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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/16/air-force-hopes-to-stick-california-city-with-radioactive-waste-dump/rs6688_mcclellan-01-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111426\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-111426\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS6688_McClellan-01-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"A sign warns of radioactive material around large piles of dirt contaminated with radium at the former McClellan Air Force Base, near Sacramento. (Randy Allen for The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign warns of radioactive material around large piles of dirt contaminated with radium at the former McClellan Air Force Base, near Sacramento. (Randy Allen / The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Katharine Mieszkowski and Matt Smith\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If U.S. Air Force official Steve Mayer is bothered by California’s refusal to inherit the radioactive waste dump he’s building outside Sacramento, he doesn’t show it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s plowing ahead with plans at the old McClellan Air Force Base to entomb soil contaminated with radium-226, a glow-in-the-dark substance that can cause cancer, and pass ownership of it to the city of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health has made it clear that state laws don’t permit the move. Even if they did, Sacramento’s city manager says he wants nothing to do with the dump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mayer’s playing the long game. By 2019, when the military wants to hand over the arena-sized dump to the city, he’s hoping he won’t have to deal with the current crop of state regulators and city officials balking at his plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'They have their right to their opinion, and we have ours. We’ll continue to go forward with our plans.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There will be a different governor then, too, and (regulators) all work for the governor,” said Mayer, the Air Force’s remediation program manager for McClellan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer’s attitude about state and local officials, and his insistence that the Air Force can bulldoze ahead despite the state’s strict environmental laws, highlights an escalating clash between military officials and local communities over the plight of former bases now being converted for civilian use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a case that could affect bases around the state, the Air Force is burying radioactive waste on the site it supposedly is cleaning up, bypassing state environmental regulations because it is on federal land. The state regulators say the dump does not pose a health risk to nearby residents. But by pushing through the unwanted dump, the Air Force might create a precedent for other places where military agencies wish to avoid costly out-of-state hauling fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At McClellan, Mayer said the objections won’t stand in the military's way.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have their right to their opinion, and we have ours,” Mayer said. “We’ll continue to go forward with our plans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are seven Cold War-era facilities in California where radioactive waste has been an ongoing concern. At the former Hunters Point and Treasure Island bases in San Francisco, for example, the Navy has fought with regulators for years over the military’s obligations to remove radioactive soil in preparation for civilian development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just northeast of Sacramento, the former McClellan Air Force Base is now an industrial hub with an airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking for a Disposal Site\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government closed McClellan in 2001 as it shrunk the military’s footprint after the Cold War. As the military does with other shuttered bases, it is passing McClellan to local hands for redevelopment. But officials need to find a home for contaminated soil at the facility to finish the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the base, half a dozen giant piles of dirt sit behind a chain-link fence, hidden under black tarps. A sign on the fence reads: “Caution: radioactive materials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the Air Force has tried to make this dirt somebody else’s problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Force in 2011 tried to argue that waste of the type at McClellan could be buried in California. The office of Gov. Jerry Brown rejected that legal argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, it got Idaho, which has weaker standards than California on radioactive waste, to accept about 43,000 tons of soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the Air Force is moving forward with its latest plan to simply build its own permanent home for the contaminated dirt right on the former base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s estimated the dump, which can hold 360,000 cubic yards of soil, will cost the Air Force $20 million. If it were forced to dispose of the dirt out of state, the cost would be between $125 million and $200 million, according to the Air Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento Fire Department has operated a training facility on the base next to the landfill site. Once the dump is completed, the Air Force hopes to transfer it and the training facility to the city of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landfill will be just blocks from residential neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento wants the land to train firefighters, but not the dump. City Manager John Shirey said the dump’s inclusion is a deal breaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The United States government just has to accept that it didn’t take very good care of a lot of land on a lot of military bases and will have to be responsible for cleaning it up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Will Wind Up With the Dump?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health, which administers the state’s Radiation Control Law, has the authority to block the transfer of the landfill into civilian hands by refusing to issue a license or exemption to a new owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the department told The Center for Investigative Reporting that the radioactive waste dump will make it impossible to transfer the land to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state policy does not apply to land in military facilities such as McClellan as long as it remains in the Air Force’s hands, state regulators say. State authority begins once attempts are made to move the land to local control.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>'\u003c/strong>The United States government just has to accept that it didn’t take very good care of a lot of land on a lot of military bases and will have to be responsible for cleaning it up.\u003cstrong>'\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The dump “would need to remain under federal ownership and control for as long as radioactive material is stored there,” said Ronald Owens, a spokesman for the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer, however, said the state regulators’ objections would not change plans to transfer the land in 2019. He contends that the decision to pour radioactive waste from various spots around the base into a single on-site dump will save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars over shipping it to another state. He said the dump would be safe, a position backed by federal environmental officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California health regulations require that radium-contaminated soil such as McClellan’s be disposed of only in facilities certified to hold that type of material. None exists in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, instead of cleaning up, we’re saying, ‘OK, let’s call it federal and leave it here,’ ” said Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer on nuclear policy at UC Santa Cruz who leads the environmental group Committee to Bridge the Gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decontaminating McClellan has not been easy. Cleanup operations at one point stirred up waste in the bed of a creek that flowed off base to a housing tract. Groundwater contamination was found to be so extensive that it required an operation with wells annually pumping out 1,000 pounds of old industrial solvents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Toxic History \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in the 1930s, McClellan was a large industrial maintenance depot for the Air Force, where radioactive materials were used and studied. In a classified program during the Cold War, airplanes flew from the base into nuclear test fallout to gather samples of the radioactive isotopes released by the blasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1930s and ’40s, the military used radium-laced paint on aircraft instruments to make them glow in the dark to help pilots see them at night. 