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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the country, served as a U.S. Navy officer before he was forced to retire after his sexuality was made public. He was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 and served until his assassination the following year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USNS Harvey Milk was christened in 2021 in honor of the civil rights icon. For many in the LGBTQ+ community, Milk’s legacy is deeply tied to the Bay Area’s gay rights movement, Wiener said, and the ship serves as a powerful acknowledgment of that history and his leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991696\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1298867563-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1885\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1298867563-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1298867563-800x589.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1298867563-1020x751.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1298867563-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1298867563-1536x1131.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1298867563-2048x1508.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1298867563-1920x1413.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Openly gay American politician, Harvey Milk (1930-1978), at the Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, June 23, 1978. He is holding a placard that reads: “I’m from Woodmere, NY.” \u003ccite>(Terry Schmitt/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renaming the USNS Harvey Milk would be a slap in the face to the LGBTQ+ community, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Trump administration’s repeated commitment to the military’s warrior ethos, Wiener said its efforts to weaken the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039690/sf-judge-pauses-much-of-trump-administrations-massive-downsizing-of-federal-agencies\">Department of Veterans Affairs\u003c/a> — and limit access to essential services such as health care — have jeopardized the well-being of soldiers and veterans.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Trump administration “claims that they are so macho and masculine and are going to have the best military on the planet,” he said. “But then, they go ahead and attack and undermine the very people who have made this country what it is by serving and putting their lives at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoe Dunning, a former U.S. Navy commander and one of the lead advocates for the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, called the decision to rename the USNS Harvey Milk an affront to “every LGBTQ+ veteran and service member in uniform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soldiers commit to protecting the American people — even if it costs them their lives, Dunning said, and in return, the nation has a duty to treat them with care and respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harvey Milk honored the Navy’s values, which is honor, courage and commitment,” Dunning continued. “He was truthful about the fact that he’s a gay man. He showed courage in coming out and being the first openly gay elected official in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/HarveyMilkFolo3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/HarveyMilkFolo3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/HarveyMilkFolo3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/HarveyMilkFolo3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoe Dunning, a gay veteran, speaks at a press conference at San Francisco’s Jane Warner Plaza on June 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Samantha Kennedy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He showed commitment by serving in the Navy and being committed to our country and then being committed to the LGBTQ community here in the Castro and in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mario Benfield, commander of the Alexander Hamilton Post of the American Legion and a war veteran, said Hegseth and the Trump administration’s push to remove Milk’s name is “poor leadership.” Their attempts at dismissing service members who are part of the LGBTQ+ community, especially those who are transgender, are outrageous, Benfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These red-blooded Americans volunteered to serve in our military, and now, they’re supposed to just give it up because of [Hegseth’s] homophobia,” Benfield said. “We can’t tolerate this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy\">\u003cem>Samantha Kennedy\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>San Francisco’s dramatic coastline makes its hikes, especially in the Presidio overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, uniquely stunning. But hiking here is not without its risks — in just one weekend, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/presidio-rescue-again-20356204.php\">two people had to be rescued from the Presidio’s treacherous cliffs. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, hiking in the city is safe, but there are a few common mistakes locals and visitors alike make that can get them in trouble. Read on for a few key things you should know before venturing out to take in some of the city’s most striking views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Why do people keep needing rescue on the cliffs?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">What will happen if I fall or need help?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Do I have to pay money to be rescued?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">What should I know before heading out for a hike?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Why do people keep needing rescue on San Francisco’s cliffs?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This weekend wasn’t an anomaly, said Lt. Mariano Elias, spokesperson for the San Francisco Fire Department. Anytime there is good weather and a clear view across the bay, “people want to get … right to the edge to find their safe, happy place, and then it becomes unsafe,” Elias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997037/hottest-event-of-the-year-bay-area-braces-for-elevated-heat-and-high-tides-too\">Last weekend was sunny, bringing crowds to enjoy the views\u003c/a> of the Marin Headlands and picnic out in the sunshine, “which is the draw, of course,” Elias said. The two people rescued were off-trail near the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/batteries-to-bluffs-trail\">Batteries to Bluffs Trail\u003c/a>, which, in addition to getting hikers up close to the bridge, hangs precariously over the ocean below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042911\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Batteries to Bluffs Trail in the Presidio of San Francisco on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[It’s] easy to go down, harder to come up,” he said. “The person [rescued on Saturday] was difficult to access because they were not visible and they didn’t know where they were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the trails are particularly crowded, a hiker might try to step away and get space to be alone, leading them into unfamiliar territory. The cliffs aren’t just steep here — trails are also overgrown, oftentimes with poison oak, and it can be hard to tell where, if anywhere, they lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing tides can also put people at risk. The two people rescued this past weekend, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBybgshsv14\">one of whom required a helicopter response,\u003c/a> were both climbing up, away from the water, which can lead to injuries or getting lost as they attempt to scale the cliffside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the tide is low and people start walking and meandering around the rocks and the water, and then the tide starts coming in and then they can’t walk on the beach any longer,” Elias said. “So then they start climbing up the hillside, which creates another danger — possible falling down or loose rocks. I think sometimes people aren’t really aware of what can happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And another common factor in rescues is intoxication from drugs or alcohol, Elias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042909\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign warns of hazardous cliffs along the Batteries to Bluffs Trail in the Presidio of San Francisco on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>What will happen if I fall or need help?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to data from the fire department, on average, 32 people have to get rescued from the city’s cliffs each year. And that’s not even including the 91 on average people rescued from the bay, and 45 from the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elias said the SFFD prepares for these events with several fire units that specialize in coastal rescue. They use special equipment and are trained with ropes to get people who are stuck on cliff edges, including at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also prepare for fair-weather weekends where they expect a high volume of people to be out on the coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hiker sits near the ocean along the Batteries to Bluffs Trail in the Presidio of San Francisco on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We plan for those things,” Elias said. “Our crews drive by the busy spots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just people who go over cliffs, either. Elias said they have to rescue hundreds of dogs as well, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930802/fort-funston-know-why-sfs-iconic-dog-walking-cliffs-can-be-dangerous\">especially at Fort Funston,\u003c/a> on the southwestern edge of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a rescue does have to be initiated, a team of about 20 people will respond, and may include a helicopter coming out of Napa, which can get there in around 10 minutes, Elias said. Oftentimes, a firefighter has to be lowered over a cliff for a rescue, either by being tied to a fire engine, a tree or anchored into the ground with spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>Do I have to pay money to be rescued?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the rescues won’t cost the stranded person any money — they’re provided as a public service — Elias said each cliff rescue does create what they call an “open gap” in coverage. The Parks Service can and sometimes does issue citations to people who don’t follow posted signs to stay on trail, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You should just follow the directions and stay on the trail and play it safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042908\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jogger runs along part of the Batteries to Bluffs Trail in the Presidio of San Francisco on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>What should I know before heading out for a hike?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aside from staying on designated trails, there’s one other key to keeping safe on the bluffs: “We advise people to know where they are,” Elias said. “If I don’t know where you are, it’s almost impossible to find somebody in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said to try to stay in areas with cell service so you can call first responders and provide your location if you need help getting to safety. Also, \u003ca href=\"https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/stationhome.html?id=9414290\">be aware of the ocean’s tides\u003c/a> and plan your beachcombing walk accordingly, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014611/king-tide-back-bay-area-heres-what-you-can-expect\">King Tides,\u003c/a> which can rise unexpectedly and take hikers off guard, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041127/dont-go-into-the-water-at-ocean-beach-sf-officials-urge-ahead-of-memorial-day-weekend\">can be extremely dangerous \u003c/a>— or lead hikers to attempt dangerous maneuvers on the cliffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People do frequent this area quite a bit, and it’s beautiful, but we do recommend people to stay on the trail,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCeDp_MY_h4G6VWj_-VPl-BJlQ3Uya2H0vxRZZd_47BpXwVA/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco’s dramatic coastline makes its hikes, especially in the Presidio overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, uniquely stunning. But hiking here is not without its risks — in just one weekend, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/presidio-rescue-again-20356204.php\">two people had to be rescued from the Presidio’s treacherous cliffs. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, hiking in the city is safe, but there are a few common mistakes locals and visitors alike make that can get them in trouble. Read on for a few key things you should know before venturing out to take in some of the city’s most striking views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Why do people keep needing rescue on the cliffs?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">What will happen if I fall or need help?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Do I have to pay money to be rescued?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">What should I know before heading out for a hike?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Why do people keep needing rescue on San Francisco’s cliffs?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This weekend wasn’t an anomaly, said Lt. Mariano Elias, spokesperson for the San Francisco Fire Department. Anytime there is good weather and a clear view across the bay, “people want to get … right to the edge to find their safe, happy place, and then it becomes unsafe,” Elias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997037/hottest-event-of-the-year-bay-area-braces-for-elevated-heat-and-high-tides-too\">Last weekend was sunny, bringing crowds to enjoy the views\u003c/a> of the Marin Headlands and picnic out in the sunshine, “which is the draw, of course,” Elias said. The two people rescued were off-trail near the \u003ca href=\"https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/batteries-to-bluffs-trail\">Batteries to Bluffs Trail\u003c/a>, which, in addition to getting hikers up close to the bridge, hangs precariously over the ocean below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042911\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-23-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Batteries to Bluffs Trail in the Presidio of San Francisco on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[It’s] easy to go down, harder to come up,” he said. “The person [rescued on Saturday] was difficult to access because they were not visible and they didn’t know where they were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the trails are particularly crowded, a hiker might try to step away and get space to be alone, leading them into unfamiliar territory. The cliffs aren’t just steep here — trails are also overgrown, oftentimes with poison oak, and it can be hard to tell where, if anywhere, they lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing tides can also put people at risk. The two people rescued this past weekend, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBybgshsv14\">one of whom required a helicopter response,\u003c/a> were both climbing up, away from the water, which can lead to injuries or getting lost as they attempt to scale the cliffside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the tide is low and people start walking and meandering around the rocks and the water, and then the tide starts coming in and then they can’t walk on the beach any longer,” Elias said. “So then they start climbing up the hillside, which creates another danger — possible falling down or loose rocks. I think sometimes people aren’t really aware of what can happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And another common factor in rescues is intoxication from drugs or alcohol, Elias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042909\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign warns of hazardous cliffs along the Batteries to Bluffs Trail in the Presidio of San Francisco on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"B\">\u003c/a>What will happen if I fall or need help?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to data from the fire department, on average, 32 people have to get rescued from the city’s cliffs each year. And that’s not even including the 91 on average people rescued from the bay, and 45 from the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elias said the SFFD prepares for these events with several fire units that specialize in coastal rescue. They use special equipment and are trained with ropes to get people who are stuck on cliff edges, including at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also prepare for fair-weather weekends where they expect a high volume of people to be out on the coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hiker sits near the ocean along the Batteries to Bluffs Trail in the Presidio of San Francisco on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We plan for those things,” Elias said. “Our crews drive by the busy spots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just people who go over cliffs, either. Elias said they have to rescue hundreds of dogs as well, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930802/fort-funston-know-why-sfs-iconic-dog-walking-cliffs-can-be-dangerous\">especially at Fort Funston,\u003c/a> on the southwestern edge of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a rescue does have to be initiated, a team of about 20 people will respond, and may include a helicopter coming out of Napa, which can get there in around 10 minutes, Elias said. Oftentimes, a firefighter has to be lowered over a cliff for a rescue, either by being tied to a fire engine, a tree or anchored into the ground with spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"C\">\u003c/a>Do I have to pay money to be rescued?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the rescues won’t cost the stranded person any money — they’re provided as a public service — Elias said each cliff rescue does create what they call an “open gap” in coverage. The Parks Service can and sometimes does issue citations to people who don’t follow posted signs to stay on trail, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You should just follow the directions and stay on the trail and play it safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042908\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250604-HIKINGSFBLUFFS-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A jogger runs along part of the Batteries to Bluffs Trail in the Presidio of San Francisco on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>What should I know before heading out for a hike?