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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is continuing his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048676/democrats-plotting-a-path-out-of-the-political-wilderness\">high-stakes staredown\u003c/a> with Republican leaders in Texas over political lines that could help decide control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After meeting with a group of Texas Democrats in Sacramento on Friday, Newsom said he was still considering ways to redraw California’s 52 congressional districts to favor Democrats — if Texas leaders proceed with plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/21/nx-s1-5468648/texas-congressional-redistricting-special-session\">rearrange\u003c/a> their own lines to help Republicans. A partisan redistricting in California would require setting aside the current lines drawn by a citizen commission, and represent a clear shift for Newsom and fellow Democrats in prioritizing political gains over community-focused representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is at stake if we’re not successful next year in taking back the House of Representatives,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom said he supports California’s independent redistricting process, he argued the nation faces a “break-the-glass” moment after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — with encouragement from President Donald Trump — called a special session of the state Legislature to redraw the Lone Star state’s political maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, we want a fair playing field, we want to play the game on the terms where everyone is playing by the same set of rules,” Newsom said. “That is no longer the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redistricting usually takes place every 10 years to reapportion voters based on U.S. Census results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011982\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/005_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/005_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/005_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/005_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/005_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/005_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/005_KQED_CityHallSFVoting_11082022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters fill the City Hall Voting Center in San Francisco on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, voters approved a ballot measure in 2010, handing control of the redistricting process to an independent citizens’ commission. That panel spends months \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895983/the-redistricting-draft-maps-are-here-this-is-how-they-could-change-politics-in-the-bay-area\">gathering testimony\u003c/a> from Californians about the communities they call home, a departure from the previous map-drawing process, which focused largely on helping incumbents keep their seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never looked at voter registration data at all,” said Sara Sadhwani, a politics professor at Pomona College who served on the redistricting commission in 2021. “Communities would define themselves: in some cases, it would be because of some geographic point — whether that was a freeway corridor or a mountain range or oceans — sometimes it was historic racialized communities, in some instances it was business communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the process led to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11912468/activists-helped-create-the-bay-areas-most-diverse-congressional-district-now-theyre-probably-getting-john-garamendi\">creation\u003c/a> of a new congressional district that included the cities of Vallejo, Fairfield, Richmond and Pittsburg — racially and ethnically diverse industrial suburbs whose residents shared concerns about affordable housing and clean air.[aside postID=news_12048676 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/102425-Newsom-Trump-LA-Fires-AP-CM-03-copy-1020x681.jpg']By not considering how the lines would impact incumbent lawmakers, the citizens’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11902255/sara-sadhwani-on-california-redistricting-and-social-lobbying\">redistricting\u003c/a> process unintentionally created a map that was more politically competitive than those in states such as Texas and Florida, where legislatures draw the lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the 2022 and 2024 elections, Florida and Texas had a combined total of 11 House races decided by 10 points or fewer, while California had 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[California’s districts] are across the board seen as fair — we haven’t had a single lawsuit brought against our maps, we have some of the most competitive districts in the nation — on balance, those should be good things,” Sadhwani said. “But when not all states are playing by the same set of rules, California is essentially bringing a rubber band to a gun fight and certainly it leaves Democrats nationally at a disadvantage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Republicans clinging to a narrow seven-seat majority in the House, map-drawing gamemanship could play a key role in deciding control of Congress next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A partisan redraw of California’s maps would look to consolidate large numbers of Republican voters into a handful of districts, while diluting their voting power in others — strategies known as “packing” and “cracking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://x.com/VanceUlrich/status/1947031951430554025\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic consultant Vance Ulrich published a hypothetical \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/VanceUlrich/status/1947031951430554025\">map on social media website X\u003c/a> that would give Democrats a voter registration advantage in 49 of the state’s 52 districts. Nine Republicans currently hold House seats in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Completely adheres to the Voting Rights Act and probably defeats 6 Republican incumbents,” Ulrich said. “Really up to incumbent House Dems about how aggressive they want to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said on Friday that he was weighing “three or four different pathways” to redraw California’s lines if Texas Republicans move forward with new maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor could ask the Legislature to place a measure on the ballot asking voters to approve new maps — or a new map-drawing process — in a special election in the fall. Alternatively, Newsom and Democrats in the Legislature could attempt to draw new lines without voter approval, a move likely to face legal challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, a Santa Cruz Democrat who chairs the Assembly’s Elections Committee, said she understood Newsom’s desire to level the national playing field through redistricting. But she worried whether new lines could be in place before the window for candidates to file for office opens on Dec. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11887047\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ballot-being-placed-in-red-ballot-box.jpg\" alt=\"A ballot is placed in a red ballot box.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ballot-being-placed-in-red-ballot-box.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ballot-being-placed-in-red-ballot-box-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ballot-being-placed-in-red-ballot-box-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/ballot-being-placed-in-red-ballot-box-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redistricting could lead to a tilt in the party affiliations of elected officials in districts across California. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How can our elections officials conduct a special election, certify results, receive redrawn lines, update their maps and voter files, all in time?” Pellerin said. “I’m seeing a lot of time constraints, a lack of resources, no funding, which is really going to impact any accuracy or confidence in our electoral systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in the Legislature predictably denounced the idea of Newsom’s redistricting, as have many pro-democracy groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin Newsom is wrong on redistricting. It is not the leadership California needs right now. It is not the leadership the nation needs now or in the future,” said Darius Kemp, California executive director of Common Cause, in a statement. “California is the gold standard when it comes to people-first districts. 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"content": "\u003cp>As the Trump administration ramps up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049326/as-ice-operations-expand-how-are-immigrant-allies-responding\">immigration arrests and deportations\u003c/a>, California Democrats are renewing an effort to expand a path to permanent residency for millions of immigrants — a push that’s likely to face an uphill battle in the Republican-controlled Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats simultaneously announced bills in both houses of Congress on Friday that would allow people who have lived in the U.S. continuously for the past seven years to apply for a green card under the registry provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alex-padilla\">Alex Padilla\u003c/a>, who announced the Senate version of the legislation, said the move was meant to push back against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048690/no-sanctuary-anywhere-border-patrol-raids-strike-heart-of-california-capitol\">increasing immigration enforcement\u003c/a> under President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a father of three U.S. Marines is violently beaten and detained, when U.S. citizens are arrested for no other offense than the color of their skin, when a farmworker falls to their death during an ICE raid, we know it’s gone too far,” Padilla said from Los Angeles, where thousands of National Guard members and U.S. Marines were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910233/deployment-of-marines-and-national-guard-to-la-raises-new-authoritarianism-concerns\">deployed in recent months\u003c/a> amid mass protests over immigration raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Immigration and Nationality Act’s registry provision was most recently updated in 1986 under the Reagan administration and applied to immigrants who entered the U.S. by the end of 1971.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Alex Padilla speaks at a press briefing in San Francisco on June 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the Democrats’ proposed changes, that fixed cutoff date would be replaced with the seven-year residency requirement. It could apply to an estimated 8 million immigrants who have no criminal record and are not eligible for citizenship under the current law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla and other members of Congress emphasized that the law has been updated several times with bipartisan support since it was first passed in 1929.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Republicans in control of both houses of Congress, their support will be necessary to update the law again.[aside postID=news_12049389 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-WEST-CO-CO-ICE-MD-02-KQED.jpg']“Our new bill is simple and common sense, and it can help fix our broken immigration system in the same kind of way that Republican President Ronald Reagan did many years ago,” Padilla said. “No new bureaucracy, no new agency, just a simple date change to existing law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/zoe-lofgren\">Zoe Lofgren\u003c/a>, whose district includes part of Santa Clara County, announced the House version of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren and Padilla unsuccessfully tried to pass similar legislation in 2022 and 2023, but both legislators expressed optimism that shifting public opinion on the scale of recent deportation efforts could bring some Republicans to their side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of my Republican colleagues are hearing the same thing from their constituents that I’m hearing from mine,” Lofgren said. “They didn’t expect a bunch of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048875/behind-the-masks-who-are-the-people-rounding-up-immigrants-in-california\">masked, armed men\u003c/a> to go in and arrest people who are contributing to the economy, who have been pillars of their communities. They’re not liking that, and this is one way to provide a remedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When pressed on the likelihood of getting the bill passed, Padilla insisted that he believes now is the moment to try again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole country has seen the extreme cruelty brought upon by this administration and the polls have shown us what we’ve believed all along,” Padilla said. “The American people disagree with what’s happening. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Women will go without Pap smears, mammograms and prenatal care. Young people will lose access to birth control. Families will be denied basic preventative services,” added Assemblymember Dianne Papan (D-San Mateo) in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mar Monte Spokesperson Andrew Adams, the organization chose to close health centers strategically where there are other nonprofit health options available and other Mar Monte clinics nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he expects the vast majority of patients who have been seen at the shuttered clinics will get care at another of the organization’s facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we closed yesterday at those five places, our staff got on the phone and for patients that had appointments today or next week, we let them know that they can continue to be seen and we’re happy to reschedule for nearby health centers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar Monte will also sunset three programs, including prenatal care and behavioral health, at its 30 remaining centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not backing down, but we must have the resources to continue this fight and to continue to provide care to the hundreds of thousands who rely on [Planned Parenthood Mar Monte],” the branch said in its statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams said Mar Monte has lost $1.7 million in reimbursements in one week as its clinics continued to administer care. By the end of July, he predicts the organization will lose nearly $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that that business model is not sustainable. We can’t keep doing that, unfortunately,” Adams told KQED Friday. “We knew that we had to close some health centers in order to remain sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization will need to build up other funding streams to protect against deeper cuts, Adams said. Mar Monte is working with the state to see if they can still utilize state-level Medicaid funding — known as Medi-Cal — as well as considering new services that attract patients and can be paid for with cash and leaning more heavily on donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really relying on the state to help fill the gap and we’re asking our donors to help bridge this time period while we come up with a more sustainable business model,” Adams told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood Federation of America has already sued the Trump administration over the budget bill, but a \u003ca href=\"https://litigationtracker.law.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Planned-Parenthood-Federation-of-America_2025.07.21_MEMORANDUM-ORDER.pdf\">temporary order\u003c/a> issued by a district judge in Massachusetts this week will allow the federal government to withhold reimbursements to most clinics, including all in California, while the court case plays out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar Monte said the legal challenge faces a tough road ahead, as it could likely advance to the Supreme Court, which it described as “adversarial” to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/\">executive order\u003c/a> promising to crack down on street homelessness across the country drew prompt criticism from service providers in California and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office, which called it a harmful imitation of the state’s approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order, signed Thursday, also calls for increased institutionalization of people with mental illness and promises to defund the state’s — and \u003ca href=\"https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/11/20071107-2.html\">nation’s\u003c/a> — \u003ca href=\"https://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/featuredarticles/VAs-Implementation-of-Housing-First.asp#:~:text=The%20core%20principles%20of%20Housing,states%20have%20effectively%20ended%20homelessness.\">longstanding\u003c/a> “housing first” policy, among other provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Gallegos, a spokesperson for Newsom’s office, derided Trump’s order as “more focused on creating distracting headlines and settling old scores than producing any positive impact.” Still, she acknowledged it resembled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">governor’s own approach\u003c/a>, which has emphasized clearing street encampments and bolstering mental health and drug abuse treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, there were more than \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_CA_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">187,000 people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> in California, a 3% increase over the previous year. But, Gallegos argued, the state has outperformed the nation, which saw an \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_NatlTerrDC_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18%\u003c/a> increase during the same time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year, the governor issued an executive order addressing encampments that was based on the law and the facts, not harmful stereotypes and ineffective public policy,” she told KQED in an email. “But, his imitation (even poorly executed) is the highest form of flattery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s order comes as the Department of Housing and Urban Development has asked local governments to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/stat/cpd/fy2024-coc-competition\">reapply\u003c/a> for federal Continuum of Care funding for fiscal year 2025 — a critical grant program that serves as the “backbone” of the homelessness response system, said Katie Barnett with the policy organization All Home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/241119-SFHomelessArrests-33-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/241119-SFHomelessArrests-33-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/241119-SFHomelessArrests-33-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/241119-SFHomelessArrests-33-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco sheriff’s officers place an unhoused man into the back of a van during an arrest in San Francisco’s Mission District on Nov. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past fiscal year, local organizations and agencies in California received nearly $683 million in Continuum of Care grants, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/stat/cpd/fy2024-coc-competition\">according to HUD\u003c/a>. Most of that funding is allocated based on certain quantitative factors, such as the number of people experiencing homelessness and a region’s success in getting and keeping people housed, said Vivian Wan, CEO of the nonprofit Abode Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But part of the grant application is judged competitively on how well it hews to federal policy, she said. For years, that’s meant following the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/nchav/docs/Research_Brief-May2023-The_Evidence_Behind_the_Housing_First_Model-Tsai_508c.pdf\">housing first\u003c/a>” model — an approach \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/end-homelessness-carson-should-continue-housing-first-approach\">first adopted\u003c/a> by George W. Bush’s administration. It essentially means providing housing without requiring that someone be enrolled in substance abuse or mental health treatment, though \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/blog/housing-first-not-housing-only\">those services are typically offered\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new executive order appears to end that practice, requiring recipients of federal funding to ensure people in their programs with mental illness or substance abuse disorders use services “as a condition of participation.”[aside postID=news_12039730 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/080924-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEP-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']But Wan said it’s yet unclear what that will look like in practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does that mean we do drug testing?” she asked. “Do we ask people, ‘Are you sober?’ The devil is in the details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Home Director of Policy Susannah Parsons called the order “a grab bag of some of the worst ideas out there for addressing homelessness.” Amie Fishman, executive director of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, described it as a policy rooted in “cruelty, fear, and punishment.” But other observers have welcomed the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Webster, a senior fellow at the conservative Cicero Institute, called it “a huge step in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to Los Angeles, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-06/homeless-deaths-in-l-a-county-are-leveling-off-but-still-nearly-seven-per-day\">seven unhoused people, on average, died each day\u003c/a> in 2023 — a rate that’s 4.5 times higher than the general population. Drug- and alcohol-related overdoses accounted for 45% of those deaths, the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve known for years that homelessness isn’t just about housing but that it’s about folks who’ve got serious illnesses, addictions, mental health challenges, behavioral health challenges,” Webster said. “This is a humanitarian crisis on the streets of some of our largest cities, and we’ve ignored it for far too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Tents with various items on a sidewalk next to a large vehicle.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment on Division Street in San Francisco in 2016. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s own executive order last year directing state agencies to clear encampments from state land, along with his calls earlier this year for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">cities to do the same\u003c/a>, is an admission that the status quo isn’t working, Webster argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California, because they are impacted the most from other states in the country, they’ve got to figure out how to do things differently,” Webster said, adding that’s meant “focusing more on the provision of treatment, focusing more on the fact that encampments are dangerous for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also pushed for the adoption of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007175/care-court-was-supposed-to-help-those-hardest-to-treat-heres-how-its-going\">CARE Court\u003c/a>, an alternative mental health court designed to assist people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, which required counties to dedicate more money to housing and programs for people experiencing homelessness with serious mental illnesses or substance abuse problems.[aside postID=news_12049323 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240610-HomelessFamilies-12-BL_qed.jpg']But Julie Lo, deputy director of programs with the advocacy group Housing California, said CARE Court’s approach to treatment is philosophically different from Trump’s executive order: The state’s process is centered on community-based treatment, emphasizing empowerment and allowing family members and behavioral health providers to be part of the discussion for court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953623007657\">multiple\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/involuntary-sweeps-of-homeless-encampments-do-not-improve-public-safety-study-finds\"> studies\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NHCHC-encampment-sweeps-issue-brief-12-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> showing\u003c/a> encampment sweeps can be ineffective in decreasing homelessness and increasing public safety, and said that if the executive order is trying to achieve that goal, “this is certainly not the path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen over and over that sweeping encampments and increasing enforcement or forcing people into institutional settings — it doesn’t reduce homelessness,” she said. “It moves people around and makes it harder for them to access services. And really, it creates a cycle of trauma with no path to stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth Stokes, executive director of Episcopal Community Services San Francisco, worries the order threatens to undo decades of progress in the movement to end homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply troubled by the administration’s executive order, which abandons compassionate and evidence-based programs, like \u003ca href=\"https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/harm-reduction\">harm reduction\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/blog/housing-first-not-housing-only\">housing first\u003c/a>, and replaces them with cruel policies such as forced treatment and criminalizing poor people for being unhoused,” she said in a statement. “Instead of investing in solutions we know work, this policy punishes people for the system’s failures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Wan said it’s yet unclear what that will look like in practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does that mean we do drug testing?” she asked. “Do we ask people, ‘Are you sober?’ The devil is in the details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All Home Director of Policy Susannah Parsons called the order “a grab bag of some of the worst ideas out there for addressing homelessness.” Amie Fishman, executive director of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, described it as a policy rooted in “cruelty, fear, and punishment.” But other observers have welcomed the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Webster, a senior fellow at the conservative Cicero Institute, called it “a huge step in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to Los Angeles, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-06/homeless-deaths-in-l-a-county-are-leveling-off-but-still-nearly-seven-per-day\">seven unhoused people, on average, died each day\u003c/a> in 2023 — a rate that’s 4.5 times higher than the general population. Drug- and alcohol-related overdoses accounted for 45% of those deaths, the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve known for years that homelessness isn’t just about housing but that it’s about folks who’ve got serious illnesses, addictions, mental health challenges, behavioral health challenges,” Webster said. “This is a humanitarian crisis on the streets of some of our largest cities, and we’ve ignored it for far too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Tents with various items on a sidewalk next to a large vehicle.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/IMAG2736_qed-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment on Division Street in San Francisco in 2016. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s own executive order last year directing state agencies to clear encampments from state land, along with his calls earlier this year for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">cities to do the same\u003c/a>, is an admission that the status quo isn’t working, Webster argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California, because they are impacted the most from other states in the country, they’ve got to figure out how to do things differently,” Webster said, adding that’s meant “focusing more on the provision of treatment, focusing more on the fact that encampments are dangerous for everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also pushed for the adoption of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007175/care-court-was-supposed-to-help-those-hardest-to-treat-heres-how-its-going\">CARE Court\u003c/a>, an alternative mental health court designed to assist people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980236/california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness\">Proposition 1\u003c/a>, which required counties to dedicate more money to housing and programs for people experiencing homelessness with serious mental illnesses or substance abuse problems.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Julie Lo, deputy director of programs with the advocacy group Housing California, said CARE Court’s approach to treatment is philosophically different from Trump’s executive order: The state’s process is centered on community-based treatment, emphasizing empowerment and allowing family members and behavioral health providers to be part of the discussion for court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lo pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953623007657\">multiple\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/involuntary-sweeps-of-homeless-encampments-do-not-improve-public-safety-study-finds\"> studies\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NHCHC-encampment-sweeps-issue-brief-12-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> showing\u003c/a> encampment sweeps can be ineffective in decreasing homelessness and increasing public safety, and said that if the executive order is trying to achieve that goal, “this is certainly not the path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen over and over that sweeping encampments and increasing enforcement or forcing people into institutional settings — it doesn’t reduce homelessness,” she said. “It moves people around and makes it harder for them to access services. And really, it creates a cycle of trauma with no path to stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beth Stokes, executive director of Episcopal Community Services San Francisco, worries the order threatens to undo decades of progress in the movement to end homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply troubled by the administration’s executive order, which abandons compassionate and evidence-based programs, like \u003ca href=\"https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/harm-reduction\">harm reduction\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/blog/housing-first-not-housing-only\">housing first\u003c/a>, and replaces them with cruel policies such as forced treatment and criminalizing poor people for being unhoused,” she said in a statement. “Instead of investing in solutions we know work, this policy punishes people for the system’s failures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Earlier this summer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046147/incredibly-short-sighted-land-conservation-groups-rally-against-gop-proposal-to-sell-off-public-lands-like-tahoe\">Republicans in Congress proposed a massive selloff of public lands\u003c/a> across the United States, arguing that these lands would be better off in private hands to be used for housing or other economically driven uses like mining or drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pushback to the proposal from the public, joined by outdoors and land conservation advocacy groups, was swift and loud. But while the proposal was \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5375473-senate-removes-provision-that-would-sell-off-public-lands-from-megabill/\">ultimately scrapped from this year’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” budget\u003c/a>, the idea of selling off public lands remains alive and well in lawmakers’ minds, most notably Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SenMikeLee/status/1939132778605388207\">who promised to bring the proposal back in the future.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public lands make up around half of the land in the state of California. That includes around \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/about/what-we-manage/california\">15 million acres of Bureau of Land Management lands\u003c/a> that themselves comprise around 15% of the state, but “these BLM lands have been under threat to land sale, to private developers and land barons, \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/about/history/history-by-region/california\">since their inception in 1946,\u003c/a>” said Josh Jackson, author of \u003cem>The Enduring Wild: A Journey into California’s Public Lands\u003c/em>. For Jackson, this recent effort to sell this land “wasn’t a great surprise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have the Eiffel Tower, we don’t have the Great Barrier Reef or the Great Wall of China, but what we have in America, and what makes us so unique, is our public land system across the West that we’ve set aside,” said Jackson. “It’s one of the unique things that we get to experience here in the States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910647/the-threat-to-california-public-lands\">KQED Forum spoke to Jackson \u003c/a>about the history of public lands, the crucial role they play in California conservation, why they’re under threat and how you can get out and discover them for yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowyoucanmakethemostofBLMlandnearyouwithcampingandhiking\">How you can make the most of BLM land near you with camping and hiking?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How did this latest Republican effort to sell public lands come about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Jackson: \u003c/strong>It came at the last minute in the first reconciliation package from the House of Natural Resources to \u003ca href=\"https://stateline.org/2025/06/04/long-thwarted-efforts-to-sell-public-lands-see-new-life-under-trump/\">sell off roughly half a million acres of BLM land\u003c/a> in Nevada and Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, thanks to a really robust group of people around the West, that land sale was kind of taken out of the reconciliation package, only to be added later by Mike Lee, Senator of Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That proposal was much more dire: \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=1.5+million+acress+sell+off&rlz=1C1GCCA_enUS1161US1161&oq=1.5+million+acress+sell+off&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yDQgCEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyDQgDEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyCggEEAAYgAQYogQyCggFEAAYogQYiQUyCggGEAAYogQYiQUyCggHEAAYgAQYogQyCggIEAAYgAQYogTSAQg1NjE0ajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on\">up to 1.5 million acres of BLM land to be sold off across the West\u003c/a>. And then, also thanks to bipartisan support against these land sales, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-24/public-lands-sell-off-halted-mike-lee\">taken out of the reconciliation package as well.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the history of public lands in the U.S.?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Jackson\u003c/strong>: Behind every story of the places I was going was a heartbreaking story of loss. Through genocide at times and lopsided deals with the government and a number of other factors,\u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/native-american/removing-native-americans-from-their-land/\"> these Indigenous peoples who lived and engaged with these landscapes were booted off.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the BLM land is in the Western 11 states and in Alaska. We have \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/about/what-we-manage\">245 million acres\u003c/a> across those states. It’s mostly desert, a lot of sea of sagebrush in places like Nevada and Eastern California. You’ve got red rock country in Utah, but then you have these really isolated pockets of BLM lands, for example, in the northwest in California’s King Range in the Lost Coast area, which is old-growth forest of Douglas fir and redwoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11716102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11716102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/img_7376_wide-e848890206768711978760ed1053bb57e3f367b7-e1546701706131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/img_7376_wide-e848890206768711978760ed1053bb57e3f367b7-e1546701706131.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/img_7376_wide-e848890206768711978760ed1053bb57e3f367b7-e1546701706131-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/img_7376_wide-e848890206768711978760ed1053bb57e3f367b7-e1546701706131-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/img_7376_wide-e848890206768711978760ed1053bb57e3f367b7-e1546701706131-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/img_7376_wide-e848890206768711978760ed1053bb57e3f367b7-e1546701706131-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Eastern Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes. \u003ccite>(Kirk Siegler/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These 245 million acres: historians often \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/about/history#:~:text=Our%20Heritage%2C%20Our%20Future,%2C%20historical%2C%20and%20cultural%20resources.\">refer to them as the “leftover lands.”\u003c/a> They weren’t picked up during \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/home/learn/historyculture/abouthomesteadactlaw.htm\">the Homestead Act\u003c/a>. They weren’t bought by railroads or developers or land barons. The other federal land management agencies did not even pick them up. … As I started diving into the history of these landscapes, I started thinking of them as the scrappy underdogs of our public lands. These places that not many people know about or understand, or even visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://www.aldoleopold.org/about/aldo-leopold\">Aldo Leopold\u003c/a>, one of the great writers and thinkers and ecologists of the 20th century, wrote, “American conservation is, I fear, still concerned for the most part with showpieces. We have not yet learned to think in terms of small cogs and wheels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started to think of these BLM lands as the small cogs and wheels of present-day conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What purpose do BLM and other public lands serve today?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These landscapes that maybe don’t have that same blast of scenic beauty that the national parks have, they serve as really important ecological places for different flora and fauna. These are landscapes that are on the edges of national parks and national forest and provide these really amazing wildlife corridors that are really important. So even if you look out on these places that look like an empty landscape, these are places that wildlife roam.[aside postID=news_12049405 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Muir-Woods-Exhibit-1.png']\u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/california/carrizo-plain-national-monument\">The Carrizo Plain\u003c/a> is the last largest intact native grassland we have in California. The Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys that run through the heart of the state used to be these really diverse, vibrant grasslands. Between agriculture and private ownership, these lands have been turned into a different thing. But we have this last vestige of grassland in the 250,000-acre Carrizo Plain National Monument. It’s only three hours outside of Los Angeles, and it’s this really wonderful place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where a lot of endangered species live, and there’s a lake that, when it fills up after a lot of rain, becomes an important flyover stop for migrating birds. And it’s really important to Indigenous history: Some of the most elaborate rock art in the world is found in the Carrizo Plain at a place called \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/visit/painted-rock\">Painted Rock\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of agriculture and private land ownership, we’ve boxed in these species that rely on the Carrizo Plain. Luckily, in 2001, \u003ca href=\"https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov/library/hot_releases/January_17_2001_13.html\">it was protected as a national monument under the Clinton administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://theodorepayne.org/learn/wildflower-hotline/\">The superbloom\u003c/a> is one of those things that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996323/where-to-see-wildflowers-near-you-in-the-bay-area\">draws a lot of people\u003c/a>. But to a place like the Carrizo Plain, it’s important that people get out there and see these BLM lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the case for making some BLM land private?