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A more significant proposal to include parcels on more than 1 million acres in the Bakersfield area is due in the next few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, California’s oil and gas regulator announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/index/Pages/News/California-Establishes-Moratorium-on-High-Pressure-Extraction.aspx\">a range of measures\u003c/a> including a moratorium on certain types of well injections, more oversight of hydraulic fracturing — fracking — and an independent audit of the state’s process for granting drilling permits. After a flurry of activity at the beginning of the year, the state has not approved any fracking permits since June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy divergence\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>underscores the difference between state and federal views on the future of fossil fuels in California: The state is moving to ramp down oil production while Washington is \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-promoting-energy-independence-economic-growth/\">expediting\u003c/a> it. State officials are taking a closer look at the environmental and health threats — especially land, air and water contamination — posed by energy extraction, while Washington appears to have concluded that existing federal regulations\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>sufficiently protect its sensitive landscapes as well as public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-rich is-provider-infogram embed -50\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\u003cdiv id=\"ig-d6b63a74-852e-f771-1ab4-d90fd4c8e42e\" class=\"infogram-embed\" data-id=\"ff507a65-49f9-4c82-9df3-1d372ac7d1d4\" data-type=\"interactive\" data-title=\"california field production/oil 2\" data-processed=\"1\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is unclear how this schism\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>will play out, beyond aggravating the already fraught relationship between the Golden State and President Donald Trump — though the federal plans date to the Obama administration.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Experts caution that even with nearly 2 million acres now open to drilling leases, there’s no certainty that energy companies will show any interest. Overall, oil production in California has \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mcrfpca2&f=a\">fallen by about 60%\u003c/a> since the mid-1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration has moved federal agencies’ policies toward aggressive expansion of fossil fuel development on public lands,” California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot said in an email. “The Newsom administration disagrees with this direction….The governor has been clear that we need to reduce our reliance on oil and gas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, in a plainly worded statement last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state was taking its steps “as we phase out our dependence on fossil fuels and focus on clean-energy sources.” He stopped short of a fracking ban, which he said he supported during his campaign. Environmental groups \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2019/04/activists-want-california-fracking-ban-newsom/\">have lobbied\u003c/a> to outlaw fracking, but many nevertheless applauded the state’s moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They derided the federal plans, which could allow\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>drilling\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>at the edges of such treasured landscapes as the Carrizo Plain National Monument in San Luis Obispo County and near Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks in the Central Valley. A few of the potentially affected parcels overlap the Pacific Crest Trail, a popular hiking route that traces California’s spine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kassie Siegel is director of the Climate Law Institute\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>of the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group whose 2013 lawsuit halted federal leasing of land for oil and gas exploration in parts of\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>California. She said the state’s slowdown is necessary to achieve its greenhouse-gas-reduction goals and\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>eventually run the state without fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really good news for California and is globally significant,” she said. “This is the first governor of a major oil-producing state to launch the phase-out of fossil-fuel extraction. This is really a watershed for California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit was settled in 2017, forcing federal agencies to review the environmental effects of fracking. With that done, the plans were revived, with the same footprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the nation’s sixth-largest oil producer, but because of geology and regulation it operates differently from many other energy-producing states. For example, fracking takes place in nearly two dozen states and gets a lot of attention, but the process is used on only about 1 in 5 oil wells in California. The controversial practice has been blamed for fouling water and air in communities around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the process of injecting steam, water and other chemicals into wells at high pressure is common, particularly given the heaviness and viscosity of California crude oil. Steam softens the crude, and the pressure pushes it to well bores to be extracted. These high-pressure injections have been put on hold while the state studies the hazards that accompany them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ideally, federal and state land-use plans would be harmonized for consistency and efficiency. But that is rarely achievable in California’s checkerboard of land ownership, a complex blend of federal, tribal, state, local and private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government controls nearly 46% of the land in California, though its mineral rights extend far beyond that under a longstanding land-use doctrine. In the Bakersfield area alone, the feds control about 1.2 million acres of mineral rights. In total, the U.S. government holds about half the mineral rights in California, including rights\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to oil, gas and mined minerals. But few of those resources are being explored, officials said. Federal lands produce less than 10% of California’s oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal Bureau of Land Management is required to offer leases quarterly if there is an expression of interest from the energy industry. Leases are awarded to the highest bidders and are good for 10 years. But officials said they don’t expect a rush of new leasing; companies prefer to rework wells that already exist, and there has been little interest expressed in undeveloped areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would not anticipate that we would see a large uptick on new … leases,” said John Hodge, associate field manager for the bureau’s Bakersfield office, adding that most of the recent permitting on federal land has been in areas already leased and in production for decades or more. Companies have been congregating in established fields in Kern County, he said, because “they’ve got the infrastructure in place and the oil is there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the federal leasing plan for its Central California properties anticipates at most a few dozen applications over the next 20 years. 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Environmental groups \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2019/04/activists-want-california-fracking-ban-newsom/\">have lobbied\u003c/a> to outlaw fracking, but many nevertheless applauded the state’s moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They derided the federal plans, which could allow\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>drilling\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>at the edges of such treasured landscapes as the Carrizo Plain National Monument in San Luis Obispo County and near Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks in the Central Valley. A few of the potentially affected parcels overlap the Pacific Crest Trail, a popular hiking route that traces California’s spine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kassie Siegel is director of the Climate Law Institute\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>of the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group whose 2013 lawsuit halted federal leasing of land for oil and gas exploration in parts of\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>California. 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"content": "\u003cp>California is blocking the fire exits for home insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday announced a mandatory one-year rule barring insurers from cancelling or not renewing policies for homeowners who live in areas of the state that have been recently ravaged by wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hearing the same story again and again,” said Lara, who made the announcement in Oakland, at a home whose owners have struggled to find insurance. “People have been dropped by their insurance companies after decades of premium payment and loyalty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Ricardo Lara, California insurance commissioner\"]‘This gives consumers temporary breathing room while we work on lasting solutions.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mandatory one-year moratorium covers more than 800,000 residential policies in or around parts of the state declared wildfire disaster areas in 2019. 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That plan, he added, will offer expanded coverage before next summer, with full homeowners’ policies, higher policy limits and monthly payment plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>“Many people mistakenly believe this is a rural community issue,” he said. “I’m here to tell you that that is not true. This is a statewide issue that is affecting both rural and urban areas across the entire state of California.”\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rex Frazier, president of the Personal Insurance Federation of California, the new rule comes as little surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a straightforward implementation of SB 824,” he said, noting that state insurers participated in negotiations over the legislation and ultimately supported it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he challenges Lara’s assertion of it being a statewide problem. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t really a statewide issue so far. It’s really confined to at most 10 counties,” Frazier said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No models or mapping predicted the catastrophic wildfires of the last two years, he said. As a result, the state’s insurers have taken on an enormous level of risk without being able to raise rates accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a policy choice the state has made,” he said. “They wanted to protect consumers and hold rates down. Holding rates down worked as long as risk was low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, he said, in order to smooth things out for residents in higher-risk areas, statewide average rates need to increase so the burden can be more evenly shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The question is: How do we have an insurance system that has enough money coming through it to pay for these losses?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California is blocking the fire exits for home insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday announced a mandatory one-year rule barring insurers from cancelling or not renewing policies for homeowners who live in areas of the state that have been recently ravaged by wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hearing the same story again and again,” said Lara, who made the announcement in Oakland, at a home whose owners have struggled to find insurance. “People have been dropped by their insurance companies after decades of premium payment and loyalty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mandatory one-year moratorium covers more than 800,000 residential policies in or around parts of the state declared wildfire disaster areas in 2019. Lara said his office is also asking insurers to voluntarily stop dropping any customers in California due to fire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you live near one of the devastating fires, you now have an automatic year of protection if your home survived, and more importantly, if you suffered a total loss,” Lara said. “This gives consumers temporary breathing room while we work on lasting solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has the authority to impose such bans under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 824\u003c/a>, authored last year by Lara, then a state senator. This is the first time the department has invoked the law, which went into effect in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action comes amid findings that insurance companies have increasingly dropped home coverage plans in areas across the state with high wildfire risk, and as blazes become more frequent and destructive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of homeowners in high-risk fire areas who complained about getting dropped by their plans more than tripled between 2010 and 2016, while complaints about increased premiums rose by more than 200%, according to a state Department of Insurance \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-wildfire-homeowners-insurance-20180830-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report released last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in August, the department \u003ca href=\"http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2019/release063-2019.cfm?cachebusterTimestamp=1575584571736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released data\u003c/a> showing that the number of nonrenewals rose by more than 10% last year in seven of the counties hardest hit by wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“As communities across California continue to recover from wildfires and natural disasters, insurance companies are critical partners in helping our communities rise up,” said Sonoma County Supervisor James Gore in a statement. “The inability to obtain insurance after disaster strikes impacts home values and tax revenues for emergency services that help ensure the integrity of California communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 5 million California houses are located in the wildland-urban interface where wildfires are most likely to occur, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/48642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Forest Service\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara also noted that the number of households covered by California’s FAIR Plan — an insurer of last resort that provides limited coverage for wildfires exclusively — has surged in areas with high wildfire risk. That plan, he added, will offer expanded coverage before next summer, with full homeowners’ policies, higher policy limits and monthly payment plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>“Many people mistakenly believe this is a rural community issue,” he said. “I’m here to tell you that that is not true. This is a statewide issue that is affecting both rural and urban areas across the entire state of California.”