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But by pushing through the unwanted dump, the Air Force might create a precedent for other places where military agencies wish to avoid costly out-of-state hauling fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At McClellan, Mayer said the objections won’t stand in the military's way.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have their right to their opinion, and we have ours,” Mayer said. “We’ll continue to go forward with our plans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are seven Cold War-era facilities in California where radioactive waste has been an ongoing concern. At the former Hunters Point and Treasure Island bases in San Francisco, for example, the Navy has fought with regulators for years over the military’s obligations to remove radioactive soil in preparation for civilian development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just northeast of Sacramento, the former McClellan Air Force Base is now an industrial hub with an airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking for a Disposal Site\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government closed McClellan in 2001 as it shrunk the military’s footprint after the Cold War. As the military does with other shuttered bases, it is passing McClellan to local hands for redevelopment. But officials need to find a home for contaminated soil at the facility to finish the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the base, half a dozen giant piles of dirt sit behind a chain-link fence, hidden under black tarps. 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If it were forced to dispose of the dirt out of state, the cost would be between $125 million and $200 million, according to the Air Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento Fire Department has operated a training facility on the base next to the landfill site. Once the dump is completed, the Air Force hopes to transfer it and the training facility to the city of Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landfill will be just blocks from residential neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento wants the land to train firefighters, but not the dump. 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State authority begins once attempts are made to move the land to local control.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>'\u003c/strong>The United States government just has to accept that it didn’t take very good care of a lot of land on a lot of military bases and will have to be responsible for cleaning it up.\u003cstrong>'\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The dump “would need to remain under federal ownership and control for as long as radioactive material is stored there,” said Ronald Owens, a spokesman for the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayer, however, said the state regulators’ objections would not change plans to transfer the land in 2019. He contends that the decision to pour radioactive waste from various spots around the base into a single on-site dump will save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars over shipping it to another state. 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They also propose working with inmate lawyers at crafting a prison population cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under an agreement announced today, the Legislature and governor would sign off on major points of both plans, then go with the one that will fit the requirements of the three-judge federal court panel overseeing the overcrowding case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Sacramento Bureau Chief Scott Detrow had this quick take on the deal announced today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>An interesting solution ... : Legislature will pass BOTH plans with language leaving it up to courts. If courts grant extension, it's the Senate plan with recidivism grant funding. 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Brown is appealing that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices recently declined to delay the deadline set by the lower court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without an alternative, the judges have threatened to order the state to give thousands of inmates good time credits, which would lead to their early release. They have repeatedly threatened to hold Brown in contempt if the state does not meet the deadline to reduce the prison population to about 110,000 inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill to be considered this week includes Brown's original plan to lease cells if the judges stick to the year-end deadline. 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Brown rejected those talks, saying he would not let inmates' attorneys help determine the state's public safety policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resulting compromise includes no new proposed deadline for the state to meet the court-ordered population level if an extension is granted, nor does it promise benchmarks or guarantees that the state would comply if granted more time, said Prison Law Office director Don Specter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't believe it's sufficient to meet the court's order or even get a reasonable extension of time,\" said Specter, whose firm is among those that sued to force the state to reduce prison crowding to improve conditions. \"It's not specific enough, it's not certain enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he did not know what the three judges would do about the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Brown and Steinberg said they had been seeing \"smoke-signals\" that the judges were willing to consider the state's proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. 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Jerry Brown and the four leaders of California's Legislature reached a compromise Monday on reducing the state's prison population, offering to spend more money on rehabilitation efforts if a panel of federal judges will extend an end-of-the-year deadline to release thousands of inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal relies on the state persuading three federal judges to give California time to let rehabilitation programs work rather than spend $315 million to lease cells in private prisons and county jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaders agreed that if the judges don't extend the deadline, the state will fall back on Brown's plan to lease the cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's insurance here against early release\" of prisoners, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said at a news conference outside the governor's office, where he was joined by the governor and Democratic and Republican leaders of each chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg had opposed Brown's plan and wanted to ask the judges to delay the deadline for three years while the state gave counties $200 million annually for drug, mental health and other rehabilitation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement reached Monday resolves the impasse as lawmakers race toward the end of the legislative session this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there is no guarantee the judges will go along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-judge panel ordered the state to lower its prison population by about 9,600 inmates by year's end. Brown is appealing that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices recently declined to delay the deadline set by the lower court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without an alternative, the judges have threatened to order the state to give thousands of inmates good time