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The event was put on in collaboration with the Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association, the Chinatown History and Culture Association, the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project, and the Asian American Research Center at Stanford. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The industry was shaped in large part by Japanese, Italian and Chinese farmers. Some of these flowers were grown on Stanford lands between the 1890s and 1960s, in plots leased to Asian American farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her research, Jones has uncovered more about the contributions of Chinese American growers in particular. Many got their start on Stanford lands, establishing a model of farming that spread throughout the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of this history was never formally documented, something Jones is hoping to change with her \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/01/forgotten-flowers-project-asian-american-flower-growers-history-bay-area\">Forgotten Flowers\u003c/a> research project. She’s collaborating with community organizations, including the Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association, to help clarify the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A business intertwined with immigrant history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At a time when discriminatory laws made land ownership a challenge, leasing land was a common option for many immigrants. Leland and Jane Stanford, Jones said, were willing landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Mok was one such lessee. He spent much of his American life in the Stanfords’ orbit, carving out a path that many Chinese immigrants on the Peninsula would later follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hailing from Guangdong Province, Mok worked as a foreman on the Stanfords’ land, leading a team of Chinese workers in planting the \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2022/05/31/from-the-community-stanfords-history-is-inextricably-linked-with-asian-american-history/\">emblematic 166 palms\u003c/a> lining the approach to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin, head of San Francisco’s Chinatown History & Culture Association, looks over a display of family photographs, newspaper clippings and historical materials documenting the Chinese American flower-growing industry in the Santa Clara Valley at his home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Founding Director of San Francisco’s Chinatown History & Culture Association George Chin said Mok was also a leader in the local Chinese community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because he’s a foreman,” Chin said, “he employed some of his fellow clansmen, relatives and whatnot.” In the end, Chin said, most of the Stanfords’ Chinese workers ended up coming from Guangdong as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin believes that Mok initially learned the business of commercial flower growing from Japanese immigrants. After modeling the practice in his own community, Chin said other Chinese immigrants followed suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he started growing commercially,” Chin said, “he recruited his fellow relatives, villagers and people that he knew from the same region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin with his brother and sister at their family nursery, c. 1960s, in Baron Park of Palo Alto, part of a working flower-growing environment. The photograph is displayed at Chin’s home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chinese growers were an important part of the shift towards flower cultivation, but they were not alone. \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/22/japanese-flower-market-history/\">Japanese\u003c/a> and Italian immigrant farmers had been building flower operations across the Bay Area too, creating a patchwork industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a gradual transition, taking shape around the early 1900s, as the demand for cut flowers started to accelerate. “They discovered that they can sell flowers in San Francisco and make much more profit compared to vegetables,” Chin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For researchers like Jones, talking with the families of growers has proved one of the best ways to better understand this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Growing up on the flower farm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chin, of the Chinatown History & Culture Association, grew up on a Palo Alto flower farm in the 1960s and ‘70s. His dad, Arthur Y. Chin, came to the U.S. in 1923 and quickly found his way into the flower business, following in Mok’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, Chin said the farm was the center of family life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother was the backbone of it all — working the fields, preparing cut flowers for sale, cooking meals for the crew and raising three children who chipped in too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin sits on his backyard patio beside chrysanthemums at his home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I was a teenager, there was a little bit of resentment,” Chin said. “I cannot join the sports club or after-school activities because I have to be home working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanda Ching remembers her childhood similarly. She grew up on an East Palo Alto flower farm on land her parents owned from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, where she spent her childhood summers working alongside her brothers. It was precision work, where nimble children’s fingers proved a big help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So to get the big chrysanthemum, you had to use the thumbs and pick off what they call the little suckers, so that there was only one big flower,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the summer, her nails were packed with dirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While her parents worked late into the evening, Ching and her brothers slept nearby. “I never knew a babysitter,” she said. “They put bedding into the barn area so that when we got tired, we’d just sleep on the bedded area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089260\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1056px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1056\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED.jpg 1056w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED-160x132.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1056px) 100vw, 1056px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda Ching stands with her mother, Toi Lonnie Yee Young, in front of their family flower shop in East Palo Alto, circa 1952. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Wanda Ching and the Young Family )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At harvest time, Ching remembers her parents gathering the cut chrysanthemums into bundles to prepare for shipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would tie it at the end and then put it on the newspaper and roll it, so they protected the flower and were able to make deliveries,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ching said many of the flowers were shipped across the country. About 75% of cut blooms from San Mateo and Santa Clara counties were shipped east, according to \u003cem>California Agriculture\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest were sold locally, and Ching said her family sold their flowers at their own store and at the San Francisco Flower Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My father would have to leave at 3 o’clock in the morning [to head to market],” Ching said. She only occasionally made the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin said he remembers his dad packing up their family truck with fresh-cut flowers to sell at the wholesaler. He’d also collect some other farmer’s flowers to take with him. It was just one of many ways this group of Chinese American growers looked out for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to protect each other and fight against the competition, the Chinese growers … formed a Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association,” Chin said. The Association, founded in 1956, offered a sense of support and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the late 1970s, one report shows that the Association had grown to nearly 140 Chinese growers. Italian and Japanese growers formed their own associations. Jones’ project, focusing on Stanford lands, highlights the contributions of Asian American growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These growers had essentially self-organized into cooperatives,” Jones said, “so that they could, in fact, afford mass shipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A boom, then bust\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At its peak, California’s flower industry was massive. In 1947, commercial cut flower production in the state’s largest flower-growing counties was valued at more than $25,000,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small plots of land Jones saw on her map are part of that story and speak to that demand. But why flowers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In large part for corsages, which is a tradition we don’t really follow as much anymore,” Jones said. “It’s really rare, but it was huge between 1920 and about 1960.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants at a corsage-making event at Stanford University revive a historic tradition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Old photographs of Cal vs. Stanford football games serve as evidence of this flower-mania. Spectators often wore elaborate corsages. Stanford fans chose white chrysanthemums with red pipe cleaners shaped into an “S.” Cal fans opted for similar designs in blue and yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At every step, Chinese growers worked together to tackle new business opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that’s interesting about flower growing and also true about vegetable farms is that you can make a living with a fairly small acreage,” Jones said. “That’s a real opportunity for immigrants to come in and start something for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chin and Ching, flower farming offered their families a chance at upward mobility. “They actually want[ed] us to go get a better education,” Ching said, “so that we wouldn’t have to be farming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latter half of the 20th century, the flower industry began to decline. By the 1980s, it became more economical to ship cut flowers from South America. At the same time, Bay Area real estate was starting to boom alongside the technology industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Stanford-themed corsage made during the workshop. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Flower growers were starting to sell their land,” Ching said. “They closed down the farms, and cashed in and they made the money and invested it elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm Ching grew up on is now home to a 7-11, among other buildings. Chin’s childhood stomping ground is now a condo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chin, it’s all the more reason to keep this history alive, and Jones’ Forgotten Flowers Project is working to do just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Jones and Chin helped organize a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/11/vintage-big-game-fashion-makes-a-comeback\">corsage-making event on Stanford’s campus\u003c/a>. They brought in corsage kits from San Francisco’s Chinatown, and about 200 participants showed up to take part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of exciting because you are seeing people really intensely learning from the past,” Chin said. “That history is still alive, the tradition is still alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones cross-checked the map with aerial photographs from the time. What emerged were patterns — clear outlines of fields in bloom. The layouts of the plots were similar, recognizable in terms of shape and size. Plus, Jones said, there was usually a small greenhouse on each field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Jones, the parcels were notable for another reason, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next to the colors, in … dark black pencil, are the names of the farmers, and they’re all Chinese and Japanese,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flower fields. Asian American growers. She wanted to know more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Flowers in Santa Clara Valley\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For much of the 20th century, this stretch of the Peninsula was home to seas of chrysanthemums, asters and irises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 1948 issue of the University of California’s \u003cem>California Agriculture\u003c/em> journal, about 200 acres of chrysanthemums — imagine roughly 150 football fields — were grown in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties at the time. The total valuation of the crop amounted to roughly $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The corsage-making workshop was held at the O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm. The event was put on in collaboration with the Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association, the Chinatown History and Culture Association, the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project, and the Asian American Research Center at Stanford. