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"content": "\u003cp>Sites Reservoir, the largest new water storage proposal in California, recently won a commitment of $816 million in state funds to help with construction. It promises to deliver enough water every year, on average, to serve 1 million homes. But regulatory realities looming in the background may mean the project has substantially less water at its disposal.[contextly_sidebar id=”AyOpbL4gYkqrepIS2f6f0KZX0LE1uVWd”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project would inundate an oak-studded valley 8 miles west of Maxwell, a town on Interstate-5 about a 90-minute drive north of Sacramento. For a total construction cost of $5.1 billion, the shallow \u003ca href=\"https://www.sitesproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sites Reservoir\u003c/a> could store 1.8 million acre-feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the project’s appeal lies in the fact that it is an “off-stream” reservoir, meaning it would not store water by damming a major river. 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The result was illustrated during California’s recent five-year drought, in which thousands of water rights had to be curtailed to ensure enough flow for the most senior water-rights holders and for salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and other imperiled fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay-Delta Plan Update would make some degree of curtailments permanent to protect the long-term health of the watershed and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas.[contextly_sidebar id=”JTGjZdMIAz5OxIA5p0zsQiHppjHxlGzS”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water board has yet to release a draft document explaining what those curtailments will look like. Under the Clean Water Act, the plan must be updated every three years. As of now, it has been 12 years since the last update.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a similar process began in 2017 for the San Joaquin River, and three tributaries could require steep cutbacks for many diverters in that watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sites project does not yet have water rights on the Sacramento River to fill the proposed reservoir. This environment of permanent cutbacks for existing diverters is likely to make obtaining new water rights even more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the water board adopts new standards for Delta outflow and Sacramento River inflows to the Delta, that would limit the periods of time when Sites could be diverting,” said Doug Obegi, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council who is monitoring the process. “It would significantly reduce the yield of the project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomson said it’s too early to tell how the water board’s process will affect Sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He emphasized the whole purpose of the Sites project is to capture water when a surplus is available, such as during storm runoff. As a result, it may not be affected by the same rules that govern water rights for farms and cities, which divert water on a more continual basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty darn speculative,” he said. “Of course, it will change our diversion criteria when they implement the plan. But this is a complex project and we’re adding into an already complex water system. So it’s not easy to give yes and no answers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second potential limit arises from concerns expressed by the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. In \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JPgZO7jfucpGE-XAtqa5mgAz-REy4JCO/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">formal comments\u003c/a> submitted in January on the Sites draft environmental impact report, department officials said the reservoir may not be able to divert water from the Sacramento River as often as its proponents think. The issue has to do with “bypass flows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposed operation of Sites calls for diverting water into the reservoir whenever flows in the Sacramento River are between 3,250 and 5,000 cubic ft per second, depending on where the water is diverted. This is known as the bypass flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Fish and Wildlife, however, says the bypass flow in the river must be at least 13,000 cfs before Sites can divert. The reason is that imperiled salmon in the river need at least that much flow to survive. This much additional bypass flow means Sites may have less opportunity to fill the reservoir and, potentially, less water in total available to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will obviously change the economics pretty dramatically, and will change who’s interested in the project,” said Obegi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomson said the smaller bypass flow numbers were used for the environmental impact report in order to analyze the worst possible effects on fish and habitat. He also said that if the project must adhere to a higher bypass flow requirement, it won’t necessarily limit total diversions into the reservoir.[contextly_sidebar id=”LbC6DjLENX0bn17h8N9FAK37z05WYIIX”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason, he said, is climate change: It is possible the bypass flow number will be exceeded more often as precipitation in the watershed falls as rain rather than snow. This could make the Sacramento River “flashier,” and the Sites project could capture those flow peaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our permits increase those bypass amounts, then we would have to adapt our operations,” Thomson said. “But you can’t equate that to total volume, because you have to know how many days or hours or weeks you can divert for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option for the project is to build a smaller reservoir. Sites officials have previously said \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article215421995.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they would consider reducing its size\u003c/a>, based on the amount of investment from participating water agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">Receiving the $816 million in state funds for construction is conditioned upon obtaining water rights and environmental permits, among other things. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sites Reservoir, the largest new water storage proposal in California, recently won a commitment of $816 million in state funds to help with construction. It promises to deliver enough water every year, on average, to serve 1 million homes. But regulatory realities looming in the background may mean the project has substantially less water at its disposal.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project would inundate an oak-studded valley 8 miles west of Maxwell, a town on Interstate-5 about a 90-minute drive north of Sacramento. For a total construction cost of $5.1 billion, the shallow \u003ca href=\"https://www.sitesproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sites Reservoir\u003c/a> could store 1.8 million acre-feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the project’s appeal lies in the fact that it is an “off-stream” reservoir, meaning it would not store water by damming a major river. Instead, it would be filled by water pumped from the Sacramento River, 14 miles away, during times of surplus flow. On average, project proponents estimate, about 500,000 acre-feet of water would be available annually for delivery to farms, cities and wildlife refuge areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an off-stream reservoir, Sites would not be subject to typical winter flood-control requirements, which require most reservoirs to release vast quantities of water during winter – even during droughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also is designed to work in concert with other major reservoirs in Northern California to benefit wildlife. For instance, Sites could deliver summer irrigation water to farmers instead of the much larger and deeper Shasta Reservoir, allowing the latter to preserve its cold water pool for the fall salmon run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a different animal. It works differently,” said Rob Thomson, environmental planning manager for Sites. “It’s a way of starting to head toward sustainable surface water management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the California Water Commission \u003ca href=\"https://cwc.ca.gov/Documents/Press/MCEDPressRelease_072418.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committed to fund\u003c/a> $816 million of the total construction cost for Sites using money generated by Proposition 1, a water bond approved by the state’s voters in 2014. Sites received by far the largest award out of the eight projects approved for funding.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $4 billion balance of construction costs would be funded by more than two \u003ca href=\"https://www.sitesproject.org/participants/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozen water agencies\u003c/a> that have shown interest in the project, ranging from the nearby Maxwell Irrigation District to the giant Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission also agreed to hand over $41 million in “early funding” to help Sites pay for environment studies and permits prior to construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two routine regulatory actions converging on the project mean Sites could be forced to cut its 500,000 acre-foot annual delivery estimate. This, in turn, could make its water more expensive for the agencies that choose to invest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first is an update of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/comp_review.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan.\u003c/a> Led by the State Water Resources Control Board, it would require thousands of water-rights holders to reduce their diversions from the Sacramento River and its tributaries in order to improve flows for aquatic habitat and water quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento River – the largest river in California – is already considered oversubscribed, meaning more water rights have been issued than there is actual water to extract. The result was illustrated during California’s recent five-year drought, in which thousands of water rights had to be curtailed to ensure enough flow for the most senior water-rights holders and for salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and other imperiled fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay-Delta Plan Update would make some degree of curtailments permanent to protect the long-term health of the watershed and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water board has yet to release a draft document explaining what those curtailments will look like. Under the Clean Water Act, the plan must be updated every three years. As of now, it has been 12 years since the last update.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a similar process began in 2017 for the San Joaquin River, and three tributaries could require steep cutbacks for many diverters in that watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sites project does not yet have water rights on the Sacramento River to fill the proposed reservoir. This environment of permanent cutbacks for existing diverters is likely to make obtaining new water rights even more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the water board adopts new standards for Delta outflow and Sacramento River inflows to the Delta, that would limit the periods of time when Sites could be diverting,” said Doug Obegi, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council who is monitoring the process. “It would significantly reduce the yield of the project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomson said it’s too early to tell how the water board’s process will affect Sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He emphasized the whole purpose of the Sites project is to capture water when a surplus is available, such as during storm runoff. As a result, it may not be affected by the same rules that govern water rights for farms and cities, which divert water on a more continual basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty darn speculative,” he said. “Of course, it will change our diversion criteria when they implement the plan. But this is a complex project and we’re adding into an already complex water system. So it’s not easy to give yes and no answers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second potential limit arises from concerns expressed by the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. In \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JPgZO7jfucpGE-XAtqa5mgAz-REy4JCO/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">formal comments\u003c/a> submitted