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The BLM is already authorized to sell small plots of land, and if you’re near one of those or you think that it would be better off, and the BLM could sell it off, that’s an option. They don’t need any Congressional act to be passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1998, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/programs/lands-and-realty/regional-information/nevada/snplma\">Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act\u003c/a> allowed for the sale of BLM lands around Las Vegas to be turned into housing and development. But a lot of those lands weren’t just sold off. They were also traded for other private lands, like in more ecologically sensitive areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047193\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Sonora-Pass-3-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1634\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Sonora-Pass-3-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Sonora-Pass-3-1-2000x1276.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Sonora-Pass-3-1-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Sonora-Pass-3-1-1536x980.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Sonora-Pass-3-1-2048x1307.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 9,600 feet, Sonora Pass features sweeping views of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, including waterfalls, wildflowers and high alpine lakes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amanda Carlson/Mono County Tourism)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even in those places, \u003ca href=\"https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/InterimCommittee/REL/Document/23817?rewrote=1\">85% of the sales went directly back to the state of Nevada for conservation\u003c/a> and for new parks around Las Vegas, and they were traded off for lands up in the northwest of Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, that were important habitats or on the edge of conservation areas. That took ten years to hammer out all the details, with lots of compromise involved from both sides of the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s an important lesson that really good bipartisan laws take a lot of time and compromise to develop, and the opposite was happening in the last couple of months, where these giant land sales were thrown in without a lot of support from either side of the aisle. Let alone all of the constituents that represent these places.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowyoucanmakethemostofBLMlandnearyouwithcampingandhiking\">\u003c/a>How can you enjoy BLM land?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On BLM land in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/blog/2025-06-26/blm-public-lands-know-you-go\">we have 60-plus campgrounds\u003c/a> that are all no-reservation. \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/programs/recreation/camping\">The fees are typically free to about $10 a night\u003c/a>. 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And then I used an app called \u003ca href=\"https://www.onxmaps.com/offroad/app\">onX Off-Road \u003c/a>that allowed me to download offline maps before I went to a landscape, so I never was lost, even if I didn’t have cell reception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s kind of an amazing part of being out in the West. If you have the right toolkit, lots of water, sunscreen, a tent and a sleeping bag, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920867/how-to-find-free-camping-in-californias-national-forests\">you can pull over and camp on BLM land almost anywhere. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Earlier this summer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046147/incredibly-short-sighted-land-conservation-groups-rally-against-gop-proposal-to-sell-off-public-lands-like-tahoe\">Republicans in Congress proposed a massive selloff of public lands\u003c/a> across the United States, arguing that these lands would be better off in private hands to be used for housing or other economically driven uses like mining or drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pushback to the proposal from the public, joined by outdoors and land conservation advocacy groups, was swift and loud. But while the proposal was \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5375473-senate-removes-provision-that-would-sell-off-public-lands-from-megabill/\">ultimately scrapped from this year’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” budget\u003c/a>, the idea of selling off public lands remains alive and well in lawmakers’ minds, most notably Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SenMikeLee/status/1939132778605388207\">who promised to bring the proposal back in the future.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public lands make up around half of the land in the state of California. That includes around \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/about/what-we-manage/california\">15 million acres of Bureau of Land Management lands\u003c/a> that themselves comprise around 15% of the state, but “these BLM lands have been under threat to land sale, to private developers and land barons, \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/about/history/history-by-region/california\">since their inception in 1946,\u003c/a>” said Josh Jackson, author of \u003cem>The Enduring Wild: A Journey into California’s Public Lands\u003c/em>. For Jackson, this recent effort to sell this land “wasn’t a great surprise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And then, also thanks to bipartisan support against these land sales, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-24/public-lands-sell-off-halted-mike-lee\">taken out of the reconciliation package as well.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the history of public lands in the U.S.?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Jackson\u003c/strong>: Behind every story of the places I was going was a heartbreaking story of loss. Through genocide at times and lopsided deals with the government and a number of other factors,\u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/native-american/removing-native-americans-from-their-land/\"> these Indigenous peoples who lived and engaged with these landscapes were booted off.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the BLM land is in the Western 11 states and in Alaska. We have \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/about/what-we-manage\">245 million acres\u003c/a> across those states. 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And it’s really important to Indigenous history: Some of the most elaborate rock art in the world is found in the Carrizo Plain at a place called \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/visit/painted-rock\">Painted Rock\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of agriculture and private land ownership, we’ve boxed in these species that rely on the Carrizo Plain. Luckily, in 2001, \u003ca href=\"https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov/library/hot_releases/January_17_2001_13.html\">it was protected as a national monument under the Clinton administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://theodorepayne.org/learn/wildflower-hotline/\">The superbloom\u003c/a> is one of those things that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1996323/where-to-see-wildflowers-near-you-in-the-bay-area\">draws a lot of people\u003c/a>. But to a place like the Carrizo Plain, it’s important that people get out there and see these BLM lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the case for making some BLM land private?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The BLM is already authorized to sell small plots of land, and if you’re near one of those or you think that it would be better off, and the BLM could sell it off, that’s an option. They don’t need any Congressional act to be passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1998, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/programs/lands-and-realty/regional-information/nevada/snplma\">Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act\u003c/a> allowed for the sale of BLM lands around Las Vegas to be turned into housing and development. But a lot of those lands weren’t just sold off. They were also traded for other private lands, like in more ecologically sensitive areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047193\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Sonora-Pass-3-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1634\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Sonora-Pass-3-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Sonora-Pass-3-1-2000x1276.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Sonora-Pass-3-1-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Sonora-Pass-3-1-1536x980.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Sonora-Pass-3-1-2048x1307.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 9,600 feet, Sonora Pass features sweeping views of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, including waterfalls, wildflowers and high alpine lakes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amanda Carlson/Mono County Tourism)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even in those places, \u003ca href=\"https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/InterimCommittee/REL/Document/23817?rewrote=1\">85% of the sales went directly back to the state of Nevada for conservation\u003c/a> and for new parks around Las Vegas, and they were traded off for lands up in the northwest of Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, that were important habitats or on the edge of conservation areas. That took ten years to hammer out all the details, with lots of compromise involved from both sides of the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s an important lesson that really good bipartisan laws take a lot of time and compromise to develop, and the opposite was happening in the last couple of months, where these giant land sales were thrown in without a lot of support from either side of the aisle. Let alone all of the constituents that represent these places.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowyoucanmakethemostofBLMlandnearyouwithcampingandhiking\">\u003c/a>How can you enjoy BLM land?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On BLM land in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/blog/2025-06-26/blm-public-lands-know-you-go\">we have 60-plus campgrounds\u003c/a> that are all no-reservation. \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/programs/recreation/camping\">The fees are typically free to about $10 a night\u003c/a>. Those are the easiest places to access BLM land, as are places like national monuments. But you’re often on your own trying to figure out where these places are, how to access them and what road conditions are like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would typically build an itinerary before I even left, which was really important to understand, not just the landscape I was going to, in the flora and fauna [and] Indigenous history that existed there, but also how to get there safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would always \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/office/california-state-office\">call the local BLM field office\u003c/a>. They were so incredibly helpful because they could give you up-to-date road conditions. 