\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rex Frazier, president of the Personal Insurance Federation of California, the new rule comes as little surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a straightforward implementation of SB 824,” he said, noting that state insurers participated in negotiations over the legislation and ultimately supported it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he challenges Lara’s assertion of it being a statewide problem. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t really a statewide issue so far. It’s really confined to at most 10 counties,” Frazier said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No models or mapping predicted the catastrophic wildfires of the last two years, he said. As a result, the state’s insurers have taken on an enormous level of risk without being able to raise rates accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a policy choice the state has made,” he said. “They wanted to protect consumers and hold rates down. Holding rates down worked as long as risk was low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, he said, in order to smooth things out for residents in higher-risk areas, statewide average rates need to increase so the burden can be more evenly shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The question is: How do we have an insurance system that has enough money coming through it to pay for these losses?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally appeared in \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/XRVyCNk8PyfNj41KT4udQM?domain=biographic.com\">bioGraphic\u003c/a>, an online magazine about nature and sustainability powered by the California Academy of Sciences.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snow geese erupt against a blue sky trimmed with fresh, white clouds. The air is so clear you can see for miles, east to the distant peaks of the Sierra Nevada and west to the gentle slopes of the Coast Ranges. But Carson Jeffres and Jacob Katz are less interested in the view above them than the one at their feet. Standing knee-deep in a flooded field at Knaggs Ranch, a rice farm near Sacramento, they peer into a floating cage made of PVC pipe and mesh and prepare to check on its unusual inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffres opens the top of the cage and dips in a small net. When he pulls it out, a pair of plump fish, each the size of a pinky finger, wriggle inside. These are young Chinook salmon—a species imperiled in California. He holds up his catch for Katz to admire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men are fish ecologists—Jeffres at the University of California, Davis, and Katz at the conservation-based non-profit California Trout—and they are testing a wild idea. To help save the Chinook, they are using rice fields as winter nurseries for young salmon migrating from their natal streams to the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last century, water agencies have built levees along most of the state’s rivers to control floods and supply water to communities and farmers alike. But these levees also bar young Chinook from the floodplains that historically provided safe, food-rich places to grow on their journey to the Pacific. Today, more than half a million acres of these former floodplains in California’s immense interior valley are occupied by rice farms. Repurposing them as surrogate floodplains during the months they would otherwise lie fallow could be key to restoring endangered populations of wild-spawning Chinook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t restore those floodplains,” says Rene Henery, California science director for the conservation non-profit Trout Unlimited, “but we can recover the functionality that the fish evolved with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Central Valley is a flat expanse, flanked on either side by mountain ranges, that extends 400 miles down the middle of the state. Salmon once flourished in the streams and rivers that course through it. “One or two million came back every year,” says Peter Moyle, a fish ecologist at UC Davis. “They were up to 60 pounds and close to a meter long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For millennia, adult Chinook in California returned to spawn in the upper reaches of waterways that flow down from mountains surrounding the valley. Then, when the winter rainy season caused their natal streams to swell, the next generation of young fish would all swim downstream toward the sea, taking advantage of the many floodplains along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final stretch of their long journey would begin when the fish hit the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, where the water slows, twisting and turning around the Delta’s many islands. Migrating young salmon have to navigate these braided waterways before making their way across the San Francisco Bay and through the Golden Gate Strait, the iconic narrow opening spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge that leads to the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1951349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1951349 size-complete_open_graph\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/20190326_A_0785_full-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Katz examining the siphon after collecting a water sample to measure zooplankton in the floodplain near the Sacramento River. \u003ccite>(Jak Wonderly/bioGraphic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Habitat Loss\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, few Central Valley salmon spawn in the wild. The region’s waterways have been completely remade into a system that includes 20 major dams and more than 1,600 miles of riverbank levees. While this engineered set-up tames flooding and supplies drinking and irrigation water, these benefits to people come at a cost to salmon. Dams block entry to the mountain streams where the fish once spawned, and levees block access to the valley-floor floodplains where young salmon once found plentiful food and shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across their range, Central Valley Chinook are all classified as a single species, but for management purposes the fish are divided into four runs according to the season when adults return from the Pacific Ocean to spawn. Two of those runs are listed under the federal Endangered Species Act, while the other two are considered federal populations of concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engineered rivers are almost completely to blame. “Just as we’ve lost almost all the floodplain habitat, we’ve also lost pretty much all of the spawning habitat,” says Brian Ellrott, the Central Valley salmon recovery coordinator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which leads the efforts to restore populations of these fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just straggling along right now,” Jeffres says. “They’re propped up by hatcheries.” State hatcheries release more than 32 million young salmon annually, and these fish dominate all four runs of Central Valley Chinook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best way to restore Chinook salmon, fish biologists say, is to give them back some of what they’ve lost. To provide more spawning grounds, NOAA plans to start transporting migrating adults past Central Valley dams―from the downstream side to the upstream reaches―as is done by wildlife agencies in the states of Washington and Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restoration of degraded spawning grounds below dams will also be critical to their recovery. While most salmon return to their natal waters to spawn, a few stray in search of new homes. This penchant for exploration allows them to revisit waterways where they had previously been extinct for decades. Recent restoration efforts are starting to pay off: After an absence of 70 years, Chinook now return by the hundreds to spawn in Putah Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River. Likewise, for the first time in more than half a century, a couple dozen Chinook have found their way back to historical spawning grounds in the San Joaquin River, which flows from the Sierra Nevada to the Delta.[pullquote align='right' citation='Jacob Katz, fish ecologist']‘Fish abundance equals water security. It doesn’t have to be fish versus farms―it can be fish and farms.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restoring floodplain nurseries is a harder problem to solve, since this habitat has been more dramatically altered and requires changes on a much larger scale. Repurposing rice fields in the off-season may be a big part of the answer, and NOAA is supportive of the effort. “We’re pushing to make that happen,” Ellrott says. “Salmon are really resilient―I’m optimistic that if we give them the right nudge, we can restore them in the valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restorationists have good reason to think that prime nursery grounds are vital to the long-term survival of the region’s salmon. The most robust population of spring-run Chinook originates in Butte Creek, which runs along a wildlife refuge that contains some of the valley’s few remaining floodplains. The Butte Creek salmon population is wild-spawning and self-sustaining. “It’s the one successful population of spring-run salmon,” Jeffres says. Young salmon here are more likely to make it out to sea, and the adults more likely to return and spawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A probable reason for Butte Creek’s success is that it gives Chinook a place to grow and thrive. The creek’s young fish are larger than those elsewhere in the valley, and being bigger presumably boosts survival. “It makes the salmon more resilient,” Katz says, just like packing lunch before a long trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1951231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1951231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40320__20190311_dji_0341_full-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40320__20190311_dji_0341_full-sfi.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40320__20190311_dji_0341_full-sfi-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Restored wetlands from the air. This area is adjacent to the sample area. \u003ccite>(Jak Wonderly/bioGraphic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Understanding Floodplain Value\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_13 et_pb_section_parallax et_pb_with_background et_section_regular\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_14 text_row\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_pb_column_23 text_column align_text_bottom_of_bg_image et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_12 et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n\u003cp>Before researchers understood the value of floodplains, they considered them risky for fish. “Wildlife biologists thought floodplains were bad for salmon because they stranded them, and that levees were good for salmon because they kept them in the river,” Moyle says. “It was pretty much unquestioned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s only in the last two decades that this conventional wisdom has been overturned. The first evidence came from scientists looking at the fate of young salmon in the Yolo Bypass. Built to contain a floodplain of the Sacramento River, the Bypass is an enormous flood control structure—about 40 miles long and two miles wide—that shunts water from the Sacramento River around the City of Sacramento. It’s bounded on either side by colossal, earthen levees that are more than 20 feet high and wide enough to drive on. When the river runs high, it overtops a weir at the north end of the levees. Water spills down inside the bypass, flooding it, then rejoins the river at the south end of the levees.