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Rust raised $100 million from Silicon Valley: $50 million each from the Packard and Moore Foundations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding let POST \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_19533133\">buy the sprawling ranch\u003c/a> for $29 million and then hold onto it for nine years until the state government and Congress provided the money to acquire it for the same price. After much political wrangling, Congressional approval to add it to the national park system finally came through last summer. Rust was ecstatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[We were] jumping around and sometimes crying. 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Alex Picavet, with the GGNRA, calls the ranch “the largest land acquisition for Golden Gate National Recreation Area pretty much since it began.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As national parks go, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/goga/index.htm\">Golden Gate\u003c/a> is a little unusual. Its 82,000 acres of parkland are scattered around the Bay Area, from Muir Woods to Alcatraz Island and Ocean Beach in San Francisco. But the new land on the Peninsula means that about half of the park -- which was founded in 1972 -- is now in San Mateo County, with this new chunk forming the southernmost border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re calling this the southern entryway to Golden Gate National Recreation Area,” says Picavet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that Rust and others have taken the long view, people like Susie Bennett can focus on the small things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we hiked up the ridge, Bennett, a natural resource specialist for the GGNRA, stopped and pointed to a little yellow flower with heart-shaped petals, “this area’s local plant celebrity.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30149\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/02/Hickmans.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/02/Hickmans-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hickmans\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-30149\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The endangered hickman's potentilla has been found in only two places in the world. \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hickman's potentilla is found in only two places in the world: here, and in Monterey. It’s the ranch’s only federally recognized endangered species. “It’s a plant we’d like to focus some management on,” says Bennett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In taking over this land, the National Park Service is doing a lot more than just putting up new signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be scientists studying the land, and workers clearing out invasive species. The system of informal trails that locals have used for years will get an overhaul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Balancing the Needs of Habitat and Local Dog-walkers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like any new neighbor, the park is going to have to win over local residents, especially on the topic of dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill and Peggy Bechtell live in a comfortable ranch home in Montara, just across the street from the park. They’ve been walking their dog, Kalie, here for years. 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A ranger tried to give him a ticket, but he gave her a false name and refused to stop. Critics call it excessive force, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_19872293\">a local congresswoman\u003c/a> wants an independent investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National parks, as a rule, don’t allow off-leash dogs. It’s been a sticking point for some in the Bay Area for more than a decade and, as a result, the park has made exceptions in places like Fort Funston and the Marin Headlands. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/goga/parkmgmt/dog-management.htm\">final, formal dog policy\u003c/a> has long been in development. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials had originally hoped that the new park addition at Rancho Corral de Tierra would follow the more restrictive National Park standards, with limited, leash-only dog areas. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Close Calls with Development\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was almost a golf course. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Audrey Rust, president emeritus of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.openspacetrust.org/index.html\">Peninsula Open Space Trust\u003c/a>, known as POST, says she’d been eyeing this piece of land since she began working at the trust 25 years ago. Flat in the lowlands with a scenic backdrop of ridges, it attracted development plans of every stripe, says Rust. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30148\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/02/map.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/02/map-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"map\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-30148\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Golden Gate National Recreation Area.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A golf course, housing, gated communities... everything,” says Rust. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rust, and others, believed the ranch provided such valuable habitat and open space that it might qualify to become part of the national park system. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s only seven miles south from the border of San Francisco,” says Rust, “and it's teeming with wildlife. 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Rust raised $100 million from Silicon Valley: $50 million each from the Packard and Moore Foundations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding let POST \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_19533133\">buy the sprawling ranch\u003c/a> for $29 million and then hold onto it for nine years until the state government and Congress provided the money to acquire it for the same price. After much political wrangling, Congressional approval to add it to the national park system finally came through last summer. Rust was ecstatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[We were] jumping around and sometimes crying. But now, it just feels right to know this beautiful place will be here forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30154\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/02/horsefarm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/02/horsefarm-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"horsefarm\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-30154\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The land includes a working horse farm and Brussels sprouts fields. \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Southern Entryway to Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the National Park’s perspective, the addition of the ranch is historic. 