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Fran Pavley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-400x286.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-960x686.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Sen. Fran Pavley. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Fran Pavley—the Agoura Hills Democrat widely regarded as an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/sen-fran-pavley-a-quiet-force-in-the-climate-storm/\">environmental champion\u003c/a>—authored the legislation to build on a pioneering climate change agenda the Legislature enacted a decade ago, when it passed her Assembly Bill 32. That bill set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and led to California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/cap-and-trade-in-two-and-half-minutes-video/\">cap and trade system\u003c/a>, which limits how much climate-warming gas businesses can emit while allowing them to buy and sell permits to pollute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavley, now serving her last year in the Legislature, wants to extend the approach further into the future. But the Legislature has changed a lot since her earlier bill passed in 2006—no one currently in the Assembly was in office then—and the lower house rejected SB 32 last year amid \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/ad-blitz-heats-up-climate-change-fight/\">intense lobbying\u003c/a> by the oil industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failure again this month would indicate a major about-face for the California Legislature, reversing course on the environmental leadership role that Brown routinely boasts of in national and international appearances. It would also mark defeat for Pavley, a maverick in the war on global warming who is leaving the Capitol because of term limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really not about me,” she said, but about the Legislature’s commitment to keep combatting climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This should be easier to pass this year than it was 10 years ago, because now we can show that putting a cap on emissions and rolling it back does send signals for investment (in clean energy businesses). And we’re seeing those new jobs here in California. We have success stories to tell but the challenge has been that the Assembly, of course, hasn’t been paying close attention because they weren’t here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/static/iframes/20150709_greenhouse/\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her effort is backed by a big advertising push from environmental groups. NextGen Climate, headed by San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/climate-soulmates/\">billionaire Tom Steyer\u003c/a>, is spending $1.2 million to air \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znS2E_IU9BM&feature=youtu.be\">television ads\u003c/a> around the state criticizing oil companies for “trying to weaken our clean air laws.” The California League of Conservation Voters has launched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ecovote/posts/10153782360091245\">social media campaign\u003c/a> urging voters to contact Democrats who helped defeat SB 32 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw what happened last year,” said spokeswoman Jenesse Miller, “so this year going in we knew we were going to have to ask those lawmakers to do the right thing and vote the way their constituents want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1200\">polling\u003c/a> found that a majority of Californians support reducing greenhouse gas emissions, even if it means paying more for gas and electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But businesses that use lots of electricity say their costs have already \u003ca href=\"http://www.cmta.net/multimedia/20160614_ca_electricity_premium_for_classes_since_2010.pdf\">gone up\u003c/a> too much—and they fear SB 32 will trigger continual increases without enough oversight from legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re moving from 2020 to 2030, we need to understand what the policies are going to be that will be available to be used,” said Dorothy Rothrock, president of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association, which opposes the bill. “With simply a goal with nothing else attached to it, it’s throwing it all over to (\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/battling-climate-change-agency-draws-controversy/\">the Air Resources Board\u003c/a>) to do whatever they want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That board, largely made up of Brown appointees and beyond the Legislature’s control, is already at work on a Plan B—drafting rules that could act as a back-up for Brown’s environmental agenda in case SB 32 withers. But environmentalists want the state’s climate policy to have the political backing of the Legislature, knowing that it’s hard to reverse a law. If the policy is carried out simply as the go-it-alone work of a governor who will leave office in two years, it could be undone, or face a legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”xR11dKfqMQ4IaeasVIF1ippPmHkXGcuI”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the board’s work to require emissions cuts and continue cap and trade—along with a Chamber of Commerce lawsuit asserting that cap and trade is an illegal tax—could also stymie climate policy action in the Legislature. Dean Florez, a former state lawmaker who now sits on the air board, said he’s talked to lawmakers who feel less pressure to vote for a controversial bill because the governor is pursuing his agenda without them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are ‘sitting pretty’ because they can say the Governor has spoken and the courts will ultimately decide and thus there’s no hurry to act on SB 32 now,” Florez said by text message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Democrats “can have their cake and eat it too,” he wrote. “They get to say they are with the Governor AND with the oil companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor himself won’t say whether he’s pulling for SB 32 or is satisfied to let the air board decide policy. All Brown’s office would say, via an email from spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman is: “We will not meet our world-leading clean air and emission reduction targets unless we solidify and redouble our commitment to the state’s cap and trade program and climate goals beyond 2020 and we will work hard to get that done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate supporters of SB 32, meanwhile, say they remain undaunted. Senate President pro Tem Kevin de Leon, a Democrat, said extending the targets past 2020 “will get done one way or the other.” And Pavley is getting creative and seeking new allies to rescue her bill. One of those is Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, a Coachella Democrat who did not support SB 32 last year. The two got to know each other during the global climate negotiations \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-a-climate-model-for-the-world-has-work-to-do-at-home/\">in Paris\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Garcia is carrying a bill to give legislators more oversight of the Air Resources Board, and it is linked to Pavley’s emissions reductions bill—each one can only pass if the other one does too. The alliance illustrates how Pavley is working to win over previous opponents, particularly Democrats who represent people in struggling inland areas who could be hit harder by rising gas and electricity prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to be more encompassing of California’s economically disadvantaged communities,” Garcia said of his bill. “I think it is a piece of the puzzle in order to get people closer to supporting Senate Bill 32.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another puzzle piece: money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jim Cooper, an Elk Grove Democrat who leads the caucus of moderate Democrats, argues that too many incentives for solar panels and electric vehicles have gone to California’s wealthy enclaves. “Take care of the poor people first,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats who objected to SB 32 last year could be persuadable if, say, their districts get new money for environmental projects. And it just so happens the state is sitting on $1.4 billion from cap and trade auctions—money that legally must be spent on projects that reduce emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters is a nonprofit journalism venture dedicated to exploring state policy and politics. For more stories by Laurel Rosenhall, go to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has taken the national stage to tout California’s fight against global warming, telling cheering throngs at the Democratic National Convention that the state has “the toughest climate laws in the country.” Yet inside the state Capitol, the fate of the policy’s centerpiece—legislation to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions—is in peril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ominous sign: The Democratic leader of the Assembly has not thrown his weight behind the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it’s not imperative that it get done this year,” said Anthony Rendon, who has a background as an environmentalist but \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/gripping-power-for-the-long-term/\">rose to speaker\u003c/a> this year with support from a powerful bloc of business-friendly Democrats. “It’s a program that has had its success, but at the same time there are some corrections that could be made. We just want to make sure that if we’re going to set something up for the long term, that we get it right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 32 is shaping up as the biggest fight lawmakers are likely to tackle in what remains of the legislative year. It pits environmentalist Democrats, mostly from the state’s more prosperous coastal areas, against Democrats and Republicans from struggling inland areas who side with oil companies and other businesses, and whose constituents could be harder hit by rising energy prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which sets ambitious targets to cut planet-warming emissions by 2030, faces a critical deadline with the Legislature set to wrap up for the year on Aug. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11040582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11040582\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"California State Sen. Fran Pavley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-400x286.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Pavley-960x686.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Sen. Fran Pavley. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Fran Pavley—the Agoura Hills Democrat widely regarded as an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/sen-fran-pavley-a-quiet-force-in-the-climate-storm/\">environmental champion\u003c/a>—authored the legislation to build on a pioneering climate change agenda the Legislature enacted a decade ago, when it passed her Assembly Bill 32. That bill set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and led to California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/cap-and-trade-in-two-and-half-minutes-video/\">cap and trade system\u003c/a>, which limits how much climate-warming gas businesses can emit while allowing them to buy and sell permits to pollute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It would also mark defeat for Pavley, a maverick in the war on global warming who is leaving the Capitol because of term limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really not about me,” she said, but about the Legislature’s commitment to keep combatting climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This should be easier to pass this year than it was 10 years ago, because now we can show that putting a cap on emissions and rolling it back does send signals for investment (in clean energy businesses). And we’re seeing those new jobs here in California. We have success stories to tell but the challenge has been that the Assembly, of course, hasn’t been paying close attention because they weren’t here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/static/iframes/20150709_greenhouse/\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her effort is backed by a big advertising push from environmental groups. NextGen Climate, headed by San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/climate-soulmates/\">billionaire Tom Steyer\u003c/a>, is spending $1.2 million to air \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znS2E_IU9BM&feature=youtu.be\">television ads\u003c/a> around the state criticizing oil companies for “trying to weaken our clean air laws.” The California League of Conservation Voters has launched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ecovote/posts/10153782360091245\">social media campaign\u003c/a> urging voters to contact Democrats who helped defeat SB 32 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw what happened last year,” said spokeswoman Jenesse Miller, “so this year going in we knew we were going to have to ask those lawmakers to do the right thing and vote the way their constituents want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1200\">polling\u003c/a> found that a majority of Californians support reducing greenhouse gas emissions, even if it means paying more for gas and electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But businesses that use lots of electricity say their costs have already \u003ca href=\"http://www.cmta.net/multimedia/20160614_ca_electricity_premium_for_classes_since_2010.pdf\">gone up\u003c/a> too much—and they fear SB 32 will trigger continual increases without enough oversight from legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re moving from 2020 to 2030, we need to understand what the policies are going to be that will be available to be used,” said Dorothy Rothrock, president of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association, which opposes the bill. “With simply a goal with nothing else attached to it, it’s throwing it all over to (\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/battling-climate-change-agency-draws-controversy/\">the Air Resources Board\u003c/a>) to do whatever they want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That board, largely made up of Brown appointees and beyond the Legislature’s control, is already at work on a Plan B—drafting rules that could act as a back-up for Brown’s environmental agenda in case SB 32 withers. But environmentalists want the state’s climate policy to have the political backing of the Legislature, knowing that it’s hard to reverse a law. If the policy is carried out simply as the go-it-alone work of a governor who will leave office in two years, it could be undone, or face a legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the board’s work to require emissions cuts and continue cap and trade—along with a Chamber of Commerce lawsuit asserting that cap and trade is an illegal tax—could also stymie climate policy action in the Legislature. Dean Florez, a former state lawmaker who now sits on the air board, said he’s talked to lawmakers who feel less pressure to vote for a controversial bill because the governor is pursuing his agenda without them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are ‘sitting pretty’ because they can say the Governor has spoken and the courts will ultimately decide and thus there’s no hurry to act on SB 32 now,” Florez said by text message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Democrats “can have their cake and eat it too,” he wrote. “They get to say they are with the Governor AND with the oil companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor himself won’t say whether he’s pulling for SB 32 or is satisfied to let the air board decide policy. All Brown’s office would say, via an email from spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman is: “We will not meet our world-leading clean air and emission reduction targets unless we solidify and redouble our commitment to the state’s cap and trade program and climate goals beyond 2020 and we will work hard to get that done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate supporters of SB 32, meanwhile, say they remain undaunted. Senate President pro Tem Kevin de Leon, a Democrat, said extending the targets past 2020 “will get done one way or the other.” And Pavley is getting creative and seeking new allies to rescue her bill. One of those is Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, a Coachella Democrat who did not support SB 32 last year. The two got to know each other during the global climate negotiations \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-a-climate-model-for-the-world-has-work-to-do-at-home/\">in Paris\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Garcia is carrying a bill to give legislators more oversight of the Air Resources Board, and it is linked to Pavley’s emissions reductions bill—each one can only pass if the other one does too. 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The guidelines must be based on scientific evidence, under the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Associated Press asked the departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture for their evidence, and followed up with written requests under the Freedom of Information Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the federal government issued its latest dietary guidelines this year, the flossing recommendation had been removed, without notice. In a letter to the AP, the government acknowledged the effectiveness of flossing had never been researched, as required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP looked at the most rigorous research conducted over the past decade, focusing on 25 studies that generally compared the use of a toothbrush with the combination of toothbrushes and floss. The findings? 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Pressed about the origins of his organization's endorsement of flossing, he said it may simply have \"taken the ADA's lead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the ADA was asked for proof of its claim that flossing helps prevent early gum disease and cavities, the group cited the 2011 review and a 2008 two-week study that measured bacteria and did not even consider gum disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a later statement to the AP, the ADA said flossing \"removes plaque\" and \"is proven to help remove\" debris from between teeth. A video on its website proclaims that flossing \"helps prevent gum disease.\" When pressed, Matthew J. 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When the AP sent him a list of contradicting studies, he declined comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The floss-making companies partner with the ADA through its Seal of Acceptance program. The ADA promotes the seal to companies as something that \"directly affects the purchase decisions of consumers,\" and each manufacturer is charged $14,500 for the evaluation. If it approves the product, the ADA then charges an additional annual fee of $3,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ADA says it rigorously evaluates products and makes no profit from the program. However, floss companies themselves are allowed to design the studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The funding can come from companies — no problem at all,\" said dentist Marcelo W.B. Araujo, vice president of the ADA's Science Institute, who joined the organization after serving as an executive for Johnson & Johnson. \"The design can start from the company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When flossing first gained acceptance, no proof was required of remedies. Dentist Levi Spear Parmly is credited with inventing floss in the early 19th century. By the time the first floss patent was issued, in 1874, the applicant noted that dentists were widely recommending its use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ADA has been promoting floss universally since 1908. \"They just looked into what they did every day in their clinical practice and what they would recommend for patients,\" said Araujo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Count dentist Damien Walmsley, scientific adviser to the British Dental Association, among the skeptics. \"It's important to tell people to do the basics. Flossing is not part of the basics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floss can occasionally cause harm. Careless flossing can damage gums, teeth and dental work. 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"content": "\u003cp>One of the major sources of microplastic pollution in the San Francisco Bay comes from something you might not expect: our laundry. Turns out, our clothes shed thousands of fibers every time they’re washed. And in our synthetic clothes, those fibers are made of plastic. They slough off of the fleece jackets, athletic clothes, and even jeggings that make life in this land of microclimates a little more comfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘These fibers are a bit longer, and they’re loopy, and they can get caught in the digestive tract or in the stomach. They can cause an animal to starve or stop eating.’\u003ccite>Chelsea Rochman, UC Davis\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Microplastics—which are plastic fragments, pellets, and films smaller than 0.2 inches—raise concerns because they become a magnet for the chemicals that linger in our water: pesticides, flame retardants, even the DDT that was banned decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the best-known culprit, the plastic microbead found in personal care products, has been banned—first in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/10/08/governor-signs-23-enviro-bills-including-microbead-ban/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California\u003c/a> and New York, and then federally in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/science/ban-on-microbeads-proves-easy-to-pass-through-pipeline.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impressively swift time period\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But microfibers present a unique threat, and the solution is far less clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tiny, Contaminated Ropes\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay tested the effluent of eight wastewater treatment plants last year and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfei.org/microplasticfacts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found\u003c/a> that 80 percent of the microplastics and other microscopic particles were fibers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear what proportion of these fibers were synthetic or natural—synthetic fibers like polyester or acrylic are categorized as “microplastics” and, like other microplastics, do not break down in the water. But, plastic or not, the microfibers are a cause for concern. Once they enter the water, they can absorb chemicals and might work their way up the food chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”ba2ASsZ8eqj98efYVzXMGyqbwXXXxZdW”]Most of the animals in the water are tiny. They also evolved in a world where they haven’t had to distinguish between a nutritious piece of plankton and a contaminant-laden plastic pellet. These animals mistake small manmade particles for food, potentially allowing contaminants to accumulate as they make their way from the base of the food web to the apex predator: humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the fibers are, indeed, working their way into our marine food chain. When UC Davis researchers looked into the guts of fish from a market in Half Moon Bay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/articles/srep14340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they found\u003c/a> that 25 percent of the fish were carrying\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>manmade debris; fibers made up 80 percent of this debris. Fibers were also found in one-third of the oysters the researchers studied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microfibers are unique among marine debris for two reasons. The first is their shape; most microplastics exist as small spheres or fragments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These fibers are a bit longer, and they’re loopy, and they can get caught in the digestive tract or in the stomach,” says Chelsea Rochman, the lead scientist behind the UC Davis study. “They can cause an animal to starve or stop eating, or can actually loop around the organ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think about the large sources of plastic pollution you hear about—the buoys, nets, or fishing lines that entangle sea turtles or whales. Microfibers are essentially the shrunken-down version of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you could say a whale with a big rope isn’t that different from plankton with a small fiber,” Rochman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_884447\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-884447 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Plastic fibers are released from synthetic clothes every time they are washed, and likely make their way into the marine food web.