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"content": "\u003cp>Calder Storm doesn’t know where to turn for gender-affirming care for his 16-year-old daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Palo Alto-based Stanford Medicine \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997491/stanford-scales-back-trans-care-for-minors-amid-federal-crackdown\">stopped offering gender-related surgical procedures\u003c/a> for minors last month, he planned to enroll her as a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kaiser-permanente\"> patient at Kaiser Permanente \u003c/a>— widely regarded as a bastion of trans health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Wednesday, the health care giant announced that it would follow suit, pausing gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kaiser was supposed to be our safe haven,” Storm told KQED on Wednesday. “Everyone in the trans community thought we had the best chance possible within the Kaiser system. And furthermore, we thought we had the best chance in the Northern California Kaiser system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based Kaiser Permanente, which serves more than 12 million people across eight states, said Wednesday it would stop offering surgical gender-affirming treatments for trans minors next month, citing “significant risks” created by the current legal and regulatory environment surrounding care for transgender children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since January, there has been significant focus by the federal government on gender-affirming care, specifically for patients under the age of 19,” the health care provider said in a statement, citing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/\">January executive order\u003c/a> from President Donald Trump threatening funding for medical centers that provide such care, changes to insurance coverage and ongoing federal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023855\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0M6A0870_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0M6A0870_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0M6A0870_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0M6A0870_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0M6A0870_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0M6A0870_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0M6A0870_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator proudly waves a transgender pride flag during Pride Month in San Francisco, California, on June 28, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-subpoenas-doctors-and-clinics-involved-performing-transgender-medical\"> Department of Justice subpoenaed\u003c/a> more than 20 doctors and clinics that perform gender-affirming procedures on minors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that this is an extremely challenging and stressful time for our patients seeking care, as well as for our clinicians whose mission is to care for them,” the statement continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser joins a growing list of health care providers moving to limit care for trans youth under building pressure from the Trump administration. In June, Stanford’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997491/stanford-scales-back-trans-care-for-minors-amid-federal-crackdown\">pause of gender-affirming surgeries\u003c/a> included prescribing puberty blockers to youth, Storm said. And just this week, Los Angeles Children’s Hospital closed its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049310/childrens-hospital-los-angeles-ends-transgender-care\">Center for Transyouth Health and Development\u003c/a>, which has been a leader in gender-affirming care for the last 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storm thought Kaiser would be different, since the closed health care system doesn’t rely on federal research funding like Stanford, L.A. Children’s and many others do. 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Scott Wiener speaks at a press conference at Jane Warner Plaza in San Francisco on June 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Samantha Kennedy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want the state to have to fight with Kaiser or with Stanford or with any of our great health systems, but we have to enforce the law,” he said. “California should be a safe place for trans people and LGBTQ people generally, and this is not what should be happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Whelan, a senior staff attorney with the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, said the organization is in close contact with families of patients affected by the Stanford and Los Angeles Children’s Hospital policy changes and working on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very few patients under 19 who receive surgery, but for those who do, this is very essential health care,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/gender-affirming-surgeries-rarely-performed-on-transgender-youth/\">recent study\u003c/a> from researchers at Harvard’s T.H. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Lady Rainsard, a registered nurse in plastic surgery at Kaiser’s San Francisco campus, said that’s exactly what the health care system is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Medical providers, not politicians, know what’s best for our patients,” she said in a statement from California Nurses Association, a union representing 25,000 Kaiser nurses. “Right now, we deem it a much greater risk to cave to this kind of government overreach than it is to provide this care to our patients, no matter their age.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser medical centers will continue to offer non-surgical care for minors and all gender-affirming care for trans adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, refusing to offer these procedures for young people is a step towards Trump’s goal to eliminate all trans health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important for us not to just cave in to Donald Trump’s bullying,” he told KQED on Wednesday. “It’s hard and it’s scary, but this is how fascists succeed — when institutions start backing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said the next step for the state’s politicians will be to put pressure on Bonta’s office to enforce California law, which bars hospitals from refusing to provide health care to trans people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043149\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/HarveyMilkFolo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/HarveyMilkFolo2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/HarveyMilkFolo2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/HarveyMilkFolo2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at a press conference at Jane Warner Plaza in San Francisco on June 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Samantha Kennedy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want the state to have to fight with Kaiser or with Stanford or with any of our great health systems, but we have to enforce the law,” he said. “California should be a safe place for trans people and LGBTQ people generally, and this is not what should be happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Whelan, a senior staff attorney with the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, said the organization is in close contact with families of patients affected by the Stanford and Los Angeles Children’s Hospital policy changes and working on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very few patients under 19 who receive surgery, but for those who do, this is very essential health care,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/gender-affirming-surgeries-rarely-performed-on-transgender-youth/\">recent study\u003c/a> from researchers at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health found little to no utilization of gender-affirming surgeries by transgender and gender diverse minors in the U.S., with a rate of two in 100,000 15- to 17-year-olds undergoing gender-affirming breast reduction surgeries in 2019. The study found that 0.1 in 100,000 13- and 14-year-olds received the procedure, and no trans children under 12 did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cisgender minors, on the other hand, received surgical gender-affirming care at “substantially” higher rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates plan to rally outside Kaiser’s Medical Center at 2425 Geary Blvd. on Friday at 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/nnavarro\">\u003cem>Natalia Navarro\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031980/what-happens-if-the-internet-archive-goes-dark\">Internet Archive\u003c/a> now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ongoing legal challenges pose an existential threat to the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Alex Padilla made the designation in \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kDxXsYfhc0QRMGBURP5X5JmfUftjIM_U/view?usp=sharing\">a letter\u003c/a> sent Thursday to the Government Publishing Office, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.gpo.gov/how-to-work-with-us/agency/services-for-agencies/federal-depository-library-program\">oversees the program\u003c/a>. In the letter, shared exclusively with KQED, Padilla praised the Internet Archive for its “digital focus” and said it “is leading the way when it comes to providing online library services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Archive’s digital-first approach makes it the perfect fit for a modern federal depository library, expanding access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape,” Padilla said in a statement to KQED. “The Internet Archive has broken down countless barriers to accessing information, and it is my honor to provide this designation to help further their mission of providing ‘Universal Access to All Knowledge.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal law, members of Congress can designate up to two qualified libraries for federal depository status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said that while the nonprofit organization has always functioned as a library, this new designation makes it easier to work with the other federal depository libraries. That, he said, is a service to everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945692\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023.jpg\" alt=\"An older white man with grey-white hair wearing a dark sweater reaches out to close a grey metallic door as huge cardboard boxes labeled as containing books sit in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brewster Kahle closes a storage container with books from the Allen County Public Library at an Internet Archive storage facility in Richmond on March 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ I think there is a great deal of excitement to have an organization such as the Internet Archive, which has physical collections of materials, but is really known mostly for being accessible as part of the internet,” Kahle said. “And helping integrate these materials into things like Wikipedia, so that the whole internet ecosystem gets stronger as digital learners get closer access into the government materials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Depository Library Program was established by Congress in 1813, with the intention of ensuring that government records would be accessible to the American public. It includes maps, environmental reports, health studies, congressional records, newspapers and books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These records account for “millions and millions of pages” that can take up entire floors of public libraries, Kahle said. San Diego’s public library \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-26/san-diego-library-giving-up-federal-document-depository-status-after-137-years\">decided to give up its federal depository status in 2020\u003c/a> because its government documents took up so much space and often went unused. The library \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2020/12/23/san-diego-library-reverses-decision-to-give-up-federal-government-document-status-will-keep-small-collection/\">reversed the decision\u003c/a> later that year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2020/06/25/group-protesting-san-diegos-decision-to-give-up-librarys-federal-document-depository-status/\">local protest\u003c/a>, though it culled documents unrelated to the city. Now, it maintains a smaller, more selective collection.[aside postID=news_12003819 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/045_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023_qed-1020x680.jpg']While documents stored on microfiche or microfilm are easy to copy, they aren’t easy to access. The GPO has been moving toward digital preservation since 2016 and runs an \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/about\">online database\u003c/a> of government records, and in recent years, it has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gpo.gov/who-we-are/news-media/news-and-press-releases/task-force-recommends-a-digital-federal-depository-library-program\">ramped up efforts\u003c/a> to digitize the Federal Depository Library Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participating libraries have largely pivoted to the GPO’s digital approach, but digitizing countless physical documents is a massive undertaking — one that the Internet Archive has experience with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the Internet Archive has helped libraries and other academic institutions in digitizing their collections and hosting them online. In 2022, it launched \u003ca href=\"https://blog.archive.org/2022/10/19/announcing-democracys-library/\">Democracy’s Library\u003c/a>, a free online compendium of government research and publications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining the Federal Depository Library Program is the next step in the evolution of Democracy’s Library, Kahle said. The Archive is “just doing what it’s always been doing,” but now, it’s more convenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By being part of the program itself, it just gets us closer to the source of where the materials are coming from, so that it’s more reliably delivered to the Internet Archive, to then be made available to the patrons of the Internet Archive or partner libraries,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945699\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white woman with glasses and grey hair stands in front of what appears to be a large shelving unit full of memorabilia in a large, clean, well lit room\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Gibbs looks at memorabilia at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization has faced legal challenges over some of its archival practices. Its Open Library was at the center of a yearslong \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003100/internet-archive-loses-appeal-in-major-copyright-case\">legal battle\u003c/a> after four major publishers sued the Internet Archive for\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003819/internet-archives-open-library-faces-uncertain-future-after-court-sides-with-publishers\"> temporarily lifting its waitlists\u003c/a> in 2020 — instead of loaning its digital copies to one user at a time. By doing so, the publishers alleged, the Internet Archive illegally provided free e-books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, an appeals court upheld a 2023 federal court decision that ruled against the Internet Archive. The organization has had to remove more than half a million titles since the lawsuit started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Internet Archive has also been targeted by major music labels, including Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/music/musicians-demand-music-labels-drop-their-internet-archive-lawsuit-214139644.