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aside from staying on designated trails, there’s one other key to keeping safe on the bluffs: “We advise people to know where they are,” Elias said. “If I don’t know where you are, it’s almost impossible to find somebody in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said to try to stay in areas with cell service so you can call first responders and provide your location if you need help getting to safety. Also, \u003ca href=\"https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/stationhome.html?id=9414290\">be aware of the ocean’s tides\u003c/a> and plan your beachcombing walk accordingly, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014611/king-tide-back-bay-area-heres-what-you-can-expect\">King Tides,\u003c/a> which can rise unexpectedly and take hikers off guard, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041127/dont-go-into-the-water-at-ocean-beach-sf-officials-urge-ahead-of-memorial-day-weekend\">can be extremely dangerous \u003c/a>— or lead hikers to attempt dangerous maneuvers on the cliffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People do frequent this area quite a bit, and it’s beautiful, but we do recommend people to stay on the trail,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe\n src='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCeDp_MY_h4G6VWj_-VPl-BJlQ3Uya2H0vxRZZd_47BpXwVA/viewform?embedded=true?embedded=true'\n title='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCeDp_MY_h4G6VWj_-VPl-BJlQ3Uya2H0vxRZZd_47BpXwVA/viewform?embedded=true'\n width='760' height='500'\n frameborder='0'\n marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Driving over the Bay Bridge into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, the vast, mostly barren compound that’s home to the Treasure Island Job Corps Center doesn’t look like much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students gaining certifications in culinary arts, construction, hospitality and other blue-collar careers at the trade school say it has been a lifeline for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1999, thousands of low-income youth and young adults have gotten high school diplomas and trade certifications while living and working at the federally funded site. Now, more than 350 who were enrolled as of last week are at risk of losing that lifeline in the coming weeks, as the Department of Labor plans to pause operations at Job Corps centers across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us have nowhere to go,” said Eddie Lopez, 19, one of dozens of students, staff members and community advocates who gathered Thursday to protest the termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez came to the center four months ago, after couch surfing in the East Bay and trying to find a job to support himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042991\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students, staff and supporters rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We came here with nothing — no job, no home, no support system — and now they expect us to find something in a couple of days. It’s just really heartbreaking and horrifying and inhumane,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez and other students at Treasure Island found out last week that they would need to leave the island after the Department of Labor announced it would indefinitely pause operations at the end of June at the vast majority of its 131 trade schools that offer free schooling, housing and healthcare to low-income 16 to 24 year olds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement that the department had reviewed the program and determined that it was “no longer achieving the intended outcomes that students deserve,” based on a review of serious incident reports at Job Corps sites and the financial impact of the program, which operated with a $140 million deficit in 2024.[aside postID=news_12042125 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250529-JOBCORPSCENTER-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']About 250 of the 375 students who resided on Treasure Island prior to the DOL’s announcement have already left, and more are preparing to leave by the end of the week, according to Lacy Barnes, a representative for the Union of Teachers and Classified Professionals, which represents the center’s employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042125/trump-pauses-job-corps-leaving-san-jose-trade-students-in-turmoil\">similar exodus\u003c/a> has happened at the San José Job Corps site, where another 350 students found out last Thursday that their program would be shut down, and some were told to pack their bags within days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other students, including Lopez, plan to stay on campus until they’re forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to a trade group representing Job Corps center operators suing the Department of Labor over its abrupt announcement, ordering the department not to pause work or terminate agreements with contractors until a further ruling. The order lasts through June 17, when a hearing is scheduled in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter grants the contractors an injunction that would extend until the case could be decided in court, Barnes worries that the chaos over the last week cannot be rectified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Lara, executive vice president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The damage that’s incurred — we can’t recoup that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the students who come to job corps centers escaped difficult home situations or were previously unhoused, and are at heightened risk if they are forced to return to those circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaiah Moncrease, who recently completed the culinary program at Treasure Island, said without it, he isn’t sure he would see a future where he has a legal job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got into gang life, I sold drugs, and I almost ended up in jail multiple times,” he said. “This program not only saved my life, but saved the lives of countless other students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before coming to Job Corps, Moncrease said he and his siblings had been moved around nine states and more than 50 counties by his mother, who was struggling with drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She went wherever the drugs were, and we went with her,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042990\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Jeffers, president of the Council of Classified Employees (CFT), listens to speakers during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he landed in Antioch with his father, where he said he was abused. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>About 250 of the 375 students who resided on Treasure Island prior to the DOL’s announcement have already left, and more are preparing to leave by the end of the week, according to Lacy Barnes, a representative for the Union of Teachers and Classified Professionals, which represents the center’s employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042125/trump-pauses-job-corps-leaving-san-jose-trade-students-in-turmoil\">similar exodus\u003c/a> has happened at the San José Job Corps site, where another 350 students found out last Thursday that their program would be shut down, and some were told to pack their bags within days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other students, including Lopez, plan to stay on campus until they’re forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to a trade group representing Job Corps center operators suing the Department of Labor over its abrupt announcement, ordering the department not to pause work or terminate agreements with contractors until a further ruling. The order lasts through June 17, when a hearing is scheduled in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter grants the contractors an injunction that would extend until the case could be decided in court, Barnes worries that the chaos over the last week cannot be rectified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Lara, executive vice president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The damage that’s incurred — we can’t recoup that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the students who come to job corps centers escaped difficult home situations or were previously unhoused, and are at heightened risk if they are forced to return to those circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaiah Moncrease, who recently completed the culinary program at Treasure Island, said without it, he isn’t sure he would see a future where he has a legal job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got into gang life, I sold drugs, and I almost ended up in jail multiple times,” he said. “This program not only saved my life, but saved the lives of countless other students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before coming to Job Corps, Moncrease said he and his siblings had been moved around nine states and more than 50 counties by his mother, who was struggling with drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She went wherever the drugs were, and we went with her,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042990\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Jeffers, president of the Council of Classified Employees (CFT), listens to speakers during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he landed in Antioch with his father, where he said he was abused. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors are subpoenaing the former leaders of the San Francisco Parks Alliance, days after the prominent nonprofit abruptly shut down amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\">allegations of gross financial mismanagement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing on Thursday, Supervisors Shamann Walton and Jackie Fielder called on three former top officials to testify about why the organization misspent millions of dollars in donor funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parks Alliance acted as the fundraising arm of the city’s open spaces. The group’s former leaders, including Robert Ogilvie, the organization’s CEO until just days ago, his predecessor, Drew Becher, and former treasurer, Rick Hutchinson, will be required to appear before the committee under penalty of perjury, and could be held in contempt if they refuse to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton lambasted the organization for its fiscal mismanagement and lack of transparency, which has left dozens of partner organizations scrambling for funding alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The harm to neighborhood groups across San Francisco cannot be overstated,” said Walton, a member of the Government Audit & Oversight Committee. “Many of these groups are volunteer-run. They did nothing wrong. Their funds were held in a trust, and now those funds may be gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization’s implosion comes as its leaders last month admitted to misspending at least $3.8 million in restricted funds in order to cover its operating costs, prompting the city to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\"> launch civil and criminal investigations\u003c/a> of the group and the mayor to suspend its city funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12042690 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than 50 years, the Parks Alliance was a critical player in supporting San Francisco’s many open-space projects and serving as a fiscal sponsor for more than 80 community organizations across the city that don’t have their own tax-exempt status and use the nonprofit as a bank to hold and distribute their funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not know the Parks Alliance’s full assets at this time, but we do know they owe the city and many nonprofits a lot of money,” Walton said. “We are here to demand answers. This is about public trust, accountability and the real consequences of failed oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a leaked email last month sent to a Parks Alliance donor and obtained by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, the Alliance’s board chair, Louise Mozingo, admitted to improperly spending those restricted funds and likened the organization’s financial situation to “a dumpster fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the email, Mozingo said the board was preparing for the possibility of shutting down the organization and had already contacted a firm specializing in “nonprofit liquidation.” She also acknowledged that the board was “very conscious” that doing so would “substantially hurt many small businesses and organizations that will realize a significant loss, causing real hardship in already uncertain times,” according to \u003cem>the Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parks Alliance did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.[aside postID=news_12042526 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS42458_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_GGP_03302020-qut-1020x680.jpg']The downfall of the Alliance, which Supervisor Jackie Fielder described to KQED as “a magnet and a who’s who in the city for very powerful people,” follows a series of scandals involving multiple city-funded nonprofits accused of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004947/sf-mayor-breed-pushes-back-against-corruption-criticism-from-opponents\">misusing city funds\u003c/a> or unfairly awarding grants based on personal connections. Last year, the executive director of the now-defunct nonprofit SF SAFE was arrested for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997977/former-head-of-sfpd-linked-nonprofit-arrested-over-alleged-misuse-of-700000\">allegedly stealing and misusing\u003c/a> more than $700,000 in public funds and donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Thursday’s hearing, Fielder also directed the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\">audit the city’s Recreation and Parks Department,\u003c/a> which has worked closely with the Alliance on various open-space projects. The audit, she said, should include a review of the department’s current projects and its financial ties to the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all of the mistrust in city government from San Franciscans, I think it’s all the more important for the Recreation and Parks Department to undertake this audit as questions surround their affiliated nonprofits,” Fielder told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of representatives of groups impacted by the Alliance’s closure also spoke at Thursday’s hearing, urging supervisors to hold the defunct nonprofit’s leaders accountable and “solve this mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of community projects in every single district of the city, and each of the supervisors here knows well how important these projects are to the fabric of the neighborhood,” said Rosaura Valle, who helps lead the Detroit Steps Project in the city’s Sunnyside neighborhood, an initiative funded largely by small donations from local residents. ”Volunteers commit their own personal time, skills and passion to projects that benefit the community and the city at no cost to the city. And now we’re stripped of our assets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ildiko Polony, the executive director of conservation group Sutro Stewards, one of the few fiscally sponsored groups that had paid employees, said her entire staff, who the Alliance technically employed, received layoff notices on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I’m in a position of scrambling, trying to figure out what to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reports of the Parks Alliance’s financial mismanagement began emerging in late April, Polony formed a coalition of fiscally sponsored groups, in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to keep the Alliance afloat. Now its members, who held a press event on the steps of City Hall ahead of Thursday’s hearing, are calling on the city to make them whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition estimates that close to $2 million of its donations were depleted by the Alliance, and is now demanding city leaders compensate the groups, so they can reimburse their vendors, rehire staff and continue projects. It also calls on the city to maintain the function of Alliance’s fiscal sponsorship program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It] has allowed for community partners, for neighbors to get together to make the change that they want to see happen in their neighborhoods,” Polony said. “There is little that is as empowering to a community than being able to come together and envision together what you wanna see happen in your community and then work to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the fiscal sponsorship program that SFPA provided, that function needs to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The downfall of the Alliance, which Supervisor Jackie Fielder described to KQED as “a magnet and a who’s who in the city for very powerful people,” follows a series of scandals involving multiple city-funded nonprofits accused of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004947/sf-mayor-breed-pushes-back-against-corruption-criticism-from-opponents\">misusing city funds\u003c/a> or unfairly awarding grants based on personal connections. Last year, the executive director of the now-defunct nonprofit SF SAFE was arrested for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997977/former-head-of-sfpd-linked-nonprofit-arrested-over-alleged-misuse-of-700000\">allegedly stealing and misusing\u003c/a> more than $700,000 in public funds and donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Thursday’s hearing, Fielder also directed the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\">audit the city’s Recreation and Parks Department,\u003c/a> which has worked closely with the Alliance on various open-space projects. The audit, she said, should include a review of the department’s current projects and its financial ties to the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all of the mistrust in city government from San Franciscans, I think it’s all the more important for the Recreation and Parks Department to undertake this audit as questions surround their affiliated nonprofits,” Fielder told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of representatives of groups impacted by the Alliance’s closure also spoke at Thursday’s hearing, urging supervisors to hold the defunct nonprofit’s leaders accountable and “solve this mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of community projects in every single district of the city, and each of the supervisors here knows well how important these projects are to the fabric of the neighborhood,” said Rosaura Valle, who helps lead the Detroit Steps Project in the city’s Sunnyside neighborhood, an initiative funded largely by small donations from local residents. ”Volunteers commit their own personal time, skills and passion to projects that benefit the community and the city at no cost to the city. And now we’re stripped of our assets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ildiko Polony, the executive director of conservation group Sutro Stewards, one of the few fiscally sponsored groups that had paid employees, said her entire staff, who the Alliance technically employed, received layoff notices on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I’m in a position of scrambling, trying to figure out what to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reports of the Parks Alliance’s financial mismanagement began emerging in late April, Polony formed a coalition of fiscally sponsored groups, in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to keep the Alliance afloat. Now its members, who held a press event on the steps of City Hall ahead of Thursday’s hearing, are calling on the city to make them whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition estimates that close to $2 million of its donations were depleted by the Alliance, and is now demanding city leaders compensate the groups, so they can reimburse their vendors, rehire staff and continue projects. It also calls on the city to maintain the function of Alliance’s fiscal sponsorship program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It] has allowed for community partners, for neighbors to get together to make the change that they want to see happen in their neighborhoods,” Polony said. “There is little that is as empowering to a community than being able to come together and envision together what you wanna see happen in your community and then work to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the fiscal sponsorship program that SFPA provided, that function needs to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s summer, and that means Stern Grove — San Francisco’s long-running free concert series — is coming back with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974214/stern-grove-2025-lineup-free-concerts-diana-ross-san-francisco\">the legendary Diana Ross as the headliner\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, the festival is doing things differently. While entrance is still free, Stern Grove is operating on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/lottery-howto\">a lottery system\u003c/a> when distributing tickets this year. Festival goers will have to sign up through an online system six weeks before a certain show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a fan,” admits KQED’s own mid-level giving manager — and Stern Grove expert — Rachel Gelbmann. She said she missed out on securing tickets for some of her first-pick shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the new system, you have a week to enter a lottery system and you either will or won’t get awarded tickets,” she said, but added that despite these changes, she’s still making an effort to see her favorites, which include Ross, the California Honey Drops and Damien and Stephen Marley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Gelbmann is a Stern Grove regular and concert enthusiast, we naturally turned to her for any tips on how to navigate this year’s festival. With the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/business/gen-z-concert-tickets-taylor-swift-beyonce.html\">price of concert tickets nowadays\u003c/a>, any event promising free music is almost guaranteed to attract a huge crowd, and Gelbmann tells us how to secure tickets, enter the venue and other key tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1628523574-scaled-e1749072539649.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042767\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1628523574-scaled-e1749072539649.