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_14 text_section et_section_regular\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_15 text_row et_pb_equal_columns\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_pb_column_25 vertical-align-in-column text_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_13 et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n\u003cp>The Yolo Bypass only fills during the winter, and, when it does, some of the young salmon migrating downstream come along for the ride. During particularly wet winters, the bypass is so full it looks like an inland sea. “The floodplains are still there,” Katz says. “They’re just used differently, as bypasses.” A 1998 study concluded that salmon swept into the bypass grew faster than those that remained in the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffres got similar results when he looked at fish in the Cosumnes, one of the state’s rare, free-flowing rivers that still has remnants of natural floodplains. In 2004, he found that young salmon in a floodplain grew faster than those in the Cosumnes River itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, the California Department of Water Resources decided to give salmon about 20,000 acres of floodplain habitat―one-third of the total acreage―in the Yolo Bypass. Most of the land there is privately owned and farmed for rice during the summer growing season. That decision caught the attention of rice farmer John Brennan, who wanted to keep fields in production in the Yolo Bypass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is in short supply during the hot, dry Central Valley summers, especially during the state’s periodic severe droughts. Historically, the fight over this constrained resource has pitted growers against environmental laws that require allocating water for endangered fish like Chinook. Rather than playing this zero-sum game, Brennan has been looking for ways to integrate conservation with agriculture. “If you’re in the rice business, you’re in the water business―and if you’re in the water business, you’re in the fish business,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katz puts it this way: “Fish abundance equals water security. It doesn’t have to be fish versus farms―it can be fish \u003cem>and\u003c/em> farms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_18 text_section et_section_regular\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_20 text_row et_pb_equal_columns\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_pb_column_33 vertical-align-in-column text_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_15 et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n\u003cp>In 2010, Brennan joined forces with two environmentalists to see if rice fields in the bypass could be used as salmon nurseries during the winter, when the fields are dormant and fish are migrating downstream. After scouting the Yolo Bypass for available properties, Brennan and his partners settled on the rice fields of Knaggs Ranch as a chance to put their plan into practice. They bought the ranch and assembled a research team, starting with Jacob Katz since his father is one of Brennan’s partners. Katz invited Jeffres to join him, and the pair has collaborated ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the winter of 2012, the researchers flooded a five-acre corner of the ranch and released 10,000 young hatchery salmon in the fallow field. “When we first started, lots of farmers laughed and said it was the stupidest thing they’d ever heard,’” Jeffres says. He and Katz had their doubts, too. “It didn’t look like fish habitat,” Jeffres says, pointing across the ranch to their original test site. Flat brown fields stretch in all directions, and tidy mud berms divide the land into a patchwork of close-packed rice paddies. “We thought it might be the dumbest thing we’d ever done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_19 article_text_section et_section_regular\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_21 text_row et_pb_equal_columns\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_pb_column_35 text_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_16 et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n\u003cp>They worried they’d end up with a field full of dead fish. They weren’t concerned about residual pesticides, which are applied months earlier and break down relatively quickly in the environment, but they fretted about a host of other potential pitfalls. They thought the stagnant, shallow water in the field might get too warm for fish or make them easy prey for hungry birds. And they didn’t know whether the decomposition of rice stubble, which is left on the fields after the fall harvest, would deplete oxygen levels in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first the researchers couldn’t tell whether anything was happening. “Out in the fields in mid-winter it looks like a mud puddle. We couldn’t see the fish,” Katz says. “Then we ran a net through the water and caught fish with little potbellies. It was amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their rice-field test subjects did far more than survive. They thrived, growing five-fold―from 1 gram to more than 5―in just six weeks. “They grew at the highest rates recorded in the Central Valley,” Jeffres says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the scientists envision that the young salmon, instead of being introduced into rice fields by humans, will leave their natal waters and migrate downstream and into the bypass on their own. To make that journey possible even if the weir hasn’t overflowed, the California Department of Water Resources wants to add gates that can be opened to let salmon swim in and out of the rice fields on their way to the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are still some barriers left to remove, the possibility of wild-spawning, self-sustaining Chinook runs raised on rice farms is no longer just a pipe dream. In the years since they launched their pilot project, Jeffres and Katz have expanded their effort to encompass 20 acres and 50,000 fish, proving that it can work on a real-world scale. They have also found that, on average, salmon reared in these rice-field nurseries weigh 12 times more than those that grow up in the Sacramento River. The reason for this, Jeffres says, is that there’s so much more for them to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1951234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1951234\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40324__20190419_A_1200_full-2-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40324__20190419_A_1200_full-2-sfi.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40324__20190419_A_1200_full-2-sfi-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of chinook salmon fry in a tank at the UC Davis Marine Laboratory. \u003ccite>(Jak Wonderly/bioGraphic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Back at Knaggs Ranch\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffres wants to know just how much more food the rice fields contain. He casts a long, white net across the shallow water of a rice field then draws it back carefully, keeping clear of the mud. Katz tips the contents into a plastic bag and lifts it high so they can both see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy moly!” Katz exclaims. “I am totally astonished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffres is equally jazzed. “That’s insane!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the plastic bag, tiny freshwater crustaceans―or “bugs,” as the researchers call them―dart back and forth in constant motion. The water is so thick with them that it looks like a whirling cloud of pink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These small crustaceans are the perfect food for young fish, and this haul is the best Katz and Jeffres have ever seen. Most of the bugs they netted belong to the genus \u003cem>Daphnia\u003c/em>, often dubbed water fleas for the way they swim in short hops. They’re here in such abundance because they thrive in shallow, algae-rich waters, from puddles to flooded fields to floodplains. “It’s magic when water slows down and spreads across a floodplain,” Katz says. “It’s liquid protein.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickings are far slimmer in rivers. Katz holds up another bag, this one netted about an hour earlier from the Sacramento River. Just a few crustaceans scoot around inside it. “There’s basically nothing here,” he says. “By building levees, we’ve created rivers that are essentially food deserts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento River has several flood control bypasses, and Katz estimates that, altogether, they contain up to 150,000 acres of rice fields that could be used as bug-rich salmon nurseries. Another 500,000 acres of rice farms lie along the Sacramento River but outside bypasses―and he thinks they may be able to help salmon, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of these is River Garden Farms, which lies a short stretch upriver from Knaggs Ranch and is managed by Roger Cornwell. Like Brennan, Cornwell wondered if his fields could benefit salmon, despite the fact that the land is not in a bypass. “I met Jacob Katz and started talking to him about what we could do,” he says. Katz proposed another wild idea, one that could solve the food-desert problem: bug farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They wanted to know, Jeffres says, “If we can’t bring the fish to the floodplain, can we bring the floodplain to the fish?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>River Garden Farms is separated from the Sacramento River by a levee, atop which sits the Rough and Ready Pumping Plant, which was installed in 1915 to irrigate fields. The plant houses five glossy, black, massive pumps—each about six feet tall—which fill the pump house with a low roar. This past winter, the team took advantage of the setup and flooded a fallow rice field to raise bugs, then pumped the food-rich water into the Sacramento River to feed young fish as they swam through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To test whether the bugs would reach their intended recipients, the researchers placed cages of young salmon at intervals along a mile or so of the river. The Rough and Ready pumps delivered bugs starting in late February, and Jacob Montgomery and Jennifer Kronk of California Trout took weekly measurements of the caged fish. By late March, when we visit, all the bugs have been pumped off the field. The field crew pulls on their waders and heads out to the river to see if the experiment worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They start at a site upstream of the pumping plant, where the caged fish didn’t get any field-raised bugs. Montgomery and Kronk wrestle a cage to the river’s muddy bank. Montgomery hefts the cage above the water, revealing young salmon that flash silver as they flip back and forth in distress. The team works fast so as to get the fish back to the river as soon as possible. Montgomery places each fish in a tray with a ruler, splashing it with water to keep it calm and still, and calls out the length for Kronk to record. Then he passes it to her for weighing. When the measuring is done, he estimates that the upstream fish averaged about 55 millimeters long and weighed around 2 grams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving downstream to the next site, Kronk scoops up a fish collected right by the pump outfall. This site got the most bugs delivered from the rice field―if the experiment works, they’ll see it here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, he’s fat,” Kronk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lays it in the measuring tray. It’s 65 millimeters and 2.5 grams, considerably bigger than the upstream average. The next fish is even fatter, at 66 mm and just over 3 g, and the one after that is fatter still, at 71 mm and 4 g.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wow, look at these guys. They’re doing great,” Montgomery says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although supplying bugs to fish in a free-flowing river doesn’t guarantee delivery, a system that monitors migrating salmon is already in place―so the researchers will know when to expect the fish and can serve them food from the fields at just the right time. “We can pump bugs into the river when fish are passing by,” Katz says. By spring, the salmon will have completed their journey, and the rice fields will be drained and ready for planting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1951235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1951235\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40325__20190424_2341_full-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40325__20190424_2341_full-sfi.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40325__20190424_2341_full-sfi-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachelle Tallman, UC Davis Graduate student, creating an incision in a salmon fry after inserting a tracking tag. \u003ccite>(Jak Wonderly/bioGraphic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fish biologists have long assumed that the larger young salmon are when they navigate the Delta, the faster they can swim and the better their chances of survival. “It’s a really dangerous place,” Trout Unlimited’s Rene Henery says. “There are lots of introduced predatory fish.” To date, however, there is no direct evidence that size is important to survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the fish world, we say bigger fish are more likely to make it to the ocean. But no one has actually looked at survival,” says Rachelle Tallman, a graduate student in fish ecology at UC Davis. Tallman is now heading up a project to do just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is part of an effort by the California Rice Commission to incentivize farmers to manage their rice fields in a way that benefits local wildlife. Paul Buttner, who manages environmental affairs for the commission, currently pays farmers to flood their fields for water birds migrating along the Pacific Flyway. He hopes to launch a similar program for salmon that would compensate farmers for creating floodplain nurseries for young, migrating fish. But first he needs solid proof that it works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many salmon from fields survive and go out the Golden Gate?” Buttner asks. “More than those that grow up in the river?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Rough and Ready plant was pumping bugs into the Sacramento River, Tallman was setting up a different experiment to assess how size affects a salmon’s success. She reared two sets of young salmon: some in a laboratory tank and others in rice fields in the Yolo Bypass. Now, on a warm April day near the edge of the bypass, she’s pulling fish from the rice fields and equipping them with acoustic tags so she can compare survival rates as they swim out to, and beyond, the Golden Gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tallman stands at a fish-surgery station sheltered by a white tent. As she slips a young salmon into a bucket of anesthetic, she alerts her team that a surgery is in progress. “Dope!” she calls out. A minute later the fish has stopped wriggling and Tallman springs into action. In rapid succession, she weighs it, measures it, and places it on a foam block. Cool water streams across the fish, which lies motionless apart from flapping gills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surgical scissors in hand, Tallman cuts a small opening in its belly and pushes a centimeter-long tag inside. She closes the wound with a single stitch and knots both ends. “Fish out of surgery,” she calls. A crew member collects the salmon and puts it in a recovery bucket. The whole operation, including anesthesia, takes just two minutes. Then Tallman picks up another fish and starts the process anew. “Dope!” