people that want to see this because of a potential future incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An example ordinance would create a citizen-led committee to review complaints and make recommendations. The group would not have authority over daily operations or personnel decisions. Supervisors said they want to establish the committee themselves, rather than through a ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last ten years, at least \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/calfire-website/our-impact/fire-statistics/top-20-deadliest-ca-wildfires.pdf?rev=0d4612ff0cb447fb827fa0ac6c309d3d&hash=34718653A215C315C5E3CB5BB6A4E550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>180 people\u003c/u>\u003c/a> have died from fires in California, including the Camp and Palisades fires that wiped out parts of Butte and Los Angeles counties. So, Juarez said, if fires at that scale continue, more people might be pulled into investigating wildfire deaths – and she wants them to have a chance to learn before the next big wildfire occurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>New report shows gaps in eviction data reporting across the state\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates are criticizing the state’s tracking of evictions, saying California has failed to accurately count them for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://civilinjustice.net/report\">report by Strategic Actions for a Just Economy\u003c/a> covers data on eviction case outcomes in the state dating back to 2010. Its author, Kyle Nelson, said that while evictions are believed to drive homelessness in California, lawmakers are trying to prevent it without complete data. “This invites two questions: why are lawmakers crafting eviction prevention policies without fully understanding eviction data? And how do they know if these policy interventions are working?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, advocates are drumming up support for a bill that would more closely monitor eviction data. SB 1160 would require local courts to provide California’s Judicial Council with information on eviction filings, aggregated by zip code, and require the Council to make that data public. State Senator Maria Elena Durazo supports the legislation. “Essentially we’re navigating homelessness prevention without a map. So this bill shines light on the eviction process by using eviction data from the courts,” Durazo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>The report shows the counties with the most eviction filings report the least amount of data. It also shows multiple counties file more evictions now than they did prior to the pandemic.\u003c/div>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2026-04-30/humboldt-county-sheriff-oversight-committee\">\u003cstrong>Humboldt County takes first step toward sheriff oversight panel\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Humboldt County supervisors are considering creating a civilian oversight committee for the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors said they trust current Sheriff William Honsal but argued that now is the time to establish oversight, before any incident could undermine that trust. Supervisor Steve Madrone introduced the idea last month, saying some community members remain skeptical of the department because complaints are investigated internally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the avenue forward to improve that trust,” Madrone said. “I believe that as we improve that trust, it increases the number of people that want to become deputies. Because for them, morale goes up because they’re more trusted in the community by verifiable actions that involves people outside of law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honsal pushed back, telling supervisors that existing oversight is sufficient. “Why fix something that’s not broken?” he said. “I’ve yet to hear why, other than you have a small group of people that want to see this because of a potential future incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An example ordinance would create a citizen-led committee to review complaints and make recommendations. The group would not have authority over daily operations or personnel decisions. Supervisors said they want to establish the committee themselves, rather than through a ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sacramento County is home to California’s largest community of state workers, around 90,000 people. Governor Gavin Newsom says he wants them to come back into the office starting this summer — many still work remotely part time following the pandemic. But state worker unions hope \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2026/02/23/union-backed-bill-would-require-telework-options-for-california-state-workers/\">a new bill will protect their ability to telework\u003c/a> indefinitely.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Humboldt County, low wages are leading to high rates of poverty and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/food-and-agriculture/2026-02-26/far-northern-california-uses-food-assistance-more-than-rest-of-state\">greater enrollment in the state food program CalFresh.\u003c/a> \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Along the coast of San Mateo County, elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park could be experiencing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000206/officials-confirm-small-bird-flu-outbreak-in-elephant-seals-at-ano-nuevo-state-park\">a “small outbreak” of bird flu\u003c/a>, according to scientists.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"page-title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2026/02/23/union-backed-bill-would-require-telework-options-for-california-state-workers/\">\u003cstrong>Union-backed bill would require telework options for California state workers\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On any given day before the pandemic, hundreds of workers would walk the sidewalks circling the State Capitol in Sacramento on their lunch breaks. But it isn’t as busy in the downtown Capitol corridor as it used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big part of that is state workers are still working remotely a few days a week. Sacramento County is home to California’s largest concentration of state employees – just under 90,000 workers. Gina Garcia-Smith is one of them. She is a former school teacher and now works as a program consultant for the California Department of Education located in downtown Sacramento. Garcia-Smith said the option to work from home has allowed her more flexibility, especially after becoming a new parent. “I’m able to do my job remotely for three days out of the week, that really has improved my quality of life and the amount of time I’m able to spend with my daughter,” Garcia-Smith said. “I’m not, you know, stuck in traffic. I’m able to be present.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered most state employees to return to the office four days a week starting July 1, 2026, up from a required twice per week. The mandate received pushback from state workers, including Garcia-Smith, who said the ability to telework is a big draw for state jobs. “If we really want to attract and retain quality state workers, it’s really important to be able to provide some incentive because clearly pay is not the incentive that’s being provided,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia-Smith’s union, SEIU Local 1000 is backing a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1729\">bill\u003c/a> this year that would require state agencies to continue offering telework. Other unions representing state workers also support the measure, including CAPS UAW Local 1115, AFSCME 2620, CASE, and PECG. Democratic Assemblymember Alex Lee of Milpitas authored the legislation. His district encompasses Silicon Valley where private-sector telework is typical. Lee argued state workers should continue to benefit from that same opportunity. “This has allowed for people to move further away from Sacramento in places that are more affordable, close to their family networks, instead of all being concentrated in one area. And this has a lot of great potential benefits for the workers themselves,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2025 State Auditor \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2024-118/\">report\u003c/a> estimated that continued telework for state employees would save California around $225 million a year in real estate and facility costs. Supporters of remote work argue the state should consider that projected savings especially \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2026/01/09/california-faces-a-bleak-budget-year-but-not-as-gloomy-as-some-expected/\">as it faces a bleak budget outlook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/food-and-agriculture/2026-02-26/far-northern-california-uses-food-assistance-more-than-rest-of-state\">\u003cstrong>Far Northern California uses food assistance more than rest of state\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"ArtP-subheadline\">Almost a quarter of adults in Humboldt County are enrolled in CalFresh. This puts the county at the 9th highest enrollment in California, up from 19th in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 14% of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/california.department.of.social.services/viz/CFdashboard-PUBLIC/Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California residents\u003c/a> use \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://benefitscal.com/Help/program/calfresh/HCPDE?