in January on the Sites draft environmental impact report, department officials said the reservoir may not be able to divert water from the Sacramento River as often as its proponents think. The issue has to do with “bypass flows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposed operation of Sites calls for diverting water into the reservoir whenever flows in the Sacramento River are between 3,250 and 5,000 cubic ft per second, depending on where the water is diverted. This is known as the bypass flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Fish and Wildlife, however, says the bypass flow in the river must be at least 13,000 cfs before Sites can divert. The reason is that imperiled salmon in the river need at least that much flow to survive. This much additional bypass flow means Sites may have less opportunity to fill the reservoir and, potentially, less water in total available to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will obviously change the economics pretty dramatically, and will change who’s interested in the project,” said Obegi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomson said the smaller bypass flow numbers were used for the environmental impact report in order to analyze the worst possible effects on fish and habitat. He also said that if the project must adhere to a higher bypass flow requirement, it won’t necessarily limit total diversions into the reservoir.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason, he said, is climate change: It is possible the bypass flow number will be exceeded more often as precipitation in the watershed falls as rain rather than snow. This could make the Sacramento River “flashier,” and the Sites project could capture those flow peaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our permits increase those bypass amounts, then we would have to adapt our operations,” Thomson said. “But you can’t equate that to total volume, because you have to know how many days or hours or weeks you can divert for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option for the project is to build a smaller reservoir. Sites officials have previously said \u003ca class=\"preview-link\" href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article215421995.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they would consider reducing its size\u003c/a>, based on the amount of investment from participating water agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">Receiving the $816 million in state funds for construction is conditioned upon obtaining water rights and environmental permits, among other things. Thomson said he anticipates the Sites project will have all those requirements ready for the state Water Commission by the end of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When a wildfire starts, whether by lightning or human hand, it is almost always smothered.[contextly_sidebar id=”rAPdiOusjR0JcHb07qYq15XwzGemasFQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters and aircraft are dispatched at the first sign of smoke. Ground crews build tight containment lines, contouring where they can with the fire’s edge. Helicopters douse hot spots and flames with deluges of foamy water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public and media extol their efforts. The headline reads, “Brave firefighters tame destructive fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malcolm North, a fire ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service and the University of California, Davis, gets it. He once worked as a wildland firefighter himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, he says, is that approach to wildfire is not just short-sighted, it’s dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overgrown forests, the result of a century of aggressive firefighting, are one of the biggest contributors to the types of massive, catastrophic fires that are becoming more common in much of the west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lesson we learn \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/635983535/photos-as-one-california-wildfire-ebbs-another-explodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/634696282/california-carr-fire-leaves-many-unsure-about-their-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/23/425519562/wildfires-in-montana-california-scorch-thousands-of-acres-trigger-evacuationshttps://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/23/425519562/wildfires-in-montana-california-scorch-thousands-of-acres-trigger-evacuations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time you get one of these big fires, it is the result of 100 years of management decisions where they went and put out lightning strikes, they limited or shut down prescribed fire. And those decisions eventually accumulate and bite you in the butt,” he says, between quick breaths, hiking up a rock-strewn trail in the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles back, North passed a sign declaring the trail closed due to a fire ahead. The sky is a muted blue and the jagged Sierra peaks to the west are fuzzy from a haze of drifting smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North is hiking towards the fire — \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5850/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Lions Fire\u003c/a> — because it’s an example of a different approach. It was, for a brief moment, the rare fire that forest managers decided not to smother, but to let burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a good example of just how difficult that decision can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Rare Opportunity \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lions Fire started the way a wildfire should, when lightning struck a tree-covered ridge in the Ansel Adams Wilderness, south of Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That already made it a rarity. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/27/517100594/whats-the-leading-cause-of-wildfires-in-the-u-s-humans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vast majority of wildfires\u003c/a>, 84 percent, are human-caused.[contextly_sidebar id=”4m3cHY0fNql9k9UTgKMD6a3F4sluq5MY”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also made the fire an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service has been talking about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/01/05/508319075/forest-service-tries-a-different-approach-on-whether-to-let-fires-burn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letting more naturally-caused wildfires burn\u003c/a> for decades. There’s a recognition that wildfire is part of the landscape across much of America. Forests evolved with fire. 