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"content": "\u003cp>For the third time in the last six months, local air regulators and Contra Costa County health officials are looking into a problem at Chevron's Richmond refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large flames and black smoke shot out of the facility for three hours on Saturday morning after one of the refinery's hydrocracking units, which helps turn gas-oil into gasoline, failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The refinery lost one of its hydrocrackers and sent a lot of fuel to the flares,\" said Randy Sawyer, Contra Costa's chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That \"upset\" built up pressure inside the unit, leading to \"some intermittent flaring,\" Chevron spokeswoman Leah Casey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is investigating and could penalize Chevron if it violated air regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11076796\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 472px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11076796 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FullSizeRender1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the flare at the Chevron Refinery on Sept. 3, 2016\" width=\"472\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FullSizeRender1-1.jpg 472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/FullSizeRender1-1-400x359.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of the flare at the Chevron refinery on Sept. 3, 2016 \u003ccite>(Courtesy of John Gioia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Initially, the county did not plan on asking Chevron for a 72-hour report on the incident because it was not expected to have a health impact on the community, Sawyer said Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Any smoke in the environment is not good, but this situation did not warrant a health advisory,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that worried Supervisor John Gioia, who represents the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a pretty visible flaring event,\" Gioia said in an interview. \"It clearly was seen and impacted the broader community,\" he said. \"I'm concerned because ... there was an underlying equipment failure and ... there was a release of gas through flares.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer then changed his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After discussing the incident with Supervisor Gioia, I decided that a 72-hour report was warranted,\" Sawyer said in an email Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron is now required to send the report to the county by the close of business on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says it promptly reported the flaring to the local government agencies that oversee the refinery and said that the incident was not a threat to public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We understand that the sight of the flare may have caused concern, but we want to assure our neighbors that occasional flaring is an important part of keeping the refinery running safely,\" Casey said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She emphasized that flares help the refinery operate safely and that the part of the refinery that had trouble on Saturday is back online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The unit is performing at a safe posture and the refinery continues to supply the market and fulfill commitments to our customers,\" Casey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it took three days for Chevron to reveal information about Saturday's upset, a delay that frustrates Gioia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have been in contact with Chevron over this and other flaring incidents,\" Gioia said. \"You need to be honest and transparent with the public about what's happening when these events occur. They should not be minimizing the significance of what happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday's incident is the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/30/local-air-regulators-investigating-three-separate-recent-refinery-problems/\">third problem in the last six months\u003c/a> at Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"http://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2016-0329-72hr-report.pdf\">March 29\u003c/a> and June 19, the refinery had separate processing unit problems that led to unplanned flaring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is normal for those of us who live in Richmond and see the flare to wonder what's going on,\" Gioia said. \"Having these flaring events on these occasions is bad for Chevron, and it's not something the community wants to accept.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the iconic sandstone formation known as \"the duckbill\" collapsed, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department wasn't suspicious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erosion happens. Rocks fall. The stretch of cliff where the formation was located, in Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area, was so unstable it was fenced off to keep visitors away. There seemed to be no mystery: The 7- by-10-foot pedestal on the coast probably collapsed on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a man named David Kalas said it wasn't time and weather that brought down the rock. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dl_subscribe]A deadly fungus that’s been devastating frog populations is still spreading across the globe. In California, the chytrid fungus has moved inexorably across the Sierra Nevada from west to east, leaving thousands of frogs dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bay Area scientists are trying to turn the tide against the fungus with an experimental treatment, one that could matter to frogs worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re making a last-ditch effort to save the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog by immunizing it against chytrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain yellow-legged frogs, found only in California’s alpine lakes, have been in steep decline due to the fungus as well as predation by non-native trout. More than 90 percent of the population has disappeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"389\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/-IXVcyCZVBg\" frameborder=\"1\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">\u003cem>Video produced by Gabriela Quirós.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it hits, it’s within weeks that they’re just gone, just literally gone,” says Jessie Bushell, director of conservation at the San Francisco Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bushell is part of an emergency search-and-rescue operation for the frogs. Like last summer, when she got up before dawn and drove five hours to meet a helicopter flying out of the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We’re staring at what could be the extinction of a significant fraction of the world’s amphibians.