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CalFresh, the state’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program\u003c/a>. But usage in the far northern portion of the state is much higher, according to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ucdavis.app.box.com/s/eplylnar0l5ipuo1133faf8bqk70wzok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report\u003c/a> from the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of California, Davis\u003c/a>. In Del Norte County, total participation is 24.8%, in Humboldt County, it’s 22.4%, Siskiyou County is 22.3%, and it’s 20.2% in Trinity County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report noted that higher participation in CalFresh often aligns with other indicators of economic insecurity, including poverty and unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ucdavis.app.box.com/s/txzfnjf75xlnbmx20h3g9u6f9dmxh1uq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis from UC Davis\u003c/a>, using data from 2014 to 2024, found workers in Humboldt County earn less than those in the rest of California. Median household income in Humboldt County rose about $17,000 over 10 years, adjusted for inflation, while it increased by about $38,000 statewide. That means income grew by about 43% in Humboldt County compared to almost 62% statewide. Despite an unemployment rate typically below the state average, more than 6% of people in Humboldt work full-time, year round and still live in poverty. That share has almost doubled since 2014, while decreasing statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000206/officials-confirm-small-bird-flu-outbreak-in-elephant-seals-at-ano-nuevo-state-park\">\u003cstrong>Officials confirm small bird flu ‘outbreak’ in elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Scientists have confirmed that seven weaned northern elephant seal pups at Año Nuevo State Park tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, known as H5N1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The confirmation, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratory, marks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a>’s first confirmed detection of the virus in a marine mammal. Researchers estimate that about 30 seals, mostly recently weaned pups, plus one adult male, have died so far. Additional samples are still being processed, and officials say the outbreak appears to have been caught early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field teams already monitoring the colony noticed a slight uptick in dead seals late last week and observed animals showing neurological symptoms, including tremors, weakness and seizure-like activity. During a post-mortem exam on one known female weaned pup, veterinarians found signs that the disease moved quickly. “The animal was in excellent nutritional condition,” said Megan Moriarty, a wildlife veterinarian at UC Santa Cruz. “That means she likely died quickly from a disease process that happened rapidly, as opposed to something more chronic.” Moriarty said the seal showed significant damage to the brain and lungs — findings consistent with the neurological symptoms researchers had observed in the seals out in the field.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/2025-10-03/for-surfers-santa-cruz-waves-are-priceless-a-new-report-gives-them-a-dollar-value\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">one of the findings\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the first report to put a price on the world-renowned surf playground. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Humboldt County recently approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/environment-energy-and-transportation/2025-11-10/one-of-the-most-intriguing-topics-new-green-cemetery-coming-to-humboldt-county\">its first green cemetery.\u003c/a> The model allows bodies to decompose in a more environmentally friendly way.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kazu.org/2025-10-03/for-surfers-santa-cruz-waves-are-priceless-a-new-report-gives-them-a-dollar-value\">\u003cstrong>Report Looks At Surf Industry’s Economic Impact\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz surf breaks are free to enjoy but worth millions. That’s one of the key findings in the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.savethewaves.org/surfonomics-and-climate-vulnerability-in-santa-cruz-ca/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>first report\u003c/u>\u003c/a> to put a dollar value on this world-renowned surf playground. The report identified 30-odd surf spots dotted across Santa Cruz County’s 7-mile stretch of pumping waves. One of them, Cowell’s Beach, is among the busiest, partly because it’s a good place to learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The faint sweetness of blueberry surf wax drifts through the brisk morning air as Thomas Mendoza preps his shortboard in the parking lot of Cowell’s. Mendoza has surfed all over the world but caught his first wave here. He remembers the feeling from the front of his dad’s longboard when he was about 5 or 6 years old. “When you get your first wave and you stand up on it and you’re riding it in, the feeling is electric,” he said, “and I knew right away I was hooked and I was gonna be hooked for the rest of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz attracts surfers of all levels, but also brings in spectators. In its new report, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.savethewaves.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Save the Waves\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, a national surf-advocacy nonprofit based in Santa Cruz, found surfing draws in 800,000 people and $200 million to the area each year. “A lot of people say surfing’s priceless,” said Shaun Burns, a pro surfer who also works at Save the Waves. “Putting a number to it is pretty awesome and pretty groundbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the positive. But there are also concerns: the quality and duration of surfable waves is changing with the climate. The 2-year study—dubbed “surfonomics”—found that as sea level rises, sandy beaches will disappear. As a Santa Cruz native, Burns has seen this happen in his lifetime. “Even in the 33 years that I’ve been around, there’s been a wave that has gone extinct,” said Burns. “I grew up boogie boarding a place that no longer breaks just because there’s not enough sand there for the wave to break far enough out to create a rideable wave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/environment-energy-and-transportation/2025-11-10/one-of-the-most-intriguing-topics-new-green-cemetery-coming-to-humboldt-county\">\u003cstrong>New Green Cemetery Coming To Humboldt County\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Residents of far Northern California will soon have a new option for their final resting place: Humboldt County’s first green cemetery. The Planning Commission unanimously approved the project recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://sacredfamilygroves.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacred Groves\u003c/a> will create an approximately 44-acre cemetery about a 30-minute drive from Eureka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green burial means interring an unembalmed body in a biodegradable shroud or casket, without a concrete vault or plastic liner, to promote natural decomposition. Michael Furniss, project applicant and executive director of Sacred Groves, said the soil at the site is perfect. “Good organic matter, good percolation characteristics and infiltration, good aggregate stability, rich biota and is highly fertile,” he said. “It’s really an ideal soil, and that really turns me on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://humboldt.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14898793&GUID=BE1239E3-E152-404B-9659-995D4FE5BDE3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a staff report\u003c/a>, the carbon footprint for a green burial is one-fifteenth that of a traditional burial and one-tenth that of cremation.