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The industry was shaped in large part by Japanese, Italian and Chinese farmers. Some of these flowers were grown on Stanford lands between the 1890s and 1960s, in plots leased to Asian American farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her research, Jones has uncovered more about the contributions of Chinese American growers in particular. Many got their start on Stanford lands, establishing a model of farming that spread throughout the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of this history was never formally documented, something Jones is hoping to change with her \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/01/forgotten-flowers-project-asian-american-flower-growers-history-bay-area\">Forgotten Flowers\u003c/a> research project. She’s collaborating with community organizations, including the Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association, to help clarify the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A business intertwined with immigrant history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At a time when discriminatory laws made land ownership a challenge, leasing land was a common option for many immigrants. Leland and Jane Stanford, Jones said, were willing landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Mok was one such lessee. He spent much of his American life in the Stanfords’ orbit, carving out a path that many Chinese immigrants on the Peninsula would later follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hailing from Guangdong Province, Mok worked as a foreman on the Stanfords’ land, leading a team of Chinese workers in planting the \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2022/05/31/from-the-community-stanfords-history-is-inextricably-linked-with-asian-american-history/\">emblematic 166 palms\u003c/a> lining the approach to the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089254\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin, head of San Francisco’s Chinatown History & Culture Association, looks over a display of family photographs, newspaper clippings and historical materials documenting the Chinese American flower-growing industry in the Santa Clara Valley at his home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Founding Director of San Francisco’s Chinatown History & Culture Association George Chin said Mok was also a leader in the local Chinese community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because he’s a foreman,” Chin said, “he employed some of his fellow clansmen, relatives and whatnot.” In the end, Chin said, most of the Stanfords’ Chinese workers ended up coming from Guangdong as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin believes that Mok initially learned the business of commercial flower growing from Japanese immigrants. After modeling the practice in his own community, Chin said other Chinese immigrants followed suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he started growing commercially,” Chin said, “he recruited his fellow relatives, villagers and people that he knew from the same region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin with his brother and sister at their family nursery, c. 1960s, in Baron Park of Palo Alto, part of a working flower-growing environment. The photograph is displayed at Chin’s home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chinese growers were an important part of the shift towards flower cultivation, but they were not alone. \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/22/japanese-flower-market-history/\">Japanese\u003c/a> and Italian immigrant farmers had been building flower operations across the Bay Area too, creating a patchwork industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a gradual transition, taking shape around the early 1900s, as the demand for cut flowers started to accelerate. “They discovered that they can sell flowers in San Francisco and make much more profit compared to vegetables,” Chin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For researchers like Jones, talking with the families of growers has proved one of the best ways to better understand this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Growing up on the flower farm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chin, of the Chinatown History & Culture Association, grew up on a Palo Alto flower farm in the 1960s and ‘70s. His dad, Arthur Y. Chin, came to the U.S. in 1923 and quickly found his way into the flower business, following in Mok’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, Chin said the farm was the center of family life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother was the backbone of it all — working the fields, preparing cut flowers for sale, cooking meals for the crew and raising three children who chipped in too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/062426TCR-Mag-Forgotten-Flowers_GH_009-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Chin sits on his backyard patio beside chrysanthemums at his home in Cupertino on June 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I was a teenager, there was a little bit of resentment,” Chin said. “I cannot join the sports club or after-school activities because I have to be home working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wanda Ching remembers her childhood similarly. She grew up on an East Palo Alto flower farm on land her parents owned from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, where she spent her childhood summers working alongside her brothers. It was precision work, where nimble children’s fingers proved a big help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So to get the big chrysanthemum, you had to use the thumbs and pick off what they call the little suckers, so that there was only one big flower,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the summer, her nails were packed with dirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While her parents worked late into the evening, Ching and her brothers slept nearby. “I never knew a babysitter,” she said. “They put bedding into the barn area so that when we got tired, we’d just sleep on the bedded area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089260\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1056px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089260\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1056\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED.jpg 1056w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_03-KQED-160x132.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1056px) 100vw, 1056px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda Ching stands with her mother, Toi Lonnie Yee Young, in front of their family flower shop in East Palo Alto, circa 1952. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Wanda Ching and the Young Family )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At harvest time, Ching remembers her parents gathering the cut chrysanthemums into bundles to prepare for shipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would tie it at the end and then put it on the newspaper and roll it, so they protected the flower and were able to make deliveries,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ching said many of the flowers were shipped across the country. About 75% of cut blooms from San Mateo and Santa Clara counties were shipped east, according to \u003cem>California Agriculture\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest were sold locally, and Ching said her family sold their flowers at their own store and at the San Francisco Flower Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My father would have to leave at 3 o’clock in the morning [to head to market],” Ching said. She only occasionally made the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chin said he remembers his dad packing up their family truck with fresh-cut flowers to sell at the wholesaler. He’d also collect some other farmer’s flowers to take with him. It was just one of many ways this group of Chinese American growers looked out for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In order to protect each other and fight against the competition, the Chinese growers … formed a Bay Area Chrysanthemum Growers Association,” Chin said. The Association, founded in 1956, offered a sense of support and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the late 1970s, one report shows that the Association had grown to nearly 140 Chinese growers. Italian and Japanese growers formed their own associations. Jones’ project, focusing on Stanford lands, highlights the contributions of Asian American growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These growers had essentially self-organized into cooperatives,” Jones said, “so that they could, in fact, afford mass shipping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A boom, then bust\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At its peak, California’s flower industry was massive. In 1947, commercial cut flower production in the state’s largest flower-growing counties was valued at more than $25,000,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small plots of land Jones saw on her map are part of that story and speak to that demand. But why flowers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In large part for corsages, which is a tradition we don’t really follow as much anymore,” Jones said. “It’s really rare, but it was huge between 1920 and about 1960.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants at a corsage-making event at Stanford University revive a historic tradition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Old photographs of Cal vs. Stanford football games serve as evidence of this flower-mania. Spectators often wore elaborate corsages. Stanford fans chose white chrysanthemums with red pipe cleaners shaped into an “S.” Cal fans opted for similar designs in blue and yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At every step, Chinese growers worked together to tackle new business opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that’s interesting about flower growing and also true about vegetable farms is that you can make a living with a fairly small acreage,” Jones said. “That’s a real opportunity for immigrants to come in and start something for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chin and Ching, flower farming offered their families a chance at upward mobility. “They actually want[ed] us to go get a better education,” Ching said, “so that we wouldn’t have to be farming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the latter half of the 20th century, the flower industry began to decline. By the 1980s, it became more economical to ship cut flowers from South America. At the same time, Bay Area real estate was starting to boom alongside the technology industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089261\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260629_ForgottenFlowers_05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Stanford-themed corsage made during the workshop. