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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Cal Fire has temporarily grounded most of its air tanker fleet Wednesday after the fatal crash late Tuesday afternoon of a plane fighting a blaze on the western edge of Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/Dog-Rock-Fire.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Dog Rock Fire\u003c/a>, the latest in a series of blazes at Yosemite this year, was reported about 2:45 p.m. Tuesday near the Arch Rock Entrance Station on Highway 140.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the aircraft that responded to the blaze was Tanker 81, based in Hollister, one of Cal Fire's fleet of \u003ca href=\"http://www.calfire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/S2T.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Grumman S2-T tankers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous witnesses saw the plane crash about 5 p.m. From the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I heard a large explosion, I looked up on the steep canyon wall and saw aircraft debris was actually raining down the side of the mountain after the impact,\" said California Highway Patrol Sgt. Chris Michael, who was stopping traffic along state Route 140 near the west entrance of the park because of the wildfire when he saw the plane crash Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was spreading up the canyon wall, and it appeared the pilot was trying to lay down fire retardant to stop its progress, Michael told The Associated Press in a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It appeared from the direction he was going, he was trying to make a drop down the side of the canyon when he hit the canyon wall.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/10/07/4166250_fire-causes-closure-of-highway.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Fresno Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Paul Pyle, a park employee who lives in El Portal, was outside his home taking a video of a helicopter flying overhead when the firefighting plane came into view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It looked like it was just totally out of control and just floating,\" he said. \"It was coming straight down and just a second or so and then 'kaboom,' it exploded on the top of the hill and the wreckage slid down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've never seen anything quite like that,\" said Pyle, who was still shaken Tuesday evening. \"It was horrible to see.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's safety stand-down is standard procedure after a crash, Cal Fire officials said. The agency will use the stand-down to inspect the S2-T fleet and conduct a safety review with pilots. It's not clear how long the planes will be grounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15004532959_c22b5646ae_o.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15004532959_c22b5646ae_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The Happy Camp Complex fire burns in Siskiyou County earlier this week. (Kari Greer via Flickr and California Interagency Incident Management Team 1)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Happy Camp Complex fire burns in Siskiyou County earlier this week. (Kari Greer via Flickr and California Interagency Incident Management Team 1)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:10 a.m. \u003c/strong>Yosemite National Park says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.recreation.gov/wildernessAreaDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=79064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half Dome Cables\u003c/a>, which hikers use to ascend the rock formation, will reopen to the public on Saturday, Sept. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More info from the park:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The trail to Half Dome via Little Yosemite Valley is open to day-use only. No overnight camping in any areas impacted by the fire is permitted. All other area closures, including Little Yosemite Valley, Sunrise High Sierra Camp area, Echo Valley, and Clouds Rest, are still in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visible smoke in the early morning hours may be present in and around Yosemite Valley and the Half Dome Hike. Visitors who are sensitive to smoke should consider rescheduling their hike to Half Dome or their visit to Yosemite National Park. Visitors are urged to check the park’s website to get updated information on the smoke impacts to the park. Updated information can be found at\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose\"> www.nps.gov/yose\u003c/a> or\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\"> http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Kari Cobb, a park ranger at Yosemite, told KQED’s Ted Goldberg that an investigative team has determined that the fire was caused by embers from a previous blaze, which park officials had opted to let burn. Cobb said that decision was made because the original fire was burning in a wilderness area, with no threat to structures or people. Also, it had been a while since the area had been impacted by a fire, which can be beneficial to the ecosystem, Cobb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire was first reported Sunday around noon, Cobb said, firefighters were not able to enter the area until late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning; until then, all efforts at containment occurred from the air. “The fire’s actually located in wilderness,” Cobb said, “about 10-12 miles from the nearest trailhead. It’s a really steep hike to get up there. We needed to find crews that could handle carrying all that weight up such a steep trail and so far back there. …. Making sure everyone was safe and everyone was prepared took a couple of days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, another fire has broken out northeast of Redding. From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A fast-moving wildfire in Northern California is threatening more than 100 homes, at least some of which are under mandatory evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire about 15 miles northeast of Redding in Shasta County had burned through nearly 2 square miles of grass, brush and oak timber as of Thursday morning, a day after it began. It was 15 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, which began as a vehicle fire, was fueled by dry, gusty winds and 100-degree temperatures. Fire crews were expecting the same conditions Thursday and have called in hundreds of additional firefighters to battle the blaze.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gulch Fire\u003c/a> started last night and is 15 percent contained. The Redding Record Searchlight has \u003ca href=\"http://www.redding.com/news/local-news/fire-burning-in-jones-valley-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:15 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4104/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meadow Fire\u003c/a> in Yosemite National Park is now spread over 4,906 acres as of about 8:30 a.m. today. The fire, in a wilderness area within Little Yosemite Valley, east of Half Dome, is 23 percent contained. The National Wildlife Coordinating Group’s InciWeb site reports little growth in the fire overnight. The highest priority is to open the trail to Half Dome, the site reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One obstacle to firefighting efforts: bears. “Bears continue to be a major issue with fire crew safety in spike camps and along the fire line. Extensive measures are being taken not to attract bears to the food and other supplies. Trash is being backhauled daily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a> in the Klamath National Forest has expanded to 107,359 acres and is 30 percent contained. \u003ca href=\"http://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/klamath/alerts-notices/?aid=24768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire-related closures here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Sept. 9 \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/Publications/News%20Releases/2014/wildfire_140909.ashx?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smoke advisory\u003c/a> for the Bay Area-related the fires up north is still in effect throughout today. You can check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state&stateid=5&mapcenter=0&tabs=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current air quality for all of California here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:45 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Some updated numbers on the backcountry fire burning in Yosemite National Park. Spokeswoman Kari Cobb says the fire has burned 4,532 acres and is 10 percent contained with about 400 firefighters and eight helicopters working to limit its spread. The fire’s growth has slowed dramatically since midday Tuesday, when it was reported to be about 4,400 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”QpAB6FD5ZxHSPpOCEUchynMExMT88O4B”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Cobb also said that the impact of smoke in the park is expected to be much less than on Tuesday, when a thick haze shrouded Yosemite Valley. The park remains open to visitors, though several trails east and northeast of Yosemite Valley are closed, including those in the Echo Creek drainage to Little Yosemite Valley, the Sunrise Creek drainage to Little Yosemite Valley, the Merced River corridor to Merced Lake Ranger Station, and the Sunrise Trail to Clouds Rest from Tenaya Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/Publications/News%20Releases/2014/wildfire_140909.ashx?la=en\">a smoke advisory\u003c/a>, as the Yosemite fire and a much larger blaze in far Northern California continue to emit thick plumes into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Forest Service says \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Happy Camp Complex fire\u003c/a> — a combination of the lightning-sparked Frying Pan and Falkstein fires — is now 105,198 acres and 30 percent contained. Windy weather Monday and Tuesday pushed the blaze rapidly to the east and southeast and prompted the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office to issue new evacuation \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/sites/default/files/docs/SO-20140909_MandatoryEvacuationNotice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orders\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/sites/default/files/docs/SO_20140909PIOEvacuationAdvisoryNoticeUpdatedHCNorthandSouth.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advisories\u003c/a>. During the course of the fire, which started Aug. 11, it has threatened hundreds of homes and triggered a series of evacuation alerts. So far, eight structures have been destroyed or damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further details, by way of the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kerry Greene, a spokeswoman for the fire in the Klamath National Forest, says two homes were destroyed this week when winds fueled the blaze. Another two homes were destroyed earlier. The fire has also damaged or destroyed four other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Forest Service spokesman Rudy Evenson says 274 residents are under mandatory evacuation orders, and at least that many people have been told to be ready to leave home if the fire worsens.