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Grass Fire Burns Near Point Reyes Lighthouse
The Forgotten Men of the Point Reyes Life Saving Service
The Forgotten Men of the Point Reyes Life Saving Service
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Point Reyes Oyster Farm Gets Its Day in Court
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She asked, “How did we end up allowing cattle in Point Reyes National Seashore?”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]aturday, Aug. 28, 2021, brought a dramatic scene to the normally peaceful, windblown hills of Tomales Point in Point Reyes National Seashore. Dozens of people, from small children to older adults, hauled jugs of water over hills and through valleys only to dump their precious cargo into nearly dry ponds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The volunteers were trying to keep the Tule elk that live on a fenced preserve alive during one of California’s longest droughts. In 2019, nearly a third of the herd died from a shortage of water and malnutrition — in part because they could not roam beyond the tall fence that contained them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Elk/Tule-Elk\">Tule elk\u003c/a> are an endemic species found only in California. They were hunted almost to extinction in the 1800s, but have been making a comeback in places like Point Reyes. The elk are big, averaging around 400 pounds, and need room to roam and forage. But this herd is isolated behind the fence to keep them away from another animal grazing in the park — an animal that some environmentalists say is being given priority: cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Point Reyes National Seashore was established in 1962, it’s been a lot of things to a lot of people. To the general public, it’s a beloved park that offers beautiful coastline, lush forests and windswept grassy hills. To environmentalists, it’s a habitat worth preserving. To ranchers, it’s the land their livelihoods depend on. To the area’s Native people, it’s long been a homeland with sacred sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one time, these competing interests could exist in relative harmony on the 70,000 acres that make up the park — but increasing demands on the land have caused things to sour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC5101-scaled-e1672874259984.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC5101-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"A group of female Tule elk lounge on a green hillside. The rugged California coastline and ocean are visible in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once abundant in Point Reyes, Tule elk were nearly hunted to extinction. \u003ccite>(Amanda Font/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How cattle came to graze on Point Reyes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Point Reyes peninsula is the homeland of the Coast Miwok people, who lived here for generations alongside the Tule elk. When Spanish missionaries colonized the area, they brought cows with them. Although the missionaries were based in San Rafael, their cows would roam as far west as the Point Reyes peninsula. Later, when Spain granted the land to Mexico, rancheros divided up the peninsula and continued to run cattle. After the Mexican-American war, California changed hands once again to become part of the United States. In the chaotic transition period, the boundaries of the Mexican ranches on the peninsula were challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at some of the Spanish land grants, they literally said from the tree to the rock,” said Loretta Farley, a former park ranger at Point Reyes National Seashore. “So that’s really open to interpretation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Squatters moved in and settled on the land. The Mexican rancheros took them to court, but lost because they didn’t have the paperwork to demarcate the boundaries of their land. The legal battles were many and complicated, but when the dust settled in 1857, the law firm of Shafter, Shafter, Park and Heydenfeldt emerged as primary owners of the peninsula we now know as Point Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After a series of tremendous fights we have beaten our adversaries at all points and, what is more, have humbled the strongest and the proudest of them,” \u003ca href=\"http://npshistory.com/publications/pore/hrs-ranching.pdf\">wrote Oscar Shafter (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936882\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 637px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Alphabet-Ranch-Map.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Alphabet-Ranch-Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Alphabet-Ranch-Map.jpg 637w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Alphabet-Ranch-Map-160x221.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A historic map of the alphabet ranch parcels in Point Reyes.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Shafter brothers divided their property into more than 30 sections and leased the land to immigrants flooding into the area from places like Ireland, Switzerland and the Azores, in Portugal. The Shafters named the ranches from A to Z, what we now call the historic alphabet ranches, and developed a flourishing dairy business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was growing rapidly and people were hungry for the butter and cheese produced at the dairy farms. Later, when refrigeration was invented, the farms would also ship milk. At one point, the Point Reyes dairies produced more butter than anywhere else in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1900s, the Shafter families sold some of their land to the farmers who had been leasing it from them. Some of those families are still operating beef and dairy ranches to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Home of the Coast Miwok\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many of the laborers on those early dairy ranches were Coast Miwok people who had been enslaved by Spanish missionaries, but returned to their homes along Tomales Bay if they were able. Their way of life had been completely upended, and now white ranchers owned the land and offered some of the only employment around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother was a ranch cook,” said Theresa Harlan. “My uncles worked on ranches as ranch hands.” Harlan is now the founder and director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alliance4felixcove.org/\">Alliance for Felix Cove\u003c/a>; the cove is known as Laird’s Landing on maps. Harlan’s mother is Tomalko (Coast Miwok Tomales Bay) and grew up in a small wooden cabin here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family would row a small skiff across the bay to get mail or supplies that they couldn’t make themselves,” she said. “They say it was a 30-minute row.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harlan’s family was evicted in the 1950s by the white dairy farmers who owned the land at the time, Sayles Turney and James Lundgren. Harlan’s family tried to fight the eviction, saying they’d been there since the 1800s, and the case went all the way to the state Supreme Court. Her family ultimately lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/IMG_2299-scaled-e1672872337625.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/IMG_2299-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A couple stands below the porch of an old wooden cabin\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theresa Harlan and her husband, Ken Tiger, pose in front of the wood cabin her great-grandfather Joe Felix built. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a historic site,” Harlan said. “This needs to be protected. This little house sits neglected. Why? Why? Because it was the home of Tomalko people, California Indian people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been pushing the National Park Service and the \u003ca href=\"https://gratonrancheria.com/\">Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\u003c/a>, the federally recognized tribe with whom it partners to preserve Coast Miwok sites, to do more to explain and protect her family’s legacy here. In particular, she wants visitors to know that as recently as the 1950s Tomalko people lived here, but were pushed out, repeating the violent history of Indigenous people throughout California. This is family lore to her, not ancient history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other Coast Miwok archaeological sites in Point Reyes, but many of them are kept confidential because they are sacred. The cabins in Felix Cove represent a more modern side of Native American history here, one that existed alongside the ranching history, which has already been designated as historic. Still, far fewer people know about Theresa Harlan’s family than about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/learn/news/newsreleases_20181113_ranches_national_register_of_historic_places.htm\">historic alphabet ranches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From private ranch land to national park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, West Marin remained quite rural, with the ranches dominating local life and culture. But after World War II, when the Bay Area population was booming and demand for housing was high, real estate speculators started eyeing the Point Reyes peninsula for subdivision and development. Conservationists and local residents didn’t want to see that happen. They rallied together to advocate for a national seashore that would preserve the coastline for the public in perpetuity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A local U.S. representative, Clem Miller, was the primary force advocating for the national seashore in Washington, D.C. To achieve the dream, park advocates had to convince the ranchers to sell their land to the federal government. At first, many ranchers were adamantly opposed to the idea, but they also saw that if it wanted to, the government could use eminent domain to take their land, so instead they made a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the government was most interested in preserving the coastline. So, they \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/getinvolved/upload/planning_gmp_ea_goga_pore_1980_map_management_zoning.pdf\">divided the park into pastoral zones and wilderness areas (PDF)\u003c/a>. The ranchers sold their land to the government, but retained the right to ranch the land in the pastoral zones. It took years for the federal government to acquire the land, but by 1978, most of the ranchers had signed 25-year leases. At the end of the lease, the Park Service could decide whether to renew or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrangement made most parties happy. Conservationists were proud to have saved the area for the public. And the ranchers had earned a chunk of cash, while retaining the right to lease their lands from the government. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/learn/historyculture/people_coastmiwok.htm\">The Coast Miwok, however, continued to struggle for recognition.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original 25-year leases have long expired, but for decades the Park Service has renewed them on a five-year basis. This longevity has made the ranches an important part of the economy and culture of West Marin, as well as key players in the local organic food scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Recent controversies challenge the status quo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the National Park Service, which manages Point Reyes National Seashore, started a public process to update its Ranch Comprehensive Management Plan. Environmental groups watching the process believed the Park Service was heading down a road that would give ranchers more of what they wanted, without considering the rest of the park’s needs. So in 2016, a coalition of environmental groups sued the Park Service. They pointed out that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/learn/management/upload/planning_gmp_1980.pdf\">Point Reyes General Management Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, the document that governs park activities, hadn’t been updated since 1980. Awareness of sensitive habitats, endangered species, climate change and the impacts of cattle on ecosystems had evolved since then, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties came to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/getinvolved/upload/planning_ranch_cmp_settlement_agreement_final_170714.pdf\">court-approved settlement agreement (PDF)\u003c/a> that required the Park Service to amend its general management plan with an emphasis on the 28,000 acres affected by ranching activities. They had to come up with several scenarios, including one that would eliminate all ranching from the park. They also had to detail the environmental impacts of their preferred option, which involved several rounds of public comment and a presentation before the California Coastal Commission, which safeguards the state’s coastline and is concerned with the health of the waterways that run into the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest-800x600.jpg\" alt='Protesters hold signs that say \"Save the Elk\" and \"Protect the Herd.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People protest the National Park Service over a plan to cull Tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California. \u003ccite>(Peg Hunter/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past several years, in public comment and through advocacy, environmentalists have argued that it’s time for cattle ranching to end in Point Reyes National Seashore. They say cattle suppress endemic plant species and endanger protected animals like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/amphibians/California_red-legged_frog/index.html\">California red-legged frog\u003c/a> when their manure gets into waterways. And, they’re concerned that as climate change worsens, drier conditions will be the norm, further upsetting ecosystems. If water and grass are scarce in Point Reyes, they say, it should go to the endemic flora and fauna, not cattle raised by private businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating the matter are the Tule elk, which have no natural predators now that grizzly bears no longer roam the area. Current management practices used throughout the state call for \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=162912&inline\">lethal termination to keep herd sizes in check (PDF)\u003c/a>. But in the 1990s, the Park Service got major pushback from the public when they proposed killing some of the Tule elk behind the fence once their numbers had grown too large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in 1998, the Park Service moved some of the elk from behind the fence to a wilderness area near Limantour Beach. In the early 2000s, some of those elk migrated to an area near Drakes Beach, creating another herd.* These free-roaming herds have increasingly created problems for the ranchers, knocking down fences and competing for the same grass cattle eat. The Park Service has said it will actively keep these unfenced herds at specific sizes, terminating elk if need be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC5237-scaled-e1672877098790.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936879\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC5237-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Four male elk walk down a grassy hillside\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the ’70s, the Park Service designated the northern tip of Point Reyes as an elk preserve. \u003ccite>(Amanda Font/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The elk situation has increasingly called attention to the Park Service’s management of the national seashore. Some Bay Area residents, like our question-asker this week, Beth Touchette, are wondering whether ranching is still appropriate there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Cattle ranching] never really bothered me until the drought got really bad,” she said. “There’s just limited resources and it’s like, well, how do we decide who gets this limited water? Should it be cattle ranching or should it be trying to keep the wildlife in the national park?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranching advocates and the National Park Service say the issue needn’t be so cut-and-dried. While they admit they do need to plan for more extreme dry conditions in the future, they contend there are ways for the agency to balance ecological diversity with the direction from Congress and the Department of the Interior to continue to grant leases to ranchers. They say they are committed to more monitoring and regulation of the ranches in the park to ensure high environmental standards are met. In public comment, the ranchers also have committed to complying with environmental requirements. The Secretary of the interior could decide to end the decades long agreement, but so far each one, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/office-of-the-secretary\">the current Secretary Deb Haaland,\u003c/a> have not chosen to exercise that authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>All eyes on what’s next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>History is at the heart of the debate about the future of Point Reyes National Seashore. The Coast Miwok were pushed off this land by Spanish colonizers, and again by ranchers decades later. Environmentalists and ranchers once found middle ground to create this 70,000-acre park. That ground has gotten shaky. How and if the Park Service can balance the interests of all parties going forward is yet to be seen. But the economic future of part of the community, the health of the environment and the very spirit of this land are at stake. Everyone will be watching what happens here next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*An earlier version of this story said the NPS created the Drakes Bay herd, when in fact the second herd was a product of the original elk migrating to a new area. We regret the error.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Visitors searching for tule elk in Point Reyes are sometimes surprised to find cattle grazing on commercial ranches. This week on we explore the legacy of ranching on this land, and hear from those who want it to end.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700531898,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":2406},"headData":{"title":"Cattle Ranching Is at the Center of a Battle Brewing in Point Reyes | KQED","description":"Visitors searching for tule elk in Point Reyes are sometimes surprised to find cattle grazing on commercial ranches. This week on we explore the legacy of ranching on this land, and hear from those who want it to end.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Cattle Ranching Is at the Center of a Battle Brewing in Point Reyes","datePublished":"2023-01-05T11:00:17.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T01:58:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/EBCBFA/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC5399481021.mp3?updated=1672875097","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11936802/cattle-ranching-is-at-the-center-of-a-battle-brewing-in-point-reyes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3QhozaD\">\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is inspired by a question from Bay Curious listener Beth Touchette. She asked, “How did we end up allowing cattle in Point Reyes National Seashore?”