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-1440x964.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plastic fibers are released from synthetic clothes every time they are washed, and likely make their way into the marine food web. \u003ccite>(iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The second unique trait of fibers is their history. Clothes are often treated with chemicals throughout the manufacturing process. When their fibers enter our waterways, they attract the water’s long-lingering chemicals on top of the chemicals they arrived with. This might sound like a lot for one little thread to handle, but its surface-area-to-mass ratio makes it really good at absorbing things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where Are These Fibers Coming From?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are tied to synthetic clothing, says Stiv Wilson of the \u003ca href=\"http://storyofstuff.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Story of Stuff\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go to Marin and look at 90 percent of people dressed there, they’re wearing active clothing meant for sports or that sort of thing,” Wilson says. “These are all polluting textiles, essentially, and it’s really hard for manufacturers to find a replacement because of the performance attributes of the fabric itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Are the toxins leaching out in the gut and getting into the flesh of the fish? 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One of the results presents an interesting conundrum to the company; Patagonia has encouraged customers to use their items for as long as possible, but older jackets were shown to shed more fibers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_883907\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-883907 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_57061838_XXLARGE-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Fleece jackets release thousands of plastic fibers that, unlike plastic bags or bottles, are small enough for most animals to eat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_57061838_XXLARGE-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_57061838_XXLARGE-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_57061838_XXLARGE-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_57061838_XXLARGE-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_57061838_XXLARGE-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_57061838_XXLARGE-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_57061838_XXLARGE-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fleece jackets release thousands of plastic fibers that, unlike plastic bags or bottles, are small enough for most animals to eat. \u003ccite>(iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company did find one straightforward solution: front-loading washing machines shed less fibers than top-loading. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the major sources of microplastic pollution in the San Francisco Bay comes from something you might not expect: our laundry. Turns out, our clothes shed thousands of fibers every time they’re washed. And in our synthetic clothes, those fibers are made of plastic. They slough off of the fleece jackets, athletic clothes, and even jeggings that make life in this land of microclimates a little more comfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘These fibers are a bit longer, and they’re loopy, and they can get caught in the digestive tract or in the stomach. They can cause an animal to starve or stop eating.’\u003ccite>Chelsea Rochman, UC Davis\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Microplastics—which are plastic fragments, pellets, and films smaller than 0.2 inches—raise concerns because they become a magnet for the chemicals that linger in our water: pesticides, flame retardants, even the DDT that was banned decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the best-known culprit, the plastic microbead found in personal care products, has been banned—first in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/10/08/governor-signs-23-enviro-bills-including-microbead-ban/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California\u003c/a> and New York, and then federally in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/science/ban-on-microbeads-proves-easy-to-pass-through-pipeline.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impressively swift time period\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But microfibers present a unique threat, and the solution is far less clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tiny, Contaminated Ropes\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay tested the effluent of eight wastewater treatment plants last year and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfei.org/microplasticfacts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found\u003c/a> that 80 percent of the microplastics and other microscopic particles were fibers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear what proportion of these fibers were synthetic or natural—synthetic fibers like polyester or acrylic are categorized as “microplastics” and, like other microplastics, do not break down in the water. But, plastic or not, the microfibers are a cause for concern. Once they enter the water, they can absorb chemicals and might work their way up the food chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Most of the animals in the water are tiny. They also evolved in a world where they haven’t had to distinguish between a nutritious piece of plankton and a contaminant-laden plastic pellet. These animals mistake small manmade particles for food, potentially allowing contaminants to accumulate as they make their way from the base of the food web to the apex predator: humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the fibers are, indeed, working their way into our marine food chain. When UC Davis researchers looked into the guts of fish from a market in Half Moon Bay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/articles/srep14340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they found\u003c/a> that 25 percent of the fish were carrying\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>manmade debris; fibers made up 80 percent of this debris. Fibers were also found in one-third of the oysters the researchers studied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microfibers are unique among marine debris for two reasons. The first is their shape; most microplastics exist as small spheres or fragments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These fibers are a bit longer, and they’re loopy, and they can get caught in the digestive tract or in the stomach,” says Chelsea Rochman, the lead scientist behind the UC Davis study. “They can cause an animal to starve or stop eating, or can actually loop around the organ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think about the large sources of plastic pollution you hear about—the buoys, nets, or fishing lines that entangle sea turtles or whales. Microfibers are essentially the shrunken-down version of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you could say a whale with a big rope isn’t that different from plankton with a small fiber,” Rochman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_884447\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-884447 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Plastic fibers are released from synthetic clothes every time they are washed, and likely make their way into the marine food web.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-1440x964.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/iStock_12769961_LARGE-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plastic fibers are released from synthetic clothes every time they are washed, and likely make their way into the marine food web. \u003ccite>(iStock)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The second unique trait of fibers is their history. Clothes are often treated with chemicals throughout the manufacturing process. When their fibers enter our waterways, they attract the water’s long-lingering chemicals on top of the chemicals they arrived with. This might sound like a lot for one little thread to handle, but its surface-area-to-mass ratio makes it really good at absorbing things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where Are These Fibers Coming From?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are tied to synthetic clothing, says Stiv Wilson of the \u003ca href=\"http://storyofstuff.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Story of Stuff\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go to Marin and look at 90 percent of people dressed there, they’re wearing active clothing meant for sports or that sort of thing,” Wilson says. “These are all polluting textiles, essentially, and it’s really hard for manufacturers to find a replacement because of the performance attributes of the fabric itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Are the toxins leaching out in the gut and getting into the flesh of the fish? And are they getting in in high enough concentrations that they’re a human health risk?\u003ccite>Susan Williams, UC Davis\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Every time a fleece jacket is washed, it releases hundreds, if not thousands, of fibers. The amount of plastic released by the laundering of 100,000 fleece jackets is equivalent to up to 11,900 plastic grocery bags, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://brenmicroplastics.weebly.com/project-findings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> from the UC Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, commissioned by Patagonia itself earlier this summer. And standard washing machines don’t have filters to catch these fibers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once they escape from our laundry, the tiny, mobile threads work their way to our wastewater treatment plants. Here is where the journey becomes unclear, and where wastewater treatment agencies are working to learn more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the fibers might be captured by current methods. But this might create a problem in itself, says Wilson, in cases when the solid material that is separated out during treatment gets applied to the land as fertilizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we’re also looking at corrupting soil,” he says, “and eventually creating fiber runoff into watersheds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Threading Together a Solution\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patagonia was the first company to take a look at its own manufacturing practices in response to microfiber pollution. After commissioning the UC Santa Barbara study, the company informed its customers about the issue in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.patagonia.com/blog/2016/06/what-do-we-know-about-tiny-plastic-fibers-in-the-ocean/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post\u003c/a> last month. 