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As of 2008 it is unlawful to possess one of these water snakes as a pet, but Rose says they were likely introduced as a result of people releasing their pet snakes before this ban was in place. It is unclear exactly how many of these snakes are in California presently, but there are roughly 300 in the Sacramento area, according to Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they currently pose no immediate threat to native species, non-native species often pass a threshold at which the population grows rapidly and starts spreading. According to Rose, we are at the early stage where snakes haven’t spread out of control as far as we know. 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These cuts also expose the tree to disease and fire damage, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Lure of Burl\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwood burl is prized by woodworkers for its swirling grains and deep-red hues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has a very unique pattern, very different than the circular rings that you’ll find at the base of a tree,” Denny said. “It produces a very attractive piece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18716\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 216px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/burl-bed-216x162.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18716\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/burl-bed-216x162.jpg\" alt=\"Artisan Burlwood in Berkeley sells redwood burl bed frames, tables and other furniture to clients around the world. 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Now, due to environmental protections and decreased supply of wood, timber has shrunk to a small fraction of the economy, Debets said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a breezy April afternoon, Rod Price stood at his outdoor carving shop on the outskirts of Orick. He rushed to a trailer behind his shop, and came out with a raw piece of “bird’s eye redwood” cut into the shape of a feather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Watch this,” he said. He poured water over the dry wood. The grains shimmered and popped as the wood soaked up the liquid. “The grains move,” he said excitedly, tilting the piece in the sunlight. “Sometimes they are golden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small burl chunks are often shined and shaped into salad bowls or bear figurines. Craftsmen use larger pieces to make one-of-a-kind furniture. 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(\u003ca href=\"http://jakemiillephotography.com/\">Jake Miille/Jake Miille Photography\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State officials have released routing information for trains carrying a volatile grade of crude oil through California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly released information reveals that tank cars loaded with oil from the Bakken formation, a volatile crude that has a history of exploding, rumble through downtown Sacramento and through Stockton about once a week. Before they get there, they travel along the Feather River, a major tributary of the Sacramento and a key source of drinking water. They pass through rural Northern California counties — Modoc, Lassen, Placer, Plumas, Yuba and Butte — before reaching their destination in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first time that information about the trains’ routing in California and their frequency has been made public. About once a week, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bnsf.com/\">Burlington Northern Santa Fe\u003c/a> (BNSF) train enters the state from Oregon, headed for the Kinder Morgan rail yard in Richmond. Each train is carrying a million gallons or more of Bakken crude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The purpose of the information is really to give first responders better awareness of what’s coming through their counties,” says Kelly Huston, a deputy director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calema.ca.gov/Pages/default.aspx\">Governor’s Office of Emergency Services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notifications (shown below) provided by BNSF to the state list the counties through which the trains pass, and the average number of trains per week. They’re retrospective, reporting what’s already happened, rather than looking ahead to what trains could be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now the information, because it’s not very specific, is being used as an awareness tool,” said Huston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.gov/briefing-room/emergency-order\">emergency order\u003c/a> issued by the federal Department of Transportation requires railroads to notify emergency responders about large shipments of Bakken crude. BNSF had asked the OES to sign a non-disclosure agreement, which state officials refused to do. After keeping the notifications secret from the public for a few weeks, the state decided to release them on Wednesday, following the lead of \u003ca href=\"http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268743/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=fh2TcnV0\">other states\u003c/a> that had already done so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it is very important that those responsible for security and emergency planning have such information to ensure that proper planning and training are in place for public safety,” Roxanne Butler, a spokeswoman for BNSF, wrote in an email. “But we also continue to urge discretion in the wider distribution of specific details.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOT issued the order after a series of fiery derailments involving Bakken crude in Alabama, North Dakota and Virginia, among other states. Last July, a train carrying oil from the Bakken exploded in a town in Quebec, killing 47 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>MAP: State officials have confirmed that crude is traveling by rail in the counties shaded gray on the map, below. Also shown are rail lines owned by California’s two major railroads, BNSF and UP, which share some of the lines. Click on the rail lines or counties to see identifying information. Not all lines shown in the shaded areas carry Bakken crude. 