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the lab, another crew tags tank-reared fish. Collectively, the team tags more than 750 salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after the surgeries, Tallman releases her tagged salmon into the wild, sending some into the Sacramento River and some into the Yolo Bypass, which drains into the Sacramento. About 200 underwater acoustic receivers will track their progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early May, the first tagged fish have navigated the perils of the Delta. Now, they must traverse the San Francisco Bay—a huge body of water that covers more than 500 square miles. But this part of their journey is less risky. Once they’ve gotten this far, most young salmon readily find their way across the Bay and swim through its narrow opening beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, out into the Pacific Ocean. It will likely be December before Tallman can crunch all the data and tell Buttner whether—and how much—the rice field nurseries boost survival rates for the salmon. While the final verdict is still out, Buttner says they’re all hoping for a nice Christmas present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fish in Tallman’s study that do make it to the Pacific and survive in the open ocean will eventually attempt to return as adults to spawn in the Central Valley’s extensive but highly altered river system. It’s a journey the scientists hope will become at least slightly less challenging in the years to come. “We’re not going to get back what we once had,” Jeffres says. “But we can mimic it.” He and Katz envision waterways that are managed for flood control and farming but also for Chinook survival, ones with rice-field nurseries and bug farms to help restore self-sustaining salmon populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about welcoming the wild back into human landscapes in a way that makes sense,” Katz says. “We’re reimagining the system to work with nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally appeared in \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/XRVyCNk8PyfNj41KT4udQM?domain=biographic.com\">bioGraphic\u003c/a>, an online magazine about nature and sustainability powered by the California Academy of Sciences.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snow geese erupt against a blue sky trimmed with fresh, white clouds. The air is so clear you can see for miles, east to the distant peaks of the Sierra Nevada and west to the gentle slopes of the Coast Ranges. But Carson Jeffres and Jacob Katz are less interested in the view above them than the one at their feet. Standing knee-deep in a flooded field at Knaggs Ranch, a rice farm near Sacramento, they peer into a floating cage made of PVC pipe and mesh and prepare to check on its unusual inhabitants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffres opens the top of the cage and dips in a small net. When he pulls it out, a pair of plump fish, each the size of a pinky finger, wriggle inside. These are young Chinook salmon—a species imperiled in California. He holds up his catch for Katz to admire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men are fish ecologists—Jeffres at the University of California, Davis, and Katz at the conservation-based non-profit California Trout—and they are testing a wild idea. To help save the Chinook, they are using rice fields as winter nurseries for young salmon migrating from their natal streams to the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last century, water agencies have built levees along most of the state’s rivers to control floods and supply water to communities and farmers alike. But these levees also bar young Chinook from the floodplains that historically provided safe, food-rich places to grow on their journey to the Pacific. Today, more than half a million acres of these former floodplains in California’s immense interior valley are occupied by rice farms. Repurposing them as surrogate floodplains during the months they would otherwise lie fallow could be key to restoring endangered populations of wild-spawning Chinook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t restore those floodplains,” says Rene Henery, California science director for the conservation non-profit Trout Unlimited, “but we can recover the functionality that the fish evolved with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Central Valley is a flat expanse, flanked on either side by mountain ranges, that extends 400 miles down the middle of the state. Salmon once flourished in the streams and rivers that course through it. “One or two million came back every year,” says Peter Moyle, a fish ecologist at UC Davis. “They were up to 60 pounds and close to a meter long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For millennia, adult Chinook in California returned to spawn in the upper reaches of waterways that flow down from mountains surrounding the valley. Then, when the winter rainy season caused their natal streams to swell, the next generation of young fish would all swim downstream toward the sea, taking advantage of the many floodplains along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final stretch of their long journey would begin when the fish hit the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, where the water slows, twisting and turning around the Delta’s many islands. Migrating young salmon have to navigate these braided waterways before making their way across the San Francisco Bay and through the Golden Gate Strait, the iconic narrow opening spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge that leads to the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1951349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1951349 size-complete_open_graph\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/20190326_A_0785_full-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Katz examining the siphon after collecting a water sample to measure zooplankton in the floodplain near the Sacramento River. \u003ccite>(Jak Wonderly/bioGraphic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Habitat Loss\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, few Central Valley salmon spawn in the wild. The region’s waterways have been completely remade into a system that includes 20 major dams and more than 1,600 miles of riverbank levees. While this engineered set-up tames flooding and supplies drinking and irrigation water, these benefits to people come at a cost to salmon. Dams block entry to the mountain streams where the fish once spawned, and levees block access to the valley-floor floodplains where young salmon once found plentiful food and shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across their range, Central Valley Chinook are all classified as a single species, but for management purposes the fish are divided into four runs according to the season when adults return from the Pacific Ocean to spawn. Two of those runs are listed under the federal Endangered Species Act, while the other two are considered federal populations of concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engineered rivers are almost completely to blame. “Just as we’ve lost almost all the floodplain habitat, we’ve also lost pretty much all of the spawning habitat,” says Brian Ellrott, the Central Valley salmon recovery coordinator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which leads the efforts to restore populations of these fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just straggling along right now,” Jeffres says. “They’re propped up by hatcheries.” State hatcheries release more than 32 million young salmon annually, and these fish dominate all four runs of Central Valley Chinook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best way to restore Chinook salmon, fish biologists say, is to give them back some of what they’ve lost. To provide more spawning grounds, NOAA plans to start transporting migrating adults past Central Valley dams―from the downstream side to the upstream reaches―as is done by wildlife agencies in the states of Washington and Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restoration of degraded spawning grounds below dams will also be critical to their recovery. While most salmon return to their natal waters to spawn, a few stray in search of new homes. This penchant for exploration allows them to revisit waterways where they had previously been extinct for decades. Recent restoration efforts are starting to pay off: After an absence of 70 years, Chinook now return by the hundreds to spawn in Putah Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River. Likewise, for the first time in more than half a century, a couple dozen Chinook have found their way back to historical spawning grounds in the San Joaquin River, which flows from the Sierra Nevada to the Delta.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restoring floodplain nurseries is a harder problem to solve, since this habitat has been more dramatically altered and requires changes on a much larger scale. Repurposing rice fields in the off-season may be a big part of the answer, and NOAA is supportive of the effort. “We’re pushing to make that happen,” Ellrott says. “Salmon are really resilient―I’m optimistic that if we give them the right nudge, we can restore them in the valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restorationists have good reason to think that prime nursery grounds are vital to the long-term survival of the region’s salmon. The most robust population of spring-run Chinook originates in Butte Creek, which runs along a wildlife refuge that contains some of the valley’s few remaining floodplains. The Butte Creek salmon population is wild-spawning and self-sustaining. “It’s the one successful population of spring-run salmon,” Jeffres says. Young salmon here are more likely to make it out to sea, and the adults more likely to return and spawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A probable reason for Butte Creek’s success is that it gives Chinook a place to grow and thrive. The creek’s young fish are larger than those elsewhere in the valley, and being bigger presumably boosts survival. “It makes the salmon more resilient,” Katz says, just like packing lunch before a long trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1951231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1951231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40320__20190311_dji_0341_full-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40320__20190311_dji_0341_full-sfi.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40320__20190311_dji_0341_full-sfi-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Restored wetlands from the air. This area is adjacent to the sample area. \u003ccite>(Jak Wonderly/bioGraphic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Understanding Floodplain Value\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_13 et_pb_section_parallax et_pb_with_background et_section_regular\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_14 text_row\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_pb_column_23 text_column align_text_bottom_of_bg_image et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_12 et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n\u003cp>Before researchers understood the value of floodplains, they considered them risky for fish. “Wildlife biologists thought floodplains were bad for salmon because they stranded them, and that levees were good for salmon because they kept them in the river,” Moyle says. “It was pretty much unquestioned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s only in the last two decades that this conventional wisdom has been overturned. The first evidence came from scientists looking at the fate of young salmon in the Yolo Bypass. Built to contain a floodplain of the Sacramento River, the Bypass is an enormous flood control structure—about 40 miles long and two miles wide—that shunts water from the Sacramento River around the City of Sacramento. It’s bounded on either side by colossal, earthen levees that are more than 20 feet high and wide enough to drive on. When the river runs high, it overtops a weir at the north end of the levees. Water spills down inside the bypass, flooding it, then rejoins the river at the south end of the levees.