credits, which would lead to their early release. They have repeatedly threatened to hold Brown in contempt if the state does not meet the deadline to reduce the prison population to about 110,000 inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill to be considered this week includes Brown's original plan to lease cells if the judges stick to the year-end deadline. If they grant an extension of time, a portion of the money that would have been spent to rent cells would instead go to rehabilitation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has argued that the state already reduced the population by 46,000 inmates to comply with court orders, primarily through a 2-year-old law that sentences lower level offenders to county jails instead of state prisons. He argues that only the most dangerous convicts remain in state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's huge, that's monumental. We can build on that, but not in a month or a year,\" Brown said Monday about previous inmate reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg had orchestrated opposition from Senate Democrats to Brown's plan and wanted the administration to negotiate with attorneys who represent inmates to push back the year-end deadline by three years. Brown rejected those talks, saying he would not let inmates' attorneys help determine the state's public safety policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resulting compromise includes no new proposed deadline for the state to meet the court-ordered population level if an extension is granted, nor does it promise benchmarks or guarantees that the state would comply if granted more time, said Prison Law Office director Don Specter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't believe it's sufficient to meet the court's order or even get a reasonable extension of time,\" said Specter, whose firm is among those that sued to force the state to reduce prison crowding to improve conditions. \"It's not specific enough, it's not certain enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he did not know what the three judges would do about the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Brown and Steinberg said they had been seeing \"smoke-signals\" that the judges were willing to consider the state's proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Northeast of Sacramento, on a remote part of the former McClellan Air Force Base, there's a massive warehouse that holds a treasure trove of artifacts from early California -- items ranging from historic railroad ledgers to enormous Gold Rush-era freight wagons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Parks curators Ross McGuire and Nancy Jenner, as well as State Parks Librarian Ellen Halteman, tell the stories of the items below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read and listen to the full story at \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201307051630/d\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a>. (All photos by Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/001/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102371\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102371\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/001.jpg\" alt=\"The California State Parks warehouse \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state parks warehouse northeast of Sacramento is vast -- and crowded with an array of objects that gives it the air of a Hollywood back lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/002/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102372\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102372\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/002.jpg\" alt=\"Historical Frieght Wagon\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Nancy Jenner, the parks department curator, the freight wagon on the left was donated by Charles Henry Huffman, who came to California at the start of the Gold Rush in 1848. He decided he'd make a better living hauling supplies to the mines than he would as a prospector. Huffman had this wagon built in 1855 for a cost of $2,700. He used a team of 12 mules to haul the wagon and freight to the gold fields.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wagon was donated to historic Sutter's Fort in downtown Sacramento in the 1890s. One observer wrote that \"though many museums and historical societies wanted this old freighter, Mr. Huffman believed that the one place it should go was Sutter's Fort, past which it had traveled many times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It ended up at the fort, where it was parked outside, exposed to the elements, for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/004/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102375\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/004.jpg\" alt=\"Detailed Bathtub\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bathtub that was used in the Governor's Mansion in the 1920s now sits protected in the parks warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/005-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102376\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/005.jpg\" alt=\"Barber Chairs\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These 1860s-era wooden barber chairs feature velvet cushions. One was used at the Hotel Truckee and eventually ended up in the Sutter's Fort collection. The larger barber chair date from the 1910s to the 1940s and would have been the kind of chair used in a classic barber shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/006/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102377\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/006.jpg\" alt=\"Dairy Equipment\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A collection of dairy canisters and distilling equipment sits on shelves. They are from a small-scale dairy farm from the late 19th or early 20th century. The state parks system includes several parks in Sonoma and Mendocino that were coastal dairies, shipping butter and cheese by ship to San Francisco, according to Ross McGuire of the parks department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/007-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102378\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102378\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/007.jpg\" alt=\"Railroad Ledgers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,400 ledgers from the Southern Pacific Railroad, or subsidiary and predecessor companies, are housed in the warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most are accounting records from the 19th century, but there are also records from the land and operating departments. The earliest ledger is a township tract book dated 1856 and the latest is a Southern Pacific Transportation Co. Interline Freight Account ledger from 1980, according to California State Parks librarian Ellen Halteman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/008/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102379\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102379\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/008.jpg\" alt=\"Processed Ledgers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the 1,400 railroad ledgers after they've been cataloged, cleaned, boxed and wrapped in acid-free paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/009/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102380\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102380\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/009.jpg\" alt=\"Protecting the treasures\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Victorian baby carriage is one of the many thousands of items that are placed on blocks of Styrofoam, strapped into stabilizing contraptions of wood and Plexiglas, and carefully housed in a concrete room with light, temperature and humidity controls. You can't stop organic materials from decaying, but you can slow the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/010/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102381\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102381\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/010.jpg\" alt=\"Details\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Victorian baby carriage was donated to Sutter's Fort in the 1940s by a family that had brought it from Iowa; they believed it had been in their family's possession since the 1860s. It is an example of how the fort was a repository of immigrants' heirlooms during the time it was the State Historical Museum, according