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At least not in my lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gobright’s hesitance here is understandable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The climbing world got a stark reminder of how dangerous the task can be when — just two days before Honnold and Caldwell broke their own record Monday — two expert speed climbers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/06/03/616544264/2-climbers-fall-to-their-deaths-from-el-capitan-in-yosemite\">fell 1,000 feet to their death\u003c/a> from the Freeblast section along El Capitan. It was the “25th accident resulting in death on El Capitan,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/06/03/616544264/2-climbers-fall-to-their-deaths-from-el-capitan-in-yosemite\">according to Climbing.com\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/climbing.htm\">the National Park Service notes\u003c/a> that “more than 100 climbing accidents occur in Yosemite each year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a heavy and thoughtful week here in Yosemite. I am so saddened by the deaths,” Caldwell said in \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/p/Bjsq-kQF-WD/?utm_source=ig_embed\">an Instagram post\u003c/a> after Wednesday’s climb. “RIP Jason Wells and Tim Klein. I can’t imagine the pain of the families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honnold and Caldwell themselves are no strangers to this danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just about all the routes up El Capitan “start with Freeblast, which is like a 10-pitch slab,” Honnold said in 2016, noting much of it is “basically like walking on a sheet of glass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11496917/alex-honnold-scales-el-capitan-without-ropes-and-the-climbing-world-reels\">Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11496917/alex-honnold-scales-el-capitan-without-ropes-and-the-climbing-world-reels\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/adventure/photos/2017/stories/alex-honnold/alex-interview/alex-honnold-freerider-free-solo.ngsversion.1496602819017.adapt.1900.1.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>All the more seemingly insane, then, that last year Honnold became the only person to scale El Capitan alone, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/05/531584651/alex-honnold-scales-el-capitan-without-ropes-and-the-climbing-world-reels\">without using any ropes\u003c/a> and within four hours — in what \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/americanalpinejournal/posts/847401835399393\">one climbing magazine described\u003c/a> as “indisputably the greatest free solo of all time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with two landmark achievements under his belt, one alone and now one with his longtime partner Caldwell, Honnold says he is content — with this record, at least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly think the limits of human potential on this route is more like an hour and a half,” he \u003ca href=\"https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/alex-honnold-tommy-caldwell-speed-record-el-capitan-nose-yosemite-culture/\">told National Geographic\u003c/a>. “But I don’t think we have any interest in pushing there now, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for who might try for the record next, and whether they’ll succeed, Honnold kept his answer brief: “We’ll see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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They set the Nose record \u003ca href=\"http://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/tommy-caldwell-and-alex-honnold-smash-the-nose-speed-record.html\">on May 30\u003c/a> with a time of about 2 hours, 10 minutes; then they went and set it again on Monday, this time finishing \u003ca href=\"http://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/alex-honnold-and-tommy-caldwell-break-the-nose-speed-record-again.html\">nearly two minutes shy\u003c/a> of the two-hour mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though they shaved less than four minutes off their time from Monday to Wednesday, and even though both records share the same names, breaking the two-hour barrier Wednesday carries a symbolic weight quite unlike their previous marks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climbers have compared the feat to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jun/06/el-capitan-speed-climbing-record-alex-honnold-tommy-caldwell-yosemite\">four-minute mile\u003c/a> or “breaking the two-hour marathon barrier, \u003ca href=\"https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/alex-honnold-tommy-caldwell-speed-record-el-capitan-nose-yosemite-culture/\">but vertically\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/ap_18157667162690_custom-463a981cc4a2583a7d46ffc59d42ab6622fee402-800x1201.jpg\" alt=\"Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold pose for a portrait Sunday at the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Within days, the pair would go on to break their own record twice, including once in under 2 hours.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1201\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold pose for a portrait Sunday at the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Within days, the pair would go on to break their own record twice, including once in under two hours. \u003ccite>(Corey Rich/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the proudest speed climbing ascent to have happened in the history of U.S rock climbing,” Brad Gobright \u003ca href=\"https://www.outsideonline.com/2316511/honnold-and-caldwell-break-two-hours-nose\">told Outside Magazine\u003c/a>. It was Gobright and his partner, Jim Reynolds, who had \u003ca href=\"http://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/interviews/the-nose-speed-new-record-set-by-brad-gobright-and-jim-reynolds-on-el-capitan.html\">held the record\u003c/a>, with a time of just over two hours, 19 minutes, and they \u003ca href=\"https://www.climbing.com/news/alex-honnold-and-tommy-caldwell-break-nose-speed-record-will-attempt-sub-2-hour-ascent/\">watched from the meadow\u003c/a> below as Honnold and Caldwell claimed it from them in late May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud Jim Reynolds and I held the record for a bit of time, but in all honesty our time is nowhere close to their time,” Gobright continued. “The level of talent and confidence required to climb El Cap that fast is hard for me to grasp. Part of me would be excited to see someone try to break it, but deep down I hope no one tries. At least not in my lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gobright’s hesitance here is understandable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The climbing world got a stark reminder of how dangerous the task can be when — just two days before Honnold and Caldwell broke their own record Monday — two expert speed climbers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/06/03/616544264/2-climbers-fall-to-their-deaths-from-el-capitan-in-yosemite\">fell 1,000 feet to their death\u003c/a> from the Freeblast section along El Capitan. It was the “25th accident resulting in death on El Capitan,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/06/03/616544264/2-climbers-fall-to-their-deaths-from-el-capitan-in-yosemite\">according to Climbing.com\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/climbing.htm\">the National Park Service notes\u003c/a> that “more than 100 climbing accidents occur in Yosemite each year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a heavy and thoughtful week here in Yosemite. I am so saddened by the deaths,” Caldwell said in \u003ca href=\"https://instagram.com/p/Bjsq-kQF-WD/?utm_source=ig_embed\">an Instagram post\u003c/a> after Wednesday’s climb. “RIP Jason Wells and Tim Klein. I can’t imagine the pain of the families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honnold and Caldwell themselves are no strangers to this danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just about all the routes up El Capitan “start with Freeblast, which is like a 10-pitch slab,” Honnold said in 2016, noting much of it is “basically like walking on a sheet of glass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11496917/alex-honnold-scales-el-capitan-without-ropes-and-the-climbing-world-reels\">Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11496917/alex-honnold-scales-el-capitan-without-ropes-and-the-climbing-world-reels\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/adventure/photos/2017/stories/alex-honnold/alex-interview/alex-honnold-freerider-free-solo.ngsversion.1496602819017.adapt.1900.1.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>All the more seemingly insane, then, that last year Honnold became the only person to scale El Capitan alone, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/05/531584651/alex-honnold-scales-el-capitan-without-ropes-and-the-climbing-world-reels\">without using any ropes\u003c/a> and within four hours — in what \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/americanalpinejournal/posts/847401835399393\">one climbing magazine described\u003c/a> as “indisputably the greatest free solo of all time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with two landmark achievements under his belt, one alone and now one with his longtime partner Caldwell, Honnold says he is content — with this record, at least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly think the limits of human potential on this route is more like an hour and a half,” he \u003ca href=\"https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/06/alex-honnold-tommy-caldwell-speed-record-el-capitan-nose-yosemite-culture/\">told National Geographic\u003c/a>. “But I don’t think we have any interest in pushing there now, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for who might try for the record next, and whether they’ll succeed, Honnold kept his answer brief: “We’ll see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:05 p.m. with names of climbers.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two climbers have died after falling from Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan, park officials said Saturday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park rangers received multiple 911 calls at 8:15 a.m. reporting that two climbers had fallen while climbing the Freeblast Route on El Capitan. They responded to the scene and confirmed that the climbers had fallen and did not survive the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park officials identified the two climbers as Jason Wells, 46, of Boulder, Colorado and Tim Klein, 42, from Palmdale, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know exactly what caused this incident. That is all still under investigation,” said Yosemite National Park spokeswoman Jamie Richards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, 29-year-old Asish Penugonda \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670106/hiker-dies-after-falling-from-yosemites-half-dome-trail\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died after falling\u003c/a> while hiking on the north side of Yosemite’s Half Dome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last September, 32-year-old Andrew Foster of Wales \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11619621/rock-fall-at-yosemites-el-capitan-kills-one-person-park-officials\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died while hiking\u003c/a> with his wife near the bottom of El Captian, when a massive rockfall occurred. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled Tim Klein’s name.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1 p.m. Friday with the identity of the fallen hiker.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — The hiker who fell to his death Monday while climbing the cables on the north side of Half Dome at Yosemite National Park has been identified as 29-year-old Asish Penugonda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National Park Service spokeswoman Jamie Richards said he was an Indian national who had been living and working in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/asish-funeral-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go Fund Me campaign\u003c/a> to help raise money for his funeral and to provide assistance for his family in India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Asish has been the epitome of character and a sunshine of positivity to everyone surrounding him,\" wrote his friend, Swamy Sagar Kottur. \"The people who knew him would always remember the good he did and for the surreal strength of morality he has been when they need him. He will always be in our hearts, thoughts and prayers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The page includes a quote from Asish: \"Our identity is not what we own but what we do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The accident occurred Monday around 4:30 p.m. in rainy conditions when Penugonda and a companion were scaling the steepest part of the trail where rangers had recently installed cables to help hikers get to the top of the 8,800-foot rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His body was recovered Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards said the companion was helped from the trail and was unharmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cables are installed each summer to assist the thousands of hikers who make the popular 14-mile round trip. Richards said hikers can clip safety harnesses to the cables, but the vast majority don't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richards said investigators are still trying to determine how the fall occurred. She said it's unclear if the hikers were climbing in the rain, but that the well-worn trail over smooth rock was wet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NPS \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/hiker-falls-from-half-dome-cables-in-yosemite-national-park.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said it's the first fatal fall from Half Dome since 2011\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11670113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11670113\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HalfDomeCables-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"The infamous section of the Half Dome trail lined by support cables, pictured in good weather in 2012.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HalfDomeCables-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HalfDomeCables-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HalfDomeCables-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HalfDomeCables-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HalfDomeCables.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HalfDomeCables-1180x835.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HalfDomeCables-960x680.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HalfDomeCables-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HalfDomeCables-375x265.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/HalfDomeCables-520x368.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The infamous section of the Half Dome trail lined by support cables, pictured in good weather in 2012. \u003ccite>(Bill Couch/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\"Dear Bodie... I'm sorry that I took this piece of metal from the town. I thought it was all a joke but it wasn't at all. Things are happening that are very hard to explain.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>From a letter to Bodie, 2003\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"curse letters\" arrive at Bodie State Historic Park about once a week. They're usually handwritten, often anonymous, with an object rattling in the envelope. And the writers are all very, very sorry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legend has it that any visitor who dares to take anything -- even a rock -- from this Gold Rush ghost town, isolated beyond the eastern Sierra, \u003cem>will\u003c/em> be punished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, \"the curse of Bodie\" has been the subject of rumor, ghost-hunter lore and online chatter, and it promises bad luck, health problems and even mysterious accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/01/Bodie.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28805_DSC_0861-qut.jpg\" Title=\"This Ghost Town’s 'Curse' Isn't What You Think\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, guilty souvenir-takers have been sending those letters to the park staff, detailing the misfortune they believe has plagued them ever since -- and desperately sending their “cursed” items back. Yet the most curious thing about this so-called curse isn’t even how deeply people believe in it: It's how it began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This myth did not originate with superstitious Gold Rush prospectors, or credulous ghost hunters. It was started by the California Department of Parks and Recreation itself -- and it's had an effect the state parks service didn't expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\"Fair warning for anyone that thinks this is just folklore -- my life has never seen such turmoil. Please take my warning and do not remove even a speck of dust.\"\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>From a letter to Bodie, 2002\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bodie -- established in 1859, claimed by the state parks service in 1962 -- lies hidden in the hills east of Yosemite, south of Lake Tahoe and north of Mono Lake. It’s over 15 miles from the nearest town, connected by a narrow winding highway that turns into an unpaved dirt road. When the winter snows come, this place often becomes impassable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Bodie in 1880.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-1180x844.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-960x687.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Bodie in 1880. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California State Parks, Image 090-9021)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the late 19th century, Bodie was the archetypal Gold Rush boomtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gold and silver found in these hills by New York prospector W.S. Bodey -- who died in a blizzard before ever seeing the town that took (but misspelled) his name -- drew people from across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641768\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-800x502.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Bodie including the Occidental Hotel, circa 1905.\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-800x502.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-1020x640.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-1180x740.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-960x602.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-375x235.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-520x326.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Bodie, including the Occidental Hotel, circa 1905. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California State Parks, Image 090-14535)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Standing in the middle of the eerily silent Main Street here, it’s impossible not to imagine what Bodie must have been like in its heyday: a noisy, thriving, hardscrabble town of almost 10,000 souls that boasted over 60 saloons. Here, “gunfights were common,” according to Catherine Jones, the park interpreter who works with the Bodie rangers to show people around this strange spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like most of the towns in the Wild West in the late 1800s,\" she adds with some understatement, Bodie “probably didn't have the kind of law that we’re used to nowadays.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11640728 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dechambeau Hotel and Odd Fellows Hall in Bodie \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California State Parks maintains Bodie in what they call “arrested decay” -- the rot repaired, but not replaced. While some buildings are little more than ruins and tumbledown shacks, a glance through the windows of the better preserved structures reveals interiors that could have been left just yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one family home, the kitchen’s surfaces are stacked with dishes. In the town morgue, peeled wallpaper sways in ribbons from the ceilings, above the empty caskets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior of the bar in Bodie's Swasey Hotel \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In this particular ghost town, it’s hard \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to think about ghosts, or feel unusually disposed toward legends of vengeful Gold Rush spirits. Which is how this whole curse tale got started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\"You can have these godforsaken rocks back. I've never had so much rotten luck in my life. Please forgive me for ever testing the curse of Bodie.\"\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>From a letter to Bodie, 2004\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Years back,” says Jones, a single park ranger at Bodie apparently invented the notion that misfortune would befall anyone who took something from the park. “That maybe if we started this idea that you'd have bad luck if you took artifacts from Bodie, it would try to keep people from stealing artifacts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640721\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Park interpreter Catherine Jones approaches Bodie's Methodist Church, built in 1882, and the only church left standing in the town. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Theft has always been a problem in Bodie, even before it was claimed by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ghosting of this town was gradual: Mining actually continued up until 1942, but by then what had once been a crowded, bustling town had faded into an increasing collection of vacated homes. Many of them were -- and are -- still filled with the possessions of those who’d up and left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For locals and visitors alike, Bodie was that strange, sort-of-empty town out in the hills back then, where you could wander around and perhaps pick up a freebie or two. Someone once even took a piano from a house in Bodie, says Jones -- just loaded it onto the back of a truck, and drove it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640724\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior of the Miller House on Green Street in Bodie. In 1900 Tom Miller, a Teamster for the Bodie Railway, lived here with his wife, Jessie, and two children. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as a state historic park, with signs and constant staffing, light-fingered visitors apparently continued to be tempted to take souvenirs. So, Bodie conjured its own boogeyman: the story of a curse, shared with tourists over the years to discourage them from filling their pockets with ghost town trinkets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, staff here no longer really talk about their curse with visitors, and we'll get to the reason for that. But still the curse letters keep coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\"Please find enclosed one weatherbeaten old shoe. The shoe was removed from Bodie during the month of August 1978... My trail of misfortune is so long and depressing it can't be listed here.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>Letter to Bodie, undated\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letters, Jones says, arrive with such regularity that the staff here recognize them on sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty much every time the ranger goes to the post office to pick up our mail,” says Jones, “there's a cursed artifact in there.” They’ve received so many of these letters over the years that they’re now collected, on display, in the Bodie museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Park interpreter Catherine Jones looks at several \"curse letters\" in the Bodie rangers' office \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From rambling multi-page narratives to one-sentence apologies and Post-its, they confess to taking nails, glass shards, ceramic fragments, coins, flowers and more. Some writers claim to have had no clue taking anything from a state park was forbidden, despite the multiple signs. Others admit they knew, and just couldn’t resist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, the curse is explicitly supernatural: ghostly apparitions, poltergeist-like disturbances. For the majority, it has taken the form of plain bad luck: accidents, auto trouble, job losses. Some report experiencing the curse’s effects instantly on the drive home. Others perceive them only in hindsight. One letter is from a young person so terrified at the thought of removing anything from Bodie that they returned items their family purchased in the park’s gift store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One anonymous \"curse letter,\" returning a nail to Bodie \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some are almost comical. One young correspondent blames getting grounded by his parents on the curse. Another child simply writes: “Sorry I took the glass pieces. I thought they are pretty. My fish died the day after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet others are far more serious in tone. In one heartfelt letter from 2017, a young woman blames the rock she took from Bodie for the breakdown of not only her relationship, but her parents’ marriage, too. Another writer says she’s losing all her loved ones to cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11640732 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A row of beer bottles gathers dust in the Bodie Odd Fellows Hall. Despite prohibitions on removing anything from the park, items are still taken regularly. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, it’s not just the letters. These people are sending their cursed items \u003ci>back\u003c/i>, because they think it’ll help, and this is the reason that staff no longer talks about the legend much to visitors. Because by inventing a curse -- one that haunts you until you make things right -- the folks at Bodie State Park unwittingly created a whole new problem for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\"This nail was taken from the town of Bodie… Nothing should leave Bodie. Also, who wants bad luck. Please put it back for me.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>From a letter to Bodie, 2017\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time an item is returned, the staff at Bodie have to treat it for what it is -- a stolen object. That means filing a law enforcement report for every single one, no matter how big or small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An isolated home in Bodie, California. The trails throughout the town house many artifacts -- some of which are removed by visitors. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Red tape notwithstanding, it may seem like no big deal to pick up a rock from Bodie and then remorsefully return it. Yet to the parks service, these aren’t just trinkets. They’re artifacts that carry a very real historic and cultural value -- “even the broken glass and the nails that are strewn about the ground,” as Jones puts it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When these are picked up and taken from the park, they’re instantly divorced from their place and context. The minute they’re put in someone’s pocket, so much of the story they can tell is lost for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Returning an artifact doesn’t actually solve this problem either. When these envelopes arrive back at Bodie’s door, it’s not as if the rangers can just empty out their contents on Main Street. Take the “beautiful piece of obsidian rock” one letter writer confesses to taking “to remember my amazing trip” -- the rock she blames for her subsequent romantic pain and career trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car abandoned in Bodie \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jones and her colleagues now have no way of knowing exactly where in the park it originated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It potentially could have come from a prehistoric site, a Native American site. But now we don't know, because now it's out of context,\" she says. \"\u003ci>That's\u003c/i> what's unfortunate about this stuff being removed from its true place.” The worst-case scenario here, she says, is that artifacts like this “will probably live in a box forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider that piano, too. Jones says it was eventually returned to Bodie, after its owners heard about the curse (“health problems, car troubles” this time). Where once it might have sat in a family's living room, or been played in one of the saloons, it now sits silent in the town hall. It's in Bodie’s own version of Collections Purgatory -- unknown, unaccessioned -- and the staff here will never know its true story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640723\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The piano stolen from Bodie before it became a state historic park in 1962. It was later returned and sits in Bodie's Odd Fellows Hall. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\"So sorry for picking these up. I love antiques and being a Christian I felt so guilty for taking these on Monday. Not to mention Tuesday we got a flat tire and my husband hit his head on a rock.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>From a letter to Bodie, 1998\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inventing a thief's curse has undoubtedly been a mixed blessing for Bodie State Historic Park. It has drawn attention to what continues to be a very real problem with theft here, and almost certainly deterred many would-be souvenir hunters. Yet it has also ensured a steady supply of returned, orphaned artifacts with no way home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than harp on the curse to visitors, Jones says she and her colleagues hope “that that we can get a better message out to people that visit Bodie that they should leave everything in its place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids nearly always ask her about the curse on tours, but she prefers instead to explain to them why taking something from a state park is wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bodie,\" as she puts it, \"is a giant outdoor museum, and everything should be treated like it is when you go inside an indoor museum. You wouldn't steal from an artifact exhibit in a museum, so it's hard to know why anybody would steal from Bodie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Standard Consolidated Mining Company's Stamp Mill, the most successful of 30 mining companies operating in the Bodie Mining District. This mill was built in 1899 after a fire the previous year destroyed in original building. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet much in the way that their invented curse proved almost too effective, perhaps what's at work is the park’s very success in maintaining Bodie in \"arrested decay\" -- the thing that makes visiting this remote place so compelling. Away from those glimpsed interiors, wandering through Bodie feels more like exploring some kind of deserted world than visiting a museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe that's why people feel so inclined to just ... pick stuff up. Just like the letters say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640726\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two very different modes of transportation sink into the ground off Fuller Street in Bodie \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That “stuff,\" of course, is actually California heritage. But then, so much about Bodie is not what it seems. It’s a golden boomtown that now lies silent, with a curse that isn’t, but people believe in anyway. And the fact that it endures says a lot about our desire to believe in the otherworldly in places like this. Or perhaps just the power of a guilty conscience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\"\u003cem>I send the purloined goods, along with my deepest apologies to whatever spirit I have offended... I feel better already. Confession really is good for the soul.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/b>\u003cem>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>From a letter to Bodie, 1996\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This myth did not originate with superstitious Gold Rush prospectors, or credulous ghost hunters. It was started by the California Department of Parks and Recreation itself -- and it's had an effect the state parks service didn't expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\"Fair warning for anyone that thinks this is just folklore -- my life has never seen such turmoil. Please take my warning and do not remove even a speck of dust.\"\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>From a letter to Bodie, 2002\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bodie -- established in 1859, claimed by the state parks service in 1962 -- lies hidden in the hills east of Yosemite, south of Lake Tahoe and north of Mono Lake. It’s over 15 miles from the nearest town, connected by a narrow winding highway that turns into an unpaved dirt road. When the winter snows come, this place often becomes impassable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Bodie in 1880.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-1180x844.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-960x687.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-375x268.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/BodieFromHill-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Bodie in 1880. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California State Parks, Image 090-9021)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the late 19th century, Bodie was the archetypal Gold Rush boomtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gold and silver found in these hills by New York prospector W.S. Bodey -- who died in a blizzard before ever seeing the town that took (but misspelled) his name -- drew people from across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11641768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11641768\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-800x502.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Bodie including the Occidental Hotel, circa 1905.\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-800x502.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-1020x640.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-1180x740.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-960x602.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-375x235.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/090-14535_CalStateParks-520x326.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Bodie, including the Occidental Hotel, circa 1905. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California State Parks, Image 090-14535)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Standing in the middle of the eerily silent Main Street here, it’s impossible not to imagine what Bodie must have been like in its heyday: a noisy, thriving, hardscrabble town of almost 10,000 souls that boasted over 60 saloons. Here, “gunfights were common,” according to Catherine Jones, the park interpreter who works with the Bodie rangers to show people around this strange spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like most of the towns in the Wild West in the late 1800s,\" she adds with some understatement, Bodie “probably didn't have the kind of law that we’re used to nowadays.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11640728 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28801_DSC_0832-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dechambeau Hotel and Odd Fellows Hall in Bodie \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California State Parks maintains Bodie in what they call “arrested decay” -- the rot repaired, but not replaced. While some buildings are little more than ruins and tumbledown shacks, a glance through the windows of the better preserved structures reveals interiors that could have been left just yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one family home, the kitchen’s surfaces are stacked with dishes. In the town morgue, peeled wallpaper sways in ribbons from the ceilings, above the empty caskets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28787_DSC_0820-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior of the bar in Bodie's Swasey Hotel \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In this particular ghost town, it’s hard \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to think about ghosts, or feel unusually disposed toward legends of vengeful Gold Rush spirits. Which is how this whole curse tale got started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\"You can have these godforsaken rocks back. I've never had so much rotten luck in my life. Please forgive me for ever testing the curse of Bodie.\"\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>From a letter to Bodie, 2004\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Years back,” says Jones, a single park ranger at Bodie apparently invented the notion that misfortune would befall anyone who took something from the park. “That maybe if we started this idea that you'd have bad luck if you took artifacts from Bodie, it would try to keep people from stealing artifacts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640721\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28781_DSC_0719-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Park interpreter Catherine Jones approaches Bodie's Methodist Church, built in 1882, and the only church left standing in the town. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Theft has always been a problem in Bodie, even before it was claimed by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ghosting of this town was gradual: Mining actually continued up until 1942, but by then what had once been a crowded, bustling town had faded into an increasing collection of vacated homes. Many of them were -- and are -- still filled with the possessions of those who’d up and left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For locals and visitors alike, Bodie was that strange, sort-of-empty town out in the hills back then, where you could wander around and perhaps pick up a freebie or two. Someone once even took a piano from a house in Bodie, says Jones -- just loaded it onto the back of a truck, and drove it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640724\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28779_DSC_0701-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interior of the Miller House on Green Street in Bodie. In 1900 Tom Miller, a Teamster for the Bodie Railway, lived here with his wife, Jessie, and two children. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as a state historic park, with signs and constant staffing, light-fingered visitors apparently continued to be tempted to take souvenirs. So, Bodie conjured its own boogeyman: the story of a curse, shared with tourists over the years to discourage them from filling their pockets with ghost town trinkets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, staff here no longer really talk about their curse with visitors, and we'll get to the reason for that. But still the curse letters keep coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\"Please find enclosed one weatherbeaten old shoe. The shoe was removed from Bodie during the month of August 1978... My trail of misfortune is so long and depressing it can't be listed here.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>Letter to Bodie, undated\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letters, Jones says, arrive with such regularity that the staff here recognize them on sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty much every time the ranger goes to the post office to pick up our mail,” says Jones, “there's a cursed artifact in there.” They’ve received so many of these letters over the years that they’re now collected, on display, in the Bodie museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28773_DSC_0620-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Park interpreter Catherine Jones looks at several \"curse letters\" in the Bodie rangers' office \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From rambling multi-page narratives to one-sentence apologies and Post-its, they confess to taking nails, glass shards, ceramic fragments, coins, flowers and more. Some writers claim to have had no clue taking anything from a state park was forbidden, despite the multiple signs. Others admit they knew, and just couldn’t resist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, the curse is explicitly supernatural: ghostly apparitions, poltergeist-like disturbances. For the majority, it has taken the form of plain bad luck: accidents, auto trouble, job losses. Some report experiencing the curse’s effects instantly on the drive home. Others perceive them only in hindsight. One letter is from a young person so terrified at the thought of removing anything from Bodie that they returned items their family purchased in the park’s gift store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28803_DSC_0844-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One anonymous \"curse letter,\" returning a nail to Bodie \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some are almost comical. One young correspondent blames getting grounded by his parents on the curse. Another child simply writes: “Sorry I took the glass pieces. I thought they are pretty. My fish died the day after.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet others are far more serious in tone. In one heartfelt letter from 2017, a young woman blames the rock she took from Bodie for the breakdown of not only her relationship, but her parents’ marriage, too. Another writer says she’s losing all her loved ones to cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11640732 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28785_DSC_0746-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A row of beer bottles gathers dust in the Bodie Odd Fellows Hall. Despite prohibitions on removing anything from the park, items are still taken regularly. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, it’s not just the letters. These people are sending their cursed items \u003ci>back\u003c/i>, because they think it’ll help, and this is the reason that staff no longer talks about the legend much to visitors. Because by inventing a curse -- one that haunts you until you make things right -- the folks at Bodie State Park unwittingly created a whole new problem for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\"This nail was taken from the town of Bodie… Nothing should leave Bodie. Also, who wants bad luck. Please put it back for me.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>From a letter to Bodie, 2017\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time an item is returned, the staff at Bodie have to treat it for what it is -- a stolen object. That means filing a law enforcement report for every single one, no matter how big or small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28797_DSC_0818-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An isolated home in Bodie, California. The trails throughout the town house many artifacts -- some of which are removed by visitors. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Red tape notwithstanding, it may seem like no big deal to pick up a rock from Bodie and then remorsefully return it. Yet to the parks service, these aren’t just trinkets. They’re artifacts that carry a very real historic and cultural value -- “even the broken glass and the nails that are strewn about the ground,” as Jones puts it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When these are picked up and taken from the park, they’re instantly divorced from their place and context. The minute they’re put in someone’s pocket, so much of the story they can tell is lost for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Returning an artifact doesn’t actually solve this problem either. When these envelopes arrive back at Bodie’s door, it’s not as if the rangers can just empty out their contents on Main Street. Take the “beautiful piece of obsidian rock” one letter writer confesses to taking “to remember my amazing trip” -- the rock she blames for her subsequent romantic pain and career trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28791_DSC_0789-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car abandoned in Bodie \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jones and her colleagues now have no way of knowing exactly where in the park it originated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It potentially could have come from a prehistoric site, a Native American site. But now we don't know, because now it's out of context,\" she says. \"\u003ci>That's\u003c/i> what's unfortunate about this stuff being removed from its true place.” The worst-case scenario here, she says, is that artifacts like this “will probably live in a box forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider that piano, too. Jones says it was eventually returned to Bodie, after its owners heard about the curse (“health problems, car troubles” this time). Where once it might have sat in a family's living room, or been played in one of the saloons, it now sits silent in the town hall. It's in Bodie’s own version of Collections Purgatory -- unknown, unaccessioned -- and the staff here will never know its true story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640723\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28784_DSC_0742-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The piano stolen from Bodie before it became a state historic park in 1962. It was later returned and sits in Bodie's Odd Fellows Hall. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>\"So sorry for picking these up. I love antiques and being a Christian I felt so guilty for taking these on Monday. Not to mention Tuesday we got a flat tire and my husband hit his head on a rock.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>From a letter to Bodie, 1998\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inventing a thief's curse has undoubtedly been a mixed blessing for Bodie State Historic Park. It has drawn attention to what continues to be a very real problem with theft here, and almost certainly deterred many would-be souvenir hunters. Yet it has also ensured a steady supply of returned, orphaned artifacts with no way home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than harp on the curse to visitors, Jones says she and her colleagues hope “that that we can get a better message out to people that visit Bodie that they should leave everything in its place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids nearly always ask her about the curse on tours, but she prefers instead to explain to them why taking something from a state park is wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bodie,\" as she puts it, \"is a giant outdoor museum, and everything should be treated like it is when you go inside an indoor museum. You wouldn't steal from an artifact exhibit in a museum, so it's hard to know why anybody would steal from Bodie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28775_DSC_0655-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Standard Consolidated Mining Company's Stamp Mill, the most successful of 30 mining companies operating in the Bodie Mining District. This mill was built in 1899 after a fire the previous year destroyed in original building. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet much in the way that their invented curse proved almost too effective, perhaps what's at work is the park’s very success in maintaining Bodie in \"arrested decay\" -- the thing that makes visiting this remote place so compelling. Away from those glimpsed interiors, wandering through Bodie feels more like exploring some kind of deserted world than visiting a museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe that's why people feel so inclined to just ... pick stuff up. Just like the letters say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11640726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11640726\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28799_DSC_0827-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two very different modes of transportation sink into the ground off Fuller Street in Bodie \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That “stuff,\" of course, is actually California heritage. But then, so much about Bodie is not what it seems. It’s a golden boomtown that now lies silent, with a curse that isn’t, but people believe in anyway. And the fact that it endures says a lot about our desire to believe in the otherworldly in places like this. Or perhaps just the power of a guilty conscience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major rockfall occurred at Yosemite National Park’s iconic El Capitan on Thursday, just a day after a massive slab dropped from the granite monolith, killing a man hiking near the base of the cliff and seriously injuring his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite officials said one person was hurt in the new incident, though the extent of their injuries was not immediately known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park officials identified the man who died Wednesday as Andrew Foster, 32, of Wales, and said he had been hiking with his wife near the bottom of El Capitan when the rockfall occurred. Officials did not release the wife’s name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Yager of the Yosemite Climbing Association told The Associated Press that Thursday’s rockfall, which prompted the closure of the Northside Drive exit from Yosemite Valley, was larger than the one Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/09/20170929tcrYosemiteRockfall2way.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RockfallDust-1920x1234.jpg\" Title=\"Another Massive Rockfall at Yosemite's El Capitan\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yager said he witnessed a large cloud of dust and heard sirens. Images show a huge plume of smoke in the wake of the rock fall. He said traffic on a road near the base of El Capitan had stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climber Ryan Sheridan said Thursday’s rockfall was easily “three times the size” of Wednesday’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheridan had just reached the top of El Capitan when Thursday’s slide let loose below him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told the AP “there was so much smoke and debris,” and clouds of dust filled the entire valley below. He said Thursday’s rock slide happened in the same location as the one on Wednesday at the El Capitan rock formation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BZmfE6eFG4S\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a video taken Thursday, climber Peter Zabrok said “that rockfall was a full order of magnitude bigger than the last rockfall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/913545951515631616\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Longtime climbers of Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan said Thursday they’ve never seen a rockslide like the one “the size of an apartment building” that plunged down the vertical face of the stunning rock formation, killing one person and injuring another at the height of the annual climbing season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen smaller avalanches and smaller falls before where you would just see a tiny dust cloud. This was covering a good portion of the rock in front of us,” said John DeGrazio of YExplore Yosemite Adventures, who has led climbers scaling El Capitan for 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeGrazio had just reached the top with a group of climbers Wednesday when the massive chunk of granite peeled off El Capitan and crashed to the ground, sending a large cloud of rock dust into the air. At least 30 climbers were on the monolith when the huge hunk of rock fell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was more significant than anything I’ve seen before,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/troycpope/status/913200070543192065\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a piece of rock, white granite the size of an apartment building, at least 100 feet (30 meters) by 100 feet (30 meters), suddenly just come peeling off the wall with no warning,” said Canadian climber Peter Zabrok, 57, who was scaling El Capitan and was above the rockfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zabrok’s estimate wasn’t far off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to details released by the National Park Service in a press release on Thursday, the massive slab fell as seven rockfalls occurred over a four-hour time span:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A preliminary estimate for the cumulative volume of all seven rockfalls is about 16,000 cubic feet (450 cubic meters), or about 1,300 tons. The irregular “sheet” of rock that fell is estimated to be 130 feet tall, 65 feet wide, and 3-10 feet thick. The source point is about 650 feet above the base of El Capitan, or about 1,800 feet above the floor of Yosemite Valley (which is at 4,000 feet in elevation).\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11619736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11619736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RockFallSize-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"The East Buttress of El Capitan, with the estimated size of the largest rockfall drawn in. 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For size context, climbing equipment can be seen at the top of the image, near the tiny purple dot. \u003ccite>(National Park Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least 30 climbers were on the vertical wall of the 7,569-foot (2,307 meter) formation when the massive rock fell Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service also released more information on the individual killed in the rockfall, identifying him as a male climber from Great Britain who wasn’t climbing at the time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After the initial rockfall, Yosemite National Park Rangers and the Search and Rescue team entered the area looking for people at the base of the rockfall. Two people were found, resulting in one fatality and a serious injury. The victims, a couple visiting the park from Great Britain, were in the park to rock climb but were not climbing at the time of the initial rockfall. The male was found deceased and the female was flown out of the park with serious injuries. The National Park Service is working with the Consulate to notify family members. All other people in the area have been accounted for and search efforts have been concluded.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The rock appeared to fall from the popular “Waterfall Route” on the East Buttress of El Capitan, said Yosemite National Park ranger and spokesman Scott Gediman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountaineers from around the world travel to Yosemite to scale El Capitan’s sheer face. Fall is one of the peak seasons because the days are long and the weather is warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rockfalls are common in Yosemite but seldom fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Yager, president and founder of the Yosemite Climbing Association, reviewed photos of the cliff face and debris field, estimating the relatively thin piece that broke off covered an area big enough to fit five houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It cratered and sent stuff mushrooming out in all directions,” said Yager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zabrok said he and friends were in the middle of a six-day climb of the Waterfall route on the right side of El Capitan when they saw it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Boy, I don’t know how anybody could have survived that,” he told KFSN-TV, the ABC affiliate in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peering down from his perch 2,000 feet (609 meters) up on the rock, Zabrok said he saw a rescuer lowered by helicopter and “I believe he grabbed one survivor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later saw rescuers moving someone on a litter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was done at tremendous peril to the rescuers because there were three subsequent rockfalls that were all nearly as big and would have killed anybody at the base,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climber Kevin Jorgeson said he and climbing partner Tommy Caldwell witnessed a massive rockfall in the same area while they prepared for a trek that made them the first people to free-climb the El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First they heard a rumble. 