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_14 text_section et_section_regular\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_15 text_row et_pb_equal_columns\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_pb_column_25 vertical-align-in-column text_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_13 et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n\u003cp>The Yolo Bypass only fills during the winter, and, when it does, some of the young salmon migrating downstream come along for the ride. During particularly wet winters, the bypass is so full it looks like an inland sea. “The floodplains are still there,” Katz says. “They’re just used differently, as bypasses.” A 1998 study concluded that salmon swept into the bypass grew faster than those that remained in the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffres got similar results when he looked at fish in the Cosumnes, one of the state’s rare, free-flowing rivers that still has remnants of natural floodplains. In 2004, he found that young salmon in a floodplain grew faster than those in the Cosumnes River itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, the California Department of Water Resources decided to give salmon about 20,000 acres of floodplain habitat―one-third of the total acreage―in the Yolo Bypass. Most of the land there is privately owned and farmed for rice during the summer growing season. That decision caught the attention of rice farmer John Brennan, who wanted to keep fields in production in the Yolo Bypass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water is in short supply during the hot, dry Central Valley summers, especially during the state’s periodic severe droughts. Historically, the fight over this constrained resource has pitted growers against environmental laws that require allocating water for endangered fish like Chinook. Rather than playing this zero-sum game, Brennan has been looking for ways to integrate conservation with agriculture. “If you’re in the rice business, you’re in the water business―and if you’re in the water business, you’re in the fish business,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katz puts it this way: “Fish abundance equals water security. It doesn’t have to be fish versus farms―it can be fish \u003cem>and\u003c/em> farms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_18 text_section et_section_regular\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_20 text_row et_pb_equal_columns\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_pb_column_33 vertical-align-in-column text_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_15 et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n\u003cp>In 2010, Brennan joined forces with two environmentalists to see if rice fields in the bypass could be used as salmon nurseries during the winter, when the fields are dormant and fish are migrating downstream. After scouting the Yolo Bypass for available properties, Brennan and his partners settled on the rice fields of Knaggs Ranch as a chance to put their plan into practice. They bought the ranch and assembled a research team, starting with Jacob Katz since his father is one of Brennan’s partners. Katz invited Jeffres to join him, and the pair has collaborated ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the winter of 2012, the researchers flooded a five-acre corner of the ranch and released 10,000 young hatchery salmon in the fallow field. “When we first started, lots of farmers laughed and said it was the stupidest thing they’d ever heard,’” Jeffres says. He and Katz had their doubts, too. “It didn’t look like fish habitat,” Jeffres says, pointing across the ranch to their original test site. Flat brown fields stretch in all directions, and tidy mud berms divide the land into a patchwork of close-packed rice paddies. “We thought it might be the dumbest thing we’d ever done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_19 article_text_section et_section_regular\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_21 text_row et_pb_equal_columns\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_pb_column_35 text_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_16 et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n\u003cp>They worried they’d end up with a field full of dead fish. They weren’t concerned about residual pesticides, which are applied months earlier and break down relatively quickly in the environment, but they fretted about a host of other potential pitfalls. They thought the stagnant, shallow water in the field might get too warm for fish or make them easy prey for hungry birds. And they didn’t know whether the decomposition of rice stubble, which is left on the fields after the fall harvest, would deplete oxygen levels in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first the researchers couldn’t tell whether anything was happening. “Out in the fields in mid-winter it looks like a mud puddle. We couldn’t see the fish,” Katz says. “Then we ran a net through the water and caught fish with little potbellies. It was amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their rice-field test subjects did far more than survive. They thrived, growing five-fold―from 1 gram to more than 5―in just six weeks. “They grew at the highest rates recorded in the Central Valley,” Jeffres says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the scientists envision that the young salmon, instead of being introduced into rice fields by humans, will leave their natal waters and migrate downstream and into the bypass on their own. To make that journey possible even if the weir hasn’t overflowed, the California Department of Water Resources wants to add gates that can be opened to let salmon swim in and out of the rice fields on their way to the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are still some barriers left to remove, the possibility of wild-spawning, self-sustaining Chinook runs raised on rice farms is no longer just a pipe dream. In the years since they launched their pilot project, Jeffres and Katz have expanded their effort to encompass 20 acres and 50,000 fish, proving that it can work on a real-world scale. They have also found that, on average, salmon reared in these rice-field nurseries weigh 12 times more than those that grow up in the Sacramento River. The reason for this, Jeffres says, is that there’s so much more for them to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1951234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1951234\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40324__20190419_A_1200_full-2-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40324__20190419_A_1200_full-2-sfi.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40324__20190419_A_1200_full-2-sfi-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of chinook salmon fry in a tank at the UC Davis Marine Laboratory. \u003ccite>(Jak Wonderly/bioGraphic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Back at Knaggs Ranch\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffres wants to know just how much more food the rice fields contain. He casts a long, white net across the shallow water of a rice field then draws it back carefully, keeping clear of the mud. Katz tips the contents into a plastic bag and lifts it high so they can both see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy moly!” Katz exclaims. “I am totally astonished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffres is equally jazzed. “That’s insane!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the plastic bag, tiny freshwater crustaceans―or “bugs,” as the researchers call them―dart back and forth in constant motion. The water is so thick with them that it looks like a whirling cloud of pink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These small crustaceans are the perfect food for young fish, and this haul is the best Katz and Jeffres have ever seen. Most of the bugs they netted belong to the genus \u003cem>Daphnia\u003c/em>, often dubbed water fleas for the way they swim in short hops. They’re here in such abundance because they thrive in shallow, algae-rich waters, from puddles to flooded fields to floodplains. “It’s magic when water slows down and spreads across a floodplain,” Katz says. “It’s liquid protein.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickings are far slimmer in rivers. Katz holds up another bag, this one netted about an hour earlier from the Sacramento River. Just a few crustaceans scoot around inside it. “There’s basically nothing here,” he says. “By building levees, we’ve created rivers that are essentially food deserts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento River has several flood control bypasses, and Katz estimates that, altogether, they contain up to 150,000 acres of rice fields that could be used as bug-rich salmon nurseries. Another 500,000 acres of rice farms lie along the Sacramento River but outside bypasses―and he thinks they may be able to help salmon, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of these is River Garden Farms, which lies a short stretch upriver from Knaggs Ranch and is managed by Roger Cornwell. Like Brennan, Cornwell wondered if his fields could benefit salmon, despite the fact that the land is not in a bypass. “I met Jacob Katz and started talking to him about what we could do,” he says. Katz proposed another wild idea, one that could solve the food-desert problem: bug farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They wanted to know, Jeffres says, “If we can’t bring the fish to the floodplain, can we bring the floodplain to the fish?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>River Garden Farms is separated from the Sacramento River by a levee, atop which sits the Rough and Ready Pumping Plant, which was installed in 1915 to irrigate fields. The plant houses five glossy, black, massive pumps—each about six feet tall—which fill the pump house with a low roar. This past winter, the team took advantage of the setup and flooded a fallow rice field to raise bugs, then pumped the food-rich water into the Sacramento River to feed young fish as they swam through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To test whether the bugs would reach their intended recipients, the researchers placed cages of young salmon at intervals along a mile or so of the river. The Rough and Ready pumps delivered bugs starting in late February, and Jacob Montgomery and Jennifer Kronk of California Trout took weekly measurements of the caged fish. By late March, when we visit, all the bugs have been pumped off the field. The field crew pulls on their waders and heads out to the river to see if the experiment worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They start at a site upstream of the pumping plant, where the caged fish didn’t get any field-raised bugs. Montgomery and Kronk wrestle a cage to the river’s muddy bank. Montgomery hefts the cage above the water, revealing young salmon that flash silver as they flip back and forth in distress. The team works fast so as to get the fish back to the river as soon as possible. Montgomery places each fish in a tray with a ruler, splashing it with water to keep it calm and still, and calls out the length for Kronk to record. Then he passes it to her for weighing. When the measuring is done, he estimates that the upstream fish averaged about 55 millimeters long and weighed around 2 grams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving downstream to the next site, Kronk scoops up a fish collected right by the pump outfall. This site got the most bugs delivered from the rice field―if the experiment works, they’ll see it here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, he’s fat,” Kronk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She lays it in the measuring tray. It’s 65 millimeters and 2.5 grams, considerably bigger than the upstream average. The next fish is even fatter, at 66 mm and just over 3 g, and the one after that is fatter still, at 71 mm and 4 g.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wow, look at these guys. They’re doing great,” Montgomery says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although supplying bugs to fish in a free-flowing river doesn’t guarantee delivery, a system that monitors migrating salmon is already in place―so the researchers will know when to expect the fish and can serve them food from the fields at just the right time. “We can pump bugs into the river when fish are passing by,” Katz says. By spring, the salmon will have completed their journey, and the rice fields will be drained and ready for planting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1951235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1951235\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40325__20190424_2341_full-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40325__20190424_2341_full-sfi.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/12/RS40325__20190424_2341_full-sfi-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachelle Tallman, UC Davis Graduate student, creating an incision in a salmon fry after inserting a tracking tag. \u003ccite>(Jak Wonderly/bioGraphic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fish biologists have long assumed that the larger young salmon are when they navigate the Delta, the faster they can swim and the better their chances of survival. “It’s a really dangerous place,” Trout Unlimited’s Rene Henery says. “There are lots of introduced predatory fish.” To date, however, there is no direct evidence that size is important to survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the fish world, we say bigger fish are more likely to make it to the ocean. But no one has actually looked at survival,” says Rachelle Tallman, a graduate student in fish ecology at UC Davis. Tallman is now heading up a project to do just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is part of an effort by the California Rice Commission to incentivize farmers to manage their rice fields in a way that benefits local wildlife. Paul Buttner, who manages environmental affairs for the commission, currently pays farmers to flood their fields for water birds migrating along the Pacific Flyway. He hopes to launch a similar program for salmon that would compensate farmers for creating floodplain nurseries for young, migrating fish. But first he needs solid proof that it works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many salmon from fields survive and go out the Golden Gate?” Buttner asks. “More than those that grow up in the river?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Rough and Ready plant was pumping bugs into the Sacramento River, Tallman was setting up a different experiment to assess how size affects a salmon’s success. She reared two sets of young salmon: some in a laboratory tank and others in rice fields in the Yolo Bypass. Now, on a warm April day near the edge of the bypass, she’s pulling fish from the rice fields and equipping them with acoustic tags so she can compare survival rates as they swim out to, and beyond, the Golden Gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tallman stands at a fish-surgery station sheltered by a white tent. As she slips a young salmon into a bucket of anesthetic, she alerts her team that a surgery is in progress. “Dope!” she calls out. A minute later the fish has stopped wriggling and Tallman springs into action. In rapid succession, she weighs it, measures it, and places it on a foam block. Cool water streams across the fish, which lies motionless apart from flapping gills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surgical scissors in hand, Tallman cuts a small opening in its belly and pushes a centimeter-long tag inside. She closes the wound with a single stitch and knots both ends. “Fish out of surgery,” she calls. A crew member collects the salmon and puts it in a recovery bucket. The whole operation, including anesthesia, takes just two minutes. Then Tallman picks up another fish and starts the process anew. “Dope!” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the lab, another crew tags tank-reared fish. Collectively, the team tags more than 750 salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after the surgeries, Tallman releases her tagged salmon into the wild, sending some into the Sacramento River and some into the Yolo Bypass, which drains into the Sacramento. About 200 underwater acoustic receivers will track their progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early May, the first tagged fish have navigated the perils of the Delta. Now, they must traverse the San Francisco Bay—a huge body of water that covers more than 500 square miles. But this part of their journey is less risky. Once they’ve gotten this far, most young salmon readily find their way across the Bay and swim through its narrow opening beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, out into the Pacific Ocean. It will likely be December before Tallman can crunch all the data and tell Buttner whether—and how much—the rice field nurseries boost survival rates for the salmon. While the final verdict is still out, Buttner says they’re all hoping for a nice Christmas present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fish in Tallman’s study that do make it to the Pacific and survive in the open ocean will eventually attempt to return as adults to spawn in the Central Valley’s extensive but highly altered river system. It’s a journey the scientists hope will become at least slightly less challenging in the years to come. “We’re not going to get back what we once had,” Jeffres says. “But we can mimic it.” He and Katz envision waterways that are managed for flood control and farming but also for Chinook survival, ones with rice-field nurseries and bug farms to help restore self-sustaining salmon populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about welcoming the wild back into human landscapes in a way that makes sense,” Katz says. “We’re reimagining the system to work with nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you want to spend a little time outside this week without getting soaked, tomorrow offers a narrow window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low-pressure system that brought on the gloomy drizzle Tuesday had largely drifted inland by Wednesday afternoon, with an overcast but mostly dry stretch expected through most of Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thursday is kind of the best chance of dry weather,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Ryan Walbrun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t go stashing your umbrellas too deep in the closet just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southerly winds will increase late Thursday ahead of the next approaching storm system, this one dropping down from the Gulf of Alaska, said Walbrun. Widespread rainfall is expected to start midmorning in the North Bay and hit the rest of the region by the afternoon, he said. The rain is likely to turn to showers and possible thunderstorms by Friday night, lasting through Saturday night, with moderate to heavy rainfall and even small hail possible in some parts of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area should dry out by Sunday, Walbrun said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\" data-card-key=\"315412bdcd554e5fab14e2295681d82f\">\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1202219162057097221\">NWS Bay Area on Twitter\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Radar Update 5:30 AM – Going to be a wet ️start to the day. Rain continues to move across the Bay Area early this morning. Drive low and allow extra time on your commute. May need a and a☂️. Rain chances gradually diminish this afternoon. #cawx https://t.co/VbKYblvrm5\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Rainfall totals from Friday into early Sunday are predicted to range from .5 to 1.25 inches in most sea-level urban areas across the region and up to 2.5 inches in the North Bay valleys, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=mtr&issuedby=MTR&product=AFD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest NWS update\u003c/a>. The North Bay mountains could receive as much as 4 inches of rain, with up to 1.5 inches in the East Bay Hills and 3 inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Saturday is not gonna be a great day if you want to be doing stuff outside. Pretty much across the entire Bay Area, Saturday just looks like a cool showery day,” \u003cspan>Walbrun said, adding that although the storm is considered a “cold front,” temperatures are actually not expected to change much, with nighttime lows in the mid-40s and daytime highs reaching into the low 60s in some places.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to get too cold, basically because rain and clouds are around,” he said, adding that the storm won’t be as strong or wet as the ones before and after Thanksgiving. “Quite frankly, there were a lot of colder nights in November than we should have this weekend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walbrun, though, strongly advised against driving up to the Sierra Nevada this weekend, where snow is expected to start falling Friday night above 6,000 feet and drop as low as 4,000 feet by Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anyone is trying to go to Tahoe, you’re going to want to do that early Friday, as opposed to Friday night,” he said. “It’ll probably be really long and treacherous with the high probability of chain controls and possibly closed highways.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>To Michelle Seifer, the timing was just a coincidence: after losing power in a summer storm, she came down with flu-like symptoms. It wasn't until two days later, when a carbon monoxide detector activated and a utility company worker tested levels in her home, that she learned she was being poisoned by the portable generator she had been running in her open garage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's when I went to the hospital and learned that my levels were high enough where they needed to admit me,\" said Seifer, a finance manager and mother of five in Hartland, Mich. \"Because if I didn't receive the proper treatment for the carbon monoxide poisoning, if I were to fall asleep I wouldn't wake up.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took two days of oxygen therapy for Seifer's levels to normalize, and several months for other aspects of her life to follow suit. She experienced confusion, dizziness, and vertigo, and missed days of work when her symptoms were bad. 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Portable generators, whose engines each emit as much carbon monoxide as \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/PresentationSAE_SETC.pdf\">approximately 450 cars\u003c/a>, are especially common culprits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer said she is blessed that she happened to be home alone that weekend, and credits the \u003ca href=\"https://consumersenergyinyourcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/saving-a-life-all-in-a-days-work-for-howell-gas-service-employee/\">utility company employee\u003c/a> with saving her life by telling her to get checked out. But hundreds of others across the country are not as fortunate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/generator-safety-tips-to-get-you-through-a-storm/\">900 people died\u003c/a> of carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators between 2005 and 2017, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC data also indicates that an estimated 15,400 people were treated in emergency rooms for portable generator-related carbon monoxide poisoning during that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Silent, Invisible, Deadly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"As far as carbon monoxide goes, that's a problem that affects persons of all ages ... tragically often,\" said toxicologist Fred Henretig. \"We call it 'the silent killer.'\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig recently retired from clinical practice as an emergency physician, but still works as a senior toxicologist at the Poison Control Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which he helped found in 1985. He and his colleagues have been trying to raise awareness about proper portable generator use for years, but carbon monoxide poisoning cases inevitably surge after each big storm. When the power goes out, people turn to their portable generators, and they don't always use them safely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what people tend to do — not always but it's not unheard of — is just set it up like right next to the open garage door and they think, 'OK, that's going to work fine, it will blow out,'\" Henretig explained. \"The exhaust will blow out, but the trouble is, you can't always account for different drafts and how things get vented around.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's exactly what happened to Seifer, whose family had been running their portable generator in the garage for years, including during a severe storm just a few weeks before her poisoning. She said they had heard not to run generators in enclosed spaces, but thought keeping the doors open would protect them. When she told friends and family about her experience, they were shocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many people were not aware that having a generator running in a garage wasn't safe,\" Seifer said. \"I think a lot of peoples' eyes opened ... knowing that they weren't being safe and just how much having detectors can save lives.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Henretig and others say the problem is bigger than user error — industry regulations, and manufacturers themselves, could make portable generators a lot safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_070517027325-7897918ee8bd8d289400aff25c70e8afed27a4ab-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789605\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning. \u003ccite>(John Raoux/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Both a Solution and a Risk\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Portable generator sales peaked in 1999, thanks to pre-Y2K anxieties. Demand remains high two decades later, fluctuating yearly based on weather-related power outages. The global \u003ca href=\"https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/portable-generators-market?utm_source=abnewswire.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=abn_Vakhas_portable-generators-market_20Aug_CMFE_RD&utm_content=Content\">portable generator market size\u003c/a> was valued at $3.7 billion in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators can provide homes with electricity and heat, which is why they are particularly popular during hurricane season and in cold winter months. Demand \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Demand-for-generators-lights-up-as-PG-E-power-14054242.php\">increased significantly this year\u003c/a> in California, where PG&E has been using \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/power-shutoffs/\">planned power shut-offs\u003c/a> as a wildfire prevention tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" postID=news_11784435,news_11788115,news_11787221]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators differ from standby generators, which are permanently installed, weatherproof, and turn on automatically in the case of a power outage. \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> says portable generators\u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/portable-vs-standy-generators-which-is-right-for-your-home/\"> range in price\u003c/a> from $400 to $1,500, while home standby generators run from $2,000 to $5,000 before installation costs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generators can provide life-saving power in emergency situations, especially for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784435/how-pges-power-shutoffs-sparked-an-east-bay-disability-rights-campaign\">those who rely on medical devices\u003c/a> that require electricity. But they can also pose serious risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC Press Secretary Patty Davis wrote in an email to NPR that portable generators can cause fires, electrocutions, contact burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning, and that the latter causes \"by far the greatest numbers of deaths,\" approximately 75 deaths annually in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research suggests carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators actually has the potential to take more lives than the natural disasters that prompt people to use them. A study tracking confirmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6072056/\">deaths related to Hurricane Irma\u003c/a> in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina attributed 16 fatalities to carbon monoxide poisoning and 11 to the storm itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it was a spike in carbon monoxide poisoning cases following Hurricane Sandy in 2012 that spurred Henretig and his colleagues into further action. After seeing what he recalls as 40 or 50 cases in just over a month, he got on the phone with colleagues in New York and other nearby states and discovered they were all seeing the same thing. He wrote to his representatives in Congress, and contacted the Centers for Disease Control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You realize this is ... literally a public health epidemic, and we really need to do something about it,\" Henretig said he told them. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proper Use vs. Product Safety \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies like the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/464.pdf\"> CPSC\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/co/pdfs/Flyer_Danger.pdf\"> CDC \u003c/a>offer guidance about proper portable generator use. They advise consumers to only operate portable generators outside, and keep them at least 20 feet away from the home, facing away from all structures. They urge installing battery-operated carbon monoxide alarms near every sleeping area and testing them frequently. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2007, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">CPSC passed a rule \u003c/a>requiring portable generator manufacturers to warn consumers about carbon monoxide through mandatory labels with pictograms and phrases like \"Using a generator indoors CAN KILL YOU IN MINUTES\" and \"NEVER use inside a home or garage, EVEN IF doors and windows are open.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these warnings alone aren't always enough to prevent user error. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 15 of the 526 carbon monoxide deaths caused by portable generators in homes \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\">between 2004 and 2013\u003c/a> resulted from machines being used outside. In most of these fatalities, the generators were being used in an indoor basement, garage, or \"non-basement living space.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warnings about carbon monoxide exposure from portable generators are mostly\u003ca href=\"https://www.whio.com/news/local/using-generator-what-know-avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/NCwTdGeD5mgKEfYaVG3b1K/\"> local\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-during-and-after-hurricane-dorian\">seasonal\u003c/a>. Seifer said she had read articles over the years about families in her county who had died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but hadn't encountered any public service announcements about the dangers of exposure from portable generators. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issues also arise from the fact that portable generators are not meant to be used in the rain, but are\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\"> most commonly needed\u003c/a> in response to weather-related power outages. People may also prefer to keep their generators inside or close to their homes to prevent potential theft. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig said that while it is important for people to use their portable generators properly, the best possible scenario would be safer machines that prevent user error in the first place. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC documents describe a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">hierarchy of approaches to control hazards\u003c/a>,\" in which warnings about product dangers are, perhaps unsurprisingly, less effective than designing-out the hazard or protecting consumers from it. Communications like warning labels and PSAs, they explained, are 'last resort' measures that should ideally be deployed not on their own but alongside efforts to make the products themselves safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19283555722709-6c9f2c435dbaef03d352c0209bbdbaf2586a3374-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789603\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Safer Models, Separate Standards\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some portable generator manufacturers have begun producing models with automatic shutoff valves for when carbon monoxide reaches a certain threshold in an enclosed space and, in some instances, models with lower carbon monoxide emissions in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators with these safety features first entered the market in the fall of 2018, and experts at \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/how-consumer-reports-test-generators-for-safety/\">predict seeing more \u003c/a>in the coming years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer's family owns one of these new models, but she didn't know at the time that the shutoff feature was intentional. She said she thought she was using bad gas, and would go down to the garage after about half an hour to restart the generator. In retrospect, she is grateful for the automatic shutoff. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it had been an older model it would have kept running, and it's possible that the fact it kept shutting down limited my exposure and is the reason I'm alive today,\" Seifer said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/new-safety-feature-on-portable-generators-could-save-lives-consumer-reports-tests-show/\">revised its portable generator ratings\u003c/a> in August 2019 to recommend just three of 20 models on the market, highlighting only the ones with these new safety features and reversing the status of the 14 previously recommended models that lack this technology. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two separate voluntary standards govern portable generators. One was created by the Portable Generator Manufacturers' Association, a trade group, and one comes from global safety certification company UL. Each standard has a different threshold for prompting an automatic shutoff, and the UL standard also requires engines to produce lower emissions overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some safety advocates believe one mandatory rule would be easier to follow and enforce than two voluntary standards. The CPSC isn't yet convinced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Generally, a mandatory standard provides a uniform, enforceable standard for all to follow,\" Davis wrote. \"A drawback to mandatory standards is that they cannot be revised and updated as easily as a voluntary standard.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the body currently \"has rulemaking underway\" on a mandatory standard for portable generators, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nist.gov/publications/simulation-and-analysis-plan-evaluate-impact-co-mitigation-requirements-portable\">evaluating the current voluntary standards \u003c/a>as part of that process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis explained that per the Consumer Product Safety Act, the CPSC must first determine that the existing voluntary standard is unlikely to \"eliminate or adequately reduce the risk of injury\" or that \"substantial compliance\" with a voluntary standard is unlikely before it can create rules like a portable generator standard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And industry players don't necessarily want a mandatory standard. The PGMA, whose members include major industry manufacturers in North America, said in a 2014 letter to the CPSC that\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/pdfs/blk_pdf_CPSCBuyerLtrCmtsRequestForWorkingGroup030714.pdf\"> it was \"not appropriate\" \u003c/a>for them to establish a working group on the issue. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Looking Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Progress towards \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-scuttling-a-rule-that-would-save-people-from-dying-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning\">mandatory regulations has been gradual\u003c/a>, even as carbon monoxide deaths from portable generators remain steady. Still, changes may be on the horizon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nicholas and Zachary Burt Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act was \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr1618\">passed by the House \u003c/a>in September 2019. The bill is named after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2016/01/17/mother-lawmakers-work-prevent-more-poisonings/78790678/\">two young brothers from Minnesota \u003c/a>who died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty home furnace in 1996, and would allocate funds and authorize the CPSC to help states with carbon monoxide installation and other prevention activities. It has failed to fully make its way through Congress each year since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/3343?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22application+AND+can+AND+help+AND+education%22%5D%7D&r=83\">initial introduction in 2012. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPSC voted 4-1 in 2016 to approve what it calls a \"notice of proposed rulemaking\" that would force manufacturers to lower portable generators' carbon monoxide emissions. But its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2020/Robert-Adler-Becomes-Acting-Chairman-of-U-S-Consumer-Product-Safety-Commission\">leadership\u003c/a> and composition have since evolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how the CPSC's regulatory priorities may change under new leadership, Davis said it is \"engaged in an ongoing effort to address CO poisonings of consumers from portable generators.\" The body plans to release results of what it called a \"landmark survey\" of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2019/CPSC-Launches-Landmark-Smoke-and-Carbon-Monoxide-Alarm-Survey-Nationwide\">number of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms \u003c/a>in homes nationwide at the end of 2020. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Henretig has some recommendations for improving portable generator safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested manufacturers make the cords on portable generators at least 20 feet long, with legible warning labels that tell consumers not to place them any closer to their homes than the length of the cord. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[That] still requires some act ... on the part of the consumer but at least it would kind of hit them over the head that \"Oh they gave me a giant cord, you know I guess I should use that,'\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig also recommended chain stores and hardware stores stock their carbon monoxide detectors next to the portable generators. After spending $1,000 on a generator, he said, an extra $20 is an especially small price to pay for a potentially life-saving device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her scary ordeal, Seifer wants people to know they should always get checked out when exposed to the gas, no matter how briefly. She emphasized the importance of testing carbon monoxide detectors frequently and replacing them once they are activated, since they stop being functional. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has since written to the utility company to thank them, and has been sharing her story on social media in the hopes that others will take the precautions she did not. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would be the last thing that I would want to happen to somebody,\" Seifer said. \"Just because they thought they were safe and they weren't.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachel Treisman\u003c/em> \u003cem>is an intern on NPR's National Desk.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer said she is blessed that she happened to be home alone that weekend, and credits the \u003ca href=\"https://consumersenergyinyourcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/saving-a-life-all-in-a-days-work-for-howell-gas-service-employee/\">utility company employee\u003c/a> with saving her life by telling her to get checked out. But hundreds of others across the country are not as fortunate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/generators/generator-safety-tips-to-get-you-through-a-storm/\">900 people died\u003c/a> of carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators between 2005 and 2017, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC data also indicates that an estimated 15,400 people were treated in emergency rooms for portable generator-related carbon monoxide poisoning during that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Silent, Invisible, Deadly\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\"As far as carbon monoxide goes, that's a problem that affects persons of all ages ... tragically often,\" said toxicologist Fred Henretig. \"We call it 'the silent killer.'\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig recently retired from clinical practice as an emergency physician, but still works as a senior toxicologist at the Poison Control Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which he helped found in 1985. He and his colleagues have been trying to raise awareness about proper portable generator use for years, but carbon monoxide poisoning cases inevitably surge after each big storm. When the power goes out, people turn to their portable generators, and they don't always use them safely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what people tend to do — not always but it's not unheard of — is just set it up like right next to the open garage door and they think, 'OK, that's going to work fine, it will blow out,'\" Henretig explained. \"The exhaust will blow out, but the trouble is, you can't always account for different drafts and how things get vented around.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's exactly what happened to Seifer, whose family had been running their portable generator in the garage for years, including during a severe storm just a few weeks before her poisoning. She said they had heard not to run generators in enclosed spaces, but thought keeping the doors open would protect them. When she told friends and family about her experience, they were shocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many people were not aware that having a generator running in a garage wasn't safe,\" Seifer said. \"I think a lot of peoples' eyes opened ... knowing that they weren't being safe and just how much having detectors can save lives.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Henretig and others say the problem is bigger than user error — industry regulations, and manufacturers themselves, could make portable generators a lot safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_070517027325-7897918ee8bd8d289400aff25c70e8afed27a4ab-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789605\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portable generator sales fluctuate yearly based on weather-related power outages, but demand remains high. Since 2007, all portable generators have been required to include labels warning about carbon monoxide poisoning. \u003ccite>(John Raoux/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Both a Solution and a Risk\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Portable generator sales peaked in 1999, thanks to pre-Y2K anxieties. Demand remains high two decades later, fluctuating yearly based on weather-related power outages. The global \u003ca href=\"https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/portable-generators-market?utm_source=abnewswire.