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If you’re not conversant with Northern California geography, the fire is burning about 20 to 30 miles west of Interstate 5 and 15 miles or so south of the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Yosemite officials say the smoldering blaze that roared to life in the national park’s backcountry has grown to more than 4,400 acres, up from about 2,600 Monday afternoon. The fire is 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the park remains open, Yosemite Valley and other areas are experiencing heavy smoke. The blaze, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/Meadow-Fire-Update-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dubbed the Meadow Fire\u003c/a>, grew out of a lightning strike on Aug. 16. Yosemite fire managers had been monitoring the small fire that resulted but did not attempt to contain it. Before it blew up during windy, dry conditions Sunday, it had consumed just 20 acres in three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far, far to the north, meantime, the long-running \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex fire\u003c/a> has grown to nearly 104,000 acres and continues to defy efforts to keep it from spreading. Brisk northwesterly winds on Monday sparked spot fires on the blaze’s eastern and southeastern perimeter and prompted \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4078/24321/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new evacuation orders \u003c/a>for areas near the Scott River south of where it flows into the Klamath River. Despite the massive acreage burned so far, in an area south of the Klamath and west of Interstate 5 near the Oregon border, just two structures have been reported destroyed or damaged to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,500 personnel are fighting the blaze, which is 30 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Yosemite officials say the fire that flared up Sunday, forcing the helicopter evacuation of about 185 visitors from trails in relatively remote parts of the park, has burned nearly 2,600 acres. They also say the weather Monday — less windy and somewhat more humid than Sunday — should slow the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said Monday that officials decided to pick up about 100 people in the Little Yosemite Valley area and another 85 from Half Dome because they wanted to clear the fire zone as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would take all those individuals several hours to come out of the backcountry, come out of the location where the fire is,” Cobb told KQED’s Ted Goldberg. “We wanted to make sure our visitors were safe and that we weren’t putting them in a position where they were unable to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobb also said that at least some of those evacuated seemed to get a thrill out of their once-in-a-lifetime Yosemite chopper flight:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I was actually able to talk to some of those people that came off the helicopter, and most of them were really excited that they got to have a helicopter ride in Yosemite. It’s not every day you get to fly over Yosemite like that.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lightning ignited the blaze, called the Meadow Fire, on Aug. 16. National Park Service fire managers elected to monitor the fire instead of immediately suppress it. The fire spread very slowly, and last Thursday it was reported to have burned through 19 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park says a force of 120 firefighters is combating the backcountry blaze, aided by seven helicopters and two fixed-wing airplanes. Trails near the Half Dome area, the Little Yosemite Valley area, Merced Lake and Sunrise High Sierra Camps, Clouds Rest and Echo Valley are closed. The trail to Half Dome, east of Nevada Fall and including the cables to the peak, is closed through at least Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post, based mainly on Associated Press reports:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:10 a.m.:\u003c/strong> A small backcountry wildfire burning for weeks in Yosemite National Park burst to life on Sunday, forcing the helicopter evacuation of about 100 park visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said Monday the Meadow Fire, which was started by lightning in mid-August, had grown to 2,500 acres from a reported 700 Sunday evening. The fire is at 0 percent containment. Some of those evacuated from the fire zone on Sunday included hikers who had climbed the park’s iconic Half Dome peak, rising nearly 5,000 feet above Yosemite Valley. Others had to be airlifted from campgrounds and hiking trails in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads into the park are open, but several trails are closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters had monitored the lightning-sparked fire that started Aug. 16 between Little Yosemite Valley and Half Dome, and last Thursday the park reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the fire had covered about 19 acres\u003c/a>. But the flames were fueled by strong winds and high temperatures Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just got unbelievable crazy winds and unexpected hot conditions,” Tim Ludington, the park’s chief of roads and trails, told the Fresno Bee. “The fire behavior totally changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/07/4110706_yosemite-hikers-evacuated-as-backcountry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While the fire was originally allowed to burn for forest restoration and other objectives, firefighters are now working to fully suppress the flames, park officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the scene Sunday afternoon were seven helicopters, three air tankers and one air attack plane, according to a Yosemite fire information update posted online. Additionally, six hotshot crews of 20 people each arrived Sunday evening along with Yosemite fire crews. It takes firefighters about a day to hike into the remote area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>About 15 miles southwest of the park, firefighters were slowly gaining the upper hand on a wildfire near the town of Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 300-acre blaze was 70 percent contained, and an evacuation order already has been lifted for the 300 homes most threatened by the fire, Cal Fire said. A portion of Highway 49 was briefly closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steep terrain in the area and the dry conditions brought on by California’s drought initially hampered firefighters, one of whom received a minor injury Friday, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Siskiyou County, the state’s biggest fire of 2014 grew to nearly 100,000 acres over the weekend. The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex\u003c/a>, a group of lightning-sparked fires that have burned together south of the Klamath River in the mountains west of Yreka, is about 30 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is one of several that has caused prolonged air-quality alerts in Northern California and southern Oregon, and has grown to nearly 100,000 acres. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/2014-SmokeAdvisory-091614.ashx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued an advisory \u003c/a>over the weekend that smoke from the north could affect much of the Bay Area, and a smoky haze was visible over much of the region Sunday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 3,000 firefighters have been involved in fighting the Happy Camp blaze since it broke out Aug. 11. The cost of fighting the fire, which has threatened several rural communities but hasn’t yet destroyed any structures, is estimated at $57.6 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"storify\">[\u003ca href=\"//storify.com/kqednews/fire-burns-near-half-dome-in-yosemite-national-par\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the story “Fire Burns Near Half Dome in Yosemite National Park” on Storify\u003c/a>]\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15004532959_c22b5646ae_o.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15004532959_c22b5646ae_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The Happy Camp Complex fire burns in Siskiyou County earlier this week. (Kari Greer via Flickr and California Interagency Incident Management Team 1)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Happy Camp Complex fire burns in Siskiyou County earlier this week. (Kari Greer via Flickr and California Interagency Incident Management Team 1)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:10 a.m. \u003c/strong>Yosemite National Park says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.recreation.gov/wildernessAreaDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=79064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half Dome Cables\u003c/a>, which hikers use to ascend the rock formation, will reopen to the public on Saturday, Sept. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More info from the park:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The trail to Half Dome via Little Yosemite Valley is open to day-use only. No overnight camping in any areas impacted by the fire is permitted. All other area closures, including Little Yosemite Valley, Sunrise High Sierra Camp area, Echo Valley, and Clouds Rest, are still in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visible smoke in the early morning hours may be present in and around Yosemite Valley and the Half Dome Hike. Visitors who are sensitive to smoke should consider rescheduling their hike to Half Dome or their visit to Yosemite National Park. Visitors are urged to check the park’s website to get updated information on the smoke impacts to the park. Updated information can be found at\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose\"> www.nps.gov/yose\u003c/a> or\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\"> http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Kari Cobb, a park ranger at Yosemite, told KQED’s Ted Goldberg that an investigative team has determined that the fire was caused by embers from a previous blaze, which park officials had opted to let burn. Cobb said that decision was made because the original fire was burning in a wilderness area, with no threat to structures or people. Also, it had been a while since the area had been impacted by a fire, which can be beneficial to the ecosystem, Cobb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire was first reported Sunday around noon, Cobb said, firefighters were not able to enter the area until late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning; until then, all efforts at containment occurred from the air. “The fire’s actually located in wilderness,” Cobb said, “about 10-12 miles from the nearest trailhead. It’s a really steep hike to get up there. We needed to find crews that could handle carrying all that weight up such a steep trail and so far back there. …. Making sure everyone was safe and everyone was prepared took a couple of days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, another fire has broken out northeast of Redding. From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A fast-moving wildfire in Northern California is threatening more than 100 homes, at least some of which are under mandatory evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire about 15 miles northeast of Redding in Shasta County had burned through nearly 2 square miles of grass, brush and oak timber as of Thursday morning, a day after it began. It was 15 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, which began as a vehicle fire, was fueled by dry, gusty winds and 100-degree temperatures. Fire crews were expecting the same conditions Thursday and have called in hundreds of additional firefighters to battle the blaze.