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This fire is in a good place,'” Tolmie says. “Can we have positive effects from the fire? Yes we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Forest Service allowed the fire to burn over a 2,000 acre area, she says. Fire crews were sent in to make sure the fire stayed in that area, but they didn’t go with the goal of stamping out every flame. They were there to manage the fire, not fight it.[contextly_sidebar id=”PmzdUgtKebdZOFLvEkIFV7HQTwb0qpx7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This decision is incredibly rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a nail-biter,” Tolmie says. “You’re making a decision where — I usually do it as: Did I dot every ‘i’ and cross every ‘t’?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service stopped counting how many fires it and other agencies manage this way in 2009, as part of a larger policy change. From the years 1998 to 2008 though, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/fireInfo_stats_fireUse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the last with data\u003c/a>, less than half of one percent — 0.4 percent — of all ignitions in the U.S. were allowed to burn. The rest were put out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lions Fire would be no different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Delaying The Inevitable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stump burns in a swirl of flame on the eastern edge of the Lions Fire. 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And the effects of it are only expected to\u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0188486#sec006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> worsen the problem\u003c/a> going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there has been more political attention on the issue of overgrown forests of late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-zinke-directs-interior-bureaus-take-aggressive-action-prevent-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling for more ‘active’ logging\u003c/a> and thinning in western forests. The goal is to reduce fire risk and jump-start resource-dependent economies in parts of the rural west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are logistical challenges to doing that though. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When a wildfire starts, whether by lightning or human hand, it is almost always smothered.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters and aircraft are dispatched at the first sign of smoke. Ground crews build tight containment lines, contouring where they can with the fire’s edge. Helicopters douse hot spots and flames with deluges of foamy water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public and media extol their efforts. The headline reads, “Brave firefighters tame destructive fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malcolm North, a fire ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service and the University of California, Davis, gets it. He once worked as a wildland firefighter himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, he says, is that approach to wildfire is not just short-sighted, it’s dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overgrown forests, the result of a century of aggressive firefighting, are one of the biggest contributors to the types of massive, catastrophic fires that are becoming more common in much of the west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lesson we learn \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/635983535/photos-as-one-california-wildfire-ebbs-another-explodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/634696282/california-carr-fire-leaves-many-unsure-about-their-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/23/425519562/wildfires-in-montana-california-scorch-thousands-of-acres-trigger-evacuationshttps://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/23/425519562/wildfires-in-montana-california-scorch-thousands-of-acres-trigger-evacuations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time you get one of these big fires, it is the result of 100 years of management decisions where they went and put out lightning strikes, they limited or shut down prescribed fire. And those decisions eventually accumulate and bite you in the butt,” he says, between quick breaths, hiking up a rock-strewn trail in the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles back, North passed a sign declaring the trail closed due to a fire ahead. The sky is a muted blue and the jagged Sierra peaks to the west are fuzzy from a haze of drifting smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North is hiking towards the fire — \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5850/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Lions Fire\u003c/a> — because it’s an example of a different approach. It was, for a brief moment, the rare fire that forest managers decided not to smother, but to let burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also a good example of just how difficult that decision can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Rare Opportunity \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lions Fire started the way a wildfire should, when lightning struck a tree-covered ridge in the Ansel Adams Wilderness, south of Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That already made it a rarity. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/27/517100594/whats-the-leading-cause-of-wildfires-in-the-u-s-humans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vast majority of wildfires\u003c/a>, 84 percent, are human-caused.