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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>TAs across the UC system are all paid the same rate, regardless of their community’s cost of living. They make roughly $2,400 a month before taxes. Their 20-hour workweek includes instructing labs, holding office hours and grading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 9, just before finals week of the fall quarter, hundreds of UC Santa Cruz graduate students went on strike — a grading strike. They decided not to submit grades for undergraduate courses until the university provides a $1,400 cost of living adjustment for all graduate students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t like holding the grades hostage or something like that. It’s saying that we can’t do the labor that we’re expected to do if the university won’t pay us the money that we need to live and work here,” said Boardman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1069-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Boardman, a PhD student in literature, speaks with Veronica Hamilton, a PhD student in psychology. Both are TAs at UCSC.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795359\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Boardman, a PhD student in literature, speaks with Veronica Hamilton, a PhD student in psychology. Both are TAs at UCSC. \u003ccite>(Erika Mahoney/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly 9,000 undergraduate students were impacted, according to Boardman. As the new quarter gets underway, TAs have reached out to students and submitted grades for those who urgently need them. According to the university, about 80% of all grades are in, but that includes grades not handled by TAs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undergraduate student Sara Valenzuela was still missing one grade during the first week back at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it’s been very, I don’t want to say stressful but at the same time a little. Just because over the winter break, it’s kind of like nerve wracking not knowing what you got for the class and you know how that builds anxiety,” Valenzuela said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The union that represents over 19,000 student employees at UC schools hasn’t authorized the action, making it a wildcat strike. The union, UAW 2865, is currently under a four-year contract. The agreement, which took effect in 2018, includes a wage increase of 3% each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Veronica Hamilton, the Santa Cruz unit chair for UAW 2865 and a UC Santa Cruz TA, said graduate students were never satisfied with the agreement and can’t wait two more years for further negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People can’t pay their rent now. People are dropping out of their graduate programs now. And it is too long to wait until the next contract campaign,” Hamilton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Cruz Spokesperson Scott Hernandez-Jason said the administration is willing to meet with students if they call off the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So this strike goes against their contract and the very nature of it makes it impossible for us to sit down and discuss ways to support them as employees,” Hernandez-Jason said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the long-term solution is more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high cost of housing is something that impacts everyone in our campus community, the Santa Cruz community and really the large swaths of California,” Hernandez-Jason said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not only graduate students who feel they deserve more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, UC Santa Cruz skilled craft workers, who the university said make roughly between $80,000 and $100,000 a year, also began an open-ended strike over pay and staffing. These workers, including electricians, carpenters and plumbers, have been without a contract for a couple of years. They’re part of the union AFSCME Local 3299.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11795411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1075_1_1920x-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some skilled craft workers at UCSC are also on strike. They're calling for more pay and more staffing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11795411\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1075_1_1920x-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1075_1_1920x-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1075_1_1920x-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1075_1_1920x-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1075_1_1920x.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1075_1_1920x-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1075_1_1920x-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1075_1_1920x-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1075_1_1920x-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/IMG_1075_1_1920x-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some skilled craft workers at UCSC are also on strike. They’re calling for more pay and more staffing. \u003ccite>(Erika Mahoney/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Joe Baxter, an electrician, gathered with about a dozen other workers in front of the entrance to UC Santa Cruz. He’s been with the school for 15 years and lives in a mobile home with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re striking because we’re understaffed and we’re trying to get more staffing. They don’t replace people who retire,” Baxter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solidarity rallies in support of the graduate students have also taken place at UC Davis, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "When the Big One Hit: Unearthed Images of Loma Prieta",
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"content": "\u003cp>The shaking only lasted 15 seconds, but it changed the region forever.[aside label=\"More Loma Prieta Coverage\" tag=loma-prieta]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty years ago today — on Oct. 17, 1989 — a 6.9 magnitude earthquake on the San Andreas fault in the Santa Cruz mountains ripped through the Bay Area and neighboring counties. It struck just after 5 p.m., right before the start of the third game of the A's-Giants World Series (set to take place at Candlestick Park, but subsequently postponed).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Loma Prieta earthquake, named after the mountain peak near its epicenter, wreaked havoc on the region, killing 63 people, injuring nearly 3,800 more and causing an estimated $6 billion in property damage. The quake broke the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, brought down a massive section of freeway in West Oakland and leveled hundreds of homes, from San Francisco's Marina District to the farming town of Watsonville, 90 miles south of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disaster was transformational, spurring dramatic changes to the physical infrastructure of the Bay Area and Santa Cruz County, and serving as an ominous, enduring reminder of the shaky, mercurial ground we live on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/x9Y-A532QeE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series of photos below, found mostly in public archives, show the extent of the earthquake's destruction in three areas — San Francisco's Marina District, West Oakland and parts of Santa Cruz County. The photos also highlight the drive of residents and leaders to quickly restore normalcy and build stronger, more durable structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco's Marina District\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even though its epicenter was nearly 100 miles away, the earthquake hit San Francisco’s Marina District particularly hard because the neighborhood was built on loose, sandy landfill that easily liquefied. The quake destroyed scores of buildings, sparking huge fires and killing four people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780596\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-1025056312-e1571324101639.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780596 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-1025056312-e1571324101639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1294\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters extinguish a blaze in the Marina District in San Francisco, days after the Loma Prieta earthquake hit on Sept. 17, 1989. The 6.9 magnitude quake brought the region to its knees, destroying vast swaths of property. In all, the disaster caused 63 deaths, nearly 3,800 injuries and an estimated $6 billion in damage. \u003ccite>(Jonathan Nourok/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/2.-Marina.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/2.-Marina.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/2.-Marina.jpeg 757w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/2.-Marina-160x108.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An automobile lies crushed under the third story of an apartment building in the Marina District. \u003ccite>(J.K. Nakata/U.S. Geological Survey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780840\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11780840\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609-1200x797.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A military policeman steps over a police line on Oct. 18, 1989, in front of a heavily damaged building in the Marina District. \u003ccite>(Adam Teitelbaum/AFP/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780651\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ww2.kqed_.orgG01A-9cde30bc4ebb4a229749485fcfd95caeab9866de.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780651 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ww2.kqed_.orgG01A-9cde30bc4ebb4a229749485fcfd95caeab9866de.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The destructive aftermath of a massive blaze in the Marina District that was eventually extinguished with water pumped from the bay.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11780842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1-1920x1274.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rescuer looks at a collapsed house in the Marina District on Oct. 18, 1989. \u003ccite>(Adam Teitelbaum/AFP/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ww2.kqed_.org03A-146c2be8a1782c86bf4efaffc972a0cb20571f6a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11780649\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ww2.kqed_.org03A-146c2be8a1782c86bf4efaffc972a0cb20571f6a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A work crew tears down homes destroyed by the earthquake. Large sections of the Marina were quickly rebuilt, while older, surviving buildings were retrofitted to better withstand another quake.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch3>West Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Although the dramatic rupture in the Bay Bridge is often considered the most iconic image of the earthquake's wrath, the collapse of a freeway in West Oakland was far more devastating and deadly. Amazingly, only one driver died on the Bay Bridge that evening, whereas 42 people were killed when a large portion of the Cypress Street Viaduct, a raised two-deck, multi-lane freeway in West Oakland, collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was a heroic effort by residents and emergency workers who rushed to the scene, climbing and crawling into the twisted metal ruins of the hulking structure in a frantic effort to rescue those trapped inside, by whatever means necessary (which in some cases entailed having to amputate limbs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The viaduct had for decades walled off much of West Oakland from the rest of the city, and its destruction helped slowly transform the neighborhood — much like the demolition of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/An-ode-to-the-Embarcadero-Freeway-the-blight-by-11543621.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Embarcadero Freeway\u003c/a> did for San Francisco's downtown waterfront area. In its place, Oakland built \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2005/07/13/mandela-parkway-unveiled/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mandela Parkway\u003c/a>, a north-south running boulevard flanking a large median park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780557\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 748px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/4.-Cypress-e1571331442814.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780557 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/4.-Cypress-e1571346862986.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/4.-Cypress-e1571346862986.jpeg 748w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/4.-Cypress-e1571346862986-160x102.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pancaked upper deck of the Cypress freeway. \u003ccite>(H.G. Wilshire/USGS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/7.-Cypress_collapsed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/7.-Cypress_collapsed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/7.-Cypress_collapsed.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/7.-Cypress_collapsed-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers climb the collapsed portion of the Cypress freeway in search of survivors. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780850\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/AAD-3082.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780850\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/AAD-3082.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/AAD-3082.jpg 686w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/AAD-3082-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rescued victims of the Cypress freeway collapse lay on the street in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy SFPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780562\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cypress-St..jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cypress-St..jpg\" alt=\"Residents and rescue workers on the Cypress freeway.\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cypress-St..jpg 667w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cypress-St.-160x96.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents and rescue workers on the Cypress freeway. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 763px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/1.-Cypress-Freeway_.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780554 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/1.-Cypress-Freeway_.jpeg\" alt=\"An aerial view of collapsed sections of the Cypress Street Viaduct.\" width=\"763\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/1.-Cypress-Freeway_.jpeg 763w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/1.