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"content": "\u003cp>All national parks will be free to enter on Saturday, April 20, including popular destinations like Yosemite, Muir Woods and Joshua Tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To celebrate the start of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/npscelebrates/national-park-week.htm\">National Park Week\u003c/a> 2019, every National Park Service site that usually charges an entrance fee will \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/fee-free-parks.htm\">offer free admission to all visitors on Saturday\u003c/a>. This is one of four free National Park Days coming up in 2019 — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/fee-free-parks.htm\">next ones\u003c/a> take place on Aug. 25, Sept. 28 and Nov. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11740797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29765__FB-24-of-69-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29765__FB-24-of-69-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29765__FB-24-of-69-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29765__FB-24-of-69-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29765__FB-24-of-69-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29765__FB-24-of-69-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Tree National Park \u003ccite>(Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Read on for a few of our recommendations \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/state/ca/index.htm\">in and around the Bay Area\u003c/a>, and remember: Saturday’s entrance fee waiver \u003cem>doesn’t\u003c/em> extend to activities like camping, special tours, boat launches or transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/index.htm\">Muir Woods\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Usually costs: \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/planyourvisit/fees.htm\">$15 per adult\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11740793\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redwood trees in Muir Woods \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Home to towering ancient coast redwoods, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/index.htm\">Muir Woods\u003c/a> — a short drive north from the Golden Gate Bridge — is still breathtaking, no matter how many times you've visited. The raised accessible boardwalk means this national park is particularly suited to visiting with folks with reduced mobility, wheelchair users and families with kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind that while Muir Woods' entrance fee is waived on Saturday, you'll still have to pay for your (now mandatory) \u003ca href=\"https://gomuirwoods.com/\">parking reservation or shuttle reservation\u003c/a>. 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If you haven't been before — and a startling number of Bay Area residents \u003cem>have\u003c/em> never visited — Saturday's free National Park Day might be a good opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But remember, Yosemite is currently experiencing road closures due to snow, so \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/conditions.htm\">check conditions\u003c/a> before you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/jotr/index.htm\">Joshua Tree\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Usually costs: \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/jotr/planyourvisit/fees.htm\">$30 per car\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11740788\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29768__FB-67-of-69-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29768__FB-67-of-69-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29768__FB-67-of-69-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29768__FB-67-of-69-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29768__FB-67-of-69-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29768__FB-67-of-69-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Tree National Park \u003ccite>(Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED could never condone calling in sick to your place of employment on false pretenses — but we \u003cem>would\u003c/em> note that if you start practicing your fake cough now, you'll be all set to take Friday off and drive down to SoCal to enjoy Saturday's free admission at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/jotr/index.htm\">Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This famously surreal landscape, which is unfortunately still recovering from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719436/vandals-visit-joshua-tree-national-park-during-the-shutdown\">damage wrought by some visitors\u003c/a> during the recent government shutdown in January, brings together the two distinct desert ecosystems of the Mojave and the Colorado, and offers some of the darkest night skies around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain areas of Joshua Tree are currently closed to climbing and bouldering, so \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/jotr/planyourvisit/conditions.htm\">check conditions\u003c/a> before you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Bringing kids to a free National Park Day? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>All national parks will be free to enter on Saturday, April 20, including popular destinations like Yosemite, Muir Woods and Joshua Tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To celebrate the start of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/npscelebrates/national-park-week.htm\">National Park Week\u003c/a> 2019, every National Park Service site that usually charges an entrance fee will \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/fee-free-parks.htm\">offer free admission to all visitors on Saturday\u003c/a>. This is one of four free National Park Days coming up in 2019 — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/fee-free-parks.htm\">next ones\u003c/a> take place on Aug. 25, Sept. 28 and Nov. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11740797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29765__FB-24-of-69-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29765__FB-24-of-69-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29765__FB-24-of-69-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29765__FB-24-of-69-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29765__FB-24-of-69-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29765__FB-24-of-69-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Tree National Park \u003ccite>(Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Read on for a few of our recommendations \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/state/ca/index.htm\">in and around the Bay Area\u003c/a>, and remember: Saturday’s entrance fee waiver \u003cem>doesn’t\u003c/em> extend to activities like camping, special tours, boat launches or transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/index.htm\">Muir Woods\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Usually costs: \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/planyourvisit/fees.htm\">$15 per adult\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11740793\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redwood trees in Muir Woods \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Home to towering ancient coast redwoods, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/index.htm\">Muir Woods\u003c/a> — a short drive north from the Golden Gate Bridge — is still breathtaking, no matter how many times you've visited. The raised accessible boardwalk means this national park is particularly suited to visiting with folks with reduced mobility, wheelchair users and families with kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind that while Muir Woods' entrance fee is waived on Saturday, you'll still have to pay for your (now mandatory) \u003ca href=\"https://gomuirwoods.com/\">parking reservation or shuttle reservation\u003c/a>. These spots fill up fast, but it looks like there's still availability for Saturday — we'd recommend securing yours now if you're hoping to take advantage of the free National Park Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm\">Yosemite\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Usually costs: \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/basicinfo.htm\">$35 per car\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11740785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS1130_IMG_0614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS1130_IMG_0614.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS1130_IMG_0614-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS1130_IMG_0614-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS1130_IMG_0614-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS1130_IMG_0614-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS1130_IMG_0614-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS1130_IMG_0614-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS1130_IMG_0614-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS1130_IMG_0614-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors at Yosemite National Park \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/Climate Watch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Less than four hours' drive from the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm\">Yosemite National Park\u003c/a> offers iconic rock formations like El Capitan, incredible waterfalls, ancient giant sequoias and a huge expanse of wilderness. If you haven't been before — and a startling number of Bay Area residents \u003cem>have\u003c/em> never visited — Saturday's free National Park Day might be a good opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But remember, Yosemite is currently experiencing road closures due to snow, so \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/conditions.htm\">check conditions\u003c/a> before you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/jotr/index.htm\">Joshua Tree\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Usually costs: \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/jotr/planyourvisit/fees.htm\">$30 per car\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11740788\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29768__FB-67-of-69-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29768__FB-67-of-69-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29768__FB-67-of-69-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29768__FB-67-of-69-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29768__FB-67-of-69-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29768__FB-67-of-69-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Tree National Park \u003ccite>(Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED could never condone calling in sick to your place of employment on false pretenses — but we \u003cem>would\u003c/em> note that if you start practicing your fake cough now, you'll be all set to take Friday off and drive down to SoCal to enjoy Saturday's free admission at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/jotr/index.htm\">Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This famously surreal landscape, which is unfortunately still recovering from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11719436/vandals-visit-joshua-tree-national-park-during-the-shutdown\">damage wrought by some visitors\u003c/a> during the recent government shutdown in January, brings together the two distinct desert ecosystems of the Mojave and the Colorado, and offers some of the darkest night skies around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain areas of Joshua Tree are currently closed to climbing and bouldering, so \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/jotr/planyourvisit/conditions.htm\">check conditions\u003c/a> before you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Bringing kids to a free National Park Day? 