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Flaming Lips perform at the Stern Grove festival on Aug. 20, 2023, in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Photo by Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>First things first: What is the new Stern Grove ticketing system?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/lineup\">eleven concerts for Stern Grove\u003c/a>: the first one — featuring The California Honeydrops — is scheduled for June 15 and there will be concerts every following weekend leading up to the two-day weekend picnic on Aug. 16 and 17. You can check out the lineup on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974214/stern-grove-2025-lineup-free-concerts-diana-ross-san-francisco\">KQED Arts\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/lineup\">Stern Grove’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six weeks \u003cem>before\u003c/em> each concert date, the online ticket lottery opens up, which can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/lineup\">under each artist’s name\u003c/a> or on the artist’s individual page on the festival’s website. The lottery will ask for your name, zip code, demographic information and how many tickets you want. You can request up to four tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children two years or younger do not need tickets. (Stern Grove also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/experiencekidzone\">weekly programming for children\u003c/a>, from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., that includes face painting, a petting zoo and games.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the lottery for a concert opens up, you will have a week to enter your name. So if you are trying to watch \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/phantogram\">Phantogram on July 13\u003c/a>, the sign-up for the lottery is from June 1 to June 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand the nostalgia for the “just show up” days of the past, but evolving safety standards and insurance requirements make it impossible to return to that model,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/ticket-info\">Stern Grove’s website reads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a week, Stern Grove will send out an email (from \u003ca href=\"mailto:orders@sterngrove.org\">orders@sterngrove.org\u003c/a>) to those who have won the lottery. You will have 72 hours to confirm with the festival and secure your tickets. (The website highlights that the message with your tickets comes with a claim button — which works only once!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tickets will be emailed to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if you don’t get tickets?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you are unable to get tickets through the lottery, there are some other ways to catch the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day before each show, Stern Grove will \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/community-box-offices\">distribute a thousand tickets on a first-come, first-served basis\u003c/a>. They will hand out two tickets per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The locations where to pick up these tickets vary, and you can check them out at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/community-box-offices\">Stern Grove’s map\u003c/a>.[aside postID=arts_13974214 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/GettyImages-2159811667-1020x728.jpg']For example, if you want to see Phantogram, you would have to wait for tickets at China Basin Park on July 12 at 12 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern Grove also provides \u003ca href=\"https://secure.qgiv.com/for/fy25tablesales/event/934138/embed/79176/\">a (very pricey) option of reserving tables\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://secure.qgiv.com/for/fy25tablesales/event/934159/embed/79178/\">large groups of ten to forty people\u003c/a>. For example, for Orville Peck on July 27, a table for ten with expedited entrance and parking spots \u003ca href=\"https://secure.qgiv.com/for/fy25tablesales/event/934159/embed/79178/\">costs around $2,000\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DoTheBay also has \u003ca href=\"https://dothebay.com/\">a ticket giveaway\u003c/a> for each concert in the festival. You can enter using a \u003ca href=\"https://dothebay.com/events/2025/6/15/stern-grove-festival-2025-golden-ticket-giveaway-tickets\">form\u003c/a> on Do The Bay’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/volunteer\">consider volunteering for Stern Grove\u003c/a> to be able to get a spot at a show. Volunteering can include cleaning up and breaking down the setup after the concert. With only a couple of weeks left before the start of the festival, Gelbmann has noticed spots going quickly and advised people to try signing up sooner rather than later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers can get \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/volunteer\">two free tickets to a show of their choosing\u003c/a> \u003cem>after\u003c/em> they complete their shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers sign up through \u003ca href=\"https://volunteer.bloomerang.co/web-admin/app/#/join-party?k=68b5x7vgyhxdfi\">a website called Bloomerang\u003c/a>. You can choose a day you are available, and \u003ca href=\"https://volunteer.bloomerang.co/web-admin/app/#/join-party?k=ynahnr5166kodb\">one of the four shifts\u003c/a>: Setup Crew (8 a.m. to 12 p.m.), Welcome Crew (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.), Festival Flow Crew (12 p.m. to 4 p.m.) and Breakdown Crew (2 p.m. to 6 p.m.).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gelbmann, “the best shift is the early morning one, where you’re done by noon. Because then you can have first dibs on the best place to sit in the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would also get your volunteering out of the way so you could enjoy your lunch and then enjoy the music,” she added. “You can also volunteer for leader shifts, but you might be kind of working during the music acts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-827121516-scaled-e1749072873169.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042768\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-827121516-scaled-e1749072873169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Barthel of Phantogram performs on Day 3 of the Osheaga Music and Art Festival at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Aug. 6, 2017, in Montreal, Canada. Phantogram is playing Stern Grove on July 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Photo by Mark Horton/WireImage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>When and where does the show start?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stern Grove shows \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">take place\u003c/a> at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco. The concert is down a hill, and you \u003cem>do\u003c/em> have to climb down a hill to get to the concert, and then up that same hill when heading out. (\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#JumpaheadtowhataccessibilityoptionsareavailableatSternGrove\">Jump ahead to what accessibility options are available at Stern Grove.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two general admission entrances are 23rd and Wawona and 19th and Sloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The usual schedule is: lines open at 10 a.m., gates open at 12 p.m., DJ spinning at 1 p.m., and the show starts at 2 p.m. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">concert usually ends\u003c/a> at 4:30 or 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although it’s a free show, you have to be strategic about it,” Gelbmann said. “It’s a whole day thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want a good spot, Gelbmann suggested getting in line around 9 or 9:30 a.m.[aside postID=arts_13975778 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/240811_OutsideLands__EG_040-1536x1024.jpg'](Stern Grove officials say that overnight camping is not allowed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We typically pack like breakfast burritos and our comfy seats for the show and just park ourselves on the sidewalk, and hang out with our burritos and something to read,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gelbmann said when the gates open, sometimes there is a “mad rush” to get the best spots since \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/seating-areas\">it is first-come, first-served\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Others can be a little territorial and not so nice,” she said. “I would just recommend being prepared for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seating areas include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Concert Meadow\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hillside\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>West Meadow (includes a screen to watch the concert)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>ADA, senior and wheelchair seating\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But no worries, because in her experience, “90% of the people that do go to Stern Grove come with a good attitude and are friendly to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/2025SternGroveFestivalVenueMap_PublicForWeb.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042771\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/2025SternGroveFestivalVenueMap_PublicForWeb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/2025SternGroveFestivalVenueMap_PublicForWeb.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/2025SternGroveFestivalVenueMap_PublicForWeb-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/2025SternGroveFestivalVenueMap_PublicForWeb-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the 2025 Stern Grove Festival. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Stern Grove Festival.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How do I get to Stern Grove?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stern Grove organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">highly recommend that visitors take public transportation\u003c/a> or rideshares to the festival, since there is no public parking available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who bought picnic tables do get parking spaces, and information will be emailed to them. More about accessible parking below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Street parking in the surrounding neighborhood is extremely limited,” the website reads. “Illegally parked cars — including those blocking driveways — may be ticketed and towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Public transportation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Visitors can use \u003ca href=\"http://511.org\">511.org\u003c/a> to plan out their route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">Muni Metro\u003c/a>: “Take lines M Ocean View or the K Ingleside and exit at the St. Francis Circle stop. Walk west one block to the park entrance at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">Muni bus service\u003c/a>: “Lines 23-Monterey and 28-19th Avenue stop right at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">BART\u003c/a>: Take a train to Civic Center and transfer to Muni Metro M Ocean View or the K Ingleside. You can also take \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">BART\u003c/a> to Glen Park Station and transfer to MUNI bus 23-Monterey and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">BART\u003c/a> to Daly City and transfer to MUNI bus 28-19th Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bikes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While bikes are not allowed in the venue, bikes can be stored with the valet located at 21st and Wowona. This storage space is open from noon to one hour after the concert ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"JumpaheadtowhataccessibilityoptionsareavailableatSternGrove\">\u003c/a>Accessibility\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When selecting a ticket, you can mention if you need accessibility services during your concert. This does not guarantee accessibility seating, as it is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/accessibility-ada\">first-come, first-served\u003c/a>.[aside postID=arts_13970908 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/Stage_COVER-1020x765.jpg']But it’s still worth letting organizers know that you need accessible seating when signing up, because Stern Grove may reach out \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/accessibility-ada\">four weeks before the concert\u003c/a> to communicate possible arrangements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">Accessible parking\u003c/a> is also first-come, first-served along the North side of Sloat Blvd between 19th Ave and 22nd Ave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a shuttle that does a round trip from the 19th and Sloat Entrance and the Concert Meadow. Hours for the shuttle are 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gelbmann used the bus system last year, when she was pregnant, and mentioned that it can be slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one small bus and it does shifts,” she explained. “If you’re in that first load of people, you’ll get in pretty early, but you have to be pretty patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can I bring? What can I not bring?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/what-can-i-bring\">You can bring\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Blankets under 5 x 7 ft\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Low-profile lawn chairs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Picnics and coolers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your own food and drinks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alcohol\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Strollers are allowed, if they can be folded down and not block pathways\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You cannot bring:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Tarps\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Large blankets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pets. \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.pdf\">Service or support animals\u003c/a> \u003cem>are \u003c/em>allowed\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sharp knives with a blade longer than 4 inches.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>High-backed, standard folding chairs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Large or tall tables\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tents\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Umbrellas\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shade structures\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barbecues/grills or any item with open flame.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Video or audio recording equipment, like drones or professional still camera equipment with a detachable lens longer than two inches or tripods.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Skateboards, scooters, hoverboards or any personal motorized vehicles\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Firearms or weapons of any kind\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fireworks and explosives or any item with open flame\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Illegal substances (including narcotics) or drug paraphernalia\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Amplified sound, bullhorns or speakers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cigarettes/smoking\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1628529491-scaled-e1749080290450.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1628529491-scaled-e1749080290450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Festival attendees grab a bite at the Stern Grove festival on Aug. 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Photo by Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Food\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are food trucks, drinks and alcohol available at the venue. But you are also able to bring \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/experiencefooddrink\">your own picnic supplies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have breakfast and lunch there. And by the time we leave, it’s usually almost dinnertime,” Gelbmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Weather\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s summertime in San Francisco. So remember — layer up. That means jackets and extra shirts, as well as sunscreen and hats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be freezing, or it could be hot and sweaty and sunny,” Gelbmann said. “It could be all those things in one day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s summer, and that means Stern Grove — San Francisco’s long-running free concert series — is coming back with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974214/stern-grove-2025-lineup-free-concerts-diana-ross-san-francisco\">the legendary Diana Ross as the headliner\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, the festival is doing things differently. While entrance is still free, Stern Grove is operating on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/lottery-howto\">a lottery system\u003c/a> when distributing tickets this year. Festival goers will have to sign up through an online system six weeks before a certain show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a fan,” admits KQED’s own mid-level giving manager — and Stern Grove expert — Rachel Gelbmann. She said she missed out on securing tickets for some of her first-pick shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the new system, you have a week to enter a lottery system and you either will or won’t get awarded tickets,” she said, but added that despite these changes, she’s still making an effort to see her favorites, which include Ross, the California Honey Drops and Damien and Stephen Marley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Gelbmann is a Stern Grove regular and concert enthusiast, we naturally turned to her for any tips on how to navigate this year’s festival. With the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/business/gen-z-concert-tickets-taylor-swift-beyonce.html\">price of concert tickets nowadays\u003c/a>, any event promising free music is almost guaranteed to attract a huge crowd, and Gelbmann tells us how to secure tickets, enter the venue and other key tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1628523574-scaled-e1749072539649.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042767\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1628523574-scaled-e1749072539649.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Flaming Lips perform at the Stern Grove festival on Aug. 20, 2023, in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Photo by Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>First things first: What is the new Stern Grove ticketing system?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/lineup\">eleven concerts for Stern Grove\u003c/a>: the first one — featuring The California Honeydrops — is scheduled for June 15 and there will be concerts every following weekend leading up to the two-day weekend picnic on Aug. 16 and 17. You can check out the lineup on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974214/stern-grove-2025-lineup-free-concerts-diana-ross-san-francisco\">KQED Arts\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/lineup\">Stern Grove’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six weeks \u003cem>before\u003c/em> each concert date, the online ticket lottery opens up, which can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/lineup\">under each artist’s name\u003c/a> or on the artist’s individual page on the festival’s website. The lottery will ask for your name, zip code, demographic information and how many tickets you want. You can request up to four tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children two years or younger do not need tickets. (Stern Grove also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/experiencekidzone\">weekly programming for children\u003c/a>, from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., that includes face painting, a petting zoo and games.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the lottery for a concert opens up, you will have a week to enter your name. So if you are trying to watch \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/phantogram\">Phantogram on July 13\u003c/a>, the sign-up for the lottery is from June 1 to June 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand the nostalgia for the “just show up” days of the past, but evolving safety standards and insurance requirements make it impossible to return to that model,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/ticket-info\">Stern Grove’s website reads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a week, Stern Grove will send out an email (from \u003ca href=\"mailto:orders@sterngrove.org\">orders@sterngrove.org\u003c/a>) to those who have won the lottery. You will have 72 hours to confirm with the festival and secure your tickets. (The website highlights that the message with your tickets comes with a claim button — which works only once!