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also made the fire an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service has been talking about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/01/05/508319075/forest-service-tries-a-different-approach-on-whether-to-let-fires-burn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letting more naturally-caused wildfires burn\u003c/a> for decades. There’s a recognition that wildfire is part of the landscape across much of America. Forests evolved with fire. They \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17147189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">depend on it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area the Lions Fire was burning hadn’t burned in a long time, and there were indications that fire was needed. Half of the trees in the surrounding forest were already dead, killed by beetles. A windstorm, years earlier, had downed thousands of trees to the east of the fire, creating a jumbled mess on the forest floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For forest managers like Denise Tolmie, a district ranger in the Sierra National Forest, the Lions Fire seemed like an opportunity to restore some health to the forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It checked all of the boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started naturally, early in the season. It was far away from people and property. It was in an area that had seen fire historically but hadn’t burned in some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Initially we said, ‘Yup. This fire is in a good place,'” Tolmie says. “Can we have positive effects from the fire? Yes we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Forest Service allowed the fire to burn over a 2,000 acre area, she says. Fire crews were sent in to make sure the fire stayed in that area, but they didn’t go with the goal of stamping out every flame. They were there to manage the fire, not fight it.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This decision is incredibly rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a nail-biter,” Tolmie says. “You’re making a decision where — I usually do it as: Did I dot every ‘i’ and cross every ‘t’?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service stopped counting how many fires it and other agencies manage this way in 2009, as part of a larger policy change. From the years 1998 to 2008 though, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/fireInfo_stats_fireUse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the last with data\u003c/a>, less than half of one percent — 0.4 percent — of all ignitions in the U.S. were allowed to burn. The rest were put out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lions Fire would be no different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Delaying The Inevitable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stump burns in a swirl of flame on the eastern edge of the Lions Fire. Smoke rises from downed logs and stump holes under a canopy of tall trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forest is quiet, apart from the occasional crack or pop of wood and flame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It almost seems peaceful,” North says. “It’s kind of nice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lions Fire is burning through this area at a low-intensity, slowly creeping through pine needles, branches and brush on the forest floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, North says, a lot of the forests in the Sierras saw fire like this about every 20 years. For the last century, the Forest Service has been aggressively putting those fires out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the conifers didn’t stop dropping needles. Trees didn’t stop growing or falling down. Without fire, that vegetation has built up over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North looks at that accumulation as a debt that society, someday, is going to have to pay off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time you put a fire out, you’re just postponing it. You’re just kicking the can down the road,” he says. “And not only are you postponing it, but you just increase the actual fuel load that is out there, so when it does happen you get these massive megafire events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/8/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climate change\u003c/a> is another major contributor to the those types of fires. And the effects of it are only expected to\u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0188486#sec006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> worsen the problem\u003c/a> going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there has been more political attention on the issue of overgrown forests of late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-zinke-directs-interior-bureaus-take-aggressive-action-prevent-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling for more ‘active’ logging\u003c/a> and thinning in western forests. The goal is to reduce fire risk and jump-start resource-dependent economies in parts of the rural west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are logistical challenges to doing that though. The Lions Fire, for example, is burning in the wilderness, an area where mechanical thinning or logging is prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t thin our way out of this,” North says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prescribed fire needs to be utilized more often, he says, and more fires need to be allowed to burn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Full suppression\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of days after forest managers decided to let the Lions Fire burn, a weather event brought high winds to the area. The fire jumped from a couple dozen acres to over 1,000 overnight, expanding beyond the area in which forest managers wanted to keep it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the change in conditions, management of the fire changed too. Helicopters went in to douse the flames. Fire crews came in by aircraft to stop the fire’s spread. It was now being fully suppressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was welcome news to the residents of Mammoth Lakes, a resort ski town about seven miles from where the fire was burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, smoke from the Lions Fire had inundated the town, driving away tourists and vacation home owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nature has to do its thing, but there comes a point where it gets too close for comfort,” says Cruz Jonathan Valleflores, who works at a local car rental agency. “Tourism is a huge part of this community, so if tourism doesn’t come through, there’s no money. There’s no jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those concerns were shared by many in the community. Some wrote angry op-eds in the local newspaper. Others vented their frustrations on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all angry about the smoke,” says John Wentworth, a town councilman. “But personally, I know there’s no future in denial. 