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Roland Knapp, UC Santa Barbara\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“This bright yellow helicopter comes landing down,” she says. “The doors fly open. The firefighters start unloading these large white coolers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coolers were holding hundreds of wiggling, green tadpoles, the sole survivors of a deadly outbreak at their remote alpine lake. Federal biologists had found dozens of frogs dying from chytrid fungus and\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>hoping to save the species, had collected their remaining young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Priming Immunity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bushell brought them to the San Francisco Zoo. Scientists there and at the Oakland Zoo are doing an experimental treatment on the frogs in the hope that they’ll survive when they return to the wild. The treatment was pioneered at UC Santa Barbara, where results have been encouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So what we do is we expose them to small amounts of this fungus,” Bushell says, pointing to more than 200 of the frogs, no longer tadpoles, in quarantined tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bushell is making the frogs sick in the hope of building their immunity to chytrid fungus, which attacks the frog’s skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_959847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1482px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-959847\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain yellow-legged frogs get an experimental vaccination at the San Francisco Zoo.\" width=\"1482\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web.jpg 1482w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web-400x208.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web-800x416.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web-768x399.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web-1440x748.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web-1180x613.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web-960x499.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1482px) 100vw, 1482px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain yellow-legged frogs get an experimental vaccination at the San Francisco Zoo. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The skin is a really important part of the frog,” she says. “They breathe through their skin underwater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frogs also absorb key nutrients such as electrolytes through their skin. But when the fungus attacks it, the skin stops functioning normally. The frogs die before their immune systems can fight the fungus off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bushell is hoping a mild fungal infection will teach the frogs’ immune systems how to fight chytrid. She lets her frogs get sick, but before they get too close to dying, she gives them an anti-fungal treatment to clear up the infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the frogs get chytrid again out in the wild, the idea is their immune systems will be trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_959963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-959963\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web.jpg\" alt=\"Roland Knapp releases a yellow-legged frog in a high alpine lake, south of Lake Tahoe.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roland Knapp releases a yellow-legged frog in a high alpine lake south of Lake Tahoe. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Their bodies identify it and can already be primed to fight off that infection, at least to keep it under control because they’ve seen it before,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Back to the Wild\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some of the yellow-legged frogs, the big test has arrived. Bushell and a field crew hike up a rocky trail in the Desolation Wilderness, south of Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their big backpacks are loaded with frogs, each in its own tiny Tupperware container.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a new frog home,” says Bushell, looking at a sapphire-blue lake, surrounded by pine trees and granite cliffs. “An oasis for frogs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2016/09/WEBYellowLeggedFrogsSommer.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But chytrid fungus is there, so their immunity will be tested. One-by-one, the team releases each frog on the water’s edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like letting your kids go,” says Bushell. “Go! Be wild!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the best chance that we know how to give them,” says Roland Knapp, a biologist with UC Santa Barbara who has tracked frog die-offs across the Sierra as the chytrid wave has moved through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw the biggest one I’ve ever seen last summer,” he says. “Thousands of dying frogs. Carcasses of frogs all over the place. 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This is the third summer the team has released vaccinated frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They seem to be surviving pretty well,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the immunized frogs survive the worst of the fungus outbreak, the mountain yellow-legged frogs may eventually be able to become resistant to it on their own, generation-after-generation, without human help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That means we have to figure out ways to keep these frogs on the landscape with the chytrid long enough that evolution can actually happen,” Knapp says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_959981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-959981\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web.jpg\" alt=\"Jessie Bushell with a treated frog at the San Francisco Zoo.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1162\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web-400x242.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web-800x484.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web-768x465.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web-1440x872.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web-1180x714.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web-960x581.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessie Bushell with a treated frog at the San Francisco Zoo. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest hope, and the biggest question mark, is whether this research could lead to a treatment for other frog species. Some frogs don’t seem to be able to build immunity to chytrid like the yellow-legged frogs can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have watched chytrid fungus spread across the globe at an alarming rate, driving 200 frog species to extinction. In Central America, scientists have brought some frog species into captivity to spare them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, that’s the only place they exist. And they don’t have much hope of going back to the wild unless some kind of chytrid treatment succeeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re staring at what could be the extinction of a significant fraction of the world’s amphibians,” Knapp says. “So if we can do something to reverse that, even for a few species here and there, we should try to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not hopeless, scientists say, but it could depend in large part on the survival of one California frog.