-Cypress-Freeway_-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of collapsed sections of the Cypress freeway. \u003ccite>(H.G. Wilshire/USGS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch3>Santa Cruz and Watsonville\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Although often overlooked in remembrances of the earthquake, Santa Cruz and Watsonville were close to Loma Prieta's epicenter, and both cities were hit especially hard. A large section of downtown Santa Cruz — comprised of unreinforced masonry buildings — was destroyed, as were scores of homes and buildings in nearby Watsonville. Seven people in Santa Cruz County were killed by the quake and more than 800 were injured. The disaster displaced upward of 4,500 people, creating a homelessness crisis, particularly among migrant agricultural workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were in the dark, in the cold,\" remembers Lou Arbanas, a volunteer archivist at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pajarovalleyhistory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pajaro Valley Historical Association\u003c/a> in Watsonville. \"We literally lost everything for communication. There was no radio, no broadcast service. No 911 service. The auxiliary power supply failed. Even police cars and firemen were unable to communicate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Santa Cruz and Watsonville found themselves partially isolated for days after the quake, due to major damage on sections of State Route 1 and Highway 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Santa Cruz, though, which rebuilt its downtown to great success, less affluent Watsonville was slower to recover. Today, Arbanas said, there are still empty lots in the city's downtown where buildings destroyed during the quake were never rebuilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780591\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Loma-Prieta-Crack.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Loma-Prieta-Crack.jpeg\" alt=\"A massive fissure in a driveway southeast of Highway 17 near Loma Prieta peak in the Santa Cruz mountains, the epicenter of the earthquake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Loma-Prieta-Crack.jpeg 755w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Loma-Prieta-Crack-160x109.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A massive fissure in a driveway southeast of Highway 17 near Loma Prieta peak in the Santa Cruz mountains, the epicenter of the earthquake. \u003ccite>(J.K. Nakata/USGS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/075sr.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/075sr.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/075sr.jpeg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/075sr-160x108.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rescue efforts at the ravaged Pacific Garden Mall in downtown Santa Cruz. \u003ccite>(C.E. Meyer/USGS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780564\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780564 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville-1200x852.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville.jpg 1464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake refugees at a makeshift camp in a park in downtown Watsonville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/-tvJCOYZQziApoJlSEHccz?domain=pajarovalleyhistory.org\">Pajaro Valley Historical Association\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11780748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ioof-1-800x567.png\" alt=\"The falling facade on the corner of the International Order of Odd Fellows' 1890 building in downtown Watsonville killed local resident Elida Ortega, 44, as she threw herself over her granddaughter, saving her life. \" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ioof-1-800x567.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ioof-1-160x113.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ioof-1.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The falling facade on the corner of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows' 1890 building in downtown Watsonville killed local resident Elida Ortega, 44, as she threw herself over her granddaughter, saving her life. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Pajaro Valley Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780713\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/063sr.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/063sr.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/063sr.jpeg 759w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/063sr-160x108.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house in Redwood Grove in the Santa Cruz mountains that was pushed laterally off its cement foundation. \u003ccite>(J.K. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty years ago today — on Oct. 17, 1989 — a 6.9 magnitude earthquake on the San Andreas fault in the Santa Cruz mountains ripped through the Bay Area and neighboring counties. It struck just after 5 p.m., right before the start of the third game of the A's-Giants World Series (set to take place at Candlestick Park, but subsequently postponed).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Loma Prieta earthquake, named after the mountain peak near its epicenter, wreaked havoc on the region, killing 63 people, injuring nearly 3,800 more and causing an estimated $6 billion in property damage. The quake broke the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, brought down a massive section of freeway in West Oakland and leveled hundreds of homes, from San Francisco's Marina District to the farming town of Watsonville, 90 miles south of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disaster was transformational, spurring dramatic changes to the physical infrastructure of the Bay Area and Santa Cruz County, and serving as an ominous, enduring reminder of the shaky, mercurial ground we live on.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/x9Y-A532QeE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/x9Y-A532QeE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The series of photos below, found mostly in public archives, show the extent of the earthquake's destruction in three areas — San Francisco's Marina District, West Oakland and parts of Santa Cruz County. The photos also highlight the drive of residents and leaders to quickly restore normalcy and build stronger, more durable structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco's Marina District\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even though its epicenter was nearly 100 miles away, the earthquake hit San Francisco’s Marina District particularly hard because the neighborhood was built on loose, sandy landfill that easily liquefied. The quake destroyed scores of buildings, sparking huge fires and killing four people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780596\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-1025056312-e1571324101639.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780596 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-1025056312-e1571324101639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1294\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters extinguish a blaze in the Marina District in San Francisco, days after the Loma Prieta earthquake hit on Sept. 17, 1989. The 6.9 magnitude quake brought the region to its knees, destroying vast swaths of property. In all, the disaster caused 63 deaths, nearly 3,800 injuries and an estimated $6 billion in damage. \u003ccite>(Jonathan Nourok/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/2.-Marina.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/2.-Marina.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/2.-Marina.jpeg 757w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/2.-Marina-160x108.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An automobile lies crushed under the third story of an apartment building in the Marina District. \u003ccite>(J.K. Nakata/U.S. Geological Survey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780840\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11780840\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609-1200x797.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978609-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A military policeman steps over a police line on Oct. 18, 1989, in front of a heavily damaged building in the Marina District. \u003ccite>(Adam Teitelbaum/AFP/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780651\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ww2.kqed_.orgG01A-9cde30bc4ebb4a229749485fcfd95caeab9866de.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780651 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ww2.kqed_.orgG01A-9cde30bc4ebb4a229749485fcfd95caeab9866de.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The destructive aftermath of a massive blaze in the Marina District that was eventually extinguished with water pumped from the bay.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11780842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1-1200x796.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GettyImages-127978618-1-1920x1274.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rescuer looks at a collapsed house in the Marina District on Oct. 18, 1989. \u003ccite>(Adam Teitelbaum/AFP/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ww2.kqed_.org03A-146c2be8a1782c86bf4efaffc972a0cb20571f6a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11780649\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ww2.kqed_.org03A-146c2be8a1782c86bf4efaffc972a0cb20571f6a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A work crew tears down homes destroyed by the earthquake. Large sections of the Marina were quickly rebuilt, while older, surviving buildings were retrofitted to better withstand another quake.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch3>West Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Although the dramatic rupture in the Bay Bridge is often considered the most iconic image of the earthquake's wrath, the collapse of a freeway in West Oakland was far more devastating and deadly. Amazingly, only one driver died on the Bay Bridge that evening, whereas 42 people were killed when a large portion of the Cypress Street Viaduct, a raised two-deck, multi-lane freeway in West Oakland, collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What followed was a heroic effort by residents and emergency workers who rushed to the scene, climbing and crawling into the twisted metal ruins of the hulking structure in a frantic effort to rescue those trapped inside, by whatever means necessary (which in some cases entailed having to amputate limbs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The viaduct had for decades walled off much of West Oakland from the rest of the city, and its destruction helped slowly transform the neighborhood — much like the demolition of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/An-ode-to-the-Embarcadero-Freeway-the-blight-by-11543621.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Embarcadero Freeway\u003c/a> did for San Francisco's downtown waterfront area. In its place, Oakland built \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2005/07/13/mandela-parkway-unveiled/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mandela Parkway\u003c/a>, a north-south running boulevard flanking a large median park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780557\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 748px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/4.-Cypress-e1571331442814.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780557 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/4.-Cypress-e1571346862986.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/4.-Cypress-e1571346862986.jpeg 748w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/4.-Cypress-e1571346862986-160x102.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pancaked upper deck of the Cypress freeway. \u003ccite>(H.G. Wilshire/USGS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/7.-Cypress_collapsed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/7.-Cypress_collapsed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/7.-Cypress_collapsed.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/7.-Cypress_collapsed-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers climb the collapsed portion of the Cypress freeway in search of survivors. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780850\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/AAD-3082.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780850\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/AAD-3082.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/AAD-3082.jpg 686w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/AAD-3082-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rescued victims of the Cypress freeway collapse lay on the street in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy SFPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780562\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cypress-St..jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cypress-St..jpg\" alt=\"Residents and rescue workers on the Cypress freeway.\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cypress-St..jpg 667w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cypress-St.-160x96.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents and rescue workers on the Cypress freeway. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of SFPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 763px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/1.-Cypress-Freeway_.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780554 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/1.-Cypress-Freeway_.jpeg\" alt=\"An aerial view of collapsed sections of the Cypress Street Viaduct.\" width=\"763\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/1.-Cypress-Freeway_.jpeg 763w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/1.-Cypress-Freeway_-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of collapsed sections of the Cypress freeway. \u003ccite>(H.G. Wilshire/USGS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch3>Santa Cruz and Watsonville\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Although often overlooked in remembrances of the earthquake, Santa Cruz and Watsonville were close to Loma Prieta's epicenter, and both cities were hit especially hard. A large section of downtown Santa Cruz — comprised of unreinforced masonry buildings — was destroyed, as were scores of homes and buildings in nearby Watsonville. Seven people in Santa Cruz County were killed by the quake and more than 800 were injured. The disaster displaced upward of 4,500 people, creating a homelessness crisis, particularly among migrant agricultural workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were in the dark, in the cold,\" remembers Lou Arbanas, a volunteer archivist at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pajarovalleyhistory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pajaro Valley Historical Association\u003c/a> in Watsonville. \"We literally lost everything for communication. There was no radio, no broadcast service. No 911 service. The auxiliary power supply failed. Even police cars and firemen were unable to communicate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Santa Cruz and Watsonville found themselves partially isolated for days after the quake, due to major damage on sections of State Route 1 and Highway 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Santa Cruz, though, which rebuilt its downtown to great success, less affluent Watsonville was slower to recover. Today, Arbanas said, there are still empty lots in the city's downtown where buildings destroyed during the quake were never rebuilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780591\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Loma-Prieta-Crack.