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"content": "\u003cp>There’s the Merced River running in the background and bird songs here or there. But the most compelling sound in Yosemite’s Lower Pines campground is the voice of 20-year-old Sohaib Awan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s singing the Muslim call to prayer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Awan is one of about 500 young Muslims here for the 48th Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Retreat. It’s the first time it’s ever been held on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of five major aspects of Islam calls for five daily prayers -- and this week, campers are laying out their prayer mats on top of pine needles, facing Mecca under towering granite cliffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The camp encourages brotherhood, and explores what it means to be a Muslim man in America. There are lots of discussions about faith and morality, and there’s even a Quran recitation contest. But there’s also plenty of time for fun: hiking, biking, even rafting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267439153\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariq Malik, 34, won this year’s Quran recitation contest. Now, he’s on to other spiritual quests, like a steep 15-mile trek up Yosemite’s popular Mist Trail and beyond. Malik thought he had broken in his new boots before this morning’s grueling effort, but maybe not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m getting blisters on my feet,” he says pointing to his boots. “But every time I get that, I go to the stream and put my feet in there. It cools it off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every turn of the hike is stunning, he says, and the waterfalls are incredible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get to see one of the beautiful places on the planet earth,” Malik says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bilal Rana is the president of the \u003ca href=\"http://muslimyouth.org/\">youth association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of like Boy Scouts of America for Muslim youth,” says Rana. “Muslims get a strong sense of identity through this youth group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he says, youth is defined pretty liberally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The youth association includes adults like me,\" he says, \"so that the youth can lead the youth a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cut-off age is 40.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10977182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Tariq-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Tariq Malik (L) enjoys the splendors of Yosemite with Hamid Malik. 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When Tariq travels for work, he often wears a sign in airports reading, 'I’m a Muslim, ask me anything!' \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"With so many city kids from around the country, it’s good to just teach them some basic skills,” says Harris Zafar, the national spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.alislam.org/\">Ahmadiyya Muslim Community\u003c/a>. “How do you identify a regular leaf from poison ivy? How do you start of a fire on your own?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmadiyya Muslims are persecuted in many countries because they believe the Messiah has already come. It’s why Zaryab Farooq’s family left Pakistan and came to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farooq is now a student at UC Davis. This is his first time in Yosemite. 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We have to wake up in the mornings for prayers at 3:45,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sohaib Awan says being a Muslim-American is no different from any other ethnic or religious identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10977179\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Sohaib-800x1073.jpg\" alt=\"Sohaib Awan\" width=\"800\" height=\"1073\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10977179\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Sohaib-800x1073.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Sohaib-400x536.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Sohaib.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Sohaib-1180x1582.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Sohaib-960x1287.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sohaib Awan \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It’s like being Caucasian-American, it’s like being Chinese-American; there should be no eyebrows raised,” he says. “We are part of the fabric, we are an integral part of this society and we love to be. I almost don’t see a distinction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these days, after events like the San Bernadino shooting, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/12/muslims-fear-prejudice-in-wake-of-anti-islamic-sentiment\" target=\"_blank\">advocates are raising alarm\u003c/a> about increasing \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/coachella-valley-islamic-center-possibly-firebombed-mosques-leader-says\" target=\"_blank\">anti-Islamic\u003c/a> prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retreats like this one give the Muslim youth a stronger sense of their identity, says Rana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are serious conversations about speaking out against ISIS and other extremist groups, says Zafar. In this political climate, you can’t just be a college student or an accountant who happens to be a Muslim. 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"content": "\u003cp>The names of iconic hotels and other landmarks in Yosemite National Park will soon change in an ongoing battle over who owns the intellectual property, park officials said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The luxurious Ahwahnee Hotel will become the Majestic Yosemite Hotel, and Curry Village will become Half Dome Village, said park spokesman Scott Gediman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes in an ongoing dispute with Delaware North, the company that recently lost a $2 billion bid — the National Park Service's largest single contract — to run Yosemite's hotels, restaurants and outdoor activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delaware North demands to be paid $51 million for the names and other intellectual property. The New York-based firm filed a lawsuit last year, saying that when it won the contract in 1993, the park service required the company to buy the former concessionaire's assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[Delaware North] apparently embarked on a business model whereby it collects trademarks to the names of iconic property owned by the United States.'\u003ccite>Justice Department attorney John Robertson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Park officials are making the name changes to avoid any disruptions to visitors with hotel reservations during the transition to a new concessionaire on March 1, Gediman said. He said the park service is fighting for the rights to the original names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're clearly in disagreement with Delaware North,\" he said. \"We're taking this action to ensure the seamless transition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite National Park \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/yosemite-national-park-to-change-historic-property-names.htm\" target=\"_blank\">outlined the five name changes in a press release\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>● Yosemite Lodge at the Falls to become: \u003cstrong>Yosemite Valley Lodge\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n● The Ahwahnee to become: \u003cstrong>The Majestic Yosemite Hotel\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n● Curry Village to become: \u003cstrong>Half Dome Village\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n● Wawona Hotel to become: \u003cstrong>Big Trees Lodge\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n● Badger Pass Ski Area to become: \u003cstrong>Yosemite Ski & Snowboard Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yosemite National Park — another name which is also claimed by Delaware North and remains in dispute — will stay put, Gediman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10832725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10832725\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CurryVillage-1440x1053.jpg\" alt=\"Tent cabins at Yosemite's Curry Village, now to be called Half Dome Village.\" width=\"640\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CurryVillage-1440x1053.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CurryVillage-400x293.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CurryVillage-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CurryVillage-768x562.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CurryVillage.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CurryVillage-1180x863.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/CurryVillage-960x702.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tent cabins at Yosemite's Curry Village, now to be called Half Dome Village. \u003ccite>(pshab/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service says the names and other intellectual property are worth about $3.5 million, according to the government's response to a lawsuit that Delaware North filed with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite Inc., a subsidiary of Delaware North, said in a written statement that it was \"shocked and disappointed\" that the park service is using the beloved names as a \"bargaining chip.