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gulch Fire\u003c/a> started last night and is 15 percent contained. The Redding Record Searchlight has \u003ca href=\"http://www.redding.com/news/local-news/fire-burning-in-jones-valley-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:15 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4104/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meadow Fire\u003c/a> in Yosemite National Park is now spread over 4,906 acres as of about 8:30 a.m. today. The fire, in a wilderness area within Little Yosemite Valley, east of Half Dome, is 23 percent contained. The National Wildlife Coordinating Group’s InciWeb site reports little growth in the fire overnight. The highest priority is to open the trail to Half Dome, the site reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One obstacle to firefighting efforts: bears. “Bears continue to be a major issue with fire crew safety in spike camps and along the fire line. Extensive measures are being taken not to attract bears to the food and other supplies. Trash is being backhauled daily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a> in the Klamath National Forest has expanded to 107,359 acres and is 30 percent contained. \u003ca href=\"http://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/klamath/alerts-notices/?aid=24768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire-related closures here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Sept. 9 \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/Publications/News%20Releases/2014/wildfire_140909.ashx?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smoke advisory\u003c/a> for the Bay Area-related the fires up north is still in effect throughout today. You can check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state&stateid=5&mapcenter=0&tabs=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current air quality for all of California here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:45 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Some updated numbers on the backcountry fire burning in Yosemite National Park. Spokeswoman Kari Cobb says the fire has burned 4,532 acres and is 10 percent contained with about 400 firefighters and eight helicopters working to limit its spread. The fire’s growth has slowed dramatically since midday Tuesday, when it was reported to be about 4,400 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Cobb also said that the impact of smoke in the park is expected to be much less than on Tuesday, when a thick haze shrouded Yosemite Valley. The park remains open to visitors, though several trails east and northeast of Yosemite Valley are closed, including those in the Echo Creek drainage to Little Yosemite Valley, the Sunrise Creek drainage to Little Yosemite Valley, the Merced River corridor to Merced Lake Ranger Station, and the Sunrise Trail to Clouds Rest from Tenaya Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/Publications/News%20Releases/2014/wildfire_140909.ashx?la=en\">a smoke advisory\u003c/a>, as the Yosemite fire and a much larger blaze in far Northern California continue to emit thick plumes into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Forest Service says \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Happy Camp Complex fire\u003c/a> — a combination of the lightning-sparked Frying Pan and Falkstein fires — is now 105,198 acres and 30 percent contained. Windy weather Monday and Tuesday pushed the blaze rapidly to the east and southeast and prompted the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office to issue new evacuation \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/sites/default/files/docs/SO-20140909_MandatoryEvacuationNotice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orders\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/sites/default/files/docs/SO_20140909PIOEvacuationAdvisoryNoticeUpdatedHCNorthandSouth.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advisories\u003c/a>. During the course of the fire, which started Aug. 11, it has threatened hundreds of homes and triggered a series of evacuation alerts. So far, eight structures have been destroyed or damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further details, by way of the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kerry Greene, a spokeswoman for the fire in the Klamath National Forest, says two homes were destroyed this week when winds fueled the blaze. Another two homes were destroyed earlier. The fire has also damaged or destroyed four other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Forest Service spokesman Rudy Evenson says 274 residents are under mandatory evacuation orders, and at least that many people have been told to be ready to leave home if the fire worsens.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If you’re not conversant with Northern California geography, the fire is burning about 20 to 30 miles west of Interstate 5 and 15 miles or so south of the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Yosemite officials say the smoldering blaze that roared to life in the national park’s backcountry has grown to more than 4,400 acres, up from about 2,600 Monday afternoon. The fire is 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the park remains open, Yosemite Valley and other areas are experiencing heavy smoke. The blaze, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/Meadow-Fire-Update-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dubbed the Meadow Fire\u003c/a>, grew out of a lightning strike on Aug. 16. Yosemite fire managers had been monitoring the small fire that resulted but did not attempt to contain it. Before it blew up during windy, dry conditions Sunday, it had consumed just 20 acres in three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far, far to the north, meantime, the long-running \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex fire\u003c/a> has grown to nearly 104,000 acres and continues to defy efforts to keep it from spreading. Brisk northwesterly winds on Monday sparked spot fires on the blaze’s eastern and southeastern perimeter and prompted \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4078/24321/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new evacuation orders \u003c/a>for areas near the Scott River south of where it flows into the Klamath River. Despite the massive acreage burned so far, in an area south of the Klamath and west of Interstate 5 near the Oregon border, just two structures have been reported destroyed or damaged to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,500 personnel are fighting the blaze, which is 30 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Yosemite officials say the fire that flared up Sunday, forcing the helicopter evacuation of about 185 visitors from trails in relatively remote parts of the park, has burned nearly 2,600 acres. They also say the weather Monday — less windy and somewhat more humid than Sunday — should slow the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said Monday that officials decided to pick up about 100 people in the Little Yosemite Valley area and another 85 from Half Dome because they wanted to clear the fire zone as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would take all those individuals several hours to come out of the backcountry, come out of the location where the fire is,” Cobb told KQED’s Ted Goldberg. “We wanted to make sure our visitors were safe and that we weren’t putting them in a position where they were unable to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobb also said that at least some of those evacuated seemed to get a thrill out of their once-in-a-lifetime Yosemite chopper flight:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I was actually able to talk to some of those people that came off the helicopter, and most of them were really excited that they got to have a helicopter ride in Yosemite. It’s not every day you get to fly over Yosemite like that.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lightning ignited the blaze, called the Meadow Fire, on Aug. 16. National Park Service fire managers elected to monitor the fire instead of immediately suppress it. The fire spread very slowly, and last Thursday it was reported to have burned through 19 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park says a force of 120 firefighters is combating the backcountry blaze, aided by seven helicopters and two fixed-wing airplanes. Trails near the Half Dome area, the Little Yosemite Valley area, Merced Lake and Sunrise High Sierra Camps, Clouds Rest and Echo Valley are closed. The trail to Half Dome, east of Nevada Fall and including the cables to the peak, is closed through at least Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post, based mainly on Associated Press reports:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:10 a.m.:\u003c/strong> A small backcountry wildfire burning for weeks in Yosemite National Park burst to life on Sunday, forcing the helicopter evacuation of about 100 park visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said Monday the Meadow Fire, which was started by lightning in mid-August, had grown to 2,500 acres from a reported 700 Sunday evening. The fire is at 0 percent containment. Some of those evacuated from the fire zone on Sunday included hikers who had climbed the park’s iconic Half Dome peak, rising nearly 5,000 feet above Yosemite Valley. Others had to be airlifted from campgrounds and hiking trails in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads into the park are open, but several trails are closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters had monitored the lightning-sparked fire that started Aug. 16 between Little Yosemite Valley and Half Dome, and last Thursday the park reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the fire had covered about 19 acres\u003c/a>. But the flames were fueled by strong winds and high temperatures Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just got unbelievable crazy winds and unexpected hot conditions,” Tim Ludington, the park’s chief of roads and trails, told the Fresno Bee. “The fire behavior totally changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/07/4110706_yosemite-hikers-evacuated-as-backcountry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While the fire was originally allowed to burn for forest restoration and other objectives, firefighters are now working to fully suppress the flames, park officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the scene Sunday afternoon were seven helicopters, three air tankers and one air attack plane, according to a Yosemite fire information update posted online. Additionally, six hotshot crews of 20 people each arrived Sunday evening along with Yosemite fire crews. It takes firefighters about a day to hike into the remote area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>About 15 miles southwest of the park, firefighters were slowly gaining the upper hand on a wildfire near the town of Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 300-acre blaze was 70 percent contained, and an evacuation order already has been lifted for the 300 homes most threatened by the fire, Cal Fire said. A portion of Highway 49 was briefly closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steep terrain in the area and the dry conditions brought on by California’s drought initially hampered firefighters, one of whom received a minor injury Friday, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Siskiyou County, the state’s biggest fire of 2014 grew to nearly 100,000 acres over the weekend. The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex\u003c/a>, a group of lightning-sparked fires that have burned together south of the Klamath River in the mountains west of Yreka, is about 30 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is one of several that has caused prolonged air-quality alerts in Northern California and southern Oregon, and has grown to nearly 100,000 acres. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/2014-SmokeAdvisory-091614.ashx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued an advisory \u003c/a>over the weekend that smoke from the north could affect much of the Bay Area, and a smoky haze was visible over much of the region Sunday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "California Wildfires: Oakhurst Threat Eases, North State Battle Continues",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_145235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/happycampfire.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-145235\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/happycampfire-640x428.jpeg\" alt=\"A night view of the Happy Camp Complex fire, burning in Klamath National Forest east of Crescent City. (U.S. Forest Service)\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A night view of the Happy Camp Complex fire, burning in Klamath National Forest east of Crescent City. (U.S. Forest Service)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Firefighting officials say they're making progress toward containing two fires that have threatened communities in the southern Sierra this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire says the Junction Fire outside Oakhurst, which forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes on Monday, is now 40 percent contained. The fire has burned 612 acres and destroyed eight structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and Kern County officials say the Way Fire, near Lake Isabella in the mountains northeast of Bakersfield, has grown to nearly 3,400 acres (from 3,200 Tuesday) and is 15 percent contained. The fire destroyed or seriously damaged eight homes and 10 outbuildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far to the north, firefighters are still struggling to gain containment of a pair of lightning-sparked fires that have broken out since late July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Whites Fire is part of a group of fires that started about 40 miles west of Mount Shasta on July 31. Four of the so-called \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4035/\" target=\"_blank\">July Complex fires\u003c/a> in the Klamath National Forest are under control or nearly completely contained. But the 30,500-acre Whites Fire is just 25 percent contained. Residents have been ordered from their homes in seven remote communities, including Sawyers Bar, Eddy Gulch and Little North Fork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second group of lightning-caused fires, the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Camp Complex\u003c/a>, has burned about 9,800 acres since igniting on Aug. 11. The biggest of the blazes is the Frying Pan Fire, burning south of the Klamath River about 45 miles east of Crescent City. The Frying Pan blaze, which has consumed 8,100 acres, is 10 percent contained. Another fire in the complex, the Falkstein, has burned 1,300 acres with no containment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, firefighters have gained nearly complete containment on a series of fires, most caused by lightning, that broke out in late July across Northern California. Those include the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4037/\" target=\"_blank\">Eiler\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4022/\" target=\"_blank\">Bald\u003c/a> fires, which burned a total of about 72,000 acres between Mount Lassen and the town of Burney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday 5:45 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Cal Fire has revised the estimate on the size of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1037\" target=\"_blank\">Junction Fire\u003c/a> just outside Oakhurst from 1,200 acres to 612 acres. It credits \"more accurate mapping\" of the fire for the revision and says the fire is about 30 percent contained. The blaze has destroyed eight structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Madera County Sheriff's Office reported that evacuation orders have been lifted for some areas and that Highway 41, the southern route into Yosemite National Park and a major commercial thoroughfare for the Oakhurst area, has been reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the south, the acreage estimate has not changed on the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4086/\" target=\"_blank\">Way Fire\u003c/a> burning near Lake Isabella. The blaze covered about 3,200 acres as of early Tuesday. As many as a dozen structures have been reported burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no estimate of containment on the Way Fire yet. The several hundred firefighters who were first to respond were assigned mostly to protect homes as the fire burned toward the community of Wofford Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday 7:35 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Madera County officials and Cal Fire say the status of the Junction Fire, burning on the outskirts of Oakhurst, remains largely unchanged this morning. Still 1,200 acres burned. Still no containment. Eight structures destroyed and hundreds of others threatened. Highway 41, the southern route into Yosemite National Park, remains closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further south, meantime, in the Kern County foothills northeast of Bakersfield, the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4086/\" target=\"_blank\">Way Fire\u003c/a> near the community of Wofford Heights has burned 3,000 acres and an undetermined number of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire began as a small brush fire early Monday afternoon but quickly blew up into a major blaze. There was no estimate of containment early Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (11 p.m. Monday):\u003c/strong> A fast-moving wildfire at the southern gateway to Yosemite National Park is threatening hundreds of homes near the town of Oakhurst and briefly sparked fears of a massive propane blast Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Madera County Sheriff's Office reported Monday evening that the Junction Fire, centered near the intersection of Highways 41 and 49 outside Oakhurst, has burned 1,200 acres with no containment. About 500 homes are immediately threatened, officials say, and about 1,500 residences have been ordered evacuated. Shelters have been set up in the community of Coarsegold, south of Oakhurst. The cause of the fire, which started early Monday afternoon, is undetermined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze forced the closure of Highway 41 into the national park. The main alternate for travelers from the south and west is Highway 140 by way of Merced and Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire comes nearly exactly a year after the outbreak of the catastrophic Rim Fire west of Yosemite, a blaze that burned 257,000 acres, and three weeks after the El Portal and Dark Hole fires, which burned a total of about 5,000 acres, forced evacuations on the park's western border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madera County sheriff's officials say the Junction Fire had burned eight structures. At one point, the blaze threatened a propane supplier. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2014/08/18/3801470/brushfire-breaks-out-near-oakhurst.html\" target=\"_blank\">According to the Merced Sun-Star\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The fire briefly threatened a pair of massive propane tanks at Suburban Propane along Highway 41 when the company's building was ignited by a spot fire. Fire crews ordered most people to move back a quarter-mile from the business, and firefighters were ready to abandon the fight if flames got too close to the tanks themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The tanks are going to do what they are going to do and it's going to be bad,\" one fire official was heard saying on a radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the tanks were spared. Other structures were not so lucky.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Sun-Star also offers some fire history for Oakhurst, a tourist center about 30 miles south of Yosemite Valley via Highway 41.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Wildfires have been a worry for Oakhurst residents since 1961, when the Harlow fire, stoked by winds, roared across more than 42,000 acres around the town in a little over two days. It has long been regarded as one of the fastest-moving fires on record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a wind change spared the town, which had far fewer residents and homes than it has today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhonda Salisbury, Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau marketing director, said Oakhurst hasn't seen a fire that significant in more than 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're all ready to get out our hoses,\" she said. \"We love this town and community and these firefighters have had such a hard time in the last couple years. We want to do what we can to help, but there's not a lot of water and it's hot and dry.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day Monday, a DC-10 jumbo jet, retrofitted to serve as an aerial tanker, dropped fire retardant on the blaze. About 500 firefighters were on the lines as of late Monday night.