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tickets will be emailed to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if you don’t get tickets?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you are unable to get tickets through the lottery, there are some other ways to catch the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day before each show, Stern Grove will \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/community-box-offices\">distribute a thousand tickets on a first-come, first-served basis\u003c/a>. They will hand out two tickets per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The locations where to pick up these tickets vary, and you can check them out at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/community-box-offices\">Stern Grove’s map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For example, if you want to see Phantogram, you would have to wait for tickets at China Basin Park on July 12 at 12 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern Grove also provides \u003ca href=\"https://secure.qgiv.com/for/fy25tablesales/event/934138/embed/79176/\">a (very pricey) option of reserving tables\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://secure.qgiv.com/for/fy25tablesales/event/934159/embed/79178/\">large groups of ten to forty people\u003c/a>. For example, for Orville Peck on July 27, a table for ten with expedited entrance and parking spots \u003ca href=\"https://secure.qgiv.com/for/fy25tablesales/event/934159/embed/79178/\">costs around $2,000\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DoTheBay also has \u003ca href=\"https://dothebay.com/\">a ticket giveaway\u003c/a> for each concert in the festival. You can enter using a \u003ca href=\"https://dothebay.com/events/2025/6/15/stern-grove-festival-2025-golden-ticket-giveaway-tickets\">form\u003c/a> on Do The Bay’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/volunteer\">consider volunteering for Stern Grove\u003c/a> to be able to get a spot at a show. Volunteering can include cleaning up and breaking down the setup after the concert. With only a couple of weeks left before the start of the festival, Gelbmann has noticed spots going quickly and advised people to try signing up sooner rather than later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers can get \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/volunteer\">two free tickets to a show of their choosing\u003c/a> \u003cem>after\u003c/em> they complete their shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers sign up through \u003ca href=\"https://volunteer.bloomerang.co/web-admin/app/#/join-party?k=68b5x7vgyhxdfi\">a website called Bloomerang\u003c/a>. You can choose a day you are available, and \u003ca href=\"https://volunteer.bloomerang.co/web-admin/app/#/join-party?k=ynahnr5166kodb\">one of the four shifts\u003c/a>: Setup Crew (8 a.m. to 12 p.m.), Welcome Crew (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.), Festival Flow Crew (12 p.m. to 4 p.m.) and Breakdown Crew (2 p.m. to 6 p.m.).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gelbmann, “the best shift is the early morning one, where you’re done by noon. Because then you can have first dibs on the best place to sit in the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would also get your volunteering out of the way so you could enjoy your lunch and then enjoy the music,” she added. “You can also volunteer for leader shifts, but you might be kind of working during the music acts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-827121516-scaled-e1749072873169.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042768\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-827121516-scaled-e1749072873169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Barthel of Phantogram performs on Day 3 of the Osheaga Music and Art Festival at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Aug. 6, 2017, in Montreal, Canada. Phantogram is playing Stern Grove on July 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Photo by Mark Horton/WireImage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>When and where does the show start?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stern Grove shows \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">take place\u003c/a> at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco. The concert is down a hill, and you \u003cem>do\u003c/em> have to climb down a hill to get to the concert, and then up that same hill when heading out. (\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#JumpaheadtowhataccessibilityoptionsareavailableatSternGrove\">Jump ahead to what accessibility options are available at Stern Grove.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two general admission entrances are 23rd and Wawona and 19th and Sloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The usual schedule is: lines open at 10 a.m., gates open at 12 p.m., DJ spinning at 1 p.m., and the show starts at 2 p.m. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">concert usually ends\u003c/a> at 4:30 or 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although it’s a free show, you have to be strategic about it,” Gelbmann said. “It’s a whole day thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want a good spot, Gelbmann suggested getting in line around 9 or 9:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>(Stern Grove officials say that overnight camping is not allowed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We typically pack like breakfast burritos and our comfy seats for the show and just park ourselves on the sidewalk, and hang out with our burritos and something to read,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gelbmann said when the gates open, sometimes there is a “mad rush” to get the best spots since \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/seating-areas\">it is first-come, first-served\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Others can be a little territorial and not so nice,” she said. “I would just recommend being prepared for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seating areas include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Concert Meadow\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hillside\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>West Meadow (includes a screen to watch the concert)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>ADA, senior and wheelchair seating\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But no worries, because in her experience, “90% of the people that do go to Stern Grove come with a good attitude and are friendly to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/2025SternGroveFestivalVenueMap_PublicForWeb.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042771\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/2025SternGroveFestivalVenueMap_PublicForWeb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/2025SternGroveFestivalVenueMap_PublicForWeb.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/2025SternGroveFestivalVenueMap_PublicForWeb-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/2025SternGroveFestivalVenueMap_PublicForWeb-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the 2025 Stern Grove Festival. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Stern Grove Festival.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How do I get to Stern Grove?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stern Grove organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">highly recommend that visitors take public transportation\u003c/a> or rideshares to the festival, since there is no public parking available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who bought picnic tables do get parking spaces, and information will be emailed to them. More about accessible parking below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Street parking in the surrounding neighborhood is extremely limited,” the website reads. “Illegally parked cars — including those blocking driveways — may be ticketed and towed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Public transportation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Visitors can use \u003ca href=\"http://511.org\">511.org\u003c/a> to plan out their route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">Muni Metro\u003c/a>: “Take lines M Ocean View or the K Ingleside and exit at the St. Francis Circle stop. Walk west one block to the park entrance at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">Muni bus service\u003c/a>: “Lines 23-Monterey and 28-19th Avenue stop right at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">BART\u003c/a>: Take a train to Civic Center and transfer to Muni Metro M Ocean View or the K Ingleside. You can also take \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">BART\u003c/a> to Glen Park Station and transfer to MUNI bus 23-Monterey and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">BART\u003c/a> to Daly City and transfer to MUNI bus 28-19th Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bikes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While bikes are not allowed in the venue, bikes can be stored with the valet located at 21st and Wowona. This storage space is open from noon to one hour after the concert ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"JumpaheadtowhataccessibilityoptionsareavailableatSternGrove\">\u003c/a>Accessibility\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When selecting a ticket, you can mention if you need accessibility services during your concert. This does not guarantee accessibility seating, as it is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/accessibility-ada\">first-come, first-served\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But it’s still worth letting organizers know that you need accessible seating when signing up, because Stern Grove may reach out \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/accessibility-ada\">four weeks before the concert\u003c/a> to communicate possible arrangements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/getting-here\">Accessible parking\u003c/a> is also first-come, first-served along the North side of Sloat Blvd between 19th Ave and 22nd Ave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a shuttle that does a round trip from the 19th and Sloat Entrance and the Concert Meadow. Hours for the shuttle are 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gelbmann used the bus system last year, when she was pregnant, and mentioned that it can be slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one small bus and it does shifts,” she explained. “If you’re in that first load of people, you’ll get in pretty early, but you have to be pretty patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can I bring? What can I not bring?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/what-can-i-bring\">You can bring\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Blankets under 5 x 7 ft\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Low-profile lawn chairs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Picnics and coolers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your own food and drinks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alcohol\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Strollers are allowed, if they can be folded down and not block pathways\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You cannot bring:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Tarps\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Large blankets\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pets. \u003ca href=\"https://archive.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.pdf\">Service or support animals\u003c/a> \u003cem>are \u003c/em>allowed\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sharp knives with a blade longer than 4 inches.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>High-backed, standard folding chairs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Large or tall tables\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tents\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Umbrellas\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shade structures\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barbecues/grills or any item with open flame.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Video or audio recording equipment, like drones or professional still camera equipment with a detachable lens longer than two inches or tripods.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Skateboards, scooters, hoverboards or any personal motorized vehicles\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Firearms or weapons of any kind\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fireworks and explosives or any item with open flame\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Illegal substances (including narcotics) or drug paraphernalia\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Amplified sound, bullhorns or speakers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cigarettes/smoking\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1628529491-scaled-e1749080290450.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GettyImages-1628529491-scaled-e1749080290450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Festival attendees grab a bite at the Stern Grove festival on Aug. 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Photo by Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Food\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are food trucks, drinks and alcohol available at the venue. But you are also able to bring \u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/experiencefooddrink\">your own picnic supplies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have breakfast and lunch there. And by the time we leave, it’s usually almost dinnertime,” Gelbmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Weather\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s summertime in San Francisco. So remember — layer up. That means jackets and extra shirts, as well as sunscreen and hats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could be freezing, or it could be hot and sweaty and sunny,” Gelbmann said. “It could be all those things in one day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#A\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beach just south of Fort Funston looks like many in Northern California: a wide swath of sand stretches to the surf on one side, while on the other, steep sandy bluffs with succulents rise above. But walking along \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiabeaches.com/beach/phillip-burton-memorial-beach/\">Phillip Burton Memorial Beach\u003c/a>, sandwiched between Fort Funston and Thornton Beach access points, walkers may notice something unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a tunnel coming out of the hillside in the middle of the beach, kind of not close to anything,” said Francisco Alvarado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado spotted this mysterious tunnel one day while walking his chihuahua, Little Bean, on the beach. The opening is etched into the cliff, with its floor at about head height. When Alvarado climbed up to look inside, he realized the tunnel was big, about three feet across. The roof was smooth and flat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a very mysterious tunnel and I want to know what it was used for,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the tunnel, old wood pilings jut out of the ocean. They look like the remnants of a pier, so Alvarado wondered if this tunnel could be from an old train line. Or, maybe it’s got something to do with drainage?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Finding the tunnel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To get to the bottom of this tunnel mystery, I enlist Katryn Wiese, a professor of geology, oceanography and paleontology at College of San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s very familiar with this beach and regularly brings her students here on field trips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically this whole section of the coastline is very soft rock and it slides all the time,” says Wiese, in reference to \u003ca href=\"https://baynature.org/article/down-to-the-sea-again/\">the section of beach between San Francisco and Pacifica\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says most people are unaware of the landslide risk, and don’t know that beaches like this can change with the seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041385\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Burton Memorial Beach in San Francisco, on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(David Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So the sand piles up in the summer, and then throughout the winter, the heavier waves start excavating it,” pulling the sand back out to the ocean and uncovering rocks hidden below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means spring is the best time to see hidden treasures embedded in the rock cliff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all these beautiful fossil-rich rocks right at the base of the cliff” on the north side of the stairs that take you down to the beach from the main Fort Funston parking lot, she said. “But you only can see them in the spring. Otherwise they’re covered with sand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you look closely at the bottom of the cliff there, you can see clam fossils dating back almost a million years, Wiese says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I meet Wiese at low tide, the best time to see as much of the rocky cliff as possible and hopefully reveal more clues about what this tunnel might be. We walk south down the beach in search of the mysterious tunnel. In the distance, the wood pilings Alvarado described poke out of the surf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, we see it: a dark, cavernous opening in a part of the cliffside that juts out further than the rest. With our feet in the beach sand, looking up at the cliff, we see several layers of rock. The lowest layer is dark red and provides a slope we can climb up, like a welcome mat at the cliff’s base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032817\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of people pass by a tunnel entrance covered in rocks at Phillip Burton Memorial Beach, located between Thornton State Beach and Fort Funston Beach, in San Francisco on March 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whenever something sticks out on a coastline, away from everything else, it’s because it’s made of more resistant rock,” Wiese explains. “As the waves come in, they’re going to naturally excavate the softest stuff [and] leave the hardest stuff behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While all the rock in this region is fairly sandy, some of it is denser because it was compressed over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out three distinct types of rock in front of us. They look like a layer cake, with the tunnel carved into the middle tier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tunnel’s mouth has partially caved in, so we scramble closer for a better view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL1-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL1-KQED-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL1-KQED-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL1-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL1-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large tunnel in the cliffside is visible from Phillip Burton Memorial Beach, just south of Fort Funston. When this photo was taken, on May 5, 2024, the tunnel mouth was unobstructed. Later, a cave-in would partially block the opening. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Francisco Alvarado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We see round marks on the sides of the tunnel’s entrance, like someone took a large ice cream scooper to the walls. Wiese says that it looks like the work of a human — she’s seen similar markings at man-made tunnels near Sutro Baths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she’s puzzled by how large the tunnel is — not likely the work of locals out for some fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we peer into the tunnel, it’s hard to see where, or if, it stops. So, I climb over the cave-in and slide down a short drop into the tunnel, where the crashing wave sounds from outside are much quieter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several feet inside, the walls of the tunnel are round and smooth. I can stand — hunched over — near the mouth, but as I go deeper into the cliffside, the tunnel narrows and I drop to my hands and knees. The tunnel’s end is roughly 30 feet from its start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Curious producer and editor Katrina Schwartz took her microphone into a tunnel on Phillip Burton Memorial Beach to see how far back it goes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Katryn Wiese)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041409\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041409\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tunnel on Philip Burton Memorial Beach seen from the beach (right) and up close (left) in San Francisco, on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The tale of a beach over time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wiese immediately had a theory about the tunnel’s origins, but wanted to check it by looking at older photos of the same spot. She clicked through the many she’s taken when she brings her students there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tunnel was not there back in 2021,” she said. But she does spot it in her 2024 photos, and believes it probably started to form naturally in 2022 or 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw how smooth the inside was, and I felt the rock is very, very soft, I realized that the waves have actually been smoothing it out throughout this storm season,” Wiese said. “If the waves have a hole and they can go in it, they’re gonna just start digging that hole deeper and deeper. That is a typical aspect of coastal erosion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041337\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041337\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL2-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL2-KQED-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL2-KQED-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL2-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL2-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large tunnel in the cliffside is visible from Phillip Burton Memorial Beach, just south of Fort Funston, May 5, 2024. After this photo was taken, a cave-in made the tunnel less accessible. (Courtesy Francisco Alvarado) \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Francisco Alvarado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one photo from January 2021, she pointed out where the first small indentation began. Over several winters, heavy waves battered the same spot in a soft rock layer, gradually excavating it, and creating the startlingly large tunnel I scurried through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s excavating this softer layer, which is between two harder layers,” Wiese said. “That’s not a thin layer, it’s about 6 or 7 feet tall, so you get a large tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, there were no pirate lairs, no long lost railroad tunnel used to smuggle Prohibition-era booze into San Francisco (I know you were thinking it). But the tunnel’s builder — the ocean — was an equally surprising culprit. It reminds us that the beach is constantly changing. Maybe the next time Alvarado walks Little Bean here, there will be no tunnel at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Francisco Alvarado likes to walk his Chihuahua, Little Bean, on the beach near Fort Funston, right on the border with Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Francisco Alvarado: \u003c/strong>He is 13 years old. Brown big ears and we’ve been going to the beach his entire life, but he loves it down there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>One day, they strolled along a beach that will look familiar to Northern Californians: dramatic bluffs covered in sand and succulents. But then, Francisco saw something unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Francisco Alvarado: \u003c/strong>It’s a tunnel coming out of the hillside in the middle of the beach, kind of not close to anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>If you stand on the beach at low tide, with your back to the ocean, he says you’ll see this elevated cave-like thing in the middle of a cliff. Its floor is around head-height. He climbed up to get a better look inside. It was bigger than he thought, maybe 3-feet wide, and it’s roof is smooth and flat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Francisco Alvarado: \u003c/strong>It’s just a very mysterious tunnel and I want to know what it was used for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Since Francisco first saw this tunnel, his curiosity has consumed him. And he’s got some guesses about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Francisco Alvarado: \u003c/strong>And it has some, like, poles or maybe we used to be a platform on, on the beach. I think the tunnel is like an old train tunnel or something from way back in the day. My sister who was with me that day, she thinks it’s an old like a storm drain runoff or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theme starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>So we’ve got some theories. Today on Bay Curious we’ll visit Phillip Burton Memorial Beach, as it’s technically called, to see if we can find clues that tell us more about this mysterious tunnel. I’m Katrina Schwartz, you’re listening to Bay Curious. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Today we’re on a mission to find out more about a large tunnel carved into a cliff on the beach between Fort Funston and Thornton Beach. \u003cem>(Sounds of the beach) \u003c/em>To find some answers, I meet up with Katryn Wiese, a geology professor at College of San Mateo. We start at the large Fort Funston parking lot and pick our way down what looks to me like a huge sandy cliff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>We’re walking down the massive landslide that is Fort Funston. So this, up at the top there, was the original surface of this cliff, and this whole area we’re walking down here was a big landslide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>There are logs hammered into the slope — almost like a ladder — to help hikers navigate the sliding sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>Basically this whole section of the coastline is very soft rock and it slides all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Katryn tells me this beach can change dramatically depending on the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese:\u003c/strong> So the sand piles up in the summer, and then throughout the winter, the heavier waves start excavating it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>That means there are hidden treasures here that can only be seen at certain times of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>Back where we first came in at Fort Funston, there’s all these beautiful fossil-rich rocks right at the base of the cliff. But you only can see them in the spring. otherwise they’re covered with sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Look closely at the bottom of the cliff and you can see clam fossils dating back almost a million years, Katryn says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today, we’re on the hunt for a tunnel, not fossils. Neither Katryn nor I have seen this tunnel yet, so as we amble south down the beach we keep our eyes peeled for what Francisco described.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape):\u003c/strong> I wonder if this is it coming up\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>Let’s take a look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It’s definitely the right place. Francisco told us to look for two things: wood pilings sticking out of the nearby surf, and a cliff that juts farther into the Pacific than surrounding bluffs. Katryn and I walk over to get a closer look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>When you touch it, what do you feel?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape): \u003c/strong>It’s pretty hard and it’s definitely very rough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>What grain size would you associate with that?\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape): \u003c/strong>Feels like sand to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>It’s very sandy, isn’t it? Yeah, so this is a sandstone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Little sand particles brush off when we rub the stone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>So whenever something sticks out on a coastline, away from everything else, it’s because it’s made of more resistant rock. So as the waves come in, they’re going to naturally excavate the softest stuff, leave the hardest stuff behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Katryn says with soft rock like this, any little divet in the surface of the bluff can quickly become larger as the waves crash against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>When the waves come in they’re going hit that same indentation. It’s going to funnel the water into that indentation. And it’s just going to get deeper and deeper and deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Looking up the cliff, we spot it! The mouth of the tunnel is barely visible about eight feet off the sand where we stand. When Francisco first saw it, the opening was much more obvious, but since then it looks like the mouth of the tunnel has collapsed, partially blocking the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>I’m going to go up and take a look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>We climb up a rocky shelf that gets us close enough to peer in, over the sandy rubble. It really is big — large enough for me to stand up hunched over. And it’s deep. We debate whether it’s safe to go inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape): \u003c/strong>Well, and it certainly goes back, I mean, 12, 15 feet, from what we can even see. So, like, if you were 15 feet back and then it caved in, that would be really bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>It’s so tempting, though. And it’s not so much that I’m worried about the tunnel caving in. I’m worried about the collapse of the entrance. So this collapsed, we don’t know when, but it was recent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Katryn admits to being let’s say \u003cem>wary\u003c/em> of confined spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>You need to get someone who’s braver than me, because I don’t want to go back in there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>But the allure of solving this mystery is just too much for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape): \u003c/strong>I’m going into this tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I hand Katryn my backpack and clutch my recorder as I climb over the cave-in and slide down several feet of sand into near darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape): \u003c/strong>Ok, so I’m down in here. You can hear it’s a lot quieter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It looks like someone has used a big ice cream scoop on the side of the tunnel near the entrance. The marks look similar to ones in a tunnel from the 1800s at Sutro Baths, so Katryn’s wondering if this tunnel really could be from back then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape): \u003c/strong>I’m going to go a little further back and see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>But further in, the sides of the tunnel are smooth, a strike against the 1800s theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape): \u003c/strong>It gets smaller and smaller. I think it only goes 20 or 30 feet back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I also noticed that although the sides of the tunnel are round and smooth, the top is flat, so from the outside, the tunnel opening looks something like a trapezoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape): \u003c/strong>The top is a little flatter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese:\u003c/strong> I’m noticing that too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>By this time, I’d been in the tunnel for five or six minutes and to be honest, I got a little spooked. I figured the less time in there the better and made my way out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>I’m glad you did it. It needed to be done. Nice one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>After examining the rock formation up close — and taking photos of me inside it — Katryn heads back to her computer. She wants to compare today’s shots with some photographs she’s taken of the same spot on the beach going back several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, I hopped on a call to talk about what she’d found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>The tunnel was not there back in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>So just four years ago, there was no tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>And it does appear a year ago in ’24. You know, somewhere around ’23, probably year ’22–’23 is when it started to get excavated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>That means it’s probably not an old tunnel from the 1800s. And there isn’t a lot of evidence for it being a drainage outlet either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>But then when I saw how smooth the inside was, and of course, how I felt the rock is very, very soft, I realized that, well, the waves have actually been smoothing it out throughout this storm season. And of course if the waves have a hole and they can go in it, they’re gonna just start digging that hole deeper and deeper. That is a typical aspect of coastal erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>And in the winter, those waves are especially powerful, reaching all the way up to, and inside of, the tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a photo she took in January of 2021, Katryn can even see where she thinks the first indentation started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>There’s no tunnel yet, but there’s more rock on the top of it right here. But you can kind of see what looks like a little bit of an indentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>But why is the roof so perfectly flat? The geologist has an explanation for that too. The cliff is composed of different layers of rock. The layer just above the cave is dense, but the ocean has scoured away with the rock below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>So, it’s because it’s excavating this softer layer, which is between two harder layers. And it just so happens that’s not a thin layer, it’s about six or seven feet tall, so you get a large tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The marks at the opening of the tunnel that made Katryn originally think humans might have dug it — those ice cream scoops — likely are the work of curious people. But they probably didn’t dig the whole tunnel, they just widened the mouth. Their digging may have even caused the cave-in we saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>And it ends up being a natural answer, which is sort of what you would have guessed from the beginning, but it’s nice to have it confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I know, I was hoping this cave was some kind of secret rumrunners tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the truth is more surprising in some ways. In a few more years this massive tunnel might no longer exist. As landslides shift the cliffs and strong waves buffet them, this beach is constantly changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the next time Francisco brings his dog Little Bean to walk here, it could look completely different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If listening to this story really made you want to see what this tunnel looks like for yourself, go check out our website … kqed.org/bay curious. We’ll put a link in our show notes too. We’ve got photos of what the tunnel looked like when Francisco saw it AND ones from after the cave in, when I was there. Honestly, it’s pretty cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to Francisco for asking this week’s question. It actually won a Bay Curious voting round. And we’ve got three new questions up on our website now, ready for you to go vote. Here are your options:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Question 1: \u003c/strong>The Nimitz House — an abandoned, but still-stunning 6,000 square foot mansion located literally under the Bay Bridge on Yerba Buena — is something even long-time San Francisco residents know nothing about. What’s the story of the mansion?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Question 2:\u003c/strong> What were the navigational trees in Oakland and how did they help sailors avoid Blossom Rock in the bay? And also, what’s the story of Blossom Rock being blown up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Question 3:\u003c/strong> What the story with the “art” (read: eyesore) installation just west of the Ferry Building in San Francisco? It’s the large concrete structure with flowing, moldy mildew water (on Google maps it’s called the Vaillancourt Fountain).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Head over to kqed dot org slash bay curious to cast your vote. And, while you’re there, scroll down a little ways and sign up for our newsletter. We only send it once and month and in it we answer even more of your questions!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Francisco Alvarado:\u003c/strong> Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Our show is produced by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale and me, Katrina Schwartz. With extra support from Conner, Vicky Chung, Mark Jones, Alana Walker, Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien, Holly Kernan and everyone at team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Finding the tunnel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To get to the bottom of this tunnel mystery, I enlist Katryn Wiese, a professor of geology, oceanography and paleontology at College of San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s very familiar with this beach and regularly brings her students here on field trips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically this whole section of the coastline is very soft rock and it slides all the time,” says Wiese, in reference to \u003ca href=\"https://baynature.org/article/down-to-the-sea-again/\">the section of beach between San Francisco and Pacifica\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says most people are unaware of the landslide risk, and don’t know that beaches like this can change with the seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041385\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250228_TUNNEL_DMB_0090-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Burton Memorial Beach in San Francisco, on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(David Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So the sand piles up in the summer, and then throughout the winter, the heavier waves start excavating it,” pulling the sand back out to the ocean and uncovering rocks hidden below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means spring is the best time to see hidden treasures embedded in the rock cliff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all these beautiful fossil-rich rocks right at the base of the cliff” on the north side of the stairs that take you down to the beach from the main Fort Funston parking lot, she said. “But you only can see them in the spring. Otherwise they’re covered with sand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you look closely at the bottom of the cliff there, you can see clam fossils dating back almost a million years, Wiese says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I meet Wiese at low tide, the best time to see as much of the rocky cliff as possible and hopefully reveal more clues about what this tunnel might be. We walk south down the beach in search of the mysterious tunnel. In the distance, the wood pilings Alvarado described poke out of the surf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, we see it: a dark, cavernous opening in a part of the cliffside that juts out further than the rest. With our feet in the beach sand, looking up at the cliff, we see several layers of rock. The lowest layer is dark red and provides a slope we can climb up, like a welcome mat at the cliff’s base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032817\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032817\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-THORNTONBEACH-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of people pass by a tunnel entrance covered in rocks at Phillip Burton Memorial Beach, located between Thornton State Beach and Fort Funston Beach, in San Francisco on March 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whenever something sticks out on a coastline, away from everything else, it’s because it’s made of more resistant rock,” Wiese explains. “As the waves come in, they’re going to naturally excavate the softest stuff [and] leave the hardest stuff behind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While all the rock in this region is fairly sandy, some of it is denser because it was compressed over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out three distinct types of rock in front of us. They look like a layer cake, with the tunnel carved into the middle tier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tunnel’s mouth has partially caved in, so we scramble closer for a better view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL1-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL1-KQED-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL1-KQED-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL1-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL1-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large tunnel in the cliffside is visible from Phillip Burton Memorial Beach, just south of Fort Funston. When this photo was taken, on May 5, 2024, the tunnel mouth was unobstructed. Later, a cave-in would partially block the opening. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Francisco Alvarado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We see round marks on the sides of the tunnel’s entrance, like someone took a large ice cream scooper to the walls. Wiese says that it looks like the work of a human — she’s seen similar markings at man-made tunnels near Sutro Baths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she’s puzzled by how large the tunnel is — not likely the work of locals out for some fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we peer into the tunnel, it’s hard to see where, or if, it stops. So, I climb over the cave-in and slide down a short drop into the tunnel, where the crashing wave sounds from outside are much quieter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several feet inside, the walls of the tunnel are round and smooth. I can stand — hunched over — near the mouth, but as I go deeper into the cliffside, the tunnel narrows and I drop to my hands and knees. The tunnel’s end is roughly 30 feet from its start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041382\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041382\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_5487-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Curious producer and editor Katrina Schwartz took her microphone into a tunnel on Phillip Burton Memorial Beach to see how far back it goes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Katryn Wiese)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041409\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041409\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage.jpg 2500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-800x267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1536x512.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-2048x682.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Side-by-side-Downpage-1920x640.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tunnel on Philip Burton Memorial Beach seen from the beach (right) and up close (left) in San Francisco, on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The tale of a beach over time\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wiese immediately had a theory about the tunnel’s origins, but wanted to check it by looking at older photos of the same spot. She clicked through the many she’s taken when she brings her students there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tunnel was not there back in 2021,” she said. But she does spot it in her 2024 photos, and believes it probably started to form naturally in 2022 or 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw how smooth the inside was, and I felt the rock is very, very soft, I realized that the waves have actually been smoothing it out throughout this storm season,” Wiese said. “If the waves have a hole and they can go in it, they’re gonna just start digging that hole deeper and deeper. That is a typical aspect of coastal erosion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041337\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041337\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1333\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL2-KQED.jpg 1333w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL2-KQED-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL2-KQED-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL2-KQED-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/THORNTONBEACHTUNNEL2-KQED-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1333px) 100vw, 1333px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large tunnel in the cliffside is visible from Phillip Burton Memorial Beach, just south of Fort Funston, May 5, 2024. After this photo was taken, a cave-in made the tunnel less accessible. (Courtesy Francisco Alvarado) \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Francisco Alvarado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one photo from January 2021, she pointed out where the first small indentation began. Over several winters, heavy waves battered the same spot in a soft rock layer, gradually excavating it, and creating the startlingly large tunnel I scurried through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s excavating this softer layer, which is between two harder layers,” Wiese said. “That’s not a thin layer, it’s about 6 or 7 feet tall, so you get a large tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, there were no pirate lairs, no long lost railroad tunnel used to smuggle Prohibition-era booze into San Francisco (I know you were thinking it). But the tunnel’s builder — the ocean — was an equally surprising culprit. It reminds us that the beach is constantly changing. Maybe the next time Alvarado walks Little Bean here, there will be no tunnel at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Francisco Alvarado likes to walk his Chihuahua, Little Bean, on the beach near Fort Funston, right on the border with Daly City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Francisco Alvarado: \u003c/strong>He is 13 years old. Brown big ears and we’ve been going to the beach his entire life, but he loves it down there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>One day, they strolled along a beach that will look familiar to Northern Californians: dramatic bluffs covered in sand and succulents. But then, Francisco saw something unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Francisco Alvarado: \u003c/strong>It’s a tunnel coming out of the hillside in the middle of the beach, kind of not close to anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>If you stand on the beach at low tide, with your back to the ocean, he says you’ll see this elevated cave-like thing in the middle of a cliff. Its floor is around head-height. He climbed up to get a better look inside. It was bigger than he thought, maybe 3-feet wide, and it’s roof is smooth and flat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Francisco Alvarado: \u003c/strong>It’s just a very mysterious tunnel and I want to know what it was used for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Since Francisco first saw this tunnel, his curiosity has consumed him. And he’s got some guesses about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Francisco Alvarado: \u003c/strong>And it has some, like, poles or maybe we used to be a platform on, on the beach. I think the tunnel is like an old train tunnel or something from way back in the day. My sister who was with me that day, she thinks it’s an old like a storm drain runoff or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theme starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>So we’ve got some theories. Today on Bay Curious we’ll visit Phillip Burton Memorial Beach, as it’s technically called, to see if we can find clues that tell us more about this mysterious tunnel. I’m Katrina Schwartz, you’re listening to Bay Curious. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Today we’re on a mission to find out more about a large tunnel carved into a cliff on the beach between Fort Funston and Thornton Beach. \u003cem>(Sounds of the beach) \u003c/em>To find some answers, I meet up with Katryn Wiese, a geology professor at College of San Mateo. We start at the large Fort Funston parking lot and pick our way down what looks to me like a huge sandy cliff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>We’re walking down the massive landslide that is Fort Funston. So this, up at the top there, was the original surface of this cliff, and this whole area we’re walking down here was a big landslide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>There are logs hammered into the slope — almost like a ladder — to help hikers navigate the sliding sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>Basically this whole section of the coastline is very soft rock and it slides all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Katryn tells me this beach can change dramatically depending on the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese:\u003c/strong> So the sand piles up in the summer, and then throughout the winter, the heavier waves start excavating it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>That means there are hidden treasures here that can only be seen at certain times of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>Back where we first came in at Fort Funston, there’s all these beautiful fossil-rich rocks right at the base of the cliff. But you only can see them in the spring. otherwise they’re covered with sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Look closely at the bottom of the cliff and you can see clam fossils dating back almost a million years, Katryn says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today, we’re on the hunt for a tunnel, not fossils. Neither Katryn nor I have seen this tunnel yet, so as we amble south down the beach we keep our eyes peeled for what Francisco described.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape):\u003c/strong> I wonder if this is it coming up\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>Let’s take a look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>It’s definitely the right place. Francisco told us to look for two things: wood pilings sticking out of the nearby surf, and a cliff that juts farther into the Pacific than surrounding bluffs. Katryn and I walk over to get a closer look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>When you touch it, what do you feel?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape): \u003c/strong>It’s pretty hard and it’s definitely very rough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>What grain size would you associate with that?\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape): \u003c/strong>Feels like sand to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>It’s very sandy, isn’t it? Yeah, so this is a sandstone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Little sand particles brush off when we rub the stone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>So whenever something sticks out on a coastline, away from everything else, it’s because it’s made of more resistant rock. So as the waves come in, they’re going to naturally excavate the softest stuff, leave the hardest stuff behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Katryn says with soft rock like this, any little divet in the surface of the bluff can quickly become larger as the waves crash against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>When the waves come in they’re going hit that same indentation. It’s going to funnel the water into that indentation. And it’s just going to get deeper and deeper and deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Looking up the cliff, we spot it! The mouth of the tunnel is barely visible about eight feet off the sand where we stand. When Francisco first saw it, the opening was much more obvious, but since then it looks like the mouth of the tunnel has collapsed, partially blocking the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>I’m going to go up and take a look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>We climb up a rocky shelf that gets us close enough to peer in, over the sandy rubble. It really is big — large enough for me to stand up hunched over. And it’s deep. We debate whether it’s safe to go inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape): \u003c/strong>Well, and it certainly goes back, I mean, 12, 15 feet, from what we can even see. So, like, if you were 15 feet back and then it caved in, that would be really bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>It’s so tempting, though. And it’s not so much that I’m worried about the tunnel caving in. I’m worried about the collapse of the entrance. So this collapsed, we don’t know when, but it was recent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Katryn admits to being let’s say \u003cem>wary\u003c/em> of confined spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>You need to get someone who’s braver than me, because I don’t want to go back in there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>But the allure of solving this mystery is just too much for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape): \u003c/strong>I’m going into this tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>I hand Katryn my backpack and clutch my recorder as I climb over the cave-in and slide down several feet of sand into near darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz (in tape): \u003c/strong>Ok, so I’m down in here. 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She wants to compare today’s shots with some photographs she’s taken of the same spot on the beach going back several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, I hopped on a call to talk about what she’d found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>The tunnel was not there back in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>So just four years ago, there was no tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>And it does appear a year ago in ’24. You know, somewhere around ’23, probably year ’22–’23 is when it started to get excavated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>That means it’s probably not an old tunnel from the 1800s. 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But you can kind of see what looks like a little bit of an indentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>But why is the roof so perfectly flat? The geologist has an explanation for that too. The cliff is composed of different layers of rock. The layer just above the cave is dense, but the ocean has scoured away with the rock below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katryn Wiese: \u003c/strong>So, it’s because it’s excavating this softer layer, which is between two harder layers. And it just so happens that’s not a thin layer, it’s about six or seven feet tall, so you get a large tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The marks at the opening of the tunnel that made Katryn originally think humans might have dug it — those ice cream scoops — likely are the work of curious people. But they probably didn’t dig the whole tunnel, they just widened the mouth. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 1,000 labor and community organizers flooded the steps of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s City Hall on Wednesday to protest Mayor Daniel Lurie’s proposed budget, which city workers and activists have said insufficiently protects public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposed budget completely misses the mark,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the city’s Coalition on Homelessness. “It’s really a politics-first budget that really deprioritizes the poorest and most vulnerable San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest was described as “the biggest budget rally in about 20 years in San Francisco history” by Anya Worley-Ziegmann of the People’s Budget Coalition, a collective of nonprofits and activists that organized the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie proposed steep cuts to address the looming $782 million budget shortfall, as well as to bolster the city against the Trump administration’s threat to gut federal funding. That includes eliminating 1,400 city jobs — the vast majority of which currently sit vacant — and around $100 million in grants and other contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While dozens of union members with SEIU Local 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 received layoff notices, not all city departments will see job cuts. Advocates noted that the proposal maintained funding for the city’s police, sheriff, fire, district attorney, public defender and emergency management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual holds a sign reading “protect public services, no cuts no layoffs” at a rally in front of City Hall, where thousands of labor unions and community organizations are demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some departments are getting increases, those are the SFPD and the sheriff’s office,” Worley-Ziegmann said. “Daniel Lurie has marked them out as essential services, completely ignoring the fact that people need to eat, people need housing, they do not need mass arrests and jails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Sorros is a member of SEIU Local 1021 and has spent more than 19 years working for the city. But she was among those who received a layoff notice as a result of Lurie’s budget proposal, just weeks after she celebrated 20 years of the CityBuild program with the mayor and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the mayor: please, you celebrated us, please continue celebrating us by not cutting our program,” Sorros said. “In fact, we could probably use a little boost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizers say the cuts could have “devastating” impacts on programs that address food and housing security, such as\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026600/sfs-black-social-equity-program-mired-in-scandal-being-revived-rebranded\"> All My Usos\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides community resources to San Francisco’s Pacific Islander community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program coordinator Jessica Ponce sits in the office of All My Usos in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. Ponce keeps stuffed animals in her office to help create a welcoming space, especially for the children in the community. All My Usos supports marginalized communities, especially Pacific Islander families in the Bay Area, through programs that build relationships and foster leadership. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You’re cutting the lifeline of many community members,” said Jessica Ponce, a program coordinator with All My Usos. “With these budget cuts, you’re cutting essential services and direct services, especially to families, and limiting their access to a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lurie’s proposed budget includes an additional $2.2 million to the Citywide Food Access Team, organizers say cuts elsewhere will trickle down and impact community-based organizations that partner with the city.