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The firefighters start unloading these large white coolers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coolers were holding hundreds of wiggling, green tadpoles, the sole survivors of a deadly outbreak at their remote alpine lake. Federal biologists had found dozens of frogs dying from chytrid fungus and\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>hoping to save the species, had collected their remaining young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Priming Immunity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bushell brought them to the San Francisco Zoo. Scientists there and at the Oakland Zoo are doing an experimental treatment on the frogs in the hope that they’ll survive when they return to the wild. The treatment was pioneered at UC Santa Barbara, where results have been encouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So what we do is we expose them to small amounts of this fungus,” Bushell says, pointing to more than 200 of the frogs, no longer tadpoles, in quarantined tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bushell is making the frogs sick in the hope of building their immunity to chytrid fungus, which attacks the frog’s skin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_959847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1482px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-959847\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain yellow-legged frogs get an experimental vaccination at the San Francisco Zoo.\" width=\"1482\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web.jpg 1482w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web-400x208.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web-800x416.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web-768x399.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web-1440x748.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web-1180x613.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs4-web-960x499.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1482px) 100vw, 1482px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain yellow-legged frogs get an experimental vaccination at the San Francisco Zoo. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The skin is a really important part of the frog,” she says. “They breathe through their skin underwater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frogs also absorb key nutrients such as electrolytes through their skin. But when the fungus attacks it, the skin stops functioning normally. The frogs die before their immune systems can fight the fungus off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bushell is hoping a mild fungal infection will teach the frogs’ immune systems how to fight chytrid. She lets her frogs get sick, but before they get too close to dying, she gives them an anti-fungal treatment to clear up the infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the frogs get chytrid again out in the wild, the idea is their immune systems will be trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_959963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-959963\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web.jpg\" alt=\"Roland Knapp releases a yellow-legged frog in a high alpine lake, south of Lake Tahoe.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frogs1-web-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roland Knapp releases a yellow-legged frog in a high alpine lake south of Lake Tahoe. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Their bodies identify it and can already be primed to fight off that infection, at least to keep it under control because they’ve seen it before,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Back to the Wild\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some of the yellow-legged frogs, the big test has arrived. Bushell and a field crew hike up a rocky trail in the Desolation Wilderness, south of Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their big backpacks are loaded with frogs, each in its own tiny Tupperware container.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a new frog home,” says Bushell, looking at a sapphire-blue lake, surrounded by pine trees and granite cliffs. “An oasis for frogs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>But chytrid fungus is there, so their immunity will be tested. One-by-one, the team releases each frog on the water’s edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like letting your kids go,” says Bushell. “Go! Be wild!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the best chance that we know how to give them,” says Roland Knapp, a biologist with UC Santa Barbara who has tracked frog die-offs across the Sierra as the chytrid wave has moved through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw the biggest one I’ve ever seen last summer,” he says. “Thousands of dying frogs. Carcasses of frogs all over the place. It was pretty rough to see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That threat is why biologists are going to such lengths to save yellow-legged frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_959979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-959979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog3-web.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain yellow-legged frog populations have declined by more than 90 percent.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog3-web.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog3-web-400x215.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog3-web-800x430.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog3-web-768x413.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog3-web-1440x774.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog3-web-1180x634.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog3-web-960x516.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain yellow-legged frog populations have declined by more than 90 percent. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It sometimes seems a little crazy,” Knapp says. “It’s a huge amount of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says the early results are promising. This is the third summer the team has released vaccinated frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They seem to be surviving pretty well,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the immunized frogs survive the worst of the fungus outbreak, the mountain yellow-legged frogs may eventually be able to become resistant to it on their own, generation-after-generation, without human help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That means we have to figure out ways to keep these frogs on the landscape with the chytrid long enough that evolution can actually happen,” Knapp says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_959981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-959981\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web.jpg\" alt=\"Jessie Bushell with a treated frog at the San Francisco Zoo.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1162\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web-400x242.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web-800x484.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web-768x465.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web-1440x872.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web-1180x714.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/frog2-web-960x581.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessie Bushell with a treated frog at the San Francisco Zoo. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest hope, and the biggest question mark, is whether this research could lead to a treatment for other frog species. Some frogs don’t seem to be able to build immunity to chytrid like the yellow-legged frogs can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have watched chytrid fungus spread across the globe at an alarming rate, driving 200 frog species to extinction. In Central America, scientists have brought some frog species into captivity to spare them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, that’s the only place they exist. And they don’t have much hope of going back to the wild unless some kind of chytrid treatment succeeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re staring at what could be the extinction of a significant fraction of the world’s amphibians,” Knapp says. “So if we can do something to reverse that, even for a few species here and there, we should try to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here’s no road in California quite like Highway 395. For more than 200 miles, the Sierra Nevada rises up alongside the route, a towering granite wall bordering starkly beautiful desert valleys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are driving 395, chances are you’ve come to fish for trout in one of the area’s alpine lakes. Fishing is synonymous with life in the communities that dot the highway, and it’s responsible for luring nearly half of all tourists to Inyo and Mono counties. But there’s almost nothing natural about trout in the Eastern Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/281145916\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people who are fishing in the High Sierra don’t realize that the fish weren’t native,” says Roland Knapp, a biologist with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucnrs.org/reserves/sierra-nevada-aquatic-research-laboratory.html\" target=\"_blank\">UC Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Lab\u003c/a>. He says they also don’t know the fish were likely born in hatcheries and dropped into the lakes from airplanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We witness this firsthand on an early morning in July at a tiny airport outside Bishop, a four-hour drive north of L.A., a six-hour drive from San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An airplane idles on the tarmac, and employees from the nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Fishing/Hatcheries/Fish-Springs\" target=\"_blank\">Fish Springs Hatchery\u003c/a> transfer rainbow trout fingerlings from a pickup into special hoppers built into this King Air 200’s tiny interior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11067400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist checks on the accuracy of a trout drop high in the Sierra. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist checks on the accuracy of a trout drop high in the Sierra. \u003ccite>(Lacy Jane Roberts/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon the plane is flying uncomfortably close to snowy Sierra peaks, swooping in and out of lake basins. It feels like a video game, with the plane diving down to 200 feet above the surface of each lake, then slowing down. Water splashes when the pilots in the cockpit open the hoppers, releasing thousands of baby trout, and there’s an audible, high-pitched whine as the fish fly through the air. The pilots pull up from the lake, clear the valley wall on the other side of the basin, and look back to see if they hit their mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>erial stocking got its start in the mid-1940s, when lots of skilled pilots came home from World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our chief pilot was a B-24 Liberator pilot down in the South Pacific,” says fish biologist Phil Pister, who worked for the California Department of Fish and Game (now Department of Fish and Wildlife) for 40 years, managing 1,000 bodies of water in the Eastern Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pister says that stocking fish by plane is much more efficient than loading them into containers and hauling them into the backcountry on horses and mules, which is how it used to be done. The first introduction of trout to the Eastern Sierra that he’s heard of came in 1876, thanks to \u003ca href=\"http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/stories3/golden_invitation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the owner\u003c/a> of a high-country \u003ca href=\"http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/stories1/stevens_timber.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sawmill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Most people who are fishing in the High Sierra don’t realize that the fish weren’t native.'\u003ccite>Roland Knapp,\u003cbr>\nUC Sierra Nevada Aquatic Lab\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He brought 13 golden trout in a coffee pot on his horse,” says Pister. A dozen are said to have survived the trip and were planted in a nearby creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miners and prospectors released trout in lakes and streams near their work sites for food. Mountaineers did, too, creating a food source for their future explorations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, fishing became more and more associated with recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his book, \"An Entirely Synthetic Fish,\" evolutionary biologist Anders Halverson says that, among well-to-do men living in East Coast industrialized cities, \"the outdoor life became \u003cem>de rigeur\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors recommended more outdoor time, and tourists visited wilderness resorts or camped in remote places. It was thought, Halverson says, that “to really reconnect with their virility, men needed to capture and kill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though far from urban centers, fishing became more connected to recreation in the Eastern Sierra, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had a group in Bishop called the Rainbow Club. Their sole mission was to introduce rainbow trout into the high country,” says Roland Knapp. “You had the Sierra Club doing a lot of the early fish stocking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, government agencies became the major player managing hatcheries and transportation, transforming a once fishless landscape into one brimming with trout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067478\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11067478\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-400x243.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. 395 in the Eastern Sierra, just north of Mammoth Lakes\" width=\"400\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-400x243.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-800x487.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-1920x1168.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-960x584.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. 395 in the Eastern Sierra, just north of Mammoth Lakes \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n a recent summer morning, Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Tony Ambriz drives a big truck up 395 toward Convict Lake, outside the town of Mammoth Lakes. It’s carrying tanks filled with water and 2,400 pounds of fish for stocking into roadside lakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we go out here, people are all excited and happy. You’re almost like rock stars,” says Ambriz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if on cue, a huge Suburban with two coolers strapped on the back pulls up alongside his truck. The two guys inside wave, and give Ambriz big smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you were little, do you remember that truck with that funky clown music? ‘Ice cream! Ice cream!’ We’re like the big ice cream truck for adults,” says Ambriz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the lake, Ambriz backs up and releases 3,600 fish in a long gush of water. They swim around wildly once they hit the surface. Gayle Odell and her family, visiting from Orange County, watch and clap. For them, she says, fishing offers “fun, good conversations, getting away from the problems of the world. Just enjoying the beauty that God created. And rainbow trout is delicious. It’s good eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11070528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Tony Ambriz during a trout-planting trip to Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11070528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Tony Ambriz during a trout-planting trip to Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An hour south, Seth Blackamore steers a boat to the quiet end of South Lake, where trout are biting. He runs the dock at South Lake for Parchers, \u003ca href=\"http://parchersresort.net/\" target=\"_blank\">a century-old resort\u003c/a> that caters to anglers. He says the fishing attracts all kinds of people: honeymooners, retirees and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get three generations worth of father, son, and son coming up, just passing down those memories, showing them what their fathers showed them,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anglers are vital to the local economy. Fishing is such an important source of jobs and income that communities pay extra to make sure nearby lakes are stocked for recreational fishing. The Chamber of Commerce in Bishop pays to have the Pleasant Valley Reservoir and Lower Owens River stocked year-round, and Mono County spends over $100,000 annually to stock 21 bodies of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he introduction of trout into Eastern Sierra waters hasn’t worked out as well for native species, says biologist Knapp. He and a team spent much of the 1990s surveying 7,000 Sierra lakes, ponds and puddles, looking at the trout’s impact on native species like the mountain yellow-legged frog. They found that lakes with trout had no more native frogs or invertebrates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trout basically eat themselves out of house and home. They will eat anything they can wrap their jaws around, understandably,” Knapp says. “They’re predators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drawing attention to the damage that trout were causing made Knapp pretty unpopular among fishermen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were certainly people who didn’t want to hear the data we were providing. I remember being called the Trout Anti-Christ in one public meeting,” he says. “And I totally understand why somebody might get upset about some scientist saying, ‘Hey, these fish are having negative effects,’ and they’re talking about your favorite lake to go fishing in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067540\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11067540\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Retired state fish biologist Phil Pister at Fish Slough in the Owens Valley.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired state fish biologist Phil Pister at Fish Slough in the Owens Valley. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phil Pister made a similar discovery in the early 1960s, when he was a new employee at the Department of Fish and Game. Two visiting fish biologists asked him to lead them on an excursion to Fish Slough, a desert wetlands outside Bishop. Their thinking was that water diversions and the introduction of trout had killed off all native fish, including one called the Owens pupfish, but they wanted to make sure. They started mucking around in the marsh and discovered a small remnant population of the small native fish. From that moment, Pister became committed to pushing for more balance between maintaining recreational fisheries and stewarding fragile native species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Owens pupfish] are important because they’re part of the biota that evolved here since the beginning of time,” says Pister. “We showed up later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o, how to find a balance between native species and recreation? “There’s no doubt in my mind that fish and fishing provides a very direct connection between people and the land,” says biologist Knapp, “and sometimes you have to trade off what’s best for native species and what’s best for that more challenging thing to define which is: How we relate to this landscape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DFW is still committed to recreational fishing, and their employees plant nearly 1.7 million fish a year in the Eastern Sierra, but nearby national parks stopped planting trout in the '90s, and the state has significantly scaled back aerial stocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers like Knapp have advised agencies that eradicating trout from some lakes -- mostly using gill nets and electroshockers (and, occasionally, Rotenone, a chemical pesticide) -- allows for the recovery of native frogs and other species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The native frog] populations will increase exponentially really quickly,” says Jim Erdman, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife fisheries biologist. “It’s amazing sometimes how well that works, just to remove some fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The native frogs face another major challenge: chytrid fungus. “It’s gotten more complicated since the mid-1990s, when we thought that fish were the [only] major contributor to frog declines,” says Knapp. “So we’re just trying to now find again another balance between all these different stressors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result of balancing the desire for recreation with the needs of native species is the Owens Valley Native Fish Sanctuary, in Fish Slough. It’s one of a handful of spots where the Owens pupfish still live, now protected, in the middle of a region where millions of trout are planted every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Support for this story comes from the Fund for Environmental Journalism and California Humanities. Vicky Ly did additional research for this piece.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An airplane idles on the tarmac, and employees from the nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Fishing/Hatcheries/Fish-Springs\" target=\"_blank\">Fish Springs Hatchery\u003c/a> transfer rainbow trout fingerlings from a pickup into special hoppers built into this King Air 200’s tiny interior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11067400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist checks on the accuracy of a trout drop high in the Sierra. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS21011_IMG_0601-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist checks on the accuracy of a trout drop high in the Sierra. \u003ccite>(Lacy Jane Roberts/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon the plane is flying uncomfortably close to snowy Sierra peaks, swooping in and out of lake basins. It feels like a video game, with the plane diving down to 200 feet above the surface of each lake, then slowing down. Water splashes when the pilots in the cockpit open the hoppers, releasing thousands of baby trout, and there’s an audible, high-pitched whine as the fish fly through the air. The pilots pull up from the lake, clear the valley wall on the other side of the basin, and look back to see if they hit their mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>erial stocking got its start in the mid-1940s, when lots of skilled pilots came home from World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our chief pilot was a B-24 Liberator pilot down in the South Pacific,” says fish biologist Phil Pister, who worked for the California Department of Fish and Game (now Department of Fish and Wildlife) for 40 years, managing 1,000 bodies of water in the Eastern Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pister says that stocking fish by plane is much more efficient than loading them into containers and hauling them into the backcountry on horses and mules, which is how it used to be done. The first introduction of trout to the Eastern Sierra that he’s heard of came in 1876, thanks to \u003ca href=\"http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/stories3/golden_invitation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the owner\u003c/a> of a high-country \u003ca href=\"http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/stories1/stevens_timber.