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>aturday, Aug. 28, 2021, brought a dramatic scene to the normally peaceful, windblown hills of Tomales Point in Point Reyes National Seashore. Dozens of people, from small children to older adults, hauled jugs of water over hills and through valleys only to dump their precious cargo into nearly dry ponds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The volunteers were trying to keep the Tule elk that live on a fenced preserve alive during one of California’s longest droughts. In 2019, nearly a third of the herd died from a shortage of water and malnutrition — in part because they could not roam beyond the tall fence that contained them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Elk/Tule-Elk\">Tule elk\u003c/a> are an endemic species found only in California. They were hunted almost to extinction in the 1800s, but have been making a comeback in places like Point Reyes. The elk are big, averaging around 400 pounds, and need room to roam and forage. But this herd is isolated behind the fence to keep them away from another animal grazing in the park — an animal that some environmentalists say is being given priority: cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Point Reyes National Seashore was established in 1962, it’s been a lot of things to a lot of people. To the general public, it’s a beloved park that offers beautiful coastline, lush forests and windswept grassy hills. To environmentalists, it’s a habitat worth preserving. To ranchers, it’s the land their livelihoods depend on. To the area’s Native people, it’s long been a homeland with sacred sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one time, these competing interests could exist in relative harmony on the 70,000 acres that make up the park — but increasing demands on the land have caused things to sour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC5101-scaled-e1672874259984.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936864\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC5101-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"A group of female Tule elk lounge on a green hillside. The rugged California coastline and ocean are visible in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once abundant in Point Reyes, Tule elk were nearly hunted to extinction. \u003ccite>(Amanda Font/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How cattle came to graze on Point Reyes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Point Reyes peninsula is the homeland of the Coast Miwok people, who lived here for generations alongside the Tule elk. When Spanish missionaries colonized the area, they brought cows with them. Although the missionaries were based in San Rafael, their cows would roam as far west as the Point Reyes peninsula. Later, when Spain granted the land to Mexico, rancheros divided up the peninsula and continued to run cattle. After the Mexican-American war, California changed hands once again to become part of the United States. In the chaotic transition period, the boundaries of the Mexican ranches on the peninsula were challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at some of the Spanish land grants, they literally said from the tree to the rock,” said Loretta Farley, a former park ranger at Point Reyes National Seashore. “So that’s really open to interpretation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Squatters moved in and settled on the land. The Mexican rancheros took them to court, but lost because they didn’t have the paperwork to demarcate the boundaries of their land. The legal battles were many and complicated, but when the dust settled in 1857, the law firm of Shafter, Shafter, Park and Heydenfeldt emerged as primary owners of the peninsula we now know as Point Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After a series of tremendous fights we have beaten our adversaries at all points and, what is more, have humbled the strongest and the proudest of them,” \u003ca href=\"http://npshistory.com/publications/pore/hrs-ranching.pdf\">wrote Oscar Shafter (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936882\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 637px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Alphabet-Ranch-Map.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11936882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Alphabet-Ranch-Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Alphabet-Ranch-Map.jpg 637w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Alphabet-Ranch-Map-160x221.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A historic map of the alphabet ranch parcels in Point Reyes.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Shafter brothers divided their property into more than 30 sections and leased the land to immigrants flooding into the area from places like Ireland, Switzerland and the Azores, in Portugal. The Shafters named the ranches from A to Z, what we now call the historic alphabet ranches, and developed a flourishing dairy business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was growing rapidly and people were hungry for the butter and cheese produced at the dairy farms. Later, when refrigeration was invented, the farms would also ship milk. At one point, the Point Reyes dairies produced more butter than anywhere else in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1900s, the Shafter families sold some of their land to the farmers who had been leasing it from them. Some of those families are still operating beef and dairy ranches to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Home of the Coast Miwok\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many of the laborers on those early dairy ranches were Coast Miwok people who had been enslaved by Spanish missionaries, but returned to their homes along Tomales Bay if they were able. Their way of life had been completely upended, and now white ranchers owned the land and offered some of the only employment around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother was a ranch cook,” said Theresa Harlan. “My uncles worked on ranches as ranch hands.” Harlan is now the founder and director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alliance4felixcove.org/\">Alliance for Felix Cove\u003c/a>; the cove is known as Laird’s Landing on maps. Harlan’s mother is Tomalko (Coast Miwok Tomales Bay) and grew up in a small wooden cabin here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family would row a small skiff across the bay to get mail or supplies that they couldn’t make themselves,” she said. “They say it was a 30-minute row.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harlan’s family was evicted in the 1950s by the white dairy farmers who owned the land at the time, Sayles Turney and James Lundgren. Harlan’s family tried to fight the eviction, saying they’d been there since the 1800s, and the case went all the way to the state Supreme Court. Her family ultimately lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/IMG_2299-scaled-e1672872337625.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/IMG_2299-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A couple stands below the porch of an old wooden cabin\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theresa Harlan and her husband, Ken Tiger, pose in front of the wood cabin her great-grandfather Joe Felix built. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a historic site,” Harlan said. “This needs to be protected. This little house sits neglected. Why? Why? Because it was the home of Tomalko people, California Indian people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been pushing the National Park Service and the \u003ca href=\"https://gratonrancheria.com/\">Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\u003c/a>, the federally recognized tribe with whom it partners to preserve Coast Miwok sites, to do more to explain and protect her family’s legacy here. In particular, she wants visitors to know that as recently as the 1950s Tomalko people lived here, but were pushed out, repeating the violent history of Indigenous people throughout California. This is family lore to her, not ancient history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other Coast Miwok archaeological sites in Point Reyes, but many of them are kept confidential because they are sacred. The cabins in Felix Cove represent a more modern side of Native American history here, one that existed alongside the ranching history, which has already been designated as historic. Still, far fewer people know about Theresa Harlan’s family than about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/learn/news/newsreleases_20181113_ranches_national_register_of_historic_places.htm\">historic alphabet ranches\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From private ranch land to national park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, West Marin remained quite rural, with the ranches dominating local life and culture. But after World War II, when the Bay Area population was booming and demand for housing was high, real estate speculators started eyeing the Point Reyes peninsula for subdivision and development. Conservationists and local residents didn’t want to see that happen. They rallied together to advocate for a national seashore that would preserve the coastline for the public in perpetuity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A local U.S. representative, Clem Miller, was the primary force advocating for the national seashore in Washington, D.C. To achieve the dream, park advocates had to convince the ranchers to sell their land to the federal government. At first, many ranchers were adamantly opposed to the idea, but they also saw that if it wanted to, the government could use eminent domain to take their land, so instead they made a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the government was most interested in preserving the coastline. So, they \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/getinvolved/upload/planning_gmp_ea_goga_pore_1980_map_management_zoning.pdf\">divided the park into pastoral zones and wilderness areas (PDF)\u003c/a>. The ranchers sold their land to the government, but retained the right to ranch the land in the pastoral zones. It took years for the federal government to acquire the land, but by 1978, most of the ranchers had signed 25-year leases. At the end of the lease, the Park Service could decide whether to renew or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrangement made most parties happy. Conservationists were proud to have saved the area for the public. And the ranchers had earned a chunk of cash, while retaining the right to lease their lands from the government. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/learn/historyculture/people_coastmiwok.htm\">The Coast Miwok, however, continued to struggle for recognition.