[aside postID=news_12042515 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']The budget also proposes a restructuring of funding from Proposition C, a ballot measure that voters passed in 2018 to fund housing and homelessness services. The existing language specifies which funding can be used where, leaving millions of dollars unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal would reallocate that unused funding to plug holes elsewhere in the budget, sparking fierce opposition from homelessness advocacy groups for prioritizing adult shelter beds over housing for children and families. Friedenbach described the move as a way to create a “big slush fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most part, it would be moving [the money] from kids to grown-ups and from housing to shelter. That is something that we are vehemently opposed to,” she said. “We specifically structured Prop. C because we wanted to see efficient use of resources and that’s what the voters supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s office, however, describes the reallocation as a way to unlock funding that may otherwise never be used to address homelessness in the city. In his proposal, that amounts to $90 million over the next three years from the proposition’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bianca Polovina, President of IFPTE Local 21, speaks to thousands of labor, community and human rights advocates rallying in front of City Hall, demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rally organizers also pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">an ongoing lawsuit filed by Airbnb\u003c/a> against the city: the company is seeking $120 million from San Francisco, claiming they were forced to overpay taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California democrats have called on Lurie to take a stand against Airbnb and other companies seeking to claw back money on business taxes, Lurie has instead tried to play ball with big business, to lure their tax base back to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hasn’t sat well with organizers, who accused Lurie’s proposal of capitulating to “the billionaires and well-connected corporations refusing to pay their fair taxes and suing the City for half of its projected deficit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of protesters filled a budget hearing later in the afternoon with chants and public comments opposing the cuts. The Board of Supervisors has until the end of the month to approve the budget and can request amendments in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Advocates noted that the proposal maintained funding for the city’s police, sheriff, fire, district attorney, public defender and emergency management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual holds a sign reading “protect public services, no cuts no layoffs” at a rally in front of City Hall, where thousands of labor unions and community organizations are demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some departments are getting increases, those are the SFPD and the sheriff’s office,” Worley-Ziegmann said. “Daniel Lurie has marked them out as essential services, completely ignoring the fact that people need to eat, people need housing, they do not need mass arrests and jails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Sorros is a member of SEIU Local 1021 and has spent more than 19 years working for the city. But she was among those who received a layoff notice as a result of Lurie’s budget proposal, just weeks after she celebrated 20 years of the CityBuild program with the mayor and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the mayor: please, you celebrated us, please continue celebrating us by not cutting our program,” Sorros said. “In fact, we could probably use a little boost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizers say the cuts could have “devastating” impacts on programs that address food and housing security, such as\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026600/sfs-black-social-equity-program-mired-in-scandal-being-revived-rebranded\"> All My Usos\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides community resources to San Francisco’s Pacific Islander community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program coordinator Jessica Ponce sits in the office of All My Usos in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. Ponce keeps stuffed animals in her office to help create a welcoming space, especially for the children in the community. All My Usos supports marginalized communities, especially Pacific Islander families in the Bay Area, through programs that build relationships and foster leadership. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You’re cutting the lifeline of many community members,” said Jessica Ponce, a program coordinator with All My Usos. “With these budget cuts, you’re cutting essential services and direct services, especially to families, and limiting their access to a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lurie’s proposed budget includes an additional $2.2 million to the Citywide Food Access Team, organizers say cuts elsewhere will trickle down and impact community-based organizations that partner with the city.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The budget also proposes a restructuring of funding from Proposition C, a ballot measure that voters passed in 2018 to fund housing and homelessness services. The existing language specifies which funding can be used where, leaving millions of dollars unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal would reallocate that unused funding to plug holes elsewhere in the budget, sparking fierce opposition from homelessness advocacy groups for prioritizing adult shelter beds over housing for children and families. Friedenbach described the move as a way to create a “big slush fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most part, it would be moving [the money] from kids to grown-ups and from housing to shelter. That is something that we are vehemently opposed to,” she said. “We specifically structured Prop. C because we wanted to see efficient use of resources and that’s what the voters supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s office, however, describes the reallocation as a way to unlock funding that may otherwise never be used to address homelessness in the city. In his proposal, that amounts to $90 million over the next three years from the proposition’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bianca Polovina, President of IFPTE Local 21, speaks to thousands of labor, community and human rights advocates rallying in front of City Hall, demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rally organizers also pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">an ongoing lawsuit filed by Airbnb\u003c/a> against the city: the company is seeking $120 million from San Francisco, claiming they were forced to overpay taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California democrats have called on Lurie to take a stand against Airbnb and other companies seeking to claw back money on business taxes, Lurie has instead tried to play ball with big business, to lure their tax base back to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hasn’t sat well with organizers, who accused Lurie’s proposal of capitulating to “the billionaires and well-connected corporations refusing to pay their fair taxes and suing the City for half of its projected deficit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of protesters filled a budget hearing later in the afternoon with chants and public comments opposing the cuts. The Board of Supervisors has until the end of the month to approve the budget and can request amendments in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:36 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief city auditor, looking into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101907448/sf-zoo-is-unsafe-for-visitors-and-animals-according-to-city-report\">trouble\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-zoo\">San Francisco Zoo,\u003c/a> slammed its management over the weekend, accusing them of failing to comply with his team’s investigation and threatening to escalate orders to turn over documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a scathing letter \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/san-francisco-auditors-blast-uncooperative-20359328.php\">first reported\u003c/a> by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle, \u003c/em>Dan Goncher, a principal in the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office, wrote that the zoo’s management had been uncooperative with the audit since it launched in January, failed to hand over dozens of documents, made false claims about the status of others and provided contradictory financial statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If zoo management continues to be uncooperative in fulfilling our requests, we will recommend that the Board of Supervisors take further action to compel you to do so, including by exercising subpoena power,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad full-width]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who represents the neighborhoods surrounding the zoo, said she’s already asked the chair of the Budget and Finance Committee to hold the zoo’s $4 million in annual funding in reserve until it complies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her actions were in response to CEO Tanya Peterson’s “consolidation of power” after members of the board of the San Francisco Zoological Society, which runs the zoo, attempted to oust her in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot say [Peterson] has been successful because this is a basic thing in the relationship — transparency and accountability — and we haven’t been able to get it,” Melgar told KQED. “Whether or not she should continue, that’s up to the board, that’s the way things are. … As the supervisor, the representative for the area in the city, I wish that the relationship were more functional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors requested the audit of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042148/in-power-struggle-at-sf-zoo-embattled-ceo-appears-to-come-out-on-top\">scandal-ridden zoo\u003c/a> in December after an Animal Control and Welfare Commission report found unsafe conditions for animals and employees. It also came after the union representing about 100 zookeepers, dieticians, gardeners and other zoo workers overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in Peterson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January, the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office has requested 25 sets of documents regarding the facility’s finances, recent health and safety inspections, internal policies and complaints, according to the letter. As of Sunday, only six of the items had been completely handed over to the auditing team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12040493 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1474\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-1536x1132.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-1920x1415.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Zoo director Tanya Peterson visits the giraffes in the African Savanna exhibit in San Francisco, California, on Jan. 7, 2011. \u003ccite>(Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zoo spokesperson Sam Singer said he believes that the audit team’s claim that the zoo has failed to comply with the investigation is “possibly a misunderstanding” and that it is in “substantial compliance” with the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Goncher wrote that much of the requested information had only been partially provided, some has been withheld or reportedly does not exist, and in multiple cases, false claims or conflicting information have been submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter was sent Sunday to Peterson, members of the Board of Supervisors and staff of the Zoological Society. It followed a back-and-forth between Goncher and Peterson in which the CEO’s assistant responded Sunday to a list of outstanding documents with a letter on the zoo’s tracking of information requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sunday letter included multiple misleading claims, Goncher said, including that the Zoological Society has complied with the audit team during and following a January visit to the facility.[aside postID=news_12042148 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SanFranciscoZoo-1020x703.jpg']“You disregarded our meeting agenda and instead gave us a lengthy presentation on the history of the Zoo,” Goncher said. “After over 90 minutes, I interjected so that we could discuss our agenda items, at which point you informed us that Zoo management would not be cooperating with the audit until further notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents submitted by the zoo since then, including an inspection report and the most recent accreditation report by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, have been incomplete and included “extensive redactions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other inspection reports and citations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have not been turned in, and some, the zoo said, did not exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[San Francisco Zoological Society] reported no USDA findings for the audit period, but the [Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office] identified evidence to the contrary,” Goncher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that between 2020 and 2025, the zoo was cited by the department for deteriorating primate enclosures, a lemur escape, rodent feces and facility issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“USDA also issued multiple ‘Teachable Moments’ related to fencing, sanitation, and pest control,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singer did not respond to direct questions about why the zoo has withheld specific documents cited by the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office, or Goncher’s claim that others exist, contrary to the zoo’s statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goncher’s threats to escalate the investigation are the latest in an unfurling controversy at the zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, union leaders said the Zoological Society’s board was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040473/trouble-at-san-francisco-zoo-could-soon-lead-to-ceos-removal\">attempting to oust Peterson\u003c/a>, who they said had lost support from staff and board directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following multiple closed-door meetings, Peterson remained in power, but five directors have since resigned, with one citing issues with Peterson’s employment specifically. Union representative Corey Hallman told KQED that he believes the other resignations were also in “what seems like protest for the dysfunction of the zoological board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Singer told KQED last week that Peterson has the “unanimous support” of the board.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“You disregarded our meeting agenda and instead gave us a lengthy presentation on the history of the Zoo,” Goncher said. “After over 90 minutes, I interjected so that we could discuss our agenda items, at which point you informed us that Zoo management would not be cooperating with the audit until further notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents submitted by the zoo since then, including an inspection report and the most recent accreditation report by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, have been incomplete and included “extensive redactions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other inspection reports and citations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have not been turned in, and some, the zoo said, did not exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[San Francisco Zoological Society] reported no USDA findings for the audit period, but the [Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office] identified evidence to the contrary,” Goncher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that between 2020 and 2025, the zoo was cited by the department for deteriorating primate enclosures, a lemur escape, rodent feces and facility issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“USDA also issued multiple ‘Teachable Moments’ related to fencing, sanitation, and pest control,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singer did not respond to direct questions about why the zoo has withheld specific documents cited by the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office, or Goncher’s claim that others exist, contrary to the zoo’s statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goncher’s threats to escalate the investigation are the latest in an unfurling controversy at the zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, union leaders said the Zoological Society’s board was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040473/trouble-at-san-francisco-zoo-could-soon-lead-to-ceos-removal\">attempting to oust Peterson\u003c/a>, who they said had lost support from staff and board directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following multiple closed-door meetings, Peterson remained in power, but five directors have since resigned, with one citing issues with Peterson’s employment specifically. Union representative Corey Hallman told KQED that he believes the other resignations were also in “what seems like protest for the dysfunction of the zoological board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Singer told KQED last week that Peterson has the “unanimous support” of the board.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco police commissioners on Wednesday will consider a crypto billionaire’s offer of nearly $9.4 million to fund \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004882/san-francisco-to-deploy-mobile-surveillance-units-in-latest-expansion-of-police-tech\">increased surveillance efforts\u003c/a>, reigniting questions about the ethics of both the controversial technology and large private donations for public programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds would come from cryptocurrency company Ripple and the San Francisco Police Community Foundation, a nonprofit created by Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen, who has been a prominent supporter of new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-police-department\">SFPD\u003c/a> technology efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the donation would provide new downtown office space for the Police Department’s surveillance unit, dubbed the Real Time Investigations Center, and funding for a dozen officer-operated drones to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999063/san-francisco-police-deploy-drone-surveillance-after-24-year-break\">add to the fleet\u003c/a> it brought online last summer, among other technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly $2.13 million of the donation would be in the form of a cost-free sublease of Ripple’s former office space at 315 Montgomery St. Currently, the RTIC operates out of the Hall of Justice, but according to the resolution before the Police Commission, the run-down building has hampered the unit’s ability to make use of its new technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen said the space has “such bad infrastructure that the police today literally lose connectivity to their drones while they’re trying to chase a suspect and that ruins the chase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042525\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Police Department officer stands at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ripple’s existing lease doesn’t expire until December 2026, but the company relocated into a larger space on Battery Street in Jackson Square in 2022. Until the paid-for rental expires, Larsen said he saw an opportunity to “help out” the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that after next December, it will be up to SFPD to decide whether to keep and pay for the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining $7.25 million would go toward the purchase of new drones and installation of technology upgrades in the space, provided by the San Francisco Community Police Foundation. The legislation would also waive the city’s competitive bidding requirement that would generally apply to the Police Department’s purchases of equipment, technology or services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen created the foundation, which was formed last year to support the San Francisco Police Department, but does not sit on its board.[aside postID=news_12039914 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Critics of the donation say that it allows wealthy citizens to “buy” policies they want the city to adopt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a rich person bankrolling technology that police are going to buy and use in the city, also without any democratic approval,” said Matthew Guariglia, a senior policy analyst at the digital privacy nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen disagrees that the donation overrides community input. He said it has to go through four levels of oversight — the foundation’s board cleared the funding, and along with the sublease, will now have to gain the approval of the Police Commission, Board of Supervisors, and Mayor Daniel Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has expressed support for RTIC and its technology, announcing at an April press conference that SFPD plans to expand the unit in the coming months and crediting its work in part for the city’s drop in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“RTIC has already supported hundreds of arrests, with crime down 30% citywide, and with this new facility, the SFPD will have the tools and the technology it needs to take this work to the next level and help our officers keep our streets safe,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the tools the money would fund were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/props-e-and-f-pass-prewrite\">backed by San Francisco voters\u003c/a> through the passage of Proposition E, which expanded SFPD’s ability to use surveillance technology and diminished the Police Commission’s power. It received 54% approval last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the RTIC unit has assisted in more than 500 arrests and prevented “numerous” police pursuits, according to the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A street in San Francisco lined with Victorian homes and cars. The camera is angled from a lower angle to focus on shards of shattered glass on the floor.