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Chelsea Rochman echoed this, recommending that concerned consumers use front-loading machines, wash synthetic clothes less often, and encourage appliance manufacturers to put a filter on washing machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area wastewater treatment plants are now focused on understanding the extent of the microfiber loads. “This is a stepwise type of effort to figure out—very importantly—what are the loads, where are the loads coming from, how detrimental are the loads?” says David Williams of the Bay Area Clean Water Agencies (BACWA).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also don’t know whether there’s an actual risk to humans. The UC Davis study found fibers in oysters, which we eat whole. 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"content": "\u003cp>There’s a popular refrain among National Park Service employees, one that doubles as a reminder, of sorts, after a long, wearisome day: “We get paid in sunrises and sunsets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many park employees, the pay is seasonal and not great. The hours are long. The question is usually the same (“Where’s the bathroom?”). And no matter how many pamphlets you pass out, instructions you give or “Attention!” signs you put up, people still wander off trails, carve their names in trees and get too close to the bears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw and heard all of this earlier this summer, during a reporting trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most-visited park in the U.S. For 10 days, I tagged along with the park’s employees and volunteers — releasing \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/05/11/477693489/wildlife-biologists-manage-bear-interactions-in-americas-national-parks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rescued bear cubs\u003c/a>, welcoming delegations of foreign diplomats, hunting for invasive \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/05/26/479584561/on-the-hunt-for-wily-wild-hogs-in-a-national-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feral hogs\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/05/19/478643466/budget-shortfalls-affect-national-parks-maintenance-cleaning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cleaning bathrooms\u003c/a> — to try to get an idea of just how much work goes on behind-the-scenes in our national parks. (Spoiler alert: It’s a lot.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what struck me the most were the reasons why — outside of the stunning sunrises and sunsets — people decide to work and dedicate their lives to a place like Great Smoky Mountains National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Bill Gober\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_889686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Gober started volunteering as a trail rover at Great Smoky Mountains National Park 4 years ago after he lost his job. He helps monitor visitors and pick up garbage from the trails.\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1998\" class=\"size-full wp-image-889686\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec.jpg 3000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Gober started volunteering as a trail rover at Great Smoky Mountains National Park 4 years ago after he lost his job. He helps monitor visitors and pick up garbage from the trails. \u003ccite>(Nathan Rott/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Trail rover volunteer, 4 years with NPS\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It must have been the chicken salad,” Bill Gober thought, hiking down from Laurel Falls on one of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s most popular trails. His stomach was all knotted up. He was sweating bullets and short of breath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made it down the trail to a creek, where he dipped his handkerchief in the water and sat on a rock. “That’s when I called into dispatch and asked for a carry out,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gober had started volunteering on the Laurel Falls Trail a couple of years after losing his job in the medical supply field. He was spending a lot of his time hiking in the park anyway. “It was therapeutic, an escape from reality,” he says. So he figured he’d help out the park’s staff by working as a trail rover one day a week, monitoring visitors and warning them about stuff like rattlesnakes and bears. “Mostly, I pick up a lot of garbage,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was during one of those shifts, not long after a chicken salad lunch, that he had his heart attack. After calling for help, he was carried out by park employees and airlifted to Knoxville, Tenn., for bypass surgery. The doctors agreed that if it wasn’t for the quick response and professionalism of park staff, Gober would have died on that rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why he came back to volunteer on the trail as soon as he was physically able. You’ll find him there on Wednesdays. “I definitely have some payback to give back to the park,” Gober says. “I’m alive today because of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Will Jaynes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_889687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61.jpg\" alt=\"Will Jaynes patrols the Appalachian Trail as a law enforcement officer. He has worked with the National Park Service for 15 years.\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2002\" class=\"size-full wp-image-889687\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61.jpg 3000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Jaynes patrols the Appalachian Trail as a law enforcement officer. He has worked with the National Park Service for 15 years. \u003ccite>(Mike Belleme for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Park ranger, 15 years with NPS\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years before patrolling the Appalachian Trail as a law enforcement officer, Will Jaynes walked it under \u003ca href=\"http://www.atmuseum.org/trail-names.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the trail name\u003c/a> Hayduke, an homage to the law-defying radical environmentalist portrayed in Edward Abbey’s \u003cem>The Monkey Wrench Gang\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had long nasty hair and dirty clothes,” says a short-haired, clean-clothed Jaynes. “I tell my boss now that if he wants someone to go undercover with thru-hikers I could look the part again pretty quick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a park ranger, Jaynes is part of a small police force tasked with policing the roughly 11 million visitors a year who visit the trail, which runs from Georgia to Maine. That includes thru-hikers and drive-thru motorists, RV campers and minimalists, outdoors people and city folk. It’s no small task. And Jaynes says he draws on his experiences in previous jobs and in previous lifestyles to be a more relatable and effective police officer, a skill that he thinks has been made all the more important by recent events and public distrust with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I can relate to someone and provide someone with education as opposed to a citation, that’s what I want to do,” Jaynes says. “The person that gets the ticket is going to angry and not as on board with the mission of the park service five years down the road, whereas the guy who gets the education is going to feel relieved and grateful and be way more likely to buy-in to what we’re trying to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Michael Smith\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_889688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Smith has worked with the National Park Service for the past 5 years. He's the mountain farm museum coordinator at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1998\" class=\"size-full wp-image-889688\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876.jpg 3000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Smith has worked with the National Park Service for the past 5 years. He’s the mountain farm museum coordinator at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. \u003ccite>(Nathan Rott/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mountain farm museum coordinator, 5 years with NPS\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are\u003cem> you\u003c/em> doing in the Appalachian Mountains?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Smith says he got that question a lot when he started working in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and living in the southern Appalachia. People didn’t ask it in a derogatory or demeaning way, he says, but more out of a genuine interest. The Appalachian Mountains \u003ca href=\"http://www.prb.org/pdf12/appalachia-census-chartbook-2011.pdf\">aren’t known for their diversity\u003c/a>. But that can be misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you dive into [the history] of an area like this, there were many different cultures that were in this area — Cherokee Indians, European settlers, even slavery was in this area,” Smith says. “Those stories have to be told for people to know how they relate to these mountains.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service is facing larger relevancy issues nationwide. Most of its workforce and visitors are older and white, so engaging with younger and more diverse groups is key to its future. Relatability, Smith says, is crucial to that. And as a Florida-born African-American who interacts with student groups from all across the South, Smith sees himself as being able to help fill that role in the Great Smokies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People want something out of a visit. They don’t want to come and visit just for the sake of visiting. They want a view or scenery or they want to be able to connect to the area and its history,” Smith says. “To get those individuals you have to have something or someone for them to relate to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Paul “Doc” Hadala \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_889689\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2002px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530.jpg\" alt='Paul \"Doc\" Hadala, a volunteer at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, works to eliminate invasive plant species from a section of forest.' width=\"2002\" height=\"3000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-889689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530.jpg 2002w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-400x599.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-1440x2158.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-1920x2877.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-1180x1768.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-960x1439.