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"content": "\u003cp>Get outside!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simple as that, a rebuke to the shopping mania that Black Friday has become known for. Last year, outdoor retailer REI launched a movement to get people to #optoutside, shuttering its stores on what is traditionally one of the biggest shopping days of the year to push people to go, well, outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the California State Parks and two environmental groups are continuing that idea in spirit, offering free admission to dozens of state parks. Here's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/11/21/black-friday-special-free-entrance-to-116-california-state-parks/\">how\u003c/a> you can snag one of the free passes they're handing out (the number is limited to 13,000 statewide).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To give you some inspiration, here are nine favorite state park hikes from KQED staff members -- including yours truly. The walks range from moderate to hard in difficulty, and all should give you some great exercise and scenery as well as a break from the shopping crowd. Note: Dogs \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21305\">are permitted\u003c/a> in most state parks but must be on a leash (more details; a good idea to call ahead and check).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=517\">Mount Diablo State Park\u003c/a>: Triple Peak Grand Loop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186441\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11186441\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Diablo State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Diablo State Park, view from Eagle Peak. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This includes three summits: the actual one (at 3,849 feet), North Peak and Eagle Peak. About 11 miles. Stunning views, challenging climbs and magnificent sunsets. Full-day hike. Bring water, food and a hat! Best starting place for the hike is Juniper Campground, meaning you should take the park entrance (North Gate) in Walnut Creek. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/517/files/mtDiabloBrochure.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>--\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Miranda-S-Leitsinger-208652745811806/\">Miranda Leitsinger\u003c/a>, Engagement Producer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=539\">Portola Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>: Peters Creek Loop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Portola Redwoods State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portola Redwoods State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nestled between Skyline Boulevard and Pescadero on the coast in La Honda, Portola offers a unique hike in the Peters Creek Trail Loop. About 12.5 miles with a few tough climbs and a descent into a canyon with ancient old-growth redwoods spared from logging (due to the steepness of the canyon). A true treasure -- otherworldly -- and worth the workout. Full-day hike. Mostly shaded. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/539/files/PortolaRedwoodsWeb2016.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Miranda-S-Leitsinger-208652745811806/\">Miranda Leitsinger\u003c/a>, Engagement Producer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=532\">Montara State Beach\u003c/a>/McNee Ranch State Park: Montara Mountain Hike\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11186496\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Montara State Beach/McNee Ranch State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montara State Beach/McNee Ranch State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A climb up Montara Mountain, tucked between Montara and Pacifica, to the summit from Gray Whale Cove will really get the heart pumping. It is challenging. But the 360-degree views from the summit -- from Mount Diablo to the Golden Gate Bridge to Half Moon Bay -- are worth it. Add on a trail (that crosses \"The Saddle'\"marked on the map) more used by cyclists that goes over the top of Devil's Slide -- you won't regret it. About 10.5 miles. Bring layers -- you can go above the clouds, in this case, fog -- and end up in sunny skies. Also you should have a hat, too, in case it's sunny. (See \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/532/files/SanMateoCoastBeachesParksWeb2016.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Miranda-S-Leitsinger-208652745811806/\">Miranda Leitsinger\u003c/a>, Engagement Producer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=561\">Henry W. Coe State Park\u003c/a>: Grizzly Gulch to Coit Lake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187089\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Henry W. Coe State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry W. Coe State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Henry Coe in Morgan Hill in the South Bay is my go-to spot for last-minute backpacking trips or hikes when I want to get away from it all. The park is massive, and I’ve never seen it crowded — partly because most hikes in this park feature some strenuous climbs, such as the Grizzly Gulch Trail to Coit Lake for a 12- to 13-mile round-trip trek (you can also make the hike shorter by checking out some of the other trails off of Grizzly Gulch). Coit Lake is my favorite spot for camping or a picnic (and in summer months, a skinny dip!). (See \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/561/files/HenryCoeWebBrochure2009.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/oallenprice\">Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/a>, host/producer of Bay Curious podcast\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moderate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. \u003c/strong>\u003ca style=\"font-weight: bold\" href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=468\">Angel Island State Park\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>: Mount Livermore \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187088\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Angel Island State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Island State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>History, a ferry ride, views of the Golden Gate, lots of wildlife and a charming cove. Angel Island was home to an Army camp in the mid-1800s and to an immigration station from 1910 to 1940. Some of the buildings from each era remains, and you can, and should, visit them as part of a hike on the island. The hike up to Mount Livermore is energetic but manageable (the round trip is 6 miles). The reward is the incredible view of the Golden Gate Bridge from a unique vantage point in the bay. Other hikes around the island are less taxing and friendly family. Definitely a fun day outing. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/468/files/AngelIslandSPWeb2016.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Miranda-S-Leitsinger-208652745811806/\">Miranda Leitsinger\u003c/a>, Engagement Producer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=540\">Big Basin Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>: Berry Creek Falls Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11186971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Big Basin Redwoods State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Basin Redwoods State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I grew up around the North Carolina mountains, and what I miss the most are the waterfalls — they’re everywhere in Appalachia. When I need a waterfall fix, I head to the Berry Creek Falls Trail in Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Boulder Creek, about 20 miles north of Santa Cruz. Paired with the Sunset Trail and the Skyline to the Sea Trail, you can make a 10-mile loop that’s great for trail running. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/540/files/BigBasinRedwoodsFinalWebLayout101816.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/oallenprice\">Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/a>, host/producer of Bay Curious podcast\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=471\">Mount Tamalpais State Park\u003c/a>: Dipsea Trail\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187086\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Tamalpais State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Tamalpais State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I first moved to California about three years ago, one of the first hikes I went on was the Dipsea Trail in Marin County. It's a 7-mile hike that starts near the bottom of Mount Tam in Mill Valley and ends at Stinson Beach. The first 2 miles are a grueling uphill slog but you're rewarded with beautiful views of the Marin Headlands, old-growth redwoods and the Pacific Ocean. You can take a bus back to town from the beach -- or if you're in for an all-day affair, you can hike back! (See \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/471/files/MountTamalpaisSPFinalWebLayout110816.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/tiffanycamhi\">Tiffany Camhi\u003c/a>, reporter\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=666\">The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park:\u003c/a> Bridge Creek Loop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187026\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Nisene Marks, a park outside the Santa Cruz County beach town of Aptos, an enchanting, moderately difficult loop takes you through lush green forest. When I went in early fall, the sunlight coming through the trees gave the forest a brilliant glow. There's a lot of history in this forest -- from its logging days (there are some historical structures you can see, marked on the park map) to its being the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta quake (you can detour from the trail to visit the spot). I'd read that you could see seashells -- yes, seashells -- from when the area was part of an inland sea, and thrillingly I came across many. This can be from 7 to 9 miles if you take detours. Do be careful to keep an eye on the trail. I wandered off the path to take in the seashells and it took me a while to find a way back onto it from the creek. Mostly shaded. (See \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=666\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Miranda-S-Leitsinger-208652745811806/\">Miranda Leitsinger\u003c/a>, Engagement Producer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9.\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=587\">Millerton Lake State Recreation Area\u003c/a>: Sky Harbor Hike\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187030\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Springtime California poppies at Millerton Lake State Recreation Area. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millerton Lake State Recreation Area. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spectacular hike in the Sierra foothills near Fresno featuring an occasional glimpse of bald eagles that nest near Millerton Lake. It’s a medium-level hike, with quite a bit of uphill, but my 5-year-old did the first mile of it, determined to collect poppies last spring. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/587/files/MillertonLakeSRAWebBrochure2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqedsashakhokha?lang=en\">Sasha Khokha\u003c/a>, host of The California Report Magazine\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One last photo, for inspiration, from Mount Diablo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11186442 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Diablo State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Get outside!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simple as that, a rebuke to the shopping mania that Black Friday has become known for. Last year, outdoor retailer REI launched a movement to get people to #optoutside, shuttering its stores on what is traditionally one of the biggest shopping days of the year to push people to go, well, outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the California State Parks and two environmental groups are continuing that idea in spirit, offering free admission to dozens of state parks. Here's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/11/21/black-friday-special-free-entrance-to-116-california-state-parks/\">how\u003c/a> you can snag one of the free passes they're handing out (the number is limited to 13,000 statewide).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To give you some inspiration, here are nine favorite state park hikes from KQED staff members -- including yours truly. The walks range from moderate to hard in difficulty, and all should give you some great exercise and scenery as well as a break from the shopping crowd. Note: Dogs \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21305\">are permitted\u003c/a> in most state parks but must be on a leash (more details; a good idea to call ahead and check).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=517\">Mount Diablo State Park\u003c/a>: Triple Peak Grand Loop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186441\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11186441\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Diablo State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22891_IMG_0554_Rotated-qut.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Diablo State Park, view from Eagle Peak. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This includes three summits: the actual one (at 3,849 feet), North Peak and Eagle Peak. About 11 miles. Stunning views, challenging climbs and magnificent sunsets. Full-day hike. Bring water, food and a hat! Best starting place for the hike is Juniper Campground, meaning you should take the park entrance (North Gate) in Walnut Creek. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/517/files/mtDiabloBrochure.