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAK2IFY7PAMZw0BT91Rg2Pvhx66osGJFtnuFHxCEEx9slXFq6Lu1c6VJvuUZm0sVSQBFj11ViHZ6hZN6a_JMUEDU_hhjxeh_HxVHNP47DDOj9w5pnFaUWg81zH_miG2pKzGHH68STu0eXU_K2zFYpaJcNSunaSm1U71VVfyL2DIlF\">Great 78 Project\u003c/a>, an initiative to preserve 78 RPM records. Though most of the records are out of print, 4,000 of the 400,000 digitized recordings are copyrighted, including Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas.” The organization could owe \u003ca href=\"https://blog.archive.org/2025/04/17/take-action-defend-the-internet-archive/\">upwards of $700 million\u003c/a> in damages if the labels win the lawsuit — a financial hit that would threaten to shut it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re really starting to understand, in our digital era, what it means for libraries to exist, to have copies of materials for the long term,” Kahle said. “To go and make those available is ever important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945695\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with short brown hair stands facing a middle-aged white man, both smiling and engaged in conversation, with an old time record player in the background within a corridor which appears to be lined with vinyl records\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brewster Kahle shows Amsterdam-based novelist Bette Adriaanse an early record player at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ongoing copyright conflicts have put the Internet Archive’s status as a library \u003ca href=\"https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/internet_archive_library_case.php\">up for debate\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://publishers.org/news/statement-from-terrence-hart-general-counsel-association-of-american-publishers-on-the-internet-archive-case/\">American Association of Publishers\u003c/a> argues that the Internet Archive “is not a library,” but an “unlicensed digital copyrighting and distribution business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others disagree, including a \u003ca href=\"https://lithub.com/hundreds-of-authors-signed-a-letter-in-support-of-libraries-digital-rights/\">coalition of hundreds of authors\u003c/a>. A group of current and former university librarians \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/03/16/librarians-should-stand-internet-archive-opinion\">wrote an op-ed\u003c/a> in support of the Internet Archive, calling the organization “the most significant specialized library to emerge in decades” and a “modern-day cultural institution built intentionally in response to the technological revolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether joining the Federal Depository Library Program would do anything to bolster the Internet Archive’s defense in copyright lawsuits. Kahle said that the designation doesn’t change the organization’s practices and clarified that government publications, such as environmental reports and congressional records, are not copyrighted, so they can be digitized, archived and distributed without issue.[aside postID=news_12049405 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Muir-Woods-Exhibit-1.png']“And so they can be free flowing and be woven in the fabric of our knowledge ecosystem if they’re in digital form,” Kahle added. “So this kind of change of adapting to the digital era, it’s just another step, just the same way that we all adapted from print to microfilm, to CDs, to DVDs, and now, to digital. It’s just a natural step that we libraries are all going through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Internet Archive also operates the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/\">Wayback Machine\u003c/a>, which saves webpages across the internet and stores archived versions in a searchable online database. Following President Trump’s return to the White House, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump\">scrambled to preserve\u003c/a> government agencies’ pages that were being wiped in a purge of mentions of climate change, reproductive health, gender and sexuality and public health information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining the Federal Depository Library Program, Kahle said, is part of the Internet Archive’s mission to keep knowledge accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Toward the fantasticness and vastness of what’s going on online, in October, the Internet Archive will hit a milestone of 1 trillion pages. And that 1 trillion is not just a testament to what libraries are able to do, but actually the sharing that people and governments have to try and create an educated populace,” Kahle continued. “We should be celebrating what it is that’s going on in the broader internet, towards sharing and creating materials that we’re all learning from, and we’re very happy to be part of the Federal Depository Library Program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/cegusa\">\u003cem>Chris Egusa\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: A previous version of this article misstated the San Diego Public Library’s federal depository status. The library considered withdrawing from the program in early 2020 but ultimately retained its status.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is a follow-up to our Close All Tabs episode about the Internet Archive and the legal fight over digital book lending. You can listen to that original episode \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031980/what-happens-if-the-internet-archive-goes-dark\">\u003cem>here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’re also covering this latest development in a new audio update on our podcast feed — find it by searching Close All Tabs wherever you get your podcasts. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal law, members of Congress can designate up to two qualified libraries for federal depository status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said that while the nonprofit organization has always functioned as a library, this new designation makes it easier to work with the other federal depository libraries. That, he said, is a service to everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945692\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023.jpg\" alt=\"An older white man with grey-white hair wearing a dark sweater reaches out to close a grey metallic door as huge cardboard boxes labeled as containing books sit in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveWarehouse_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brewster Kahle closes a storage container with books from the Allen County Public Library at an Internet Archive storage facility in Richmond on March 30. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ I think there is a great deal of excitement to have an organization such as the Internet Archive, which has physical collections of materials, but is really known mostly for being accessible as part of the internet,” Kahle said. “And helping integrate these materials into things like Wikipedia, so that the whole internet ecosystem gets stronger as digital learners get closer access into the government materials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Depository Library Program was established by Congress in 1813, with the intention of ensuring that government records would be accessible to the American public. It includes maps, environmental reports, health studies, congressional records, newspapers and books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These records account for “millions and millions of pages” that can take up entire floors of public libraries, Kahle said. San Diego’s public library \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-26/san-diego-library-giving-up-federal-document-depository-status-after-137-years\">decided to give up its federal depository status in 2020\u003c/a> because its government documents took up so much space and often went unused. The library \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2020/12/23/san-diego-library-reverses-decision-to-give-up-federal-government-document-status-will-keep-small-collection/\">reversed the decision\u003c/a> later that year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2020/06/25/group-protesting-san-diegos-decision-to-give-up-librarys-federal-document-depository-status/\">local protest\u003c/a>, though it culled documents unrelated to the city. Now, it maintains a smaller, more selective collection.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While documents stored on microfiche or microfilm are easy to copy, they aren’t easy to access. The GPO has been moving toward digital preservation since 2016 and runs an \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/about\">online database\u003c/a> of government records, and in recent years, it has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gpo.gov/who-we-are/news-media/news-and-press-releases/task-force-recommends-a-digital-federal-depository-library-program\">ramped up efforts\u003c/a> to digitize the Federal Depository Library Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participating libraries have largely pivoted to the GPO’s digital approach, but digitizing countless physical documents is a massive undertaking — one that the Internet Archive has experience with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the Internet Archive has helped libraries and other academic institutions in digitizing their collections and hosting them online. In 2022, it launched \u003ca href=\"https://blog.archive.org/2022/10/19/announcing-democracys-library/\">Democracy’s Library\u003c/a>, a free online compendium of government research and publications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining the Federal Depository Library Program is the next step in the evolution of Democracy’s Library, Kahle said. The Archive is “just doing what it’s always been doing,” but now, it’s more convenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By being part of the program itself, it just gets us closer to the source of where the materials are coming from, so that it’s more reliably delivered to the Internet Archive, to then be made available to the patrons of the Internet Archive or partner libraries,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945699\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white woman with glasses and grey hair stands in front of what appears to be a large shelving unit full of memorabilia in a large, clean, well lit room\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/031_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Gibbs looks at memorabilia at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The organization has faced legal challenges over some of its archival practices. Its Open Library was at the center of a yearslong \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003100/internet-archive-loses-appeal-in-major-copyright-case\">legal battle\u003c/a> after four major publishers sued the Internet Archive for\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003819/internet-archives-open-library-faces-uncertain-future-after-court-sides-with-publishers\"> temporarily lifting its waitlists\u003c/a> in 2020 — instead of loaning its digital copies to one user at a time. By doing so, the publishers alleged, the Internet Archive illegally provided free e-books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, an appeals court upheld a 2023 federal court decision that ruled against the Internet Archive. The organization has had to remove more than half a million titles since the lawsuit started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Internet Archive has also been targeted by major music labels, including Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/music/musicians-demand-music-labels-drop-their-internet-archive-lawsuit-214139644.