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Those include the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4037/\" target=\"_blank\">Eiler\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4022/\" target=\"_blank\">Bald\u003c/a> fires, which burned a total of about 72,000 acres between Mount Lassen and the town of Burney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday 5:45 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Cal Fire has revised the estimate on the size of the \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1037\" target=\"_blank\">Junction Fire\u003c/a> just outside Oakhurst from 1,200 acres to 612 acres. It credits \"more accurate mapping\" of the fire for the revision and says the fire is about 30 percent contained. The blaze has destroyed eight structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Madera County Sheriff's Office reported that evacuation orders have been lifted for some areas and that Highway 41, the southern route into Yosemite National Park and a major commercial thoroughfare for the Oakhurst area, has been reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the south, the acreage estimate has not changed on the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4086/\" target=\"_blank\">Way Fire\u003c/a> burning near Lake Isabella. The blaze covered about 3,200 acres as of early Tuesday. As many as a dozen structures have been reported burned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no estimate of containment on the Way Fire yet. The several hundred firefighters who were first to respond were assigned mostly to protect homes as the fire burned toward the community of Wofford Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday 7:35 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Madera County officials and Cal Fire say the status of the Junction Fire, burning on the outskirts of Oakhurst, remains largely unchanged this morning. Still 1,200 acres burned. Still no containment. Eight structures destroyed and hundreds of others threatened. Highway 41, the southern route into Yosemite National Park, remains closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further south, meantime, in the Kern County foothills northeast of Bakersfield, the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4086/\" target=\"_blank\">Way Fire\u003c/a> near the community of Wofford Heights has burned 3,000 acres and an undetermined number of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire began as a small brush fire early Monday afternoon but quickly blew up into a major blaze. There was no estimate of containment early Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (11 p.m. Monday):\u003c/strong> A fast-moving wildfire at the southern gateway to Yosemite National Park is threatening hundreds of homes near the town of Oakhurst and briefly sparked fears of a massive propane blast Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Madera County Sheriff's Office reported Monday evening that the Junction Fire, centered near the intersection of Highways 41 and 49 outside Oakhurst, has burned 1,200 acres with no containment. About 500 homes are immediately threatened, officials say, and about 1,500 residences have been ordered evacuated. Shelters have been set up in the community of Coarsegold, south of Oakhurst. The cause of the fire, which started early Monday afternoon, is undetermined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze forced the closure of Highway 41 into the national park. The main alternate for travelers from the south and west is Highway 140 by way of Merced and Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire comes nearly exactly a year after the outbreak of the catastrophic Rim Fire west of Yosemite, a blaze that burned 257,000 acres, and three weeks after the El Portal and Dark Hole fires, which burned a total of about 5,000 acres, forced evacuations on the park's western border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madera County sheriff's officials say the Junction Fire had burned eight structures. At one point, the blaze threatened a propane supplier. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2014/08/18/3801470/brushfire-breaks-out-near-oakhurst.html\" target=\"_blank\">According to the Merced Sun-Star\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The fire briefly threatened a pair of massive propane tanks at Suburban Propane along Highway 41 when the company's building was ignited by a spot fire. Fire crews ordered most people to move back a quarter-mile from the business, and firefighters were ready to abandon the fight if flames got too close to the tanks themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The tanks are going to do what they are going to do and it's going to be bad,\" one fire official was heard saying on a radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the tanks were spared. Other structures were not so lucky.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Sun-Star also offers some fire history for Oakhurst, a tourist center about 30 miles south of Yosemite Valley via Highway 41.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Wildfires have been a worry for Oakhurst residents since 1961, when the Harlow fire, stoked by winds, roared across more than 42,000 acres around the town in a little over two days. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"audio-wrap\">\n\u003ch2>Listen:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2014/08/20140818science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/seedling.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20640\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/seedling.jpg\" alt=\"A pine tree seedling emerges in a burned area of the Stanislaus National Forest. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pine tree seedling emerges in a burned area of the Stanislaus National Forest. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One year after the record-breaking Rim Fire began in the Sierra Nevada, signs of recovery are appearing. Green ferns and small seedlings dot the forest floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a full recovery expected to take a century or more, forest officials are working on plans to speed it along by planting new trees. Reforestation is common after large fires in the West, but some scientists say it’s time to rethink how forests are replanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rim Fire is the largest wildfire ever recorded in the Sierra Nevada. Fed by high winds and bone-dry conditions, it consumed 257,000 acres – an area nine times the size of San Francisco. A hunter recently pleaded not guilty to charges that he started it with an illegal campfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of acres were severely burned, with trees and vegetation wiped out in about 40 percent of the burned area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The trees in this area have definitely torched out,” says Eric Knapp, a research ecologist with the Forest Service, walking around a burned patch of the Stanislaus National Forest. “You can see the bark char going pretty much all the way up the tree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://projects1.kqed.org/imageslider/rimfireslideshow.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shrubs and ferns have been able to come back quickly in many places, thanks in part to California’s historic drought. Without big winter storms to create soil erosion, plants were able to take hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s remarkable even in one year what can come back,” Knapp says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pine tree seedlings are harder to find. Knapp finally spots a three-inch pine tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The seed source is probably…” he says, looking around for where it came from. “There was green forest over there at least a hundred yards away. But nice thing about these pine seedlings is the seeds have these little wings on them so they get up into the wind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how this kind of mixed-conifer forest regrows in the Sierra Nevada, he says. Green trees on the edges of a burn send their seeds into dead areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the plants and trees can recolonize from the edge, but if your edge is too far away, that becomes more challenging,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the problem in the Rim Fire, he says. There are huge patches of dead trees and seeds can only travel so far, either by the wind or animals. The largest dead patch is more than 60,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20667 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Rimfiregraphic-e1408148390108.jpeg\" alt=\"(David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"816\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We estimate it could take centuries – a couple centuries – to really get that back in because there’s no seed source,” says the Forest Service’s Maria Benech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service is working on a Rim Fire recovery plan that includes reforestation, which could begin in a year and half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all done by hand, so it’s all hand-planted,” she says. “Just little tiny guys that are four, five inches tall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seedlings are usually planted densely, 10 feet apart. Reforestation has been done this way in the West for decades, but planting trees in the Sierra Nevada is no guarantee of success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After fires in 1987, the Forest Service replanted some of the forest, in what’s known as the “Penny Pines” tree plantation. A good part of the plantation was killed by the Rim Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These were fairly young, 20-25 year old stands,” Benech says. “They had branching all the way to the ground – a lot of interlocking branches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire moved easily through the dense foliage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have criticized how close we planted trees,” she says. “But the idea all along was to come in, year seven, year ten, and thin those out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20689\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/DSC01475.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/DSC01475.jpg\" alt=\"Ferns and brush return to the forest floor in the Stanislaus National Forest. 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Researchers have learned a lot about how Sierra Nevada forests once looked, before Smokey Bear and decades of fire suppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we now know is that we eventually want to produce trees that have kind of a clumped and open – a group-y, gap-y type structure,” he says. “That’s the pattern we find time and time again in these forests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trees could be planted in a way that mimics that natural pattern – in clumps instead of rows. That could make them more resilient to future fires, North says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of scientists and environmental groups has been meeting to work on that idea. There’s still a lot to learn about how do that type of restoration. But that’s the silver lining of the Rim Fire, North says. With such a high profile fire comes the opportunity to learn from it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://projects1.kqed.org/imageslider/rimfireslideshow.