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diego Bustamante)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Flower growers were starting to sell their land,” Ching said. “They closed down the farms, and cashed in and they made the money and invested it elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm Ching grew up on is now home to a 7-11, among other buildings. Chin’s childhood stomping ground is now a condo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Chin, it’s all the more reason to keep this history alive, and Jones’ Forgotten Flowers Project is working to do just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Jones and Chin helped organize a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/11/vintage-big-game-fashion-makes-a-comeback\">corsage-making event on Stanford’s campus\u003c/a>. They brought in corsage kits from San Francisco’s Chinatown, and about 200 participants showed up to take part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of exciting because you are seeing people really intensely learning from the past,” Chin said. “That history is still alive, the tradition is still alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 4:15 p.m. April 16\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a> City Council unanimously approved a proposal Tuesday night to require a 5-foot buffer zone around houses, decks and outbuildings in a section of the Berkeley Hills with the highest wildfire risk — making it one of the first cities in the state to adopt such stringent landscaping rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the council signs off on the second and final reading of the ordinance next month, which is all be assured, some 900 hundred homes in neighborhoods bordering Tilden Regional Park will have to remove nearly all vegetation and other flammable materials from their immediate perimeters by January, when the new rules take effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrary to the expectations of many observers — this reporter included — the meeting remained largely positive and non-confrontational, with most public commenters voicing support for the proposed rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under what’s known as the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/city-council-meetings/2025-04-15%20Special%20Agenda%20Packet%20-%20Council%20-%20WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EMBER proposal\u003c/a>, drafted by the city’s fire department, Berkeley would change its fire code to require residents living in areas with the highest fire risk to remove most vegetation within 5 feet of their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rules, prompted by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/eaton-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">catastrophic fires\u003c/a> in Los Angeles in January, would initially apply to homes mostly between Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Wildcat Canyon Road, as well as the Panoramic Hill neighborhood. The rules would also likely extend in the coming year to adjacent neighborhoods a bit further down the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters argue the 5-foot buffer zone — referred to as “zone zero” — is essential to help prevent embers from igniting homes during the kind of wind-driven wildfires that incinerated LA’s Pacific Palisades and Altadena communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to prevent the embers that fly out in these ember storms from igniting anything near your house that will then catch the house on fire and create a structure-to-structure fire,” said Brent Blackaby, a Berkeley City Council member who worked closely with the city’s fire department on the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that wildfire danger in the area has grown dramatically in recent decades amid a longer, hotter dry season and the rapid accumulation of fuels in the neighboring forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036096 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley City Councilmember Brent Blackaby in front of Berkeley City Hall on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The reality has changed,” Blackaby told KQED. “The facts of where we are in terms of climate change are not going to change. The only thing that can change is our response and our preparedness to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest version of the proposal, introduced last week, would also require homeowners in the area to remove all combustible materials within zone zero, including wood or vinyl fences, playsets, trellises, trash bins and attached window boxes. Trees in the zone would also have to be torn out unless they are taller than the house and their lowest branches are at least 10 feet above the roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Fire Chief David Sprague called the proposal a science-based, “holistic community” approach to reducing the risk of wind-blown embers igniting combustible material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When those receptive fuel beds have connectivity to a structure, the structure is far more likely to burn,” he said in a statement to KQED, citing separate \u003ca href=\"https://ibhs.org/wildfire/near-building-noncombustible-zone/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfire-mitigation studies.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1386\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-800x554.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-1020x707.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-1536x1064.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-1920x1331.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under proposed fire safety rules, about 900 homes in Berkeley Hills’ highest fire risk zone (shown in red) would be required to clear most vegetation within 5 feet of their structures. The regulations are set to take effect in January, with similar measures expected for adjacent zones in the future. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-02-11%20Special%20Item%2001a%20Effective%20Mitigations%20for%20Berkeley%E2%80%99s%20Ember%20-%20Fire%20Code.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous draft \u003c/a>(PDF) of the proposal, Sprague said the city had “a moral imperative to shift our focus away from only the response,” noting that the hills around Berkeley experience a “significant wildfire” about once every 20 years — and are well past due for another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is time to voraciously engage with what we know will save homes and lives,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed new rules would go into effect next January, with the city offering some financial and physical assistance to help lower-income residents comply, Blackaby added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The great part is if we pass this here, we’ve got at least six months of preparation time and ramp-up time until the new standards officially go into place. I think of this more about providing lots of carrots as opposed to sticks,” he said. “Yes, there will be enforcement … yes, there will be fines. But my hope is that we don’t get to that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that comes as cold comfort to some residents in the high-risk zone, many of whom have lived there for decades and lovingly nurtured the bougainvillea vines, camellia trees and other foliage that fringe the homes of their leafy, affluent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036044\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homes in the Berkeley Hills on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruth Langridge was among the slew of residents who wrote letters to the City Council opposing the proposal. The focus, she argued, should be on “not letting the fire happen in the first place” through better fire management in Tilden and more brush removal near power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If my wonderful pear tree remains in zone 0 and next to a stucco wall (a tree that I have nurtured for over 20 years and supplies me with abundant delicious pears each year), it will not be the cause of my house burning down in a fire,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janice Thomas, vice president of the Panoramic Hill Association, said the proposal was developed without adequate public input and goes well beyond what’s required in the state fire code.[aside postID=news_12035344 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-113-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“This is really extreme,” she told KQED, arguing that stripping out vegetation in the 5-foot zone would also create serious drainage issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a hillside neighborhood. And if you have no vegetation 5 feet from the house, there’s a real concern about where that water will go and how it flows and what you have to do to capture it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Cindy Rosenthal, who lives in nearby Park Hills and is president of its neighborhood association, said she supports the proposal because the situation calls for collective action, no matter how unpleasant that may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that we can do everything possible to try to protect our homes, but if our neighbors are not also doing the things that they need to do to mitigate risk, then no one is safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry DeNero, president of the Berkeley FireSafe Council, whose group has agreed to help some residents remove their plants, said the proposed rules are essential first steps in a longer series of actions to manage vegetation and harden homes in the highest-risk neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036042 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home in the Berkeley Hills on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of the number one causes of a structure igniting is vegetation burning right next to the structure that eventually ignites the structure,” said DeNero, who lives in the hills just below the targeted zone. “It’s the most important element to prevent houses from igniting in an ember storm, which is what happened in Altadena and Pacific Palisades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And regardless, DeNero added, insurance companies may soon insist that homeowners do it anyway if they want to keep their policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s highly likely that these measures will be required in order to maintain your insurance in the near future,” he said. “That’s one of the things I think people aren’t thinking about. The Berkeley Fire Department’s trying to get out ahead of this, and I applaud them for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackaby is hardly surprised by the opposition the proposal has generated, particularly in a city where many residents are \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/08/08/yimby-bay-area-housing-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passionate about their flora\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, look, this is a hard ask. I get it,” he said. “I’ve lived in the same home for 20 years. I’m in this zone, so I’ll have to be doing the same kind of defensible space work around my home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, change is hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAACreV8g5aIxmhJvUk7AZMatAGIv0X&gclid=Cj0KCQjwh_i_BhCzARIsANimeoHs2shckqVFGJjLR4jomGmlKiW5KGyHTMdNCkarfqkuvYswkpL5UcsaAvLBEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Samantha Kennedy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters argue the 5-foot buffer zone — referred to as “zone zero” — is essential to help prevent embers from igniting homes during the kind of wind-driven wildfires that incinerated LA’s Pacific Palisades and Altadena communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to prevent the embers that fly out in these ember storms from igniting anything near your house that will then catch the house on fire and create a structure-to-structure fire,” said Brent Blackaby, a Berkeley City Council member who worked closely with the city’s fire department on the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that wildfire danger in the area has grown dramatically in recent decades amid a longer, hotter dry season and the rapid accumulation of fuels in the neighboring forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036096 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley City Councilmember Brent Blackaby in front of Berkeley City Hall on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The reality has changed,” Blackaby told KQED. “The facts of where we are in terms of climate change are not going to change. The only thing that can change is our response and our preparedness to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest version of the proposal, introduced last week, would also require homeowners in the area to remove all combustible materials within zone zero, including wood or vinyl fences, playsets, trellises, trash bins and attached window boxes. Trees in the zone would also have to be torn out unless they are taller than the house and their lowest branches are at least 10 feet above the roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Fire Chief David Sprague called the proposal a science-based, “holistic community” approach to reducing the risk of wind-blown embers igniting combustible material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When those receptive fuel beds have connectivity to a structure, the structure is far more likely to burn,” he said in a statement to KQED, citing separate \u003ca href=\"https://ibhs.org/wildfire/near-building-noncombustible-zone/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfire-mitigation studies.