to Nancy Jenner, a state parks curator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strap across this carriage appears to be the first sign of a seat belt, and the detail in the iron side rails is not something that is found nowadays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/003/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102374\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102374\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/003.jpg\" alt=\"Hearse involved in California's only Civil War conflict\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hearse was used to smuggle a cannon into the Amador County town of Volcano during the Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the request of local supporters of the Union, who called themselves the Volcano Blues, the cannon tube was obtained from the Presidio in San Francisco as surplus from the Mexican War. It was shipped to Ione, then hidden in a casket, loaded in the hearse, and smuggled into Volcano under cover of darkness. The cannon was unloaded at the blacksmith shop, next to Sibley's Brewery. The blacksmith constructed a cannon carriage for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cannon was used in the only Civil War skirmish in Volcano.. When local Confederate sympathizers marched down the street, intent on taking possession of the next gold shipment to help fund the Southern cause, the outnumbered Volcano Blues lined up to stop them. When told to move, the Blues stepped aside, revealing the loaded cannon. That was enough to cow the would-be Confederates, and the confrontation ended without a shot being fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/011/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102382\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102382\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/011.jpg\" alt=\"Worlds Largest Collection of Indian Baskets\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross McGuire stands in front of one of the largest collections of Indian baskets in the world—4,400 housed in the state parks' North Highlands warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baskets that range from as tiny as a teacup to large enough for bushels of acorns are individually wrapped and filled with Styrofoam peanuts to keep them from collapsing on themselves. Each has a tag describing its provenance and location in the collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their former home the baskets were triple-stacked and overcrowded. Here they are well spaced and take up a linear mile of metal shelving, 15 levels high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the baskets may have a new home in coming years, at the \u003ca title=\"California Indian Heritage Center\" href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22628\" target=\"_blank\">California Indian Heritage Center\u003c/a>, but for now they remain protected and available to loan out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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One observer wrote that \"though many museums and historical societies wanted this old freighter, Mr. Huffman believed that the one place it should go was Sutter's Fort, past which it had traveled many times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It ended up at the fort, where it was parked outside, exposed to the elements, for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/004/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102375\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/004.jpg\" alt=\"Detailed Bathtub\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bathtub that was used in the Governor's Mansion in the 1920s now sits protected in the parks warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/005-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102376\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/005.jpg\" alt=\"Barber Chairs\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These 1860s-era wooden barber chairs feature velvet cushions. One was used at the Hotel Truckee and eventually ended up in the Sutter's Fort collection. The larger barber chair date from the 1910s to the 1940s and would have been the kind of chair used in a classic barber shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/006/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102377\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/006.jpg\" alt=\"Dairy Equipment\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A collection of dairy canisters and distilling equipment sits on shelves. They are from a small-scale dairy farm from the late 19th or early 20th century. The state parks system includes several parks in Sonoma and Mendocino that were coastal dairies, shipping butter and cheese by ship to San Francisco, according to Ross McGuire of the parks department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/007-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102378\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102378\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/007.jpg\" alt=\"Railroad Ledgers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,400 ledgers from the Southern Pacific Railroad, or subsidiary and predecessor companies, are housed in the warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most are accounting records from the 19th century, but there are also records from the land and operating departments. The earliest ledger is a township tract book dated 1856 and the latest is a Southern Pacific Transportation Co. Interline Freight Account ledger from 1980, according to California State Parks librarian Ellen Halteman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/008/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102379\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102379\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/008.jpg\" alt=\"Processed Ledgers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the 1,400 railroad ledgers after they've been cataloged, cleaned, boxed and wrapped in acid-free paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/009/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102380\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102380\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/009.jpg\" alt=\"Protecting the treasures\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Victorian baby carriage is one of the many thousands of items that are placed on blocks of Styrofoam, strapped into stabilizing contraptions of wood and Plexiglas, and carefully housed in a concrete room with light, temperature and humidity controls. You can't stop organic materials from decaying, but you can slow the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/010/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102381\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102381\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/010.jpg\" alt=\"Details\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Victorian baby carriage was donated to Sutter's Fort in the 1940s by a family that had brought it from Iowa; they believed it had been in their family's possession since the 1860s. It is an example of how the fort was a repository of immigrants' heirlooms during the time it was the State Historical Museum, according to Nancy Jenner, a state parks curator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A strap across this carriage appears to be the first sign of a seat belt, and the detail in the iron side rails is not something that is found nowadays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/003/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102374\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102374\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/003.jpg\" alt=\"Hearse involved in California's only Civil War conflict\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hearse was used to smuggle a cannon into the Amador County town of Volcano during the Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the request of local supporters of the Union, who called themselves the Volcano Blues, the cannon tube was obtained from the Presidio in San Francisco as surplus from the Mexican War. It was shipped to Ione, then hidden in a casket, loaded in the hearse, and smuggled into Volcano under cover of darkness. The cannon was unloaded at the blacksmith shop, next to Sibley's Brewery. The blacksmith constructed a cannon carriage for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cannon was used in the only Civil War skirmish in Volcano.. When local Confederate sympathizers marched down the street, intent on taking possession of the next gold shipment to help fund the Southern cause, the outnumbered Volcano Blues lined up to stop them. When told to move, the Blues stepped aside, revealing the loaded cannon. That was enough to cow the would-be Confederates, and the confrontation ended without a shot being fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/the-treasure-that-the-calif-state-parks-are-housing/attachment/011/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-102382\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-102382\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/011.jpg\" alt=\"Worlds Largest Collection of Indian Baskets\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross McGuire stands in front of one of the largest collections of Indian baskets in the world—4,400 housed in the state parks' North Highlands warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baskets that range from as tiny as a teacup to large enough for bushels of acorns are individually wrapped and filled with Styrofoam peanuts to keep them from collapsing on themselves. 