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"content": "\u003cp>Global warming could drive many small animals and plants to extinction, according to the first study to measure the impact of climate change on America’s national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Researchers found that the average temperatures in national parks increased at twice the rate as the rest of the nation.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Unless action is taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions, higher temperatures\u003ca href=\"http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aade09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> could virtually eliminate the habitats\u003c/a> of small mammals, such as the mountain-dwelling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1915117/climate-change-spells-extinction-for-pikas-of-lake-tahoe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American pika\u003c/a>, according to the study, which appears in the journal \u003cem>Environmental Research Letters\u003c/em>. The pika has become a kind of poster critter for climate threats, as it can only survive at high elevations, where temperatures remain cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Human-caused emissions [are] shifting warmth up mountains, which could destroy suitable habitats from the tops of these mountains,” says Patrick Gonzales, a climate change scientist at UC Berkeley and lead author of the study. “We have more leverage to deal with this now, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions that could harm small mammals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National parks are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because they’re often located in regions that are hardest hit by global warming, such as at high elevation or upper latitudes. Researchers found that the average temperatures in national parks increased at twice the rate as the rest of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parks also experienced a significant decline in annual rainfall compared to the U.S. as a whole, according to the joint study by UC Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the current rate of emissions, temperatures in the most vulnerable parks could soar by as much as 16 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100 — a rate that gives species little time to adapt or migrate to more suitable climates, if there are any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings are “bad news” for biodiversity, according to Rodolfo Dirzo, a biologist at Stanford University, who was not part of the study team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since protected areas represent currently one of our best instruments to protect biodiversity, the fact that North American parks are going to experience such drastic changes in their climatic conditions is a critical message,” says Dirzo.[contextly_sidebar id=”2cAvntmHbAEBZ68IS79VMx3mCv8vcGuI”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He notes that many populations of small animals and plants are typically less vulnerable to anthropogenic warming, so the fact that these same populations are expected to experience such formidable challenges demands “immediate, effective action to prevent massive declines of our already threatened biodiversity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing climate conditions in our national parks also increases human vulnerability, according to Gonzalez. 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"content": "\u003cp>From the ramp tower 120 feet above the runway, it’s clear Philadelphia International Airport is surrounded by water. There is wetland, a network of creeks, and just a couple hundred yards away, the tidal Delaware River leading out to the Bay. As with many airports, the original idea was to build on a large tract of land convenient to a city, but far enough away from homes and tall buildings. Often, that meant coastal wetlands and landfill.[contextly_sidebar id=”U29eft1fiVfzwfT2TqSQvPyQpkUQkBuq”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, such airports are threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/sectors/transportation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A federal report\u003c/a> lists Philadelphia International as one of 13 major U.S. airports that have at least one runway within 12 feet of current sea levels. There are many\u003ca href=\"https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2018/09/07/500429.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> more\u003c/a> at risk around the world, and some have already faced flight disruptions or closure from storms and floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate scientists, city planners and engineers say that will become more common as sea levels rise, storm surge and intense rain events worsen, and — in some areas — the land slowly sinks. Increasingly, it won’t take a major tropical storm to shut down an airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Superstorm Sandy spilled more than 100 million gallons of seawater into New York City’s LaGuardia airport, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/laguardia-to-get-37-5m-in-storm-protection-aid-1.6451288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shutting it down\u003c/a> for three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we got hit by that, we could have flooding on some of our taxiways or runways,” says Ray Scheinfeld, who’s in charge of preparing for rising sea levels at Philadelphia International. “We could have problems with some of our infrastructure.”