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1386\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-800x554.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-1020x707.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-1536x1064.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-1920x1331.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under proposed fire safety rules, about 900 homes in Berkeley Hills’ highest fire risk zone (shown in red) would be required to clear most vegetation within 5 feet of their structures. The regulations are set to take effect in January, with similar measures expected for adjacent zones in the future. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-02-11%20Special%20Item%2001a%20Effective%20Mitigations%20for%20Berkeley%E2%80%99s%20Ember%20-%20Fire%20Code.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous draft \u003c/a>(PDF) of the proposal, Sprague said the city had “a moral imperative to shift our focus away from only the response,” noting that the hills around Berkeley experience a “significant wildfire” about once every 20 years — and are well past due for another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is time to voraciously engage with what we know will save homes and lives,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed new rules would go into effect next January, with the city offering some financial and physical assistance to help lower-income residents comply, Blackaby added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The great part is if we pass this here, we’ve got at least six months of preparation time and ramp-up time until the new standards officially go into place. I think of this more about providing lots of carrots as opposed to sticks,” he said. “Yes, there will be enforcement … yes, there will be fines. But my hope is that we don’t get to that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that comes as cold comfort to some residents in the high-risk zone, many of whom have lived there for decades and lovingly nurtured the bougainvillea vines, camellia trees and other foliage that fringe the homes of their leafy, affluent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036044\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homes in the Berkeley Hills on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruth Langridge was among the slew of residents who wrote letters to the City Council opposing the proposal. The focus, she argued, should be on “not letting the fire happen in the first place” through better fire management in Tilden and more brush removal near power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If my wonderful pear tree remains in zone 0 and next to a stucco wall (a tree that I have nurtured for over 20 years and supplies me with abundant delicious pears each year), it will not be the cause of my house burning down in a fire,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janice Thomas, vice president of the Panoramic Hill Association, said the proposal was developed without adequate public input and goes well beyond what’s required in the state fire code.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Like many California flower farmers, Lupe Rico has been in a frenzy over the last few days — cutting most of the 30,000 marigolds he grew on his Colma farm in time to sell for Día de los Muertos celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year, we grow a lot because we always come up short,” says Rico, a second-generation farmer. “We put some more this year, and we’re going to see what happens.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lupe Rico, second-generation farmer in Colma\"]‘You’re going to see orange everywhere.’[/pullquote]It’s impossible to imagine \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dia-de-los-muertos\">Día de los Muertos\u003c/a>, which begins Wednesday, without marigolds. These many-petaled flowers adorn the altars made for the holiday. The flowers’ bright orange color and sweet, earthy smell are believed to help lure the souls of the dead from their graves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rico sells his flowers at the San Francisco Flower Market, a wholesale market housed in a row of cavernous warehouses in the city’s SOMA neighborhood. The market has over 4,000 registered buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days before the holiday, Rico says, the warehouse will fill up with marigolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to see orange everywhere,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many regional flower wholesalers say marigold sales have gone up in the past few years. One likely reason is the 2017 Disney film \u003cem>Coco\u003c/em> about Día de los Muertos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is kind of funny, but I will say after \u003cem>Coco\u003c/em>, [there’s been an] increase of people interested in the traditional Mexican Day of the Dead. It’s been so popular,” says Raul Dueñas, the account manager for Rafa’s Wholesale Flowers, which also sells at the SF Flower Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dueñas, also a floral designer, says a spate of restaurants, schools and hotels have been asking him to install marigold displays this year, and his business expects to sell 2,000 more bunches than they did last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Bunches of marigolds in plastic wrapping.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marigolds sit on display at Rafa’s Wholesale at the San Francisco Flower Market in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lisa Filice, the owner of Regional Farms, a flower wholesaler based in Gilroy, says she’s noticed a notable uptick in marigold sales, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Walmart has Día de los Muertos decorations, it must be big, right?” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the Bay Area’s rapidly growing Indian population, marigolds are also often used in wedding garlands and for the holiday Diwali, which falls on Nov. 12 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s driven by supply or driven by demand, it’s clear that we’re selling more and more marigolds,” says Alexander Peter Bottemanne, a flower industry consultant. 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It’s not a very expensive flower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bunch of marigolds sells for about $10 to $15, as compared to a bunch of roses, which sells for more than twice that amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Vivas contends it’s still worth having the festive orange flowers on hand. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mauricio Vivas, owner, Tony Rossi and Sons Flower Shop in Oakland\"]‘It’s like if I would have been there when my actual ancestors were doing the same rituals that we are doing now. I feel like I was there too.’[/pullquote]“It brings people, and then they buy something else that we have at the store,” he says, pointing to papel picado, candles and other items typically used to decorate community altars and private ones in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivas, who is from Michoacán, Mexico, also has a personal connection to marigolds. When he picks up a bunch of them, he says, the hairs on the back of his arm stand up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like if I would have been there when my actual ancestors were doing the same rituals that we are doing now,” he says. “I feel like I was there too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivas added that he just loves marigolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person reaches for something beween bouquets of marigolds in a large indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lupe Rico helps customers with marigolds at Lupe Farms at the San Francisco Flower Market in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you see this flower from far away, it will just brighten up your eyes. It’ll just kind of make you happy,” he says. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lupe Rico, second-generation farmer in Colma\"]‘So when I’m cutting flowers right now, I say, ‘Dad, I’m cutting the flower that you used to cut. I feel in peace.’[/pullquote]Lupe Rico, the farmer from Colma, says he’s made an altar to remember his father, who died this year and whom he worked alongside at their farm for over 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So when I’m cutting flowers right now, I say, ‘Dad, I’m cutting the flower that you used to cut,’” he says, holding back tears. “I feel in peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update, April 24, 2023:\u003c/strong> Found this story and looking for more up-to-date recommendations on where to spot a “super bloom” of wildflowers in the Bay Area? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read our latest guides:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981882/where-to-see-wildflowers-near-you-in-the-bay-area-plus-the-science-behind-the-super-bloom\">Where to See Wildflowers Near You in the Bay Area (Plus, the Science Behind the ‘Super Bloom’)\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982256/best-bay-area-hikes-for-spring-where-to-see-waterfalls-wildflowers-and-mushrooms-after-all-that-rain\">Best Bay Area Hikes for Spring: Where to See Waterfalls, Wildflowers and Mushrooms After All That Rain\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong> Traffic jams. Trampled flowers. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1939331/super-bloom-selfie-quest-overwhelms-lake-elsinore-as-100000-descend-on-poppypalooza\">Disneyland size crowds\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent wildflower “super blooms” in Southern California — and the legions of selfie-hungry Instagrammers they’ve attracted — have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1939331/super-bloom-selfie-quest-overwhelms-lake-elsinore-as-100000-descend-on-poppypalooza\">caused the kind of stir\u003c/a> not usually associated with botanical events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733290\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11733290\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1178\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-800x491.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-1020x626.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-1200x736.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A super bloom of wild poppies blankets the hills of Walker Canyon on March 12, 2019, near Lake Elsinore, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yes, the term “super bloom” \u003cem>is\u003c/em> most commonly used to refer to the spectacular explosions of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnps.org/\">native wildflowers\u003c/a> that spring up in desert areas like the Mojave Desert. But according to \u003ca href=\"https://modernhiker.com/\">Modern Hiker\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11732758/photos-wildflowers-and-butterfly-populations-super-bloom-in-unison\">the phrase is actually a recent invention\u003c/a>, made up in the last few years to mean “a bunch of flowers.” So why not thumb your nose at our SoCal cousins \u003cem>and\u003c/em> their traffic jams by visiting one of these colorfully floral Bay Area spots below — to catch a sort-of-super bloom of your own?