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Loma-Prieta-Crack.jpeg\" alt=\"A massive fissure in a driveway southeast of Highway 17 near Loma Prieta peak in the Santa Cruz mountains, the epicenter of the earthquake.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Loma-Prieta-Crack.jpeg 755w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Loma-Prieta-Crack-160x109.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A massive fissure in a driveway southeast of Highway 17 near Loma Prieta peak in the Santa Cruz mountains, the epicenter of the earthquake. \u003ccite>(J.K. Nakata/USGS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/075sr.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/075sr.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/075sr.jpeg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/075sr-160x108.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rescue efforts at the ravaged Pacific Garden Mall in downtown Santa Cruz. \u003ccite>(C.E. Meyer/USGS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780564\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780564 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville-1200x852.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Watsonville.jpg 1464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake refugees at a makeshift camp in a park in downtown Watsonville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/-tvJCOYZQziApoJlSEHccz?domain=pajarovalleyhistory.org\">Pajaro Valley Historical Association\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11780748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ioof-1-800x567.png\" alt=\"The falling facade on the corner of the International Order of Odd Fellows' 1890 building in downtown Watsonville killed local resident Elida Ortega, 44, as she threw herself over her granddaughter, saving her life. \" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ioof-1-800x567.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ioof-1-160x113.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/ioof-1.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The falling facade on the corner of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows' 1890 building in downtown Watsonville killed local resident Elida Ortega, 44, as she threw herself over her granddaughter, saving her life. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Pajaro Valley Historical Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780713\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/063sr.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11780713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/063sr.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/063sr.jpeg 759w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/063sr-160x108.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A house in Redwood Grove in the Santa Cruz mountains that was pushed laterally off its cement foundation. \u003ccite>(J.K. 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"content": "\u003cp>Twenty years after the first competition was held off the coast of Half Moon Bay, Northern California’s annual Mavericks surf contest has been canceled indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The World Surf League delivered the news on Aug. 30, along with the announcement that it would be revamping its circuit of big-wave surf competitions overall. In its press release, WSL cited “various logistical challenges, as well as the inability to run the event the last two seasons” as reasons for the cancellation. WSL took over as sponsor of the Mavericks contest in 2017 when the previous organizer filed for bankruptcy. Bad weather conditions prevented the contest from happening in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mavericks is infamous for its massive swell and unforgiving — sometimes fatal — conditions, from frigid water temperature to rocky ocean floor. Still, since the 1970s, experienced surfers have risked their lives to paddle out from the coast to surf the waves, which tower as high as 60 feet during winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11772297\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11772297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38901_2188267971_4c9299e7a7_b-qut-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38901_2188267971_4c9299e7a7_b-qut-800x565.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38901_2188267971_4c9299e7a7_b-qut-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38901_2188267971_4c9299e7a7_b-qut-1020x720.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38901_2188267971_4c9299e7a7_b-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contestants at the 2008 Mavericks surf contest. \u003ccite>(Flickr Creative Commons: Steve Jurvetson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The window of time for the contest to happen is from Nov. 1 to March 31, and because a perfect storm of weather conditions is needed for the contest (big enough waves, no fog and not windy), surfers are typically given only a day or two of advance notice before the competition’s start. Coupled with the complex process of obtaining a slew of permits from the California Coastal Commission, the San Mateo County Harbor District, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, a business license from San Mateo County, a lease from the State Lands Commission and coordinating road closures with the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, the Mavericks contest has never been an easy competition to host.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Hawk, former editor of Surfer Magazine, says he wasn’t surprised the contest was canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very difficult for a sponsor to stay on board for an event that might or might not run every year,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the contest has been held 10 times since 1999, and each year tourists flocked to the area to watch the surfers from shore (and later from a parking lot with a Jumbotron feed.) And the local economy noticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11772289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11772289 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38900_Half-Moon-Bay-Brewing-Company-2019-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38900_Half-Moon-Bay-Brewing-Company-2019-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38900_Half-Moon-Bay-Brewing-Company-2019-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38900_Half-Moon-Bay-Brewing-Company-2019-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38900_Half-Moon-Bay-Brewing-Company-2019-qut-1200x795.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38900_Half-Moon-Bay-Brewing-Company-2019-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Half Moon Bay Brewing Co. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Half Moon Bay Brewing Company)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mary Oldham, director of marketing at Half Moon Bay Brewing Co., was “very encouraged” when the World Surf League took charge of the Mavericks competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We welcome the surf contest and what it brings to us and our community,” she adds. And while she understands the difficulty of sponsoring an event so beholden to bureaucracy and Mother Nature, Oldham acknowledges the brewery and other businesses along the coast will lose revenue if the event doesn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz-based Arrow Surf & Sport owner Bob Pearson makes custom surfboards for many of the surfers who ride and compete in Mavericks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Personally, financially, yes [the cancellation] will hurt me … but I’m still going to be making a lot of [boards] for the people who just love surfing big waves,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contends that the competition didn’t happen because there was “flat-out … not enough money to see this thing through,” and is adamant that when it comes to the possibility of a new sponsor picking up the contest, “it’s got to be run professionally or not at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11772287\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11772287\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38897__DSC1485-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38897__DSC1485-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38897__DSC1485-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38897__DSC1485-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38897__DSC1485-qut-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38897__DSC1485-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professional surfer Bianca Valenti rides a wave at Mavericks. \u003ccite>(Katherine Zacarian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bianca Valenti has surfed at Mavericks hundreds of times — but never as an official contestant. For the last five years, the professional surfer has been crusading for Mavericks to open its competition to women. So when she got the news that this year’s contest was canceled, she was “so sad and shocked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was assuming we were good to go. This is the world’s Surf League. They’re the biggest league in surfing.” she says, referring to the confidence she and other surfers felt about the management of this year’s contest. “I think every single athlete is bummed … we always want the opportunity to perform on the world’s greatest stages … and Mavericks is one of the world’s greatest stages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her disappointment, Valenti is hopeful that it’s not too late to create some good out of the bad news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what, I know that my commitment is to keep catching big waves and to use them to advocate for equality and for opportunities for athletes,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the surfing community is certainly disappointed that the Mavericks surf contest was canceled so close to the start of the season, many say there is no doubt that there will still be people surfing the massive waves come winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Contest or no contest, if they get a swell that is big enough … there are still going to be dozens of amazing surfers in the water. It’s not like the place isn’t going to be ridden,” Valenti says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the future of the Mavericks contest, right now that’s as murky as a 60-foot wave.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Twenty years after the first competition was held off the coast of Half Moon Bay, Northern California’s annual Mavericks surf contest has been canceled indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The World Surf League delivered the news on Aug. 30, along with the announcement that it would be revamping its circuit of big-wave surf competitions overall. In its press release, WSL cited “various logistical challenges, as well as the inability to run the event the last two seasons” as reasons for the cancellation. WSL took over as sponsor of the Mavericks contest in 2017 when the previous organizer filed for bankruptcy. Bad weather conditions prevented the contest from happening in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mavericks is infamous for its massive swell and unforgiving — sometimes fatal — conditions, from frigid water temperature to rocky ocean floor. Still, since the 1970s, experienced surfers have risked their lives to paddle out from the coast to surf the waves, which tower as high as 60 feet during winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11772297\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11772297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38901_2188267971_4c9299e7a7_b-qut-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38901_2188267971_4c9299e7a7_b-qut-800x565.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38901_2188267971_4c9299e7a7_b-qut-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38901_2188267971_4c9299e7a7_b-qut-1020x720.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38901_2188267971_4c9299e7a7_b-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contestants at the 2008 Mavericks surf contest. \u003ccite>(Flickr Creative Commons: Steve Jurvetson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The window of time for the contest to happen is from Nov. 1 to March 31, and because a perfect storm of weather conditions is needed for the contest (big enough waves, no fog and not windy), surfers are typically given only a day or two of advance notice before the competition’s start. Coupled with the complex process of obtaining a slew of permits from the California Coastal Commission, the San Mateo County Harbor District, NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, a business license from San Mateo County, a lease from the State Lands Commission and coordinating road closures with the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, the Mavericks contest has never been an easy competition to host.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Hawk, former editor of Surfer Magazine, says he wasn’t surprised the contest was canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very difficult for a sponsor to stay on board for an event that might or might not run every year,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the contest has been held 10 times since 1999, and each year tourists flocked to the area to watch the surfers from shore (and later from a parking lot with a Jumbotron feed.) And the local economy noticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11772289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11772289 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38900_Half-Moon-Bay-Brewing-Company-2019-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38900_Half-Moon-Bay-Brewing-Company-2019-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38900_Half-Moon-Bay-Brewing-Company-2019-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38900_Half-Moon-Bay-Brewing-Company-2019-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38900_Half-Moon-Bay-Brewing-Company-2019-qut-1200x795.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38900_Half-Moon-Bay-Brewing-Company-2019-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Half Moon Bay Brewing Co. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Half Moon Bay Brewing Company)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mary Oldham, director of marketing at Half Moon Bay Brewing Co., was “very encouraged” when the World Surf League took charge of the Mavericks competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We welcome the surf contest and what it brings to us and our community,” she adds. And while she understands the difficulty of sponsoring an event so beholden to bureaucracy and Mother Nature, Oldham acknowledges the brewery and other businesses along the coast will lose revenue if the event doesn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz-based Arrow Surf & Sport owner Bob Pearson makes custom surfboards for many of the surfers who ride and compete in Mavericks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Personally, financially, yes [the cancellation] will hurt me … but I’m still going to be making a lot of [boards] for the people who just love surfing big waves,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contends that the competition didn’t happen because there was “flat-out … not enough money to see this thing through,” and is adamant that when it comes to the possibility of a new sponsor picking up the contest, “it’s got to be run professionally or not at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11772287\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11772287\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38897__DSC1485-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38897__DSC1485-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38897__DSC1485-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38897__DSC1485-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38897__DSC1485-qut-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38897__DSC1485-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professional surfer Bianca Valenti rides a wave at Mavericks. \u003ccite>(Katherine Zacarian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bianca Valenti has surfed at Mavericks hundreds of times — but never as an official contestant. For the last five years, the professional surfer has been crusading for Mavericks to open its competition to women. So when she got the news that this year’s contest was canceled, she was “so sad and shocked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was assuming we were good to go. This is the world’s Surf League. They’re the biggest league in surfing.” she says, referring to the confidence she and other surfers felt about the management of this year’s contest. “I think every single athlete is bummed … we always want the opportunity to perform on the world’s greatest stages … and Mavericks is one of the world’s greatest stages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her disappointment, Valenti is hopeful that it’s not too late to create some good out of the bad news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter what, I know that my commitment is to keep catching big waves and to use them to advocate for equality and for opportunities for athletes,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the surfing community is certainly disappointed that the Mavericks surf contest was canceled so close to the start of the season, many say there is no doubt that there will still be people surfing the massive waves come winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Contest or no contest, if they get a swell that is big enough … there are still going to be dozens of amazing surfers in the water. It’s not like the place isn’t going to be ridden,” Valenti says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the future of the Mavericks contest, right now that’s as murky as a 60-foot wave.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Santa Cruz Museum Shines Light on the History of Surfing",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum doesn't look like your typical museum, because it's a working lighthouse. But this tiny space, situated on a cliff overlooking the famous Steamer Lane beach, holds the distinction of being one of the first surf museums on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Stoner, one of the museum's founders, is a surf historian and Santa Cruz native. He learned how to surf when he was 11 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a life-changing event,\" he says, his tanned face crinkling with a smile. \"Once you get it in your blood, it's hard to get out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11765756 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(R-L) Dan Young, Bob Pearson, Howard \"Boots\" McGhee and Kim Stoner are all local surfers involved in the founding of the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stoner and his friends came up with the idea for the museum in 1985, but the history of surfing in the state goes back 100 years earlier, to a hot day in July 1885.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765719\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11765719\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38279_three-princes-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38279_three-princes-qut.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38279_three-princes-qut-160x271.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The three princes while students at Saint Matthews Military Academy in San Mateo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hawaii State Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three Hawaiian princes — brothers David Kawānanakoa, Edward Keliʻiahonui and Jonah Kalanianaʻole — were sent to California by the King of Hawaii to attend Saint Matthews Military Academy in San Mateo. While on summer vacation, David caught a glimpse of the swell at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River, close to where the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk stands today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[David] probably saw the perfect 'A-frame' waves at the river mouth, similar to the waves of Waikiki ... and said to his brothers, 'Man, we got to make some surfboards!' \" Stoner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, they did. They went to the local timber mill, picked up some redwood planks and shaped them into boards using knives. Their boards were close to 18 feet long and weighed more 200 pounds. When they dropped them into the river and surfed those waves, local reporters were there to capture the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This moment, according to Stoner, cements in stone that surfing on the mainland United States originated in Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the museum, a plaque commemorates that day with an engraving of the three princes. But it's inside where you really get a surf education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765731\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11765731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque engraved with the portrait of the three Hawaiian princes sits at the entrance of the Surfing Museum. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Surfboards hang from the rafters, flippers and old T-shirts are tacked onto display boards, and everywhere you look there are photos of people surfing in Santa Cruz, dating back to the early 1900s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's kind of congested in here,\" Stoner tells me. It's quite the understatement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You are guided through the exhibit by footprints painted on the floor. The first place they bring you to is a replica of the board the Hawaiian princes shaped and rode. Stoner raps it with his knuckles, and it sounds like he's knocking on a door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is first-growth redwood. See how tightly grained it is? This is really heavy,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765759\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11765759 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Stoner stands next to a replica of the board the Hawaiian princes surfed on at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next to it, a beat-up yellow ironing board rests against the wall. It seems very out of place, until Stoner tells me that someone used it as a surfboard. You can still see the salt on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You follow the footsteps into the 1930s, when the Santa Cruz Surf Club was founded, to the '50s when \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/business/jack-oneill-dead-popularized-the-wet-suit.html\">Jack O'Neill\u003c/a> invented the modern wetsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11765737 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform-800x807.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"807\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform-800x807.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform-160x161.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform-1020x1029.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform-1189x1200.jpg 1189w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform-1920x1937.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform.jpg 2030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An old sweatshirt from the Santa Cruz Surfing Club sits in the Surfing Museum. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765743\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11765743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/wetsuit-pic-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/wetsuit-pic-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/wetsuit-pic-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/wetsuit-pic-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/wetsuit-pic-1200x853.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/wetsuit-pic.jpg 1486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before the invention of wetsuits, surfers would cut the sleeves off wool sweaters and wear them to keep warm in the water. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, Jane \"The Lane\" McKenzie makes an appearance in the museum. McKenzie earned her nickname because she was one of the few women surfing Steamer Lane in the early '60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For a young woman to be able to be in the ocean with these kind of gnarly guys ... it was something else,\" she remembers. Given what she went through back then, she has a remarkably positive — and forgiving — attitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been kicked, spit on, slugged, you know, everything. But I always think, 'Oh, I must be having a better day than them,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765863\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11765863\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane \"The Lane\" McKenzie poses next to a photo of her displayed in the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, she stresses there were only a few \"stinkers,\" and that most of the men she surfed with treated her like a sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio mp3=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/278122_JanetheLane.mp3\"][/audio]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKenzie's photo is one of the last stops on the timeline because once you finish the '90s ... you're done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Stoner hopes the museum can expand into the 2000s someday, and include the local big wave surf competition, Mavericks. Still, even at its size, the museum is an incredible archive of surfing history, not just in Santa Cruz, but throughout the world. Many of today’s surfing standards — from techniques to technologies — were invented and perfected in Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my favorite things about the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum is that it's such a labor of love. Stoner tells me that nearly everything we're looking at was donated by the local community — fellow surfers digging in their garages for old boards and photos, talking to family members and sharing their own stories. On top of that, the museum is managed by volunteers, funded by donations and is always free to visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a gem,\" Stoner says, standing in the museum he helped create. \"We're very lucky to have it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765753\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11765753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38402_steamers-lane-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38402_steamers-lane-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38402_steamers-lane-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38402_steamers-lane-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38402_steamers-lane-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38402_steamers-lane-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38402_steamers-lane-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38402_steamers-lane-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38402_steamers-lane-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38402_steamers-lane-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38402_steamers-lane-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People watch surfers below ride waves at Steamer Lane beach. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But you don’t have to be a surfer to appreciate the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum. It might be enough to stand outside the lighthouse, smell the salty air, hear the waves crashing on Steamer Lane below you, and imagine when 140 years ago three Hawaiian princes lugged a 200-pound piece of wood into the freezing water, paddled out, and stood up off the California coastline for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum doesn't look like your typical museum, because it's a working lighthouse. But this tiny space, situated on a cliff overlooking the famous Steamer Lane beach, holds the distinction of being one of the first surf museums on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Stoner, one of the museum's founders, is a surf historian and Santa Cruz native. He learned how to surf when he was 11 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a life-changing event,\" he says, his tanned face crinkling with a smile. \"Once you get it in your blood, it's hard to get out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11765756 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38103_IMG_0365-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(R-L) Dan Young, Bob Pearson, Howard \"Boots\" McGhee and Kim Stoner are all local surfers involved in the founding of the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stoner and his friends came up with the idea for the museum in 1985, but the history of surfing in the state goes back 100 years earlier, to a hot day in July 1885.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765719\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11765719\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38279_three-princes-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38279_three-princes-qut.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38279_three-princes-qut-160x271.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The three princes while students at Saint Matthews Military Academy in San Mateo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hawaii State Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three Hawaiian princes — brothers David Kawānanakoa, Edward Keliʻiahonui and Jonah Kalanianaʻole — were sent to California by the King of Hawaii to attend Saint Matthews Military Academy in San Mateo. While on summer vacation, David caught a glimpse of the swell at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River, close to where the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk stands today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[David] probably saw the perfect 'A-frame' waves at the river mouth, similar to the waves of Waikiki ... and said to his brothers, 'Man, we got to make some surfboards!' \" Stoner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, they did. They went to the local timber mill, picked up some redwood planks and shaped them into boards using knives. Their boards were close to 18 feet long and weighed more 200 pounds. When they dropped them into the river and surfed those waves, local reporters were there to capture the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This moment, according to Stoner, cements in stone that surfing on the mainland United States originated in Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the museum, a plaque commemorates that day with an engraving of the three princes. But it's inside where you really get a surf education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765731\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11765731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38111_transform.