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It’s the ranch’s only federally recognized endangered species. “It’s a plant we’d like to focus some management on,” says Bennett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In taking over this land, the National Park Service is doing a lot more than just putting up new signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be scientists studying the land, and workers clearing out invasive species. The system of informal trails that locals have used for years will get an overhaul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Balancing the Needs of Habitat and Local Dog-walkers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like any new neighbor, the park is going to have to win over local residents, especially on the topic of dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill and Peggy Bechtell live in a comfortable ranch home in Montara, just across the street from the park. They’ve been walking their dog, Kalie, here for years. 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Transportation accounts for 40% of the state’s emissions. “The number one strategy to reduce greenhouse gases is these car standards,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/consumer_info/advanced_clean_cars/consumer_acc.htm\">The proposed standards\u003c/a> would cut greenhouse gas emissions from new cars in half by 2025. “We actually worked very closely under the federal government under the Obama Administration and we’ve jointly developed the standards. So they won’t just apply in California. But they’ll apply nationwide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting these tougher standards will raise car prices by about $1900, but Cackette says those costs would be offset by fuel savings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jumpstarting Electric Car Sales\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, California is taking an even bolder step, requiring automakers to sell increasing numbers of clean cars in the state. 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And there’s another big difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Automakers Onboard \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The car manufacturers were adamantly opposed to the concept of government telling them they needed to build a new type of technology. That’s changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are seeing more agreement between automakers and California and the federal government,” agrees Gloria Bergquist, a spokeswoman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers in Washington DC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Automakers have invested billions of dollars in these technologies. And so in some ways we have similar interests. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/quest/2012/01/2012-01-16-quest.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/01/LBNL.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/01/LBNL.jpg\" alt=\"LBNL\" title=\"LBNL\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29456\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/01/LBNL.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/01/LBNL-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month may be the moment of truth for six Bay Area communities. Each one is vying to be the new home of a high-profile national research center. But when it comes to development in the Bay Area, there are no easy answers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley, Emeryville, Albany, and Richmond are the six cities in the running for what you might call the 2012 Cadillac of Bay Area Development Projects: A \u003ca href=\"http://www.lbl.gov/community/second-campus/index.html\">new, second campus for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.bcdc.ca.gov/staff_roster.shtml\">Will Travis\u003c/a> – who, until recently, headed the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, a state agency that regulates building around the bay – says, sure, big development projects happen all the time in the Bay Area. But Lawrence Berkeley labs is what he calls \"a platinum level, marquee\" project. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it was founded in 1931, thirteen Nobel prizes have been won on work done here. Sixteen elements added to the periodic table. 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His former agency, the BCDC is charged with writing those guidelines. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at a certain point, says Heather Cooley, of the Oakland-based Pacific Institute, there will be places simply not worth developing. Places we will just abandon to the rising waters. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will need to have those sorts of conversations,\" says Cooley. But she adds that nobody in the Bay Area seems quite ready to have them yet. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other hard conversations are taking place just north, near the Albany/Berkeley border at Golden Gate Fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the day I visited, a thoroughbred named \"I'm Tops\" is getting a pedicure, his hooves filed down and shiny new aluminum shoes fitted with nails and a hammer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a dying art,\" said Peter Tunney, my guide and a member of the Stronach Group, the private racing firm that owns this racetrack and others. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tunney has been in the racing business most of his adult life. 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The lab would be a chance to bring this area back to life. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofalamedaca.gov/City-Hall/Lawrence-Berkeley-National-Lab-Request-for-Qualification\">Alameda is offering the site\u003c/a> to the lab for free, which says a lot, especially when you consider that – as because it’s a national lab – the campus will contribute nothing in local property taxes \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ott says It’s still worth it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They will shop in our stores,\" says Ott, \"eat in our restaurants. And we also believe that they will attract other private development to the area that will bring tax revenue into the city and jobs.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for jobs unites all six of the possible sites. 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Bundled up in a heavy brown parka and a red and gold wool hat, he has just spotted a peregrine falcon on a wire.