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original 25-year leases have long expired, but for decades the Park Service has renewed them on a five-year basis. This longevity has made the ranches an important part of the economy and culture of West Marin, as well as key players in the local organic food scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Recent controversies challenge the status quo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the National Park Service, which manages Point Reyes National Seashore, started a public process to update its Ranch Comprehensive Management Plan. Environmental groups watching the process believed the Park Service was heading down a road that would give ranchers more of what they wanted, without considering the rest of the park’s needs. So in 2016, a coalition of environmental groups sued the Park Service. They pointed out that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/learn/management/upload/planning_gmp_1980.pdf\">Point Reyes General Management Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, the document that governs park activities, hadn’t been updated since 1980. Awareness of sensitive habitats, endangered species, climate change and the impacts of cattle on ecosystems had evolved since then, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties came to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/getinvolved/upload/planning_ranch_cmp_settlement_agreement_final_170714.pdf\">court-approved settlement agreement (PDF)\u003c/a> that required the Park Service to amend its general management plan with an emphasis on the 28,000 acres affected by ranching activities. They had to come up with several scenarios, including one that would eliminate all ranching from the park. They also had to detail the environmental impacts of their preferred option, which involved several rounds of public comment and a presentation before the California Coastal Commission, which safeguards the state’s coastline and is concerned with the health of the waterways that run into the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest-800x600.jpg\" alt='Protesters hold signs that say \"Save the Elk\" and \"Protect the Herd.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Point-Reyes-Protest.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People protest the National Park Service over a plan to cull Tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California. \u003ccite>(Peg Hunter/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past several years, in public comment and through advocacy, environmentalists have argued that it’s time for cattle ranching to end in Point Reyes National Seashore. They say cattle suppress endemic plant species and endanger protected animals like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/amphibians/California_red-legged_frog/index.html\">California red-legged frog\u003c/a> when their manure gets into waterways. And, they’re concerned that as climate change worsens, drier conditions will be the norm, further upsetting ecosystems. If water and grass are scarce in Point Reyes, they say, it should go to the endemic flora and fauna, not cattle raised by private businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating the matter are the Tule elk, which have no natural predators now that grizzly bears no longer roam the area. Current management practices used throughout the state call for \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=162912&inline\">lethal termination to keep herd sizes in check (PDF)\u003c/a>. But in the 1990s, the Park Service got major pushback from the public when they proposed killing some of the Tule elk behind the fence once their numbers had grown too large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in 1998, the Park Service moved some of the elk from behind the fence to a wilderness area near Limantour Beach. In the early 2000s, some of those elk migrated to an area near Drakes Beach, creating another herd.* These free-roaming herds have increasingly created problems for the ranchers, knocking down fences and competing for the same grass cattle eat. The Park Service has said it will actively keep these unfenced herds at specific sizes, terminating elk if need be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC5237-scaled-e1672877098790.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936879\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC5237-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Four male elk walk down a grassy hillside\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the ’70s, the Park Service designated the northern tip of Point Reyes as an elk preserve. \u003ccite>(Amanda Font/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The elk situation has increasingly called attention to the Park Service’s management of the national seashore. Some Bay Area residents, like our question-asker this week, Beth Touchette, are wondering whether ranching is still appropriate there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Cattle ranching] never really bothered me until the drought got really bad,” she said. “There’s just limited resources and it’s like, well, how do we decide who gets this limited water? Should it be cattle ranching or should it be trying to keep the wildlife in the national park?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranching advocates and the National Park Service say the issue needn’t be so cut-and-dried. While they admit they do need to plan for more extreme dry conditions in the future, they contend there are ways for the agency to balance ecological diversity with the direction from Congress and the Department of the Interior to continue to grant leases to ranchers. They say they are committed to more monitoring and regulation of the ranches in the park to ensure high environmental standards are met. In public comment, the ranchers also have committed to complying with environmental requirements. The Secretary of the interior could decide to end the decades long agreement, but so far each one, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.doi.gov/office-of-the-secretary\">the current Secretary Deb Haaland,\u003c/a> have not chosen to exercise that authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>All eyes on what’s next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>History is at the heart of the debate about the future of Point Reyes National Seashore. The Coast Miwok were pushed off this land by Spanish colonizers, and again by ranchers decades later. Environmentalists and ranchers once found middle ground to create this 70,000-acre park. That ground has gotten shaky. How and if the Park Service can balance the interests of all parties going forward is yet to be seen. But the economic future of part of the community, the health of the environment and the very spirit of this land are at stake. Everyone will be watching what happens here next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*An earlier version of this story said the NPS created the Drakes Bay herd, when in fact the second herd was a product of the original elk migrating to a new area. We regret the error.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11936802/cattle-ranching-is-at-the-center-of-a-battle-brewing-in-point-reyes","authors":["234"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_18334","news_21074","news_29873","news_1262","news_3286","news_3287","news_29613"],"featImg":"news_11936894","label":"source_news_11936802"},"news_11878963":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11878963","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11878963","score":null,"sort":[1624406314000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lawsuit-deaths-of-point-reyes-elk-due-to-national-park-service-negligence","title":"Lawsuit: Deaths of Point Reyes Elk Due to National Park Service Negligence","publishDate":1624406314,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Dozens of tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore have died from starvation and dehydration in the last year because the animals couldn't get past a fence that the National Park Service placed to stop them from competing for food and water with cattle, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three California residents and the Animal Legal Defense Fund sued the park service in federal court in San Francisco, claiming it is being negligent and saying more animals will die if the agency is not ordered to provide food and water during the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The National Park Service has a responsibility to protect and preserve these beautiful animals. The idea that depriving them of food and water somehow fulfills that responsibility isn't just absurd, it's undeniably inhumane,\" said Kate Barnekow, of Harvard Law School's Animal Law & Policy Clinic, who is representing the plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jack Gescheidt, environmentalist and plaintiff in the lawsuit\"]'The knowledge that approximately a third of the Tomales Point herd of tule elk has already died from a lack of adequate water and forage is absolutely chilling.'