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plaque engraved with the portrait of the three Hawaiian princes sits at the entrance of the Surfing Museum. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Surfboards hang from the rafters, flippers and old T-shirts are tacked onto display boards, and everywhere you look there are photos of people surfing in Santa Cruz, dating back to the early 1900s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's kind of congested in here,\" Stoner tells me. It's quite the understatement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You are guided through the exhibit by footprints painted on the floor. The first place they bring you to is a replica of the board the Hawaiian princes shaped and rode. Stoner raps it with his knuckles, and it sounds like he's knocking on a door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is first-growth redwood. See how tightly grained it is? This is really heavy,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765759\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11765759 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38086_IMG_0344-qut-e1565113168532.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Stoner stands next to a replica of the board the Hawaiian princes surfed on at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next to it, a beat-up yellow ironing board rests against the wall. It seems very out of place, until Stoner tells me that someone used it as a surfboard. You can still see the salt on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You follow the footsteps into the 1930s, when the Santa Cruz Surf Club was founded, to the '50s when \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/business/jack-oneill-dead-popularized-the-wet-suit.html\">Jack O'Neill\u003c/a> invented the modern wetsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11765737 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform-800x807.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"807\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform-800x807.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform-160x161.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform-1020x1029.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform-1189x1200.jpg 1189w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform-1920x1937.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38089_transform.jpg 2030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An old sweatshirt from the Santa Cruz Surfing Club sits in the Surfing Museum. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765743\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11765743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/wetsuit-pic-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/wetsuit-pic-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/wetsuit-pic-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/wetsuit-pic-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/wetsuit-pic-1200x853.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/wetsuit-pic.jpg 1486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before the invention of wetsuits, surfers would cut the sleeves off wool sweaters and wear them to keep warm in the water. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, Jane \"The Lane\" McKenzie makes an appearance in the museum. McKenzie earned her nickname because she was one of the few women surfing Steamer Lane in the early '60s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For a young woman to be able to be in the ocean with these kind of gnarly guys ... it was something else,\" she remembers. Given what she went through back then, she has a remarkably positive — and forgiving — attitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been kicked, spit on, slugged, you know, everything. But I always think, 'Oh, I must be having a better day than them,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765863\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11765863\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38110_IMG_0372-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane \"The Lane\" McKenzie poses next to a photo of her displayed in the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, she stresses there were only a few \"stinkers,\" and that most of the men she surfed with treated her like a sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Antoinette Martinez rolls her cart through the produce section of the FoodMaxx in Watsonville, her 5-year-old son, Caden, often asks for strawberries and blueberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes Martinez bends, but usually she sticks to the produce on sale: Roma tomatoes for 69 cents a pound, cucumbers at three-for-99 cents. And banana bunches are relatively cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s not under a dollar, then I don’t buy it,” Martinez said, bypassing $2 lettuce as Caden clambered into her grocery cart. “It’s about stretching the dollar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The food budget isn’t as tight as it used to be since Martinez, a single mother, got a job at the Second Harvest Food Bank in Santa Cruz County. She helps people sign up for food stamps, known in California as CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between her $2,380 monthly paycheck and about $100 she receives in CalFresh, Martinez can make it through the month without her or Caden ever going hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Jessica Bartholow, a policy advocate for the Western Center on Law and Poverty']'There’s actually no evidence that making someone hungrier makes them less dependent on public benefits. And there’s plenty of evidence showing the opposite.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2019/07/23/usda-proposes-close-snap-automatic-eligibility-loophole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new proposal from the Trump administration\u003c/a>, Martinez and her son would lose their food stamps. So would many clients she helps at the food bank, along with an estimated 3.1 million Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians are likely to be hit particularly hard. Here’s why:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rule, announced last week, would undo the ability of states to provide food stamps to households that have incomes above the federal food stamp limit — 130% of the federal poverty line — but hefty expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would have the biggest impact in states like California that have raised the minimum wage to try to chase the skyrocketing costs of housing. As California’s minimum wage creeps toward $15 per hour by 2023, many more workers could be bumped off food stamps when their monthly incomes rise above the federal limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current law, a California family of two with a gross monthly income between 130% and 200% of the federal poverty level — or between $1,784 and $2,744 — can qualify to receive CalFresh as long as their net income after housing, child care or medical costs falls under 100% of the poverty level, or $1,372.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Martinez falls right into that bracket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule would also cut the benefit for families who have savings or assets above a federal limit that many states, including California, currently waive. That limit — $2,250 for most families — is only slightly over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/california-rent-report-rentonomics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">median monthly rent\u003c/a> for a two-bedroom apartment in California ($2,110) and about half that of a two-bedroom in San Francisco ($4,730).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clear that states like California are a target on this,” said Jessica Bartholow, a policy advocate for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwj566-t9d_jAhXUJzQIHSkyCP8QFjAAegQIBRAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwclp.org%2F&usg=AOvVaw0WrfpyNihAEfYYUe7C7r-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Center on Law and Poverty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764606\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11764606\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38285_food-stamp-cuts-photo-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoinette Martinez uses CalFresh to pay for her groceries at FoodMaxx on July 26, 2019. The food she purchases today is expected to last her and her 5-year-old for at least a week. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said that the proposal to eliminate what he called a “loophole” would reduce fraud and save the federal government money — more than $9 billion over the next five years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/07/24/2019-15670/revision-of-categorical-eligibility-in-the-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a federal estimate\u003c/a>. The proposal could go into effect following a 60-day public comment period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our job is to make sure folks have the tools they need to move away from (food stamp) dependency… and preserve the benefits for those most in need,” Perdue said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates counter that the move would largely cut benefits for working families who spend large chunks of their paychecks on housing and caretaking costs for young children or ill or disabled family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s actually no evidence that making someone hungrier makes them less dependent on public benefits. And there’s plenty of evidence showing the opposite,” said Bartholow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"food-stamps\" label=\"More coverage of public benefits\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western Center estimates that some 250,000 Californians could lose CalFresh, based on estimates made when California expanded eligibility in 2008 under Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and again in 2013 under Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, children in those families could lose automatic eligibility for free lunches at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal to cut food stamps is the latest in a series of Trump administration initiatives to curtail government benefits for low-income people, including a rule that would \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/01/707681965/more-than-750-000-could-lose-food-stamps-under-trump-administration-proposal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tighten food stamp work requirements\u003c/a>, another to block some legal immigrants from getting a green card if they are\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2018/12/california-ag-labels-public-charge-unconstitutional-immigration-change/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> deemed likely to use public services\u003c/a>, and another to adjust the way the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/2019/06/a-vaccine-show-down-a-tax-bill-wildfire-costs-and-poverty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal poverty measure is calculated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those other proposed rules have cleared their comment periods, but the Trump administration has yet to impose them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opposition from California’s Democratic leaders to the latest proposal was swift and predictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is not a state in the country that is probably more aggressive in pushing back from a litigation perspective, so that will be analyzed by the lawyers,” Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/newsompgeownership/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CalMatters\u003c/a>. A spokesman for Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/04/california-sues-trump-more-becerra-lawsuit-tracker-update/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued the Trump administration over 50 times\u003c/a> thus far, said his office was reviewing the proposal. (CalMatters is tracking those lawsuits \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2018/03/becerra-v-trump-california-using-courts-fight-administration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta, who represents Martinez’ district, sent Secretary Perdue a \u003ca href=\"https://panetta.house.gov/sites/panetta.house.gov/files/documents/2019.07.26_Panetta_Letter_CADemDelegation_SecPerdue_SNAPCatElProposedRule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a>, signed by 45 California Democrats in Congress, asking that he “take into consideration the harmful effects of this proposed rule and act quickly to rescind it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11764607\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38286_food-stamp-cuts-photo-3-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11764607\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38286_food-stamp-cuts-photo-3-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38286_food-stamp-cuts-photo-3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38286_food-stamp-cuts-photo-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38286_food-stamp-cuts-photo-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38286_food-stamp-cuts-photo-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38286_food-stamp-cuts-photo-3-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoinette Martinez does her weekly grocery shopping at FoodMaxx on July 26, 2019. When choosing her fruits and vegetables Martinez, who receives CalFresh, will not buy an item if it costs more than a dollar per unit. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martinez knows the feeling of hunger well. For many years, she said, she was homeless, battling addiction and mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was homeless … there was no place to eat,” Martinez said. “I wasn’t really too sure where to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalled what happened next: She got pregnant, enrolled in CalFresh and was finally able to count on a steady source of food. Then she entered an intensive program to help homeless people get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Antoinette Martinez']'CalFresh is the first line of defense against hunger; the food bank is the second. We were barely surviving but we’re not going to be able to survive if [President Trump] continues to push this.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez and her son have now been housed for two years. She said she’s close to finishing her associate degree in human services at Cabrillo College and dreams of being a case manager for a non-profit, helping others battle addiction and poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worries about what the food stamp proposal would mean for her and her growing son. But she said she’s also concerned about the rest of the community she serves in Santa Cruz County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the county, 21.7% of residents live in poverty, the third-highest rate in the state after Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties, according to new \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/poverty-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CalFresh is the first line of defense against hunger; the food bank is the second,” Martinez said. “We were barely surviving but we’re not going to be able to survive if [President Trump] continues to push this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jackie Botts is a journalist at CalMatters working for The California Divide, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://CalMatters.