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Nate Rich, the Potter Valley Tribe’s environmental program manager, invited a few interested foragers on a crash course on mushroom hunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For him, Rich told the group, the best moments on the hunt are the serendipitous ones, like finding a cluster of highly prized golden chanterelles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his approach is also a meditative one. For the most success, Rich said he tries to dispel any notion of going in for “the kill” when it comes to spotting mushrooms — and instead, he’ll “lay on the ground for like 10 minutes and not do anything and calm down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071170\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Zhao Qiu, Allison Deng and MingXia Bai pick mushrooms during a mushroom foraging event, hosted by Potter Valley Tribe, at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And then usually, I’ll turn my head, and it’ll be right there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich told his mushroom-hunters-in-training how he likes to look up through the forest canopy for spots where the sun might warm up the ground, allowing certain light-seeking fungi to grow And how he’ll look down to see where water flows, fueling the mushrooms’ growth — or watch out for where “duff,” that thick, decaying vegetation that layers the forest floor, has built up on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my feet start to squish, I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m in an area where there might be some mushrooms,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so much potential for wandering, Potter Valley chairman Rosales said, always make sure someone knows their rough whereabouts while foraging, in case they get lost. And “don’t be afraid to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-10/these-wild-mushrooms-have-sickened-californians-heres-how-to-forage-safely\">touch mushrooms\u003c/a>,” he said. “As long as you don’t ingest them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Recovering the tribe’s land\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Potter Valley Tribe is the first tribe in California to be awarded this grant to create a community forest by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But for Rosales, the road here — to actually owning this 48-acre property that the mushroom hunters are exploring — has been a long one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This land has been \u003ca href=\"https://pinoleville-nsn.gov/heritage/our-history/\">home to Pomo people\u003c/a> for thousands of years. When colonizers started arriving in the early 1800s, they began to chip away at it, killing, removing and enslaving the Pomo people — decimating their population numbers and relegating them to reservations to make way for European homesteads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071166\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071166\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salvador Rosales, Chairman of Potter Valley Tribe, poses for a photo at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1958, \u003ca href=\"https://nahc.ca.gov/native-americans/california-indian-history/\">Congress passed a series of laws and practices ending the federal government’s recognition\u003c/a> of tribal sovereignty and lands. The move dismantled Pomo reservations, like the Potter Valley Rancheria, revoked their federal status and left these tribes landless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was, until the 1980s, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/documents/hardwick.html\">Tillie Hardwick,\u003c/a> a Pomo Indian woman, sued the federal government in a class action lawsuit and won, immediately restoring 17 California tribes’ federal status and creating precedent for more in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Potter Valley Tribe — and many others included in the suit — would nonetheless remain mostly landless until the early 2000s. But when Rosales became chairman in 2003, he said he saw it as his mission to slowly but surely buy back the tribe’s ancestral lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quest began with a federal grant to buy a 4-acre parcel in Redwood Valley for housing for tribe members. And since then, via grants, land donations and money earned from the gaming industry, the tribe has purchased a checkerboard totaling more than 1,000 acres — the majority of it undeveloped forest — across Mendocino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unbelievable,” Rosales said, of the tribe’s progress in reacquiring their land. When family and friends ask him about the tribal council’s continual investments in land, he said he tells them that there’s “never been an opportunity like this” in previous years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosales and the tribe worked with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.tpl.org/our-work/community-forests\">Trust for Public Land\u003c/a>, which has now helped establish 45 community forests nationwide, protecting 43,000 acres through this grant alone.[aside postID=science_1999301 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2025/11/KQED_PRESCRIBED-BURN_AT_257_QED-KQED.jpg'] The trust’s North Coast Project Manager Jeff Conti said the agency’s primary role is to help tribes navigate the sometimes long and convoluted processes to get land back in the hands of those working to conserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However we can plug in, whether it’s providing technical assistance, whether it’s helping fundraise, or just doing the whole transaction, we can help,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after the tribe won the grant, it took six years before they found themselves in the right place and time with this particular property — and for this forest to be returned to its ancestral caretakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the end,” Rosales said, “it paid off to be patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Keeping history and tradition alive\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Being effectively landless has affected the Pomo people in deep, lasting ways, Rosales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of his ancestors were farm ranch hands, chasing seasonal work throughout the Potter and Ukiah valleys to make ends meet, he said. But as there’s been very little written or shared from elders, Rosales doesn’t know a lot beyond that — as he said, it became especially apparent when he was invited to speak to students in Potter Valley about the tribe’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071155\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1363\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED-1536x1047.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Amanita Muscaria mushroom grows at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And without land to gather on, they have even fewer traditions to uphold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ceremony — any kind of gatherings, we don’t really have a history of that simply because of the past history of settlers and indigenous people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the community forest grant, the tribe is developing a land management and public access plan, which tribal leaders said will focus on environmental education, from foraging to reintroducing traditional ecological practices like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11887536/getting-good-fire-on-the-ground-the-karuk-tribe-pushes-to-restore-native-burn-management-to-protect-forests\">forest thinning\u003c/a>, to promote the resilience of the forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich, the tribe’s environmental program manager, said he’s excited to have a space where practicing — and sharing — these traditions is the focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re at the beginning,” he said. “Now the tribe has a resource to work with the community on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need these spaces together,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071169\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Rich, Tribal Environmental Manager of Potter Valley Tribe, poses for a photo at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For her part, Pearce said she plans to help teach foraging here during the tribe’s annual environmental youth campout and other events — and she can already see how they could harvest wild onions growing here and use elder trees to make musical instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is work that can only be done when the tribe owns the land to do it on, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcn.org/issues/51-17/tribal-affairs-an-indigenous-way-of-life-for-these-california-tribes-breaks-state-laws/\">laws\u003c/a> in place that stop indigenous people from caretaking on their own tribal land,” she said. “So the only answer is private land because private landowners have more rights than indigenous people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with so many tribes in the area still without land, not everyone has the same opportunity to learn what has been lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, only half the tribes were reinstated after the Tillie Hardwick case,” she said. “So there are tribes that aren’t even recognized that have no access to anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce teaches her students that food sovereignty is important to everyone, not just native people on native lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone has control of your food, and you can’t feed yourself, that is their power,” she said. “That’s their power move, to take your food away, and you have to do what they say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if you can feed yourself for free where you live, then that’s food sovereignty,” Pearce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The next generation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pearce said she’s particularly encouraged by the willingness of her Gen Z students and community members to “look at hard things and call them by the right name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And all we can do is give them the education and support to do that, and that’s what we’re doing,” she said.[aside postID=news_11874585 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/UpperLake_BloodyIslandSunriseCeremony-1020x633.jpg'] High school student Elizabeth Dodge, from Willits, attended the mushroom hunting event thanks to an invite from Pearce herself — to whom Dodge reached out for help identifying mushrooms she’d spotted in her family’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Dodge isn’t a big fan of eating mushrooms, she’s really into identifying birds — a skill she learned from her grandmother. She said she now planned to make a presentation to her class on everything she found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen at least 17 kinds or something like that, so I’m really excited,” Dodge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the entrance to the property, a table was blanketed in mushrooms of every size, shape and color, gathered by the day’s participants in Pearce’s handwoven baskets. People milled about, munching on freshly caught and cooked salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a massive pan of foraged mushrooms — identified by the expert foragers present as safe to eat — sizzled next to a vat of alfredo sauce, as fettuccine vigorously boiled on the stovetop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chairman Rosales, a noted expert on fungi, this event was ultimately a true family affair. That morning, Rosales’ son Boo had made donuts with glaze from candy cap mushrooms while his daughter Mariah was manning the stove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just gonna season them a little bit,” Mariah said. “You don’t really have to because mushrooms have their own seasoning, but just to be a little extra.