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>--\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Miranda-S-Leitsinger-208652745811806/\">Miranda Leitsinger\u003c/a>, Engagement Producer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=539\">Portola Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>: Peters Creek Loop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Portola Redwoods State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22896_IMG_8419-qut-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portola Redwoods State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nestled between Skyline Boulevard and Pescadero on the coast in La Honda, Portola offers a unique hike in the Peters Creek Trail Loop. About 12.5 miles with a few tough climbs and a descent into a canyon with ancient old-growth redwoods spared from logging (due to the steepness of the canyon). A true treasure -- otherworldly -- and worth the workout. Full-day hike. Mostly shaded. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/539/files/PortolaRedwoodsWeb2016.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Miranda-S-Leitsinger-208652745811806/\">Miranda Leitsinger\u003c/a>, Engagement Producer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=532\">Montara State Beach\u003c/a>/McNee Ranch State Park: Montara Mountain Hike\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11186496\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Montara State Beach/McNee Ranch State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_7078.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montara State Beach/McNee Ranch State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A climb up Montara Mountain, tucked between Montara and Pacifica, to the summit from Gray Whale Cove will really get the heart pumping. It is challenging. But the 360-degree views from the summit -- from Mount Diablo to the Golden Gate Bridge to Half Moon Bay -- are worth it. Add on a trail (that crosses \"The Saddle'\"marked on the map) more used by cyclists that goes over the top of Devil's Slide -- you won't regret it. About 10.5 miles. Bring layers -- you can go above the clouds, in this case, fog -- and end up in sunny skies. Also you should have a hat, too, in case it's sunny. (See \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/532/files/SanMateoCoastBeachesParksWeb2016.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Miranda-S-Leitsinger-208652745811806/\">Miranda Leitsinger\u003c/a>, Engagement Producer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=561\">Henry W. Coe State Park\u003c/a>: Grizzly Gulch to Coit Lake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187089\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Henry W. Coe State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22907_CoitLakeIMG_5696-qut-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry W. Coe State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Henry Coe in Morgan Hill in the South Bay is my go-to spot for last-minute backpacking trips or hikes when I want to get away from it all. The park is massive, and I’ve never seen it crowded — partly because most hikes in this park feature some strenuous climbs, such as the Grizzly Gulch Trail to Coit Lake for a 12- to 13-mile round-trip trek (you can also make the hike shorter by checking out some of the other trails off of Grizzly Gulch). Coit Lake is my favorite spot for camping or a picnic (and in summer months, a skinny dip!). (See \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/561/files/HenryCoeWebBrochure2009.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/oallenprice\">Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/a>, host/producer of Bay Curious podcast\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moderate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. \u003c/strong>\u003ca style=\"font-weight: bold\" href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=468\">Angel Island State Park\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>: Mount Livermore \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187088\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Angel Island State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22904_IMG_3714-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Island State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>History, a ferry ride, views of the Golden Gate, lots of wildlife and a charming cove. Angel Island was home to an Army camp in the mid-1800s and to an immigration station from 1910 to 1940. Some of the buildings from each era remains, and you can, and should, visit them as part of a hike on the island. The hike up to Mount Livermore is energetic but manageable (the round trip is 6 miles). The reward is the incredible view of the Golden Gate Bridge from a unique vantage point in the bay. Other hikes around the island are less taxing and friendly family. Definitely a fun day outing. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/468/files/AngelIslandSPWeb2016.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Miranda-S-Leitsinger-208652745811806/\">Miranda Leitsinger\u003c/a>, Engagement Producer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=540\">Big Basin Redwoods State Park\u003c/a>: Berry Creek Falls Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11186971\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Big Basin Redwoods State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/IMG_1705_Rotated.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Basin Redwoods State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I grew up around the North Carolina mountains, and what I miss the most are the waterfalls — they’re everywhere in Appalachia. When I need a waterfall fix, I head to the Berry Creek Falls Trail in Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Boulder Creek, about 20 miles north of Santa Cruz. Paired with the Sunset Trail and the Skyline to the Sea Trail, you can make a 10-mile loop that’s great for trail running. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/540/files/BigBasinRedwoodsFinalWebLayout101816.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/oallenprice\">Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/a>, host/producer of Bay Curious podcast\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=471\">Mount Tamalpais State Park\u003c/a>: Dipsea Trail\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187086\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Tamalpais State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22903_IMG_4908-qut.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Tamalpais State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I first moved to California about three years ago, one of the first hikes I went on was the Dipsea Trail in Marin County. It's a 7-mile hike that starts near the bottom of Mount Tam in Mill Valley and ends at Stinson Beach. The first 2 miles are a grueling uphill slog but you're rewarded with beautiful views of the Marin Headlands, old-growth redwoods and the Pacific Ocean. You can take a bus back to town from the beach -- or if you're in for an all-day affair, you can hike back! (See \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/471/files/MountTamalpaisSPFinalWebLayout110816.pdf\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/tiffanycamhi\">Tiffany Camhi\u003c/a>, reporter\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=666\">The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park:\u003c/a> Bridge Creek Loop\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187026\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22901_IMG_0454-qut.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Nisene Marks, a park outside the Santa Cruz County beach town of Aptos, an enchanting, moderately difficult loop takes you through lush green forest. When I went in early fall, the sunlight coming through the trees gave the forest a brilliant glow. There's a lot of history in this forest -- from its logging days (there are some historical structures you can see, marked on the park map) to its being the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta quake (you can detour from the trail to visit the spot). I'd read that you could see seashells -- yes, seashells -- from when the area was part of an inland sea, and thrillingly I came across many. This can be from 7 to 9 miles if you take detours. Do be careful to keep an eye on the trail. I wandered off the path to take in the seashells and it took me a while to find a way back onto it from the creek. Mostly shaded. (See \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=666\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Miranda-S-Leitsinger-208652745811806/\">Miranda Leitsinger\u003c/a>, Engagement Producer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9.\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=587\">Millerton Lake State Recreation Area\u003c/a>: Sky Harbor Hike\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11187030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11187030\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Springtime California poppies at Millerton Lake State Recreation Area. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22902_IMG_0364_Rotated-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millerton Lake State Recreation Area. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spectacular hike in the Sierra foothills near Fresno featuring an occasional glimpse of bald eagles that nest near Millerton Lake. It’s a medium-level hike, with quite a bit of uphill, but my 5-year-old did the first mile of it, determined to collect poppies last spring. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/587/files/MillertonLakeSRAWebBrochure2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">park brochure\u003c/a>.)\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kqedsashakhokha?lang=en\">Sasha Khokha\u003c/a>, host of The California Report Magazine\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One last photo, for inspiration, from Mount Diablo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11186442 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-800x600.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22892_IMG_0622-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Diablo State Park. All state parks will be free to the public the day after Thanksgiving. \u003ccite>(Miranda Leitsinger/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>You’d think a bird would have an easy time finding a watery rest stop along the over 260-mile-long Klamath River. That should be especially true in the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, a huge marshland along the Pacific Flyway. But in 2012 a dry year cut water supplies, which then chopped available wetlands in half and accelerated the spread of avian cholera. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/29/avian-cholera-kills-thousands-of-birds-in-northern-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Up to 20,000 birds died off\u003c/a>, including snow geese, ducks and coots. [contextly_sidebar id=”ghXf9rnPFabzxPxngj4vForak4etwSMY”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water rights along the Klamath River have always been a matter of survival, and birds aren’t the only ones competing for water — they’re just the last in line. The federal government manages a complex hierarchy of rights along the river, claimed by irrigators, tribes and fish in the two states it runs through: California and Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And shortages are becoming more common. “The challenges we have here are because we’ve promised too much water to too many people,” says Trout Unlimited’s Chrysten Lambert. “We’ve promised more water than there is here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the November election has brought stories of uncertainty and division, in the Klamath Basin a sprawling and unlikely group of allies has been working across political lines for years to establish a sustainable sense of the river. Six years ago, they hashed out a huge compromise deal, to take out dams, sort out rights and allocate water. Without congressional support, that agreement died. But earlier this year, the dams’ owner, PacifiCorp, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/27/will-the-klamath-river-be-renewed-owner-applies-to-remove-4-of-5-dams/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to abandon its interests\u003c/a>, a move that doesn’t require congressional approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With dam removal now in process, sharing water remains a separate negotiation. Several parties to the original deal confirm talks about water rights and water allocation have begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11186151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"The headwaters of Upper Klamath Lake, seen from the Wood River Valley in Oregon, are subject to a number of competing water rights from different groups.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The headwaters of Upper Klamath Lake, seen from the Wood River Valley in Oregon, are subject to a number of competing water rights from different groups. \u003ccite>(Chrysten Lambert/Trout Unlimited)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is a water allocation that’s needed,” says John Bezdek, a special counsel to the federal Secretary of the Interior. He points to the Department of the Interior’s many interests in the region: managing water and dams, managing tribal rights, and maintaining the health of fisheries. “Dam removal makes a lot of that easier, but dam removal does not finish the job on any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finishing the job is a delicate operation. Paul Simmons, a lawyer for farmers and ranchers, says water rights are personal here for everyone. “It really is their identity and it’s an essential part of their culture,” he says. “When you start talking about changing that, it certainly is something that raises the stakes or makes the stakes different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overlapping and Personal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federally recognized tribes in Oregon claim the most senior water rights in the Klamath Basin. Three years ago, the state of Oregon recognized that the Klamath Tribes’ claim on Upper Klamath Lake dates to “time immemorial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I want the kids to be able to go down to the river and fish and bring home fish for their family.’