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s wet and rainy winter is getting both wildflower experts and enthusiasts excited about the potential of another “super bloom” this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1555922/photos-your-pics-of-californias-super-bloom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last super bloom\u003c/a>, in the spring of 2017, was spectacular. I can tell you from experience because I was one of the thousands of people who traveled to \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/california/carrizo-plain-national-monument\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carrizo Plain National Monument\u003c/a> in the Central Valley to see it. There, I saw the most Instagram-able mountainsides and valleys blanketed with vibrant orange, bright yellow and deep violet wildflowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason we got that super bloom? Lots and lots of rain — about 150 percent more than normal, according to Richard Minnich, a professor of earth sciences at UC Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the bad news: the precipitation we’ve had so far \u003cem>this year\u003c/em> is not quite enough, yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we’re right at normal or slightly above,” Minnich said. “So it’s looking promising, and we could really get up there in terms of total rainfall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35109_IMG_0367-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35109_IMG_0367-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35109_IMG_0367-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35109_IMG_0367-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35109_IMG_0367-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35109_IMG_0367-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A spokeswoman with Carrizo Plain National Monument said it’s still too early to tell if a super bloom will occur there this year. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Super blooms are typically rare ecological events, Minnich said; the last one to occur before 2017 was in 2009. Besides needing boatloads of rain, a massive wildflower bloom also requires years of drought that kill off invasive European grasses and weeds, leaving less competition for California’s native flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden poppies, purple lupins, popcorn flowers, phacelia and owl’s clover are all common annuals that can be found in California during spring. But Minnich said during super blooms, some rarely seen wildflowers, like the desert five-spot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/deva/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Death Valley National Park\u003c/a>, can pop up after not being seen for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In super blooms you can get flowers, which in some cases, are thought to be extinct,” Minnich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This desert five-spot bloomed in Death Valley National Park during 2009’s super bloom. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/benclark/\">Ben Clark\u003c/a>/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Super bloom or not, there are already desert wildflowers sprouting up in the southern part of the state, like at \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/anzaborrego/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anza-Borrego Desert State Park\u003c/a>, east of San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bri Fordem with the \u003ca href=\"https://theabf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anza-Borrego Foundation\u003c/a> said the park is having a better than average bloom so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are definitely flowers blooming,” Fordem said. “They are scattered, but there’s a beautiful show of flowers and a variety at that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fordem said desert lilly, sand verbena, Arizona lupin, ocotillo and dune evening primrose are currently blooming in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember, winter’s not over in California, which means there could be more rain to fuel a spring super bloom.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden poppies, purple lupins, popcorn flowers, phacelia and owl’s clover are all common annuals that can be found in California during spring. But Minnich said during super blooms, some rarely seen wildflowers, like the desert five-spot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/deva/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Death Valley National Park\u003c/a>, can pop up after not being seen for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In super blooms you can get flowers, which in some cases, are thought to be extinct,” Minnich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This desert five-spot bloomed in Death Valley National Park during 2009’s super bloom. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/benclark/\">Ben Clark\u003c/a>/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Super bloom or not, there are already desert wildflowers sprouting up in the southern part of the state, like at \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/anzaborrego/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anza-Borrego Desert State Park\u003c/a>, east of San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bri Fordem with the \u003ca href=\"https://theabf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anza-Borrego Foundation\u003c/a> said the park is having a better than average bloom so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are definitely flowers blooming,” Fordem said. “They are scattered, but there’s a beautiful show of flowers and a variety at that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fordem said desert lilly, sand verbena, Arizona lupin, ocotillo and dune evening primrose are currently blooming in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember, winter’s not over in California, which means there could be more rain to fuel a spring super bloom.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Tuesday, Jan. 8 \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man who fell to his death in Yosemite National Park on Christmas Day was from Ohio, local authorities reported Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant Mariposa County coroner Andrea Stewart told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/07/yosemite-man-killed-in-fall-on-christmas-day-identified/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercury News\u003c/a> that 32-year-old Joshua Brock Conner of Lakeview, Ohio, died of head injuries at Emerald Pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\">National Parks Dealing With Vandals, Human Waste in Shutdown\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-178312467-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Government officials say Conner apparently slipped down Silver Apron, a large, sloping granite area above Nevada Fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rangers responding to a 911 call arrived in less than an hour and pulled him from the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the partial government shutdown that began more than two weeks ago delayed a park statement about the death and is causing the investigation to take longer than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park law enforcement staff, however, are still on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A park spokesman said in late October that more than 10 people died at Yosemite in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/2379781/someone-died-national-park-during-shutdown\">Outside Magazine reports\u003c/a> there are about 50 park service staff working during the shutdown, compared to the usual 800-plus workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the magazine:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At least 10 people died in Yosemite National Park last year, prior to the shutdown, including another man who slipped and fell to his death near Nevada Fall. Nationwide, 330 million people visit our national parks every year, of which about 120 to 140 die in accidents. Drowning, vehicle accidents, and falls are overwhelmingly the causes of those deaths.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Unlike during some previous shutdowns, most national parks had initially remained open in the initial days of the current impasse, despite significant staff furloughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the 16-day shutdown in 2013, national parks were closed, in part due to concerns for visitor safety,” Outside Magazine reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But officials are now starting to shut down entire parks or portions of parks due to health and safety concerns, as well as issues with trash, vandalism and park resource damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715720/sequoia-kings-canyon-close-due-to-health-safety-concerns\">Sequoia, Kings Canyon Close Due to Health, Safety Concerns\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715720/sequoia-kings-canyon-close-due-to-health-safety-concerns\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Getty-91885387-Sequoia-National-Park-1180x772.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Parts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm\">Yosemite have been closed\u003c/a>. And officials at \u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2019/01/08/joshua-tree-national-park-closes-amid-government-shutdown/2514024002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/a> announced that the entire park would temporarily close on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715720/sequoia-kings-canyon-close-due-to-health-safety-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed Sequoia and Kings Canyon\u003c/a> national parks last week. And portions of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/deva/index.htm\">Death Valley National Park were closed to the public\u003c/a> on Friday, including access roads to Natural Bridge, Dante’s View, Keane Wonder Mine and Salt Creek. Furnace Creek and Texas Springs campgrounds are also closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the partial government shutdown now in its third week, garbage has piled up at national parks throughout the country. In California parks, there have been reports of overflowing garbage bins, unmaintained bathrooms with visitors relieving themselves in the wilderness, illegal off-roading and other damaging behaviors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Joshua Tree, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-canatparkshut-20181226-story.html\">Los Angeles Times reports\u003c/a>, there have been “breakdowns in the campground reservation system, illegal camping practices and visitors stringing Christmas lights from delicate Joshua trees that they are supposed to leave untouched.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outgoing U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, whose resignation took effect Wednesday, tells the AP he sought to keep the parks open during the shutdown so that the public wasn’t penalized for the political feud centered on President Trump’s border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some park advocates have called for all national parks to be closed to protect them from possible harm. 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"content": "\u003cp>In an unprecedented move, the National Park Service has decided to dip into entrance fee funds to pay for expanded operations during a government shutdown that has furloughed many of its workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision comes after reports of degradation in the parks — trash thrown on the ground, human waste piling up and visitors behaving irresponsibly by letting their dogs off leash or even driving off-road to do doughnuts in the desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715934/outgoing-us-interior-secretary-defends-legacy-as-he-leaves-tells-park-visitors-to-grab-a-trash-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shutdown Delays Yosemite Death Probe, Spurs More National Park Closures\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715934/outgoing-us-interior-secretary-defends-legacy-as-he-leaves-tells-park-visitors-to-grab-a-trash-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Getty-151376605-Vernal-Falls.