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She says there are three things that would help assuage her concerns: safer rail cars, slower speed limits, and making sure the trains are always staffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butler said the railroads themselves have also pushed to phase out the DOT-111 railcars that have been involved in the accidents. “The rail industry also implemented a number of additional safety operating practices several months ago to reduce the risk of moving crude by rail,” she wrote, “including lower speed limits and had addressed the train securement issue in August of 2013 as part of the Federal Railroad Administration’s emergency order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers have introduced bills that would provide more money for oil spill response, and require more information from railroads about hazardous materials. The recently-passed California budget includes a fee on oil entering California by rail, which would help fund the state’s Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response. It also provides more money to the California Public Utilities Commission for rail safety inspectors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transporting crude oil by rail is a burgeoning business, thanks to an oil boom in North Dakota. In 2013, more than \u003ca href=\"http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/petroleum/statistics/2013_crude_by_rail.html\">6 million barrels of crude oil\u003c/a> came into California by rail. 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Three little yellow-and-brown fluff-balls popped out of the water, cheeping, and huddled together in the corner of the deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s baby season so we tend to get a lot of birds,” said Sheldon, a former forensic scientist who has volunteered at \u003ca href=\"http://www.bird-rescue.org/\">International Bird Rescue\u003c/a> in Fairfield for about seven years. “These are three little Canada goslings that are being kept warm by heat lamps, since they don’t have a mother to keep them warm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bird Lovers Become Bird Healers\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International Bird Rescue (IBR) is an aquatic bird rehabilitation center that treats more than 2,500 birds each year. Anyone can bring an injured aquatic bird here for medical care and treatment, until, ideally, it can be released back into the wild. In early June, for example, IBR volunteers \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Rehabilitated-herons-hurt-during-pruning-freed-5536398.php?cmpid=twitter-premium&t=eed7f4eb801210a92f#/0\">released four baby herons\u003c/a> that had been injured when tree-cutters cut down their nests outside an Oakland post office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the International Bird Rescue’s workforce are volunteers, and they make a significant contribution to the healing and treatment process, said dental hygienist Martha Grimson, who has volunteered at the center for four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learn things like how to draw blood, how to give IVs,” Grimson said, “how to do tube feeding where we’re actually inserting a tube down to their stomach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/birdvet-e1403561757678.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/birdvet-e1403561757678.jpg\" alt=\"Lauren Adams is a staff member at International Bird Rescue. 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And that was a slow day, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guess What: You Can Put the Baby Bird Back in the Nest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are getting into our busiest time of the year now,” Grimson said. “The baby birds are all hatching, so many orphaned birds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water birds often settle in residential areas, and then when the little ones hatch, the family must embark on a journey to find the closest body of water. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We learn things like how to draw blood, how to give IVs,” Grimson said, “how to do tube feeding where we’re actually inserting a tube down to their stomach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/birdvet-e1403561757678.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/birdvet-e1403561757678.jpg\" alt=\"Lauren Adams is a staff member at International Bird Rescue. (Nora Elmeligy/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18631\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren Adams is a staff member at International Bird Rescue. (Nora Elmeligy/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On one recent day, a volunteer did an examination of a large Canada goose, palpating the spine to feel for fractures, and stretching out the wing to look for evidence of fresh wounds or old ones. Meanwhile, other volunteers administered eye medicine to a gosling, and assisted the vet with surgery on an eared grebe. And that was a slow day, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guess What: You Can Put the Baby Bird Back in the Nest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are getting into our busiest time of the year now,” Grimson said. “The baby birds are all hatching, so many orphaned birds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water birds often settle in residential areas, and then when the little ones hatch, the family must embark on a journey to find the closest body of water. On the way, they encounter cars, pets and storm drains, any of which can leave a baby injured or a group of babies orphaned.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The best thing is to try to return the bird to the nest, if it’s safe, if the nest is not going to fall.’