\u003ccite>Wendy Ferris-George, a Karuk tribal member\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the lower basin, three more tribes in California — the Karuk, the Yurok and the Hoopa — claim water, too. And, while their rights vary, they share an interest in keeping enough water in the river to keep fish healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Ferris-George, a Karuk tribal member, gets emotional when she talks about it. “I want the kids to be able to go down to the river and fish and bring home fish for their family,” she says, her voice quavering. “I want the grandmothers and grandfathers not to have to worry about their families starving. That’s what’s happening on the river. Our people are living in poverty, but to native people it’s our life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Endangered Species Act also claims water, to sustain and nurture sucker fish in Upper Klamath Lake, and salmon and steelhead downriver. Complicating all of this, farmers and irrigators say they need water first promised to them by the federal government a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, when there’s not enough water, federal and state programs have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on habitat restoration, fishery management, and even emergency aid for farmers. The Department of the Interior’s John Bezdek \u003ca href=\"http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=962447c3-e51d-4fff-8581-da2529d18dec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says\u003c/a> an agreement would save money in the long run. “I believe that the longer we go without settlement, the more resources are hurting and the more it causes people to re-evaluate where they are,” Bezdek says. “But I also believe that this basin and this group of stakeholders, they’ve been to the edge and back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Back From The Edge\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186145\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11186145 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-800x693.jpg\" alt=\"A former G.I. picks a homestead number out of a pickle jar -- one way a number of families ended up in the Klamath Basin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-800x693.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-160x139.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-1020x884.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-1180x1023.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-960x832.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-240x208.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-375x325.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-520x451.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former GI picks a homestead number out of a pickle jar — one way a number of families ended up in the Klamath Basin. \u003ccite>(U.S. Bureau of Reclamation/Courtesy OIT Klamath Waters Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those stakeholders are farmers and ranchers on a quarter-million acres of land, some of it former marshes drained by the federal government more than a century ago after it dammed the Klamath and began storing water for irrigation in Upper Klamath Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The edge that Bezdek is talking about came 15 years ago, when water shortages forced the federal government to turn off the spigot to more than a quarter-million acres of land. That decision sent guys like Scott Seus, a third-generation farmer in Tulelake, scrambling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on a busy fall day, Seus hops into a combine to harvest mint. He says he wants to make sure a fourth-generation Seus can farm here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandfather was a homesteader here in 1947. He drew a number out of the pickle jar,” says Seus. Former GIs would draw a number and then stick a pin in a map to show where they wanted to homestead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually lived in one of the barracks that was part of the Japanese internment camp here,” he says. “The people that survived here were the tough ones. And since 2001, our community gets smaller and smaller, and there’s less and less people here that are survivors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seus has survived by diversifying risk and cost in his crops. He grows mint, horseradish, onions, garlic and grain. The amount, and his income, depend on the water available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got to know that I’ve got water next year to get through,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11186150\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Seus farms organic mint for tea. His crops are watered by the Klamath River through a federal irrigation project.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Seus farms organic mint for tea. His crops are watered by the Klamath River through a federal irrigation project. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Seus says, he’s gained an understanding of the needs of others along the Klamath. In 2002, a year after his water was shut off, tens of thousands of salmon died downstream, in Yurok country, near Blue Creek. It was a devastating loss to the tribes downriver, and one which galvanized their efforts to remove four dams that have long blocked fish passage up the main stem of the Klamath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy for them that they’re going to get the dams out … and it’s going to make everything right,” he says, about the tribes, which farmers like him used to only see as opponents. His support is genuine, but tempered. “I’m not here to say, ‘Don’t do that,’ but I am expecting them to understand that I need to farm, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years of drought appear to be ending in the Klamath Basin, and predictions suggest a snowy winter. But Seus still supports an agreement to share water, because he says the real enemy for farmers like him now is doubt. “There is only one path forward,” says Seus. “That’s that everybody’s got to get back together and try to see this thing through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Klamath water users say they don’t know what to expect from the incoming Trump administration. So far, it’s brought uncertainty, the exact thing that guys like Scott Seus try to avoid. For now, water users in this area stand by the idea that the best solution to their problems still lies with each other.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>You’d think a bird would have an easy time finding a watery rest stop along the over 260-mile-long Klamath River. That should be especially true in the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, a huge marshland along the Pacific Flyway. But in 2012 a dry year cut water supplies, which then chopped available wetlands in half and accelerated the spread of avian cholera. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/29/avian-cholera-kills-thousands-of-birds-in-northern-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Up to 20,000 birds died off\u003c/a>, including snow geese, ducks and coots. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water rights along the Klamath River have always been a matter of survival, and birds aren’t the only ones competing for water — they’re just the last in line. The federal government manages a complex hierarchy of rights along the river, claimed by irrigators, tribes and fish in the two states it runs through: California and Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And shortages are becoming more common. “The challenges we have here are because we’ve promised too much water to too many people,” says Trout Unlimited’s Chrysten Lambert. “We’ve promised more water than there is here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the November election has brought stories of uncertainty and division, in the Klamath Basin a sprawling and unlikely group of allies has been working across political lines for years to establish a sustainable sense of the river. Six years ago, they hashed out a huge compromise deal, to take out dams, sort out rights and allocate water. Without congressional support, that agreement died. But earlier this year, the dams’ owner, PacifiCorp, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/27/will-the-klamath-river-be-renewed-owner-applies-to-remove-4-of-5-dams/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to abandon its interests\u003c/a>, a move that doesn’t require congressional approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With dam removal now in process, sharing water remains a separate negotiation. Several parties to the original deal confirm talks about water rights and water allocation have begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186151\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11186151\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"The headwaters of Upper Klamath Lake, seen from the Wood River Valley in Oregon, are subject to a number of competing water rights from different groups.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21738_Wood-River-Valley-and-Upper-Klamath-Lake-qut-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The headwaters of Upper Klamath Lake, seen from the Wood River Valley in Oregon, are subject to a number of competing water rights from different groups. \u003ccite>(Chrysten Lambert/Trout Unlimited)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is a water allocation that’s needed,” says John Bezdek, a special counsel to the federal Secretary of the Interior. He points to the Department of the Interior’s many interests in the region: managing water and dams, managing tribal rights, and maintaining the health of fisheries. “Dam removal makes a lot of that easier, but dam removal does not finish the job on any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finishing the job is a delicate operation. Paul Simmons, a lawyer for farmers and ranchers, says water rights are personal here for everyone. “It really is their identity and it’s an essential part of their culture,” he says. “When you start talking about changing that, it certainly is something that raises the stakes or makes the stakes different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overlapping and Personal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federally recognized tribes in Oregon claim the most senior water rights in the Klamath Basin. Three years ago, the state of Oregon recognized that the Klamath Tribes’ claim on Upper Klamath Lake dates to “time immemorial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘I want the kids to be able to go down to the river and fish and bring home fish for their family.’\u003ccite>Wendy Ferris-George, a Karuk tribal member\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the lower basin, three more tribes in California — the Karuk, the Yurok and the Hoopa — claim water, too. And, while their rights vary, they share an interest in keeping enough water in the river to keep fish healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Ferris-George, a Karuk tribal member, gets emotional when she talks about it. “I want the kids to be able to go down to the river and fish and bring home fish for their family,” she says, her voice quavering. “I want the grandmothers and grandfathers not to have to worry about their families starving. That’s what’s happening on the river. Our people are living in poverty, but to native people it’s our life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Endangered Species Act also claims water, to sustain and nurture sucker fish in Upper Klamath Lake, and salmon and steelhead downriver. Complicating all of this, farmers and irrigators say they need water first promised to them by the federal government a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, when there’s not enough water, federal and state programs have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on habitat restoration, fishery management, and even emergency aid for farmers. The Department of the Interior’s John Bezdek \u003ca href=\"http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=962447c3-e51d-4fff-8581-da2529d18dec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says\u003c/a> an agreement would save money in the long run. “I believe that the longer we go without settlement, the more resources are hurting and the more it causes people to re-evaluate where they are,” Bezdek says. “But I also believe that this basin and this group of stakeholders, they’ve been to the edge and back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Back From The Edge\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186145\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11186145 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-800x693.jpg\" alt=\"A former G.I. picks a homestead number out of a pickle jar -- one way a number of families ended up in the Klamath Basin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-800x693.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-160x139.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-1020x884.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-1180x1023.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-960x832.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-240x208.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-375x325.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22890_e-mBOR-29-Jul-2005-1223-BlackBinders-BLB-1249-0001-qut-520x451.