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shrubs and ferns have been able to come back quickly in many places, thanks in part to California’s historic drought. Without big winter storms to create soil erosion, plants were able to take hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s remarkable even in one year what can come back,” Knapp says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pine tree seedlings are harder to find. Knapp finally spots a three-inch pine tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The seed source is probably…” he says, looking around for where it came from. “There was green forest over there at least a hundred yards away. But nice thing about these pine seedlings is the seeds have these little wings on them so they get up into the wind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how this kind of mixed-conifer forest regrows in the Sierra Nevada, he says. Green trees on the edges of a burn send their seeds into dead areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the plants and trees can recolonize from the edge, but if your edge is too far away, that becomes more challenging,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the problem in the Rim Fire, he says. There are huge patches of dead trees and seeds can only travel so far, either by the wind or animals. The largest dead patch is more than 60,000 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20667 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/Rimfiregraphic-e1408148390108.jpeg\" alt=\"(David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"816\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We estimate it could take centuries – a couple centuries – to really get that back in because there’s no seed source,” says the Forest Service’s Maria Benech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service is working on a Rim Fire recovery plan that includes reforestation, which could begin in a year and half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all done by hand, so it’s all hand-planted,” she says. “Just little tiny guys that are four, five inches tall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seedlings are usually planted densely, 10 feet apart. Reforestation has been done this way in the West for decades, but planting trees in the Sierra Nevada is no guarantee of success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After fires in 1987, the Forest Service replanted some of the forest, in what’s known as the “Penny Pines” tree plantation. A good part of the plantation was killed by the Rim Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These were fairly young, 20-25 year old stands,” Benech says. “They had branching all the way to the ground – a lot of interlocking branches.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire moved easily through the dense foliage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have criticized how close we planted trees,” she says. “But the idea all along was to come in, year seven, year ten, and thin those out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20689\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/DSC01475.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/08/DSC01475.jpg\" alt=\"Ferns and brush return to the forest floor in the Stanislaus National Forest. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20689\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ferns and brush return to the forest floor in the Stanislaus National Forest. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it takes funding to selectively cut trees and create spaces in the forest. The Forest Service had made plans to do it, but hadn’t gotten the resources yet. Without that, the replanted trees went from restoration to liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Plantations are really prone to burning up,” says Malcolm North, a research scientist with the Forest Service and an affiliate professor at UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North says there may be a better way to replant trees after wildfires. Researchers have learned a lot about how Sierra Nevada forests once looked, before Smokey Bear and decades of fire suppression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we now know is that we eventually want to produce trees that have kind of a clumped and open – a group-y, gap-y type structure,” he says. “That’s the pattern we find time and time again in these forests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trees could be planted in a way that mimics that natural pattern – in clumps instead of rows. That could make them more resilient to future fires, North says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of scientists and environmental groups has been meeting to work on that idea. There’s still a lot to learn about how do that type of restoration. But that’s the silver lining of the Rim Fire, North says. With such a high profile fire comes the opportunity to learn from it.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68069\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/7135936891_1a91b9de53_b-e1377889242338.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-68069\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/7135936891_1a91b9de53_b-e1377889242338.jpg\" alt=\"Half Dome, from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. (James Chang/Flickr)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Half Dome, from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. (James Chang/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yosemite National Park is banning back-country campfires in an attempt to prevent human-caused blazes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ban will go into effect for wilderness areas below a 6,000-feet elevation. The National Park Service says that fires are still allowed in designated campgrounds and picnic areas throughout the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park officials, in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/parknews/campfirerestrictions2014.htm\" target=\"_blank\">announcement released Wednesday\u003c/a>, say you can thank three consecutive dry winters for the ban:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yosemite National Park is implementing fire restrictions due to several years of exceptional drought conditions and high fire danger. The winters of 2011-12, 2012-13, and 2013-14 were all below average precipitation. The Yosemite Region, along with all of California, is in the third year of drought. Conditions are comparable to the major drought of the 1970’s. Due to these conditions, the order is designed to reduce the chances of human caused fires in some of the park’s driest areas. Vegetation throughout the park is drier than at this time last year and increased care and caution are required to protect park resources and ensure visitor and staff safety.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The park is also asking smokers to be extra careful with their cigarette butts and to dispose of them \"in the appropriate trash receptacle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The back-country campfire ban comes amid a spate of Sierra Nevada thunderstorms. Some of those storms, fed by monsoon moisture flowing from the south, have produced occasional heavy rain and prompted flash flood \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=rev&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">watches\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=rev&wwa=flash%20flood%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">warnings\u003c/a>. But many other storm cells roll across the mountains with dry lightning that has a high potential for sparking wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Yosemite are acting in part to try to reduce the possibility of a blaze like last year's Rim Fire. That conflagration, the third-biggest wildfire in the state's history, burned more than 250,000 acres — an area nearly nine times the size of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/156352022&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>t’s nearing midnight, and the full moon is bathing North America’s tallest waterfall in its milky glow. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few die-hard photographers have timed their visit to Yosemite Falls so they can catch a glimpse of a rare phenomenon: a rainbow at night, emerging from the mist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140452\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 425px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-140452\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/Lower-Yosemite-Falls-Moonbow-credit-John-Senser-425x640.jpeg\" alt=\"Not often visible to the naked eye, Yosemite's moonbow is best captured with a long-exposure photograph. (Courtesy of John Senser)\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not often visible to the naked eye, Yosemite's moonbow is best captured with a long-exposure photograph. (Courtesy of John Senser)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s called \u003ca href=\"http://www.yosemitepark.com/yosemite-moonbow.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">a moonbow\u003c/a>, and you can only see it \u003ca href=\"http://uweb.txstate.edu/~do01/moonbows2014.html\" target=\"_blank\">a few times a year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need swirling winds to help move the mist around, then you need, obviously the moon come up. And that combination is what brings it out,” explains photographer Mark Zborowksi, who is helping to lead a group of photographers through a moonbow class sponsored by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.yosemiteconservancy.org\" target=\"_blank\">Yosemite Conservancy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just a spectacular view,” Zborowski sighs. “You look up, and you can see the ridges up high and the stars. It fills your eyes, gives you a lot to feed off of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The naked eye can’t usually see the color spectrum of the moonbow, but a long exposure with a camera can capture it. “[It] looks like something coming out of Harry Potter’s wand. Just this thin, silvery band, but the camera caught color,” explains photographer Christie MacBride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I read John Muir. I read his description of when he climbed and saw the moonbow. After I saw that, I always wanted to see it,” says photographer Diane Hayward. “That literally is on my bucket list.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photography, in fact, has been key to Yosemite’s allure. Historians think it may have helped convince Congress – and President Abraham Lincoln - to preserve a place most of them would never visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The \u003ca href=\"http://www.shannontech.com/ParkVision/Yosemite/Yosemite11.html\" target=\"_blank\">first photographer who came to the Mariposa Grove\u003c/a> in 1859 took a picture of \u003ca href=\"http://www.yosemitehikes.com/southern-yosemite/mariposa-grove/gallery-grizzly-giant.