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5676134/National-Park-Service-s-Revised-Contingency-Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revised contingency plan\u003c/a>, obtained and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2019/01/06/park-service-takes-extraordinary-step-dipping-into-entrance-fees-bolster-operations-popular-sites/?utm_term=.c61d5c50fef9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by\u003c/a> The Washington Post, did not specify how many agency employees would return to work, nor which parks would receive the additional staffing funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/updatelapse.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release\u003c/a> earlier Sunday, the National Park Service said the funds would not be able to fully open parks and that many of the smaller sites around the country will remain closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"NPS will begin to use these funds to clean up trash that has built up at numerous parks, clean and maintain restrooms, bring additional law enforcement rangers into parks to patrol accessible areas, and to restore accessibility to areas that would typically be accessible this time of year,\" the agency wrote in the press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 115 of the agency's \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/entrance-fee-prices.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">418 park sites collect entrance fees\u003c/a>. The Washington Post \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2019/01/06/park-service-takes-extraordinary-step-dipping-into-entrance-fees-bolster-operations-popular-sites/?utm_term=.c61d5c50fef9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported that\u003c/a> the Interior Department's acting secretary, David Bernhardt, asked for a list of parks that would expand their operations by using money from park fees and those that don't collect fees but have a demonstrated need for additional funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service move may violate appropriations law since park fees collected under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act are designated toward visitor services, not toward operations and basic maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Imperfect Solution\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some park advocates, like Sabra Purdy, co-owner of a \u003ca href=\"https://cliffhangerguides.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rock climbing guide service\u003c/a> that operates in Joshua Tree National Park, worry that dipping into the park fees would deplete the funds for future park services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Parks Dealing With Vandals, Human Waste in Shutdown\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-178312467-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She said it was especially concerning given the fact that many of these parks have already lost a significant amount of park fee money — sometimes in the millions of dollars — by not collecting fees over the holiday season, when many of them have increased visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we allocate what fees have been collected before to this temporary stopgap emergency funding, we'll really be robbing Peter to pay Paul,\" she said. \"I don't think it's a great long-term solution, but I understand why people want to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Purdy supports the move, although reluctantly, because she would like to see park workers get paid, and she thinks national parks could use the resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As national parks have remained open yet understaffed over the past two weeks, Purdy and dozens of others across the country have volunteered to fill in for the missing workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been masquerading as a park service janitor for the last 16 days along with many, many other people,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid stories of heaps of human waste and garbage collecting in national parks, forcing some to close, these volunteers have kept some parks open and in pristine shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Toilet Paper Angels' Cleaned Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing Purdy's husband and business co-owner, Seth Zaharias, did the morning after the partial government shutdown began on Dec. 22 was go to Walmart and spend $100 on toilet paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaharias knew that one of the first problems with not having park service workers around would be the bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no one to clean, empty and maintain the trash cans and bathrooms, Zaharias worried that trash — and human feces — would pile up and conditions would worsen to the point of shuttering the park. \"I knew a disaster was coming, and I wasn't going to let the federal government ruin my home,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Purdy then \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JoshuaTreeRockclimbing/posts/2180497112002487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on Facebook\u003c/a>, inviting others to join them in cleaning the park, and it quickly grew into a grassroots volunteer movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locals Pick Up the Slack (and the Trash) as Government Shutdown Continues\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34624_10773544416_IMG_0235-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, the couple has an open meeting at their shop every morning where they organize the cleanup effort with anyone who shows up. On any given day, 10 to 50 people will show up. Last Saturday, 40 people came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubbed the \"Toilet Paper Angels,\" the volunteers working with Purdy, Zaharias and two local nonprofits — Friends of Joshua Tree and the Joshua Tree Climber's Collective — are bringing in hundreds of rolls of toilet paper into the park every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work they have to do in the bathrooms is far from divine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've seen multiple toilets covered in diarrhea,\" Zaharias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to cleaning and restocking the bathrooms, volunteers are also using trucks and trailers to haul trash out of overflowing dumpsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The trash would have been overflowing and blowing across the desert if it wasn't for the volunteers,\" Purdy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one day alone, Purdy said volunteers collectively hauled out about 4,000 pounds of trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Efforts to Clean the Park Are Not Sustainable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleaning the parks is hard, unglamorous work, but Zaharias said that volunteers at Joshua Tree National Park are committed to continuing every day until the shutdown ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is this the place that puts food on our table, but it's a place we hold sacred,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realistically though, despite nearly $11,000 in donations to support their efforts, Zaharias estimated that volunteers can sustain the amount of time and resources that they are pouring in for only a few more weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news of the National Park Service's decision brought some relief to his wife. Purdy hopes that Joshua Tree National Park will be one of the ones chosen for additional staff resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it is, she hopes that National Park Service janitors will be some of the first staffers to come back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In an unprecedented move, the National Park Service has decided to dip into entrance fee funds to pay for expanded operations during a government shutdown that has furloughed many of its workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision comes after reports of degradation in the parks — trash thrown on the ground, human waste piling up and visitors behaving irresponsibly by letting their dogs off leash or even driving off-road to do doughnuts in the desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715934/outgoing-us-interior-secretary-defends-legacy-as-he-leaves-tells-park-visitors-to-grab-a-trash-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shutdown Delays Yosemite Death Probe, Spurs More National Park Closures\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715934/outgoing-us-interior-secretary-defends-legacy-as-he-leaves-tells-park-visitors-to-grab-a-trash-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/Getty-151376605-Vernal-Falls.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5676134/National-Park-Service-s-Revised-Contingency-Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revised contingency plan\u003c/a>, obtained and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2019/01/06/park-service-takes-extraordinary-step-dipping-into-entrance-fees-bolster-operations-popular-sites/?utm_term=.c61d5c50fef9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by\u003c/a> The Washington Post, did not specify how many agency employees would return to work, nor which parks would receive the additional staffing funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/updatelapse.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release\u003c/a> earlier Sunday, the National Park Service said the funds would not be able to fully open parks and that many of the smaller sites around the country will remain closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"NPS will begin to use these funds to clean up trash that has built up at numerous parks, clean and maintain restrooms, bring additional law enforcement rangers into parks to patrol accessible areas, and to restore accessibility to areas that would typically be accessible this time of year,\" the agency wrote in the press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The Washington Post \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2019/01/06/park-service-takes-extraordinary-step-dipping-into-entrance-fees-bolster-operations-popular-sites/?utm_term=.c61d5c50fef9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported that\u003c/a> the Interior Department's acting secretary, David Bernhardt, asked for a list of parks that would expand their operations by using money from park fees and those that don't collect fees but have a demonstrated need for additional funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service move may violate appropriations law since park fees collected under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act are designated toward visitor services, not toward operations and basic maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Imperfect Solution\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some park advocates, like Sabra Purdy, co-owner of a \u003ca href=\"https://cliffhangerguides.