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former GI picks a homestead number out of a pickle jar — one way a number of families ended up in the Klamath Basin. \u003ccite>(U.S. Bureau of Reclamation/Courtesy OIT Klamath Waters Collection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those stakeholders are farmers and ranchers on a quarter-million acres of land, some of it former marshes drained by the federal government more than a century ago after it dammed the Klamath and began storing water for irrigation in Upper Klamath Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The edge that Bezdek is talking about came 15 years ago, when water shortages forced the federal government to turn off the spigot to more than a quarter-million acres of land. That decision sent guys like Scott Seus, a third-generation farmer in Tulelake, scrambling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on a busy fall day, Seus hops into a combine to harvest mint. He says he wants to make sure a fourth-generation Seus can farm here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandfather was a homesteader here in 1947. He drew a number out of the pickle jar,” says Seus. Former GIs would draw a number and then stick a pin in a map to show where they wanted to homestead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually lived in one of the barracks that was part of the Japanese internment camp here,” he says. “The people that survived here were the tough ones. And since 2001, our community gets smaller and smaller, and there’s less and less people here that are survivors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seus has survived by diversifying risk and cost in his crops. He grows mint, horseradish, onions, garlic and grain. The amount, and his income, depend on the water available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got to know that I’ve got water next year to get through,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11186150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11186150\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Seus farms organic mint for tea. His crops are watered by the Klamath River through a federal irrigation project.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21538_IMG_7128-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Seus farms organic mint for tea. His crops are watered by the Klamath River through a federal irrigation project. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Seus says, he’s gained an understanding of the needs of others along the Klamath. In 2002, a year after his water was shut off, tens of thousands of salmon died downstream, in Yurok country, near Blue Creek. It was a devastating loss to the tribes downriver, and one which galvanized their efforts to remove four dams that have long blocked fish passage up the main stem of the Klamath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy for them that they’re going to get the dams out … and it’s going to make everything right,” he says, about the tribes, which farmers like him used to only see as opponents. His support is genuine, but tempered. “I’m not here to say, ‘Don’t do that,’ but I am expecting them to understand that I need to farm, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years of drought appear to be ending in the Klamath Basin, and predictions suggest a snowy winter. But Seus still supports an agreement to share water, because he says the real enemy for farmers like him now is doubt. “There is only one path forward,” says Seus. “That’s that everybody’s got to get back together and try to see this thing through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ear after year, volunteers return to tributaries of the Klamath River, just like the fish they’re trying to help do the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimmy Peterson, a fisheries project coordinator for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mkwc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Mid-Klamath Watershed Council\u003c/a>, places rocks and stones to make fish passages in Fort Goff Creek, 60 miles up from the river’s mouth on California's North Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This creek has extremely awesome habitat up top here,” Peterson says. “Extremely awesome.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he translates: “The water stays really cold and there’s plenty of nice spawning gravel that go up fairly far into the watershed. There’s not a lot of human activity up there either, so it’s fairly untouched.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists estimate that a century ago, hundreds of thousands of coho may have run up the Klamath’s streams and tributaries. Now it’s a few thousand. Federal and private grants fund the council’s work, helping coho access \"extremely awesome\" habitat because coho are threatened with extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dams aren’t the only reason salmon, trout and other fish need help on the Klamath. But they are a big one. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/24/removal-of-klamath-dams-would-be-largest-river-restoration-in-u-s-history/\" target=\"_blank\">The promise of dam removal\u003c/a> is free passage for fish up to cooler spots and native headwaters. And the Klamath River, near California’s northern border, may become the next big western river to see that happen. Federal energy regulators are considering a plan that would open hundreds of miles of the Klamath to the potential of the largest river restoration in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You could see the fish pounding their faces against that dam.'\u003ccite>Interior Secretary Sally Jewell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Three of the dams are on the California side of the river. The lowest of these is Iron Gate Dam, near Hornbrook, in Siskiyou County, which has trapped silty sand, clay and rocks behind its walls. Reservoirs behind multiple dams slow water down and heat it up into a toxic algae breeding ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Winding Path to Dam Removal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years ago, these dams almost went away as part of a locally driven deal among fishery advocates, tribal and farming interests from two states, above the dams and below. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger touted the plan’s goals: removing dams, sharing water, and, yes, helping fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can see already, the salmon fishes screaming, 'I’ll be back,'” he said to a roomful of laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Congress sat on the deal for five years, and it fizzled in Washington. Now, dam removal is moving forward again, without Congress this time, thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/06/historic-agreements-would-take-down-four-dams-on-the-klamath-river/\" target=\"_blank\">an agreement signed in April\u003c/a> at the mouth of the Klamath. At the ceremony, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell remembered visiting another big dam: the Elwha, in Washington state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11184488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The 132-foot-high Copco 1 Dam, on the Klamath River upstream of the Siskiyou County hamlet of Hornbrook, has generated power for nearly a century.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 132-foot-high Copco 1 Dam, on the Klamath River upstream of the Siskiyou County hamlet of Hornbrook, has generated power for nearly a century. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You could see the fish pounding their faces against that dam,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the Klamath to that river, Jewell sees a lot of potential for fish restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To see in that dam removal project how fast the salmon have returned, way up into the tributaries, faster than the scientists thought they ever would,” she said. “And to see how fast the shoreline has been healed, which will happen right here at the mouth of the Klamath River, is a true inspiration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the Dynamite\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demolition crews blasted through the last dam on the Elwha River two years ago. That river is still healing. And the Klamath is somewhat bigger: Its dams hold more silt and gravel behind them than the Elwha dams did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muddy, turbid waters aren’t good for salmon and steelhead. So to minimize harm, the plan for the Klamath is to drain the existing reservoirs in winter, sending water and silt downriver and toward the sea. Crews would destroy all of the dams in the same year. A stubborn plug of dirt would stay behind; proponents of removal expect time and rain to gradually spread it downriver. [contextly_sidebar id=\"5eXGF4ypC5X5SXqrpwqufqEkRRtTMAcH\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Trout’s Curtis Knight says those first turbulent and dirty years are often hard on salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what you see quite quickly is a rebound and an ability of that river, now that it’s running free, to move that sediment,” he says. Without sediment feeding it, the riverbed downstream has dropped in elevation. Knight says as the river channels fill in, fish will have an easier time getting upstream to spawning areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there’s some uncertainty how fast after dam removal the river and its fish might recover. The complexity of the river system makes some elements of a comprehensive recovery plan uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are we going to restore it back to?” asks NOAA Fisheries specialist Bob Pagliuco. “I don’t think we’re ever going to restore it back to pre-European times. Or if we want to bring it back to where it was 10,000 years ago, I don’t think we’re going to be able to do that. So I think we’re going to essentially enhance things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without dams, water quality problems remain. Some of the issues are natural, some are from farming and grazing, land uses that have replaced wetland marshes upriver, around the Klamath’s headwaters. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon alfalfa grower Gary Derry is like many farmers: a fisherman, too. He’s mostly worried about his bottom line. So he wants to know restoration plans will work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184517\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11184517\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Removing dams on the Klamath River could help more coho salmon get upriver to reach tributaries with cool secluded pools.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Removing dams on the Klamath River could help more coho salmon get upriver to reach tributaries with cool secluded pools. \u003ccite>(Jimmy Peterson & Will Harling/Mid Klamath Watershed Council)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we're going to do something, if something's going to happen, if the fish need more water, let's make sure that water benefits the fish. Let's not just say, ‘Well, we thought it was going to help, but it didn't.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Glimpses of the Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upriver and down, efforts are underway to rehabilitate land around the Klamath’s waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadly, the goal is to do what Jimmy Peterson does in places like Fort Goff Creek. According to NOAA's Pagliuco, one federal study has found that fish grow up to six times faster in those habitat types than in adjacent, unimproved habitats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't really know that restoration as a whole is going to work on the Klamath, but we do have snapshots that these fish are growing bigger, that they're utilizing these projects,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Oregon, Trout Unlimited’s Chrysten Lambert says restoration projects are already working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely see responses in the native fish populations when we remove passage barriers, when we decrease temperature and when we restore complexity of habitat to provide them with important areas we need for spawning and rearing,” she says. “We do see responses in the native fish populations oftentimes immediately from that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert also works with private landowners to modify land use to minimize nutrient runoff. With help from her organization, some ranchers have put up fencing to keep cattle from wandering into and damaging streams. Keeping cattle out also helps the recovery of streamside vegetation that helps filter pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where farmers and cattlemen have been around four or five generations, even small changes like these can prompt major discussion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what’s challenging is, you’re talking about people changing how much land they have to graze and when they graze it,\" Lambert said. \"Which goes straight to the bottom line of their operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon rancher Becky Hyde says she has idled land, or put it into dry-land crop rather than irrigating it. \"That changes how much money we can make, which we have to think through,\" she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hyde also sees a value. \"We still graze our river, but we changed the timing of when we graze, so that it's more beneficial for the grasses and the healing of the river.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11184522\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Klamath River is prime habitat for coho salmon, like these juveniles. Coho in the Klamath River region are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Klamath River is prime habitat for coho salmon, like these juveniles. Coho in the Klamath River region are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. \u003ccite>(Jimmy Peterson & Will Harling/Mid Klamath Watershed Council)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Salmon Since Time Immemorial\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along California’s North Coast, the stakes for salmon recovery are a matter of identity. Native tribal culture revolves around fish, and the Yurok tribe has federally protected rights to salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it hasn’t always been that way, says the tribe’s vice chief, David Gensaw Jr. He remembers in 1978 when the state banned tribal and sport fishing in the Klamath River estuary. Federal agents with billy clubs grabbed Yurok tribal members and the salmon they had caught with gillnets. The federal government eventually returned rights to the tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gensaw’s sense of stewardship has been constant. And this year, the outlook for the salmon fishery was bleak. Fishery managers allotted the Yurok less than one salmon a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our ancestors told us, when the fish are gone, so are the Yurok people,” he says. “And we don’t plan to go anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yurok aren’t alone: Other interests have water rights here, too. Taking the dams out doesn’t settle who gets the water they want. Now, once again, people in the Klamath Basin are negotiating over a way to share.