\u003ccite>— Karen Sheldon, Volunteer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Sheldon says a lot baby birds come into the center with humans who have unknowingly abducted them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve picked it up,” Sheldon said, “They think now that they’ve touched it, this bird cannot be put back into the nest or be left for the parents and that’s just a misunderstanding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Birds have a very poorly developed sense of smell,” Grimson explained. “Most birds,” Sheldon amended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both volunteers agreed the best thing to do with a baby bird is return it to the nest, as long as the nest appears safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/birdvolunteers-1024x682.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/birdvolunteers-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Sheldon, left, a retired forensic scientist, has volunteered at International Bird Rescure for more than seven years. Martha Grimson, a semi-retired dental hygenist, has been there for 4 years. (Nora Elmeligy/KQED)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18602\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Sheldon, left, a retired forensic scientist, has volunteered at International Bird Rescure for more than seven years. Martha Grimson, a semi-retired dental hygenist, has been there for 4 years. (Nora Elmeligy/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Joy of Seeing Birds Back in the Wild\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheldon says after helping heal birds that have been hit by cars, shot, wrapped in fishing line or covered in oil, her prime motivation now is to help mitigate the human impact on birds, and see them return to life in the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a bird-watching visit to Santa Cruz this year, Sheldon spotted one of IBR’s birds, a pelican wearing a blue band. All birds treated at IBR get the blue identity band when they are released. This particular bird, Sheldon discovered, had been released near San Francisco about 16 months earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It came in starving as a little juvenile pelican and stayed with us for just a couple weeks while it got fattened up,” Sheldon said. “And here it is almost a year-and-a-half later down in Santa Cruz doing quite well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, the pelican was behaving like a pelican, sitting with other birds, not begging for food from humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still get chills thinking about this,” Sheldon said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"audio-wrap\">\n\u003ch2>Listen:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2014/06/20140623science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_18543\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/orchard3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18543\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/06/orchard3.jpg\" alt=\"(Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An almond tree that’s been uprooted due to drought near Los Banos, California. (Lindsey Hoshaw/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farmers who lack water in California are facing a tough summer ahead, but for those who do have water, it can be a windfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is hitting record prices on the open market, prompting some farmers to pump groundwater and sell it — what some call “groundwater mining.” With groundwater already at record-low levels in parts of the state, concerns are rising that these water sales, known as water transfers, may put pressure on California’s overtaxed aquifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other water deals, farmers are selling the water they get from reservoirs or rivers and are using groundwater instead to irrigate their fields, known as “groundwater substitution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 60 billion gallons of groundwater are being proposed in water sales this year — either sold for profit or substituted for water sold for profit, according to a KQED analysis of documents filed with state and federal agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drawing the Battle Lines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Anthea Hansen took the podium at a crowded Merced County Board of Supervisors meeting, knowing she was facing a tough crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry to bring this issue to your board and cause such a ruckus,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We’re in crisis mode. I have trees I need to keep alive.’\u003ccite>— Anthea Hansen, Del Puerto Water District\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hansen is the general manger of the Del Puerto Water District, which serves about 45,000 acres of farmland on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, an hour south of Stockton. But here she was, 50 miles away in Merced, telling the board why she needs to buy groundwater to save her district’s crops and orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in crisis mode,” she said. “I have trees I need to keep alive. We don’t need large quantities of water to do that. If that doesn’t happen, the trees are gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many water districts with the lowest-priority rights, “junior” water rights, Del Puerto’s normal water supply has dried up this year. Water levels in the federal reservoir system, known as the Central Valley Project, are too low to meet demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Hansen worked out a deal with two ranchers in Merced County. They would pump up to seven billion gallons of their groundwater, put it into canals, and sell it to Hansen’s farmers over two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is common practice,” Steve Sloan told the Merced Board of Supervisors at the same meeting. He’s one of the ranchers who stands to make millions from the deal. 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