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2002px) 100vw, 2002px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul “Doc” Hadala, a volunteer at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, works to eliminate invasive plant species from a section of forest. \u003ccite>(Mike Belleme for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vegetation crew volunteer with more than 15,000 volunteer hours\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Hadala started volunteering at Great Smoky Mountains National Park for a simple reason: “I was single at the time and needed something to do,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d spent 32 years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a military engineer, working on missile systems and dams; then another seven years teaching at Louisiana Tech University. He was semi-retired and had time on his hands, so he decided to spend it killing invasive species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate exercising. It’s like pulling teeth,” he says, chopping away at a vine of honeysuckle. “This is a good way to stay in shape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hadala’s is a love story. Volunteering with the vegetation crew, he spends a lot of time with the crew’s permanent and seasonal workers. After two summers of working with one of the seasonal employees, he mentioned to her that he was a bit lonesome and that “it would be nice to have someone to go to dinner with,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She introduced Hadala to her mom, and they’ve been happily married for 11 years since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hadala still volunteers at the park 30 hours a week. Spending that much time at the park is good for their relationship, he says. “The wife said she’d marry me for better or for worse, but not for lunch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Jessica Tezak \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_889690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/jessica-tezak_custom-e662932768df480021dd9549d99dba0f0b7aef9c.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Tezak is a contractor at LeConte Lodge in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2008\" class=\"size-full wp-image-889690\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/jessica-tezak_custom-e662932768df480021dd9549d99dba0f0b7aef9c.jpg 3000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/jessica-tezak_custom-e662932768df480021dd9549d99dba0f0b7aef9c-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/jessica-tezak_custom-e662932768df480021dd9549d99dba0f0b7aef9c-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/jessica-tezak_custom-e662932768df480021dd9549d99dba0f0b7aef9c-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/jessica-tezak_custom-e662932768df480021dd9549d99dba0f0b7aef9c-1440x964.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/jessica-tezak_custom-e662932768df480021dd9549d99dba0f0b7aef9c-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/jessica-tezak_custom-e662932768df480021dd9549d99dba0f0b7aef9c-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/jessica-tezak_custom-e662932768df480021dd9549d99dba0f0b7aef9c-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Tezak is a contractor at LeConte Lodge in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. \u003ccite>(Nathan Rott/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contractor at LeConte Lodge since 2016\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two corners of the porch of the main building at LeConte Lodge in Great Smoky Mountains National Park where, if the weather’s just right, you \u003cem>might\u003c/em> get enough cell phone service to make a call. Don’t bother trying to load Facebook or stream a video. Sorry, millennials, it just won’t happen at the highest-elevation guest lodge in the eastern U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That might be my favorite part of living here,” says Jessica Tezak, a millennial herself. “I feel a lot less anxious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before working at the lodge, Tezak was connected all of the time. She studied journalism in college and then did photojournalism internships. Neither allowed her to ignore her phone or the stress of always being on-call. “I couldn’t escape it,” she says. “And that’s so not the person that I want to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an internship at the\u003cem> Knoxville News Sentinel, \u003c/em>Tezak was assigned to take photos for a feature called Hike of the Month. Leading the hike that month was a couple, who had met at LeConte Lodge. “They had this beautiful love story,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her internship ended, she thought back to the lodge and the way the couple described it as an “escape.” She was feeling unsure about daily journalism and wanted a change, so she applied for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, she’s living at the lodge with a handful of other workers, cooking meals, washing dishes and helping out a rotating list of guests. It’s not a dream job, she says. Someday she’d like to go back to full-time photography. But in the interim, she says, it’s a good way to save money, meet nice people and enjoy the simpler things in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Heidi Brill \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_889691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/heidi-brill_custom-87c518bcff8e026c56ce3607b155fc0b43f3d10b.jpg\" alt=\"Heidi Brill works with the Trails crew as an animal caretaker. 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She has been working for the National Park Service for 8 years. \u003ccite>(Ntahan Rott/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Trails crew, animal caretaker, 8 years with NPS\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Brill prefers to start her mornings early. On days she’s going to be on the trails, she’s at the barn by 4:30 a.m. and out on the trail with the horses at daybreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything’s so quiet,” she says. “As the sun comes down and hits the forest floor, the animals start getting sweated up and steam’s rising off of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s those moments that carry her through long days on horseback at the park, leading in teams of pack mules to haul equipment and supplies for maintenance workers in the park. It’s backbreaking work, loading the mules up with crossbuck saddles and keeping gear evenly balanced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brill’s used to it though. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There’s a popular refrain among National Park Service employees, one that doubles as a reminder, of sorts, after a long, wearisome day: “We get paid in sunrises and sunsets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many park employees, the pay is seasonal and not great. The hours are long. The question is usually the same (“Where’s the bathroom?”). And no matter how many pamphlets you pass out, instructions you give or “Attention!” signs you put up, people still wander off trails, carve their names in trees and get too close to the bears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw and heard all of this earlier this summer, during a reporting trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most-visited park in the U.S. For 10 days, I tagged along with the park’s employees and volunteers — releasing \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/05/11/477693489/wildlife-biologists-manage-bear-interactions-in-americas-national-parks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rescued bear cubs\u003c/a>, welcoming delegations of foreign diplomats, hunting for invasive \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/05/26/479584561/on-the-hunt-for-wily-wild-hogs-in-a-national-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feral hogs\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/05/19/478643466/budget-shortfalls-affect-national-parks-maintenance-cleaning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cleaning bathrooms\u003c/a> — to try to get an idea of just how much work goes on behind-the-scenes in our national parks. (Spoiler alert: It’s a lot.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what struck me the most were the reasons why — outside of the stunning sunrises and sunsets — people decide to work and dedicate their lives to a place like Great Smoky Mountains National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Bill Gober\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_889686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Gober started volunteering as a trail rover at Great Smoky Mountains National Park 4 years ago after he lost his job. He helps monitor visitors and pick up garbage from the trails.\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1998\" class=\"size-full wp-image-889686\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec.jpg 3000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/bill-gober_custom-c5c8e66cd6581f59806d7b1c95e9594821b9ddec-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Gober started volunteering as a trail rover at Great Smoky Mountains National Park 4 years ago after he lost his job. He helps monitor visitors and pick up garbage from the trails. \u003ccite>(Nathan Rott/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Trail rover volunteer, 4 years with NPS\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It must have been the chicken salad,” Bill Gober thought, hiking down from Laurel Falls on one of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s most popular trails. His stomach was all knotted up. He was sweating bullets and short of breath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made it down the trail to a creek, where he dipped his handkerchief in the water and sat on a rock. “That’s when I called into dispatch and asked for a carry out,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gober had started volunteering on the Laurel Falls Trail a couple of years after losing his job in the medical supply field. He was spending a lot of his time hiking in the park anyway. “It was therapeutic, an escape from reality,” he says. So he figured he’d help out the park’s staff by working as a trail rover one day a week, monitoring visitors and warning them about stuff like rattlesnakes and bears. “Mostly, I pick up a lot of garbage,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was during one of those shifts, not long after a chicken salad lunch, that he had his heart attack. After calling for help, he was carried out by park employees and airlifted to Knoxville, Tenn., for bypass surgery. The doctors agreed that if it wasn’t for the quick response and professionalism of park staff, Gober would have died on that rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why he came back to volunteer on the trail as soon as he was physically able. You’ll find him there on Wednesdays. “I definitely have some payback to give back to the park,” Gober says. “I’m alive today because of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Will Jaynes\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_889687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61.jpg\" alt=\"Will Jaynes patrols the Appalachian Trail as a law enforcement officer. He has worked with the National Park Service for 15 years.\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2002\" class=\"size-full wp-image-889687\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61.jpg 3000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-1440x961.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/willjaynes_custom-4d77f099f37d7f222fa9f0f2111aab0c10ebcb61-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Jaynes patrols the Appalachian Trail as a law enforcement officer. He has worked with the National Park Service for 15 years. \u003ccite>(Mike Belleme for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Park ranger, 15 years with NPS\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years before patrolling the Appalachian Trail as a law enforcement officer, Will Jaynes walked it under \u003ca href=\"http://www.atmuseum.org/trail-names.