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rock climbing guide service\u003c/a> that operates in Joshua Tree National Park, worry that dipping into the park fees would deplete the funds for future park services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Parks Dealing With Vandals, Human Waste in Shutdown\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715467/national-parks-dealing-with-vandals-human-waste-in-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-178312467-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She said it was especially concerning given the fact that many of these parks have already lost a significant amount of park fee money — sometimes in the millions of dollars — by not collecting fees over the holiday season, when many of them have increased visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we allocate what fees have been collected before to this temporary stopgap emergency funding, we'll really be robbing Peter to pay Paul,\" she said. \"I don't think it's a great long-term solution, but I understand why people want to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Purdy supports the move, although reluctantly, because she would like to see park workers get paid, and she thinks national parks could use the resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As national parks have remained open yet understaffed over the past two weeks, Purdy and dozens of others across the country have volunteered to fill in for the missing workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been masquerading as a park service janitor for the last 16 days along with many, many other people,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid stories of heaps of human waste and garbage collecting in national parks, forcing some to close, these volunteers have kept some parks open and in pristine shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Toilet Paper Angels' Cleaned Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing Purdy's husband and business co-owner, Seth Zaharias, did the morning after the partial government shutdown began on Dec. 22 was go to Walmart and spend $100 on toilet paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaharias knew that one of the first problems with not having park service workers around would be the bathrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no one to clean, empty and maintain the trash cans and bathrooms, Zaharias worried that trash — and human feces — would pile up and conditions would worsen to the point of shuttering the park. \"I knew a disaster was coming, and I wasn't going to let the federal government ruin my home,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Purdy then \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JoshuaTreeRockclimbing/posts/2180497112002487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on Facebook\u003c/a>, inviting others to join them in cleaning the park, and it quickly grew into a grassroots volunteer movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locals Pick Up the Slack (and the Trash) as Government Shutdown Continues\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716115/locals-pick-up-the-slack-and-the-trash-as-government-shutdown-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34624_10773544416_IMG_0235-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, the couple has an open meeting at their shop every morning where they organize the cleanup effort with anyone who shows up. 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Last Saturday, 40 people came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dubbed the \"Toilet Paper Angels,\" the volunteers working with Purdy, Zaharias and two local nonprofits — Friends of Joshua Tree and the Joshua Tree Climber's Collective — are bringing in hundreds of rolls of toilet paper into the park every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work they have to do in the bathrooms is far from divine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've seen multiple toilets covered in diarrhea,\" Zaharias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to cleaning and restocking the bathrooms, volunteers are also using trucks and trailers to haul trash out of overflowing dumpsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The trash would have been overflowing and blowing across the desert if it wasn't for the volunteers,\" Purdy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one day alone, Purdy said volunteers collectively hauled out about 4,000 pounds of trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Efforts to Clean the Park Are Not Sustainable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleaning the parks is hard, unglamorous work, but Zaharias said that volunteers at Joshua Tree National Park are committed to continuing every day until the shutdown ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is this the place that puts food on our table, but it's a place we hold sacred,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realistically though, despite nearly $11,000 in donations to support their efforts, Zaharias estimated that volunteers can sustain the amount of time and resources that they are pouring in for only a few more weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news of the National Park Service's decision brought some relief to his wife. 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"content": "\u003cp>The government shutdown has forced the partial or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715934/outgoing-us-interior-secretary-defends-legacy-as-he-leaves-tells-park-visitors-to-grab-a-trash-bag\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">complete closure\u003c/a> of some of the nation's most popular national parks and has furloughed thousands of federal land agency workers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means all kinds of under-the-radar, yet critical, work has mostly stopped — from timber sales to wildfire prevention projects to the general upkeep and enforcement of laws on millions of acres of U.S. public lands. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an eerie silence,\" says John Wentworth, a councilman in the Eastern Sierra town of Mammoth Lakes. \"The folks that are responsible for stewarding, maintaining and watching out for one of the great legacies of the United States are absent; they're gone.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mammoth Lakes is completely surrounded — and largely dependent on — U.S. public lands. That includes the adjacent ski resort, which operates on a U.S. Forest Service lease. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shutdown has coincided with one of the town's busiest seasons. Suddenly there's no one staffing area visitor centers or popular trailheads for snowshoeing, snowmobiling. There's no one to interact with visitors, enforce the rules and just manage the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's kind of scary,\" Wentworth says. \"We don't know what to tell our visitors; we don't know how to be good hosts and stewards of these public lands because the federal presence is not there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wentworth's anxiety is familiar to communities across the West that promote themselves as gateways to massive expanses of U.S. public lands. Much of that land is open to the public and to everything from natural resource extraction to outdoor recreation. The latter contributes billions to the U.S. economy, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bea.gov/data/special-topics/outdoor-recreation\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">several recent studies\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/utah_wide-544c1de1f1a623af630e5c3ba21b2bcdadc8f57d-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Bureau of Land Management land in the southern Utah desert. The partial federal government shutdown has furloughed thousands of land agency workers, leaving work on critical projects mostly stopped.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11716103\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bureau of Land Management land in the southern Utah desert. The partial federal government shutdown has furloughed thousands of land agency workers, leaving work on critical projects mostly stopped. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So when your landlord is suddenly unreachable, almost everything is thrown into limbo. About half of all of California is federal land. Next door in Nevada it's more like 80 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sure, there are lots of citizens out there that will pick up trash, but the larger landscape planning issues, they're not being addressed,\" says Jaina Moan of The Nature Conservancy's Nevada chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, groups like The Nature Conservancy have played a big role in large collaborative conservation and other development projects on federal land, such as programs that help improve rangeland for ranchers and reduce wildfire risk in national forests. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moan's group can keep working on the side, but they can't access certain lands or the federal scientists who work on them. 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But the rangers who ordinarily patrol the park have been sent packing by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/27/680506057/trump-leading-democrats-fault-each-other-as-partial-shutdown-heads-into-2019\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the spending standoff in Washington\u003c/a> that has forced the shutdown of about a quarter of the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The visitors centers are closed,\" said John Lauretig, executive director of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.friendsofjosh.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friends of Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/a>. \"All the bathrooms are still open, but they're not being maintained right now by the Park Service. So the local community has rallied together and started cleaning the bathrooms and restocking the toilet paper.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the partial government shutdown enters its second weekend with no sign of compromise on the horizon, Lauretig and others are digging in for what could be a long-term project. \"As the dumpsters fill up and the pit toilets fill up, what kinds of solutions can we make to solve those problems?\" he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers in Washington have offered little hope of a quick compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't tell you when the government's going to be open,\" President Trump told reporters this week. He's insisting that Congress provide $5 billion for his proposed border wall. Democrats, who are set to take control of the House next week, have refused. The stalemate has left nine major government departments — including Homeland Security, Interior and State — without spending authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the effects of the partial shutdown have been little more than an inconvenience to some and invisible to many. Some 400,000 critical federal employees have stayed on the job. And while they're not being paid at the moment, that impact won't really show up until their next paychecks, which are due Jan. 11. Still, the longer the shutdown drags on, the more widely the effects will be felt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/gettyimages-1075217440trash_wide-d297eb985c3ea6b578cc567225a47f6eda6cb9f7-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Trash in a box overflows near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on December 27, 2018, as some government services have been stopped during a partial government shutdown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11715190\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trash in a box overflows near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on December 27, 2018, as some government services have been stopped during a partial government shutdown. \u003ccite>(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"More things will be shutting down,\" said Jacqueline Simon, policy director for the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union of federal workers. \"There were a few agencies that are affected by the funding lapse that had a little bit of money left over to take them to the end of the year. But that money will be running out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-12/documents/planning_for_a_potential_lapse_in_funding_12-27-2018.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EPA, for example\u003c/a>, had announced plans to halt operations at midnight Friday. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/update-smithsonian-statement-government-shutdown\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo\u003c/a> will \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/27/680596210/smithsonian-and-national-zoo-to-close-after-new-years-day-in-government-shutdown\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shutter their doors Jan. 2.