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nStarting at Dawn\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco audio engineer rose early to spend a cold December Sunday taking part in \u003ca href=\"http://birds.audubon.org/get-involved-christmas-bird-count\">the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count\u003c/a>. During the last two weeks of every year, rain or shine, volunteers looking for birds spread out over 22,000 locations including such countries as Peru, Guam, Haiti, the U.S. and Canada. The count is one of the oldest, and largest, citizen science events in the world. \u003ca href=\"http://birds.audubon.org/history-christmas-bird-count\">The tradition\u003c/a> has been taking place since 1900, when birders proposed a ‘kinder’ alternative to an annual bird hunt – a bird survey that scientists now rely on to determine how bird populations are changing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.goldengateaudubon.org/birding-resources/christmas-bird-counts/\"> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_28913\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/audio/a-census-for-the-birds/oyster-catcher-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28913\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/12/Oyster-catcher2.jpg\" alt=\"Oyster catcher. Photo, Alan Krakauer\" title=\"Oyster catcher. 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McKereghan takes the numbers down on a new iPhone app, the first time he’s not using a pen and paper check list.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nTips for Counting Birds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now you might wonder, as I did, how one actually counts birds. I mean, it’s not like they are exactly… cooperative. “Certain things like eagles, you take note of the direction and time they are headed. You have to assume that we are missing a huge number of birds so I think it sort of averages itself out nicely,” says McKereghan. He says that when it comes to large flocks, like black birds on a wire next to Golden Gate Fields race track, it’s best to count in groups of ten, rather than individuals. \u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/12/bird-count-111.jpg\" alt=\"Counting birds at Golden Gate Fields\" title=\"Counting birds at Golden Gate Fields\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28879\">Part of McKereghan’s count area includes the horse track, and his group is given access each year prior to race time. As jockeys put their horses through early morning runs, these bird watchers gather at the top of the bleachers -- oblivious to the race horses below. Peering through scopes and binoculars, all eyes are trained on the edge of one of two ponds in the middle of the track. A small brown marsh bird known as a Wilson’s snipe has been spotted. “It has little stripes on its head, oh I have a good view,” exclaims one birder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Popular Hobby\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may have noticed birders get really excited over things that non-birders would not even notice. But these folks are definitely not alone. \u003ca href=\"http://www.fws.gov/birds/\">The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates\u003c/a> there are about 48 million birders in the U.S. - that’s more than twice as large as the television audience for the World Series. These hobbyists obsess over birds the way some fans obsess about sports. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_28884\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 229px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/12/Phila-2.jpg\" alt=\"Phila Rogers, Audubon volunteer\" title=\"Phila Rogers, Audubon volunteer\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28884\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audubon volunteer Phila Rogers. Photo Credit, Nancy Warren\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>80-year-old Phila Rogers has been birding since she was eight. She explains the hobby as a kind of ‘madness.’ “You know, I took time off to have children and have love affairs but the birding was always there it was ready to bubble up from everything else,” says Rogers. The long time birder has served her time slogging through rain and chilly temperatures to complete the Christmas Count. Now Rogers participates as one of a few feeder watchers who observe birds, in her case, from her living room through a window onto her backyard deck, high in the Berkeley hills. You would think Rogers has seen it all but this year offered something really exciting. “For the first time in almost sixty years of watching birds at these feeders on this hill I see a white-throated sparrow. This is so big. So I actually took pictures. For me it was really exciting because it’s count day,” she says. Rogers could hardly wait to share her find at the area count compilation dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Compilation Dinner\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About one hundred birders gather in the community hall of a church in north Berkeley. Tired and hungry from a long day in the field, the volunteers turn in their check lists and warm up on hot chocolate. Although these birders skewed older, there were a few counters under 12, one already asleep on his dad’s lap. I caught up with two members of my group from earlier, Kevin McKereghan and Alan Krakauer, both excited over their high species count for the day, 110 total. Says Krakauer, \"We had nice weather which is sort of a double bonus. For me Wild Turkeys were a big surprise to see way down into the flats and the urban area.” Kevin McKereghan thinks for a moment about what sighting most surprised him, “I think the white-throated swift and the pygmy nuthatch.” This year was even more special for the local birders because of the release of the long-awaited \u003ca href=\"http://www.ohloneaudubon.org/index.php/birding/breeding-bird-atlas\">Alameda County Breeding Bird Atlas\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_28969\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/12/turkeys.jpg\" alt=\"Wild turkeys\" title=\"Wild Turkeys\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28969\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild turkeys. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/quest/2011/12/2011-12-19-quest.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_28569\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/12/DSC00009.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-28569\" title=\"DSC00009\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/12/DSC00009-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woody grass called Miscanthus is one of the biofuel feedstocks being examined.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite all the buzz around biofuels, commercial production has been slow to scale up. As a result, the EPA scaled back its goals for advanced biofuels earlier this year. 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Charles was saved at the last minute by troops in a Huey helicopter, just as Vietcong forces climbed through the wire to reach him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This near-death experience,\" says Raskind, \"and even more distressing, the death of his best friend, whose death he felt he was unable to prevent, haunted him most nights, every week, year in and year out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few weeks of Prazosin, Charles came in for a follow-up appointment. He told Raskind that he didn't think the drug was working. He was still dreaming, just about something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Raskind, the dream went like this: \"I'm in my fifth-grade classroom. And there’s a test, and if I don’t pass the test, I’m not gonna be promoted to the next grade. 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