[contextly_sidebar id=”oU3nap8iRyiUm0Bd9PsEfnZNpJUHbBIp”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scheinfeld says if an airport shuts down, that not only leaves passengers stranded but also prevents delivery of crucial items like medicine or emergency services. It could cost millions of dollars in revenue for the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the risk in Philadelphia, some of the most critical infrastructure is 15 feet underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, a storm flooded a tunnel serving one terminal with three feet of water, shutting down baggage conveyor belts and inundating an electric substation. It knocked out all power, and resulted in about 12 canceled flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, the airport installed stackable aluminum barriers that seal the doors to the substation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we know a storm is coming or there’s a potential problem, we can insert those,” says Scheinfeld, “and protect probably up to about 40 inches above the floor level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scheinfeld says new facilities built at the airport will also incorporate future sea level rise. “We may put additional fill into a particular area,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airports across the country are working to solve the same problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.massport.com/media/2774/massport-annual-sustainability-and-resiliency-report-2018_lr.pdf\">Boston’s Logan airport \u003c/a>has \u003ca href=\"https://airportimprovement.com/article/logan-intl-heeds-warnings-prepares-potential-flooding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised its electrical equipment\u003c/a> and purchased new flood barriers. San Francisco’s airport has runways that jut out into the bay. It’s already installed concrete berms and walls and is \u003ca href=\"http://www.adaptingtorisingtides.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/SFO_SanBruno_Colma-Resiliency-FINAL_Rpt_150820.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">working with the Army Corps of Engineers\u003c/a> to do more.[contextly_sidebar id=”EP2tDLEXpOAirOBxNpi4QYVBaFAJ5u2n”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Freudenberg has \u003ca href=\"http://library.rpa.org/pdf/RPA-Upgrading-to-World-Class-Revisited.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studied\u003c/a> climate impacts on New York area airports for the Regional Plan Association. He says solutions don’t come easy or cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re talking about airports on the edge of the sea, the most likely thing you would think to do is build a higher wall around that airport,” he says. “But there is a point at which you can’t build a wall so high that an airplane couldn’t clear it. So this is a tricky thing with airports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freudenberg says the problem will only get worse as the planet continues to warm and seas keep rising. In a few decades, he expects some airports may even be underwater and in need of a new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coastal flooding isn’t the only climate-related problem for airports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extreme heat has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/20/533662790/its-too-hot-for-some-planes-to-fly-in-phoenix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grounded\u003c/a> planes in Phoenix. 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There are many\u003ca href=\"https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2018/09/07/500429.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> more\u003c/a> at risk around the world, and some have already faced flight disruptions or closure from storms and floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate scientists, city planners and engineers say that will become more common as sea levels rise, storm surge and intense rain events worsen, and — in some areas — the land slowly sinks. 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"content": "\u003cp>California officials quickly determined an arsonist started last month’s huge wildfire southeast of Los Angeles, and that two weeks earlier sparks from a vehicle produced a deadly wildfire in the far northern part of the state.[contextly_sidebar id=”x9SVs9J5Md3sNK5CZuctRNYzzcoR5sxD”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But causes for many of California’s worst blazes of the past decade remain a mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press reviewed state data on the 10 largest wildfires and 10 most destructive in terms of homes and buildings burned for each year dating to 2008. Lightning was the most common cause, accounting for about a quarter of those fires, followed by incidents involving power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, investigators could not determine a cause for about a third of those fires. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California officials quickly determined an arsonist started last month’s huge wildfire southeast of Los Angeles, and that two weeks earlier sparks from a vehicle produced a deadly wildfire in the far northern part of the state.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But causes for many of California’s worst blazes of the past decade remain a mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press reviewed state data on the 10 largest wildfires and 10 most destructive in terms of homes and buildings burned for each year dating to 2008. Lightning was the most common cause, accounting for about a quarter of those fires, followed by incidents involving power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, investigators could not determine a cause for about a third of those fires. Experts say each is a missed opportunity to learn something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t know what causes a fire, we don’t know how to prevent them,” said Carrie Bilbao, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center who investigated wildfires in Idaho for 26 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1931687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/800-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/800-2.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/800-2-160x111.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/800-2-768x534.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/800-2-240x167.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/800-2-375x261.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/09/800-2-520x361.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding the trigger aids criminal prosecutions and helps determine liability. It also guides campaigns to change behavior, like avoiding mowing on hot afternoons when fire threat is high. And it leads to safety enhancements, like sleeves on power lines, which came about when it was determined that falling tree branches and birds cause sparks when they hit unprotected electrical wires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s estimated human activity — from untended campfires to sparks from vehicles — causes more than 80 percent of all wildfires in the United States, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far in 2018, wildfires have scorched more than 2,000 square miles (5,180 square kilometers) in California. More than 2,000 homes and buildings have been destroyed, and at least 11 people killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mendocino Complex Fire that burned for nearly two months, killing one firefighter and destroying more than 150 homes, is the largest ever recorded in the state at 720 square miles (1,865 square kilometers), an area more than twice the size of New York City. No cause has been determined yet, nor has one been pinpointed for the Ferguson Fire, which prompted the closure of much of Yosemite National Park.