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the trail name\u003c/a> Hayduke, an homage to the law-defying radical environmentalist portrayed in Edward Abbey’s \u003cem>The Monkey Wrench Gang\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had long nasty hair and dirty clothes,” says a short-haired, clean-clothed Jaynes. “I tell my boss now that if he wants someone to go undercover with thru-hikers I could look the part again pretty quick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a park ranger, Jaynes is part of a small police force tasked with policing the roughly 11 million visitors a year who visit the trail, which runs from Georgia to Maine. That includes thru-hikers and drive-thru motorists, RV campers and minimalists, outdoors people and city folk. It’s no small task. And Jaynes says he draws on his experiences in previous jobs and in previous lifestyles to be a more relatable and effective police officer, a skill that he thinks has been made all the more important by recent events and public distrust with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I can relate to someone and provide someone with education as opposed to a citation, that’s what I want to do,” Jaynes says. “The person that gets the ticket is going to angry and not as on board with the mission of the park service five years down the road, whereas the guy who gets the education is going to feel relieved and grateful and be way more likely to buy-in to what we’re trying to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Michael Smith\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_889688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Smith has worked with the National Park Service for the past 5 years. He's the mountain farm museum coordinator at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1998\" class=\"size-full wp-image-889688\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876.jpg 3000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/michaelsmith_custom-a17ea28c4ba791f710b83778512dae48185b8876-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Smith has worked with the National Park Service for the past 5 years. He’s the mountain farm museum coordinator at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. \u003ccite>(Nathan Rott/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mountain farm museum coordinator, 5 years with NPS\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are\u003cem> you\u003c/em> doing in the Appalachian Mountains?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Smith says he got that question a lot when he started working in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and living in the southern Appalachia. People didn’t ask it in a derogatory or demeaning way, he says, but more out of a genuine interest. The Appalachian Mountains \u003ca href=\"http://www.prb.org/pdf12/appalachia-census-chartbook-2011.pdf\">aren’t known for their diversity\u003c/a>. But that can be misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you dive into [the history] of an area like this, there were many different cultures that were in this area — Cherokee Indians, European settlers, even slavery was in this area,” Smith says. “Those stories have to be told for people to know how they relate to these mountains.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service is facing larger relevancy issues nationwide. Most of its workforce and visitors are older and white, so engaging with younger and more diverse groups is key to its future. Relatability, Smith says, is crucial to that. And as a Florida-born African-American who interacts with student groups from all across the South, Smith sees himself as being able to help fill that role in the Great Smokies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People want something out of a visit. They don’t want to come and visit just for the sake of visiting. They want a view or scenery or they want to be able to connect to the area and its history,” Smith says. “To get those individuals you have to have something or someone for them to relate to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Paul “Doc” Hadala \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_889689\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2002px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530.jpg\" alt='Paul \"Doc\" Hadala, a volunteer at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, works to eliminate invasive plant species from a section of forest.' width=\"2002\" height=\"3000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-889689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530.jpg 2002w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-400x599.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-1440x2158.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-1920x2877.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-1180x1768.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/doc_custom-a57a4ca6d8e47850947661334849dccc1ce75530-960x1439.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2002px) 100vw, 2002px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul “Doc” Hadala, a volunteer at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, works to eliminate invasive plant species from a section of forest. \u003ccite>(Mike Belleme for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vegetation crew volunteer with more than 15,000 volunteer hours\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Hadala started volunteering at Great Smoky Mountains National Park for a simple reason: “I was single at the time and needed something to do,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d spent 32 years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a military engineer, working on missile systems and dams; then another seven years teaching at Louisiana Tech University. He was semi-retired and had time on his hands, so he decided to spend it killing invasive species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate exercising. It’s like pulling teeth,” he says, chopping away at a vine of honeysuckle. “This is a good way to stay in shape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hadala’s is a love story. Volunteering with the vegetation crew, he spends a lot of time with the crew’s permanent and seasonal workers. After two summers of working with one of the seasonal employees, he mentioned to her that he was a bit lonesome and that “it would be nice to have someone to go to dinner with,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She introduced Hadala to her mom, and they’ve been happily married for 11 years since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hadala still volunteers at the park 30 hours a week. 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Don’t bother trying to load Facebook or stream a video. Sorry, millennials, it just won’t happen at the highest-elevation guest lodge in the eastern U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That might be my favorite part of living here,” says Jessica Tezak, a millennial herself. “I feel a lot less anxious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before working at the lodge, Tezak was connected all of the time. She studied journalism in college and then did photojournalism internships. Neither allowed her to ignore her phone or the stress of always being on-call. “I couldn’t escape it,” she says. “And that’s so not the person that I want to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an internship at the\u003cem> Knoxville News Sentinel, \u003c/em>Tezak was assigned to take photos for a feature called Hike of the Month. Leading the hike that month was a couple, who had met at LeConte Lodge. “They had this beautiful love story,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her internship ended, she thought back to the lodge and the way the couple described it as an “escape.” She was feeling unsure about daily journalism and wanted a change, so she applied for a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later, she’s living at the lodge with a handful of other workers, cooking meals, washing dishes and helping out a rotating list of guests. It’s not a dream job, she says. Someday she’d like to go back to full-time photography. 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"content": "\u003cp>Reports this week from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sand-fire-santa-clarita-20160725-snap-story.html\">front lines\u003c/a> of the Sand Fire in Southern California painted the scene as apocalyptic. The drought-fueled blaze was explosive, fast-moving and devastating, burning through 38,000 acres in the Santa Clarita Valley and forcing the evacuation of more than 10,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Climate change has exacerbated naturally occurring droughts, and therefore fuel conditions.’\u003ccite>Robert Field, NASA\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If the state’s wildfire season holds true to forecasts, the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4878/\">Sand Fire\u003c/a> will be one of many catastrophic wildfires to scorch drought-stricken forests and shrublands across California this year. So far, only one wildfire has been larger — the 48,019-acre \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4806/\">Erskine Fire\u003c/a>, which started in June in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and destroyed 250 homes and buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the fires have been among the worst or largest wildfires the state has seen in recent years, but they’re part of a dire global warming-fueled trend toward larger, more frequent and intense wildfires. The number of blazes on public lands across the West has increased 500 percent since the late 1970s, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucmerced.edu/content/leroy-westerling\">LeRoy Westerling\u003c/a>, a professor studying climate and wildfire at the University of California-Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outlook this summer is sobering: Wildland fire potential for most of coastal California and the Sierra Nevada Mountains is above normal and is expected to remain that way through October, \u003ca href=\"http://www.predictiveservices.nifc.gov/outlooks/monthly_seasonal_outlook.pdf\">according to\u003c/a> the National Interagency Fire Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wildfire forecast follows a major heat wave in California, where the temperatures soared above 120°F (48.9°C) in some parts of Southern California. The region is seeing a \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/seasonal-temperature-trends-united-states-20040\">significant warming trend\u003c/a>. Each decade since 1970, average summer temperatures \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/seasonal-temperature-trends-united-states-20040\">have warmed\u003c/a> about 0.45°F (0.25°C).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst of the fire season in Southern California may be yet to come, said \u003ca href=\"https://saffordlab.wordpress.com/people-2/\">Hugh Safford\u003c/a>, a U.S. Forest Service ecologist based in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most dangerous fire conditions occur from the end of September to December, when Santa Ana winds from the desert interact with the driest fuels of the season after five to six months of drying,” he said. “I would expect an active fire season, and critical conditions in the fall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westerling said 140,000 acres have burned across Southern California this year — a figure that amounts to nearly four times the five-year average for annual acreage burned in an entire wildfire season in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Global warming’s fingerprints can be clearly seen on this year’s fire season in California, where the state’s extreme drought is entering its fifth year and record-breaking heat has baked the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Climate change has exacerbated naturally occurring droughts, and therefore fuel conditions,” said Robert Field, a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worse the drought, the more of a tinderbox forests become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Higher temperatures exacerbate the drought by increasing evaporation and transpiration,” Westerling said. “Drier conditions mean highly flammable (wildfire) fuels. 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"content": "\u003cp>Lake Tahoe is showing some severe impacts from the changing climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indicators released Thursday in the annual “\u003ca href=\"http://terc.