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Mariah Rosales, Allison Deng and MingXia Bai cook mushroom Alfredo fettuccine for attendees of Potter Valley Tribe’s mushroom foraging event, at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the mushrooms were cooked, Mariah took command of the final steps of the process: pouring the sauce carefully onto the noodles, layering the delicate mushrooms on top and finishing with a sprinkling of herbs and plenty of parmesan cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the tantalizing smell of the mushrooms filling the air, a line started to form, as everyone wanted a plate, and Mariah proudly served them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let the elders get their plate first,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chairman Rosales, who stood watching the group with a beaming smile, this event was exactly the type of new story — a new piece of history — he can now tell, when younger people ask about his tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That sense of freedom,” he said, “is a powerful, positive energy for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And today, the assembled group — made up of adults, children and members of neighboring tribes and allies — was here to hunt for mushrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A bountiful forest\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As dedicated foragers know, safety when foraging for mushrooms is a serious business. Before Corine Pearce, a member of the nearby Redwood Valley Tribe, kicked off the event with a blessing and song, organizers reminded attendees not to eat anything they might gather before they’d brought it back to consult with the experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(In December 2025, after this story was reported, the California Department of Public Health issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066441/california-mushroom-poisoning-symptoms-death-cap-identification-toxic-foraging\">advice\u003c/a> to state residents to avoid eating foraged wild mushrooms during what they called a “high-risk season” — after a number of deaths and severe illnesses caused by people mistakenly ingesting toxic “death cap” mushrooms. On April 1, the agency confirmed that their alert is still in effect.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071163\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-25-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mushrooms picked by individuals who attended Potter Valley Tribe’s mushroom foraging event are displayed on a table at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pearce, who works with kids from all over Mendocino as a native studies education coordinator, said that after a lifetime of avoiding foraging mushrooms for fear of illness, she realized the time had come after she moved to an area whose traditional name means “mushroom mountain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Okay, well if they’re literally growing outside in my backyard, I should probably learn them and not ignore them anymore,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce is also a community basket weaver, and it’s her baskets that were handed out to participants as they set off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group dispersed out of the clearing and into the dense, cool forest. Nate Rich, the Potter Valley Tribe’s environmental program manager, invited a few interested foragers on a crash course on mushroom hunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For him, Rich told the group, the best moments on the hunt are the serendipitous ones, like finding a cluster of highly prized golden chanterelles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his approach is also a meditative one. For the most success, Rich said he tries to dispel any notion of going in for “the kill” when it comes to spotting mushrooms — and instead, he’ll “lay on the ground for like 10 minutes and not do anything and calm down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071170\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-20-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Zhao Qiu, Allison Deng and MingXia Bai pick mushrooms during a mushroom foraging event, hosted by Potter Valley Tribe, at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And then usually, I’ll turn my head, and it’ll be right there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich told his mushroom-hunters-in-training how he likes to look up through the forest canopy for spots where the sun might warm up the ground, allowing certain light-seeking fungi to grow And how he’ll look down to see where water flows, fueling the mushrooms’ growth — or watch out for where “duff,” that thick, decaying vegetation that layers the forest floor, has built up on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my feet start to squish, I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m in an area where there might be some mushrooms,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so much potential for wandering, Potter Valley chairman Rosales said, always make sure someone knows their rough whereabouts while foraging, in case they get lost. And “don’t be afraid to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-10/these-wild-mushrooms-have-sickened-californians-heres-how-to-forage-safely\">touch mushrooms\u003c/a>,” he said. “As long as you don’t ingest them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Recovering the tribe’s land\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Potter Valley Tribe is the first tribe in California to be awarded this grant to create a community forest by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But for Rosales, the road here — to actually owning this 48-acre property that the mushroom hunters are exploring — has been a long one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This land has been \u003ca href=\"https://pinoleville-nsn.gov/heritage/our-history/\">home to Pomo people\u003c/a> for thousands of years. When colonizers started arriving in the early 1800s, they began to chip away at it, killing, removing and enslaving the Pomo people — decimating their population numbers and relegating them to reservations to make way for European homesteads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071166\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071166\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-37-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salvador Rosales, Chairman of Potter Valley Tribe, poses for a photo at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1958, \u003ca href=\"https://nahc.ca.gov/native-americans/california-indian-history/\">Congress passed a series of laws and practices ending the federal government’s recognition\u003c/a> of tribal sovereignty and lands. The move dismantled Pomo reservations, like the Potter Valley Rancheria, revoked their federal status and left these tribes landless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was, until the 1980s, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/documents/hardwick.html\">Tillie Hardwick,\u003c/a> a Pomo Indian woman, sued the federal government in a class action lawsuit and won, immediately restoring 17 California tribes’ federal status and creating precedent for more in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Potter Valley Tribe — and many others included in the suit — would nonetheless remain mostly landless until the early 2000s. But when Rosales became chairman in 2003, he said he saw it as his mission to slowly but surely buy back the tribe’s ancestral lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quest began with a federal grant to buy a 4-acre parcel in Redwood Valley for housing for tribe members. And since then, via grants, land donations and money earned from the gaming industry, the tribe has purchased a checkerboard totaling more than 1,000 acres — the majority of it undeveloped forest — across Mendocino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unbelievable,” Rosales said, of the tribe’s progress in reacquiring their land. When family and friends ask him about the tribal council’s continual investments in land, he said he tells them that there’s “never been an opportunity like this” in previous years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosales and the tribe worked with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.tpl.org/our-work/community-forests\">Trust for Public Land\u003c/a>, which has now helped establish 45 community forests nationwide, protecting 43,000 acres through this grant alone.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> The trust’s North Coast Project Manager Jeff Conti said the agency’s primary role is to help tribes navigate the sometimes long and convoluted processes to get land back in the hands of those working to conserve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However we can plug in, whether it’s providing technical assistance, whether it’s helping fundraise, or just doing the whole transaction, we can help,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after the tribe won the grant, it took six years before they found themselves in the right place and time with this particular property — and for this forest to be returned to its ancestral caretakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the end,” Rosales said, “it paid off to be patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Keeping history and tradition alive\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Being effectively landless has affected the Pomo people in deep, lasting ways, Rosales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of his ancestors were farm ranch hands, chasing seasonal work throughout the Potter and Ukiah valleys to make ends meet, he said. But as there’s been very little written or shared from elders, Rosales doesn’t know a lot beyond that — as he said, it became especially apparent when he was invited to speak to students in Potter Valley about the tribe’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071155\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1363\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-5-KQED-1536x1047.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Amanita Muscaria mushroom grows at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And without land to gather on, they have even fewer traditions to uphold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ceremony — any kind of gatherings, we don’t really have a history of that simply because of the past history of settlers and indigenous people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the community forest grant, the tribe is developing a land management and public access plan, which tribal leaders said will focus on environmental education, from foraging to reintroducing traditional ecological practices like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11887536/getting-good-fire-on-the-ground-the-karuk-tribe-pushes-to-restore-native-burn-management-to-protect-forests\">forest thinning\u003c/a>, to promote the resilience of the forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich, the tribe’s environmental program manager, said he’s excited to have a space where practicing — and sharing — these traditions is the focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re at the beginning,” he said. “Now the tribe has a resource to work with the community on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need these spaces together,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071169\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-45-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is work that can only be done when the tribe owns the land to do it on, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcn.org/issues/51-17/tribal-affairs-an-indigenous-way-of-life-for-these-california-tribes-breaks-state-laws/\">laws\u003c/a> in place that stop indigenous people from caretaking on their own tribal land,” she said. “So the only answer is private land because private landowners have more rights than indigenous people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with so many tribes in the area still without land, not everyone has the same opportunity to learn what has been lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, only half the tribes were reinstated after the Tillie Hardwick case,” she said. “So there are tribes that aren’t even recognized that have no access to anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearce teaches her students that food sovereignty is important to everyone, not just native people on native lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone has control of your food, and you can’t feed yourself, that is their power,” she said. “That’s their power move, to take your food away, and you have to do what they say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if you can feed yourself for free where you live, then that’s food sovereignty,” Pearce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The next generation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pearce