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Every Monday, Norma McAdams comes to the K’ima:w Medical Center on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in northeastern \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/humboldt-county\">Humboldt County\u003c/a> and leaves with a box of fresh produce. Lately, she’s been experimenting with new recipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love yellow squash and zucchini with a little onion and make pasta out of the zucchini to cut back on the carbs,” said McAdams, a Hoopa Valley tribal member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAdams, 74, used to grow her own fruit and vegetables in a small backyard garden, but an osteoporosis diagnosis and a back injury have made gardening difficult in recent years. As she gets older, she said, eating healthy, locally grown food is more important than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your immune system is susceptible to whatever you’re eating — is what you’re becoming — so it’s really important,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAdams is one of 180 Hoopa Valley seniors who receives local produce, eggs and beef purchased through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Purchase Assistance program, known as LFPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken and Norma McAdams eat free lunch at the Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California. Norma is on the board of the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District and benefits from the LFDA Program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program launched in late 2021 under former President Joe Biden. It has since provided $88.5 million to California food banks and tribal governments — more than any other state — to purchase food from “local and socially disadvantaged” farmers. The program aims to strengthen local food systems weakened by the pandemic, especially in rural areas like the Hoopa Valley, where \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/profile/Hoopa_Valley_Reservation,_CA?g=2500000US1490#income-and-poverty\">nearly 30% of residents\u003c/a> live in poverty, according to U.S. Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Hoopa Valley was classified as a food desert after its only grocery store closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just helps augment our costs for food,” McAdams said. “So it’s very nutritious and helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Trump administration abruptly terminated the program, leaving tribes and food banks in California scrambling. Even money that had already been promised for reimbursements through 2025 was included in the cuts.[aside postID=news_11956856 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67156_230721-CoastMiwokLandMarin-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“There were more than 500 farms that we had to notify: ‘Hey, we’re really sorry, we think this program could be frozen or ending,’” said Stacia Levenfeld, the chief executive officer of the California Association of Food Banks. “That’s a hard thing to talk to a farmer about who has food in the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, the USDA backtracked, restoring already allocated funds but still canceling future program funding. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371438880112\">justified the cuts\u003c/a> as “COVID-era funds” that had not been spent yet. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allie Hostler, a tribal member and the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District coordinator, runs LFPA for the tribe. She said the tribe has so far spent $105,000 of the $727,000 they were approved for reimbursement. Any funds not claimed by the end of the year will expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler said the tribe sends food purchased through LFPA to the senior center first, reflecting a cultural priority of caring for their elders. The remaining food is then made available to the broader community, both tribal and nontribal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think seniors are prone to living thrifty and pinching pennies. Many are on fixed incomes,” Hostler said. “Having access to food through this program sort of guarantees they’ll have locally produced healthy foods in their refrigerators and on their kitchen tables. Without that, I’m not sure how many will continue to buy healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District Coordinator Allie Hostler, left, explains to Patty Clary that the can of salmon Clary is holding is packed in Tacoma, Washington, in partnership with a local Hoopa business. The canned salmon was purchased with money from the LFPA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cancellation doesn’t just hurt Hoopa Valley’s seniors. Hostler said the grant also meant reliable markets for local farmers and ranchers, as well as an opportunity to expand their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For our local farmers, it meant market stability,” she said. “It meant being able to sell every tomato that you grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, the Hoopa Valley tribe was acutely aware of the dangers of being too reliant on outside food sources. The reservation spans nearly 90,000 acres of dense forests and mountains, bisected by the Trinity River in Northern California’s Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re geographically isolated from larger highway systems where food comes and goes,” Hostler said, adding that the only place to buy food on the reservation for three years after the grocery store closed was the tribe’s gas station.[aside postID=news_11966087 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-TULUWAT-ISLAND-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“One of the more healthier items you could get there is like a Lunchable, for example, or an orange juice,” she said. “But as far as food you can use to prepare a scratch-cooked meal was largely unavailable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, McAdams said many people would drive to the Costco in Eureka, an hour and a half away on winding roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s over a really rough road where you have to stop like five or six times,” McAdams said. “It’s not easy, especially if you’re disabled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limited access to high-quality foods contributes to poor health conditions among Native Americans. Data from the Indian Health Service shows that American Indians and Alaska Natives \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihs.gov/newsroom/factsheets/disparities/\">face higher rates of chronic diseases\u003c/a> like diabetes and die much younger than other populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the reservation has one tribally owned grocery store, but much of the food is still trucked in from Central Valley farms. Hostler said about half of the Trinity River’s water is diverted to those farms, mostly for agricultural purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our water leaves this water system and fish die and the ecosystem suffers, it ships south to make cheap food, and then the food comes back up here in a truck,” Hostler said. “We’re paying for that food twice. We’re paying with our water, with our salmon and with our resources. And then we turn around and we pay money for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046546 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomatoes grown on land in Hoopa, California, owned by Marcellene Norton and leased to Danny Gaytan, will be purchased for the LFDA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The food assistance program encouraged local farmers and ranchers to scale up, knowing they’d have a guaranteed buyer. Hostler said she had hoped the program would bolster the local supply chain enough to eventually supply the grocery store itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved this program because it strengthens our local food system here, where we can grow our food with our resources, with our own people, on our own land and feed our community,” Hostler said. “To me, that is a functioning food system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie McKindley is one of those local farmers. Her four-acre farm is lined with rows of peach trees. For more than a decade, she has sold the peaches with her father and daughter at a stand in front of the town’s burger joint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t have a lot of money here, so we just kind of work with what people have, and we basically just give them away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046539 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie McKindley checks on an Asian pear tree in her small orchard in Hoopa, California. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But starting last year, she was able to sell the peaches to the senior center through the LFPA program instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first year that we actually got market value,” McKindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, McKindley and her sister decided to scale up their garden, growing corn, squash, tomatoes, pumpkins, herbs and cherries. She even hopes to dry seaweed for the senior program. Without the LFPA program next year, McKindley worries about the investments they’ve already put into their farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a cost. There’s a lot of labor, seeds,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the program ends in November, Hostler hopes to secure alternative markets, like the local school district, for farmers like McKindley. But seniors like McAdams might lose access to high-quality, healthy foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to Rollins in March, a dozen tribal associations \u003ca href=\"https://coalitionfortribalsovereignty.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Tribal-Coalition-Letter-to-USDA_032425-FINAL.pdf\">urged the USDA\u003c/a> to reconsider the cuts, reminding Rollins about the United States’ federal treaty obligations to tribes in exchange for taking their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046536 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California, serves free lunches and distributes food to seniors in the area. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tribal programs and funding are provided on the basis of our unique political status and are legally required by trust and treaty obligations and the many statutes that implement those obligations,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler doesn’t see the termination of LFPA specifically as a violation of the federal government’s legal obligation. But she worries the U.S. won’t honor its promise to provide certain basic services in return for taking their land. Today, the Hoopa Valley tribe occupies an area that is a third of their aboriginal territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t wanna stand at the federal government’s door with our hand out,” Hostler said. “I want to rely on ourselves. I want to rely on our land. I want to see restoration of our lands, of our river, of our fishery. That’s what federal obligations to the Hoopa people looks like to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seniors like McAdams could feel the cuts as early as next year. Without the program, McAdams said she and other elders will have to lean more on the younger generation. She hopes the tribe will be able to encourage their youth to care about food sustainability and teach them to garden, make jams and can fish like their ancestors have done for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little bit scary, but we’re hopeful,” McAdams said. “We’re really a community that helps take care of each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Every Monday, Norma McAdams comes to the K’ima:w Medical Center on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in northeastern \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/humboldt-county\">Humboldt County\u003c/a> and leaves with a box of fresh produce. Lately, she’s been experimenting with new recipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love yellow squash and zucchini with a little onion and make pasta out of the zucchini to cut back on the carbs,” said McAdams, a Hoopa Valley tribal member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAdams, 74, used to grow her own fruit and vegetables in a small backyard garden, but an osteoporosis diagnosis and a back injury have made gardening difficult in recent years. As she gets older, she said, eating healthy, locally grown food is more important than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your immune system is susceptible to whatever you’re eating — is what you’re becoming — so it’s really important,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAdams is one of 180 Hoopa Valley seniors who receives local produce, eggs and beef purchased through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Purchase Assistance program, known as LFPA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_00.DSC_7504-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken and Norma McAdams eat free lunch at the Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California. Norma is on the board of the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District and benefits from the LFDA Program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program launched in late 2021 under former President Joe Biden. It has since provided $88.5 million to California food banks and tribal governments — more than any other state — to purchase food from “local and socially disadvantaged” farmers. The program aims to strengthen local food systems weakened by the pandemic, especially in rural areas like the Hoopa Valley, where \u003ca href=\"https://data.census.gov/profile/Hoopa_Valley_Reservation,_CA?g=2500000US1490#income-and-poverty\">nearly 30% of residents\u003c/a> live in poverty, according to U.S. Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, the Hoopa Valley was classified as a food desert after its only grocery store closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just helps augment our costs for food,” McAdams said. “So it’s very nutritious and helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Trump administration abruptly terminated the program, leaving tribes and food banks in California scrambling. Even money that had already been promised for reimbursements through 2025 was included in the cuts.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There were more than 500 farms that we had to notify: ‘Hey, we’re really sorry, we think this program could be frozen or ending,’” said Stacia Levenfeld, the chief executive officer of the California Association of Food Banks. “That’s a hard thing to talk to a farmer about who has food in the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, the USDA backtracked, restoring already allocated funds but still canceling future program funding. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371438880112\">justified the cuts\u003c/a> as “COVID-era funds” that had not been spent yet. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allie Hostler, a tribal member and the Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District coordinator, runs LFPA for the tribe. She said the tribe has so far spent $105,000 of the $727,000 they were approved for reimbursement. Any funds not claimed by the end of the year will expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler said the tribe sends food purchased through LFPA to the senior center first, reflecting a cultural priority of caring for their elders. The remaining food is then made available to the broader community, both tribal and nontribal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think seniors are prone to living thrifty and pinching pennies. Many are on fixed incomes,” Hostler said. “Having access to food through this program sort of guarantees they’ll have locally produced healthy foods in their refrigerators and on their kitchen tables. Without that, I’m not sure how many will continue to buy healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_03.DSC_7563-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Klamath Trinity Resource Conservation District Coordinator Allie Hostler, left, explains to Patty Clary that the can of salmon Clary is holding is packed in Tacoma, Washington, in partnership with a local Hoopa business. The canned salmon was purchased with money from the LFPA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The cancellation doesn’t just hurt Hoopa Valley’s seniors. Hostler said the grant also meant reliable markets for local farmers and ranchers, as well as an opportunity to expand their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For our local farmers, it meant market stability,” she said. “It meant being able to sell every tomato that you grow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, the Hoopa Valley tribe was acutely aware of the dangers of being too reliant on outside food sources. The reservation spans nearly 90,000 acres of dense forests and mountains, bisected by the Trinity River in Northern California’s Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re geographically isolated from larger highway systems where food comes and goes,” Hostler said, adding that the only place to buy food on the reservation for three years after the grocery store closed was the tribe’s gas station.