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sawmill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Most people who are fishing in the High Sierra don’t realize that the fish weren’t native.'\u003ccite>Roland Knapp,\u003cbr>\nUC Sierra Nevada Aquatic Lab\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He brought 13 golden trout in a coffee pot on his horse,” says Pister. A dozen are said to have survived the trip and were planted in a nearby creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miners and prospectors released trout in lakes and streams near their work sites for food. Mountaineers did, too, creating a food source for their future explorations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, fishing became more and more associated with recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his book, \"An Entirely Synthetic Fish,\" evolutionary biologist Anders Halverson says that, among well-to-do men living in East Coast industrialized cities, \"the outdoor life became \u003cem>de rigeur\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors recommended more outdoor time, and tourists visited wilderness resorts or camped in remote places. It was thought, Halverson says, that “to really reconnect with their virility, men needed to capture and kill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though far from urban centers, fishing became more connected to recreation in the Eastern Sierra, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had a group in Bishop called the Rainbow Club. Their sole mission was to introduce rainbow trout into the high country,” says Roland Knapp. “You had the Sierra Club doing a lot of the early fish stocking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, government agencies became the major player managing hatcheries and transportation, transforming a once fishless landscape into one brimming with trout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067478\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11067478\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-400x243.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. 395 in the Eastern Sierra, just north of Mammoth Lakes\" width=\"400\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-400x243.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-800x487.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-1920x1168.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-1180x718.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k-960x584.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/27509406620_fb27eaf7d1_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. 395 in the Eastern Sierra, just north of Mammoth Lakes \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n a recent summer morning, Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Tony Ambriz drives a big truck up 395 toward Convict Lake, outside the town of Mammoth Lakes. It’s carrying tanks filled with water and 2,400 pounds of fish for stocking into roadside lakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we go out here, people are all excited and happy. You’re almost like rock stars,” says Ambriz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if on cue, a huge Suburban with two coolers strapped on the back pulls up alongside his truck. The two guys inside wave, and give Ambriz big smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you were little, do you remember that truck with that funky clown music? ‘Ice cream! Ice cream!’ We’re like the big ice cream truck for adults,” says Ambriz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the lake, Ambriz backs up and releases 3,600 fish in a long gush of water. They swim around wildly once they hit the surface. Gayle Odell and her family, visiting from Orange County, watch and clap. For them, she says, fishing offers “fun, good conversations, getting away from the problems of the world. Just enjoying the beauty that God created. And rainbow trout is delicious. It’s good eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11070528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Tony Ambriz during a trout-planting trip to Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11070528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS20839_P1040857-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Tony Ambriz during a trout-planting trip to Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An hour south, Seth Blackamore steers a boat to the quiet end of South Lake, where trout are biting. He runs the dock at South Lake for Parchers, \u003ca href=\"http://parchersresort.net/\" target=\"_blank\">a century-old resort\u003c/a> that caters to anglers. He says the fishing attracts all kinds of people: honeymooners, retirees and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get three generations worth of father, son, and son coming up, just passing down those memories, showing them what their fathers showed them,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anglers are vital to the local economy. Fishing is such an important source of jobs and income that communities pay extra to make sure nearby lakes are stocked for recreational fishing. The Chamber of Commerce in Bishop pays to have the Pleasant Valley Reservoir and Lower Owens River stocked year-round, and Mono County spends over $100,000 annually to stock 21 bodies of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he introduction of trout into Eastern Sierra waters hasn’t worked out as well for native species, says biologist Knapp. He and a team spent much of the 1990s surveying 7,000 Sierra lakes, ponds and puddles, looking at the trout’s impact on native species like the mountain yellow-legged frog. They found that lakes with trout had no more native frogs or invertebrates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trout basically eat themselves out of house and home. They will eat anything they can wrap their jaws around, understandably,” Knapp says. “They’re predators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drawing attention to the damage that trout were causing made Knapp pretty unpopular among fishermen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were certainly people who didn’t want to hear the data we were providing. I remember being called the Trout Anti-Christ in one public meeting,” he says. “And I totally understand why somebody might get upset about some scientist saying, ‘Hey, these fish are having negative effects,’ and they’re talking about your favorite lake to go fishing in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067540\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11067540\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Retired state fish biologist Phil Pister at Fish Slough in the Owens Valley.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20821_P1040862-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired state fish biologist Phil Pister at Fish Slough in the Owens Valley. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phil Pister made a similar discovery in the early 1960s, when he was a new employee at the Department of Fish and Game. Two visiting fish biologists asked him to lead them on an excursion to Fish Slough, a desert wetlands outside Bishop. Their thinking was that water diversions and the introduction of trout had killed off all native fish, including one called the Owens pupfish, but they wanted to make sure. They started mucking around in the marsh and discovered a small remnant population of the small native fish. From that moment, Pister became committed to pushing for more balance between maintaining recreational fisheries and stewarding fragile native species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Owens pupfish] are important because they’re part of the biota that evolved here since the beginning of time,” says Pister. “We showed up later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o, how to find a balance between native species and recreation? “There’s no doubt in my mind that fish and fishing provides a very direct connection between people and the land,” says biologist Knapp, “and sometimes you have to trade off what’s best for native species and what’s best for that more challenging thing to define which is: How we relate to this landscape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DFW is still committed to recreational fishing, and their employees plant nearly 1.7 million fish a year in the Eastern Sierra, but nearby national parks stopped planting trout in the '90s, and the state has significantly scaled back aerial stocking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers like Knapp have advised agencies that eradicating trout from some lakes -- mostly using gill nets and electroshockers (and, occasionally, Rotenone, a chemical pesticide) -- allows for the recovery of native frogs and other species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The native frog] populations will increase exponentially really quickly,” says Jim Erdman, a California Department of Fish and Wildlife fisheries biologist. “It’s amazing sometimes how well that works, just to remove some fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The native frogs face another major challenge: chytrid fungus. “It’s gotten more complicated since the mid-1990s, when we thought that fish were the [only] major contributor to frog declines,” says Knapp. “So we’re just trying to now find again another balance between all these different stressors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One result of balancing the desire for recreation with the needs of native species is the Owens Valley Native Fish Sanctuary, in Fish Slough. It’s one of a handful of spots where the Owens pupfish still live, now protected, in the middle of a region where millions of trout are planted every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Grant Susner leans over the edge of a boat in Bodega Bay, stretches his arm toward the waves and releases “Bipinnaria” into the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bipinnaria — bright yellow against the deep blue surface — begins floating away from the boat, bobbing from side to side in the choppy water. Susner is principle marine electronics technician at the \u003ca href=\"http://bml.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory \u003c/a>and his natural habitat is the marine lab’s main research vessel, the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RV-Mussel-Point-UC-Davis-Bodega-Marine-Laboratory-123771934355725/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mussel Point\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon Bipinnaria is joined by its comrades: Hippolyte, Velella, Veliger and Zoea. They drift away swaying in synchrony, like soldiers who’ve decided to waddle instead of march.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These small robots are serving the cause of marine ecology. Their names give clue to their mission — that is, if you majored in marine biology. Each moniker is the name of the free-swimming larval stage of a marine animal. After hatching from eggs, certain sea stars spend their early days as bipinnaria. Some shrimp have a Hippolyte phase (named for an Amazonian queen). Velella are jellyfish. Veliger, clams and sea snails. Zoea are crab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job of these robots is to behave as much as possible like marine larvae themselves, albeit ones that can transmit their location, send email and take cues from curious researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Splashing Conventional Wisdom\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Morgan, a marine ecologist at UC Davis, uses these robots to learn about how marine larvae move, where they are likely to go, how they return to the shore, and how larvae might fare in the face of intensifying ocean acidification and rising temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You see a tiny larvae, and it’s out [in the ocean] developing for weeks and months — how is it able to make its way back on shore?” asks Morgan. “People around the world have been trying to answer this question for decades.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you’re into fishing for salmon or spotting sea anemones while exploring tidepools, the fate of marine larvae matters to you. (They also happen to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinterest.com/pin/338544096960155420/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beautiful\u003c/a>, like microscopic architectural gems.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_964781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-964781\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751.jpg\" alt='Steven Morgan, looking like a proud father with some of his larva bot \"family,\" soon to expand to 50 bots.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Morgan, looking like a proud father with some of his larva bot “family,” soon to expand to 50 bots. \u003ccite>(Maggie Carson Jurow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Understanding how larvae disperse is important for managing fisheries, designing and running marine reserves, and controlling invasive species. But modeling their dispersal has been difficult before now. Prior to the development of these “ABLE” drifters, (Autonomous Behaving Lagrangian Explorers), it was essentially impossible to predict where larvae would travel. But evidence has been mounting that larvae aren’t just aimless drifters; they control their movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/robot-larvae-deployed-sea/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early surprising results\u003c/a> has been how close to shore most marine larvae linger. Rather than dispersing into the open ocean, most species stay within a mile of shore. They move up and down in the water column to return to shore on currents they use like an underwater subway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan believes larvae are pre-programmed to return to shore, using environmental cues and subsurface currents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are a lot of skeptics out there that microscopic larvae have any control over where they’re going in this wild and woolly ocean of ours,” he says. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Experiments with his larva bot flotilla will, he hopes, provide the needed evidence to change minds.