said she’s particularly encouraged by the willingness of her Gen Z students and community members to “look at hard things and call them by the right name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And all we can do is give them the education and support to do that, and that’s what we’re doing,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> High school student Elizabeth Dodge, from Willits, attended the mushroom hunting event thanks to an invite from Pearce herself — to whom Dodge reached out for help identifying mushrooms she’d spotted in her family’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Dodge isn’t a big fan of eating mushrooms, she’s really into identifying birds — a skill she learned from her grandmother. She said she now planned to make a presentation to her class on everything she found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen at least 17 kinds or something like that, so I’m really excited,” Dodge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the entrance to the property, a table was blanketed in mushrooms of every size, shape and color, gathered by the day’s participants in Pearce’s handwoven baskets. People milled about, munching on freshly caught and cooked salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a massive pan of foraged mushrooms — identified by the expert foragers present as safe to eat — sizzled next to a vat of alfredo sauce, as fettuccine vigorously boiled on the stovetop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chairman Rosales, a noted expert on fungi, this event was ultimately a true family affair. That morning, Rosales’ son Boo had made donuts with glaze from candy cap mushrooms while his daughter Mariah was manning the stove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just gonna season them a little bit,” Mariah said. “You don’t really have to because mushrooms have their own seasoning, but just to be a little extra.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251122_POTTERVALLEYPOMO_GC-41-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Mariah Rosales, Allison Deng and MingXia Bai cook mushroom Alfredo fettuccine for attendees of Potter Valley Tribe’s mushroom foraging event, at the Pomo Community Forest, a 48-acre coastal forest, in Fort Bragg on Nov. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the mushrooms were cooked, Mariah took command of the final steps of the process: pouring the sauce carefully onto the noodles, layering the delicate mushrooms on top and finishing with a sprinkling of herbs and plenty of parmesan cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the tantalizing smell of the mushrooms filling the air, a line started to form, as everyone wanted a plate, and Mariah proudly served them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let the elders get their plate first,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chairman Rosales, who stood watching the group with a beaming smile, this event was exactly the type of new story — a new piece of history — he can now tell, when younger people ask about his tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That sense of freedom,” he said, “is a powerful, positive energy for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a cold day in November 2016, a man with long, blond locks and grungy blue overalls stumbled out of the woods. He had been living up in the mountains above Laytonville, in Mendocino County, and had walked eight hours into town in search of the police. He had found the body of a man he knew, Jeff Settler. And it looked like murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11791257,forum_2010101890551\"]On the other side of the country, in New Jersey, Sam Anderson had just moved back home to live with his parents. The people he grew up with were all buzzing about the lead suspect in a murder thousands of miles away: a kid they’d gone to high school with, Zachary Wuester. Wuester went out to California to make some money working on pot farms. Now it seemed he’d gotten caught up in something his friends back home couldn’t fathom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of [Wuester] being accused of murder was just absolutely insane,” Anderson told California Report host Sasha Khokha. “And I knew that finding out his involvement would be a window into this world: the Emerald Triangle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938058\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 411px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11938058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"a logo for a podcast titled 'The Emerald Triangle'\" width=\"411\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/EmeraldTriangle_TileArt-FINAL-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crooked City: The Emerald Triangle premiered in November.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three Northern California counties — Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity — make up what is known as the Emerald Triangle. In these mountainous regions, illegal pot farms have flourished. People come from all over to make quick money cultivating and trimming the marijuana. California legalized marijuana in 2016, but black market grows still operate, shipping their product to states where weed is still illegal and the profits are higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he read more about the arrest, Anderson became fascinated with the Emerald Triangle and its outlaw culture. He packed up his car and drove out to Mendocino to try to uncover what really happened in the murder case. He showed up in Laytonville, known to be hostile to outsiders, asking questions about the illegal pot growing industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over five years, Anderson would befriend local characters, get caught up in some scary situations and learn how to be an investigative journalist. He had to earn the trust of people close to the victim and the accused, all while living and working out of a tent, which became his “office” as he reported. 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"content": "\u003cp>A Mendocino County correctional sergeant tased a handcuffed, mentally-ill jail inmate in 2017, who witnesses said was not a threat at the time, which caused the man to stop breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sergeant didn’t lose his job and wasn’t charged with a crime, according to records released under the state’s new law-enforcement transparency law.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Corene Kendrick, Prison Law Office Staff Attorney\"]'There’s ways to de-escalate a situation without pulling out a Taser.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Zohar Zaied cut a deal with the Sheriff’s Office to accept a demotion to correctional deputy, documents show. The inmate, Travis Benevich, whose lawyer said almost died in the attack, accepted a settlement of $180,000 from the county instead of suing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three deputies who helped Zaied move Benevich to a padded cell on June 18, 2017 told investigators the inmate’s behavior didn’t warrant the tasing. Benevich, they said, resisted when approaching the cell he was being placed in, but wasn’t being violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the foremost experts in Taser litigation, Steve Martin, said of the incident, “of course, it’s disturbing.” The former counsel for the Texas Department of Corrections questioned the necessity of “such a high risk” use of force since Benevich was handcuffed behind his back and being escorted by guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release of documents about Zaied’s use of force comes in a year of increased scrutiny of California law enforcement under the new law, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 1421\u003c/a>, which ended years of police secrecy about discipline and use of force. Records released by other agencies show jail guards fired for abusing inmates, and helping others cover up abuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully there is some measure of accountability because the public knows what’s happening. That matters,” said Izaak Schwaiger, Benevich’s attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of Tasers, especially in correctional facilities, has long been disputed by experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s ways to de-escalate a situation without pulling out a Taser,” said Corene Kendrick, a staff attorney at the Prison Law Office in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin, who is currently the federal monitor of New York City’s Rikers Island, said the problem is people, not Tasers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Tasers) can have a great deal of tactical utility when employed under strict conditions and limitations,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem isn’t the Tasers themselves, according to Martin, but misuse by law enforcement officers. 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He didn’t want to be in jail over the Father’s Day weekend and transcripts of jail audio show Benevich was adamant, he was “going to smash his head open to get the [expletive] out of this room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaied opted to move Benevich to a padded cell. Benevich was handcuffed with two deputies each holding one of his arms. All involved agree this part went smoothly until Benevich saw the small cell he was being transferred to. Benevich estimated the cell was “one-third the size” of the one he’d just left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benevich dug his heels into the ground and begged not to be put in the smaller cell, deputies told investigators. At some point, Benevich pulled to one side, and the guards pushed him into a wall. Then, Zaied tased him without warning. “I wasn’t even fighting you guys,” said Benevich while crying, according to a recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with reporters, Benevich said, “I remember my head hitting the wall. It’s a pain that is in every bone and muscle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guards then put Benevich in the cell, where he fell to his knees. Forty-seconds after the first shock, Zaied tased him again. Benevich stopped breathing and went into a seizure while mucus dripped from his nose. He was rushed to a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think [Zaied] decided to put him into renal failure and put him into a seizure. But he decided to use force, not knowing enough information to know if it was safe,” said Schwaiger, Benevich’s attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaied did not return calls for comment. But documents show he told internal affairs investigators Benevich was fighting deputies and that he tased him because the inmate was “in danger.” He continued, “Staff was in danger ... it went from controlled to uncontrolled pretty fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the other deputies, including the two holding his arms, told investigators a different story. All thought the use of the Taser was unnecessary, documents show. A nurse who was present also described the tasing as excessive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could have been avoided due to the fact that, you know, the four of us could have probably gained control,” Deputy Issac Sanchez told Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department investigators who did an independent investigation at the request of Mendocino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11795567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Mendo-Sanchez-Transcript-Exerpt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1306\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Mendo-Sanchez-Transcript-Exerpt.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Mendo-Sanchez-Transcript-Exerpt-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Mendo-Sanchez-Transcript-Exerpt-800x544.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Mendo-Sanchez-Transcript-Exerpt-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Mendo-Sanchez-Transcript-Exerpt-1200x816.