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the Grizzly Giant\u003c/a>,” says Ranger Dean Shenk as he walks towards one of the park’s most famous trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Grizzly Giant is the size of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and, amazingly, it has a lean to it that is actually greater than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa,” says Shenk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This grove of giant sequoias and the iconic Yosemite Valley became the first federally protected wilderness areas when Lincoln signed the land grant in June of 1864.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch2>Early Photography at Yosemite\u003c/h2>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjWAFgny2L8&w=560&h=315]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Among photographers whose work influenced legislation was Carleton Watkins. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/05/02/how-photographer-carleton-watkins-helped-preserve-yosemite/\" target=\"blank\">Learn more about Watkins.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“In the midst of our country’s civil war, with all the bloodshed, all the battle, all the anxiety, many of us would like to think that he took a moment and perhaps shook his head, or smiled, in just perhaps a sigh of pleasure,” says Shenk. There’s no real historical evidence, though, Shenk says, to definitively prove whether the thought of a natural cathedral in California really helped distract Lincoln, or anyone else, from anxiety about the bloody Civil war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These areas were at first entrusted to the state of California and eventually became a national park in 1890.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people have compared the idea of protecting Yosemite valley and the Mariposa Grove with \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1149\" target=\"_blank\">the seed of a giant sequoia\u003c/a>,” says Shenk. “The sequoias have incredibly tiny seeds. They look like an oat flake, and yet each one of those seeds has the potential to become a tree that can be 30 feet or more across the trunk, and as much as 300 feet tall, and live for hundreds of years. And so that seed planted by Lincoln’s signature has expanded to the national park system throughout America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Shenk points out, even those who urged Congress to preserve Yosemite warned that tourism had to be managed carefully. That includes \u003ca href=\"http://www.olmsted.org/the-olmsted-legacy/frederick-law-olmsted-sr\" target=\"_blank\">Frederick Law Olmsted\u003c/a>, the landscape architect who helped design New York’s Central Park. He served as one of the state commissioners who oversaw the Yosemite land grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140465\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-140465\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/horse-640x407.jpg\" alt=\"Improved roadways brought carriages further into the park in the late 1800s. Today, a parking lot and tram traffic is impeding sequoia growth. (Courtesy of the Yosemite National Park Research Library.)\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Improved roadways brought carriages further into the park in the late 1800s. Today, a parking lot and tram traffic is impeding sequoia growth. (Courtesy of the Yosemite National Park Research Library.)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Not only did he predict the millions of people in the future, but he also said, and so we must be aware of the capricious damage that one visitor might make, and then multiply it by the millions,” Shenk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, four million people a year visit Yosemite. Trams carrying thousands of visitors snake through the giant sequoias on paved roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sequoia seedlings are unable to sprout where you have parking lots,” says Shenk, as he watches a line of cars snake toward the trees. “Ironically, our large parking lot in the Mariposa grove is right on top of some of the most prime, best areas that sequoias would like to rejuvenate in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/yose/anniversary/\" target=\"_blank\">the 150th anniversary celebration\u003c/a>, the park planned to tear out those parking lots and remove the trams in an effort to restore the grove to its original condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just down the road from the giant sequoia grove, the park still makes room for traditional tourist attractions that allow a taste of the park’s early history. Georg O’Gormon (yes, that’s “Georg” - he explains with a wink that his parents couldn’t afford the “e”) demonstrates the fine points of 19th century blacksmithing for visitors at Yosemite’s Pioneer Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140493\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 472px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-140493\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/mantree-472x640.jpg\" alt=\"Galen Clark was among Yosemite's early advocates, and he served as guardian of the park for 24 years. Here he stands with the Grizzly Giant. (Photo by Carleton E. Watkins, Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.)\" width=\"472\" height=\"640\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galen Clark was one of Yosemite's early advocates, and he served as guardian of the park for 24 years. Here he stands with the Grizzly Giant. (Photo by Carleton E. Watkins, Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I hope they take away the same idea that Lincoln had, and that is not only to preserve the wilderness but to preserve the way of life that people lived that came before us. And what they went through to provide us with the easy life we have today,” says O’ Gormon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 150th anniversary celebration was met with skepticism from some Native Americans, who can’t forget how their ancestors were treated by white soldiers and settlers in the 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helen Hogan Coats, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fofweb.com/History/MainPrintPage.asp?iPin=ind2384&DataType=AmericanHistory&WinType=Free\" target=\"_blank\">a southern Sierra Miwok\u003c/a>,, was born in Yosemite in 1927. She worked in the hotel laundry washing sheets and as a babysitter for the children of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/historyculture/ansel-adams.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ansel Adams, the famed Yosemite photographer\u003c/a>. Her grandmother, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kstrom.net/isk/art/basket/yosemite.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy Telles\u003c/a>, was an influential Native American basket weaver famous for her intricate, multicolored designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live right here on the highway that goes to Yosemite,” she says, sitting in her house perched on a hilltop in Midpines, near the entrance to the park. “So I see these buses go and go. I tell my husband, There they go again. They’re trompling down my ground again, they’re just trompling her down.' I said, 'Why don’t they give her a rest?' They’re making it into a Disneyland. That’s the way I look at it. Mother earth is just trodded down too much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coats says she hopes visitors coming to commemorate Yosemite’s history will stop for a while to think about what this place was like before white settlers arrived a century and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, don’t just come in there and have a good time celebrating,” says Coats. “You got to have a little spiritual way of looking at the rocks and the trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Special thanks to the Yosemite Conservancy for providing historic photographs for this article. Find more photos and learn about Yosemite's history in \u003ca href=\"http://www.yosemiteconservancystore.com/Prod-235-1-643-85/seed-of-the-future-yosemite-and-the-evolution-of-the-national-park-idea.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Seed of the Future\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The National Park Service has created a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/yose/anniversary/timeline/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">timeline\u003c/a> of the Yosemite Grant.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just a spectacular view,” Zborowski sighs. “You look up, and you can see the ridges up high and the stars. It fills your eyes, gives you a lot to feed off of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The naked eye can’t usually see the color spectrum of the moonbow, but a long exposure with a camera can capture it. “[It] looks like something coming out of Harry Potter’s wand. Just this thin, silvery band, but the camera caught color,” explains photographer Christie MacBride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I read John Muir. I read his description of when he climbed and saw the moonbow. After I saw that, I always wanted to see it,” says photographer Diane Hayward. “That literally is on my bucket list.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photography, in fact, has been key to Yosemite’s allure. Historians think it may have helped convince Congress – and President Abraham Lincoln - to preserve a place most of them would never visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The \u003ca href=\"http://www.shannontech.com/ParkVision/Yosemite/Yosemite11.html\" target=\"_blank\">first photographer who came to the Mariposa Grove\u003c/a> in 1859 took a picture of \u003ca href=\"http://www.yosemitehikes.com/southern-yosemite/mariposa-grove/gallery-grizzly-giant.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the Grizzly Giant\u003c/a>,” says Ranger Dean Shenk as he walks towards one of the park’s most famous trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Grizzly Giant is the size of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and, amazingly, it has a lean to it that is actually greater than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa,” says Shenk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This grove of giant sequoias and the iconic Yosemite Valley became the first federally protected wilderness areas when Lincoln signed the land grant in June of 1864.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch2>Early Photography at Yosemite\u003c/h2>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zjWAFgny2L8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zjWAFgny2L8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Among photographers whose work influenced legislation was Carleton Watkins. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/05/02/how-photographer-carleton-watkins-helped-preserve-yosemite/\" target=\"blank\">Learn more about Watkins.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“In the midst of our country’s civil war, with all the bloodshed, all the battle, all the anxiety, many of us would like to think that he took a moment and perhaps shook his head, or smiled, in just perhaps a sigh of pleasure,” says Shenk. There’s no real historical evidence, though, Shenk says, to definitively prove whether the thought of a natural cathedral in California really helped distract Lincoln, or anyone else, from anxiety about the bloody Civil war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These areas were at first entrusted to the state of California and eventually became a national park in 1890.