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dams aren’t the only reason salmon, trout and other fish need help on the Klamath. But they are a big one. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/24/removal-of-klamath-dams-would-be-largest-river-restoration-in-u-s-history/\" target=\"_blank\">The promise of dam removal\u003c/a> is free passage for fish up to cooler spots and native headwaters. And the Klamath River, near California’s northern border, may become the next big western river to see that happen. Federal energy regulators are considering a plan that would open hundreds of miles of the Klamath to the potential of the largest river restoration in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You could see the fish pounding their faces against that dam.'\u003ccite>Interior Secretary Sally Jewell\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Three of the dams are on the California side of the river. The lowest of these is Iron Gate Dam, near Hornbrook, in Siskiyou County, which has trapped silty sand, clay and rocks behind its walls. Reservoirs behind multiple dams slow water down and heat it up into a toxic algae breeding ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Winding Path to Dam Removal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years ago, these dams almost went away as part of a locally driven deal among fishery advocates, tribal and farming interests from two states, above the dams and below. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger touted the plan’s goals: removing dams, sharing water, and, yes, helping fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can see already, the salmon fishes screaming, 'I’ll be back,'” he said to a roomful of laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Congress sat on the deal for five years, and it fizzled in Washington. Now, dam removal is moving forward again, without Congress this time, thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/06/historic-agreements-would-take-down-four-dams-on-the-klamath-river/\" target=\"_blank\">an agreement signed in April\u003c/a> at the mouth of the Klamath. At the ceremony, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell remembered visiting another big dam: the Elwha, in Washington state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11184488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The 132-foot-high Copco 1 Dam, on the Klamath River upstream of the Siskiyou County hamlet of Hornbrook, has generated power for nearly a century.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21526_IMG_4460-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 132-foot-high Copco 1 Dam, on the Klamath River upstream of the Siskiyou County hamlet of Hornbrook, has generated power for nearly a century. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You could see the fish pounding their faces against that dam,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing the Klamath to that river, Jewell sees a lot of potential for fish restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To see in that dam removal project how fast the salmon have returned, way up into the tributaries, faster than the scientists thought they ever would,” she said. “And to see how fast the shoreline has been healed, which will happen right here at the mouth of the Klamath River, is a true inspiration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the Dynamite\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demolition crews blasted through the last dam on the Elwha River two years ago. That river is still healing. And the Klamath is somewhat bigger: Its dams hold more silt and gravel behind them than the Elwha dams did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muddy, turbid waters aren’t good for salmon and steelhead. So to minimize harm, the plan for the Klamath is to drain the existing reservoirs in winter, sending water and silt downriver and toward the sea. Crews would destroy all of the dams in the same year. A stubborn plug of dirt would stay behind; proponents of removal expect time and rain to gradually spread it downriver. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Trout’s Curtis Knight says those first turbulent and dirty years are often hard on salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what you see quite quickly is a rebound and an ability of that river, now that it’s running free, to move that sediment,” he says. Without sediment feeding it, the riverbed downstream has dropped in elevation. Knight says as the river channels fill in, fish will have an easier time getting upstream to spawning areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there’s some uncertainty how fast after dam removal the river and its fish might recover. The complexity of the river system makes some elements of a comprehensive recovery plan uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are we going to restore it back to?” asks NOAA Fisheries specialist Bob Pagliuco. “I don’t think we’re ever going to restore it back to pre-European times. Or if we want to bring it back to where it was 10,000 years ago, I don’t think we’re going to be able to do that. So I think we’re going to essentially enhance things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without dams, water quality problems remain. Some of the issues are natural, some are from farming and grazing, land uses that have replaced wetland marshes upriver, around the Klamath’s headwaters. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon alfalfa grower Gary Derry is like many farmers: a fisherman, too. He’s mostly worried about his bottom line. So he wants to know restoration plans will work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184517\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11184517\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Removing dams on the Klamath River could help more coho salmon get upriver to reach tributaries with cool secluded pools.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22170_IMG_6678-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Removing dams on the Klamath River could help more coho salmon get upriver to reach tributaries with cool secluded pools. \u003ccite>(Jimmy Peterson & Will Harling/Mid Klamath Watershed Council)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we're going to do something, if something's going to happen, if the fish need more water, let's make sure that water benefits the fish. Let's not just say, ‘Well, we thought it was going to help, but it didn't.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Glimpses of the Future\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upriver and down, efforts are underway to rehabilitate land around the Klamath’s waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadly, the goal is to do what Jimmy Peterson does in places like Fort Goff Creek. According to NOAA's Pagliuco, one federal study has found that fish grow up to six times faster in those habitat types than in adjacent, unimproved habitats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't really know that restoration as a whole is going to work on the Klamath, but we do have snapshots that these fish are growing bigger, that they're utilizing these projects,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Oregon, Trout Unlimited’s Chrysten Lambert says restoration projects are already working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely see responses in the native fish populations when we remove passage barriers, when we decrease temperature and when we restore complexity of habitat to provide them with important areas we need for spawning and rearing,” she says. “We do see responses in the native fish populations oftentimes immediately from that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert also works with private landowners to modify land use to minimize nutrient runoff. With help from her organization, some ranchers have put up fencing to keep cattle from wandering into and damaging streams. Keeping cattle out also helps the recovery of streamside vegetation that helps filter pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where farmers and cattlemen have been around four or five generations, even small changes like these can prompt major discussion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what’s challenging is, you’re talking about people changing how much land they have to graze and when they graze it,\" Lambert said. \"Which goes straight to the bottom line of their operations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon rancher Becky Hyde says she has idled land, or put it into dry-land crop rather than irrigating it. \"That changes how much money we can make, which we have to think through,\" she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hyde also sees a value. \"We still graze our river, but we changed the timing of when we graze, so that it's more beneficial for the grasses and the healing of the river.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11184522\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Klamath River is prime habitat for coho salmon, like these juveniles. Coho in the Klamath River region are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS22166_P7170153-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Klamath River is prime habitat for coho salmon, like these juveniles. 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Fishery managers allotted the Yurok less than one salmon a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our ancestors told us, when the fish are gone, so are the Yurok people,” he says. “And we don’t plan to go anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Most people’s idea of roughing it on Black Friday is pitching a camp chair outside the nearest big-box retailer at 3 a.m. Some fun, huh?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, the California State Parks system and two environmental groups are offering free admission to dozens of state parks to encourage folks to step outside and enjoy the state’s natural wonders instead of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20131128/walmart-officials-comfortable-with-security-after-rialto-black-friday-brawl-sends-police-officer-to-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">duking it out \u003c/a>at the mall on one of the biggest shopping days of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1172256\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/IMG_3269.png\" alt=\"img_3269\" width=\"273\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/IMG_3269.png 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/IMG_3269-160x284.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/IMG_3269-240x427.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/IMG_3269-375x667.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/IMG_3269-520x924.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\">On Black Friday last year (the day after Thanksgiving) outdoor retailer REI launched what’s becoming a nationwide movement with its \u003ca href=\"https://www.rei.com/opt-outside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#OptOutside\u003c/a> campaign, an \u003ca href=\"http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/how-rei-expanding-its-blockbuster-optoutside-campaign-2016-174232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">award-winning promotion\u003c/a> in which the company closed stores nationwide and asked people to head outside to enjoy nature. The company even pays its staff to #OptOutside instead of coming to work. Dozens of businesses and non-profit organizations are participating this year, from groups like \u003ca href=\"http://www.girltrek.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GirlTrek\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.outdoorafro.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Outdoor Afro\u003c/a>, which are hosting events, to Subaru, which is providing vehicles so New Yorkers can take shelter dogs into nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that being outside makes our lives better,” said REI President and CEO Jerry Stritzke. While the rest of the world is fighting it out in the aisles, we’ll be spending our day a little differently. We’re choosing to opt outside, and want you to come with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as that third piece of Thanksgiving pie makes its way through your bloodstream, you can grab free admission and parking to visit one of 116 participating California state parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you have to reserve the pass and print it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a limited number of spots — 13,000 in total — and the number of passes available for each park varies based on the park’s capacity. A pass is good for one vehicle but you need the printed hard copy; electronic images on your smartphone won’t get you through the gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find participating state parks, reserve passes and print them out, visit \u003ca style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\" href=\"http://www.greenfriday.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.greenfriday.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAStateParks/status/798979577578192900\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All California state parks will be open the day after Thanksgiving regardless of whether you snag a free pass. Normal day-use fees apply — usually $6 to $15 per vehicle. You can check a full list of each park’s admission price \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/737/files/Current_web_day%20use.