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from a transcript of a Aug. 3, 2017 interview of Mendocino County Sheriff's Deputy Isaac Sanchez, conducted by Sgt. Marcus Gregory, about the use of a taser on a handcuffed inmate. \u003ccite>(Via Mendocino County Sheriff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zaied was eventually found to have violated several department and county policies, including using a Taser on a handcuffed inmate, according to findings by Mendocino County Undersheriff Randy Johnson. He recommended Zaied be demoted, but Zaied fought the findings, and through a settlement agreement, was able to remove some of the policy violations from his record. But his demotion to correctional deputy remained. Zaied now works as a background investigator for new hires at the jail, according to an online bio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day before he tased Benevich, Zaied had tased another inmate who was also handcuffed and described in documents as mentally ill. Fernando Martinez, a war veteren diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, was being put back into a padded cell when the incident occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaied said use of force was necessary with Martinez, and that using the Taser minimized the risk of injury for everyone there, according to the report. Martinez told investigators he was “pretty out of it” and that he may have “tensed up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of both tasings, records show Zaied’s taser certification had expired more than 10 years earlier. He completed Taser training in 2006. It expired in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, who recently retired, did not return requests for comment on the training or the incident. But in the final Letter of Reprimand, he concluded that during the Benevich incident, while Zaied’s “intent was not malicious, [he] failed to appreciate other options available to [him] prior to the discharge of the Taser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the demotion, Zaied’s salary remained roughly the same. According to an online website that tracks state salaries, \u003ca href=\"https://transparentcalifornia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transparent California\u003c/a>, he made roughly $149,000 in total pay and benefits in 2018 compared to about $142,000 in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Izaak Schwaiger, Benevich's attorney\"]'I don’t think [Zaied] decided to put him into renal failure and put him into a seizure. But he decided to use force, not knowing enough information to know if it was safe'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson for the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office, Mike Geniella, said District Attorney David Eyster planned to file criminal charges on Zaied, but changed his mind after the case was reviewed by an outside use of force expert who found no wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A consultant who did the investigation, Jeffery Martin, concluded that Zaied’s actions were reasonable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his report, Jeffrey Martin wrote that there is nothing to indicate that the Taser or actions of Zaied or the deputies contributed to Benevich’s medical event. Martin argued that Benevich appeared to have “perceived the pain during the event,” and that he was given sufficient time to comply with commands. Martin also wrote that Benevich actively tried to hook one of the deputy’s legs, which could have caused deputies to lose control of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwaiger, Benevich’s lawyer — who specializes in police brutality cases — disputes this account, saying there was no provocation, making the tasing particularly egregious. Schwaiger suspects that is part of the reason the county was quick to settle, offering an agreement even before a lawsuit was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for $180,000, Benevich agreed to release the county of all liability and agreed to a confidentiality clause: Benevich couldn’t talk about the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, they didn’t want it to be public record,” said Schwaiger. “The only thing that municipalities hate worse than paying money is bad press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For two years, the incident remained secret. Schwaiger says that the incident between Benevich and Zaied is exactly what the new transparency law was designed to reveal. However, he worries the onslaught of news stories that have followed the passage of the law detract from the seriousness of each individual case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11786993\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-160x155.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-800x777.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1-1020x990.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/crp-alt-logo-1.png 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>This story was produced by the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a>, a coalition of 40 news organizations across the state. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benevich was arrested after a fight broke out at a music festival in Boonville on June 17, 2017. The 27-year-old says he was protecting his fiancé from a group of rowdy men when deputies arrested him for public intoxication and resisting arrest. He was taken to the Mendocino County Jail and, he said, he immediately felt panicked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just completely overwhelmed with how scared my kids must have been. What they must have been thinking,” said Benevich, who has an anxiety disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately Benevich asked Zaied, the jail supervisor at the time, to place him in a larger cell because small spaces increase his anxiety. He didn’t want to be in jail over the Father’s Day weekend and transcripts of jail audio show Benevich was adamant, he was “going to smash his head open to get the [expletive] out of this room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaied opted to move Benevich to a padded cell. Benevich was handcuffed with two deputies each holding one of his arms. All involved agree this part went smoothly until Benevich saw the small cell he was being transferred to. Benevich estimated the cell was “one-third the size” of the one he’d just left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benevich dug his heels into the ground and begged not to be put in the smaller cell, deputies told investigators. At some point, Benevich pulled to one side, and the guards pushed him into a wall. Then, Zaied tased him without warning. “I wasn’t even fighting you guys,” said Benevich while crying, according to a recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with reporters, Benevich said, “I remember my head hitting the wall. It’s a pain that is in every bone and muscle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guards then put Benevich in the cell, where he fell to his knees. Forty-seconds after the first shock, Zaied tased him again. Benevich stopped breathing and went into a seizure while mucus dripped from his nose. He was rushed to a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think [Zaied] decided to put him into renal failure and put him into a seizure. But he decided to use force, not knowing enough information to know if it was safe,” said Schwaiger, Benevich’s attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaied did not return calls for comment. But documents show he told internal affairs investigators Benevich was fighting deputies and that he tased him because the inmate was “in danger.” He continued, “Staff was in danger ... it went from controlled to uncontrolled pretty fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the other deputies, including the two holding his arms, told investigators a different story. All thought the use of the Taser was unnecessary, documents show. A nurse who was present also described the tasing as excessive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could have been avoided due to the fact that, you know, the four of us could have probably gained control,” Deputy Issac Sanchez told Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department investigators who did an independent investigation at the request of Mendocino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11795567\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Mendo-Sanchez-Transcript-Exerpt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1306\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Mendo-Sanchez-Transcript-Exerpt.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Mendo-Sanchez-Transcript-Exerpt-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Mendo-Sanchez-Transcript-Exerpt-800x544.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Mendo-Sanchez-Transcript-Exerpt-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Mendo-Sanchez-Transcript-Exerpt-1200x816.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from a transcript of a Aug. 3, 2017 interview of Mendocino County Sheriff's Deputy Isaac Sanchez, conducted by Sgt. 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Then last year, PG&E said it intended to auction off the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's announcement it would no longer seek a new license to operate the complex set FERC's \"orphan project\" process in motion, with the commission issuing \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/03/07/2019-04150/pacific-gas-and-electric-company-notice-soliciting-applications\">a notice\u003c/a> in March soliciting applications for the Potter Valley Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prospective licensees have until July 1 to file applications with FERC. If no new licensee appears and PG&E doesn't change its stance, FERC could decommission the project. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new licensee must be able to pay for the continued maintenance and operation of all project facilities and be capable of monitoring and complying with regulatory requirements arising from the project's impacts. At this point, it's not known whether FERC has received applications to assume the Potter Valley license.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We think that there could possibly be a solution that would bring us a free-flowing Eel River back, and still provide necessary winter water to the Russian River. But we need to get more serious about having some open and honest discussions about what that looks like.'\u003ccite>Stephanie Tidwell, Friends of the Eel River\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The project has been controversial for years, with a host of competing interests seeking to maintain the complex, dramatically alter it or shut it down, with debate centering on how water should be provided for Eel River salmon, Mendocino and Sonoma County agriculture, household water supplies, recreation and, lately, even fire suppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues raised by the project prompted Rep. Jared Huffman, who represents the North Coast, to form an \u003ca href=\"http://pottervalleyproject.org/overview/\">ad hoc working group\u003c/a> involving federal and state regulatory agencies, tribes, county governments, water agencies and advocacy groups at the start of the Potter Valley relicensing process two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is considering a broad range of scenarios for the project's future — trying to find a way to restore the Eel River while providing water security to Russian River communities. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Conflicting Views on Display\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The conflicting views about the project's future were on full display at the Eel Russian River Commission meeting last week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native tribes and fisheries activists have lobbied for the removal of various components of the complex — its diversion tunnel, its two dams, or both — as a step toward restoring chinook salmon and steelhead trout to their historic spawning grounds on the upper Eel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Nelson, the Wiyot tribe's natural resources director, told commissioners \"all infrastructure\" related to the project must be removed \"to restore balance to the river.\" Doug Hutt, a member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, said the tribal government opposes \"any diversion from the natural watershed at any point, in perpetuity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Tidwell, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://eelriver.org/\">Friends of the Eel River\u003c/a>, said the debate over the project's future and its impact has entered \"uncharted waters.