[/pullquote]Point Reyes National Seashore spokeswoman Melanie Gunn said she couldn't comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tule elk are a subspecies of elk native to California. The 700-pound animals, which were hunted to near extinction in the 1800s, were reintroduced in Point Reyes in 1978. Herds of the animals roam within a preserve at Tomales Point at the northern end of the national seashore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, 152 elk — more than a third of the population — have died since last year, and necropsies obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the emaciated elk died of starvation or dehydration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park service announced earlier this month that it had installed three large troughs after many of the stock ponds and other water sources began drying up earlier than expected due to lack of rain. But that water was only accessible to one of four herds at Tomales Point, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fence was erected decades ago to prevent the elk from competing with the cattle that are permitted by the park service to graze on public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the biggest names in the Bay Area's organic meat and dairy industry lease land in Point Reyes, including Straus Family Creamery, Bill Niman and Nicolette Hahn Niman of BN Ranch, LLC (\u003ca href=\"https://www.eater.com/2017/3/22/15027302/blue-apron-bn-ranch-bill-niman-acquisition\">and formerly of Niman Ranch fame\u003c/a>), and David Evans of Marin Sun Farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiff Jack Gescheidt, an environmentalist and artist, has been visiting \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/tomales_point.htm\">Tomales Point\u003c/a> for at least 20 years. He said the park service cited him after he took troughs of water to the elk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The knowledge that approximately a third of the Tomales Point herd of tule elk has already died from a lack of adequate water and forage is absolutely chilling,\" he said. \"I see these beautiful animals and want them to experience a healthy, happy, safe life, but I know that so many of them will die—through no fault of their own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Dozens of tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore have died from starvation and dehydration in the last year. A lawsuit filed Tuesday places blame on the National Park Service.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1624410326,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":521},"headData":{"title":"Lawsuit: Deaths of Point Reyes Elk Due to National Park Service Negligence | KQED","description":"Dozens of tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore have died from starvation and dehydration in the last year. A lawsuit filed Tuesday places blame on the National Park Service.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Lawsuit: Deaths of Point Reyes Elk Due to National Park Service Negligence","datePublished":"2021-06-22T23:58:34.000Z","dateModified":"2021-06-23T01:05:26.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11878963 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11878963","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/06/22/lawsuit-deaths-of-point-reyes-elk-due-to-national-park-service-negligence/","disqusTitle":"Lawsuit: Deaths of Point Reyes Elk Due to National Park Service Negligence","nprByline":"Olga R. Rodriguez \u003cbr> The Associated Press","path":"/news/11878963/lawsuit-deaths-of-point-reyes-elk-due-to-national-park-service-negligence","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Dozens of tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore have died from starvation and dehydration in the last year because the animals couldn't get past a fence that the National Park Service placed to stop them from competing for food and water with cattle, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three California residents and the Animal Legal Defense Fund sued the park service in federal court in San Francisco, claiming it is being negligent and saying more animals will die if the agency is not ordered to provide food and water during the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The National Park Service has a responsibility to protect and preserve these beautiful animals. The idea that depriving them of food and water somehow fulfills that responsibility isn't just absurd, it's undeniably inhumane,\" said Kate Barnekow, of Harvard Law School's Animal Law & Policy Clinic, who is representing the plaintiffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The knowledge that approximately a third of the Tomales Point herd of tule elk has already died from a lack of adequate water and forage is absolutely chilling.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jack Gescheidt, environmentalist and plaintiff in the lawsuit","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Point Reyes National Seashore spokeswoman Melanie Gunn said she couldn't comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tule elk are a subspecies of elk native to California. The 700-pound animals, which were hunted to near extinction in the 1800s, were reintroduced in Point Reyes in 1978. Herds of the animals roam within a preserve at Tomales Point at the northern end of the national seashore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the lawsuit, 152 elk — more than a third of the population — have died since last year, and necropsies obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the emaciated elk died of starvation or dehydration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park service announced earlier this month that it had installed three large troughs after many of the stock ponds and other water sources began drying up earlier than expected due to lack of rain. But that water was only accessible to one of four herds at Tomales Point, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fence was erected decades ago to prevent the elk from competing with the cattle that are permitted by the park service to graze on public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the biggest names in the Bay Area's organic meat and dairy industry lease land in Point Reyes, including Straus Family Creamery, Bill Niman and Nicolette Hahn Niman of BN Ranch, LLC (\u003ca href=\"https://www.eater.com/2017/3/22/15027302/blue-apron-bn-ranch-bill-niman-acquisition\">and formerly of Niman Ranch fame\u003c/a>), and David Evans of Marin Sun Farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiff Jack Gescheidt, an environmentalist and artist, has been visiting \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/tomales_point.htm\">Tomales Point\u003c/a> for at least 20 years. He said the park service cited him after he took troughs of water to the elk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The knowledge that approximately a third of the Tomales Point herd of tule elk has already died from a lack of adequate water and forage is absolutely chilling,\" he said. \"I see these beautiful animals and want them to experience a healthy, happy, safe life, but I know that so many of them will die—through no fault of their own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11878963/lawsuit-deaths-of-point-reyes-elk-due-to-national-park-service-negligence","authors":["byline_news_11878963"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_18132","news_17898","news_3286","news_3287","news_29613"],"featImg":"news_11878969","label":"news"},"news_11839939":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11839939","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11839939","score":null,"sort":[1601242045000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"two-acre-grass-fire-burns-near-point-reyes-lighthouse","title":"Grass Fire Burns Near Point Reyes Lighthouse","publishDate":1601242045,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was updated at 6 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 5.6-acre grass fire is burning near the Point Reyes Lighthouse, according to the National Park Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews from Marin County Fire, and an air tanker, are working to extinguish the Point Reyes grass fire, said Christine Beekman, a National Park Service spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the fire was along the lighthouse's access road, the good news is \"it is burning toward the ocean,\" Beekman said, away from the lighthouse itself. The fire grew from two-acres to nearly six acres since the morning but was 75% contained by the late afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was foremost on everyone's mind, 'how close was this to the lighthouse?'\" Beekman said. But there are \"no worries\" that the structure is threatened because it is largely protected from the fire by steep and rugged terrain nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WestMarinFeed/status/1310283697921298432\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire is still under investigation. It is seemingly unrelated to the nearby Woodward Fire, Beekman said, which was \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7062\">97% contained as of Sunday afternoon\u003c/a>. The still-active Woodward Fire began in mid-August and burned over the Point Reyes National Seashore southeast of the lighthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the raven flies, it's about seven miles north and west of the Woodward fire. At this point, there's no reason to believe it's related,\" Beekman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trails, beaches, campground, and other facilities within the Point Reyes National Seashore area south of Bear Valley Road have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/upload/map_park_closures_200910.pdf\">closed already\u003c/a> for the Woodward fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PointReyesNPS/status/1310294385628606465\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Point Reyes Lighthouse grassfire was first reported Sunday morning, it perhaps gained more attention on social media as the larger, 1,200-acre Glass Fire raged on about 60 miles to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Glass Fire has yet to be contained and continues to burn near St. Helena and the community of Deer Park in Napa County. For more on the Glass Fire, check out KQED's full coverage \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839923/napa-county-glass-fire-at-800-acres-smoke-and-ash-spreading\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Crews from Marin County Fire, and an air tanker, are working to extinguish the Point Reyes grass fire, said Christine Beekman, a National Park Service spokesperson.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1601255956,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":331},"headData":{"title":"Grass Fire Burns Near Point Reyes Lighthouse | KQED","description":"Crews from Marin County Fire, and an air tanker, are working to extinguish the Point Reyes grass fire, said Christine Beekman, a National Park Service spokesperson.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Grass Fire Burns Near Point Reyes Lighthouse","datePublished":"2020-09-27T21:27:25.000Z","dateModified":"2020-09-28T01:19:16.