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"content": "\u003cp>The “Say Yes To The Dress” folks wouldn’t quite know how to handle the scene inside the Sacramento County courthouse Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101884\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-101884\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/weddingpic-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Abby Maurer (l) and Kim Kearsing (r) wait for a marriage license at the Sacramento County Courthouse. (Scott Detrow / KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abby Maurer (l) and Kim Kearsing (r) wait for a marriage license at the Sacramento County Courthouse. (Scott Detrow / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The happy couples who tied the knot in the hours after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/28/appeals-court-lifts-order-blocking-same-sex-marriage-effective-immediately/\">the 9\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave same-sex marriage the green light\u003c/a> hadn’t spent much time planning out their big day. There weren’t any fancy dresses, or any table linens to pick out color schemes for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, they hadn’t realized it was their wedding day until about an hour earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alyssa Beatty said she and her partner Emily Gaines decided to get married “15 minutes ago, when we learned that the law had changed.” Across the room, another couple had to put their ceremony on hold, when they realized they had left their wedding rings at home in the rush to get to the courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Beatty filled out the marriage license on a computer, Gaines fussed with her necktie. She learned about the court’s decision on Facebook. “I called her and said, 'You need to come home from work right now and we’re going to go down to the county clerk’s office.' And she’s like, \"All right, I’m on my way.' I got in the shower, got myself cleaned up, and was still getting dressed on the way here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple has been together six years and held a commitment ceremony earlier this month, but Gaines said the legal recognition meant a lot. “I don’t know that it’s nervous. It’s just – I am jittery and shaky but I think it’s this whole weird moment of, I can’t believe this is actually happening, being able to have a legally recognized marriage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Gaines and Beatty finished their paperwork, Abby Maurer and Kim Kearsing beamed in front of a throng of reporters. Kearsing said she ran through the house screaming when she heard same-sex marriages were on. “I think my dogs were freaked out a bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple decided to get married Friday because Maurer’s parents are already in town for her brother’s wedding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re leaving tomorrow,” Kearsing said. “Her brother got married on Friday … and now we get to get married before they leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, one last surprise: “I’m changing my last name to Maurer,” Kearsing told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are? I didn’t know that! That’s news to me,“ replied Maurer.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101462\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 275px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-101462\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/5312_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of people celebrated the Prop. 8 and DOMA rulings at San Francisco City Hall. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"275\" height=\"400\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of people celebrated the Prop. 8 and DOMA rulings at San Francisco City Hall. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After years of waiting, we finally have two U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the legality of same-sex marriage. But neither ruling was the type of clear-cut decision that advocates on both sides of the issue were hoping for. KQED spoke to several experts about the details of the cases and how this could all play out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Standing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court focused on the issue of standing in their ruling today on Prop. 8. In 2010, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, state Attorney General Jerry Brown and Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado refused to defend Prop. 8, leaving Imperial County as the only government entity willing to defend the proposition. But in 2011, the California Supreme Court ruled that Prop. 8 proponents had standing to defend the measure, which allowed them to appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Now the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Prop. 8 supporters did\u003cem> not\u003c/em> have standing to appeal, Judge Vaughn Walker's decision that Prop. 8 is unconstitutional currently stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what's standing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis law professor Vik Amar explains:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Standing means that you're a party that belongs in court, and that we can trust that you'll represent the interests of one position in a way that allows the court to reach the merits. For example, if I voted against Prop. 8, and I thought it was a bad deal, I couldn't sue to challenge Prop. 8, even if it offended me, unless I'm a same-sex person, which I'm not. Standing makes sure we have the right parties in the case so that the courts aren't shooting their mouths off and making new rulings just in abstract context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Usually we focus on whether the plaintiffs have standing. This was an unusual case because we were focusing on whether the defendants -- the proponents of Prop. 8 -- had standing, and the real question is whether the proponents are adequate representatives of the voters of the state of California. And the Supreme Court said that they are not. The Supreme Court said that they are private persons. They are not the same as public state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the Brown administration had appealed Judge Walker's decision to the 9th Circuit but said, 'By the way, we agree with the plaintiff, the challengers,' then the Supreme Court might have had a much harder time getting rid of this case. It might have had to reach the merits as it did in the Defense of Marriage Act case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When can same-sex marriages resume?