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company defended its demands, saying that it hopes Yosemite and the new concessionaire decide not to change the names. \"All we want in this is fair and just treatment,\" the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Department attorney John Robertson wrote in court papers that the company \"wildly inflated\" the value of the trademark names. He added that Delaware North has \"breached its duty of good faith and fair dealing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trademark dispute at Yosemite is similar to disputes at Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas and the Grand Canyon in Arizona, and with other iconic pieces of Americana owned by the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"fPpJiZlZNGkUS9yfRMptsuAI1Kfn6xUG\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park service belatedly learned of the trademark issue when it prepared to open bids for the concessionary operation. Yosemite awarded a 15-year contract to Aramark last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delaware North also runs concessions at the Kennedy Space Center and has a trademark application for \"Space Shuttle Atlantis,\" government court papers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delaware North \"apparently embarked on a business model whereby it collects trademarks to the names of iconic property owned by the United States,\" Robertson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name changes don't sit well with park admirers like John Lenau, an amateur historian and president of the Conference of California Historical Societies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 76, he's visited Yosemite since childhood and says when somebody mentions Curry Village he can picture it in his head. That will be lost with the change, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also worries about stripping away the Native American heritage by turning the Ahwahnee to the Majestic Yosemite Hotel and the Wawona Hotel to Big Trees Lodge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't see the advantage of doing that,\" Lenau said, speaking for himself rather than the society. \"I'm just a little bit against changing something that has been around for so many years.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Deanna Lynn Wulff shoves rusty tin cans, cigarettes and beer bottles into an oversized garbage bag. She’s cleaning up a campsite in the Sierra National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This won’t take that long,” she says. Ten minutes later and she’s still picking up trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s see what the magazine is? Dirt Rider!” she says, and shoves it into the bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the same campsite where 20 years ago she pitched her tent for the entire summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238197561″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s looking good,” she says. “Somebody can come here now and feel that it’s pristine and was waiting for them, just as it was waiting for me!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10797151\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10797151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp.jpg\" alt=\"Deanna Lynn Wulff always brings trash bags to the Sierra National Forest so she can pick up litter. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"2469\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-400x514.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-800x1029.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-768x988.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-1440x1852.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-1180x1517.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-960x1235.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deanna Lynn Wulff always brings trash bags to the Sierra National Forest so she can pick up litter. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wulff was working at a nearby lodge and camped out here after a rental situation turned sour. She confesses that she initially was afraid of the dark. In fact, she kept a cooking pot and a bottle of bleach nearby in case of intruders. But nothing scary happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead, I would wake up every morning to this, which is the sound of the water, birds singing, and the sunlight filtering through the trees,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never felt better in all of my life. To be in a beautiful place all of the time is an amazing experience. I’m from the suburbs of Cupertino. It’s a fine place to be and all that, but it was definitely beyond my expectation that spending time in the forest would make you feel so good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the experience altered the course of her life dramatically. “If you recognize something that brings you total joy, how can you walk away from that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You connect the parks, and you create this wonderful corridor for people and wildlife.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And she hasn’t. She’s spent many summers since in the woods. She’s trekked thousands of miles, and she’s seen a lot of the forest. There are areas of great beauty here, she says, including some huge granite outcroppings and pristine mountain lakes. But she’s also seen things that upset her: trash, poorly maintained trails and the logging of large trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she asked herself, “What can I do to save this place, to make sure it’s here for others?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her answer is a sometimes daunting project with plenty of resistance from opponents: to turn the Sierra National Forest — that vast stretch of land between Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon national parks — into the 1.4 million-acre Sierra National Monument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You connect the parks, and you create this wonderful corridor for people and wildlife,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790881\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10790881 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Courtesy Daryl Jamgotchian\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balloon Dome is part of the Sierra National Forest which sits between Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon national parks.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So for the past 2½ years, she’s canvassed legislative offices and area businesses to garner enthusiasm for her mission. She’s calling it \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/unitetheparks/\">Unite the Parks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An act of Congress can establish a monument, but typically what it takes is a presidential proclamation, often following a groundswell of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately the entire state and the entire country are involved in these kinds of decisions,” Wulff says. “It’s just way better if you have the community support for it. My job is to get all of those pieces of the puzzle together, and then the president has to decide that this is an important thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monuments get more protection than national forests. “You can still do a lot of recreation in the monument,” Wulff says. “You can still mountain bike, do disperse camping, you can still hunt. But you make sure there’s a forest there to go spend time in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”08975zY7VEBBiHtdYcr34crY0JfMYUum”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A monument designation would mean no more commercial logging, although there would be some thinning of the forests using controlled burns. Wulff would also like to phase out grazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cows that are up here are in high alpine meadows, for the most part, and they shouldn’t be there. They’re not part of nature, you know,” Wulff says. “They’re bad for the watershed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 area organizations and businesses support the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick Garner, owner of Yosemite Bicycle and Sport in Oakhurst, says he’s in favor because the trail system in the forest is a mess. He says motorbikes have the run of mountain biking trails and are trashing the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They come up to these trails, they destroy them and they pack up their motorcycles and drive away to wherever they came from,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three California legislators, all Democrats, are also on board: Zoe Lofgren, Mike Honda and Alan Lowenthal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been plenty of opposition. Republican Rep. Tom McClintock’s district includes the Sierra National Forest, and he is dead set against it. He says he’s been getting phone calls from his constituents asking him to fight it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10797161\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10797161 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Long says he loves the forest too, but he’ll fight the monument’s creation tooth-and-nail.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1552\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-400x323.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-800x647.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-768x621.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-1440x1164.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-1180x954.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-960x776.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Long says he loves the forest, too, but he’ll fight the monument’s creation tooth and nail. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McClintock would like to see a revival of the timber industry. “A national monument means more restrictions on public use,” he says. “We want to restore public access and sound forest management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a group called Stop the Sierra National Monument. Its Facebook page has 3,000 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Long, one of the group’s leaders, says people signed up on the Facebook page last spring when they heard that outdoors store REI had scheduled a presentation in Fresno by Wulff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REI canceled the event when it learned there were plans for a large protest by members of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/916364548384667/\">Stop the Sierra National Monument \u003c/a>group. “They canceled it when they heard we were coming,” Long says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long is an avid hunter, four-wheeler and backpacker. He owns a military surplus business called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/G-I-Jims-Military-Surplus-and-Survival-181593165192390/\">G.I. Jim’s\u003c/a>. He says the forest is his home, and he doesn’t want more restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need a monument. A monument is a statue, OK. It’s not a forest,” says Long. “A forest is a properly managed resource.” One that he believes should have more local control, and provide more access to logging and mining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this happens, I mean these communities have already had their logging and mills shut down, everything else,” he says. “What I don’t want to see is limitations on our rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wulff sees it another way. She says a recreational wilderness is good for tourism, which helps the economy. Even some of the bumpy dirt roads we’re driving along in her Toyota Tacoma could be restored, she says, while keeping others open for wilderness access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many old logging roads that it’s easy to get lost. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Deanna Lynn Wulff shoves rusty tin cans, cigarettes and beer bottles into an oversized garbage bag. She’s cleaning up a campsite in the Sierra National Forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This won’t take that long,” she says. Ten minutes later and she’s still picking up trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s see what the magazine is? Dirt Rider!” she says, and shoves it into the bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the same campsite where 20 years ago she pitched her tent for the entire summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238197561″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238197561″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s looking good,” she says. “Somebody can come here now and feel that it’s pristine and was waiting for them, just as it was waiting for me!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10797151\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10797151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp.jpg\" alt=\"Deanna Lynn Wulff always brings trash bags to the Sierra National Forest so she can pick up litter. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"2469\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-400x514.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-800x1029.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-768x988.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-1440x1852.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-1180x1517.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/WulffCleansUp-960x1235.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deanna Lynn Wulff always brings trash bags to the Sierra National Forest so she can pick up litter. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wulff was working at a nearby lodge and camped out here after a rental situation turned sour. She confesses that she initially was afraid of the dark. In fact, she kept a cooking pot and a bottle of bleach nearby in case of intruders. But nothing scary happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead, I would wake up every morning to this, which is the sound of the water, birds singing, and the sunlight filtering through the trees,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never felt better in all of my life. To be in a beautiful place all of the time is an amazing experience. I’m from the suburbs of Cupertino. It’s a fine place to be and all that, but it was definitely beyond my expectation that spending time in the forest would make you feel so good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the experience altered the course of her life dramatically. “If you recognize something that brings you total joy, how can you walk away from that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘You connect the parks, and you create this wonderful corridor for people and wildlife.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And she hasn’t. She’s spent many summers since in the woods. She’s trekked thousands of miles, and she’s seen a lot of the forest. There are areas of great beauty here, she says, including some huge granite outcroppings and pristine mountain lakes. But she’s also seen things that upset her: trash, poorly maintained trails and the logging of large trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she asked herself, “What can I do to save this place, to make sure it’s here for others?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her answer is a sometimes daunting project with plenty of resistance from opponents: to turn the Sierra National Forest — that vast stretch of land between Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon national parks — into the 1.4 million-acre Sierra National Monument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You connect the parks, and you create this wonderful corridor for people and wildlife,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10790881\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10790881 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Courtesy Daryl Jamgotchian\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/12208722_430725383788138_9125785783549493519_n1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Balloon Dome is part of the Sierra National Forest which sits between Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon national parks.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So for the past 2½ years, she’s canvassed legislative offices and area businesses to garner enthusiasm for her mission. She’s calling it \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/unitetheparks/\">Unite the Parks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An act of Congress can establish a monument, but typically what it takes is a presidential proclamation, often following a groundswell of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately the entire state and the entire country are involved in these kinds of decisions,” Wulff says. “It’s just way better if you have the community support for it. My job is to get all of those pieces of the puzzle together, and then the president has to decide that this is an important thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monuments get more protection than national forests. “You can still do a lot of recreation in the monument,” Wulff says. “You can still mountain bike, do disperse camping, you can still hunt. But you make sure there’s a forest there to go spend time in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A monument designation would mean no more commercial logging, although there would be some thinning of the forests using controlled burns. Wulff would also like to phase out grazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cows that are up here are in high alpine meadows, for the most part, and they shouldn’t be there. They’re not part of nature, you know,” Wulff says. “They’re bad for the watershed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 area organizations and businesses support the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick Garner, owner of Yosemite Bicycle and Sport in Oakhurst, says he’s in favor because the trail system in the forest is a mess. He says motorbikes have the run of mountain biking trails and are trashing the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They come up to these trails, they destroy them and they pack up their motorcycles and drive away to wherever they came from,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three California legislators, all Democrats, are also on board: Zoe Lofgren, Mike Honda and Alan Lowenthal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been plenty of opposition. Republican Rep. Tom McClintock’s district includes the Sierra National Forest, and he is dead set against it. He says he’s been getting phone calls from his constituents asking him to fight it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10797161\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10797161 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Long says he loves the forest too, but he’ll fight the monument’s creation tooth-and-nail.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1552\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-400x323.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-800x647.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-768x621.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-1440x1164.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-1180x954.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/JimLong-960x776.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Long says he loves the forest, too, but he’ll fight the monument’s creation tooth and nail. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McClintock would like to see a revival of the timber industry. “A national monument means more restrictions on public use,” he says. “We want to restore public access and sound forest management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a group called Stop the Sierra National Monument. Its Facebook page has 3,000 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Long, one of the group’s leaders, says people signed up on the Facebook page last spring when they heard that outdoors store REI had scheduled a presentation in Fresno by Wulff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REI canceled the event when it learned there were plans for a large protest by members of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/916364548384667/\">Stop the Sierra National Monument \u003c/a>group. “They canceled it when they heard we were coming,” Long says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long is an avid hunter, four-wheeler and backpacker. He owns a military surplus business called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/G-I-Jims-Military-Surplus-and-Survival-181593165192390/\">G.I. Jim’s\u003c/a>. He says the forest is his home, and he doesn’t want more restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need a monument. A monument is a statue, OK. 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The next chance of rain: late Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Agents search former CPUC chief's home in PG&E judge-shopping case\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>State investigators seized computers and other items from the homes of former California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey and an ousted Pacific Gas and Electric Co. executive at the heart of the judge-shopping controversy that has embroiled the regulatory agency for months, The Chronicle has learned. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Agents-search-Michael-Peevey-s-home-in-PG-E-6047151.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Crowd-sourced data show California cops involved in 156 deaths last year\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(KQED's Lowdown)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Analysis of California numbers collected on the site \u003ca href=\"http://www.killedbypolice.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Killed by Police\u003c/a> shows 156 officer-related fatalities in 2014.. 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Of these, there were 144 male victims and 12 female. Of the 67 incidents in which race information was reported, there were 34 Latino, 14 black, 15 white and four Asian victims. \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2015/01/28/crowd-sourced-data-show-more-than150-killings-by-california-police-last-year/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Employment in California's oil towns suffers as prices plunge\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Los Angeles Times)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Many Californians cheer the rapid fall of gasoline prices. 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The survey by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California finds 52 percent of likely voters support the continuation of the taxes enacted by Proposition 30, taxes that otherwise begin to wind down between 2016 and 2018. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/28/poll-shows-californians-willing-to-extend-Prop30-taxes/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bill would ban 'trespassing' by drones\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Business Times)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Santa Barbara lawmaker wants to make it illegal for individuals to fly drones over private property without the owner's permission. State Sen. 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