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food stamps program (officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) and the school lunch program are funded through January but could take a hit if the shutdown continues beyond that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House economist Kevin Hassett predicted the shutdown would not do lasting damage to the U.S. economy. But he admitted it could cause a blip in the unemployment rate if hundreds of thousands of federal workers are still idle in a couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would be more of a temporary thing,\" Hassett said. \"It's not something that we expect is really material for the outlook.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ap_18361782049005shutdown_wide-841697d7c63826a2ed1eb9b34f12492d20d73d06-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"People skate on the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Ice Rink on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018, as a partial government shutdown continues in Washington. The museum and the skate rink will be closed to the public after Jan. 2 as a result of the shutdown if it continues into the new year.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11715192\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People skate on the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Ice Rink on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018, as a partial government shutdown continues in Washington. The museum and the skate rink will be closed to the public after Jan. 2 as a result of the shutdown if it continues into the new year. \u003ccite>(Jacquelyn Martin/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Social Security and Medicare payments are still being made, as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But applications for Federal Housing Administration-backed mortgages could be delayed. FEMA also rattled the housing market when it said it would stop selling flood insurance during the shutdown — a move that could have jeopardized some 40,000 home sales in flood-prone areas each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they can't get the flood insurance, they can't get the mortgage,\" said Allan Dechert, who heads the insurance committee for the National Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2018/12/28/fema-resumes-selling-flood-insurance-policies-during-appropriations-lapse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA backtracked late Friday\u003c/a> and said it would resume selling flood insurance during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at Joshua Tree National Park for now, volunteers will keep scrubbing toilets. But devotees say that's no substitute for the park rangers who ordinarily keep an eye on the Native American rock art and other history dotting the desert landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are rare and unique artifacts up there that need to be protected by a fully-staffed National Park Service staff,\" Lauretig said. \"My concern is right now those one-of-a-kind kind of things in the park are unprotected, unfortunately.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Fallout+Grows+As+Partial+Government+Shutdown+Drags+On+Into+New+Year&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/gettyimages-1074607874joshuatree_wide-37af2a911cfd17bde5b4006dcdf7b52fdf0cf0a1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Lone park ranger Dylan Moe at the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park provides park maps to visitors on Saturday, December 22, 2018. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Christmas season is typically one of the busiest times of the year at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/jotr/index.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/a> in California, as rock climbers and car campers flock to the high desert getaway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cactus and the campers are there this year, as usual. But the rangers who ordinarily patrol the park have been sent packing by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/27/680506057/trump-leading-democrats-fault-each-other-as-partial-shutdown-heads-into-2019\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the spending standoff in Washington\u003c/a> that has forced the shutdown of about a quarter of the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The visitors centers are closed,\" said John Lauretig, executive director of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.friendsofjosh.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friends of Joshua Tree National Park\u003c/a>. \"All the bathrooms are still open, but they're not being maintained right now by the Park Service. So the local community has rallied together and started cleaning the bathrooms and restocking the toilet paper.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the partial government shutdown enters its second weekend with no sign of compromise on the horizon, Lauretig and others are digging in for what could be a long-term project. \"As the dumpsters fill up and the pit toilets fill up, what kinds of solutions can we make to solve those problems?\" he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers in Washington have offered little hope of a quick compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't tell you when the government's going to be open,\" President Trump told reporters this week. He's insisting that Congress provide $5 billion for his proposed border wall. Democrats, who are set to take control of the House next week, have refused. The stalemate has left nine major government departments — including Homeland Security, Interior and State — without spending authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the effects of the partial shutdown have been little more than an inconvenience to some and invisible to many. Some 400,000 critical federal employees have stayed on the job. And while they're not being paid at the moment, that impact won't really show up until their next paychecks, which are due Jan. 11. Still, the longer the shutdown drags on, the more widely the effects will be felt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/gettyimages-1075217440trash_wide-d297eb985c3ea6b578cc567225a47f6eda6cb9f7-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Trash in a box overflows near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on December 27, 2018, as some government services have been stopped during a partial government shutdown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11715190\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trash in a box overflows near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on December 27, 2018, as some government services have been stopped during a partial government shutdown. \u003ccite>(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"More things will be shutting down,\" said Jacqueline Simon, policy director for the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union of federal workers. \"There were a few agencies that are affected by the funding lapse that had a little bit of money left over to take them to the end of the year. But that money will be running out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-12/documents/planning_for_a_potential_lapse_in_funding_12-27-2018.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EPA, for example\u003c/a>, had announced plans to halt operations at midnight Friday. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/update-smithsonian-statement-government-shutdown\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo\u003c/a> will \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/27/680596210/smithsonian-and-national-zoo-to-close-after-new-years-day-in-government-shutdown\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shutter their doors Jan. 2.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food stamps program (officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) and the school lunch program are funded through January but could take a hit if the shutdown continues beyond that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House economist Kevin Hassett predicted the shutdown would not do lasting damage to the U.S. economy. But he admitted it could cause a blip in the unemployment rate if hundreds of thousands of federal workers are still idle in a couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would be more of a temporary thing,\" Hassett said. \"It's not something that we expect is really material for the outlook.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/ap_18361782049005shutdown_wide-841697d7c63826a2ed1eb9b34f12492d20d73d06-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"People skate on the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Ice Rink on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018, as a partial government shutdown continues in Washington. The museum and the skate rink will be closed to the public after Jan. 2 as a result of the shutdown if it continues into the new year.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11715192\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People skate on the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Ice Rink on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018, as a partial government shutdown continues in Washington. The museum and the skate rink will be closed to the public after Jan. 2 as a result of the shutdown if it continues into the new year. \u003ccite>(Jacquelyn Martin/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Social Security and Medicare payments are still being made, as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But applications for Federal Housing Administration-backed mortgages could be delayed. FEMA also rattled the housing market when it said it would stop selling flood insurance during the shutdown — a move that could have jeopardized some 40,000 home sales in flood-prone areas each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they can't get the flood insurance, they can't get the mortgage,\" said Allan Dechert, who heads the insurance committee for the National Association of Realtors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2018/12/28/fema-resumes-selling-flood-insurance-policies-during-appropriations-lapse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA backtracked late Friday\u003c/a> and said it would resume selling flood insurance during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at Joshua Tree National Park for now, volunteers will keep scrubbing toilets. But devotees say that's no substitute for the park rangers who ordinarily keep an eye on the Native American rock art and other history dotting the desert landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are rare and unique artifacts up there that need to be protected by a fully-staffed National Park Service staff,\" Lauretig said. \"My concern is right now those one-of-a-kind kind of things in the park are unprotected, unfortunately.