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court gave the 9th Circuit Court 25 days before the appeals court has to lift the stay, or hold, on Walker's ruling. This period comes directly from Supreme Court rules -- whenever the high court makes a ruling, the loser has 25 days to file for a rehearing before anything can happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also has to decide how they are going to interpret the ruling. Gov. Jerry Brown ordered the Department of Public Health - which oversees marriage licenses, birth and death certificates, and other such documents - to advise the 58 counties of California to commence same-sex marriages as soon as the stay is lifted. Each county has to decide how they will prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Kamala Harris in a speech asked the court to lift the stay quickly: \"I am also calling on the 9th Circuit today to urge them in the strongest terms that they lift the stay and enforce the permanent injunction that Vaughn Walker outlined so that marriages can begin in California immediately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will the legal struggle continue in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether the lawsuits will continue. Someone with standing would need to challenge Walker's ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amar believes that only a county clerk could do so: \"The only scenario I envision is if a county clerk who feels that he should not be bound by Judge Walker's order, and that he is not controllable by the governor, from some conservative county wants to refuse to issue marriage licenses and goes to court and says he shouldn't be governed by any of this because he never had his day in court, he wasn't in San Francisco defending Prop 8. That's the only kind of individual or party left I could see to stand in the way.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nJane Schacter, professor of law at Stanford Law School, agrees that a county clerk refusal could restart the process: \"What I think will happen at that point, it would not surprise me if in some more culturally conservative part of the state, a local county clerk says, 'Well, I don’t think the governor had the power to order me to do this, I don’t think I’m bound by Judge Walker’s order, and therefore I’m not going to give you a license.' At that point, a same-sex couple may go to court to try to get that license and we may be off to the races with further litigation. Now, this really is a law professor’s dream. Will that be in state court? Will that be in federal court? Will it be about the scope of Walker’s decision? Will it be about the scope of the governor’s authority to decide what to do in these circumstances? Any number of questions, but I think there is no question that a lot of same-sex couples in short order are going to start marrying again in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schacter also says that, while unlikely, Walker's opinion could be open to interpretation: \"The question is does Judge Walker's opinion, which was issued not in a class action but a lawsuit involving two couples, does it bind and apply statewide to other couples who are not part of the litigation? I think the governor will aggressively take the position that the state was a party in the case, the state is not contesting the decision of Judge Walker, therefore Prop. 8 is no longer enforceable. But it wouldn't surprise me if there's further litigation in this. It might be that the proponents of Prop. 8 will try to get some clarification of what the scope is of Judge Walker's opinion, and that won't come from Judge Walker because he's retired, but it will come from a different district judge. More likely I think Gov. Brown has ordered that marriage licenses be issued immediately. Once that starts happening, and I don't see a constraint to it because there was a stay in place pending resolution of the Supreme Court's appeal, and I think in short order that will be dissolved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Eastman, a lawyer for the National Organization for Marriage, argues that the Supreme Court's ruling on DOMA should leave the decision up to the states: \"DOMA’s decision by the court, which specifically says that marriage policy is a core function of the states and that the federal government can’t interfere with that, strongly suggests that Judge Walker’s opinion in the Proposition 8 case, which is the last opinion standing in the Proposition 8 case right now, is invalid and has been superseded by that DOMA decision. Because what he did was strike down California’s effort that has its own merits policy, as reflected in Proposition 8. So I think we’ve got a lot of litigation still to go on whether that decision has to be overruled.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amar says this is unlikely, though: \"A big question is whether anyone can validly raise this kind of argument in front of the 9th Circuit or the District Court. In light of today's Perry ruling, Prop. 8 proponents have no right to have the 9th Circuit take another look at what Judge Walker did, or at the scope of his remedy either. And the governor and attorney general certainly are not going to ask the 9th Circuit to do anything other than allow Judge Walker's order to go into effect. So unless the 9th Circuit decides, on its own, to re-examine Walker's ruling, or unless someone else, like a county clerk, successfully intervenes to defend Proposition 8, and both of these are unlikely. I think the same-sex marriage train will leave the station here in California pretty soon. I think, and have argued for years, that this is the right result. 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To make a public declaration that anyone is not going to follow these practices would be an extraordinary step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leno conceded that if local governments choose not to follow the revised law’s suggestions, it will make it harder for some people to find public records. “Individuals who are less experienced and need a public document and don’t know how to find it — they will likely need some assistance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new bill, local governments could also claim some documents are exempt from public access without saying why they’re off limits. If people believe the local government response is unjust, they can sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Records Act was first enacted in 1968 and has been broadened over time. The provisions ordering local agencies to respond to record requests within 10 days and help the public find documents have been in place for more than a decade. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two years ago this month, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">California Department of Parks & Recreation\u003c/a> announced a list of 70 parks it planned to close. Park lovers rallied, giving their time and money to pick up the parks the state was willing to drop off. There is no closure list now, and the department is under \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301150900\">new management\u003c/a>, but the financial crisis has not passed. Those park lovers are now wondering how long they’re going to carry an extra load.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97368\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/palomarvolunteers/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97368\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97368 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/PalomarVolunteers-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Rosemary Johnston, Rick Barclay, Bob Hillestad wear sun hats and sun screen on a regular basis to volunteer at Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego County.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Rosemary Johnston, Rick Barclay, Bob Hillstead wear sun hats and sun screen on a regular basis to volunteer at Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego County. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This time of year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=637\">Palomar Mountain State Park\u003c/a> smells wonderfully fragrant, a mix of oak and pine and earth. Woodpeckers chatter with each other in the trees, and purple lupine dots the landscape. Twelve miles of trails offer stunning vistas of valleys to the north and south of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those simple charms won over Rick Barclay of Temecula about 15 years ago. Somehow, he went from casual day hiking, to trail maintenance, to running \u003ca href=\"http://www.friendsofpalomarsp.org\">Friends of Palomar Mountain State Park\u003c/a>, established two years ago, after park system officials put Palomar on a closure list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re like parents,” Barclay says. “You may have a kid, but I love my kid, and this is my kid we’re talking about. I’m sure all of the other parks have a lot of things going for them. I haven’t been to all of them, so I can’t say that this park is worthy of staying open more than every other park that there is, but this is my park.