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of the Lake\u003c/a>” report packed a few surprises, even for scientists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, the lake has been warming faster than ever recorded. In 2015 the lake’s average temperature rose 0.48 degrees Fahrenheit — and over the last four years, the rise was 15 times faster than the lake’s historic warming rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That came as a surprise to me,” says Geoffrey Schladow, a UC Davis freshwater scientist and lead author of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the enormous volume of Lake Tahoe, Schladow is struck by how quickly it warmed. Schladow says if you took the full volume of water in Tahoe and spread it out over California, it would cover the state in 15 inches of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a lot of water,” he notes. “We’re not saying that it’s going to keep increasing at that rate, but the fact that it can change so quickly is disturbing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The fact that it can change so quickly is disturbing.’\u003ccite>Geoffrey Schladow, UC Davis freshwater scientist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Even more disturbing to scientists is how all this warming has affected the lake’s ability to mix its own waters, a natural process that is thermally driven. The warm winters have stunted that process, meaning that oxygen-rich surface water is not making it to the lake bottom, depriving fish and other life forms of oxygen. Scientists routinely measure how deep the mixing occurs — the deeper, the healthier for the lake — and last year’s level was 262 feet, the most shallow ever recorded. Tahoe’s maximum depth is more than 1600 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing now is that the climate and the weather are starting to affect the lake more directly,” says Schladow, who notes that Tahoe is only a mirror held up to the rest of the state; if this critical mixing process is shutting down in Tahoe, it’s doubtless happening in other lakes around the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_882001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 716px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-882001\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/sotl_2016_snow_as_precipitation_ver1605263-716x429.jpg\" alt=\"The long-term trend at Lake Tahoe -- and elsewhere in the Sierra -- is for more rain and less snow, which affects the state's water supply.\" width=\"716\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/sotl_2016_snow_as_precipitation_ver1605263-716x429.jpg 716w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/sotl_2016_snow_as_precipitation_ver1605263-716x429-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The long-term trend at Lake Tahoe — and elsewhere in the Sierra — is for more rain and less snow, which affects the state’s water supply. \u003ccite>(UC Davis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, scientists have warned that the Sierra would gradually see more rain and less snow because of the warming climate, a trend that has potentially dire consequences for California’s water supply. But the trend of the last few years has been stunning. The report’s authors noted that during the winter of 2014-2015, just 6.5 percent of precipitation at the lake level fell in the form of snow. Decades ago it was more like a 50-50 mix.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Times are tough for Chesapeake oysters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, they used to be bigger. “If you look at what people were saying back in the 1600s and 1700s about oysters, people had to cut them in half before they could even eat them,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.serc.si.edu/labs/estuarine_ecology/\">Denise Breitburg\u003c/a>, an ecologist with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, these oyster behemoths were so plentiful that they formed tall towers stretching up to the water’s surface. But today, after decades of overfishing, oyster populations in Maryland’s waters have dropped to 1 percent of what they were around 1900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see how much the population has changed over the years, Breitburg and other biologists and archaeologists undertook the largest survey to date of any shellfishery, chronicling the Chesapeake Bay’s oyster population from almost 800,000 years ago to the present day. The researchers were surprised to find thousands of years during which oyster populations stayed stable – the era of Native Americans. The stability suggests Native Americans figured out how to farm oysters sustainably, and their techniques could help support our oyster habit today, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/113/23/6568\">study\u003c/a> published earlier this summer in the \u003cem>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The archaeologists began by studying Native American trash pits, which speckle the Chesapeake Bay coast and are full of oyster shells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_882107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-882107\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the research team, Sean McCanty and Courtney Hofman, excavate an ancient oyster shell midden at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1613\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-400x323.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-800x645.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-768x619.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-1440x1161.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-1920x1548.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-1180x952.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-960x774.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the research team, Sean McCanty and Courtney Hofman, excavate an ancient oyster shell midden at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md. \u003ccite>(Torben Rick/Smithsonian Institution)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By using radio carbon dating, researchers found the oldest trash pit surveyed to be 3,200 years old, and the most recent to date no later than 1900. Next they measured the height of each oyster as a proxy for past human pressure on oysters. (Humans tend to harvest bigger oysters first, so if the average oyster size is smaller, it likely means that oysters were being harvested too fast for many of them to reach a large size and produce a lot of baby oysters.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scientists rounded the survey out by examining oyster size from fossils hundreds of thousands of years old and by analyzing harvest numbers from the 20th and 21st centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The scale of the data set is massive. To my knowledge, it’s unparalleled,” says environmental archaeologist \u003ca href=\"http://anthropology.uga.edu/directory/victor-thompson\">Victor Thompson\u003c/a> of the University of Georgia, who was not involved in the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team found oysters were bigger hundreds of thousands of years ago than during the time of humans, but no decrease in oyster size happened during the time of prehistoric Native Americans, from roughly 3,200 to 400 years ago. This suggests the oyster population wasn’t under increasing pressure as Native Americans harvested them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_882108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-882108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf.jpg\" alt=\"Torben Rick, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and lead author of the research, examines a 1,500-year-old oyster shell in the museum's collection.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1589\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-400x318.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-800x636.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-768x610.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-1440x1144.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-1920x1525.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-1180x938.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-960x763.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Torben Rick, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and lead author of the research, examines a 1,500-year-old oyster shell in the museum’s collection. \u003ccite>(John Gibbons/Smithsonian Institution)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A relatively low number of humans partially explains the limited pressure on oysters during this period, says lead author \u003ca href=\"http://anthropology.si.edu/archaeobio/rick.html\">Torben Rick\u003c/a> of the Smithsonian Institution. But he said Native Americans also seem to have relied on sustainable fishing techniques. Thanks to technological limitations, Native Americans generally fished close to shore, giving oysters in deep water a safe space to grow and reproduce. Native Americans also may have harvested oysters from different areas seasonally, and the rotation gave sites time to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happened since the time of Native American harvesting?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oyster specialist Stephanie Westby of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chesapeake office blames pollution, overfishing and dredging – a fishing practice that rips up the water’s bottom and leaves mud, where oysters can’t attach easily to make homes. Without oysters to filter tiny organisms in the water, the water quality suffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native American practices, according to Rick, underscore the importance of sanctuaries today. Establishing refuges can be controversial, since fishers rely on oysters for their livelihood, but Rick says well-placed refuges could boost oyster populations for everyone, including fishers. “Ultimately, it’s about rethinking our oyster strategy so we can have our cake and eat it too,” says Rick. “We don’t want to alienate anyone. This doesn’t need to pit biologists against fishermen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some areas are already establishing refuges. In 2014, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chesapeakebay.net/documents/FINAL_Ches_Bay_Watershed_Agreement.withsignatures-HIres.pdf\">the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement\u003c/a> set the goal to restore oyster populations in 10 tributaries by 2025. Now there are \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129037024\">sanctuaries\u003c/a> in Virginia and Maryland especially for oysters, Westby says, and hatcheries are producing \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/16/202718742/can-oysters-with-no-sex-life-repopulate-the-chesapeake-bay\">young oysters to be transplanted\u003c/a> to wild oyster reefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a new source of oysters that Native Americans didn’t have – farming. Michael Hild owns Anderson’s Neck Oyster Company, which is currently farming 6 million oysters. “Not only are you taking pressure off of the wild stock that remain in the Chesapeake Bay,” says Hild, “but the farmed oysters that you place in the water are making water cleaner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick says he hopes archaeology can help uncover more about the history of other fisheries, like blue crab. “The past isn’t something we can recreate or return to,” Rick admits, “but it just gives us much more information to work with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Oyster+Archaeology%3A+Ancient+Trash+Holds+Clues+To+Sustainable+Harvesting&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Times are tough for Chesapeake oysters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, they used to be bigger. “If you look at what people were saying back in the 1600s and 1700s about oysters, people had to cut them in half before they could even eat them,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.serc.si.edu/labs/estuarine_ecology/\">Denise Breitburg\u003c/a>, an ecologist with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, these oyster behemoths were so plentiful that they formed tall towers stretching up to the water’s surface. But today, after decades of overfishing, oyster populations in Maryland’s waters have dropped to 1 percent of what they were around 1900.