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CalMatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Sandy Gibson remembers that his mother thought about the end of her life a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was 5, his mother found out she had terminal cancer. She was only 39 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My mom grew up in a very religious family, and she'd ask, 'Why would God do this to me?'\" said Gibson. \"Why would she have a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old and have a terminal illness?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759768\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759768\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Sandy-Gibson-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Co-founder of Better Place Forests Sandy Gibson lost both his parents in his youth. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-founder of Better Place Forests Sandy Gibson said his parents' gravesite \"never felt like the right place for them.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Better Place Forests)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One year before his mother passed away — when Gibson was 10 years old — his father died of complications due to a stroke. For most of his life, Gibson never wanted to visit that site where his parents were buried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It never felt like the right place for them,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His personal experience with loss is, in part, what inspired Gibson to co-found \u003ca href=\"https://www.betterplaceforests.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Better Place Forests\u003c/a> — an alternative to cemeteries, where families can claim a redwood tree as a grave marker and scatter their loved one's ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company currently has two locations in California — Point Arena and Santa Cruz — and is hoping to expand to locations in Oregon, Colorado, Arizona and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gibson, scattering remains at Better Place Forests involves two rituals. First, selecting a tree. Families come to the forest together to decide which section of the forest speaks to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because while it's in a 20-acre forest, you might have 50 different sections that feel very different,\" Gibson explained. \"It might be that the birds live in one section, or the fact that rhododendrons are in another.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choosing a tree also involves deciding if you want to be scattered alone, or with your pets and family members. Better Place offers \u003ca href=\"http://learn.betterplaceforests.com/knowledge/what-are-the-different-options-in-the-forestv2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five different tree options\u003c/a> with varying scattering rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759965\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tree-Cremains-Marker-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Families can choose to add memorial markers with personalized quotes to their tree.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tree-Cremains-Marker.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tree-Cremains-Marker-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families can choose to add memorial markers with personalized quotes to their tree. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Better Place Forests)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the tree is selected, the second ritual is the spreading ceremony, where family members gather to scatter the ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the experience, Better Place takes the cremains and mixes them with local soil to rebalance the pH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Sandy Gibson, Better Place Forests co-founder']'We perform the ceremony where they watch the ashes be returned to the earth and remixed with that soil and then be re-covered. Then we spread wildflower seeds, and the family participates in watering the area around the tree.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's very important because it's the bacteria in the soil that's going to break down the bone ash to become nutrients for the forest floor,\" explained Gibson. \"That's what starts the cycle of life with that bacteria. And that can only live and thrive in a properly balanced soil mixture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the ashes are prepared, a member of Better Place Forests walks with the family to their chosen tree to perform the service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We perform the ceremony where they watch the ashes be returned to the earth and remixed with that soil and then be re-covered. Then we spread wildflower seeds, and the family participates in watering the area around the tree,\" said Gibson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Point-Arena-Visitor-Center-Day-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Better Place Forests visitor's center at Point Arena.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Better Place Forests visitors center at Point Arena. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Better Place Forests)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scattering ashes in forests or other scenic locations is not a new idea. But California has strict laws on where this can be legally performed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Sandy Gibson, Better Place Forests co-founder']'It's all about creating a ritual that connects you to a sense of place'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=7116.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health and Safety Code\u003c/a>, cremated human remains can be scattered only in places where \"no local prohibition exists,\" as long as they're not \"visible to the public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those doing the scattering must also obtain written permission from the property owner — be that a private landowner or governing agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau (CFB) warns that scattering cremains on private property doesn't guarantee that a family will always be able to return and visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"... as time goes on property status may change. If the consumers' goal is to return to a site to visit their loved ones over the years or decades, they may want to consider a licensed cemetery,\" said the agency in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Point-Arena-Forest-Creekside-Area-800x533.jpg\" alt=\""It's all about creating a ritual that connects you to a sense of place," said Gibson. "It's the opposite of my experience. It's the opposite of trying to think about my mother and thinking of a black tombstone. 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"content": "\u003cp>Santa Cruz’s plan to house the homeless this winter didn’t work out. Now it’s shutting down the outdoor River Street Homeless Camp. Those who live there are trying to figure out where to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dawnell Hunsaker has lived at River Street Camp for about six months. She unzips the front door of her tent. Inside, she has a cot and some personal belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like a bedroom. It looks like my bedroom would be,” Hunsaker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her tent is one of about 50 at the River Street Homeless Camp. The camp is located in a dirt lot near the Tannery Arts Center on River Street. It’s completely enclosed by a metal fence. Once-bright prayer flags hanging above the entrance have faded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz opened the temporary camp in March. Initially, the camp cost around $90,000 a month. Santa Cruz County’s Homeless Action Partnership helped fund the camp later on, at around $75,000 a month. The partnership ultimately made the decision to close the camp. It will shut down by the end of November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sad. I’m very sad, and I’m scared because this was safety. I’ve had lots of things happen out there that are unsafe for females, especially in my age range,” says Hunsaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunsaker, 47, says before here, she was living in a tent, sometimes on the streets and sometimes in the forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708184\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34104_SC-Homeless-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Dawnell Hunsaker, 47, has lived at the camp for about six months. She's unsure of what's ahead after the camp closes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34104_SC-Homeless-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34104_SC-Homeless-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34104_SC-Homeless-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34104_SC-Homeless-2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34104_SC-Homeless-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawnell Hunsaker, 47, has lived at the camp for about six months. She’s unsure of what’s ahead after the camp closes. \u003ccite>(Erika Mahoney/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had my tent blown up, caught on fire. Everything I owned, it was set on fire,” Hunsaker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>River Street program manager Adam Carothers says many campers have expressed fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are anxious, they’re nervous, some people are terrified,” says Carothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carothers says River Street Camp drew homeless people who don’t normally stay in shelters. The camp had looser rules. People could stay 24/7, providing some stability, and campers also got their own tents, providing some privacy. They could bring pets and get jobs to help run the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The camp also provided supportive services. It helped 23 homeless people move on to more permanent situations, from sober living programs to transitional housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really hope that people nationwide, statewide, you know, take this as a positive example that this is a good model,” says Carothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11708185 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34103_SC-Homeless-3-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Adam Carothers is Program Manager of River Street Camp. Carothers often brought his dog to work. Here, campers were allowed to bring their pets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34103_SC-Homeless-3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34103_SC-Homeless-3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34103_SC-Homeless-3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34103_SC-Homeless-3-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34103_SC-Homeless-3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Carothers is program manager of River Street Camp. Carothers often brought his dog to work. Here, campers were allowed to bring their pets. \u003ccite>(Erika Mahoney/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the outdoor camp can’t survive the winter. Santa Cruz had planned to replace it with another temporary shelter by now, an indoor one that followed the same model. It was all part of a three-part plan that included two temporary shelters and then a permanent year-round one. But the city says the second shelter hasn’t materialized yet because of community opposition over its location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susie O’Hara works for the city and helped set up River Street Camp. She has been trying to secure a second site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear from just about everybody that there has to be a solution and that we have to come to that eventually. But when you get to the conversation about where that solution should be sited, we do run into challenges,” O’Hara says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a location for an indoor shelter, the city is recommending the Salvation Army-run Winter Shelter Program at the VFW in Live Oak. It’s an overnight-only shelter program that opened on Nov. 15. Doors open daily around 5:30 in the evening and everyone has to be out by 7:30 the next morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VFW offers 60 beds; it’s enough space to house everyone at River Street Camp. But Hunsaker says it’s not easy to pack up and leave every morning. She says she probably won’t go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a daily thing. You’ve got to show up at a certain time. Whoa, that’s not this. I have no plan. I have nowhere to go, I have nowhere to go. So I’m back to the square one,” Hunsaker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the city didn’t establish an indoor shelter this winter, it hasn’t given up on that idea. It’s still working to find a location as well as another location for a permanent, year-round shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early next year, the state is expected to allocate over $10 million to Santa Cruz County’s Homeless Action Partnership to address the needs of the homeless community. Santa Cruz is hoping some of that money can go toward a permanent shelter.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sad. I’m very sad, and I’m scared because this was safety. I’ve had lots of things happen out there that are unsafe for females, especially in my age range,” says Hunsaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunsaker, 47, says before here, she was living in a tent, sometimes on the streets and sometimes in the forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708184\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34104_SC-Homeless-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Dawnell Hunsaker, 47, has lived at the camp for about six months. She's unsure of what's ahead after the camp closes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34104_SC-Homeless-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34104_SC-Homeless-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34104_SC-Homeless-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34104_SC-Homeless-2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34104_SC-Homeless-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawnell Hunsaker, 47, has lived at the camp for about six months. She’s unsure of what’s ahead after the camp closes. \u003ccite>(Erika Mahoney/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had my tent blown up, caught on fire. 