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Friends of Palomar has raised $190,000 in the last two years from more than 300 people, most of them from San Diego and Riverside Counties. Signs of the group’s involvement are everywhere. Even the $2 trail map for sale in the ranger’s kiosk is theirs. Recently, they organized and funded the replacement of about a dozen bathroom doors at two campgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97369\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/bathroom-doors/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97369\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-97369 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Bathroom-Doors-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"It doesn't look like much, but these new bathroom doors will do a lot to draw back visitors to Palomar's campgrounds. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">They may not look like much, but these new bathroom doors will do a lot to draw visitors back to Palomar’s campgrounds. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is how bad things have gotten,” Barclay muses. “We are celebrating bathroom doors being replaced the same way that we would if we were opening up a new trail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Friends of Palomar set up a “donor agreement” with the parks department. The nonprofit donates $38,000 a year to the agency to cover Palomar’s operating deficit, along with a wish list of things to spend the rest of money they’ve raised on. Yes, there’s a list. The Friends would like to see cabins installed at the campgrounds, the Boucher Hill fire tower restored, and Doane Pond cleared of the cattail trying to transform it from a watering hole with fish into a meadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to have State Parks fix that problem,” Barclay says. “We’d love to give them money to fix that problem. Our hope is the kind of improvements that we want to make will help to generate revenue as well. Then maybe, one day, the park can actually be self-sufficient. It can pay for itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some folks have suggested some nonprofits might \u003cem>fully\u003c/em> adopt the parks the state can’t afford to run. But the math doesn’t add up in most of the more than 50 cases where a nonprofit is helping or fixing to help a state park stay open. Take Palomar. It costs the state roughly $220,000 every year—and that’s only counting direct expenses, not costs like regional management—or hundreds of thousands of dollars of deferred maintenance. Just the same, it has occurred to Barclay that Sacramento might continue to lean on Friends of Palomar for that extra $38,000 a year indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this a state park or is not?” Barclay asks. “If it’s a state park, then the state should support it. Do whatever it takes to keep it robust. Not limping along the way it has been over these several years. It’s been a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97371\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/view-from-fire-tower/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97371\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97371 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/View-from-Fire-Tower-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Aguanga Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire.(Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Pauma Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire of 2007. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Friends of Palomar—and the state—are going to continue to rely on generous local donors like Bob Wilson of Rancho Santa Fe. He grew up in Escondido, looking up at that mountain every day, going up there with his parents to visit the famous \u003ca href=\"http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/\">Palomar Observatory\u003c/a>, see snow in the wintertime, and in warmer weather, camp a mile high in the sky. Even if he did get the worst case of poison oak he ever suffered from Palomar Mountain. Fond memories like that one inspired Wilson to give Friends $30,000—its biggest donation—to help seed the group’s fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that people will step up,” Wilson says. “Certainly, I’m of a mind to challenge them if they want to do that. I think that they’re out there and we have to make sure that they understand what the conditions are, what they could be, and what they should be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is likely to remain a live one for at least another year. Governor Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal doesn’t include the kind of money it would take for the parks department to re-shoulder the load for Palomar and parks like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After news broke of as much as $29 million dollars \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/04/california-state-parks-investigation-report-released/\">unreported\u003c/a> at State Park headquarters in Sacramento, a number of people who’d pledged money to Palomar pulled back. That money has since been set aside as a pool of matching grants for groups like Friends of Palomar, and the group is applying. That said, it doesn’t hurt local fundraising efforts to point out that every dollar donated to the nonprofit is directed to Palomar park, not some general operating fund in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Barclay and Wilson lament the way California’s infrastructure is fraying. “My concern is that now we’re in maintenance mode,” says Barclay. “We’re just trying to cobble the bridges back together, and cobble the streets back together. Why aren’t we opening more state parks? You know, we’re talking about just staying open. Why aren’t we expanding our territory?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/dylan/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97488\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-97488 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Dylan-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dylan Unis, 4, of San Diego considers the first fish he's ever caught. (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four-year-old Dylan Unis of San Diego considers the first fish he’s ever caught, a trout from Doane Pond. (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not just an issue with the Department of Parks and Recreation. The 6th grade school camp (aka \u003ca href=\"http://www.palomarmountain.com/outdoorschool.html\">Palomar Outdoor School\u003c/a>) closed in 2011 because its operator, the San Diego Unified School District, can’t afford it any longer. “Those fond memories are not being generated now,” Barclay says. “That’s a facility that’s going to waste, and it’s an opportunity that’s going to waste as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Friends of Palomar Mountain State Park is doing what it can to get the word out to Southern California: first, that there’s a state park up on the mountain; and second, public donations help it thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Funds for coverage of California state parks are provided by the S. D. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Friends of Palomar set up a “donor agreement” with the parks department. The nonprofit donates $38,000 a year to the agency to cover Palomar’s operating deficit, along with a wish list of things to spend the rest of money they’ve raised on. Yes, there’s a list. The Friends would like to see cabins installed at the campgrounds, the Boucher Hill fire tower restored, and Doane Pond cleared of the cattail trying to transform it from a watering hole with fish into a meadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to have State Parks fix that problem,” Barclay says. “We’d love to give them money to fix that problem. Our hope is the kind of improvements that we want to make will help to generate revenue as well. Then maybe, one day, the park can actually be self-sufficient. It can pay for itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some folks have suggested some nonprofits might \u003cem>fully\u003c/em> adopt the parks the state can’t afford to run. But the math doesn’t add up in most of the more than 50 cases where a nonprofit is helping or fixing to help a state park stay open. Take Palomar. It costs the state roughly $220,000 every year—and that’s only counting direct expenses, not costs like regional management—or hundreds of thousands of dollars of deferred maintenance. Just the same, it has occurred to Barclay that Sacramento might continue to lean on Friends of Palomar for that extra $38,000 a year indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this a state park or is not?” Barclay asks. “If it’s a state park, then the state should support it. Do whatever it takes to keep it robust. Not limping along the way it has been over these several years. It’s been a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97371\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/view-from-fire-tower/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97371\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97371 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/View-from-Fire-Tower-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Aguanga Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire.(Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Pauma Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire of 2007. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Friends of Palomar—and the state—are going to continue to rely on generous local donors like Bob Wilson of Rancho Santa Fe. He grew up in Escondido, looking up at that mountain every day, going up there with his parents to visit the famous \u003ca href=\"http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/\">Palomar Observatory\u003c/a>, see snow in the wintertime, and in warmer weather, camp a mile high in the sky. Even if he did get the worst case of poison oak he ever suffered from Palomar Mountain. Fond memories like that one inspired Wilson to give Friends $30,000—its biggest donation—to help seed the group’s fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that people will step up,” Wilson says. “Certainly, I’m of a mind to challenge them if they want to do that. I think that they’re out there and we have to make sure that they understand what the conditions are, what they could be, and what they should be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is likely to remain a live one for at least another year. Governor Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal doesn’t include the kind of money it would take for the parks department to re-shoulder the load for Palomar and parks like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After news broke of as much as $29 million dollars \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/04/california-state-parks-investigation-report-released/\">unreported\u003c/a> at State Park headquarters in Sacramento, a number of people who’d pledged money to Palomar pulled back. That money has since been set aside as a pool of matching grants for groups like Friends of Palomar, and the group is applying. 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"content": "\u003cp>I first met Kevin Fippin in February, in the parking lot of Sleep Train Arena. He was making the rounds at a tailgate party before a Kings game. That was about three weeks after word had come that the Maloof family, the team's majority owners, had made a deal to sell their share to a group of investors who planned to move the Kings to Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/sacramentoKingslogo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26005\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/sacramentoKingslogo.jpg\" alt=\"sacramentoKingslogo\" width=\"203\" height=\"249\">\u003c/a>After that announcement, Kings fans went into action, using an existing network of blogs, podcasts, and groups like \u003ca href=\"http://www.crowndowntown.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Crown Downtown\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.herewebuy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Here We Stay/Here We Buy\u003c/a>, which had formed in the wake of previous relocation whisperings. 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Seattle is a great market and they do deserve a team, but that doesn't mean that we don't.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the NBA Board of Governors agreed. They voted 22-8 to deny the relocation request. I reached Kevin Fippin late in the afternoon in the lobby of the Dallas hotel where the NBA owners had held their meeting. He was there with about a dozen other Kings fans who'd flown from Sacramento to Dallas.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">We're writing the blueprint: this is how you keep your team.\n\u003cp>--Kings' superfan Kevin Fippin\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Most of us drove to Oakland [Tuesday night], got on a flight that left Oakland at 2:30 a.m., and got in about 8 a.m. Dallas time,\" he said. \"And then we came straight to the hotel. We just wanted to be here when the decision was made. We wanted to represent the love that Sacramento has for this team and show the world that these are the kinds of fans we are. If the fate of the team is on the line, we're going to be there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fippin and the other fans were confined to a corner of the hotel lobby near the press corps, including a large contingent from Sacramento. They spent the day watching team owners and executives going in and out of the meeting, chatting with reporters, and even making friends with a couple of fans of the old Seattle SuperSonics, who were hoping the NBA would reincarnate the team they lost in 2008 when it became the Oklahoma City Thunder. When the news leaked out, it wasn't a huge surprise--the NBA's relocation committee had recommended against the Seattle move on April 29. But Kings fans were thrilled when Vivek Ranadivé, who heads another ownership group that has made an offer for the team, made a detour on his way to the press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He actually requested to take a picture with us, and we all posed for him,\" Fippin said. \"He was a little late to the press conference because of it, but we thought that was really cool of him. After the press conference, he came back and said, 'This happened because of you guys, and I want to thank you so much.' Really appreciative of all the work the fans had done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97334\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/15/sacramento-kings-fans-rejoice-at/bkv6izbciaanfs6-jpg-large/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97334\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-97334\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/BKV6izBCIAAnFS6.jpg-large-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Prospective Kings owner Vivek Ranadive poses with Kings fans who came from Sacramento to Dallas for the NBA meeting. (Kevin Fippin)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prospective Kings owner Vivek Ranadive poses with Kings fans who came from Sacramento to Dallas for the NBA meeting. (Kevin Fippin)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There's still work to do. The NBA vetoed the relocation, but the league is unlikely to force the Kings' current owners, the Maloof family, to sell to Ranadivé and his group. Rather, NBA commissioner David Stern said at the press conference that the league hopes to facilitate that sale within the next several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the second part of the plan to keep the Kings, building a new multipurpose arena downtown to replace the aging Sleep Train, will take a few more years to complete. Three Sacramento residents \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/14/5420473/sacramento-kings-lawsuit.html\" target=\"_blank\">filed a suit the day before the NBA's decision\u003c/a>, alleging that the city's subsidy of the arena plan will amount to more than the $258 million in the official term sheet. Others have called for the city to put the arena funding on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Fippin acknowledged the challenges ahead, but he said the time was right for the city to support such an ambitious project. \"There was a time in this city when we didn't have the political backing that we needed to pull something like this off,\" he said. \"We didn't have a city council that would vote in favor of building an arena. We didn't have a mayor that would fight the way Kevin Johnson's fought. This is something that not just Kings fans, but residents of Sacramento want. There's a lot of pride that we take in this team.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fippin's also a fan of the Oakland A's, who've gone through their own \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201204190633/a\" target=\"_blank\">relocation saga\u003c/a> over the past several years. 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