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind that according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitcalifornia.com/attraction/californias-spring-2019-wildflower-forecast\">Visit California’s 2019 Super Bloom guide\u003c/a>, the Bay Area’s peak wildflower season is a little later than Southern California’s (late April to mid-June). So, several of these spots below won’t actually be blooming yet, and when they do, the saturation can really vary from year to year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, a lot of the Bay Area’s blooming hillsides — as shown in the photos submitted by readers below — are actually due to invasive species like wild mustard, \u003cem>not\u003c/em> native wildflowers. Vibrant (and Instagrammable) riots of color they may be, but the proliferation of these flowering plants is actually one of the reasons the Bay doesn’t \u003cem>get\u003c/em> true “super blooms” of native wildflowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, remember: If you’re visiting these spots to capture their beauty for social media prestige, stick to marked trails to take your shots, and definitely \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> pick any flowers. (As well as damaging the landscape, you could also get a ticket.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\">North Bay: Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733934\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11733934\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A colorful floral carpet spotted on the Chimney Rock Trail in Pt Reyes \" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut.jpg 1080w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A colorful floral carpet spotted on the Chimney Rock Trail in Pt Reyes \u003ccite>(christy_nana on Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As if you needed more excuses to visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a>, in springtime several of its trails are exploding with color. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/chimney_rock.htm#onthisPage-7\">The 1.75-mile Chimney Rock trail\u003c/a> boasts poppies, owl’s clover, tidy tips, checkerbloom, paintbrush, Douglas iris and footsteps-of-spring, plus incredible oceans views. A short drive away, a visit to \u003ca href=\"https://modernhiker.com/hike/abbotts-lagoon/\">Abotts Lagoon\u003c/a> (at the right time of year) also offers a seasonal blanket of golden poppies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/activities/hiking/bobcoomber/wildflowers.htm\">East Bay: Berkeley Hills\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733943\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1092px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11733943\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Rosemary and French Broom -- both invasive species -- in the Berkeley Hills\" width=\"1092\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut.jpg 1092w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1092px) 100vw, 1092px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosemary and French Broom — both invasive species — in the Berkeley Hills \u003ccite>(Liam O'Donoghue via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yes, the East Bay is a veritable goldmine of springtime blooms. But on a clear day the Berkeley Hills also present the added bonus of stunning vistas across the Bay, as well as those wildflower carpets. Check out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/activities/hiking/bobcoomber/wildflowers.htm\">East Bay Regional Park District’s handy guide\u003c/a> to favored spots for inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/destination/mt-davidson-park/\">San Francisco: Mount Davidson Park\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11734231\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11734231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildflowers atop Mount Davidson, San Francisco \u003ccite>(@TheRealWBTC via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At 938 feet, \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/destination/mt-davidson-park/\">Mount Davidson\u003c/a> is the highest point in San Francisco. Most Bay Area residents know it best for the iconic 103-foot concrete cross at its summit, but in springtime the grassland on its east side plays home to a range of native wildflowers blooms, including California poppy, blue-eyed grass, hog fennel, checkerbloom and mule’s ears.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspace.org/preserves/russian-ridge\">South Bay: Russian Ridge Preserve, Santa Cruz Mountains\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11733933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36023_1920px-Russian_Ridge-Wildflowers-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1153\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36023_1920px-Russian_Ridge-Wildflowers-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36023_1920px-Russian_Ridge-Wildflowers-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36023_1920px-Russian_Ridge-Wildflowers-qut-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36023_1920px-Russian_Ridge-Wildflowers-qut-1020x613.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36023_1920px-Russian_Ridge-Wildflowers-qut-1200x721.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flowering meadow in Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve \u003ccite>(Steve Jurvetson / Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the air turns warmer, much of \u003ca href=\"https://www.openspace.org/preserves/russian-ridge\">this 3000+ acre preserve\u003c/a> on the Peninsula becomes a riot of color, thanks to its native wildflowers: from poppies and lupine to gumweed, mules ear and brodiaea. And if you go a little too early for the flowers, at least you’ll be rewarded with amazing coastal views. (If \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KarlTheFog\">Karl the Fog\u003c/a> doesn’t decide to accompany you.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did we miss any beautiful blooming spots in the Bay Area? Tweet \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqednews\">@kqednews\u003c/a> — we’d love to feature your shots.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update, April 24, 2023:\u003c/strong> Found this story and looking for more up-to-date recommendations on where to spot a “super bloom” of wildflowers in the Bay Area? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read our latest guides:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1981882/where-to-see-wildflowers-near-you-in-the-bay-area-plus-the-science-behind-the-super-bloom\">Where to See Wildflowers Near You in the Bay Area (Plus, the Science Behind the ‘Super Bloom’)\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982256/best-bay-area-hikes-for-spring-where-to-see-waterfalls-wildflowers-and-mushrooms-after-all-that-rain\">Best Bay Area Hikes for Spring: Where to See Waterfalls, Wildflowers and Mushrooms After All That Rain\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong> Traffic jams. Trampled flowers. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1939331/super-bloom-selfie-quest-overwhelms-lake-elsinore-as-100000-descend-on-poppypalooza\">Disneyland size crowds\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent wildflower “super blooms” in Southern California — and the legions of selfie-hungry Instagrammers they’ve attracted — have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1939331/super-bloom-selfie-quest-overwhelms-lake-elsinore-as-100000-descend-on-poppypalooza\">caused the kind of stir\u003c/a> not usually associated with botanical events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733290\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11733290\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1178\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-800x491.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-1020x626.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-1200x736.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A super bloom of wild poppies blankets the hills of Walker Canyon on March 12, 2019, near Lake Elsinore, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yes, the term “super bloom” \u003cem>is\u003c/em> most commonly used to refer to the spectacular explosions of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnps.org/\">native wildflowers\u003c/a> that spring up in desert areas like the Mojave Desert. But according to \u003ca href=\"https://modernhiker.com/\">Modern Hiker\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11732758/photos-wildflowers-and-butterfly-populations-super-bloom-in-unison\">the phrase is actually a recent invention\u003c/a>, made up in the last few years to mean “a bunch of flowers.” So why not thumb your nose at our SoCal cousins \u003cem>and\u003c/em> their traffic jams by visiting one of these colorfully floral Bay Area spots below — to catch a sort-of-super bloom of your own?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind that according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitcalifornia.com/attraction/californias-spring-2019-wildflower-forecast\">Visit California’s 2019 Super Bloom guide\u003c/a>, the Bay Area’s peak wildflower season is a little later than Southern California’s (late April to mid-June). So, several of these spots below won’t actually be blooming yet, and when they do, the saturation can really vary from year to year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, a lot of the Bay Area’s blooming hillsides — as shown in the photos submitted by readers below — are actually due to invasive species like wild mustard, \u003cem>not\u003c/em> native wildflowers. Vibrant (and Instagrammable) riots of color they may be, but the proliferation of these flowering plants is actually one of the reasons the Bay doesn’t \u003cem>get\u003c/em> true “super blooms” of native wildflowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, remember: If you’re visiting these spots to capture their beauty for social media prestige, stick to marked trails to take your shots, and definitely \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> pick any flowers. (As well as damaging the landscape, you could also get a ticket.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\">North Bay: Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733934\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11733934\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A colorful floral carpet spotted on the Chimney Rock Trail in Pt Reyes \" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut.jpg 1080w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36024_Pt-Reyes-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A colorful floral carpet spotted on the Chimney Rock Trail in Pt Reyes \u003ccite>(christy_nana on Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As if you needed more excuses to visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a>, in springtime several of its trails are exploding with color. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/chimney_rock.htm#onthisPage-7\">The 1.75-mile Chimney Rock trail\u003c/a> boasts poppies, owl’s clover, tidy tips, checkerbloom, paintbrush, Douglas iris and footsteps-of-spring, plus incredible oceans views. A short drive away, a visit to \u003ca href=\"https://modernhiker.com/hike/abbotts-lagoon/\">Abotts Lagoon\u003c/a> (at the right time of year) also offers a seasonal blanket of golden poppies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/activities/hiking/bobcoomber/wildflowers.htm\">East Bay: Berkeley Hills\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733943\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1092px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11733943\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Rosemary and French Broom -- both invasive species -- in the Berkeley Hills\" width=\"1092\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut.jpg 1092w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36029_Berkeley-Hills-1-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1092px) 100vw, 1092px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosemary and French Broom — both invasive species — in the Berkeley Hills \u003ccite>(Liam O'Donoghue via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yes, the East Bay is a veritable goldmine of springtime blooms. But on a clear day the Berkeley Hills also present the added bonus of stunning vistas across the Bay, as well as those wildflower carpets. Check out the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/activities/hiking/bobcoomber/wildflowers.htm\">East Bay Regional Park District’s handy guide\u003c/a> to favored spots for inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/destination/mt-davidson-park/\">San Francisco: Mount Davidson Park\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11734231\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11734231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36031_Image-from-iOS-14-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildflowers atop Mount Davidson, San Francisco \u003ccite>(@TheRealWBTC via Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At 938 feet, \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/destination/mt-davidson-park/\">Mount Davidson\u003c/a> is the highest point in San Francisco. Most Bay Area residents know it best for the iconic 103-foot concrete cross at its summit, but in springtime the grassland on its east side plays home to a range of native wildflowers blooms, including California poppy, blue-eyed grass, hog fennel, checkerbloom and mule’s ears.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspace.org/preserves/russian-ridge\">South Bay: Russian Ridge Preserve, Santa Cruz Mountains\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11733933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36023_1920px-Russian_Ridge-Wildflowers-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1153\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36023_1920px-Russian_Ridge-Wildflowers-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36023_1920px-Russian_Ridge-Wildflowers-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36023_1920px-Russian_Ridge-Wildflowers-qut-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36023_1920px-Russian_Ridge-Wildflowers-qut-1020x613.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36023_1920px-Russian_Ridge-Wildflowers-qut-1200x721.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flowering meadow in Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve \u003ccite>(Steve Jurvetson / Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the air turns warmer, much of \u003ca href=\"https://www.openspace.org/preserves/russian-ridge\">this 3000+ acre preserve\u003c/a> on the Peninsula becomes a riot of color, thanks to its native wildflowers: from poppies and lupine to gumweed, mules ear and brodiaea. And if you go a little too early for the flowers, at least you’ll be rewarded with amazing coastal views. (If \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KarlTheFog\">Karl the Fog\u003c/a> doesn’t decide to accompany you.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did we miss any beautiful blooming spots in the Bay Area? Tweet \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqednews\">@kqednews\u003c/a> — we’d love to feature your shots.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Super blooms of two kinds are blossoming in California, thanks to well-timed El Niño rains in the desert: wildflowers and painted lady butterflies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='super-bloom' label='The California Super Bloom']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tourists are making pilgrimages to super bloom meccas like Anza-Borrego State Park near San Diego. And they’re getting a special treat: Millions of painted lady butterflies are swarming the new swaths of flowers, said Art Shapiro, a professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a pleasant surprise after butterfly populations in California hit concerning lows last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year was the worst year at my study sites for butterflies at all elevations, from sea level to tree line, that I have ever observed in 47 years,” Shapiro said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monarch butterflies in particular saw a nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715197/california-monarch-butterfly-population-down-86-percent-in-one-year\">90 percent\u003c/a> drop in population in California. Shapiro has gotten calls from people who have seen the painted ladies and mistaken them for monarchs, which is easy to understand since they share the same striking orange coloring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The migration of the painted lady is, if anything, more spectacular than that of the monarch, but people don’t know about it,” Shapiro said. “What I can tell you is that I’m already getting messages from people who are seeing oodles of painted ladies down in the Southland saying, ‘This is wonderful! The monarch has been saved! Did we do it, or did they save themselves?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then he tells them: “They’re not monarchs, they’re painted ladies”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The super bloom benefits painted ladies because the insects overwinter (similar to hibernating) in the desert, meaning when there is more rain, they have more plants on which they can lay their eggs — creating the perfect storm for a population boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733290\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11733290\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-800x491.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-1020x626.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-1200x736.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A super bloom of wild poppies blankets the hills of Walker Canyon on March 12, 2019, near Lake Elsinore, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last wildflower super bloom was in spring 2017 after several years of drought. According to Casey Schreiner, founder and editor of \u003ca href=\"https://modernhiker.com/\">Modern Hiker\u003c/a>, the term “super bloom” didn’t exist until the last few years; it’s a word made up to mean a bunch of flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California native plant seeds can live for a long time without sprouting. They are fragile and resilient at the same time, Schreiner said Friday, because they need certain conditions to bloom — but once they have them, they really thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schreiner said the tourism onslaught at Anza-Borrego in 2017 — thanks to social media — was so unexpected that restaurants ran out of food and bathrooms were out of service. He said it’s important people stay on trails and don’t disturb the plans because wildflowers like the golden poppy, for example, don’t seed until after they bloom — so the flowers that people are picking or trampling now likely won’t grow back next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on where to find a super bloom near you, visit the \u003ca href=\"http://theodorepayne.org/\">Theodore Payne Foundation\u003c/a>. The Chamber of Commerce in Borrego Springs also has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.borregospringschamber.com/desertflowers.html\">wildflower hotline.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733297\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11733297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman takes in the view of a ‘super bloom’ of wild poppies blanketing the hills of Walker Canyon on March 12, 2019, near Lake Elsinore, California. Heavier than normal winter rains in California have caused a ‘super bloom’ of wildflowers in various parts of the state. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monarch butterflies in particular saw a nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11715197/california-monarch-butterfly-population-down-86-percent-in-one-year\">90 percent\u003c/a> drop in population in California. Shapiro has gotten calls from people who have seen the painted ladies and mistaken them for monarchs, which is easy to understand since they share the same striking orange coloring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The migration of the painted lady is, if anything, more spectacular than that of the monarch, but people don’t know about it,” Shapiro said. “What I can tell you is that I’m already getting messages from people who are seeing oodles of painted ladies down in the Southland saying, ‘This is wonderful! The monarch has been saved! Did we do it, or did they save themselves?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then he tells them: “They’re not monarchs, they’re painted ladies”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The super bloom benefits painted ladies because the insects overwinter (similar to hibernating) in the desert, meaning when there is more rain, they have more plants on which they can lay their eggs — creating the perfect storm for a population boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733290\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11733290\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-800x491.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-1020x626.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut-1200x736.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03152019_superbloom_singlep-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A super bloom of wild poppies blankets the hills of Walker Canyon on March 12, 2019, near Lake Elsinore, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last wildflower super bloom was in spring 2017 after several years of drought. According to Casey Schreiner, founder and editor of \u003ca href=\"https://modernhiker.com/\">Modern Hiker\u003c/a>, the term “super bloom” didn’t exist until the last few years; it’s a word made up to mean a bunch of flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California native plant seeds can live for a long time without sprouting. They are fragile and resilient at the same time, Schreiner said Friday, because they need certain conditions to bloom — but once they have them, they really thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schreiner said the tourism onslaught at Anza-Borrego in 2017 — thanks to social media — was so unexpected that restaurants ran out of food and bathrooms were out of service. He said it’s important people stay on trails and don’t disturb the plans because wildflowers like the golden poppy, for example, don’t seed until after they bloom — so the flowers that people are picking or trampling now likely won’t grow back next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on where to find a super bloom near you, visit the \u003ca href=\"http://theodorepayne.org/\">Theodore Payne Foundation\u003c/a>. The Chamber of Commerce in Borrego Springs also has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.borregospringschamber.com/desertflowers.html\">wildflower hotline.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733297\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11733297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/super-bloom_golden-poppy_wildflowers_person_california-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman takes in the view of a ‘super bloom’ of wild poppies blanketing the hills of Walker Canyon on March 12, 2019, near Lake Elsinore, California. Heavier than normal winter rains in California have caused a ‘super bloom’ of wildflowers in various parts of the state. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Lots and lots of rain — about 150 percent more than normal, according to Richard Minnich, a professor of earth sciences at UC Riverside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the bad news: the precipitation we’ve had so far \u003cem>this year\u003c/em> is not quite enough, yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we’re right at normal or slightly above,” Minnich said. “So it’s looking promising, and we could really get up there in terms of total rainfall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35109_IMG_0367-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35109_IMG_0367-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35109_IMG_0367-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35109_IMG_0367-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35109_IMG_0367-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35109_IMG_0367-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A spokeswoman with Carrizo Plain National Monument said it’s still too early to tell if a super bloom will occur there this year. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Super blooms are typically rare ecological events, Minnich said; the last one to occur before 2017 was in 2009. Besides needing boatloads of rain, a massive wildflower bloom also requires years of drought that kill off invasive European grasses and weeds, leaving less competition for California’s native flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden poppies, purple lupins, popcorn flowers, phacelia and owl’s clover are all common annuals that can be found in California during spring. But Minnich said during super blooms, some rarely seen wildflowers, like the desert five-spot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/deva/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Death Valley National Park\u003c/a>, can pop up after not being seen for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In super blooms you can get flowers, which in some cases, are thought to be extinct,” Minnich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11723114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723114\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35107_3491948566_01a0e6126c_b-qut.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This desert five-spot bloomed in Death Valley National Park during 2009’s super bloom. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/benclark/\">Ben Clark\u003c/a>/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Super bloom or not, there are already desert wildflowers sprouting up in the southern part of the state, like at \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/anzaborrego/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anza-Borrego Desert State Park\u003c/a>, east of San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bri Fordem with the \u003ca href=\"https://theabf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anza-Borrego Foundation\u003c/a> said the park is having a better than average bloom so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are definitely flowers blooming,” Fordem said. “They are scattered, but there’s a beautiful show of flowers and a variety at that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fordem said desert lilly, sand verbena, Arizona lupin, ocotillo and dune evening primrose are currently blooming in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember, winter’s not over in California, which means there could be more rain to fuel a spring super bloom.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Josh Brett grew up Oakland, and was told from a young age that it is \u003cem>illegal\u003c/em> to pick California’s state flower: the golden poppy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was sort of just common knowledge as a kid growing up in the Bay Area in the 90s that it was illegal,” he says. “You might even go to jail for it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633417\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11633417 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/image1-160x213.jpg\" alt=\"Josh Brett\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/image1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/image1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/image1-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/image1-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/image1-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/image1-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/image1-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/image1-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/image1-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/image1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh Brett \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Josh Brett)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brett isn’t sure where he first heard this warning — maybe older siblings, parents or teachers. But now that he’s all grown up, he wants to know, is it true?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked Bay Curious:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Is it illegal to pick California golden poppies?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out this myth is sort of true because it’s illegal to pick \u003cem>any\u003c/em> plant found in state and federal parks. If you pick one, you could be prosecuted for a misdemeanor crime punishable with a fine up to $1,000, and even 6 months in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also illegal to harm plants on other people’s property unless you get permission. That means one of the few places you can pick poppies without worry is in your own backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you wanted to pick the poppy, that’d be a waste, says Robin Binaoro, a seed ecologist at the Marin Headlands Nursery. “They’re not great flowers to pick to put in a bouquet because right when you pick ’em the petals start to fall off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He collects the seeds of the poppy — scientifically known as eschscholzia californica — legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the flower dries out, the slightest touch will cause it to pop and the seeds can shoot several feet away,” says Binaoro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Binaoro recommends keeping your poppies in the ground, where you can watch them respond to the light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re phototropic … on a sunny day you’ll see them open up, on a cloudy day they’ll stay closed,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11633471 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/IMG_0403-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Binaoro at the Marin Headlands Nursery\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Binaoro at the Marin Headlands Nursery \u003ccite>(Jessica Placzek/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Before It Was The State Flower\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The poppy became California’s state flower in 1903, but it had many uses before the state of California even existed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Native Americans of the Bay Area, the Ohlone, had a lot of uses for the golden poppy, says Desiree Muñoz. She’s Rumsen Ohlone, and a ranger at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. She says the Ohlone would boil the poppy in water to make a treatment that would get rid of pesky bugs that like to live on your scalp in your hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vibrant color was also a helpful signpost. Muñoz’s sister says that the Ohlone used to plant poppies atop sacred burial sites along the coast, called shell mounds. The flower’s bright color would help direct ships into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The golden poppy also has narcotic qualities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the boys, when they’re fasting, they used to use the Poppy to help them on their vision quests,” says Muñoz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most poppies are a little bit narcotic. But they vary in intensity, the California Poppy is much milder than the opium poppy, but that doesn’t mean it can’t get you really high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does our listener, Josh Brett, think of all this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Using them as color makes a lot of sense. I was not aware of their use as a vision quest aid or de-licing. That’s a very nice, multifaceted little flower,” says Brett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But now that he’s all grown up, he wants to know, is it true?\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>He asked Bay Curious:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Is it illegal to pick California golden poppies?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out this myth is sort of true because it’s illegal to pick \u003cem>any\u003c/em> plant found in state and federal parks. 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"content": "\u003cp>It was just before noon on a recent Sunday morning and a line had formed for the port-a-potties near \u003ca href=\"http://www.dvlake.com/DVLTrailsMapFlower.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the Wildflower Trail at Diamond Valley Lake\u003c/a> in Riverside County. Cars were backed up around a bend in the road, and frustrated people resorted to parking 2 miles away and walking in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had come to see the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/03/31/70362/wildflowers-dormant-for-years-bloom-across-califor/\" target=\"_blank\">\"super bloom\"\u003c/a> of wildflowers that have sprung up around the trails snaking around this drinking water reservoir. People are excited to take pictures of the flowers and themselves among the flowers, and many areas have been trampled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, a half-mile section of the trail has been closed indefinitely. (Check \u003ca href=\"http://www.dvlake.com\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> for updates.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t seen these kinds of crowds. Ever,” said Wendy Picht, an environmental specialist for the Metropolitan Water District, which manages the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11391430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11391430 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full.jpg\" alt=\"The Metropolitan Water District had to close the wildflower trail at Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet, California for several days to avoid damage to the area after thousands of people came during the superbloom this spring, many of them wandering off trail in pursuit of photographs, selfies, and a more intimate wildflower experience.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Metropolitan Water District had to close the wildflower trail at Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet, California, for several days to avoid damage to the area after thousands of people came during the super bloom this spring, many of them wandering off trail in pursuit of photographs, selfies and a more intimate wildflower experience. \u003ccite>(Andrew Cullen/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diamond Valley staff had called in Picht and Alex Marks, another MWD environmental specialist, to assess the extent of the flower damage. Informal trails through fields of poppies, goldfields, Ranchers fiddleneck and Arroyo lupine led away from the main gravel path. There were many scattered flattened patches of broken stems and crumpled petals where people had sat or laid down to take pictures in the flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s upsetting to see the destruction,” Marks said, looking down at a bare patch. “ 'Cause you can stand back and you can see the beauty of it without getting so close and trampling everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The north side of Diamond Valley Lake is an \u003ca href=\"http://www.rivcoparks.org/natural-resources/western-riverside-multi-species-reserve/\" target=\"_blank\">ecological reserve\u003c/a> that protects some 32 species, including horned lizards, Stephens' kangaroo rats, Southwestern willow flycatcher and mountain lions. It was created to offset habitat loss in the valley, which was flooded when MWD completed the reservoir in 2003. There are signs along the main trail marking the boundary of the reserve, but overly enthusiastic wildflower viewers ignore them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11391431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11391431\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full.jpg\" alt=\"Wildflowers have been blooming around the state.