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the first time that three organizations — the state parks, Save the Redwoods League and the California State Parks Foundation — are working together to provide free passes to state parks. Last year, California State Parks and Save the Redwoods League offered free entrance to 48 redwood parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who participates in the day can take photos of themselves outdoors and post to social media using the hashtag #OptOutside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Parks is also using two other hashtags, #GreenFriday and #CAstateparks, on Twitter and Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The advisory cautions seaside residents to stay out of local water because of the possibility of strong currents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its continuing live coverage, the TV network NHK showed small surges traveling up coastal rivers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:50 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> A major earthquake in the Pacific Ocean off of northeastern Japan triggered tsunamis throughout a coastal region that includes the nuclear plant that suffered a meltdown after the devastating temblor of March 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quake, measured at \u003ca href=\"http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/\" target=\"_blank\">magnitude 7.4\u003c/a> by the Japan Meteorological Agency and \u003ca href=\"http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10007b88#executive\" target=\"_blank\">6.9\u003c/a> by the U.S. Geological Survey, struck at 5:59 a.m. Tuesday Japan Standard Time, or 12:59 p.m. Monday PST.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Japan Meteorological Agency has reported tsunami waves as high as 1.4 meters -- about 4 feet -- so far. 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"content": "\u003cp>From 1869 through 2004, the city of Vallejo was known as a mill town — milling flour, that is. The old General Mills plant once employed hundreds of workers, processing wheat grain into flour and shipping it all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Napa River shoreline, Steve Bryan, the president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.orcem.com/vallejo_project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orcem California\u003c/a>, points to the rotting dock pilings next to the defunct plant. “You can see it’s not a functional wharf today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could change soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cement company wants to turn the old flour mill in south Vallejo into a cement mill, and revive the silent bluff with ships, trains and trucks. The idea, first proposed in 2012, has found favor with out-of-work Vallejoans and some city officials, who like the company’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.timesheraldonline.com/article/NH/20160902/NEWS/160909942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offer\u003c/a> to invest $1 million in local non-profits and the tax revenues the project is projected to generate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharedaddy show-for-medium-up\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1167190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1334px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1167190 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop.jpg\" alt=\"cement_desktop\" width=\"1334\" height=\"1075\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop.jpg 1334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-800x645.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-768x619.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-1020x822.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-1180x951.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-960x774.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-240x193.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-375x302.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-520x419.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Teodros Hailye/ KQED Science \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"show-for-small-only\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1167191\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1167191 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile.jpg\" alt=\"cement_mobile\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-160x285.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-240x427.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-375x667.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-520x925.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Teodros Hailye/ KQED Science \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But many other locals, along with environmental groups inside and outside the city, warn that the development would harm their families and act as a Trojan horse for an even greater threat: coal exports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Making ‘Green Cement’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orcem wants to grind iron slag shipped from Japan to make what they call \u003ca href=\"http://www.orcem.com/environmental.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">green cement\u003c/a>. Iron slag is a byproduct of steel production. The company says recycling it to make cement reduces energy and emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The product that it [iron slag] substitutes for is one of the highest emitters of CO2 and other air pollutants in the world,” says Bryan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a ship is berthed, a clam-shell crane would scoop iron slag onto a series of conveyor belts. The mill would grind it down into a chunky grey sand that would be transported off-site to cement plants. The iron slag would replace traditional ingredients in cement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cement industry is one of the worlds largest producers of greenhouse gasses\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20070714085318/http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/1IBetslPgkEie83rTa0J/cement-action-plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">producing 5 percent\u003c/a> of global man-made carbon dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orcem is a subsidiary of the cement maker Ecocem Materials. The company would partner with Vallejo Marine Terminal, a subsidiary of Vortex Marine Construction, to completely revamp the old port into a modern terminal that would also be used to move materials like iron ore, steel coils and gypsum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Environmentalists Fear Smog, Noise, Traffic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many residents and environmental groups are unimpressed with Orcem’s green bona fides. They are lining up against the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No Orcem” signs are staked into many front yards throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1169772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1169772\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/IMG_1192-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Protest signs are staked into many yards or pasted into windows throughout Vallejo. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protest signs are staked into many yards or pasted into windows throughout Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents worry about increased smog from trucks and idling ships. More than 200 trucks would come and go nearly everyday. That means a big rig would rumble by about every four minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air pollution released from the plant would be equivalent to adding 7,000 cars to the road annually. Locals worry dirty air could drift to an elementary school that’s a quarter of a mile away. Residents like LaDonna Williams voiced her concerns to the plant’s president at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLsN6icha9Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community meeting\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I won’t be accepting you telling me that it’s ok that you’re going to come here with a cement plant,” says Williams. “We know we are going to have particulate matter. We’re going to have all the ships coming through. We’re going to have the trucks coming through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Coal Question\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are the known impacts. But this story is also about an export that’s \u003ci>not\u003c/i> in the proposal… coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”R2Tol9t1bI1nydnGxDz9V3sAHBTXg1B7″]Locals don’t want to fight the same \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/06/24/coal-foes-win-major-victory-in-fight-to-block-oakland-terminal-exports/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">battle\u003c/a> their neighbors in Oakland just fought.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers for a marine terminal planned for Oakland promised not to use it to export coal, but then they changed their tune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually the city banned coal, but the heated showdown makes Peter Brooks of \u003ca href=\"http://freshairvallejo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresh Air Vallejo\u003c/a> wary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They [Oakland residents] have told us repeatedly that they were promised, ‘Don’t worry there won’t be coal. Right now we are cautiously optimistic but we are not stupid,” says Brooks. “We know that plans change and we know that if this site opens up it is possible that they won’t keep their word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vallejomarineterminal.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vallejo Marine Terminal\u003c/a> has made a similar promise to locals but Brooks isn’t convinced they’ll keep it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Club and Baykeeper \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofvallejo.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=2813223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worry\u003c/a> about open train cars filled with coal because the coal dust could pollute every community and waterway along the tracks, and they worry it could boost Asia’s use of coal, worsening climate change. Plus, they’re concerned that inhaling coal dust can cause asthma, heart disease and cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Money and Jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone shares those concerns. Hattie Smith-Mills says her neighborhood needs a boost. She lives less than a mile from the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nothing here,” says Smith-Mills. “When General Mills went away it was, like, dead in this area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industrial projects like Orcem’s are high on the city’s list of key priorities. Vallejo’s strategic \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=38786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan\u003c/a> vows to “make Vallejo the Bay Area’s premier site for manufacturing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups agree the site should be redeveloped, but they would rather see a promenade with hotels, restaurants and shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofvallejo.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=920686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimate\u003c/a> the proposal would bring in about $150,000 the first year and ramp up to $500,000 in taxes and fees annually. Together, Orcem and Vallejo Marine Terminal also plan to hire up to 60 full time employees. The developers predict that more work will ripple out to the community for jobs like contract construction workers and gas station attendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s good news for Antoine Terrell. He’s a local truck driver in south Vallejo, washing his big rig in his front yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1169777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1169777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/IMG_1245-e1479423614372.jpg\" alt=\"Antoine Terrell hopes Orcem will hire him for a full time job if the plant opens in his neighborhood in south Vallejo.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoine Terrell hopes Orcem will hire him for a full time job if the plant opens in his neighborhood in south Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In the neighborhood, there’s nothing but churches and liquor stores,” says Terrell.\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will have to weigh the environmental costs and the economic benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project faces its first test before the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/cms/One.aspx?portalId=13506&pageId=32613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vallejo Planning Commission\u003c/a> early next year. If it reaches the City Council, opponents speculate the vote could swing either way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan says it would be a shame to waste such a prime location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have a natural deep water berth, you have rail infrastructure in here and you’re less than a mile from the interstate — if you don’t do this for some type of logistics then you’re not getting the highest and best use,” he says.