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAK2IFY7PAMZw0BT91Rg2Pvhx66osGJFtnuFHxCEEx9slXFq6Lu1c6VJvuUZm0sVSQBFj11ViHZ6hZN6a_JMUEDU_hhjxeh_HxVHNP47DDOj9w5pnFaUWg81zH_miG2pKzGHH68STu0eXU_K2zFYpaJcNSunaSm1U71VVfyL2DIlF\">Great 78 Project\u003c/a>, an initiative to preserve 78 RPM records. Though most of the records are out of print, 4,000 of the 400,000 digitized recordings are copyrighted, including Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas.” The organization could owe \u003ca href=\"https://blog.archive.org/2025/04/17/take-action-defend-the-internet-archive/\">upwards of $700 million\u003c/a> in damages if the labels win the lawsuit — a financial hit that would threaten to shut it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re really starting to understand, in our digital era, what it means for libraries to exist, to have copies of materials for the long term,” Kahle said. “To go and make those available is ever important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945695\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with short brown hair stands facing a middle-aged white man, both smiling and engaged in conversation, with an old time record player in the background within a corridor which appears to be lined with vinyl records\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/021_KQED_InternetArchiveOffices_03242023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brewster Kahle shows Amsterdam-based novelist Bette Adriaanse an early record player at the Internet Archive offices in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ongoing copyright conflicts have put the Internet Archive’s status as a library \u003ca href=\"https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/internet_archive_library_case.php\">up for debate\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://publishers.org/news/statement-from-terrence-hart-general-counsel-association-of-american-publishers-on-the-internet-archive-case/\">American Association of Publishers\u003c/a> argues that the Internet Archive “is not a library,” but an “unlicensed digital copyrighting and distribution business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others disagree, including a \u003ca href=\"https://lithub.com/hundreds-of-authors-signed-a-letter-in-support-of-libraries-digital-rights/\">coalition of hundreds of authors\u003c/a>. A group of current and former university librarians \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/03/16/librarians-should-stand-internet-archive-opinion\">wrote an op-ed\u003c/a> in support of the Internet Archive, calling the organization “the most significant specialized library to emerge in decades” and a “modern-day cultural institution built intentionally in response to the technological revolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether joining the Federal Depository Library Program would do anything to bolster the Internet Archive’s defense in copyright lawsuits. Kahle said that the designation doesn’t change the organization’s practices and clarified that government publications, such as environmental reports and congressional records, are not copyrighted, so they can be digitized, archived and distributed without issue.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“And so they can be free flowing and be woven in the fabric of our knowledge ecosystem if they’re in digital form,” Kahle added. “So this kind of change of adapting to the digital era, it’s just another step, just the same way that we all adapted from print to microfilm, to CDs, to DVDs, and now, to digital. It’s just a natural step that we libraries are all going through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Internet Archive also operates the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/\">Wayback Machine\u003c/a>, which saves webpages across the internet and stores archived versions in a searchable online database. Following President Trump’s return to the White House, it \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback-machine-trump\">scrambled to preserve\u003c/a> government agencies’ pages that were being wiped in a purge of mentions of climate change, reproductive health, gender and sexuality and public health information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joining the Federal Depository Library Program, Kahle said, is part of the Internet Archive’s mission to keep knowledge accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Toward the fantasticness and vastness of what’s going on online, in October, the Internet Archive will hit a milestone of 1 trillion pages. And that 1 trillion is not just a testament to what libraries are able to do, but actually the sharing that people and governments have to try and create an educated populace,” Kahle continued. “We should be celebrating what it is that’s going on in the broader internet, towards sharing and creating materials that we’re all learning from, and we’re very happy to be part of the Federal Depository Library Program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/cegusa\">\u003cem>Chris Egusa\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: A previous version of this article misstated the San Diego Public Library’s federal depository status. The library considered withdrawing from the program in early 2020 but ultimately retained its status.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is a follow-up to our Close All Tabs episode about the Internet Archive and the legal fight over digital book lending. You can listen to that original episode \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031980/what-happens-if-the-internet-archive-goes-dark\">\u003cem>here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’re also covering this latest development in a new audio update on our podcast feed — find it by searching Close All Tabs wherever you get your podcasts. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Staff at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/\">Muir Woods National Monument\u003c/a> in Marin County have removed signage that spotlighted Indigenous history, women’s contributions to the park and instances of racism in the space’s history — following \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">an executive order from President Donald Trump.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The March 27 executive order criticized materials, monuments and signage within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction — which includes national parks — that “rewrite our Nation’s history” and “undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As reported by outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2025/07/public-lands-women-monuments-erasure/\">the\u003cem> 19th\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU8.pD7e.gGRCQPevwA7m&smid=url-share\">the\u003cem> New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>POLITICO\u003c/em>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/articles/burgum-asked-park-rangers-to-flag-negative-us-history-theyre-delivering/\">\u003cem>E&E News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the White House directed national parks staff to flag any signage that could violate the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a spokesperson for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Joshua Winchell, confirmed that last week Muir Woods staff had removed sticky notes that were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-park-history-timeline-project-16414800.php\">added to existing signage in 2021\u003c/a>. These notes were accompanied by a poster explaining the staff’s aim “to tell the full story” of Muir Woods — for example, by acknowledging the role of Native American stewardship in the redwoods’ history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stories protected at our national parks bring us closer together as a country, not further apart,” said Alan Spears, senior director for cultural resources at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/\">National Parks Conservation Association\u003c/a>, in a statement emailed to KQED. “Our history is complex, and as national park advocates, we trust national park staff to navigate those complexities and do their jobs without interference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Great countries don’t hide from or sanitize their history,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about the signs, why they were removed and what’s happening at other national parks across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was removed at Muir Woods and why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-park-history-timeline-project-16414800.php\">The now-removed sticky notes at Muir Woods\u003c/a> were part of a 2021 exhibit called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-under-construction.htm\">History Under Construction\u003c/a>” developed by park rangers at the national monument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an accompanying poster — also now removed — explained, staff made the sticky note additions to the existing signage in an effort to add context to the park’s history, highlighting the foundational roles of women and Indigenous people in its creation and the oftentimes racist and violent past of its more notable founders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11740793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (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>“This sign credits influential, philanthropic white men with saving Muir Woods,” the poster read. “While they undoubtedly contributed to the forest becoming a national monument, part of our duty in the national parks service is to tell the full story of how that happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything on this sign is true but incomplete,” the poster read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, the sticky notes pointed out founder Gifford Pinchot’s ties to the American Eugenics Society, John Muir’s use of racist language against Indigenous people in his writing and Congressman William Kent’s work on legislation that targeted Asian immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was in the executive order around materials in national parks?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March, Trump issued an executive order, called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,\u003c/a>” which took aim at what the White House called a “distorted narrative” that Trump claimed was permeating the United States’ national parks, monuments and other federal institutions like the Smithsonian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under this historical revision, our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed,” Trump wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11741058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11741058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1200x804.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36596_GettyImages-177068764-1920x1286.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majestic coastal redwoods in Muir Woods National Monument \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/8858-new-order-threatens-park-service-s-efforts-to-protect-and-explore-american\">The Trump administration\u003c/a> also instructed staff at national parks to publicly post signs with QR codes inviting visitors to themselves report any signage they found to “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order then gave parks a deadline: By mid-July, they had to flag any materials for possible editing or removal, which the Trump administration said it would carry out by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare\">Sept. 17, according to the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order stated that Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum would review materials “within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction” for “improper partisan ideology” and then take action to ensure they did not “contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living (including persons living in colonial times).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cultural and outdoor organizations swiftly decried the order, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.historians.org/news/historians-defend-the-smithsonian/\">American Historical Association\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/05/sierra-club-statement-interior-attempt-erase-truth-and-history-public-lands\">Sierra Club\u003c/a>. Some visitors, too, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5444323/national-park-trump-signs\">used the opportunity to criticize the administration’s order\u003c/a> — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/06/30/national-parks-snitch-signs-backfiring/\">praise parks staff\u003c/a> — rather than flag parks content for removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what happened at Muir Woods?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Muir Woods officials did not respond to KQED’s request for comment. But Golden Gate National Recreation Area spokesperson Winchell said the sticky notes had been removed last week pending a review following the executive order.[aside postID=news_12049014 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/S_ElYose1_ENLARGED.jpg']“As we implement the order, we will review all signs in the park as well as all the public input we receive about the signs,” Winchell told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-under-construction.htm\">The “History Under Construction” webpage \u003c/a>at \u003ca href=\"http://nps.gov\">nps.gov\u003c/a>, with full details of the exhibit and the additions made, is still online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Villano, a former park ranger at Muir Woods who worked on the 2021 sticky notes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-monument-history-erased-20781301.php\">told SFGate\u003c/a> that to her, “the biggest irony is that the Trump administration says it wants to tell a more balanced version of history, and that’s exactly what this sign did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t remove anything,” Villano said. “It just layered in what had been missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“National park staff have made tremendous strides in recent decades, teaching the facts about difficult topics like slavery, racism and climate change,” NPCA’s Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If some of these proposed changes are made, visitors may miss out on the full picture of history and nature that they deserve at our parks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are some parks staff complying with Trump’s executive order?