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildflowers have been blooming around the state. \u003ccite>(Andrew Cullen/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s sometimes nice to see yourself in a really nice picture with a really cool background,” said Robin Kopf, who was trying to get her friend, Christina Barrett, who was sitting cross-legged in a patch of poppies, to pose. The girls had driven two hours from West L.A. in Barrett’s mom’s minivan with a group of their friends from high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in order to get the picture, Kopf and Barrett had flattened a patch of poppies. They seemed to feel badly about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to crush them,” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They seem pretty resilient,” Kopf said, looking over her shoulder at the poppies. “Lots of people are doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11391432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11391432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of visitors came to see the super bloom and take photos.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of visitors came to see the super bloom and take photos. \u003ccite>(Andrew Cullen/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And it was true: Most people were wandering off the main trail into the fields of flowers. Most just walked on previously flattened paths, but others forged ahead into new territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people start pioneering a trail, people behind them follow. And before you know it, they think they’re on a legitimate trail,” Picht said. “So it’s up to us to make sure they have the information to know where the trail is and where they can and can’t go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11391433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11391433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full.jpg\" alt=\"The water district was forced to close the wildflower trail at Diamond Valley Lake.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The water district was forced to close the wildflower trail at Diamond Valley Lake. \u003ccite>(Andrew Cullen/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Picht and Marks have started putting up signs that say, clearly, “Stay on the trail.\" They also are tilling compacted soil and may reseed bare areas with native wildflower seeds. In addition, Metropolitan Water District is placing staff along the trail to make sure people aren’t traipsing into the reserve. A half-mile section of the most heavily trampled area remains closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Pong of Glendale and a friend were climbing an informal trail up a steep slope covered in poppies and lupines. Pong said he knew he was supposed to stay on the trail, but couldn't resist. \"But we tried very hard not to touch any of the flowers,\" he said. \"And I think most people do that, but when you have a little too many [people], they probably get trampled.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was just before noon on a recent Sunday morning and a line had formed for the port-a-potties near \u003ca href=\"http://www.dvlake.com/DVLTrailsMapFlower.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the Wildflower Trail at Diamond Valley Lake\u003c/a> in Riverside County. Cars were backed up around a bend in the road, and frustrated people resorted to parking 2 miles away and walking in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had come to see the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/03/31/70362/wildflowers-dormant-for-years-bloom-across-califor/\" target=\"_blank\">\"super bloom\"\u003c/a> of wildflowers that have sprung up around the trails snaking around this drinking water reservoir. People are excited to take pictures of the flowers and themselves among the flowers, and many areas have been trampled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, a half-mile section of the trail has been closed indefinitely. (Check \u003ca href=\"http://www.dvlake.com\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> for updates.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t seen these kinds of crowds. Ever,” said Wendy Picht, an environmental specialist for the Metropolitan Water District, which manages the lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11391430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11391430 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full.jpg\" alt=\"The Metropolitan Water District had to close the wildflower trail at Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet, California for several days to avoid damage to the area after thousands of people came during the superbloom this spring, many of them wandering off trail in pursuit of photographs, selfies, and a more intimate wildflower experience.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155200-full-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Metropolitan Water District had to close the wildflower trail at Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet, California, for several days to avoid damage to the area after thousands of people came during the super bloom this spring, many of them wandering off trail in pursuit of photographs, selfies and a more intimate wildflower experience. \u003ccite>(Andrew Cullen/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diamond Valley staff had called in Picht and Alex Marks, another MWD environmental specialist, to assess the extent of the flower damage. Informal trails through fields of poppies, goldfields, Ranchers fiddleneck and Arroyo lupine led away from the main gravel path. There were many scattered flattened patches of broken stems and crumpled petals where people had sat or laid down to take pictures in the flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s upsetting to see the destruction,” Marks said, looking down at a bare patch. “ 'Cause you can stand back and you can see the beauty of it without getting so close and trampling everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The north side of Diamond Valley Lake is an \u003ca href=\"http://www.rivcoparks.org/natural-resources/western-riverside-multi-species-reserve/\" target=\"_blank\">ecological reserve\u003c/a> that protects some 32 species, including horned lizards, Stephens' kangaroo rats, Southwestern willow flycatcher and mountain lions. It was created to offset habitat loss in the valley, which was flooded when MWD completed the reservoir in 2003. There are signs along the main trail marking the boundary of the reserve, but overly enthusiastic wildflower viewers ignore them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11391431\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11391431\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full.jpg\" alt=\"Wildflowers have been blooming around the state.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155204-full-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildflowers have been blooming around the state. \u003ccite>(Andrew Cullen/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s sometimes nice to see yourself in a really nice picture with a really cool background,” said Robin Kopf, who was trying to get her friend, Christina Barrett, who was sitting cross-legged in a patch of poppies, to pose. The girls had driven two hours from West L.A. in Barrett’s mom’s minivan with a group of their friends from high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in order to get the picture, Kopf and Barrett had flattened a patch of poppies. They seemed to feel badly about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to crush them,” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They seem pretty resilient,” Kopf said, looking over her shoulder at the poppies. “Lots of people are doing this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11391432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11391432\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of visitors came to see the super bloom and take photos.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155206-full-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of visitors came to see the super bloom and take photos. \u003ccite>(Andrew Cullen/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And it was true: Most people were wandering off the main trail into the fields of flowers. Most just walked on previously flattened paths, but others forged ahead into new territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people start pioneering a trail, people behind them follow. And before you know it, they think they’re on a legitimate trail,” Picht said. “So it’s up to us to make sure they have the information to know where the trail is and where they can and can’t go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11391433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11391433\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full.jpg\" alt=\"The water district was forced to close the wildflower trail at Diamond Valley Lake.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/155207-full-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The water district was forced to close the wildflower trail at Diamond Valley Lake. \u003ccite>(Andrew Cullen/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Picht and Marks have started putting up signs that say, clearly, “Stay on the trail.\" They also are tilling compacted soil and may reseed bare areas with native wildflower seeds. In addition, Metropolitan Water District is placing staff along the trail to make sure people aren’t traipsing into the reserve. A half-mile section of the most heavily trampled area remains closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Pong of Glendale and a friend were climbing an informal trail up a steep slope covered in poppies and lupines. Pong said he knew he was supposed to stay on the trail, but couldn't resist. \"But we tried very hard not to touch any of the flowers,\" he said. \"And I think most people do that, but when you have a little too many [people], they probably get trampled.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Wildflower ‘Superbloom’ Means a Banquet for Desert Creatures",
"title": "Wildflower ‘Superbloom’ Means a Banquet for Desert Creatures",
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"content": "\u003cp>Plentiful winter rains followed by a mild start to spring is resulting in what naturalists call a \"superbloom\" throughout Southern California's desert landscapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildflower enthusiasts can't get enough of the vibrant colors, and tourists are flocking to the deserts. Meanwhile, creeping out from their underground middens or swooping in during the darkest hours, desert critters are feasting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lamfrom is a regular witness to the cycle of life in one of California's driest areas -- the southwestern side of the\u003ca href=\"http://mojavedesert.net/description.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Mojave Desert\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's the director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/#sm.00000x79ncle9jefpuha9gj31wtq7\" target=\"_blank\">National Parks Conservation Association\u003c/a> and he spends his days advocating for the beautiful landscapes that most people think of as barren when the wildflowers aren’t in bloom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/03/2017-03-31e-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/FlowerEdited-3.jpg\" Title=\"Desert Creatures Thriving on Wildflower 'Superbloom'\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's also an expert on the thriving flora and fauna in the Mojave, and he has a pretty good idea of where to find blooms. 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They will have bigger broods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery size=\"large\" type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"11383943,11383944,11383948,11383946,11383947,11383949\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broods as in babies. The desert is busy multiplying this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We walk on to the next plant where Lamfrom starts searching for moths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"During the day you can find moths sometimes hiding inside,” he says. “The moths come out at night. In the same way that we're finding all these species during the day, there's a night shift. It's what the scientists call \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/resource-partitioning-and-why-it-matters-17362658\" target=\"_blank\">resource partitioning\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is when you have completely different species that do the same thing, but at different times so they don't compete. 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