\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From 1869 through 2004, the city of Vallejo was known as a mill town — milling flour, that is. The old General Mills plant once employed hundreds of workers, processing wheat grain into flour and shipping it all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Napa River shoreline, Steve Bryan, the president of \u003ca href=\"http://www.orcem.com/vallejo_project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orcem California\u003c/a>, points to the rotting dock pilings next to the defunct plant. “You can see it’s not a functional wharf today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could change soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cement company wants to turn the old flour mill in south Vallejo into a cement mill, and revive the silent bluff with ships, trains and trucks. The idea, first proposed in 2012, has found favor with out-of-work Vallejoans and some city officials, who like the company’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.timesheraldonline.com/article/NH/20160902/NEWS/160909942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offer\u003c/a> to invest $1 million in local non-profits and the tax revenues the project is projected to generate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"sharedaddy show-for-medium-up\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1167190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1334px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1167190 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop.jpg\" alt=\"cement_desktop\" width=\"1334\" height=\"1075\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop.jpg 1334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-800x645.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-768x619.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-1020x822.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-1180x951.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-960x774.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-240x193.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-375x302.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Desktop-520x419.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1334px) 100vw, 1334px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Teodros Hailye/ KQED Science \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"show-for-small-only\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1167191\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1167191 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile.jpg\" alt=\"cement_mobile\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-160x285.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-240x427.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-375x667.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Cement_Mobile-520x925.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Teodros Hailye/ KQED Science \u003ccite>(Teodros Hailye/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But many other locals, along with environmental groups inside and outside the city, warn that the development would harm their families and act as a Trojan horse for an even greater threat: coal exports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The iron slag would replace traditional ingredients in cement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cement industry is one of the worlds largest producers of greenhouse gasses\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20070714085318/http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/1IBetslPgkEie83rTa0J/cement-action-plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">producing 5 percent\u003c/a> of global man-made carbon dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orcem is a subsidiary of the cement maker Ecocem Materials. The company would partner with Vallejo Marine Terminal, a subsidiary of Vortex Marine Construction, to completely revamp the old port into a modern terminal that would also be used to move materials like iron ore, steel coils and gypsum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Environmentalists Fear Smog, Noise, Traffic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many residents and environmental groups are unimpressed with Orcem’s green bona fides. They are lining up against the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No Orcem” signs are staked into many front yards throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1169772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1169772\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/IMG_1192-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Protest signs are staked into many yards or pasted into windows throughout Vallejo. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protest signs are staked into many yards or pasted into windows throughout Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Residents worry about increased smog from trucks and idling ships. More than 200 trucks would come and go nearly everyday. That means a big rig would rumble by about every four minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air pollution released from the plant would be equivalent to adding 7,000 cars to the road annually. Locals worry dirty air could drift to an elementary school that’s a quarter of a mile away. Residents like LaDonna Williams voiced her concerns to the plant’s president at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLsN6icha9Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community meeting\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I won’t be accepting you telling me that it’s ok that you’re going to come here with a cement plant,” says Williams. “We know we are going to have particulate matter. We’re going to have all the ships coming through. We’re going to have the trucks coming through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Coal Question\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are the known impacts. But this story is also about an export that’s \u003ci>not\u003c/i> in the proposal… coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Locals don’t want to fight the same \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/06/24/coal-foes-win-major-victory-in-fight-to-block-oakland-terminal-exports/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">battle\u003c/a> their neighbors in Oakland just fought.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Developers for a marine terminal planned for Oakland promised not to use it to export coal, but then they changed their tune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually the city banned coal, but the heated showdown makes Peter Brooks of \u003ca href=\"http://freshairvallejo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresh Air Vallejo\u003c/a> wary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They [Oakland residents] have told us repeatedly that they were promised, ‘Don’t worry there won’t be coal. Right now we are cautiously optimistic but we are not stupid,” says Brooks. “We know that plans change and we know that if this site opens up it is possible that they won’t keep their word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vallejomarineterminal.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vallejo Marine Terminal\u003c/a> has made a similar promise to locals but Brooks isn’t convinced they’ll keep it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Club and Baykeeper \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofvallejo.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=2813223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worry\u003c/a> about open train cars filled with coal because the coal dust could pollute every community and waterway along the tracks, and they worry it could boost Asia’s use of coal, worsening climate change. 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"content": "\u003cp>Business as usual on the Colorado River may be about to come to a screeching halt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the worst recorded droughts in human history has stretched water supplies thin across the far-reaching river basin, which serves 40 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowhere is this more obvious than Lake Mead, which straddles the border of Arizona and Nevada. The water level in the country’s largest manmade reservoir has been plummeting; it’s now only 38 percent full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With an official water shortage imminent, Arizona, Nevada and California are taking matters into their own hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The states are hammering out a voluntary agreement to cut their water use — an approach some consider revolutionary after so many decades of fighting and lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cooperation springs from self-preservation. If Lake Mead drops too low, the federal government could step in and reallocate the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Can we get through? Yes, but not the same way we got through the last 100 years.’\u003ccite>Pat Mulroy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At the same time, upper basin states like Colorado and Wyoming want to use more Colorado River water — something they’re legally entitled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Colorado, Denver Water is in the final stages of seeking approval on a water storage project that would take more water out of the Colorado River. Wyoming is researching whether to store more water from the Green River, a Colorado tributary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utah is discussing whether to build a pipeline to transport water from Lake Powell, the reservoir found up river from Lake Mead along the Utah-Arizona border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add in the likely impacts of climate change and how it’s affecting the Colorado River basin and you have an increasingly complex and challenging picture developing for the 21st century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Mulroy, a senior fellow at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and a leading Western water expert, says the time for a new toolbox and ideas to approach water management has arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There won’t be any winners and losers,” Mulroy says, unless Colorado River states move beyond the fighting and lawsuits of the last century as they try to adapt to the next century. “There will only be losers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Upper Basin States Want More Storage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a silent miracle that delivers water every day to Denver Water’s 1.4 million customers. For decades, the Fraser River, a tributary of the Colorado River, has flowed through a manmade system of dams, diversions and tunnels beneath the Continental Divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A critical linchpin sits just outside Boulder. Gross Reservoir is a man-made lake that provides reliable storage for Denver Water. Retired IBM workers Beverly Kurtz and Tim Guenthner live just out of eyesight from the reservoir. For Kurtz, that’s on purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s choking off a wild river which in my opinion is never a good thing,” Kurtz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1164303\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1164303\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Gross-Reservoir.jpg\" alt=\"Beverly Kurtz and Tim Guenthner live near Gross Reservoir outside Boulder and oppose a reservoir expansion project. Denver Water is seeking to raise the dam behind them 131 feet.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1313\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Gross-Reservoir.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Gross-Reservoir-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Gross-Reservoir-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Gross-Reservoir-768x525.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Gross-Reservoir-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Gross-Reservoir-1180x807.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Gross-Reservoir-960x657.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Gross-Reservoir-240x164.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Gross-Reservoir-375x256.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Gross-Reservoir-520x356.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beverly Kurtz and Tim Guenthner live near Gross Reservoir outside Boulder and oppose a reservoir expansion project. Denver Water is seeking to raise the dam behind them 131 feet. \u003ccite>(Grace Hood/CPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The couple have a new-found job in retirement. It’s fighting a proposed expansion to Gross Reservoir’s dam. Denver Water wants to raise the dam by 131 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t make sense to build a multi-million dollar dam and disrupt the environment here, when down the line,” Kurtz says. “That’s not going to solve the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that Colorado’s population is expected to nearly double by 2050. A carefully crafted water plan by Colorado’s top chiefs calls for 400,000 more acre feet of storage, and 400,000 additional acre feet of conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denver Water CEO Jim Lochhead says more storage is an important part of the solution. It’s also an insurance policy against future drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From Denver Water’s perspective, if we can’t provide clean, reliable, sustainable water 100 years from now to our customers, we’re not doing our jobs,” says Lochhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the proposed expansion of Gross Reservoir, Denver Water took a new approach. The agency worked with environmental groups and Western Slope water interests on the Colorado River Cooperative Agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the effort involves Denver Water actively working on the Fraser River to narrow the stream channel and restore the river. If the agency gets the green light to expand Gross, it would be required to keep a formal relationship with environmental groups and local governments through the life of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/293230158″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]But that expansion is still expected to decrease stream flows by about one half of what they are now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Wyoming, state engineer Pat Tyrrell says the state is studying whether to store more water from the Green River, another Colorado River tributary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel we have some room to grow. But we understand that growth comes with risk,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s risk because Wyoming could expand reservoirs with proper permits. In 10 or 20 years there may not be enough water to fill that storage — or deliver enough water to existing reservoirs like Lake Powell. Upper basin states have developed a contingency plan to make sure that happens in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Imbalance Between Supply and Demand\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What unites all water planners from Colorado down to California is the need for certainty. They need confidence there will be enough water to fuel population and agricultural growth. And there’s a huge new wildcard in the deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Climate change upsets all aspects of the water cycle,” says Brad Udall, Senior Water and Climate Scientist at the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State University. He says hotter temperatures and drought make certainty a thing of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Lh4Bea3bDk0rRmssEqlXBdk5irZlMba8″]Udall says a 16-year drought has dramatically decreased water supply. This recent past could be indicative of what the future holds. He worries that flows across the basin could be reduced by as much as 20 percent by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that temperatures are going to go up,” Udall says. “We know the temperature increases will influence the river flows, and that influence is likely to be strongly downward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now users along the Colorado River face a critical juncture. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael Connor recognizes the stress that climate change could have on future water supply. He also understands how overallocated the river is now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The imbalance between supply and demand, is just going to increase over the next 50 years if we don’t have some very strategic plans that we put in place,” Connor says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lower Basin States Turn to Cooperation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstream, the imbalance between supply and demand is already a reality. With an historic water shortage on the horizon, California, Arizona and Nevada are working on a voluntary agreement to cut back water use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are especially high in California, where Colorado River water has played a critical role in the state’s five year drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been the reliable source of water for us,” says Jeffrey Kightlinger, manager of the Metropolitan Water District, a water wholesaler that serves 19 million people in Southern California, and major power player in California water policy. “We’ve been getting hardly anything from Northern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/293229143″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]At least a quarter of Metropolitan’s water supply comes from the Colorado River, which is delivered through a 240-mile aqueduct that stretches to the Arizona border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That supply is reaching a crisis point. Lake Mead could drop so low in 2017, an unprecedented shortage could be declared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’ll be a historic moment,” Kightlinger says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arizona and Nevada would be forced to cut back on how much water they draw from the river. California wouldn’t be required to, because it has senior water rights. But if levels in Lake Mead keep dropping, the federal government could step in and reallocate the water, including California’s share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a last-ditch effort to avoid that, the three states are hashing out a voluntary agreement. Arizona and Nevada are considering deeper water cuts, if California agrees to cuts amounting to somewhere between five and eight percent of its supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all realize if we model the future and we build in climate change, we could be in a world of hurt if we do nothing,” says Kightlinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These negotiations would have been unthinkable just a decade ago, Kightlinger says. The three states have years of bad blood among them over the river. Most disagreements have been settled with lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, that’s not easy to forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there’s a target on our back in Imperial Valley for the amount of water we use,” says farmer Steve Benson, checking on one of his alfalfa fields near the Mexican border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The valley produces two-thirds of the country’s vegetables in the winter. Its sole source of water is the Colorado River. Benson sees little reason to share it because the district has senior water rights that trump the rights of Metropolitan Water District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other districts need to understand their place and their rights,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1164305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1164305\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID.jpg\" alt=\"The Imperial Valley produces around two-thirds of the country’s vegetables in the winter, solely with Colorado River water.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1165\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-800x466.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-1020x594.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-1920x1118.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-1180x687.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-960x559.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-240x140.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-375x218.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-520x303.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Imperial Valley produces around two-thirds of the country’s vegetables in the winter, solely with Colorado River water. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many farmers also say they’ve compromised enough already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, California used more than its legal share of the Colorado River and finally agreed to cut back in 2003. The Imperial Irrigation District was under pressure to transfer water to cities like San Diego to make the cutbacks possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the single, hardest decision I have ever made in my life,” says Bruce Kuhn, who voted on the water transfer as a board member of the district. He cast the deciding vote to share the water, but it came at a personal price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It cost me some friends,” he reflects, still sighing at the memory. “I mean, we still talk but it isn’t the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuhn may have to make that same call again, and soon. California’s plan to voluntarily give up water to avoid an emergency shortage will likely come up for a vote. The Imperial Irrigation District is considering the deal, but is looking for incentives like the ability to bank water in Lake Mead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Kightlinger of the Metropolitan Water District says it’s a tough conversation. “But if the Colorado River dries up, Imperial goes out of business. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cooperation springs from self-preservation. If Lake Mead drops too low, the federal government could step in and reallocate the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Can we get through? Yes, but not the same way we got through the last 100 years.’\u003ccite>Pat Mulroy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At the same time, upper basin states like Colorado and Wyoming want to use more Colorado River water — something they’re legally entitled to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Colorado, Denver Water is in the final stages of seeking approval on a water storage project that would take more water out of the Colorado River. Wyoming is researching whether to store more water from the Green River, a Colorado tributary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utah is discussing whether to build a pipeline to transport water from Lake Powell, the reservoir found up river from Lake Mead along the Utah-Arizona border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add in the likely impacts of climate change and how it’s affecting the Colorado River basin and you have an increasingly complex and challenging picture developing for the 21st century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Mulroy, a senior fellow at the William S. 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Retired IBM workers Beverly Kurtz and Tim Guenthner live just out of eyesight from the reservoir. For Kurtz, that’s on purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s choking off a wild river which in my opinion is never a good thing,” Kurtz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1164303\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1164303\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Gross-Reservoir.jpg\" alt=\"Beverly Kurtz and Tim Guenthner live near Gross Reservoir outside Boulder and oppose a reservoir expansion project. 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Lake Mead could drop so low in 2017, an unprecedented shortage could be declared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’ll be a historic moment,” Kightlinger says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arizona and Nevada would be forced to cut back on how much water they draw from the river. California wouldn’t be required to, because it has senior water rights. But if levels in Lake Mead keep dropping, the federal government could step in and reallocate the water, including California’s share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a last-ditch effort to avoid that, the three states are hashing out a voluntary agreement. Arizona and Nevada are considering deeper water cuts, if California agrees to cuts amounting to somewhere between five and eight percent of its supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all realize if we model the future and we build in climate change, we could be in a world of hurt if we do nothing,” says Kightlinger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These negotiations would have been unthinkable just a decade ago, Kightlinger says. The three states have years of bad blood among them over the river. Most disagreements have been settled with lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, that’s not easy to forget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there’s a target on our back in Imperial Valley for the amount of water we use,” says farmer Steve Benson, checking on one of his alfalfa fields near the Mexican border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The valley produces two-thirds of the country’s vegetables in the winter. Its sole source of water is the Colorado River. Benson sees little reason to share it because the district has senior water rights that trump the rights of Metropolitan Water District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other districts need to understand their place and their rights,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1164305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1164305\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID.jpg\" alt=\"The Imperial Valley produces around two-thirds of the country’s vegetables in the winter, solely with Colorado River water.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1165\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-800x466.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-768x447.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-1020x594.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-1920x1118.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-1180x687.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-960x559.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-240x140.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-375x218.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/Sommer-IID-520x303.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Imperial Valley produces around two-thirds of the country’s vegetables in the winter, solely with Colorado River water. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many farmers also say they’ve compromised enough already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, California used more than its legal share of the Colorado River and finally agreed to cut back in 2003. The Imperial Irrigation District was under pressure to transfer water to cities like San Diego to make the cutbacks possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the single, hardest decision I have ever made in my life,” says Bruce Kuhn, who voted on the water transfer as a board member of the district. He cast the deciding vote to share the water, but it came at a personal price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It cost me some friends,” he reflects, still sighing at the memory. “I mean, we still talk but it isn’t the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuhn may have to make that same call again, and soon. California’s plan to voluntarily give up water to avoid an emergency shortage will likely come up for a vote. The Imperial Irrigation District is considering the deal, but is looking for incentives like the ability to bank water in Lake Mead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Kightlinger of the Metropolitan Water District says it’s a tough conversation. “But if the Colorado River dries up, Imperial goes out of business. 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