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“One of the more healthier items you could get there is like a Lunchable, for example, or an orange juice,” she said. “But as far as food you can use to prepare a scratch-cooked meal was largely unavailable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, McAdams said many people would drive to the Costco in Eureka, an hour and a half away on winding roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s over a really rough road where you have to stop like five or six times,” McAdams said. “It’s not easy, especially if you’re disabled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limited access to high-quality foods contributes to poor health conditions among Native Americans. Data from the Indian Health Service shows that American Indians and Alaska Natives \u003ca href=\"https://www.ihs.gov/newsroom/factsheets/disparities/\">face higher rates of chronic diseases\u003c/a> like diabetes and die much younger than other populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the reservation has one tribally owned grocery store, but much of the food is still trucked in from Central Valley farms. Hostler said about half of the Trinity River’s water is diverted to those farms, mostly for agricultural purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When our water leaves this water system and fish die and the ecosystem suffers, it ships south to make cheap food, and then the food comes back up here in a truck,” Hostler said. “We’re paying for that food twice. We’re paying with our water, with our salmon and with our resources. And then we turn around and we pay money for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046546 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_22.DSC_7827-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomatoes grown on land in Hoopa, California, owned by Marcellene Norton and leased to Danny Gaytan, will be purchased for the LFDA program. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The food assistance program encouraged local farmers and ranchers to scale up, knowing they’d have a guaranteed buyer. Hostler said she had hoped the program would bolster the local supply chain enough to eventually supply the grocery store itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I loved this program because it strengthens our local food system here, where we can grow our food with our resources, with our own people, on our own land and feed our community,” Hostler said. “To me, that is a functioning food system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie McKindley is one of those local farmers. Her four-acre farm is lined with rows of peach trees. For more than a decade, she has sold the peaches with her father and daughter at a stand in front of the town’s burger joint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t have a lot of money here, so we just kind of work with what people have, and we basically just give them away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046539 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_11.DSC_7648-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephanie McKindley checks on an Asian pear tree in her small orchard in Hoopa, California. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But starting last year, she was able to sell the peaches to the senior center through the LFPA program instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first year that we actually got market value,” McKindley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, McKindley and her sister decided to scale up their garden, growing corn, squash, tomatoes, pumpkins, herbs and cherries. She even hopes to dry seaweed for the senior program. Without the LFPA program next year, McKindley worries about the investments they’ve already put into their farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a cost. There’s a lot of labor, seeds,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the program ends in November, Hostler hopes to secure alternative markets, like the local school district, for farmers like McKindley. But seniors like McAdams might lose access to high-quality, healthy foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to Rollins in March, a dozen tribal associations \u003ca href=\"https://coalitionfortribalsovereignty.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Tribal-Coalition-Letter-to-USDA_032425-FINAL.pdf\">urged the USDA\u003c/a> to reconsider the cuts, reminding Rollins about the United States’ federal treaty obligations to tribes in exchange for taking their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046536 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/25_06_25_TRIBE_FOOD_CUTS_MM_04.DSC_7579-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Senior Nutrition Center in Hoopa, California, serves free lunches and distributes food to seniors in the area. \u003ccite>(Mark McKenna for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Tribal programs and funding are provided on the basis of our unique political status and are legally required by trust and treaty obligations and the many statutes that implement those obligations,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostler doesn’t see the termination of LFPA specifically as a violation of the federal government’s legal obligation. But she worries the U.S. won’t honor its promise to provide certain basic services in return for taking their land. Today, the Hoopa Valley tribe occupies an area that is a third of their aboriginal territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t wanna stand at the federal government’s door with our hand out,” Hostler said. “I want to rely on ourselves. I want to rely on our land. I want to see restoration of our lands, of our river, of our fishery. That’s what federal obligations to the Hoopa people looks like to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seniors like McAdams could feel the cuts as early as next year. Without the program, McAdams said she and other elders will have to lean more on the younger generation. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Saturday morning, the skies were gray above Arcata. But the town square was bursting with color, as crowds of people in costume surrounded dozens of gigantic moving sculptures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042158 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teams Dolly Spartan and Dolly Partonon do a lap around Arcata Plaza before the race. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042155 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before the race starts, teams gather in Arcata Plaza to show off their pageantry and art vehicles. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There was Dolly Spartan, which was not to be confused with Dolly Partonon; a black spy vehicle that spit fire; a group of bees that also danced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A broken airplane was adorned with penguins and the environmentalist message: “They can’t fly. Neither should we.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042156 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every year, Arcata Plaza fills with hundreds of spectators ahead of the Kinetic Grand Championship. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042160 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kinetic sculptures started the first leg of the race on Saturday, May 24, passing dairy farms and fields towards the coast in Humboldt County. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At noon, the race took off through town, past dairy farms, then to the beach, as part of the first leg of a three-day race called the Kinetic Grand Championship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Moving Sculptures Dazzle and Delight at the Kinetic Grand Championship\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/CWptB6V-Ldc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race, known as the “triathlon of the art world,” took place Memorial Day weekend in Humboldt County. Founded in 1969 by artist Hobart Brown, it’s a local tradition where teams race homemade human-powered art vehicles over 50 miles of land, sand, water and mud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041989\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1710\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Arcata, several teams build their race sculptures in the Kinetic Lab, a warehouse dedicated to kinetic artists and metal workers. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most teams consist of a pilot, pit crew and a group of costumed peons following closely on their own bicycles. The rules are lengthy, but cheeky, advising each team to keep “an item of comfort (we recommend a teddy bear)” on their craft at all times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042159 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team Reno Cowsino parades its vehicle around Arcata Plaza before the start of the race. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042157 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the pit crew bikes around Arcata Plaza at the start of the Kinetic Grand Championship. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042170 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kinetic sculpture Malice in Wonderland reaches the finish line in Ferndale, California, on Monday, May 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Contestants are judged on everything from their artistry and engineering, to how big of a splash they make entering Humboldt Bay. Bribes are encouraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041990\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1710\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malia ‘Pork Chop’ Matsumoto (left) and partner Lush Newton (right) prepare the kinetic sculpture Ghoul Scout Pine Box Derby at the Kinetic Lab. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042165 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-15-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-15-KQED-1.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-15-KQED-1-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-15-KQED-1-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-15-KQED-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-15-KQED-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malia ‘Pork Chop’ Matsumoto prepares to descend a sand dune to the beach. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year was Malia Matsumoto’s first time ACE-ing, a special category for pilots who carry everything they need during the race. “Any flotation, any tools, any pumps, anything that’s going to allow the machine to propel itself forward,” she explained. “And I have to do it under my own power without help from anybody, in a certain amount of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is no small feat, considering the machines, which can be hundreds of pounds and outfitted with over 100 gears, must traverse miles of sand dunes and cross both the Eel River and Humboldt Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042166 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kinetic sculptures cross Humboldt Bay as a band plays on the second day of the race. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042167 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kinetic sculpture Neverending Glory prepares to cross the Eel River on the third morning of the race. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042164 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ziggy Starfish takes a break at the Manila Community Center on day one of the race. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When we took it out last year in the race, I had this little thing click in my heart that said, ‘You’re ready, and it’s time to do it this year.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042163 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reno Cowsino pilot Joel Clark adjusts the gears on his kinetic sculpture. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>June Moxon, the longest competing participant, is 73 years old and racing for her 43rd year. She says one thing above all else keeps her coming back: “The glory!” This year, she pedaled a sculpture of a horse rigged with strings that move the eyes and mouth, like a puppet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042171 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">June Moxon’s kinetic sculpture SPARKLE & Rhinestones gets a new paint job the day before the race. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For the glory” is the race motto and hits on the staunchly anti-capitalist nature of the event. “It says a lot about the way that our society currently kind of expects you to be on the grind,” Moxon’s teammate Richie Precedent says. “This flies in the face of that. This is taking time out of your regular life to do something that is absolutely absurd for nothing more than the joy of doing it.” This year, he took on choreography for his team, an area in which he has no expertise. “That is the entire point. It can be frustrating, it can be heartbreaking, but in the end, you do it for the glory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042061\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1871\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH-2048x1533.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH-1920x1437.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left, a trophy for a past Kinetic Grand Championship sits in the Kinetic Lab in Arcata. Right, Quest-ionable Decisions takes off from the plaza. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042154 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-4-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-4-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-4-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-4-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-4-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-4-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-4-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Memorabilia from past kinetic races sits in the Kinetic Lab. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zachary Lathouris hasn’t missed a race since he moved to Humboldt in 2013. “There’s truly nothing like kinetics. If this race existed in any other city, I really think it would be a much different thing. You’d see a lot of banners for companies and corporate logos everywhere and people wouldn’t be able to mill around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across Arcata Plaza, pilot Jenny Weiss stood next to a carriage-sized sculpture of a tooth. She was adorned with a necklace made of her own wisdom teeth and a matching barrette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is adult daycare for me and my friends,” she says. “Keeps us off the street and out of trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Eureka Mayor Kim Bergel is participating, running for the title of Rutabaga Queen at an ancillary pageant event. On the plaza, she dances to the band and hands out glittery rocks, encouraging people to be kind. “Kindness is free, and we need to continue to give it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her, it’s all about inspiring the next generation. \u003cem>“\u003c/em>Hobart Brown, our glorious founder, used to say that we grow up as adults and have fun so children will want to grow up. That’s what we’re out here doing today with all these glorious people. We’re so thankful to be here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042168 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A previous year’s Rutabaga Queen at the finish line of the race in Ferndale. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ten-year-old Onyx Markham agreed. “It shouldn’t just be for Humboldt; it should be across America because of the fun of it, and they can try new things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042169 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team Phat Pony crosses the finish line in Ferndale, California, without their machine, but still carrying their art. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Racers crossed the finish line in Ferndale on Monday, some walking without machines intact, carrying only their art. The spectators roared all the same: “For the glory!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Saturday morning, the skies were gray above Arcata. But the town square was bursting with color, as crowds of people in costume surrounded dozens of gigantic moving sculptures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042158 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-9-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teams Dolly Spartan and Dolly Partonon do a lap around Arcata Plaza before the race. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042155 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-6-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before the race starts, teams gather in Arcata Plaza to show off their pageantry and art vehicles. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There was Dolly Spartan, which was not to be confused with Dolly Partonon; a black spy vehicle that spit fire; a group of bees that also danced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A broken airplane was adorned with penguins and the environmentalist message: “They can’t fly. Neither should we.