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It helped 23 homeless people move on to more permanent situations, from sober living programs to transitional housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really hope that people nationwide, statewide, you know, take this as a positive example that this is a good model,” says Carothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11708185 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34103_SC-Homeless-3-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Adam Carothers is Program Manager of River Street Camp. Carothers often brought his dog to work. Here, campers were allowed to bring their pets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34103_SC-Homeless-3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34103_SC-Homeless-3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34103_SC-Homeless-3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34103_SC-Homeless-3-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34103_SC-Homeless-3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Carothers is program manager of River Street Camp. Carothers often brought his dog to work. Here, campers were allowed to bring their pets. \u003ccite>(Erika Mahoney/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the outdoor camp can’t survive the winter. Santa Cruz had planned to replace it with another temporary shelter by now, an indoor one that followed the same model. It was all part of a three-part plan that included two temporary shelters and then a permanent year-round one. But the city says the second shelter hasn’t materialized yet because of community opposition over its location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susie O’Hara works for the city and helped set up River Street Camp. She has been trying to secure a second site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear from just about everybody that there has to be a solution and that we have to come to that eventually. But when you get to the conversation about where that solution should be sited, we do run into challenges,” O’Hara says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a location for an indoor shelter, the city is recommending the Salvation Army-run Winter Shelter Program at the VFW in Live Oak. It’s an overnight-only shelter program that opened on Nov. 15. Doors open daily around 5:30 in the evening and everyone has to be out by 7:30 the next morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VFW offers 60 beds; it’s enough space to house everyone at River Street Camp. But Hunsaker says it’s not easy to pack up and leave every morning. She says she probably won’t go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a daily thing. You’ve got to show up at a certain time. Whoa, that’s not this. I have no plan. I have nowhere to go, I have nowhere to go. So I’m back to the square one,” Hunsaker says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the city didn’t establish an indoor shelter this winter, it hasn’t given up on that idea. It’s still working to find a location as well as another location for a permanent, year-round shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early next year, the state is expected to allocate over $10 million to Santa Cruz County’s Homeless Action Partnership to address the needs of the homeless community. Santa Cruz is hoping some of that money can go toward a permanent shelter.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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It’s the charitable arm of the Veterans Alliance’s marijuana business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11684744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Jason-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Sweatt is co-founder of the Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Sweatt is co-founder of the Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance. \u003ccite>(KRISTA ALMANZAN/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It all started back in 2011. Co-founders and veterans Aaron Newsom and Jason Sweatt started growing cannabis as a substitute for the drugs the VA had them on. Then they started sharing it with other veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started small. I mean I remember our first couple of meetings there were only like 10 to 15 veterans. Then the next meeting it was doubled, and doubled. And by the summertime we had over 100 vets coming to the meeting. And then we were having barbecues,” says Sweatt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, about 1,000 veterans are enrolled in the Compassion Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately our goal is to try to get the VA to treat cannabis as a legitimate, therapeutic option for veterans for all types of issues,” says Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11684745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Seth-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"SCVA Director of Communications Seth Smith in one of the Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance's grow facilities.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SCVA Director of Communications Seth Smith in one of the Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance’s grow facilities. \u003ccite>(KRISTA ALMANZAN/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But pot is illegal in the eyes the federal government. That prevents the VA from prescribing it and conducting research into its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the VA has done some limited research into cannabis, under the Trump administration, it clarified that federal law restricts its ability to conduct research into medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our veterans deserve better, and what our veterans deserve is research,” says Southern California congressman Lou Correa. He serves on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. “We need to find out what cannabis is good for and what cannabis is better for, and that’s what we want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correa supported legislation that would tell the Department of Veterans Affairs it does have the legal right do research. It would also direct the VA to study the safety and effectiveness of medical cannabis for treating PTSD and chronic pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressman Jimmy Panetta also co-sponsored the VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To continue to put our head in a hole in the ground and not to acknowledge that cannabis is part of our fabric of our society, to not acknowledge that our veterans are using cannabis, I think it’s just plain criminal,” says Correa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684749\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11684749\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/LennyBernstein-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Lenny Bernstein is a World War II Veteran who uses marijuana to relieve pain and help him sleep.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lenny Bernstein is a World War II Veteran who uses marijuana to relieve pain and help him sleep. \u003ccite>(KRISTA ALMANZAN/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Veterans like Lenny Bernstein have been using marijuana for decades. At his home in Soquel there’s a wall dedicated to his military service. On it, a case full of medals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, the ones I’m most proud of … the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star,” says Bernstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernstein is a World War II veteran. He was an Army Combat Ranger. If you want stories he has thousands. Some he’d prefer to forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Death was all around us all the time, and explosions were around us all the time. So all of that stuff, you know, comes together and they form, I didn’t know at the time, but lifelong memories. I couldn’t sleep,” says Bernstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernstein still occasionally smokes pot to ease pain and help him sleep. He gets his stash free from the Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11684752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11684752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/dispensary-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"The Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance's dispensary in Soquel.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance’s dispensary in Soquel. \u003ccite>(KRISTA ALMANZAN/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At 92, he says he’s too old to become an activist on this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, I think it would help other people because they could get it prescribed,” says Bernstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the future the Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance has been preparing for. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area city of Richmond recently made an unlikely move that got the attention of its largest employer and taxpayer, Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It followed other municipalities and counties across California that have filed lawsuits against oil companies, alleging that the energy giants knowingly contributed to climate change and should begin paying for it. Literally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employing the legal strategy that brought states major payouts from tobacco companies decades ago, the plaintiffs are demanding that oil interests begin writing checks to protect Californians against rising seas, crippling drought and harmful air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal viability of the lawsuits is unclear; the cases are in early stages. But if any succeed, the implications are profound: The state is already spending hundreds of millions of dollars to shore up coastlines, protect infrastructure and retrofit roads and bridges in response to rising seas. 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Richmond, surrounded on three sides by water and imperiled by rising seas, joined the fight Jan. 22. Its city council voted unanimously to \u003ca href=\"http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2018/20180122_docket-C18-00055_complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sue\u003c/a> 29 oil producers, even if it meant taking on Chevron, whose tax payments -- $45 million in 2016 -- account for 25 percent of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are a pretty important corporate citizen,” Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “we are a waterfront city -- Richmond has 32 miles of shoreline on the bay. Part of our city is vulnerable to sea-level rise: our transportation systems, neighborhoods and commercial areas, and thousands of acres of waterfront park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those vulnerable venues is Chevron’s refinery, which sits at the edge of San Francisco Bay. Completed in 1902, this refinery, the state’s largest, was immediately dubbed “the colossus.” The facility today employs more than 3,400 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648046\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11648046\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-160x142.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-240x213.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-375x333.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-520x461.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Our city is vulnerable to sea-level rise,” Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leah Casey, the spokeswoman for Chevron’s Richmond refinery, said in a statement that lawsuits like the local ones “will do nothing to address the serious issue of climate change. Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is a global issue that requires global engagement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt said the city sued “out of frustration, because I know that these fossil fuel companies are aware of the long-term costs and damage of the widespread consumption of fossil fuel.” He said Richmond was already planning for the sea’s rise but had not yet calculated mitigation costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suits are filed in state court under California’s public nuisance law, which allows legal actions against activities that are “injurious to health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York City filed a similar claim against five of the world’s largest oil companies in federal court, asking that the cost of mitigating damage done by the companies as a result of their contribution to climate change be charged to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenges also assert that the oil industry has known for decades that burning fossil fuels accelerates climate change. The Richmond complaint states, “The industry has known for decades that business-as-usual combustion of their products could be ‘severe’ or even ‘catastrophic.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Companies were so certain of the threat that some even took steps to protect their own assets from rising seas and more extreme storms,” the complaint goes on, “and they developed new technologies to profit from drilling in a soon-to-be-ice-free Arctic. Yet instead of taking steps to reduce the threat to others, the industry actually increased production while spending billions on public relations, lobbying, and campaign contributions to hide the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slow unraveling of the decades-long industry cover-up of the medical harm from cigarettes turned the tide in the tobacco cases, according to Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson, who is advising some of the plaintiffs’ lawyers, said that courts will take into account the oil-industry-funded campaign to discredit climate science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That matters in California,” she said. “If you can show evidence that a defendant engaged in a campaign to obfuscate, it’s more than just a nice detail. Evidence helps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With much at stake, oil companies are pushing back hard. ExxonMobil has responded with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4345487-Exxon-Texas-Petition-Jan-2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demand\u003c/a> to depose lawyers representing the California cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says it is a victim of a conspiracy, and cities and counties are being disingenuous: When they issue municipal bonds, they portray risk from climate change as unpredictable, not the fault of oil firms, as the lawsuits claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies have also filed motions to move the cases to federal courts, where they believe there are precedents more favorable to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of legal claims intended to monetize the consequences of a warming planet is growing. 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Richmond, surrounded on three sides by water and imperiled by rising seas, joined the fight Jan. 22. Its city council voted unanimously to \u003ca href=\"http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2018/20180122_docket-C18-00055_complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sue\u003c/a> 29 oil producers, even if it meant taking on Chevron, whose tax payments -- $45 million in 2016 -- account for 25 percent of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are a pretty important corporate citizen,” Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “we are a waterfront city -- Richmond has 32 miles of shoreline on the bay. Part of our city is vulnerable to sea-level rise: our transportation systems, neighborhoods and commercial areas, and thousands of acres of waterfront park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those vulnerable venues is Chevron’s refinery, which sits at the edge of San Francisco Bay. Completed in 1902, this refinery, the state’s largest, was immediately dubbed “the colossus.” The facility today employs more than 3,400 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648046\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11648046\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-160x142.