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time for us to all hit the reset button, look at what’s possible, and get realistic about the fact that these dams have significant ecological and safety issues,\" Tidwell said. \"We think that there could possibly be a solution that would bring us a free-flowing Eel River back, and still provide necessary winter water to the Russian River. But we need to get more serious about having some open and honest discussions about what that looks like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I don't think it's going to be shut down, because there's those of us who it's too vital of a resource to just go cold turkey. If you did this, you would have communities that would be dried out.' \u003ccite>Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>James Gore, a Sonoma County supervisor and vice chair of the river commission, said he doesn’t believe the solution is to decommission the Potter Valley Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't think it's going to be shut down, because there's those of us who it's too vital of a resource to just go cold turkey,” said Gore. “If you did this, you would have communities that would be dried out. You basically turn an issue that needs to be resolved not just into a crisis, but into a nightmare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Gore is optimistic that some entity will come forward and be approved to take over the project because it is vital to so many people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure we make it right on both sides of the tunnel,” said Gore. “The reality is — like many of these issues in California, whether it's the Potter Valley Project ... whether it's the Delta, whether it's the aqueducts going down into Southern California — we live in a place where infrastructure was built and communities were built on top of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyle Farmer, who works at Potter Valley's Magruder Ranch and spoke during public comment, said a solution is out there though time is short. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can live in a state that can pay for its water in a way that takes care of the environment and can do it all,\" Farmer said. \"We're capable of this stuff if we value it — we're capable of anything. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In late January, PG&E was getting headlines everywhere for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pge\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">decision to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection\u003c/a> — a move that could affect millions of California households. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Jan. 25, the company made an announcement that may have an even more dramatic effect on a swath of Northern California stretching from Humboldt County to northern Marin. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the day that the San Francisco-based utility announced with no warning that it was abandoning its effort to relicense the Potter Valley Project, a hydroelectric complex that not only generates power but provides a lifeline to communities along the Russian River with water diverted from the Eel River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its way from one river to the other, water flows through two dams, a diversion tunnel bored through a mountain and a powerhouse. Much of the flow winding up in Lake Mendocino, which supplies communities in the Russian River watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Pauli, chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mendoiwpc.com/\">Inland Water and Power Commission of Mendocino County\u003c/a>, a joint powers authority concerned with the future of the Potter Valley Project, stressed the value of the water to those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Then last year, PG&E said it intended to auction off the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E's announcement it would no longer seek a new license to operate the complex set FERC's \"orphan project\" process in motion, with the commission issuing \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/03/07/2019-04150/pacific-gas-and-electric-company-notice-soliciting-applications\">a notice\u003c/a> in March soliciting applications for the Potter Valley Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prospective licensees have until July 1 to file applications with FERC. If no new licensee appears and PG&E doesn't change its stance, FERC could decommission the project. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new licensee must be able to pay for the continued maintenance and operation of all project facilities and be capable of monitoring and complying with regulatory requirements arising from the project's impacts. At this point, it's not known whether FERC has received applications to assume the Potter Valley license.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We think that there could possibly be a solution that would bring us a free-flowing Eel River back, and still provide necessary winter water to the Russian River. But we need to get more serious about having some open and honest discussions about what that looks like.'\u003ccite>Stephanie Tidwell, Friends of the Eel River\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The project has been controversial for years, with a host of competing interests seeking to maintain the complex, dramatically alter it or shut it down, with debate centering on how water should be provided for Eel River salmon, Mendocino and Sonoma County agriculture, household water supplies, recreation and, lately, even fire suppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issues raised by the project prompted Rep. 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There are whole tables dedicated to apple scions, and others with pomegranates, plums, pluots and grapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11725294\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11725294 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/IMG_9556-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Albert teaches his course on scionology. \u003ccite>(Hope McKenney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a really generous event where people bring their seeds and share them. You know most of it’s free,” Madrigal said. “They’re learning from each other and sort of cross-pollinating basically across the county. I think we’re unique in that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the classes at the event discussed selecting plants for the unique bioregion. 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"content": "\u003cp>Football season might be in full swing and baseball is hitting the home stretch, but there's another sport capturing the attention of people in Northern California: sheepdog trials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, hundreds of people gathered at the Mendocino County Fair and Apple Show in Boonville to watch the annual sheepdog trials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11693979 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-800x1207.jpg\" alt=\"Sheep waiting to be let out for the sheepdog trial at the Mendocino County Fair on September 16, 2018. Three sheep will be released for each dog's trial. The sheep and dogs have never worked together before, adding an extra element of difficulty to the competition.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1207\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-800x1207.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-160x241.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-1020x1539.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-795x1200.jpg 795w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-1180x1780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-960x1449.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-240x362.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-375x566.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-520x785.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheep waiting to be let out for the sheepdog trial at the Mendocino County Fair on Sept. 16, 2018. Three sheep will be released for each dog's trial. The sheep and dogs have never worked together before, adding an extra element of difficulty to the competition. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The herding event is a competitive dog sport that dates back to the mid-19th century in Europe, New Zealand and Australia, in which highly trained herding dogs move sheep around a field, fences, gates or enclosures as directed by their handlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheepdog trials in Boonville took place in a field at the county fairgrounds where the local high school plays football games and the rodeo takes place every year. There are four obstacles on the 100-yard-long grassy arena: a square pen, two gates side by side with a 6-foot-gap between them and a plywood chute that looks like a large funnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheepdogs have to get the sheep to enter the funnel and squeeze through the dark chute, which is only 18 inches wide for most of its length. The chute is often many-a-sheepdog’s Waterloo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the most difficult obstacle. It's also the one that's closest to the stands and closest to the crowds of people,\" says Alice Woelfle, program director at KZYX, Mendocino County’s small public radio station, and a sheep rancher herself. \"The crowds of people definitely affect the behavior of the dogs and the sheep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KZYX broadcasts the sheepdog trials live every year, with sports commentary from Woelfle and Kevin Owens, who is a multiple-year winner of the Mendocino sheepdog trials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693980\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The crowd watches intently as the sheepdogs attempt to heard the sheep through obstacles including gates and pens. Hundreds gathered for the annual event from around the county and the surrounding area.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd watches intently as the sheepdogs attempt to heard the sheep through obstacles including gates and pens. Hundreds gathered for the annual event from around the county and the surrounding area. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think that we are the only radio station in the world that does this. I've never heard of another station broadcasting sheepdog trials live with commentary,” Woelfle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of sheepdog trial is unique to the Redwood Empire region of Northern California because of its rough terrain. It was developed because sheep ranchers in the area needed dogs to help round up sheep from places that people and horses could not easily access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not another trial like this anywhere in the world,\" Woelfle says. \"We have a unique type of sheepdog trial here in Northern California that was invented by ranchers in the ‘40s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these trials, gripping is permitted, where the dog gives the sheep a tiny nip or pinch. This is because in the steep terrain and canyons of Northern California, if a stubborn sheep doesn’t want to move, the dog will often need to use this technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Competitor Jazz watches the trial from a trough of water after her turn on the course.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Competitor Jazz watches the trial from a trough of water after her turn on the course. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Karen Kollgaard, 76, won the trials last year with her dog, Dickens, and has been participating in the trials for nearly 40 years. Her first competition was in Mendocino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, she won fifth place with her young dog, Timbre, a 26-pound border collie full of energy. Kollgaard says that ranchers often have to talk to their dogs from nearly a mile away, so they use whistles and voice commands to direct their dogs over large distances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says “left” and “right” sound similar — they’re both one-syllable words — so handlers usually use “come by” for the left signal and “away” for the right signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You think in circles because the dog thinks in circles,\" Kollgaard says. \"Their instinct is to gather sheep to you, and it’s a very strong instinct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contestants are judged on how efficiently and calmly the dogs work the sheep and how many obstacles the sheep go through in 10 minutes. No hand signals are permitted in the trials, only voice and whistle commands. This is because hand signals might distract the dog or sheep or be confused with aiding the dog in herding the sheep through obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kollgaard says ideally the sheep, who usually see the dog as a predator, will begin to trust the dog if its technique is calm and precise and then will go quietly where the dog tells them to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693978\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32850_091618_AW_Sheepdog_13-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Kollgaard pets Timbre at the end of her run. "This is one of the worst trials we've done in a long time," said Kollgaard, who has been doing sheepdog trials for nearly 40 years. "She's hard to manage because she's fast."