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Holy Fire, southeast of Los Angeles, was quickly determined to be arson. Authorities say the suspect was motivated by a feud with his neighbors in the Cleveland National Forest. The fire prompted evacuation orders for 20,000 people and nearly burned through the community of Lake Elsinore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arson was pegged as the cause for only five of California’s most destructive or largest fires of the last decade, according to state records, though officials say the true number likely is much higher. That’s because for arson to be the cause, no other possibility can exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for example, even if investigators believe an arsonist was responsible for a fire next to a rail line, they may leave the cause undetermined because they can’t rule out a spark from a passing train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding causes that can lead to preventive measures has become more urgent in drought-plagued California. Even as climate change extends the fire season and feeds record-breaking infernos, more homes are being built in rugged areas where fire danger is high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three times as much acreage has burned so far this year in California as last year, which produced the Tubbs Fire that was the most destructive in recorded state history and the Thomas Fire that, until this year, was the largest ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the most dangerous months for California wildfires are still to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Carr Fire, the deadliest so far this year with eight fatalities, started in July with a spark from a vehicle. Whipped by winds, the flames exploded into Redding, the largest city in far Northern California. More than 1,000 homes were destroyed.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The driver immediately reported the fire so there was no mystery about how it started. Such quick confirmation is unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trying to investigate any kind of fire is almost like trying to investigate a murder — except most of your evidence has been destroyed, and everything around it has been destroyed, by fire,” said Lynne Tolmachoff, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If lightning maps show no activity in a burn area, the assumption is it was started by humans, and fire investigators immediately head to the spot to cordon it off and protect evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a painstaking process, even when fires are small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators look at how the vegetation is flattened to determine where the flames originated and track it to the ignition point — usually the coldest spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are challenges, especially if the fire occurred along a road or other heavily trafficked area. Crews fighting fires can inadvertently wipe out key clues, like carbon particles from a car backfiring or pieces of porcelain from an exploded catalytic converter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cellphone photos and videos from witnesses help investigators. Drones provide aerial views of a point of ignition, showing burn patterns and strike marks on power lines, which are hard to see from the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But often it comes down to two possible causes, which results in the cause being declared undetermined and the case being closed unless new evidence appears. Tolmachoff can’t recall an investigation to determine a cause ever reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year’s Tubbs and Thomas fires still are under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tubbs, in wine country north of San Francisco, destroyed nearly 5,700 structures and killed 22 people. Thomas, in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, killed two people and destroyed more than 1,000 buildings. A month later, heavy rains fell on hills denuded by the fire, unleashing mudslides that killed 21 and left two others missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawsuits seeking billions in damages have been filed. Concern that California’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., would go bankrupt if it’s found at fault for the Tubbs Fire prompted the Legislature to pass a bill allowing the company to raise utility bills to pay off lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>One day in a lab, scientists gave MDMA to four octopuses. Do not try this at home.[contextly_sidebar id=”7hZ0uH2A1fCX3JloyuehbESNhhtXdF8s”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After putting the eight-legged sea creatures in beakers filled with dissolved ecstasy, scientists learned that the octopuses, known for their anti-social behavior, become more touchy-feely. This reaction suggests an evolutionary link between humans and octopuses through their social behavior, the scientists said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They reported their findings Thursday in \u003ca href=\"https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30991-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Current Biology\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Octopus intelligence rivals many mammals, and octopuses are the most behaviorally advanced invertebrates. 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For one, octopuses grow most their nerve cells (neurons) in their arms, and as a result, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-octopus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can taste and touch things without their brains being involved\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2015, marine biologist Eric Edsinger \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">co-discovered a surprising genetic connection\u003c/a> between octopuses and humans. 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