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broken glass pieces from a car window are seen near a curb in Alamo Square in San Francisco, California, on June 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some of these tools … have been really effective at catching these professional smash-and-grab crews that run roughshod over the city,” Larsen told KQED. “You’ve seen that now in the numbers: over 20% drop from last year in smash-and-grabs, last year was the lowest murder rate since the 1960s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guariglia pointed out that the decline in smash-and-grab robberies isn’t unique to San Francisco. Nationally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/crime-in-california-is-trending-downward-new-data-suggests/#:~:text=California's%20decreases%20in%20violent%20and,%25%20and%204.4%25%2C%20respectively.\">property crime was down 8.4%\u003c/a> in 2024, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, and it has continued to fall this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said increased surveillance can easily have a disproportionate and negative impact on poorer, more vulnerable communities, depending on where the technology is placed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you live in a neighborhood with more surveillance … they are open to police harassment for jaywalking, for littering, a lot of really small minor things that are actionable for officers, but if you live in fancier neighborhoods up the hill with less cameras, you can get away with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larsen said he understands that concern, but believes that San Francisco’s public safety policy has swung too far on both sides of the pendulum in recent years, from over- to under-policing. The current surveillance technology, he said, can be used in a conscious way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern for the pendulum swinging too far the other way again is a valid one,” he said. “There’s a lot of room here to make sure that the police have the tools they need for their basic job, but everybody has to be concerned about it going too far, and we are, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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He said it has to go through four levels of oversight — the foundation’s board cleared the funding, and along with the sublease, will now have to gain the approval of the Police Commission, Board of Supervisors, and Mayor Daniel Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has expressed support for RTIC and its technology, announcing at an April press conference that SFPD plans to expand the unit in the coming months and crediting its work in part for the city’s drop in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“RTIC has already supported hundreds of arrests, with crime down 30% citywide, and with this new facility, the SFPD will have the tools and the technology it needs to take this work to the next level and help our officers keep our streets safe,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the tools the money would fund were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/props-e-and-f-pass-prewrite\">backed by San Francisco voters\u003c/a> through the passage of Proposition E, which expanded SFPD’s ability to use surveillance technology and diminished the Police Commission’s power. 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A spokesperson for the Pentagon said more information will be available upon the completion of an internal review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names attached to all [Department of Defense] installations and assets are reflective of the Commander-in-Chief’s priorities, our nation’s history, and the warrior ethos,” spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Milk, a gay rights trailblazer and former San Francisco city supervisor, was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the country. He also served as an officer in the U.S. Navy for several years before he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/story/288094/redirect/News/News/\">forced to retire\u003c/a> after the discovery of his sexuality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11706596\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/IMG_8675-e1748995062500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor George Moscone, left, and Harvey Milk were political allies who represented a changing political landscape in San Francisco.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1978, Milk was assassinated at City Hall alongside Mayor George Moscone by former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White. His untimely death, as well as his years of activism on behalf of the gay community, turned him into a civil rights icon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reported decision by the Trump Administration to change the names of the USNS Harvey Milk and other ships in the John Lewis-class is a shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought to break down barriers for all to chase the American Dream,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said San Francisco is proud to have Milk’s name on a naval vessel alongside others that honor civil rights giants. He fought not only for the LGBTQ+ community but for “the dignity and worth of every person,” she added.[aside postID=news_12042393 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/BoulderColoradoAttackGetty-1020x680.jpg']State Sen. Scott Wiener called the decision to rename the USNS Harvey Milk a reversal of all the work that’s been done to persuade the Navy to recognize Milk and his service. 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He died for our community,” Wiener told KQED in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and Hegseth are “determined to erase LGBTQ people from all aspects of public life,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleve Jones, a human rights activist who was a student intern in the office of Supervisor Milk, said the news of the possible name change is unsurprising in light of everything that has transpired since Trump’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it is interesting, however, that the defense secretary has chosen to focus so much attention on the name of a ship in the backdrop of major global conflicts such as the war against Ukraine and China’s threats against Taiwan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This administration … has turned the entire world order upside down and inside out,” Jones said. “It’s really shameful and does not bode well for the security of our nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for how Milk would react to this week’s news, Jones said he thinks the man would be unbothered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk “would shrug it off and laugh and double down,” Jones said. “It’s time for us all to focus on the real issues: the real issue of security, the real issues of housing costs, of groceries, of the press — the real issues facing Americans, the ones they talk about at their dinner table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think they’re talking about the names of these ships at their kitchen table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/adahlstromeckman\">\u003cem>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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She said all of her employees received a notice on Monday afternoon from the Parks Alliance, sent to their personal emails, with separation paperwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to significant financial challenges, the San Francisco Parks Alliance had to make a difficult decision to lay off employees effective May 30th,” the email stated, according to Polony, who said she had a feeling this was coming after her entire staff on Friday received vacation payouts on their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that’s how we found out,” she said, noting that the email doesn’t explicitly state the alliance is shutting down. “The communication was horrible. And this is incredibly detrimental to our work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13975608 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Sister-Act-2-at-Dolores-Park-2022_1920-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reports of the Parks Alliance’s financial mismanagement began emerging in late April, Polony formed a coalition of the many community groups that receive fiscal sponsorship from the alliance, in an effort to keep it afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all came together to try to work with the board of directors, the board of trustees of SFPA, to right the ship,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the fiscally sponsored groups are volunteer-led, using the alliance to park their individual donations, although at least two others have employees who were also laid off on Monday, Polony said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups involved operate in every part of the city, performing an array of open-space improvement projects, she said, including litter cleanup in parks and maintaining public water fountains and stairways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I really want people to understand is that while what’s happened with SFPA is unjust, egregious, unfair, possibly criminal and horribly negligent, they’ve [also] basically stolen our money,” added Polony, who said the Parks Alliance is still holding about $175,000 in funds raised by her organization that may now be gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why they had access to spend money that my group, as well as most of these other partner groups, had entrusted with them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a leaked email last month sent to a Parks Alliance donor and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-20331332.php\">obtained by the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the alliance’s board chair, Louise Mozingo, admitted to misspending those restricted funds and likened the organization’s financial situation to “a dumpster fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1249\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru-1020x664.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, who the FBI arrested in January on public corruption charges. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the email, Mozingo said the board was preparing for the possibility of shutting down the organization and had already contacted a firm specializing in “non-profit liquidation.” She also acknowledged that the board was “very conscious” that doing so would “substantially hurt many small businesses and organizations that will realize a significant loss, causing real hardship in already uncertain times,” according to the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parks Alliance did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downfall of the alliance, which Supervisor Jackie Fielder described to KQED as “a magnet and a who’s who in the city for very powerful people,” follows a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035871/sf-will-let-nonprofits-report-less-about-themselves-fears-political-attacks\">series of scandals\u003c/a> involving multiple city-funded nonprofits accused of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026600/sfs-black-social-equity-program-mired-in-scandal-being-revived-rebranded\">misusing city funds\u003c/a> or unfairly awarding grants based on personal connections. Last year, the executive director of the now-defunct nonprofit SF SAFE was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997977/former-head-of-sfpd-linked-nonprofit-arrested-over-alleged-misuse-of-700000\">arrested for allegedly stealing and misusing\u003c/a> more than $700,000 in public funds and donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also not the first time the Parks Alliance, which operates independently from the parks department but is closely linked to it, has been mired in scandal. In 2020, Mohammed Nuru, the city’s former chief of public works, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839531/report-corrupt-sf-official-directed-nonprofit-to-pay-60k-to-organizations-under-fbi-investigation\">funneled nearly $1 million in donations \u003c/a>from various city contractors into a Parks Alliance account that he used as his personal slush fund.[aside postID=news_12041112 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED.jpg']Two years later, Nuru was convicted of fraud and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme\">sentenced to seven years in federal prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following news of the alliance’s imminent closure, the Board of Supervisors’ Government Audit and Oversight Committee, co-led by Fielder, announced it would hold a hearing on Friday addressing allegations of financial mismanagement directed against the organization, while also introducing a motion to initiate an audit of the Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The offices of the city attorney and controller, which had already been reviewing the Parks Alliance’s finances, said in a statement on Tuesday that they sought to make sure that any closure or liquidation process “takes into account the needs of the City and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The financial mismanagement at the Parks Alliance has done real harm to San Francisco, which is why we are working on a joint public integrity review of the matter,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polony said that while the alliance has always been disorganized, it served a critical role in enabling groups like hers to do public service work that directly benefits the city and its residents. And she said it’s incumbent on the city to now step in and fix the mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city hasn’t been able to raise the revenue via taxes to support our public space,” she said. “And so, the function that SFPA provided needs to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other groups in her coalition, Polony is now rushing to find a new fiscal sponsor to access her funds so she can rehire her staff and continue the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had this been done smoothly, had the city worked with the Alliance to create a transition for all of these community partners, this could have been done with a lot less harm,” she said. “Their going under makes a bad problem even worse for us because now we’re left in the lurch with no one to catch us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:00] Where are you likely to come across a coyote in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] Increasingly, just about anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:07] Heather Knight is the San Francisco Bureau Chief for The New York Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] There are different packs that control the green spaces. So anywhere from Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower, to the Presidio, to Glen Canyon, to golf courses. That’s where they’re concentrated. But they’ve been getting more bold and they go out and explore the city. So you can see them walking up streets. One was found in a laundromat. Sam Altman found one in his backyard, lounging on patio furniture. 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They’ve also killed cats, so people with pets may feel differently than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:09] Stepping back a little bit, tell us about these coyotes and why are they in San Francisco? I mean, they’re native to California, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] Yes, they’re native to the West and they’re actually in cities around the country. Some have been spotted in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, but they really seem to be ubiquitous here in San Francisco. They were very widespread in the city in the early 1900s, but back then, they were considered kind of part of the Wild West that needed to be tamed, and so people were encouraged to actually shoot them on sight or poison them. There were bounties put out by the government, and so they were eradicated from San Francisco for about 75 years. But one of my favorite tidbits that I learned was that they came back to San Francisco about 2002, about 20, 25 years ago. The scientists were able to study their blood, and the DNA of the first arrivals back then actually do not match those to the south, the peninsula, Silicon Valley. Those coyotes are a different beast, apparently, and they actually more closely align with the DNA of those living in Marin County and beyond up north. And so scientists think that they came back by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, just walked over. I don’t think they paid the toll, probably. And then the first one probably howled and brought others across with them. So then every spring more pups were born and now we have about a hundred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:40] Are there any other theories about how these coyotes could have ended up back in San Francisco from the north?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] It’s possible that they swam, but that is more of a challenge, of course, than walking across the bridge, as probably we could relate to. But interestingly, I learned after publication that there is a family living on Angel Island. So it seems like those probably did swim over, although that’s a shorter swim, so more feasible, unless maybe they hopped aboard a ferry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] I mean, I know you talked about this love-hate relationship that San Franciscans seem to have with these coyotes these days. And I know, you talked to a bunch of people. 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Federal agents came out and killed three members of that coyote family. But it turns out that the camp was held very close to a coyotes den and that it may be that adults were not keeping an eye on the children. And so there’s, you know, scientists are saying like, we need to better exist with these animals and be careful when we have little kids and little dogs in these wild spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:32] You talked earlier about the city’s approach to coyotes back in the 1900s, and basically the approach being get rid of the coyotes, but how would you describe the city approach to the coyote these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] So now they have a policy where if a coyote kills a little dog, they just consider that kind of the circle of life. That is prey. And it’s just, it can be traumatic to see it, you know, in a city and kind of feel strange and devastating, but it is also natural. 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Usually they do not consider them super disturbing, but when that really aggressive coyote at Chrissy Field was killing dogs and lunged at the school children, they started getting up to 10 reports a day of just that one coyote and, you know, very disturbing, bold, overly aggressive behavior. I’ve never heard of a coyote attacking an adult. Most coyotes will never go after humans. That’s just not part of their behavior. But a few in recent years have become overly aggressive. The wildlife specialists and scientists said that one problem is humans. Some humans will actually hand feed coyotes, which is kind of insane. Like there’s been a few people who will bring trays of raw meat out to parks and just feed them. Far more often, humans are just careless, like they may be picnicking and leave food out near dens. Or trash cans, we see that all the time, are overflowing with food, or fishermen who use raw chicken as bait when they’re fishing in the bay may leave that out on docks. 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But the scientists said that they’re just kind of trying to steer you away from the den and they’re not actually intending to hurt anyone or do anything other than make sure that you don’t get too close to their pups. They’re very big on keeping your little dogs on leashes, especially when you see signs posted. The city’s doing a better job of knowing where the coyotes are and posting those warning signs. So if you see that, even if you’d like your little dog to be able to run around, you know, better safe, then sorry. I was at an outdoor yoga class in Hellman Hollow yesterday and there were a lot of those signs posted but I saw a lot dog owners with little dogs letting them off leash and running around these signs warning of coyotes and I was just like oh gosh this yoga class could go very bad. 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