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11839939 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11839939","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/09/27/two-acre-grass-fire-burns-near-point-reyes-lighthouse/","disqusTitle":"Grass Fire Burns Near Point Reyes Lighthouse","path":"/news/11839939/two-acre-grass-fire-burns-near-point-reyes-lighthouse","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was updated at 6 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 5.6-acre grass fire is burning near the Point Reyes Lighthouse, according to the National Park Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews from Marin County Fire, and an air tanker, are working to extinguish the Point Reyes grass fire, said Christine Beekman, a National Park Service spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the fire was along the lighthouse's access road, the good news is \"it is burning toward the ocean,\" Beekman said, away from the lighthouse itself. The fire grew from two-acres to nearly six acres since the morning but was 75% contained by the late afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was foremost on everyone's mind, 'how close was this to the lighthouse?'\" Beekman said. But there are \"no worries\" that the structure is threatened because it is largely protected from the fire by steep and rugged terrain nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1310283697921298432"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The cause of the fire is still under investigation. It is seemingly unrelated to the nearby Woodward Fire, Beekman said, which was \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7062\">97% contained as of Sunday afternoon\u003c/a>. The still-active Woodward Fire began in mid-August and burned over the Point Reyes National Seashore southeast of the lighthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the raven flies, it's about seven miles north and west of the Woodward fire. At this point, there's no reason to believe it's related,\" Beekman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trails, beaches, campground, and other facilities within the Point Reyes National Seashore area south of Bear Valley Road have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/upload/map_park_closures_200910.pdf\">closed already\u003c/a> for the Woodward fire.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1310294385628606465"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>While the Point Reyes Lighthouse grassfire was first reported Sunday morning, it perhaps gained more attention on social media as the larger, 1,200-acre Glass Fire raged on about 60 miles to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Glass Fire has yet to be contained and continues to burn near St. Helena and the community of Deer Park in Napa County. For more on the Glass Fire, check out KQED's full coverage \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839923/napa-county-glass-fire-at-800-acres-smoke-and-ash-spreading\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11839939/two-acre-grass-fire-burns-near-point-reyes-lighthouse","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_28603","news_18538","news_787","news_17898","news_3286","news_28602","news_4337"],"featImg":"news_11839947","label":"news"},"news_11673429":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11673429","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11673429","score":null,"sort":[1528970443000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-curious-point-reyes-cemetery","title":"The Forgotten Men of the Point Reyes Life Saving Service","publishDate":1528970443,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The Forgotten Men of the Point Reyes Life Saving Service | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":33523,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>[baycuriouspodcastinfo] \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>“You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back” — motto attributed to the Life Saving Service, 19th century\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The words “California coast” conjure a certain image — sun-drenched beaches, warm waters — in the popular imagination. Point Reyes National Seashore, 50 miles north of San Francisco, does not fit that image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the foggiest, windiest places in North America, for hundreds of years this stretch of the Pacific Ocean has posed incredible danger to seafarers. And hidden away inland, just off the road to Point Reyes’ famous lighthouse, there’s a tiny burial ground that conveys the human cost of this rugged, treacherous coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11659314 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The graves of the four “surfmen” in Point Reyes at the Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery is concealed within a knoll of cypress and eucalyptus trees, and most visitors drive right past it. Here, simple headstones mark the bodies of four young immigrants from Sweden, Finland and Germany. Known as “surfmen”, they were members of what was then called the Life Saving Service — what we now know as the United States Coast Guard. All four lost their lives working in Point Reyes in the 1890s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the cemetery, you can just see the exact stretch of coastline on which those surfmen spent their last months at Point Reyes’ very first Life-Saving Station. This area is known as the Great Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the most treacherous stretch of water out here,” says John Dell’Osso, who has worked in Point Reyes for the National Park Service for 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11659318 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 12-mile stretch of coastline known as the Great Beach, where Point Reyes’ first-ever Life-Saving Station was built \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Point Reyes stretches out 10 miles from the mainland into the Pacific Ocean, resulting in its infamous high coastal winds and thick shrouding fogs. Even the logbooks of Sir Francis Drake’s ship in 1579 complain of “the stinking fogges” here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where the first recorded shipwreck on the West Coast occurred: a Spanish galleon, torn on the rocks in 1595. Until the lighthouse was built in 1870, sailors on these waters making the turn into San Francisco Bay had no warning of the jagged land they were about to strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service says that before the Life-Saving Station was built around 1890, the beaches were littered with shipwrecks — that residents often had to watch as those passengers and crew drowned in the waters in front of them. They couldn’t go in because in a place like Point Reyes, the surf is the thing that will kill you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11659483 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg 1710w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-800x496.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1180x731.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-960x595.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-375x232.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-520x322.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Point Reyes Life-Saving Station (1889-1927) at which the four surfmen would have served \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We don’t know a lot about the young men lying in the cemetery, but we know how dangerous, punishing and isolating their work was in the Life Saving Service. At the Point Reyes Lighthouse, says Dell’Osso, winds “have been clocked at 133 miles per hour. We close the [visitor] stairs at 40 miles per hour because you can barely stand in that condition.” Regardless, he says, “if there was a rescue to be done, these individuals did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no motorized boats, or radios, or powerful searchlights like the Coast Guard has today. These men were dragging their small lifeboats across the hard sand, through mounds of driftwood, and rowing out to shipwrecks by hand, in swells that could reach as high as 12 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve ever seen some of the stormy conditions in the Point Reyes Seashore when we have pounding surf coming in,” says Dell’Osso, “it’s frightening to think that they did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-960x631.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-520x342.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surfboat launch at Drakes Bay in Point Reyes, circa 1900 \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often, when the waves prevented the surfmen’s rowboat from reaching a sinking ship, they would have to rescue the passengers one by one using a “breeches buoy”: a pair of thick, wide pants sewn into a life-ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was into this that exhausted, freezing, wet survivors would slide their legs and be hauled over to safety, high above the raging waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An original “breeches buoy” in the Point Reyes Lifeboat Station at Chimney Rock \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they weren’t making rescues, these men were relentlessly training — ready to launch themselves into the ocean at a moment’s notice. So dangerous was their work that the four surfmen lying in the cemetery didn’t even die making a rescue, but in training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Carstens, of Germany, and Andrew Anderson, a Swede, died on a freezing December morning in 1890, as they were pulling their training boat back onto shore. According to the station’s logbooks, a huge breaker rose and overturned the vessel onto them, inflicting massive internal injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account of the accident in the Sausalito News relates how Anderson in particular was dragged from the surf “insensible, with the blood pouring from his mouth.” Both men died within hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-800x468.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-1020x597.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-1180x690.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-960x562.