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results like this could reinforce the importance of keeping coastal waters \u003ca href=\"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-205\">free of pollution\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has made a big investment in a network of marine protected areas,” says Tom Maloney. As executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.oceansciencetrust.org/\">Ocean Science Trust\u003c/a>, Maloney has a keen interest in Morgan’s work. His organization, a non-profit created by the state of California to provide science-based management advice, is trying to understand how changes in the climate will change conditions in the oceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to understand the full life cycle for this important suite of invertebrates [and fish],” he says. “It’ll help us understand if our protected areas are achieving the results we want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Come Get Me\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it is time for Bipinnaria to return to the boat, it surfaces, communicates its coordinates via a satellite relay and sends Susner an email. The message: Here I am. Come get me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a little scouting, boat maneuvering and some skillful scooping with a fish net, all five bots are safely back in the boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lab currently has a small navy of 25 “larva bots.” Soon they’ll double that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strength of the larva bots — although they are far larger than the creatures they mimic — is that they move with the currents, as larvae do, and they can be programmed to mimic certain behaviors. They can move up or down in the water column at the same speed as larvae, maintain buoyancy, and respond to light, temperature, salinity or pressure in the same way larvae might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_964780\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-964780\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3730.jpg\" alt=\"The larva bot housings are made from recycled fire extinguishers. Fully loaded with electronics, they cost about $1,200 each.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3730.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3730-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3730-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3730-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3730-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3730-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3730-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3730-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The larva bot housings are made from recycled fire extinguishers. Fully loaded with electronics, they cost about $1,200 each. \u003ccite>(Maggie Carson Jurow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bots are built to be “simple and cheap.” Even so, fully loaded with LEDs, trackers, GPS and satellite communicators, and sensors to log salinity, temperature, light, depth and swimming speed, the price tag for each is about $1,200. The housings are made from expired fire extinguisher canisters, donated by fire departments. The ‘petals’ forming a skirt around their waste, which spin to record vertical velocity, were cut by hand. For scientific equipment, they’re surprisingly cute. Susner and Morgan show off their capabilities in the lab with obvious affection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“T\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hese things are wonderfully built,” Susner says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After some trial and error in the design data, collection began in earnest last year. (Several years ago, before the retrieval mechanisms were perfected, three bots were lost to the waves). With the arrival of 25 more bots in the coming weeks, data collection is about to go into overdrive.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Splashing Conventional Wisdom\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Morgan, a marine ecologist at UC Davis, uses these robots to learn about how marine larvae move, where they are likely to go, how they return to the shore, and how larvae might fare in the face of intensifying ocean acidification and rising temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You see a tiny larvae, and it’s out [in the ocean] developing for weeks and months — how is it able to make its way back on shore?” asks Morgan. “People around the world have been trying to answer this question for decades.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you’re into fishing for salmon or spotting sea anemones while exploring tidepools, the fate of marine larvae matters to you. (They also happen to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.pinterest.com/pin/338544096960155420/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beautiful\u003c/a>, like microscopic architectural gems.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_964781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-964781\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751.jpg\" alt='Steven Morgan, looking like a proud father with some of his larva bot \"family,\" soon to expand to 50 bots.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/09/npr-3751-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Morgan, looking like a proud father with some of his larva bot “family,” soon to expand to 50 bots. \u003ccite>(Maggie Carson Jurow)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Understanding how larvae disperse is important for managing fisheries, designing and running marine reserves, and controlling invasive species. But modeling their dispersal has been difficult before now. Prior to the development of these “ABLE” drifters, (Autonomous Behaving Lagrangian Explorers), it was essentially impossible to predict where larvae would travel. But evidence has been mounting that larvae aren’t just aimless drifters; they control their movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/robot-larvae-deployed-sea/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early surprising results\u003c/a> has been how close to shore most marine larvae linger. Rather than dispersing into the open ocean, most species stay within a mile of shore. They move up and down in the water column to return to shore on currents they use like an underwater subway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan believes larvae are pre-programmed to return to shore, using environmental cues and subsurface currents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are a lot of skeptics out there that microscopic larvae have any control over where they’re going in this wild and woolly ocean of ours,” he says. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Experiments with his larva bot flotilla will, he hopes, provide the needed evidence to change minds.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results like this could reinforce the importance of keeping coastal waters \u003ca href=\"http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-205\">free of pollution\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has made a big investment in a network of marine protected areas,” says Tom Maloney. As executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.oceansciencetrust.org/\">Ocean Science Trust\u003c/a>, Maloney has a keen interest in Morgan’s work. His organization, a non-profit created by the state of California to provide science-based management advice, is trying to understand how changes in the climate will change conditions in the oceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to understand the full life cycle for this important suite of invertebrates [and fish],” he says. “It’ll help us understand if our protected areas are achieving the results we want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Come Get Me\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it is time for Bipinnaria to return to the boat, it surfaces, communicates its coordinates via a satellite relay and sends Susner an email. The message: Here I am. 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