\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32850_091618_AW_Sheepdog_13-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32850_091618_AW_Sheepdog_13-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32850_091618_AW_Sheepdog_13-qut-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32850_091618_AW_Sheepdog_13-qut-1200x838.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32850_091618_AW_Sheepdog_13-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32850_091618_AW_Sheepdog_13-qut-1180x824.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32850_091618_AW_Sheepdog_13-qut-960x671.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32850_091618_AW_Sheepdog_13-qut-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32850_091618_AW_Sheepdog_13-qut-375x262.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32850_091618_AW_Sheepdog_13-qut-520x363.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Kollgaard pets Timbre at the end of her run. \"This is one of the worst trials we've done in a long time,\" said Kollgaard, who has been doing sheepdog trials for nearly 40 years. \"She's hard to manage because she's fast.\" \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The best runs look like you’re what we call ‘Bo-Peeping,’ which means the sheep are just sort of following you along as if they were trained to do so when they really aren’t. But because the dog is working that efficiently and quietly, it looks like they are,” Kollgaard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's winner was Donna Beebe, with her red-and-white border collie, Meg. Beebe grew up in Boonville, and her family helped start the Redwood Empire Sheepdog Association, which organized the competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I come from a ranching family,\" Beebe says. \"My father was a sheep herder right here in Mendocino County, so we always had 20 border collies in the yard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are rural sports all over the world — sled dog racing, logging sports and even wool sack races in England. Woelfle says these sports originated from actual jobs people do, and that's worth celebrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not just a quaint thing that was back then,” Woelfle says. “I mean, everything that you wear or touch that is made out of wool is because somebody raised a sheep, and someone sheared a sheep, and someone's managing sheep out there, and they're probably using dogs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Football season might be in full swing and baseball is hitting the home stretch, but there's another sport capturing the attention of people in Northern California: sheepdog trials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, hundreds of people gathered at the Mendocino County Fair and Apple Show in Boonville to watch the annual sheepdog trials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11693979 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-800x1207.jpg\" alt=\"Sheep waiting to be let out for the sheepdog trial at the Mendocino County Fair on September 16, 2018. Three sheep will be released for each dog's trial. The sheep and dogs have never worked together before, adding an extra element of difficulty to the competition.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1207\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-800x1207.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-160x241.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-1020x1539.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-795x1200.jpg 795w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-1180x1780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-960x1449.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-240x362.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-375x566.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32840_091618_AW_Sheepdog_03-qut-520x785.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheep waiting to be let out for the sheepdog trial at the Mendocino County Fair on Sept. 16, 2018. Three sheep will be released for each dog's trial. The sheep and dogs have never worked together before, adding an extra element of difficulty to the competition. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The herding event is a competitive dog sport that dates back to the mid-19th century in Europe, New Zealand and Australia, in which highly trained herding dogs move sheep around a field, fences, gates or enclosures as directed by their handlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheepdog trials in Boonville took place in a field at the county fairgrounds where the local high school plays football games and the rodeo takes place every year. There are four obstacles on the 100-yard-long grassy arena: a square pen, two gates side by side with a 6-foot-gap between them and a plywood chute that looks like a large funnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheepdogs have to get the sheep to enter the funnel and squeeze through the dark chute, which is only 18 inches wide for most of its length. The chute is often many-a-sheepdog’s Waterloo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the most difficult obstacle. It's also the one that's closest to the stands and closest to the crowds of people,\" says Alice Woelfle, program director at KZYX, Mendocino County’s small public radio station, and a sheep rancher herself. \"The crowds of people definitely affect the behavior of the dogs and the sheep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KZYX broadcasts the sheepdog trials live every year, with sports commentary from Woelfle and Kevin Owens, who is a multiple-year winner of the Mendocino sheepdog trials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693980\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The crowd watches intently as the sheepdogs attempt to heard the sheep through obstacles including gates and pens. Hundreds gathered for the annual event from around the county and the surrounding area.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32842_091618_AW_Sheepdog_05-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowd watches intently as the sheepdogs attempt to heard the sheep through obstacles including gates and pens. Hundreds gathered for the annual event from around the county and the surrounding area. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think that we are the only radio station in the world that does this. I've never heard of another station broadcasting sheepdog trials live with commentary,” Woelfle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of sheepdog trial is unique to the Redwood Empire region of Northern California because of its rough terrain. It was developed because sheep ranchers in the area needed dogs to help round up sheep from places that people and horses could not easily access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not another trial like this anywhere in the world,\" Woelfle says. \"We have a unique type of sheepdog trial here in Northern California that was invented by ranchers in the ‘40s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these trials, gripping is permitted, where the dog gives the sheep a tiny nip or pinch. This is because in the steep terrain and canyons of Northern California, if a stubborn sheep doesn’t want to move, the dog will often need to use this technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Competitor Jazz watches the trial from a trough of water after her turn on the course.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32845_091618_AW_Sheepdog_08-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Competitor Jazz watches the trial from a trough of water after her turn on the course. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Karen Kollgaard, 76, won the trials last year with her dog, Dickens, and has been participating in the trials for nearly 40 years. Her first competition was in Mendocino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, she won fifth place with her young dog, Timbre, a 26-pound border collie full of energy. Kollgaard says that ranchers often have to talk to their dogs from nearly a mile away, so they use whistles and voice commands to direct their dogs over large distances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says “left” and “right” sound similar — they’re both one-syllable words — so handlers usually use “come by” for the left signal and “away” for the right signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You think in circles because the dog thinks in circles,\" Kollgaard says. \"Their instinct is to gather sheep to you, and it’s a very strong instinct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contestants are judged on how efficiently and calmly the dogs work the sheep and how many obstacles the sheep go through in 10 minutes. No hand signals are permitted in the trials, only voice and whistle commands. This is because hand signals might distract the dog or sheep or be confused with aiding the dog in herding the sheep through obstacles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kollgaard says ideally the sheep, who usually see the dog as a predator, will begin to trust the dog if its technique is calm and precise and then will go quietly where the dog tells them to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11693978\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11693978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/RS32850_091618_AW_Sheepdog_13-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Kollgaard pets Timbre at the end of her run. "This is one of the worst trials we've done in a long time," said Kollgaard, who has been doing sheepdog trials for nearly 40 years. 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But because the dog is working that efficiently and quietly, it looks like they are,” Kollgaard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's winner was Donna Beebe, with her red-and-white border collie, Meg. Beebe grew up in Boonville, and her family helped start the Redwood Empire Sheepdog Association, which organized the competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I come from a ranching family,\" Beebe says. \"My father was a sheep herder right here in Mendocino County, so we always had 20 border collies in the yard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are rural sports all over the world — sled dog racing, logging sports and even wool sack races in England. 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"content": "\u003cp>On the outskirts of Ukiah, at the edge of a residential neighborhood, helicopters flew back and forth Wednesday, dumping water on a fire threatening nearby homes. Worried residents, including Kristen Lozano, stood watching as firefighters set up a perimeter just down the road from Lozano’s front yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These fires have been insane. And knowing this one was less than a quarter of a mile away really got me. My 14-year-old daughter was home alone so I had to come here as soon as possible,” said Lozano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though this fire was quickly contained, Lozano remained on edge. Nearby, the River and Ranch fires continued to burn across thousands of acres in Mendocino County and Lake County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last October, a huge fire burned more than 36,500 acres in Mendocino County. The fire took out cell towers, forcing neighbors in certain areas to knock on doors to notify people of the oncoming blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t recover from a fire in a few months when you lose over 350 homes in a community,” said Heather Gurewitz, executive director of Economic Development and Financing Corp., a nonprofit in Mendocino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurewitz said some people from last October’s fire are still in temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Responding Becomes Anticipating Fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Big fires are putting new pressures on other local organizations in Mendocino and Lake counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Mendocino College, an evacuation center has been set up for the second time. The superintendent and president of the school, Arturo Reyes, was visiting with people at the center when his own family showed up in the parking lot, having just evacuated their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes was composed and calm as he walked toward them, “It’s something that comes from experience and having been through a number of emergency situations,” said Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684528\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11684528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3050-e1533252533204-1020x690.