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-240x140.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-375x219.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-520x304.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “breeches buoy’ rescue, circa 1912 \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over two years later, the second Swede, George Larson, died in the same spot, in exactly the same way. Yet their Finnish crewmate, John Korpala, wasn’t anywhere near a boat when he died in 1891. After hours patrolling the freezing wet beach, he went to bed with chills and never woke up. The coroner’s verdict was a hemorrhage in his lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they were kind of a different breed of individuals,” says Dell’Osso. “So I’m not sure if they were frightened, or they were, like, gung-ho to go out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, he says, their story is one “about lives of sacrifice and service. And that’s exactly what they did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11659494 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1094\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-800x456.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-1020x581.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-1180x672.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-960x547.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-240x137.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-375x214.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-520x296.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life-Saving team at Point Reyes, date unknown \u003ccite>(National Maritime Museum, San Francisco/Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the turn of the century, the Life Saving Service was combined with the United States Revenue Cutter Service to form the Coast Guard we know today. In 1927, the station was moved to Chimney Rock, away from the deadly surf of the Great Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Lifeboat Station still stands today, complete with pier and “marine railway” tracks used to launch the agency’s new motorized lifeboats. Although it demonstrates just a few decades’ technological advancement, this newer building is a world away from the hand-dragged rowboats commanded by the earlier surfmen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, only the tiny cemetery a few miles away bears witness to the life and work of those first rescuers. Yet the reason that the four surfmen are buried here, of all places, lies a little further up that hill in the form of \u003cem>more\u003c/em> headstones — all belonging to a local Swedish family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Driftwood on the Great Beach of Point Reyes. On foggy days like this, visibility is minimal. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back when the surfmen died, the land belonged to a dairy rancher called Peter Henry Claussen. This is the Claussen family graveyard, on the historic G Ranch, and he made space here “realizing that there was no [other] place to bury these individuals — and they were for the most part very young men,” according to Dell’Osso. Claussen himself is buried here, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claussen’s gift doesn’t attract too much attention these days, and it’s often mistakenly attributed to his own father, Hinrik, who by then had been dead for several decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659320\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11659320 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Dell’Osso, National Park Service chief interpretation officer, in front of Point Reyes’ Historic Life-Saving Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for Claussen’s motives for donating this land on his own family’s burial plot, a place he’d already buried his father and his wife, it’s generally assumed he felt a sense of duty to fellow immigrants — the community’s young local heroes with no real family in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a tribute to him in the Marin Journal, written by a friend in 1915 just after his death, may offer a little further insight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it we learn that Claussen himself had been a sailor, from the age of 15 — that it was men like him that the surfmen sacrificed their lives to rescue. He was also no stranger to the terror of life-saving, having assisted in the rescue effort when a British ship called the \u003cem>Warrior Queen\u003c/em> ran aground in Point Reyes back in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign off the highway points to the knoll of trees that hides the Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tribute also makes clear how tight-knit the Scandinavian community at Point Reyes was in those days, asserting that “all the Scandinavians on Point Reyes called him not Captain but ‘Papa Claussen.’ They came to him for advice, sympathy, and comfort, which he never denied them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So perhaps the four immigrant surfmen weren’t just courageous strangers to Claussen. These young men may have been his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps it’s right that a place as hidden and still as this keeps a few secrets yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A tiny hidden cemetery reveals the brutal realities of saving shipwrecked sailors in the 19th century.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700596807,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1622},"headData":{"title":"The Forgotten Men of the Point Reyes Life Saving Service | KQED","description":"A tiny hidden cemetery reveals the brutal realities of saving shipwrecked sailors in the 19th century.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Forgotten Men of the Point Reyes Life Saving Service","datePublished":"2018-06-14T10:00:43.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T20:00:07.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"path":"/news/11673429/bay-curious-point-reyes-cemetery","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/new-bay-curious/2018/06/BayCurious_PointReyesCemetery.mp3","audioDuration":706000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>“You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back” — motto attributed to the Life Saving Service, 19th century\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The words “California coast” conjure a certain image — sun-drenched beaches, warm waters — in the popular imagination. Point Reyes National Seashore, 50 miles north of San Francisco, does not fit that image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the foggiest, windiest places in North America, for hundreds of years this stretch of the Pacific Ocean has posed incredible danger to seafarers. And hidden away inland, just off the road to Point Reyes’ famous lighthouse, there’s a tiny burial ground that conveys the human cost of this rugged, treacherous coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11659314 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The graves of the four “surfmen” in Point Reyes at the Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery is concealed within a knoll of cypress and eucalyptus trees, and most visitors drive right past it. Here, simple headstones mark the bodies of four young immigrants from Sweden, Finland and Germany. Known as “surfmen”, they were members of what was then called the Life Saving Service — what we now know as the United States Coast Guard. All four lost their lives working in Point Reyes in the 1890s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the cemetery, you can just see the exact stretch of coastline on which those surfmen spent their last months at Point Reyes’ very first Life-Saving Station. This area is known as the Great Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the most treacherous stretch of water out here,” says John Dell’Osso, who has worked in Point Reyes for the National Park Service for 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11659318 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 12-mile stretch of coastline known as the Great Beach, where Point Reyes’ first-ever Life-Saving Station was built \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Point Reyes stretches out 10 miles from the mainland into the Pacific Ocean, resulting in its infamous high coastal winds and thick shrouding fogs. Even the logbooks of Sir Francis Drake’s ship in 1579 complain of “the stinking fogges” here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where the first recorded shipwreck on the West Coast occurred: a Spanish galleon, torn on the rocks in 1595. Until the lighthouse was built in 1870, sailors on these waters making the turn into San Francisco Bay had no warning of the jagged land they were about to strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service says that before the Life-Saving Station was built around 1890, the beaches were littered with shipwrecks — that residents often had to watch as those passengers and crew drowned in the waters in front of them. They couldn’t go in because in a place like Point Reyes, the surf is the thing that will kill you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11659483 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg 1710w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-800x496.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1180x731.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-960x595.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-375x232.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-520x322.