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-240x213.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-375x333.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-520x461.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Our city is vulnerable to sea-level rise,” Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leah Casey, the spokeswoman for Chevron’s Richmond refinery, said in a statement that lawsuits like the local ones “will do nothing to address the serious issue of climate change. 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"content": "\u003cp>You know when you go out hiking and before you’ve even started, you see a sign like this?\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nIf you encounter a mountain lion, face lion, back away slowly. Be large. Shout. Keep children close. Pick up children without bending. If attacked, fight back.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re the nervous type, it can be unsettling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11608240\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11608240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/3242740400_8122a35457_b-800x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/3242740400_8122a35457_b-800x250.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/3242740400_8122a35457_b-160x50.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/3242740400_8122a35457_b-1020x319.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/3242740400_8122a35457_b-960x300.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/3242740400_8122a35457_b-240x75.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/3242740400_8122a35457_b-375x117.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/3242740400_8122a35457_b-520x163.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/3242740400_8122a35457_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A warning sign is posted at the Los Trancos Open Space Preserve in San Mateo County. It’s part of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space Preserve. \u003ccite>(Creative Commons via Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Dave Fairburn wanted to know how much stock to put in these warnings — he’s a frequent hiker. He also wanted to know more about the Puma concolor, an animal that also goes by cougar, panther, ghost cat, mountain lion and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen a mountain lion,” Fairburn says. “I don’t know anything about them, so I was kind of curious. Is it legitimate? Are they really here? Do I really need to think about them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain lions are a top-of-the-food-chain type predator. Females can weigh between 80 to 85 pounds, and males get as big as 150 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave and I met at UC Santa Cruz to get answers from Associate Professor of Environmental Studies \u003ca href=\"https://envs.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=cwilmers\">Chris Wilmers\u003c/a>. He runs the \u003ca href=\"http://santacruzpumas.org/\">Santa Cruz Puma Project\u003c/a>, where researchers have been studying mountain lions for almost a decade. Together we walk off campus to an area with lots of redwoods trees, where mountain lions roam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11608242\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11608242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Chris Wilmers (left) and Berkeley resident Dave Fairburn in the redwoods near campus. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Fairburn’s first questions: How many mountain lions are there in the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The short answer is, I don’t really know,” Wilmers says. His best guess is there are probably 50 or 60 mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which stretches from south of San Francisco to Watsonville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s probably the largest chunk of contiguous habitat for mountain lions in the Bay Area, so that would be the largest sub-population,” Wilmers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates that there could be 4,000 to 6,000 mountain lions in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How worried should we be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Our question-asker Fairburn worries when he’s out hiking and wants to know: Is he safe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilmers says it’s important to keep things in perspective. Mountain lions actually go out of their way to avoid us. One way mountain lions avoid us is by shifting to a more nocturnal schedule than typical when they’re in areas where humans go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as far as tracking us as prey? No, not a thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they really love to eat is deer,” Wilmers says. “About 95 percent of the calories they ingest come from deer. Their behavior is to try to avoid you, rather than seek you out as prey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion\">Department of Fish and Wildlife \u003c/a>keeps track of mountain lion attacks on humans. In the past three decades, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion/Attacks\">three deaths statewide\u003c/a>, as well as 12 attacks that were not fatal. And no attacks on humans at all since 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilmers likes to tell people it’s far more risky to drive a car or even brush your teeth. One of his favorite comparisons is how many people impale themselves on their toothbrush and die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, it’s something like 10 or 11 a year,” Wilmers says. “So probababilistically, you’ve got a greater chance of impaling yourself on your toothbrush than being killed by a mountain lion, but we don’t think of the toothbrush as being dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they’re avoiding us, this made Fairburn wonder about the one or two animals a year that find their way into towns, often on the peninsula. Wilmer says they’re basically lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are almost always young animals, usually young males that are out looking for a new territory,” Wilmers says. “They essentially make a mistake and wander into a downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, while humans are relatively safe, it’s probably less safe for Fido and Fluffy. And for livestock in more remote areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11608245\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11608245\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain lions are tawny in color. Females can weigh 80 to 85 pounds and males can be as big as 150 pounds. \u003ccite>(Creative Commons via Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Are They at Risk?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We’ve mostly been talking about whether we’re in danger of mountain lions. But it’s also worth asking: Are they in danger of us?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain lions depend on having space to roam. The more space humans take up, and the more open space we cut into smaller pieces with roads and freeways, the more we put \u003cem>them\u003c/em> at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are efforts to build tunnels under Highways 101 and 280 to give the mountain lions a way to get around. That’s because so many are being \u003ca href=\"http://www.wildlifecrossing.net/california/\">hit and killed by cars\u003c/a>. Last year, UC Davis counted 48 mountain lions deaths on California roads. But the co-director of UC Davis’s Road Ecology Center, \u003ca href=\"http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/research/shilling/\">Fraser Shilling\u003c/a>, says the actual number of roadkill deaths could be double that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the population of mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains ends up isolated — and can’t diversify its gene pool — Wilmers says they’d probably go extinct within 100 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How Do They Mate?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If there are so few and if they’re pretty spread out, how do they find each other in the first place? You know … to mate?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The males pick a spot on what’s basically a “mountain lion highway” in the woods. They scratch the ground, pee and leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a female comes looking for a mate, if she likes what she smells, she caterwauls. It sounds kind of like your neighborhood cat in heat, but a lot louder and deeper. Wilmers says researchers think mountain lions set up these communication hot spots in places where they can hear the female from long distances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once she caterwauls, she waits. And if a male finds her, the happy couple spend two or three days together. Three months later, baby mountain lions!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave and I met at UC Santa Cruz to get answers from Associate Professor of Environmental Studies \u003ca href=\"https://envs.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=cwilmers\">Chris Wilmers\u003c/a>. He runs the \u003ca href=\"http://santacruzpumas.org/\">Santa Cruz Puma Project\u003c/a>, where researchers have been studying mountain lions for almost a decade. Together we walk off campus to an area with lots of redwoods trees, where mountain lions roam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11608242\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11608242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/212F53DA-D029-4C5C-9169-F49F2FB74372-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Chris Wilmers (left) and Berkeley resident Dave Fairburn in the redwoods near campus. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Fairburn’s first questions: How many mountain lions are there in the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The short answer is, I don’t really know,” Wilmers says. His best guess is there are probably 50 or 60 mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which stretches from south of San Francisco to Watsonville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s probably the largest chunk of contiguous habitat for mountain lions in the Bay Area, so that would be the largest sub-population,” Wilmers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates that there could be 4,000 to 6,000 mountain lions in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How worried should we be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Our question-asker Fairburn worries when he’s out hiking and wants to know: Is he safe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilmers says it’s important to keep things in perspective. Mountain lions actually go out of their way to avoid us. One way mountain lions avoid us is by shifting to a more nocturnal schedule than typical when they’re in areas where humans go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as far as tracking us as prey? No, not a thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they really love to eat is deer,” Wilmers says. “About 95 percent of the calories they ingest come from deer. Their behavior is to try to avoid you, rather than seek you out as prey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion\">Department of Fish and Wildlife \u003c/a>keeps track of mountain lion attacks on humans. In the past three decades, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion/Attacks\">three deaths statewide\u003c/a>, as well as 12 attacks that were not fatal. And no attacks on humans at all since 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilmers likes to tell people it’s far more risky to drive a car or even brush your teeth. One of his favorite comparisons is how many people impale themselves on their toothbrush and die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, it’s something like 10 or 11 a year,” Wilmers says. “So probababilistically, you’ve got a greater chance of impaling yourself on your toothbrush than being killed by a mountain lion, but we don’t think of the toothbrush as being dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they’re avoiding us, this made Fairburn wonder about the one or two animals a year that find their way into towns, often on the peninsula. Wilmer says they’re basically lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are almost always young animals, usually young males that are out looking for a new territory,” Wilmers says. “They essentially make a mistake and wander into a downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, while humans are relatively safe, it’s probably less safe for Fido and Fluffy. And for livestock in more remote areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11608245\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11608245\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/34177848764_4662bc88da_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain lions are tawny in color. Females can weigh 80 to 85 pounds and males can be as big as 150 pounds. \u003ccite>(Creative Commons via Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Are They at Risk?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We’ve mostly been talking about whether we’re in danger of mountain lions. But it’s also worth asking: Are they in danger of us?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain lions depend on having space to roam. The more space humans take up, and the more open space we cut into smaller pieces with roads and freeways, the more we put \u003cem>them\u003c/em> at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are efforts to build tunnels under Highways 101 and 280 to give the mountain lions a way to get around. That’s because so many are being \u003ca href=\"http://www.wildlifecrossing.net/california/\">hit and killed by cars\u003c/a>. Last year, UC Davis counted 48 mountain lions deaths on California roads. But the co-director of UC Davis’s Road Ecology Center, \u003ca href=\"http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/research/shilling/\">Fraser Shilling\u003c/a>, says the actual number of roadkill deaths could be double that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the population of mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains ends up isolated — and can’t diversify its gene pool — Wilmers says they’d probably go extinct within 100 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How Do They Mate?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If there are so few and if they’re pretty spread out, how do they find each other in the first place? You know … to mate?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The males pick a spot on what’s basically a “mountain lion highway” in the woods. They scratch the ground, pee and leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a female comes looking for a mate, if she likes what she smells, she caterwauls. It sounds kind of like your neighborhood cat in heat, but a lot louder and deeper. 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