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Fallout+Grows+As+Partial+Government+Shutdown+Drags+On+Into+New+Year&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/gettyimages-1074607874joshuatree_wide-37af2a911cfd17bde5b4006dcdf7b52fdf0cf0a1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Lone park ranger Dylan Moe at the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park provides park maps to visitors on Saturday, December 22, 2018. The park was open but its visitors center and other facilities were closed due to the partial government shutdown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11715193\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lone park ranger Dylan Moe at the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park provides park maps to visitors on Saturday, December 22, 2018. The park was open but its visitors center and other facilities were closed due to the partial government shutdown. \u003ccite>(Irfan Khan/LA Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ah, the tranquil sounds of Yosemite Valley in the summertime. Robins singing, leaves rustling in the wind and the loud booming noise of a bear locker being slammed shut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are the sweet, sweet sounds of camping in bear country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you camp in Yosemite and other parks with black bears, you can’t just leave your food out on the picnic table or even in your car overnight. You have to store it in a weird contraption called a bear locker, a large metal box that bears cannot open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to go backpacking in Yosemite, up to the top of Half Dome or down to the majestic Tuolumne River, you have to keep all of your food in a portable bear-proof canister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This problem of bears wanting to eat human food in places like Yosemite, it’s a problem we humans created. And for decades, people have been inventing solutions to try to solve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The canister, the locker — all of those things were basically invented here in Yosemite,” says Rachel Mazur, Chief of Wildlife and Visitor Use for Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the problem that these inventions were created to solve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem was not invented here,” Mazur says, “but we sure did a good job of making it a tough one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“In your car, you turn to ‘Classic Rock;’ here you get a bear”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Leahy is on patrol in Yosemite Valley. Leahy looks kind of like a cop — sunglasses, a uniform with a vest full of pockets. He’s armed with a radio and binoculars. Leahy’s a biologist; he’s patrolling for bears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we slowly drive along a back road in Yosemite Valley, he sticks a hand-held antenna out the window. There are up to 500 bears in the park, and Leahy and his team have put GPS and radio collars on a handful of them to be able to track them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially they have radio frequency and we have a receiver,” he explains. When Leahy listens to different frequencies using his antenna, he can hear the beeping noise coming from different bears’ collars. “Like in your car you turn to 104.1 classic rock, but here you get you get a different bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beeping speeds up. “The bear’s pretty close,” Leahy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s plenty of natural food for bears to eat in Yosemite, but they’ve learned that swiping coolers and grocery bags is just easier. So Leahy and his team monitor the bears to try and prevent them from ever getting a taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leahy’s park radio interrupts our quiet listening. One of Leahy’s crew members is trying to get a hold of him, because a mamma bear and cub have been reported in a campground on the opposite side of the park. Then his work cell phone rings. It turns out there’s even another bear down here in the valley. He’s got to move quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a bear in the campground in the middle of the day going after human food,” he explains, “it’s going to probably get worse fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulls over into a parking lot so he can make a plan, which turns out to maybe be a bad idea because now he’s a sitting duck for tourist questions. In the middle of all this chaos, a park visitor approaches his truck window. “Hey, where’s Half Dome?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, the giant granite monolith visible from most places in Yosemite Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leahy is nothing but professional. “After you take a left at the stop sign, look right on the bridge; you’ll see Half Dome. It’s huge. You can’t miss it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than four million people visit Yosemite each year, most only for a day. Many are first-timers and don’t even know their way around the park, let alone how to behave in bear country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bears take advantage of that ignorance, which is why Leahy’s got to get on the road, and drive to the other end of the park to keep these bears from getting into people’s food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the reality of bears and humans trying to coexist in Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did we get here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"There are up to 500 bears in Yosemite, and Ryan Leahy and his team have put GPS and radio collars on a handful. Here, he tracks a bear getting a little too close to a campground.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are up to 500 bears in Yosemite, and Ryan Leahy and his team have put GPS and radio collars on a handful. Here, he tracks a bear getting a little too close to a campground. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From bear-feeding shows to “nuisance bears”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1900s, tourists started visiting Yosemite year-round. This was a time before garbage trucks and even plastic garbage bags were invented, and the tourists needed somewhere to put their trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was crazy!” Rachel Mazur says. “They would have a dump, and that’s where the garbage would go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Mazur worked as Chief of Wildlife in Yosemite, she wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.falcon.com/book/9781493008223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a book\u003c/a> about the history of bears and humans in the park. She says the bears quickly figured out that they could go to the dump and eat campers’ food scraps. Then, the concessionaire for the park figured it could make money off of tourists who’d love to see bears up close and personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’d put bleachers up, bus people in, have on spotlights, and you’d have twenty, thirty bears in there, feeding off the trash but also fighting each other,” Mazur says, and basically becoming conditioned to humans and our food. The dumps drew bears out of the wilderness into Yosemite Valley. They started reproducing in larger numbers because they got so many calories from human food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors were getting too close to the bears and getting injured, and the park realized it had to make some changes. It ended all bear feeding shows in the 1940s and closed the dumps in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you can’t just close dumps and expect these bears that are food-conditioned and used to humans to disappear back into the forest,” Mazur says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt='Rachel Mazur, Chief of Wildlife for Yosemite National Park, by a \"graveyard\" of old bear lockers. She says when bear management is under control, her team can focus on other wildlife efforts, like conservation and restoring endangered species.' width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Mazur, Chief of Wildlife for Yosemite National Park, by a “graveyard” of old bear lockers. She says when bear management is under control, her team can focus on other wildlife efforts, like conservation and restoring endangered species. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the dumps closed, the bears turned their eye toward the campgrounds and visitors’ cars. This lead to even more injuries and rangers killing what they called “nuisance” bears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the type of job that the rangers had signed up for. They wanted to figure out a way to keep bears wild and away from human food, so, Mazur says, they started experimenting. They created special lids for garbage cans, and metal lockers for campers to store their food, with latches complicated enough that they were sure bears wouldn’t be able to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet bears are very smart and they figured out a way in. The rangers tweaked the designs more, adding carabiners and inventing new latches. Mazur has a whole stack of these old bear locker designs outside her office in Yosemite Valley; she calls it the “bear locker graveyard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Staying ahead of the “wily bears”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While rangers experimented with bear-proof storage for car campgrounds, more and more tourists were heading out to hike in the wilderness. This was the late 1960s and the start of the environmental movement. Many young people wanted to go backpacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Durkee was a ranger in Little Yosemite Valley, the popular backcountry area behind Half Dome. Hikers would hike from the valley up to these woods and stay overnight, leaving the next day to climb the famous granite monolith. They didn’t have anywhere to store their food while they camped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would get five or ten people minimum having their food taken every night,” Durkee remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other campers were about to set out for weeks-long trips on the John Muir Trail. They didn’t take kindly to the idea of losing all their food to bears before such a big trip. Durkee remembers one upset camper chasing a bear when it ran off with his food sack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of those cartoon moments,” Durkee laughs. “You see the bear suddenly realizing, ‘Wait a minute, I’m a 200 pound bear. I don’t have to put up with this!’” The bear turned around and swatted the guy across the chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others campers tried using their food as pillows, which Durkee says is a very dangerous idea. “On the one hand, you want to say, ‘This is natural selection at work!’ But you don’t want people to get hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"Retired back country ranger George Durkee helped invent some of the earliest bear-proofing methods.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired back country ranger George Durkee helped invent some of the earliest bear-proofing methods. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Campers would complain to Durkee when they lost their food to bears, so he and other rangers started experimenting with different ways to hang food away from bears’ reach. First, he tried tying the food between two trees, but bears would chew through the rope and pull down the food. Then, Durkee invented something called the counterbalance system. He would throw a rope over a tree branch and hang two food bags of equal weight on each end; that way, there was no rope for the bears to chew through. Instead, bears would climb high into the tree and drop down onto the food from above, knocking it to the ground. Then the bear would run off with the food bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just one thing after another trying to stay ahead of the wily bears!” Durkee says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park tried installing metal poles with hooks that campers could hang their food on, but those got knocked down by an avalanche; then the park helicoptered heavy bear lockers into the backcountry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They tried everything,” Rachel Mazur says. Until finally, “This idea of the canister came about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bear canister: a portable, cylindrical container that bears cannot open, and that holds about five days of food. It looks sort of like a drum. These days, anyone backpacking in Yosemite must use one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Bear canisters like this are required for anyone backpacking in Yosemite. The park has approved 12 different types of bear canisters.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear canisters like this are required for anyone backpacking in Yosemite. The park has approved 12 different types of bear canisters. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea was invented by Barrie Gilbert, a behavioral ecologist, who was researching bears in Yellowstone and got \u003ca href=\"https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/bear-attack-makes-man-a-bear-defender/article_660bc36f-8268-590c-a7be-55d04a41ce50.html\">horribly mauled\u003c/a> by a grizzly. The bear pulled the scalp off his head, ripped off his ears and took out an eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he healed, he decided to send his graduate student to research black bears in Yosemite instead, figuring he’d be safer there. But the graduate student kept losing his food to the bears! (It’s better than losing an eye, but still a problem.) Gilbert wanted to invent a way for his student to be able to bear-proof his food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got the idea while watching a nature show on TV. He saw a frustrated lion pawing at an ostrich egg, trying to eat it, but its shape kept the lion out. That’s when Gilbert “just had this ‘A-ha’ moment,” Mazur says. Gilbert realized if someone could design a contraption that bears would have trouble getting a grip on, and make it lightweight, backpackers might be able to use it to bear-proof their food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilberts’ colleagues working in Yosemite took the idea and ran with it. They hired a machinist from Visalia to make prototypes and gave them to bears at the Fresno Zoo to see if they could break them open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ran through many prototypes, testing them both on bears and humans. “You’re trying to find something that can keep a bear out but that humans can use and will” use, Mazur says. “We learned, for example, if there’s more than two hand motions, people won’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to bears, nothing is foolproof. A few black bears have figured out a way around these canisters. There’s a famously smart bear in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2012/11/a-yellow-yellow-obituary.html\">Adirondack\u003c/a> mountains that taught herself out how to open one of the canister models. Back here in Yosemite, a clever bear realized she can roll canisters off a cliff to break them open. Then she climbs down to get the contents. “It just drives us nuts!” Mazur says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s just one individual bear and the park was able to close that area off from camping. The people on Mazur’s team sometimes have to relocate young bears or even adult bears that have become too conditioned to human food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like the ultimate betrayal,” Mazur says. When visitors don’t bear proof their food, it’s really the bears who pay the price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what’s driven rangers and researchers over the years to invent these bear-proof contraptions. Yet even once the park knew that the canisters and lockers worked, it took decades to get the funding and the support to put all the infrastructure in place and get visitors to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“If we backslide, everything backslides”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with tons of education and enforcement, and requiring the use of bear lockers and canisters, Yosemite has reduced their human-bear incidents, from a high of 1,500 a year to under 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mazur says, that’s exciting. “But what’s also amazing is in the old days, all we did was bear management – nothing else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, she’s technically the Chief of Wildlife, not just bears. Now she’s able to focus on reintroducing endangered species like the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep and yellow-legged frog. But Mazur says, the park still has to stay on top of bear management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we backslide, everything backslides,” she says. “We won’t just lose our grip on the human-bear issue. We’ll lose our grip on all the good wildlife work that we’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mazur says, it’s ultimately up to the tourists to behave properly in bear country. She says, many times campers have told her they didn’t really believe how bad the bear-human food issue was until they lost food to a bear themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If everyone had to lose their food to a bear before they stored it, we’d be in a world of trouble,” she says. At some point, you have to just agree that this is the right thing to do and take it from what’s been learned in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The canister, the locker — all of those things were basically invented here in Yosemite,” says Rachel Mazur, Chief of Wildlife and Visitor Use for Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the problem that these inventions were created to solve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem was not invented here,” Mazur says, “but we sure did a good job of making it a tough one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“In your car, you turn to ‘Classic Rock;’ here you get a bear”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Leahy is on patrol in Yosemite Valley. Leahy looks kind of like a cop — sunglasses, a uniform with a vest full of pockets. He’s armed with a radio and binoculars. Leahy’s a biologist; he’s patrolling for bears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we slowly drive along a back road in Yosemite Valley, he sticks a hand-held antenna out the window. There are up to 500 bears in the park, and Leahy and his team have put GPS and radio collars on a handful of them to be able to track them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially they have radio frequency and we have a receiver,” he explains. When Leahy listens to different frequencies using his antenna, he can hear the beeping noise coming from different bears’ collars. “Like in your car you turn to 104.1 classic rock, but here you get you get a different bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beeping speeds up. “The bear’s pretty close,” Leahy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s plenty of natural food for bears to eat in Yosemite, but they’ve learned that swiping coolers and grocery bags is just easier. So Leahy and his team monitor the bears to try and prevent them from ever getting a taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leahy’s park radio interrupts our quiet listening. One of Leahy’s crew members is trying to get a hold of him, because a mamma bear and cub have been reported in a campground on the opposite side of the park. Then his work cell phone rings. It turns out there’s even another bear down here in the valley. He’s got to move quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a bear in the campground in the middle of the day going after human food,” he explains, “it’s going to probably get worse fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulls over into a parking lot so he can make a plan, which turns out to maybe be a bad idea because now he’s a sitting duck for tourist questions. In the middle of all this chaos, a park visitor approaches his truck window. “Hey, where’s Half Dome?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, the giant granite monolith visible from most places in Yosemite Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leahy is nothing but professional. “After you take a left at the stop sign, look right on the bridge; you’ll see Half Dome. It’s huge. You can’t miss it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than four million people visit Yosemite each year, most only for a day. Many are first-timers and don’t even know their way around the park, let alone how to behave in bear country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bears take advantage of that ignorance, which is why Leahy’s got to get on the road, and drive to the other end of the park to keep these bears from getting into people’s food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the reality of bears and humans trying to coexist in Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did we get here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"There are up to 500 bears in Yosemite, and Ryan Leahy and his team have put GPS and radio collars on a handful. Here, he tracks a bear getting a little too close to a campground.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32394_DSC02243-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are up to 500 bears in Yosemite, and Ryan Leahy and his team have put GPS and radio collars on a handful. Here, he tracks a bear getting a little too close to a campground. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From bear-feeding shows to “nuisance bears”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1900s, tourists started visiting Yosemite year-round. This was a time before garbage trucks and even plastic garbage bags were invented, and the tourists needed somewhere to put their trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was crazy!” Rachel Mazur says. “They would have a dump, and that’s where the garbage would go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Mazur worked as Chief of Wildlife in Yosemite, she wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.falcon.com/book/9781493008223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a book\u003c/a> about the history of bears and humans in the park. She says the bears quickly figured out that they could go to the dump and eat campers’ food scraps. Then, the concessionaire for the park figured it could make money off of tourists who’d love to see bears up close and personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’d put bleachers up, bus people in, have on spotlights, and you’d have twenty, thirty bears in there, feeding off the trash but also fighting each other,” Mazur says, and basically becoming conditioned to humans and our food. The dumps drew bears out of the wilderness into Yosemite Valley. They started reproducing in larger numbers because they got so many calories from human food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors were getting too close to the bears and getting injured, and the park realized it had to make some changes. It ended all bear feeding shows in the 1940s and closed the dumps in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you can’t just close dumps and expect these bears that are food-conditioned and used to humans to disappear back into the forest,” Mazur says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt='Rachel Mazur, Chief of Wildlife for Yosemite National Park, by a \"graveyard\" of old bear lockers. She says when bear management is under control, her team can focus on other wildlife efforts, like conservation and restoring endangered species.' width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32391_DSC02225-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Mazur, Chief of Wildlife for Yosemite National Park, by a “graveyard” of old bear lockers. She says when bear management is under control, her team can focus on other wildlife efforts, like conservation and restoring endangered species. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the dumps closed, the bears turned their eye toward the campgrounds and visitors’ cars. This lead to even more injuries and rangers killing what they called “nuisance” bears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the type of job that the rangers had signed up for. They wanted to figure out a way to keep bears wild and away from human food, so, Mazur says, they started experimenting. They created special lids for garbage cans, and metal lockers for campers to store their food, with latches complicated enough that they were sure bears wouldn’t be able to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet bears are very smart and they figured out a way in. The rangers tweaked the designs more, adding carabiners and inventing new latches. Mazur has a whole stack of these old bear locker designs outside her office in Yosemite Valley; she calls it the “bear locker graveyard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Staying ahead of the “wily bears”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While rangers experimented with bear-proof storage for car campgrounds, more and more tourists were heading out to hike in the wilderness. This was the late 1960s and the start of the environmental movement. Many young people wanted to go backpacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Durkee was a ranger in Little Yosemite Valley, the popular backcountry area behind Half Dome. Hikers would hike from the valley up to these woods and stay overnight, leaving the next day to climb the famous granite monolith. They didn’t have anywhere to store their food while they camped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would get five or ten people minimum having their food taken every night,” Durkee remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other campers were about to set out for weeks-long trips on the John Muir Trail. They didn’t take kindly to the idea of losing all their food to bears before such a big trip. Durkee remembers one upset camper chasing a bear when it ran off with his food sack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of those cartoon moments,” Durkee laughs. “You see the bear suddenly realizing, ‘Wait a minute, I’m a 200 pound bear. I don’t have to put up with this!’” The bear turned around and swatted the guy across the chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others campers tried using their food as pillows, which Durkee says is a very dangerous idea. “On the one hand, you want to say, ‘This is natural selection at work!’ But you don’t want people to get hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"Retired back country ranger George Durkee helped invent some of the earliest bear-proofing methods.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32390_DSC02209-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired back country ranger George Durkee helped invent some of the earliest bear-proofing methods. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Campers would complain to Durkee when they lost their food to bears, so he and other rangers started experimenting with different ways to hang food away from bears’ reach. First, he tried tying the food between two trees, but bears would chew through the rope and pull down the food. Then, Durkee invented something called the counterbalance system. He would throw a rope over a tree branch and hang two food bags of equal weight on each end; that way, there was no rope for the bears to chew through. Instead, bears would climb high into the tree and drop down onto the food from above, knocking it to the ground. Then the bear would run off with the food bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just one thing after another trying to stay ahead of the wily bears!” Durkee says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park tried installing metal poles with hooks that campers could hang their food on, but those got knocked down by an avalanche; then the park helicoptered heavy bear lockers into the backcountry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They tried everything,” Rachel Mazur says. Until finally, “This idea of the canister came about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bear canister: a portable, cylindrical container that bears cannot open, and that holds about five days of food. It looks sort of like a drum. These days, anyone backpacking in Yosemite must use one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11687126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Bear canisters like this are required for anyone backpacking in Yosemite. The park has approved 12 different types of bear canisters.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32423_IMG_7630-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear canisters like this are required for anyone backpacking in Yosemite. The park has approved 12 different types of bear canisters. \u003ccite>(Marissa Ortega Welch/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea was invented by Barrie Gilbert, a behavioral ecologist, who was researching bears in Yellowstone and got \u003ca href=\"https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/bear-attack-makes-man-a-bear-defender/article_660bc36f-8268-590c-a7be-55d04a41ce50.html\">horribly mauled\u003c/a> by a grizzly. The bear pulled the scalp off his head, ripped off his ears and took out an eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he healed, he decided to send his graduate student to research black bears in Yosemite instead, figuring he’d be safer there. But the graduate student kept losing his food to the bears! (It’s better than losing an eye, but still a problem.) Gilbert wanted to invent a way for his student to be able to bear-proof his food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got the idea while watching a nature show on TV. He saw a frustrated lion pawing at an ostrich egg, trying to eat it, but its shape kept the lion out. That’s when Gilbert “just had this ‘A-ha’ moment,” Mazur says. Gilbert realized if someone could design a contraption that bears would have trouble getting a grip on, and make it lightweight, backpackers might be able to use it to bear-proof their food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilberts’ colleagues working in Yosemite took the idea and ran with it. They hired a machinist from Visalia to make prototypes and gave them to bears at the Fresno Zoo to see if they could break them open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They ran through many prototypes, testing them both on bears and humans. “You’re trying to find something that can keep a bear out but that humans can use and will” use, Mazur says. “We learned, for example, if there’s more than two hand motions, people won’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to bears, nothing is foolproof. A few black bears have figured out a way around these canisters. There’s a famously smart bear in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2012/11/a-yellow-yellow-obituary.html\">Adirondack\u003c/a> mountains that taught herself out how to open one of the canister models. Back here in Yosemite, a clever bear realized she can roll canisters off a cliff to break them open. Then she climbs down to get the contents. “It just drives us nuts!” Mazur says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s just one individual bear and the park was able to close that area off from camping. The people on Mazur’s team sometimes have to relocate young bears or even adult bears that have become too conditioned to human food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like the ultimate betrayal,” Mazur says. When visitors don’t bear proof their food, it’s really the bears who pay the price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what’s driven rangers and researchers over the years to invent these bear-proof contraptions. Yet even once the park knew that the canisters and lockers worked, it took decades to get the funding and the support to put all the infrastructure in place and get visitors to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“If we backslide, everything backslides”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with tons of education and enforcement, and requiring the use of bear lockers and canisters, Yosemite has reduced their human-bear incidents, from a high of 1,500 a year to under 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mazur says, that’s exciting. “But what’s also amazing is in the old days, all we did was bear management – nothing else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, she’s technically the Chief of Wildlife, not just bears. Now she’s able to focus on reintroducing endangered species like the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep and yellow-legged frog. But Mazur says, the park still has to stay on top of bear management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we backslide, everything backslides,” she says. “We won’t just lose our grip on the human-bear issue. We’ll lose our grip on all the good wildlife work that we’re doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mazur says, it’s ultimately up to the tourists to behave properly in bear country. She says, many times campers have told her they didn’t really believe how bad the bear-human food issue was until they lost food to a bear themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you're planning a trip to a national park in 2019, you should plan to pay a little more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service announced a fee increase that will go into effect Jan. 1, 2019. The increase will only affect the 117 parks that already charge entrance fees. The remaining 300 will still be free to enter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Visitor entrance fees play an important role in helping the park better serve the public by ensuring national treasures, like Muir Woods, are cared for and can be enjoyed for generations to come,” said General Superintendent of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Laura E. Joss in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The newly restored Hawk Hill Trail in the Marin Headlands is just one visible example of park entrance fees put to use for public enjoyment,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fee increases proposed are needed to help address an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10889490/national-parks-have-a-long-to-do-list-but-cant-cover-the-repair-costs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$11.6 billion maintenance backlog\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11661741/popular-national-parks-to-raise-fees-to-35-not-70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An earlier proposal\u003c/a> would have upped the car fee to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1917212/national-park-service-proposes-yosemite-entry-fee-hike-70-per-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$70 at Yosemite\u003c/a> and other popular parks, but widespread opposition lead to a different solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how will the increase affect local parks?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritime National Historical Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will cost $5 more for daily entrance to the Maritime Park. Entrance fees are \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/safr/planyourvisit/fees.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently $10\u003c/a> per person, so they will go up to $15 in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Muir Woods National Monument\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muir Woods will also cost $5 more per person. Entrance fees will be $15 per person, but children 15 and younger will still have free admission. Annual passes will also go up $5, to $45. Visitors at Muir Woods would also pay an $8 parking fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extra fees will go toward upgrading and maintaining parking lots, restrooms, trails and more. Recent fixes have included better accessibility at Muir Beach Overlook and a trail crew for Muir Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of the money will go toward maintaining and restoring Muir Woods, Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA), Fort Point National Historic Site and Alcatraz. The rest of the revenue would go toward other national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yosemite National Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite park entrance fees will increase to $35 per vehicle and $30 per motorcycle. An annual park pass will increase to $70 and per-person admission will be $20. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/yosemite-national-park-changes-entrance-fee-to-address-infrastructure-needs-improve-visitor-experience.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">park website\u003c/a>, the increase will take place in June 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/yosemite-national-park-changes-entrance-fee-to-address-infrastructure-needs-improve-visitor-experience.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">80 percent of the revenue\u003c/a> will stay in the park and go toward maintaining it, while the rest will go toward other parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/YosemiteNPS/status/984858528421564416\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For information on increases at all fee-charging parks \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/entrance-fee-prices.htm#CP_JUMP_5865822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay City News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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