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042156 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-7-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every year, Arcata Plaza fills with hundreds of spectators ahead of the Kinetic Grand Championship. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042160 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-12-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kinetic sculptures started the first leg of the race on Saturday, May 24, passing dairy farms and fields towards the coast in Humboldt County. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At noon, the race took off through town, past dairy farms, then to the beach, as part of the first leg of a three-day race called the Kinetic Grand Championship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Moving Sculptures Dazzle and Delight at the Kinetic Grand Championship\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/CWptB6V-Ldc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race, known as the “triathlon of the art world,” took place Memorial Day weekend in Humboldt County. Founded in 1969 by artist Hobart Brown, it’s a local tradition where teams race homemade human-powered art vehicles over 50 miles of land, sand, water and mud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041989\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1710\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-2-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Arcata, several teams build their race sculptures in the Kinetic Lab, a warehouse dedicated to kinetic artists and metal workers. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most teams consist of a pilot, pit crew and a group of costumed peons following closely on their own bicycles. The rules are lengthy, but cheeky, advising each team to keep “an item of comfort (we recommend a teddy bear)” on their craft at all times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042159 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-10-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team Reno Cowsino parades its vehicle around Arcata Plaza before the start of the race. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042157 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-8-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the pit crew bikes around Arcata Plaza at the start of the Kinetic Grand Championship. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042170 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-21-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kinetic sculpture Malice in Wonderland reaches the finish line in Ferndale, California, on Monday, May 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Contestants are judged on everything from their artistry and engineering, to how big of a splash they make entering Humboldt Bay. Bribes are encouraged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041990\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1710\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-3-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malia ‘Pork Chop’ Matsumoto (left) and partner Lush Newton (right) prepare the kinetic sculpture Ghoul Scout Pine Box Derby at the Kinetic Lab. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042165 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-15-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-15-KQED-1.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-15-KQED-1-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-15-KQED-1-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-15-KQED-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-15-KQED-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malia ‘Pork Chop’ Matsumoto prepares to descend a sand dune to the beach. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year was Malia Matsumoto’s first time ACE-ing, a special category for pilots who carry everything they need during the race. “Any flotation, any tools, any pumps, anything that’s going to allow the machine to propel itself forward,” she explained. “And I have to do it under my own power without help from anybody, in a certain amount of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is no small feat, considering the machines, which can be hundreds of pounds and outfitted with over 100 gears, must traverse miles of sand dunes and cross both the Eel River and Humboldt Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042166 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-17-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kinetic sculptures cross Humboldt Bay as a band plays on the second day of the race. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042167 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-18-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kinetic sculpture Neverending Glory prepares to cross the Eel River on the third morning of the race. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042164 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-14-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ziggy Starfish takes a break at the Manila Community Center on day one of the race. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When we took it out last year in the race, I had this little thing click in my heart that said, ‘You’re ready, and it’s time to do it this year.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042163 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-13-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reno Cowsino pilot Joel Clark adjusts the gears on his kinetic sculpture. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>June Moxon, the longest competing participant, is 73 years old and racing for her 43rd year. She says one thing above all else keeps her coming back: “The glory!” This year, she pedaled a sculpture of a horse rigged with strings that move the eyes and mouth, like a puppet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042171 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">June Moxon’s kinetic sculpture SPARKLE & Rhinestones gets a new paint job the day before the race. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For the glory” is the race motto and hits on the staunchly anti-capitalist nature of the event. “It says a lot about the way that our society currently kind of expects you to be on the grind,” Moxon’s teammate Richie Precedent says. “This flies in the face of that. This is taking time out of your regular life to do something that is absolutely absurd for nothing more than the joy of doing it.” This year, he took on choreography for his team, an area in which he has no expertise. “That is the entire point. It can be frustrating, it can be heartbreaking, but in the end, you do it for the glory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042061\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1871\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH-2048x1533.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-edited-DIPTYCH-1920x1437.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left, a trophy for a past Kinetic Grand Championship sits in the Kinetic Lab in Arcata. 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If this race existed in any other city, I really think it would be a much different thing. You’d see a lot of banners for companies and corporate logos everywhere and people wouldn’t be able to mill around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across Arcata Plaza, pilot Jenny Weiss stood next to a carriage-sized sculpture of a tooth. She was adorned with a necklace made of her own wisdom teeth and a matching barrette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is adult daycare for me and my friends,” she says. “Keeps us off the street and out of trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Eureka Mayor Kim Bergel is participating, running for the title of Rutabaga Queen at an ancillary pageant event. On the plaza, she dances to the band and hands out glittery rocks, encouraging people to be kind. “Kindness is free, and we need to continue to give it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her, it’s all about inspiring the next generation. \u003cem>“\u003c/em>Hobart Brown, our glorious founder, used to say that we grow up as adults and have fun so children will want to grow up. That’s what we’re out here doing today with all these glorious people. We’re so thankful to be here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042168 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-19-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A previous year’s Rutabaga Queen at the finish line of the race in Ferndale. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ten-year-old Onyx Markham agreed. “It shouldn’t just be for Humboldt; it should be across America because of the fun of it, and they can try new things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042169 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/KGC-EDITED-20-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team Phat Pony crosses the finish line in Ferndale, California, without their machine, but still carrying their art. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Racers crossed the finish line in Ferndale on Monday, some walking without machines intact, carrying only their art. 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"content": "\u003cp>On his first day back in office, President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a> ordered the federal government to temporarily halt approvals of new wind farms and reexamine existing leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to do the wind thing,” Trump said to a cheering crowd at the Capital One Arena in Washington on Monday. “Big ugly windmills, they ruin your neighborhood,” he said, spinning his hand in a circle and whistling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sweeping freeze could chill an industry \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922377/new-climate-bill-could-mean-big-investments-in-green-energy\">flush with investment cash\u003c/a> from the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, halt new leasing on federal lands and waters and block permits for wind farms across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order doesn’t pause work on wind farms with existing leases, but it does direct officials to find ways of “terminating or amending” these projects, of which there are currently five in the waters miles off the coast of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010502/whats-next-for-californias-offshore-wind-industry\">construct massive clusters of turbines\u003c/a> attached to floating platforms — two near Humboldt Bay and three farther south, off Morro Bay. There are also plans to transform 80 acres of waterfront land in Humboldt meant to be a hub for offshore wind operators and their ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CaliforniaWindFarmLeases.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CaliforniaWindFarmLeases.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CaliforniaWindFarmLeases-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CaliforniaWindFarmLeases-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CaliforniaWindFarmLeases-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CaliforniaWindFarmLeases-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The floating platforms would be located about 20 miles off of the California coast. \u003ccite>(KQED/Climate Central)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Were the Trump administration to try to claw back leases for California’s offshore wind farms, the state would no doubt sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump tried to rip up numerous environmental plans and policies during his first term, and California initiated many multi-state challenges to these efforts — and often won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, public and private money has poured into the ambitious plan for floating wind power off the state. California’s first-ever wind auction went for $757 million. Last year, the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District\u003ca href=\"https://huffman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/huffman-delivers-over-426-million-federal-investment-for-humboldt-bay-offshore-wind-farms\"> received $426.7 million\u003c/a> in money approved by Congress and intended to build and maintain offshore wind infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jared Huffman (D–San Rafael), ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, co-signed \u003ca href=\"https://seec.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/seec.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Letter%20Opposing%20Trump%20Day-One%20Environment%20Rollbacks_FINAL.pdf\">a letter\u003c/a> addressed to President Trump on Tuesday blasting the wind order and others that the House Democrats said put “polluters over people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991765\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-JARED-HUFFMAN-ON-OB-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-JARED-HUFFMAN-ON-OB-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-JARED-HUFFMAN-ON-OB-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-JARED-HUFFMAN-ON-OB-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-JARED-HUFFMAN-ON-OB-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-JARED-HUFFMAN-ON-OB-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240624-JARED-HUFFMAN-ON-OB-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Bay Congressman Jared Huffman at KQED in San Francisco on June 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 50 gigawatts of offshore wind energy are currently in development in U.S. waters, the letter said. “Halting these projects will eliminate thousands of good paying jobs and cut off an important source of energy when the grid is already straining to meet new demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s clean energy targets are among the most ambitious in the world. In order to hit them, it must build renewable generating capacity faster than ever before — and the robust offshore wind projects are central to those efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wants to see 5 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity installed by 2030, which would be roughly equivalent to the output of eight or 10 natural gas power plants. The goal quadruples by 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1981061 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/12/RS61699_GettyImages-976086950-qut-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best wind potential in the country, if not the world, is off \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981061/california-jobs-boom-anticipated-following-offshore-wind-auction\">the Northern California and Southern Oregon coast\u003c/a>. Without offshore wind, it would technically be possible for the U.S. to reach “net zero” by 2050, but it would be more expensive than tapping into what is right off the coast of California, according to researchers with Princeton’s \u003ca href=\"https://netzeroamerica.princeton.edu/?explorer=pathway&state=national&table=e-positive&limit=200\">Net-Zero America project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists bemoaned Trump’s order. Offshore wind is a reliable source of energy that could lower the cost of power for families and reduce toxic air and water pollution caused by dirty fossil fuels, they said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order doesn’t pause work on wind farms with existing leases, but it does direct officials to find ways of “terminating or amending” these projects, of which there are currently five in the waters miles off the coast of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010502/whats-next-for-californias-offshore-wind-industry\">construct massive clusters of turbines\u003c/a> attached to floating platforms — two near Humboldt Bay and three farther south, off Morro Bay. There are also plans to transform 80 acres of waterfront land in Humboldt meant to be a hub for offshore wind operators and their ships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CaliforniaWindFarmLeases.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CaliforniaWindFarmLeases.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CaliforniaWindFarmLeases-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CaliforniaWindFarmLeases-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CaliforniaWindFarmLeases-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/CaliforniaWindFarmLeases-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The floating platforms would be located about 20 miles off of the California coast. \u003ccite>(KQED/Climate Central)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Were the Trump administration to try to claw back leases for California’s offshore wind farms, the state would no doubt sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump tried to rip up numerous environmental plans and policies during his first term, and California initiated many multi-state challenges to these efforts — and often won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, public and private money has poured into the ambitious plan for floating wind power off the state. 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