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see how much the population has changed over the years, Breitburg and other biologists and archaeologists undertook the largest survey to date of any shellfishery, chronicling the Chesapeake Bay’s oyster population from almost 800,000 years ago to the present day. The researchers were surprised to find thousands of years during which oyster populations stayed stable – the era of Native Americans. The stability suggests Native Americans figured out how to farm oysters sustainably, and their techniques could help support our oyster habit today, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/113/23/6568\">study\u003c/a> published earlier this summer in the \u003cem>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The archaeologists began by studying Native American trash pits, which speckle the Chesapeake Bay coast and are full of oyster shells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_882107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-882107\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the research team, Sean McCanty and Courtney Hofman, excavate an ancient oyster shell midden at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1613\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-400x323.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-800x645.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-768x619.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-1440x1161.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-1920x1548.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-1180x952.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster2_enl-f5b5fffb0cac7dd109c2dd8b1cdb2b41ef1d1144-960x774.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the research team, Sean McCanty and Courtney Hofman, excavate an ancient oyster shell midden at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md. \u003ccite>(Torben Rick/Smithsonian Institution)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By using radio carbon dating, researchers found the oldest trash pit surveyed to be 3,200 years old, and the most recent to date no later than 1900. Next they measured the height of each oyster as a proxy for past human pressure on oysters. (Humans tend to harvest bigger oysters first, so if the average oyster size is smaller, it likely means that oysters were being harvested too fast for many of them to reach a large size and produce a lot of baby oysters.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scientists rounded the survey out by examining oyster size from fossils hundreds of thousands of years old and by analyzing harvest numbers from the 20th and 21st centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The scale of the data set is massive. To my knowledge, it’s unparalleled,” says environmental archaeologist \u003ca href=\"http://anthropology.uga.edu/directory/victor-thompson\">Victor Thompson\u003c/a> of the University of Georgia, who was not involved in the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team found oysters were bigger hundreds of thousands of years ago than during the time of humans, but no decrease in oyster size happened during the time of prehistoric Native Americans, from roughly 3,200 to 400 years ago. This suggests the oyster population wasn’t under increasing pressure as Native Americans harvested them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_882108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-882108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf.jpg\" alt=\"Torben Rick, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and lead author of the research, examines a 1,500-year-old oyster shell in the museum's collection.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1589\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-400x318.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-800x636.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-768x610.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-1440x1144.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-1920x1525.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-1180x938.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/oyster3_enl-bf3013f8befd28859bf8e977dd9e44d0c63202cf-960x763.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Torben Rick, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and lead author of the research, examines a 1,500-year-old oyster shell in the museum’s collection. \u003ccite>(John Gibbons/Smithsonian Institution)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A relatively low number of humans partially explains the limited pressure on oysters during this period, says lead author \u003ca href=\"http://anthropology.si.edu/archaeobio/rick.html\">Torben Rick\u003c/a> of the Smithsonian Institution. But he said Native Americans also seem to have relied on sustainable fishing techniques. Thanks to technological limitations, Native Americans generally fished close to shore, giving oysters in deep water a safe space to grow and reproduce. Native Americans also may have harvested oysters from different areas seasonally, and the rotation gave sites time to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happened since the time of Native American harvesting?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oyster specialist Stephanie Westby of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chesapeake office blames pollution, overfishing and dredging – a fishing practice that rips up the water’s bottom and leaves mud, where oysters can’t attach easily to make homes. Without oysters to filter tiny organisms in the water, the water quality suffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native American practices, according to Rick, underscore the importance of sanctuaries today. Establishing refuges can be controversial, since fishers rely on oysters for their livelihood, but Rick says well-placed refuges could boost oyster populations for everyone, including fishers. “Ultimately, it’s about rethinking our oyster strategy so we can have our cake and eat it too,” says Rick. “We don’t want to alienate anyone. This doesn’t need to pit biologists against fishermen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some areas are already establishing refuges. In 2014, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chesapeakebay.net/documents/FINAL_Ches_Bay_Watershed_Agreement.withsignatures-HIres.pdf\">the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement\u003c/a> set the goal to restore oyster populations in 10 tributaries by 2025. Now there are \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129037024\">sanctuaries\u003c/a> in Virginia and Maryland especially for oysters, Westby says, and hatcheries are producing \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/16/202718742/can-oysters-with-no-sex-life-repopulate-the-chesapeake-bay\">young oysters to be transplanted\u003c/a> to wild oyster reefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a new source of oysters that Native Americans didn’t have – farming. Michael Hild owns Anderson’s Neck Oyster Company, which is currently farming 6 million oysters. “Not only are you taking pressure off of the wild stock that remain in the Chesapeake Bay,” says Hild, “but the farmed oysters that you place in the water are making water cleaner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick says he hopes archaeology can help uncover more about the history of other fisheries, like blue crab. “The past isn’t something we can recreate or return to,” Rick admits, “but it just gives us much more information to work with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Oyster+Archaeology%3A+Ancient+Trash+Holds+Clues+To+Sustainable+Harvesting&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Now state and federal agencies are coming down on the weed killer, amid troubling evidence that it \u003ca href=\"http://www.pnas.org/content/99/8/5476.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disrupts hormones\u003c/a> and contributes to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23036484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">birth defects\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, California added atrazine to the Prop 65 list of toxic chemicals since it’s known to cause \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/Menstrual_cycle_women_Cragin_20111.pdf\">reproductive harm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘It’s known to affect animals, wildlife, laboratory animals and the data suggests also affects humans.’\u003ccite>Tyrone Hayes, UC Berkeley biologist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And in June, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/07/EPA-draft-ecological-risk-assessment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared\u003c/a>, “there are risk concerns for mammals, birds, reptiles, plants and plant communities across the country for many atrazine uses.” The agency opened a public comment period for its atrazine draft ecological risk assessment, which is based on new studies. 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Initially, in 2006, the EPA said atrazine \u003ca href=\"https://archive.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/web/pdf/atrazine_combined_docs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wasn’t a concern\u003c/a>, and that \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">“the risks associated with the pesticide residues pose a reasonable certainty of no harm.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years later, the agency has changed its tune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the EPA is saying now, which I told them 20 years ago, is that this compound is found at levels in the environment where it’s known to affect animals, wildlife, laboratory animals and the data suggests also affects humans,” says biologist \u003ca href=\"https://ib.berkeley.edu/hayest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tyrone Hayes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley scientist has spent decades researching atrazine’s health implications on amphibians. He discovered that the pesticide chemically castrates male frogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hayes published his findings about the chemical, Syngenta, the Swiss-based company that produces atrazine, attempted to \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/10/a-valuable-reputation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discredit him\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not a Household Name\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atrazine is the second most commonly used herbicide in the United States but chances are you’ve never bought it. 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California businesses must also warn the public of exposure to substances on the list, which is why you may have seen signs at gas stations, parking garages and convenience stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting July 15, 2017, products with atrazine sold in California will require a warning if exposure occurs at high enough levels. The state is \u003ca href=\"http://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/crnr/notice-proposed-rulemaking-madls-atrazine-propazine-simazine-24-diamino-6-chloro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently deciding \u003c/a>what that level should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since approval is required to purchase atrazine, the new labeling requirements will mainly affect the farming industry. Consumers likely won’t see a change on the products they buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Towers says there’s little concern about the agricultural chemical contaminating California produce, but tap water is a concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has the ability to persist in water for long periods of time, particularly through drinking water, that’s one of the greatest threats to our health and that of our children,” says Towers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chemical seeps into soil and enters waterways, where it can contaminate tap water. 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