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people have compared the idea of protecting Yosemite valley and the Mariposa Grove with \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1149\" target=\"_blank\">the seed of a giant sequoia\u003c/a>,” says Shenk. “The sequoias have incredibly tiny seeds. They look like an oat flake, and yet each one of those seeds has the potential to become a tree that can be 30 feet or more across the trunk, and as much as 300 feet tall, and live for hundreds of years. And so that seed planted by Lincoln’s signature has expanded to the national park system throughout America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Shenk points out, even those who urged Congress to preserve Yosemite warned that tourism had to be managed carefully. That includes \u003ca href=\"http://www.olmsted.org/the-olmsted-legacy/frederick-law-olmsted-sr\" target=\"_blank\">Frederick Law Olmsted\u003c/a>, the landscape architect who helped design New York’s Central Park. He served as one of the state commissioners who oversaw the Yosemite land grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140465\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-140465\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/horse-640x407.jpg\" alt=\"Improved roadways brought carriages further into the park in the late 1800s. Today, a parking lot and tram traffic is impeding sequoia growth. (Courtesy of the Yosemite National Park Research Library.)\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Improved roadways brought carriages further into the park in the late 1800s. Today, a parking lot and tram traffic is impeding sequoia growth. (Courtesy of the Yosemite National Park Research Library.)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Not only did he predict the millions of people in the future, but he also said, and so we must be aware of the capricious damage that one visitor might make, and then multiply it by the millions,” Shenk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, four million people a year visit Yosemite. Trams carrying thousands of visitors snake through the giant sequoias on paved roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sequoia seedlings are unable to sprout where you have parking lots,” says Shenk, as he watches a line of cars snake toward the trees. “Ironically, our large parking lot in the Mariposa grove is right on top of some of the most prime, best areas that sequoias would like to rejuvenate in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/yose/anniversary/\" target=\"_blank\">the 150th anniversary celebration\u003c/a>, the park planned to tear out those parking lots and remove the trams in an effort to restore the grove to its original condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just down the road from the giant sequoia grove, the park still makes room for traditional tourist attractions that allow a taste of the park’s early history. Georg O’Gormon (yes, that’s “Georg” - he explains with a wink that his parents couldn’t afford the “e”) demonstrates the fine points of 19th century blacksmithing for visitors at Yosemite’s Pioneer Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140493\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 472px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-140493\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/mantree-472x640.jpg\" alt=\"Galen Clark was among Yosemite's early advocates, and he served as guardian of the park for 24 years. Here he stands with the Grizzly Giant. (Photo by Carleton E. Watkins, Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.)\" width=\"472\" height=\"640\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galen Clark was one of Yosemite's early advocates, and he served as guardian of the park for 24 years. Here he stands with the Grizzly Giant. (Photo by Carleton E. 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She worked in the hotel laundry washing sheets and as a babysitter for the children of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/historyculture/ansel-adams.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ansel Adams, the famed Yosemite photographer\u003c/a>. Her grandmother, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kstrom.net/isk/art/basket/yosemite.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy Telles\u003c/a>, was an influential Native American basket weaver famous for her intricate, multicolored designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live right here on the highway that goes to Yosemite,” she says, sitting in her house perched on a hilltop in Midpines, near the entrance to the park. “So I see these buses go and go. I tell my husband, There they go again. They’re trompling down my ground again, they’re just trompling her down.' I said, 'Why don’t they give her a rest?' They’re making it into a Disneyland. That’s the way I look at it. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138365\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/BuffaloSoldiers.jpg\" alt=\"In 1899, Buffalo Soldiers in the 24th Infantry carried out mounted patrol duties in Yosemite.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1899, Buffalo Soldiers in the 24th Infantry carried out mounted patrol duties in Yosemite. (Courtesy Yosemite Research Library)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Sara Bernard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite National Park ranger Shelton Johnson has spent a lot of time thinking about the Buffalo Soldiers — African-American Army troops who were stationed in the Sierras in the first years of the 20th century. In fact, it's been 18 years since he graduated from Yosemite's Mounted Horse Patrol School for the express purpose of portraying them in films, podcasts and live performances. Mostly, he plays Sgt. Elizy Bowman — Troop “K,” 9th U.S. Cavalry — who was one of the real-life Buffalo Soldiers who found duty in the high country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What that job meant was patrolling Yosemite,\" Shelton's character croons, on one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/historyculture/buffspodcast.htm\">episodes of the podcast\u003c/a>. \"And the way of Yosemite is that there are colored soldiers here and we are the ones enforcing the rules.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the Buffalo Soldiers were some of the country’s first national park rangers —before the National Park Service was created in 1916. The second African-American National Parks Event will honor their legacy with speeches, re-enactments and a performance by Shelton Johnson in Yosemite Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants will first gather at San Francisco's old Army base, the Presidio, where the Buffalo Soldiers were once stationed, and then travel by bus along the route that some took into the Sierra Nevada in 1903. They'll stop in Los Banos, where one prominent Buffalo Soldier is buried, and then spend the night camping in Yosemite, trailed by the Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138377\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-138377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/Shelton.jpg\" alt=\"Park Ranger Shelton Johnson portrays one of the U.S. Army's Buffalo Soldiers as part of his interpretation of Yosemite's history. \" width=\"200\" height=\"267\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Park Ranger Shelton Johnson portrays one of the U.S. Army's Buffalo Soldiers as part of his interpretation of Yosemite's history. (Courtesy Yosemite Research Library)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The event focuses on African-American history in the national parks to spotlight today's reality: few African-Americans visit them. A study several years ago found that at Yosemite, the proportion of black visitors is less than 1 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people feel uncomfortable being the only one,\" said Teresa Baker, event founder and community leader for Outdoor Afro, a Berkeley-based social network. Its goal is to get more African-Americans outdoors nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the more we see ourselves out in these spaces, the more comfortable we will become with that,\" Baker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor Afro founder Rue Mapp calls it the “anti-program program,” because eventually, she says, this kind of work won’t be necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we're really working toward is that moment when it will just be ordinary,\" she said. \"That people are accessing these places and spaces in a way that fits into their lives and it's not a banner headline. It is just a way of life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranger Kelli English, chief of interpretation for four National Park sites in the Bay Area, concedes the \"perception is out there that African-Americans don't go to national parks, that African-Americans don't explore the outdoors, they don't go hiking, they don't go camping,\" but she wants to prove that stereotype wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many participants and event organizers, the history of the Buffalo Soldiers dispels the perception that black Americans aren’t engaged with the outdoors. The troops built the first trail to the top of Mount Whitney. They built the first botanical garden in a national park, in Yosemite. They stopped wildlife poaching and timber theft and fought wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One can argue that without the contributions that the Buffalo Soldiers made to our national parks in California that we might not have the National Park Service as we know it today,\" English said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138369\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-138369\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/KelliEnglish-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ranger Kelli English talks about camping in Yosemite, and about the Buffalo Soldiers at a logistics meeting for event participants. \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranger Kelli English talks about camping in Yosemite, and about the Buffalo Soldiers at a logistics meeting for event participants. (Sara Bernard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, it wasn’t easy. While many Buffalo Soldiers were veterans of overseas wars — the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War for the most part — they never came to be seen as capable and worthy in the white-dominated society back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s amazing when you think about Colonel Charles Young serving as superintendent of Sequoia National Park for the summer\" of 1903, English said, \"and really going head-to-head with local ranchers who didn’t think a black man should be telling them what they could or couldn’t do with their livestock. The challenges that they faced a hundred years ago trying to protect these national parks were really quite astounding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident C.B. Smith-Dahl agrees. 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