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“If park staff don’t comply with this directive, they may lose their jobs,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5307908/national-parks-layoffs-visitors-disruptions\">fired over a thousand NPS staff across the country \u003c/a>as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5288988/doge-elon-musk-staff-trump\">broader plan \u003c/a>to cut federal spending. Although the parks service was authorized to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/7538-parks-group-welcomes-reinstatement-of-probationary-park-staff-but-warns-of\">reinstate those probationary workers in March\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24%\u003c/a> since Trump took office, according to NPCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People demonstrate against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In that time, the White House has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041320/in-crisis-mode-former-national-park-leaders-say-cuts-will-hit-public-lands-hard\">threatened deep cuts\u003c/a> to national parks budgets, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5393641/trump-budget-cuts-national-parks-joshua-tree-safety\">some staff say has created a cloud of uncertainty in the department and at parks all over the country.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policies like these do not help Park Service staff protect these incredible places,” Spears said. “The administration is making their jobs harder and killing their morale, at a time when Park Service staff numbers dwindle near historic lows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are other parks doing in light of the executive order?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> investigation reports that Muir Woods appears to be the first park to have actually changed or removed its signage ahead of the White House deadline, but employees at other parks across the country have also flagged exhibits for their “inappropriate” language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes: exhibits naming slave owners and describing violence against enslaved people at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/cari/index.htm\">Cane River Creole National Historical Park\u003c/a> in Louisiana; signs discussing sea level rise and erosion at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/caha/index.htm\">Cape Hatteras National Seashore\u003c/a> in North Carolina; and wording on the U.S. government’s removal and imprisonment of Native Americans at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/casa/index.htm\">Castillo de San Marcos National Monument\u003c/a> in Florida, the National Parks Conservation Association said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Americans count on our parks to tell truthful stories and accurate information,” Spears said. “The public can handle the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">\u003cem>Carly Severn\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Staff at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/muwo/\">Muir Woods National Monument\u003c/a> in Marin County have removed signage that spotlighted Indigenous history, women’s contributions to the park and instances of racism in the space’s history — following \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">an executive order from President Donald Trump.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The March 27 executive order criticized materials, monuments and signage within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction — which includes national parks — that “rewrite our Nation’s history” and “undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As reported by outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2025/07/public-lands-women-monuments-erasure/\">the\u003cem> 19th\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU8.pD7e.gGRCQPevwA7m&smid=url-share\">the\u003cem> New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>POLITICO\u003c/em>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.eenews.net/articles/burgum-asked-park-rangers-to-flag-negative-us-history-theyre-delivering/\">\u003cem>E&E News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the White House directed national parks staff to flag any signage that could violate the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/trump-national-park-service-history-changes.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a spokesperson for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Joshua Winchell, confirmed that last week Muir Woods staff had removed sticky notes that were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-park-history-timeline-project-16414800.php\">added to existing signage in 2021\u003c/a>. These notes were accompanied by a poster explaining the staff’s aim “to tell the full story” of Muir Woods — for example, by acknowledging the role of Native American stewardship in the redwoods’ history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stories protected at our national parks bring us closer together as a country, not further apart,” said Alan Spears, senior director for cultural resources at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/\">National Parks Conservation Association\u003c/a>, in a statement emailed to KQED. “Our history is complex, and as national park advocates, we trust national park staff to navigate those complexities and do their jobs without interference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Great countries don’t hide from or sanitize their history,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about the signs, why they were removed and what’s happening at other national parks across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was removed at Muir Woods and why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-park-history-timeline-project-16414800.php\">The now-removed sticky notes at Muir Woods\u003c/a> were part of a 2021 exhibit called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-under-construction.htm\">History Under Construction\u003c/a>” developed by park rangers at the national monument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an accompanying poster — also now removed — explained, staff made the sticky note additions to the existing signage in an effort to add context to the park’s history, highlighting the foundational roles of women and Indigenous people in its creation and the oftentimes racist and violent past of its more notable founders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11740793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS29830_Redwoods_007-qut-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (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>“This sign credits influential, philanthropic white men with saving Muir Woods,” the poster read. “While they undoubtedly contributed to the forest becoming a national monument, part of our duty in the national parks service is to tell the full story of how that happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything on this sign is true but incomplete,” the poster read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, the sticky notes pointed out founder Gifford Pinchot’s ties to the American Eugenics Society, John Muir’s use of racist language against Indigenous people in his writing and Congressman William Kent’s work on legislation that targeted Asian immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What was in the executive order around materials in national parks?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March, Trump issued an executive order, called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/\">Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,\u003c/a>” which took aim at what the White House called a “distorted narrative” that Trump claimed was permeating the United States’ national parks, monuments and other federal 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Some visitors, too, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5444323/national-park-trump-signs\">used the opportunity to criticize the administration’s order\u003c/a> — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/06/30/national-parks-snitch-signs-backfiring/\">praise parks staff\u003c/a> — rather than flag parks content for removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what happened at Muir Woods?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Muir Woods officials did not respond to KQED’s request for comment. But Golden Gate National Recreation Area spokesperson Winchell said the sticky notes had been removed last week pending a review following the executive order.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“As we implement the order, we will review all signs in the park as well as all the public input we receive about the signs,” Winchell told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-under-construction.htm\">The “History Under Construction” webpage \u003c/a>at \u003ca href=\"http://nps.gov\">nps.gov\u003c/a>, with full details of the exhibit and the additions made, is still online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Villano, a former park ranger at Muir Woods who worked on the 2021 sticky notes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/muir-woods-national-monument-history-erased-20781301.php\">told SFGate\u003c/a> that to her, “the biggest irony is that the Trump administration says it wants to tell a more balanced version of history, and that’s exactly what this sign did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It didn’t remove anything,” Villano said. “It just layered in what had been missing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“National park staff have made tremendous strides in recent decades, teaching the facts about difficult topics like slavery, racism and climate change,” NPCA’s Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If some of these proposed changes are made, visitors may miss out on the full picture of history and nature that they deserve at our parks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are some parks staff complying with Trump’s executive order?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“If park staff don’t comply with this directive, they may lose their jobs,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5307908/national-parks-layoffs-visitors-disruptions\">fired over a thousand NPS staff across the country \u003c/a>as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5288988/doge-elon-musk-staff-trump\">broader plan \u003c/a>to cut federal spending. Although the parks service was authorized to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/7538-parks-group-welcomes-reinstatement-of-probationary-park-staff-but-warns-of\">reinstate those probationary workers in March\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/9551-staffing-crisis-at-national-parks-reaches-breaking-point-new-data-shows-24\">permanent staffing at national parks around the United States has fallen 24%\u003c/a> since Trump took office, according to NPCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People demonstrate against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In that time, the White House has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041320/in-crisis-mode-former-national-park-leaders-say-cuts-will-hit-public-lands-hard\">threatened deep cuts\u003c/a> to national parks budgets, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5393641/trump-budget-cuts-national-parks-joshua-tree-safety\">some staff say has created a cloud of uncertainty in the department and at parks all over the country.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policies like these do not help Park Service staff protect these incredible places,” Spears said. “The administration is making their jobs harder and killing their morale, at a time when Park Service staff numbers dwindle near historic lows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are other parks doing in light of the executive order?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> investigation reports that Muir Woods appears to be the first park to have actually changed or removed its signage ahead of the White House deadline, but employees at other parks across the country have also flagged exhibits for their “inappropriate” language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes: exhibits naming slave owners and describing violence against enslaved people at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/cari/index.htm\">Cane River Creole National Historical Park\u003c/a> in Louisiana; signs discussing sea level rise and erosion at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/caha/index.htm\">Cape Hatteras National Seashore\u003c/a> in North Carolina; and wording on the U.S. government’s removal and imprisonment of Native Americans at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/casa/index.htm\">Castillo de San Marcos National Monument\u003c/a> in Florida, the National Parks Conservation Association said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Americans count on our parks to tell truthful stories and accurate information,” Spears said. “The public can handle the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">\u003cem>Carly Severn\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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