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=abn_Vakhas_portable-generators-market_20Aug_CMFE_RD&utm_content=Content\">portable generator market size\u003c/a> was valued at $3.7 billion in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators can provide homes with electricity and heat, which is why they are particularly popular during hurricane season and in cold winter months. Demand \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Demand-for-generators-lights-up-as-PG-E-power-14054242.php\">increased significantly this year\u003c/a> in California, where PG&E has been using \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/power-shutoffs/\">planned power shut-offs\u003c/a> as a wildfire prevention tactic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But they can also pose serious risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC Press Secretary Patty Davis wrote in an email to NPR that portable generators can cause fires, electrocutions, contact burns, and carbon monoxide poisoning, and that the latter causes \"by far the greatest numbers of deaths,\" approximately 75 deaths annually in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research suggests carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators actually has the potential to take more lives than the natural disasters that prompt people to use them. A study tracking confirmed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6072056/\">deaths related to Hurricane Irma\u003c/a> in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina attributed 16 fatalities to carbon monoxide poisoning and 11 to the storm itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it was a spike in carbon monoxide poisoning cases following Hurricane Sandy in 2012 that spurred Henretig and his colleagues into further action. After seeing what he recalls as 40 or 50 cases in just over a month, he got on the phone with colleagues in New York and other nearby states and discovered they were all seeing the same thing. He wrote to his representatives in Congress, and contacted the Centers for Disease Control. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You realize this is ... literally a public health epidemic, and we really need to do something about it,\" Henretig said he told them. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Proper Use vs. Product Safety \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies like the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/464.pdf\"> CPSC\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/co/pdfs/Flyer_Danger.pdf\"> CDC \u003c/a>offer guidance about proper portable generator use. They advise consumers to only operate portable generators outside, and keep them at least 20 feet away from the home, facing away from all structures. They urge installing battery-operated carbon monoxide alarms near every sleeping area and testing them frequently. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2007, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">CPSC passed a rule \u003c/a>requiring portable generator manufacturers to warn consumers about carbon monoxide through mandatory labels with pictograms and phrases like \"Using a generator indoors CAN KILL YOU IN MINUTES\" and \"NEVER use inside a home or garage, EVEN IF doors and windows are open.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these warnings alone aren't always enough to prevent user error. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only 15 of the 526 carbon monoxide deaths caused by portable generators in homes \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\">between 2004 and 2013\u003c/a> resulted from machines being used outside. In most of these fatalities, the generators were being used in an indoor basement, garage, or \"non-basement living space.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warnings about carbon monoxide exposure from portable generators are mostly\u003ca href=\"https://www.whio.com/news/local/using-generator-what-know-avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/NCwTdGeD5mgKEfYaVG3b1K/\"> local\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/avoid-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-during-and-after-hurricane-dorian\">seasonal\u003c/a>. Seifer said she had read articles over the years about families in her county who had died from carbon monoxide poisoning, but hadn't encountered any public service announcements about the dangers of exposure from portable generators. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issues also arise from the fact that portable generators are not meant to be used in the rain, but are\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/safety-education/safety-guides/carbon-monoxide/portable-generator-related-carbon-monoxide-deaths\"> most commonly needed\u003c/a> in response to weather-related power outages. People may also prefer to keep their generators inside or close to their homes to prevent potential theft. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig said that while it is important for people to use their portable generators properly, the best possible scenario would be safer machines that prevent user error in the first place. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CPSC documents describe a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2006-0057-0032\">hierarchy of approaches to control hazards\u003c/a>,\" in which warnings about product dangers are, perhaps unsurprisingly, less effective than designing-out the hazard or protecting consumers from it. Communications like warning labels and PSAs, they explained, are 'last resort' measures that should ideally be deployed not on their own but alongside efforts to make the products themselves safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11789603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/ap_19283555722709-6c9f2c435dbaef03d352c0209bbdbaf2586a3374-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11789603\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two separate voluntary standards govern the portable generator industry. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is evaluating their effectiveness as it considers whether to implement a single mandatory standard. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Safer Models, Separate Standards\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some portable generator manufacturers have begun producing models with automatic shutoff valves for when carbon monoxide reaches a certain threshold in an enclosed space and, in some instances, models with lower carbon monoxide emissions in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portable generators with these safety features first entered the market in the fall of 2018, and experts at \u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/how-consumer-reports-test-generators-for-safety/\">predict seeing more \u003c/a>in the coming years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seifer's family owns one of these new models, but she didn't know at the time that the shutoff feature was intentional. She said she thought she was using bad gas, and would go down to the garage after about half an hour to restart the generator. In retrospect, she is grateful for the automatic shutoff. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it had been an older model it would have kept running, and it's possible that the fact it kept shutting down limited my exposure and is the reason I'm alive today,\" Seifer said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Consumer Reports\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/portable-generators/new-safety-feature-on-portable-generators-could-save-lives-consumer-reports-tests-show/\">revised its portable generator ratings\u003c/a> in August 2019 to recommend just three of 20 models on the market, highlighting only the ones with these new safety features and reversing the status of the 14 previously recommended models that lack this technology. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two separate voluntary standards govern portable generators. One was created by the Portable Generator Manufacturers' Association, a trade group, and one comes from global safety certification company UL. Each standard has a different threshold for prompting an automatic shutoff, and the UL standard also requires engines to produce lower emissions overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some safety advocates believe one mandatory rule would be easier to follow and enforce than two voluntary standards. The CPSC isn't yet convinced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Generally, a mandatory standard provides a uniform, enforceable standard for all to follow,\" Davis wrote. \"A drawback to mandatory standards is that they cannot be revised and updated as easily as a voluntary standard.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the body currently \"has rulemaking underway\" on a mandatory standard for portable generators, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nist.gov/publications/simulation-and-analysis-plan-evaluate-impact-co-mitigation-requirements-portable\">evaluating the current voluntary standards \u003c/a>as part of that process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis explained that per the Consumer Product Safety Act, the CPSC must first determine that the existing voluntary standard is unlikely to \"eliminate or adequately reduce the risk of injury\" or that \"substantial compliance\" with a voluntary standard is unlikely before it can create rules like a portable generator standard. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And industry players don't necessarily want a mandatory standard. The PGMA, whose members include major industry manufacturers in North America, said in a 2014 letter to the CPSC that\u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/pdfs/blk_pdf_CPSCBuyerLtrCmtsRequestForWorkingGroup030714.pdf\"> it was \"not appropriate\" \u003c/a>for them to establish a working group on the issue. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Looking Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Progress towards \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-scuttling-a-rule-that-would-save-people-from-dying-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning\">mandatory regulations has been gradual\u003c/a>, even as carbon monoxide deaths from portable generators remain steady. Still, changes may be on the horizon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nicholas and Zachary Burt Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act was \u003ca href=\"https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr1618\">passed by the House \u003c/a>in September 2019. The bill is named after \u003ca href=\"https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2016/01/17/mother-lawmakers-work-prevent-more-poisonings/78790678/\">two young brothers from Minnesota \u003c/a>who died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty home furnace in 1996, and would allocate funds and authorize the CPSC to help states with carbon monoxide installation and other prevention activities. It has failed to fully make its way through Congress each year since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/3343?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22application+AND+can+AND+help+AND+education%22%5D%7D&r=83\">initial introduction in 2012. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPSC voted 4-1 in 2016 to approve what it calls a \"notice of proposed rulemaking\" that would force manufacturers to lower portable generators' carbon monoxide emissions. But its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2020/Robert-Adler-Becomes-Acting-Chairman-of-U-S-Consumer-Product-Safety-Commission\">leadership\u003c/a> and composition have since evolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how the CPSC's regulatory priorities may change under new leadership, Davis said it is \"engaged in an ongoing effort to address CO poisonings of consumers from portable generators.\" The body plans to release results of what it called a \"landmark survey\" of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2019/CPSC-Launches-Landmark-Smoke-and-Carbon-Monoxide-Alarm-Survey-Nationwide\">number of smoke and carbon monoxide alarms \u003c/a>in homes nationwide at the end of 2020. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Henretig has some recommendations for improving portable generator safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggested manufacturers make the cords on portable generators at least 20 feet long, with legible warning labels that tell consumers not to place them any closer to their homes than the length of the cord. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[That] still requires some act ... on the part of the consumer but at least it would kind of hit them over the head that \"Oh they gave me a giant cord, you know I guess I should use that,'\" he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henretig also recommended chain stores and hardware stores stock their carbon monoxide detectors next to the portable generators. After spending $1,000 on a generator, he said, an extra $20 is an especially small price to pay for a potentially life-saving device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her scary ordeal, Seifer wants people to know they should always get checked out when exposed to the gas, no matter how briefly. She emphasized the importance of testing carbon monoxide detectors frequently and replacing them once they are activated, since they stop being functional. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has since written to the utility company to thank them, and has been sharing her story on social media in the hopes that others will take the precautions she did not. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would be the last thing that I would want to happen to somebody,\" Seifer said. \"Just because they thought they were safe and they weren't.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rachel Treisman\u003c/em> \u003cem>is an intern on NPR's National Desk.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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