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Trucks at the Incident Command Post in Ukiah\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire trucks at the Incident Command Post in Ukiah \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Patty Bruder, executive director of North Coast Opportunities, said her organization is still trying to adjust to the series of fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1161\">Rocky\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1193\">Jerusalem\u003c/a> fires and then the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Valley\u003c/a> Fire. We really thought we were kind of out of the woods. And then the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1390\">Clayton\u003c/a> Fire hit and we realize that this is kind of becoming a regular way of life,” said Bruder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruder’s organization provides programs for caregiving, child development, wellness and nutrition. In 2015 they began organizing fire relief donations. Now, they are trying to create a continuous fire relief position as they think about the future of Mendocino and Lake counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never set out to be a disaster-related organization, but we’ve kind of gotten into this business because of what we’ve faced over these last years,” said Bruder. “We have lots of uninsured people in these two communities, and so many more are underinsured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruder is especially concerned for seniors, who might not have the resources or the energy to rebuild. Recently, her organization held workshops for seniors on resilience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s the next step in housing in general has just been such a huge crisis. I mean we all know that we’ve been in a housing crisis long before the fires started and rents are higher,” said Bruder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruder said she sees some people trying to rebuild, while others have no choice but to leave because there isn’t anywhere for them to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684529\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11684529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3058-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\" Patty Bruder, Executive Director of North Coast Opportunities. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3058-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3058-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3058-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3058-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3058-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3058-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3058-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3058-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3058-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3058-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patty Bruder, executive director of North Coast Opportunities. \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Firefighter Trevor Pappas said he has talked to people who have had to evacuate more than once. One man he spoke with fled from the Clayton fires in 2016 and had to evacuate his home again this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s got an RV packed with all his goods and tries not to keep anything too expensive in his house because it’s becoming a cycle,” said Pappas. “He even talked about moving to Sacramento, which was kind of tough to hear because here I am as a firefighter and to hear, ‘I can’t even live where I want to live because the fires aren’t being stopped.’ It’s kind of disheartening for sure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino County Supervisor Carre Brown said when the weather gets hot, and the vegetation dries up, something as simple as a chain hitting the ground can cause sparks and start a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to teach our children throwing a rock against a rock could cause a spark that might start a wildfire,” said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to fire safety, Brown said the county should look at how it manages its lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporters Adrian Fernandez Baumann and Kate Maxwell at the Mendocino Voice contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gurewitz said some people from last October’s fire are still in temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Responding Becomes Anticipating Fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Big fires are putting new pressures on other local organizations in Mendocino and Lake counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Mendocino College, an evacuation center has been set up for the second time. The superintendent and president of the school, Arturo Reyes, was visiting with people at the center when his own family showed up in the parking lot, having just evacuated their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes was composed and calm as he walked toward them, “It’s something that comes from experience and having been through a number of emergency situations,” said Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684528\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11684528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_3050-e1533252533204-1020x690.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Trucks at the Incident Command Post in Ukiah\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire trucks at the Incident Command Post in Ukiah \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Patty Bruder, executive director of North Coast Opportunities, said her organization is still trying to adjust to the series of fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1161\">Rocky\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1193\">Jerusalem\u003c/a> fires and then the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1226\">Valley\u003c/a> Fire. We really thought we were kind of out of the woods. And then the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1390\">Clayton\u003c/a> Fire hit and we realize that this is kind of becoming a regular way of life,” said Bruder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruder’s organization provides programs for caregiving, child development, wellness and nutrition. In 2015 they began organizing fire relief donations. Now, they are trying to create a continuous fire relief position as they think about the future of Mendocino and Lake counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never set out to be a disaster-related organization, but we’ve kind of gotten into this business because of what we’ve faced over these last years,” said Bruder. “We have lots of uninsured people in these two communities, and so many more are underinsured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bruder is especially concerned for seniors, who might not have the resources or the energy to rebuild. 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"content": "\u003cp>This is not your average beauty school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your clients can be pretty cranky. Sometimes they’ll even walk out mid-haircut. And you have to hold them down -- with only your legs -- while wielding an industrial-size clipper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We try to get the students shearing the first day because they make a lot of mistakes,” says John Harper, head of the \u003ca href=\"http://cemendocino.ucanr.edu/Sheep_Shearing_School_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Cooperative Extension Sheep Shearing School\u003c/a> in Hopland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mendocino County school, about 50 miles north of Santa Rosa, offers a weeklong course held once a year in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harper and other instructors teach what’s known as the New Zealand style of shearing. It causes the least amount of stress for the sheep and the shearer. And it involves some fancy footwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669652\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31074_IMG_0787-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31074_IMG_0787-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31074_IMG_0787-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31074_IMG_0787-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31074_IMG_0787-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31074_IMG_0787-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31074_IMG_0787-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31074_IMG_0787-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31074_IMG_0787-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31074_IMG_0787-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31074_IMG_0787-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beginning students work in shearing teams when they first start out. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harper says if you can make the right moves with your feet, everything else falls into place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're dancing instructors,” says Harper. “It’s like 'Dancing With The Stars' on steroids, but with sheep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around this time of year, hundreds of thousands of sheep in California need to have their wool shaved off. But Harper says there's a shortage of sheep shearers worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why he started the school in Hopland about 25 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Macon of the California Wool Growers Association says the growing popularity of backyard flocks in California (usually just a handful of sheep) is adding to the demand for shearers, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Infrastructure of the sheep industry is a key component,” says Macon. “Having people with that kind of skill and willingness to work hard is desperately needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trade is gaining some traction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669648\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students learn what's called \"The Dance,\" a series of foot steps that help control sheep while shearing. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harper says that over the past decade, the school has gotten so popular that the online registration for it usually fills up within minutes. Another surprising trend? More women than men have been taking the course the past few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harper says that hasn't always been the case. Sheep shearing is traditionally a male-dominated job, but women shearers have a distinct advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women tend to be more flexible at the hips and a lot of the movements require that kind of flexibility,” says Harper. “Women also tend to have a lower center of gravity, which helps with holding the sheep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with this advantage, it’s still hard work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy Gonda, who lives in Marin County, has taken the beginning class twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'd shear half a sheep and then I'd be so physically exhausted that I'd tag out with someone else and they would finish the sheep,” says Gonda. “At the end of the week I could shear one sheep by myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonda says she fell in love with sheep shearing after that, and couldn’t stop talking about it with friends and family. She’s back this year to take the advanced course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669649\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669649\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres carefully navigates the heavy-duty clipper over the sheep's leg. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elena Torres, from Puerto Rico, is a complete newcomer to shearing. Torres has always had an interest in agriculture and animal husbandry. She says her first day was a bit overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you first get into the pen they kind of fight you a little bit, they run around the pen and you think, 'I'm never going to be able to pull one out, let alone shear it,' and then to finally get to shear it and be like, 'Oh, OK, I can do this,'” says Torres. “It's the most rewarding experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Torres was one of about two dozen graduates from the sheep shearing class of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fruit of the school's labor: several pounds of freshly shorn wool. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're dancing instructors,” says Harper. “It’s like 'Dancing With The Stars' on steroids, but with sheep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around this time of year, hundreds of thousands of sheep in California need to have their wool shaved off. But Harper says there's a shortage of sheep shearers worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why he started the school in Hopland about 25 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Macon of the California Wool Growers Association says the growing popularity of backyard flocks in California (usually just a handful of sheep) is adding to the demand for shearers, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Infrastructure of the sheep industry is a key component,” says Macon. “Having people with that kind of skill and willingness to work hard is desperately needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trade is gaining some traction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669648\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31070_IMG_0805-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students learn what's called \"The Dance,\" a series of foot steps that help control sheep while shearing. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harper says that over the past decade, the school has gotten so popular that the online registration for it usually fills up within minutes. Another surprising trend? More women than men have been taking the course the past few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harper says that hasn't always been the case. Sheep shearing is traditionally a male-dominated job, but women shearers have a distinct advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women tend to be more flexible at the hips and a lot of the movements require that kind of flexibility,” says Harper. “Women also tend to have a lower center of gravity, which helps with holding the sheep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with this advantage, it’s still hard work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy Gonda, who lives in Marin County, has taken the beginning class twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'd shear half a sheep and then I'd be so physically exhausted that I'd tag out with someone else and they would finish the sheep,” says Gonda. “At the end of the week I could shear one sheep by myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonda says she fell in love with sheep shearing after that, and couldn’t stop talking about it with friends and family. She’s back this year to take the advanced course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669649\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669649\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31071_IMG_0856-qut-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres carefully navigates the heavy-duty clipper over the sheep's leg. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elena Torres, from Puerto Rico, is a complete newcomer to shearing. Torres has always had an interest in agriculture and animal husbandry. She says her first day was a bit overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you first get into the pen they kind of fight you a little bit, they run around the pen and you think, 'I'm never going to be able to pull one out, let alone shear it,' and then to finally get to shear it and be like, 'Oh, OK, I can do this,'” says Torres. “It's the most rewarding experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Torres was one of about two dozen graduates from the sheep shearing class of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31073_IMG_0779-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fruit of the school's labor: several pounds of freshly shorn wool. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Outdoor emergency sirens were not used to warn or evacuate Northern California residents from their homes in the path of deadly wildfires that sparked the night of Oct. 8 because there weren’t any installed in the affected neighborhoods, according to officials in Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many fire victims have said they had no warning of the wildfires approaching their neighborhoods, which left them little time to collect important items before evacuating. The fires killed at least 42 people, many of whom were elderly residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mass outdoor alert systems use loud speakers positioned on poles and buildings that broadcast a wailing siren to warn people of a serious or dangerous situation. Some sirens can provide safety information in pre-recorded or live announcements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties don’t have an outdoor emergency siren system like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have emergency alert sirens in Sonoma County,” said county spokeswoman Jennifer Larocque. “Those are typically for more coastal, populated areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625902\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625902\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/0A9C64CC-B887-4AA0-8DDD-644705056E28-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/0A9C64CC-B887-4AA0-8DDD-644705056E28-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/0A9C64CC-B887-4AA0-8DDD-644705056E28-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/0A9C64CC-B887-4AA0-8DDD-644705056E28-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/0A9C64CC-B887-4AA0-8DDD-644705056E28-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/0A9C64CC-B887-4AA0-8DDD-644705056E28-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/0A9C64CC-B887-4AA0-8DDD-644705056E28-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/0A9C64CC-B887-4AA0-8DDD-644705056E28-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/0A9C64CC-B887-4AA0-8DDD-644705056E28-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/0A9C64CC-B887-4AA0-8DDD-644705056E28-520x390.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is an outdoor warning siren at Union Square in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Erika Aguilar/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outdoor emergency sirens in California are typically used to warn of tsunamis. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MendocinoSheriff/posts/10151320580502967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There are four in Mendocino County\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said there are a few more along the coast of Humboldt County, but there aren’t any emergency sirens inland to warn of other disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There certainly is a need for loud sirens outside,” Allman said. “They shouldn’t be used for everything. People get tired of hearing them so they just don’t listen to them, but there is certainly a need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Napa County, there is one outdoor siren at a fire station in St. Helena and another at Napa State Hospital, according to county spokeswoman Kristi Jourdan. Both locations were outside evacuation perimeters and therefore not used, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor emergency sirens are sometimes thought of as outdated technology. Long ago, fire stations used them to call in firefighters to work in an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://sfdem.org/outdoor-public-warning-system-fact-sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50 sirens were installed in 1942 to warn people of potential air raids\u003c/a> or bombs during World War II. The sirens eventually got old and defunct until the city received $2.1 million in federal funding in 2005 to fix them and add new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, San Francisco has 114 outdoor wailing sirens capable of broadcasting pre-recorded messages in Spanish, Cantonese and English, and also live announcements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city tests the siren system every Tuesday at noon. Its main purpose is to warn residents of an incoming tsunami and supplement the city’s public emergency alert strategy, said Francis Zamora, director of external affairs at the city’s Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to have a healthy redundancy,” he said. “My mother is not on Twitter, but she will hear the sirens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zamora said the last time the outdoor sirens were sounded was in 2011, only on Treasure Island, to warn residents that potable drinking water was suspected of being polluted after a major water main break. The sirens were followed up with door-to-door visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of the fires, Northern California emergency officials sent text messages, emails and robocalls to landlines, but many residents said they had little to no warning of the approaching fires and evacuated only after \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/22/in-time-of-darkness-a-real-life-hero/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hearing neighbors or law enforcement officers banging on doors urging people to get out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that the digital alert system counties used during the wildfires, which is called Nixle, is an opt-in program that sends alerts only to people who have signed up for the free messaging service. In addition, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/17/feinstein-harris-press-fcc-on-wireless-alert-failures-during-wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wireless Emergency Alerts, a screeching alarm sent to cellphones much like Amber Alerts, were not deployed.\u003c/a> And nearly 80 cell towers were damaged or destroyed by the fires that also knocked out power lines, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/10/fire-victims-frustrated-by-lack-of-wireless-connectivity/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">making it difficult to communicate, including for emergency responders.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor sirens aren’t traditionally used to warn of wildfires. They are commonly known as tornado warnings but \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbtv.com/story/23222373/flash-flood-sirens-added-to-dangerous-swim-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some cities use them for flash floods\u003c/a> and other disasters, especially as many emergency warning systems rely on wireless or digital power capabilities, said Aaron Wolking, national sales manager at the Colorado-based manufacturer Sentry Sirens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You still need something out there that tells people, ‘Seriously this is a big problem. You need to seek shelter. You need to seek safety,’ ” Wolking said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.midstatecomm.com/PDF/FEMA_guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technical bulletin issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in 2006\u003c/a> advised that all new outdoor warning systems, including outdoor sirens, should have alternative power supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no single method of alert and notification that meets the needs of every portion of every community in every situation,” the bulletin states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4117213-Map-of-Emergency-Sirens-in-San-Francisco.html\" responsive=true]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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