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Point Reyes Life-Saving Station (1889-1927) at which the four surfmen would have served \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We don’t know a lot about the young men lying in the cemetery, but we know how dangerous, punishing and isolating their work was in the Life Saving Service. At the Point Reyes Lighthouse, says Dell’Osso, winds “have been clocked at 133 miles per hour. We close the [visitor] stairs at 40 miles per hour because you can barely stand in that condition.” Regardless, he says, “if there was a rescue to be done, these individuals did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no motorized boats, or radios, or powerful searchlights like the Coast Guard has today. These men were dragging their small lifeboats across the hard sand, through mounds of driftwood, and rowing out to shipwrecks by hand, in swells that could reach as high as 12 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve ever seen some of the stormy conditions in the Point Reyes Seashore when we have pounding surf coming in,” says Dell’Osso, “it’s frightening to think that they did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-960x631.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-520x342.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surfboat launch at Drakes Bay in Point Reyes, circa 1900 \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often, when the waves prevented the surfmen’s rowboat from reaching a sinking ship, they would have to rescue the passengers one by one using a “breeches buoy”: a pair of thick, wide pants sewn into a life-ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was into this that exhausted, freezing, wet survivors would slide their legs and be hauled over to safety, high above the raging waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An original “breeches buoy” in the Point Reyes Lifeboat Station at Chimney Rock \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they weren’t making rescues, these men were relentlessly training — ready to launch themselves into the ocean at a moment’s notice. So dangerous was their work that the four surfmen lying in the cemetery didn’t even die making a rescue, but in training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Carstens, of Germany, and Andrew Anderson, a Swede, died on a freezing December morning in 1890, as they were pulling their training boat back onto shore. According to the station’s logbooks, a huge breaker rose and overturned the vessel onto them, inflicting massive internal injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account of the accident in the Sausalito News relates how Anderson in particular was dragged from the surf “insensible, with the blood pouring from his mouth.” Both men died within hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-800x468.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-1020x597.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-1180x690.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-960x562.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-240x140.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-375x219.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-520x304.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “breeches buoy’ rescue, circa 1912 \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over two years later, the second Swede, George Larson, died in the same spot, in exactly the same way. Yet their Finnish crewmate, John Korpala, wasn’t anywhere near a boat when he died in 1891. After hours patrolling the freezing wet beach, he went to bed with chills and never woke up. The coroner’s verdict was a hemorrhage in his lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they were kind of a different breed of individuals,” says Dell’Osso. “So I’m not sure if they were frightened, or they were, like, gung-ho to go out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, he says, their story is one “about lives of sacrifice and service. And that’s exactly what they did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11659494 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1094\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-800x456.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-1020x581.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-1180x672.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-960x547.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-240x137.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-375x214.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-520x296.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life-Saving team at Point Reyes, date unknown \u003ccite>(National Maritime Museum, San Francisco/Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the turn of the century, the Life Saving Service was combined with the United States Revenue Cutter Service to form the Coast Guard we know today. In 1927, the station was moved to Chimney Rock, away from the deadly surf of the Great Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Lifeboat Station still stands today, complete with pier and “marine railway” tracks used to launch the agency’s new motorized lifeboats. Although it demonstrates just a few decades’ technological advancement, this newer building is a world away from the hand-dragged rowboats commanded by the earlier surfmen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, only the tiny cemetery a few miles away bears witness to the life and work of those first rescuers. Yet the reason that the four surfmen are buried here, of all places, lies a little further up that hill in the form of \u003cem>more\u003c/em> headstones — all belonging to a local Swedish family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Driftwood on the Great Beach of Point Reyes. On foggy days like this, visibility is minimal. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back when the surfmen died, the land belonged to a dairy rancher called Peter Henry Claussen. This is the Claussen family graveyard, on the historic G Ranch, and he made space here “realizing that there was no [other] place to bury these individuals — and they were for the most part very young men,” according to Dell’Osso. Claussen himself is buried here, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claussen’s gift doesn’t attract too much attention these days, and it’s often mistakenly attributed to his own father, Hinrik, who by then had been dead for several decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659320\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11659320 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Dell’Osso, National Park Service chief interpretation officer, in front of Point Reyes’ Historic Life-Saving Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for Claussen’s motives for donating this land on his own family’s burial plot, a place he’d already buried his father and his wife, it’s generally assumed he felt a sense of duty to fellow immigrants — the community’s young local heroes with no real family in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a tribute to him in the Marin Journal, written by a friend in 1915 just after his death, may offer a little further insight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it we learn that Claussen himself had been a sailor, from the age of 15 — that it was men like him that the surfmen sacrificed their lives to rescue. He was also no stranger to the terror of life-saving, having assisted in the rescue effort when a British ship called the \u003cem>Warrior Queen\u003c/em> ran aground in Point Reyes back in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11659316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign off the highway points to the knoll of trees that hides the Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tribute also makes clear how tight-knit the Scandinavian community at Point Reyes was in those days, asserting that “all the Scandinavians on Point Reyes called him not Captain but ‘Papa Claussen.’ They came to him for advice, sympathy, and comfort, which he never denied them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So perhaps the four immigrant surfmen weren’t just courageous strangers to Claussen. These young men may have been his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps it’s right that a place as hidden and still as this keeps a few secrets yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11673429/bay-curious-point-reyes-cemetery","authors":["3243"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_223","news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_18426","news_22924","news_3286"],"featImg":"news_11659531","label":"news_33523"},"news_11660557":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11660557","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11660557","score":null,"sort":[1523224475000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-forgotten-men-of-the-point-reyes-life-saving-service","title":"The Forgotten Men of the Point Reyes Life Saving Service","publishDate":1523224475,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Q’ed Up | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED's reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q'ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a shooting at YouTube, teachers are striking in Oklahoma and President Trump ordered National Guard troops to the border. But that's not all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659308/you-dont-have-to-come-back-life-and-death-in-the-waters-of-point-reyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">'You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back'\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-800x496.jpg\" alt=\"The original Point Reyes Life Saving Station (1889-1927) at which the four surfmen would have served.\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-800x496.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1180x731.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-960x595.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-375x232.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-520x322.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg 1710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Point Reyes Life Saving Station (1889-1927) at which the four surfmen would have served. \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of my colleagues, Carly Severn, has a knack for doing these stories about bizarre places she stumbles upon. This week, she takes us to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659308/you-dont-have-to-come-back-life-and-death-in-the-waters-of-point-reyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life-Saving Station Cemetery in Point Reyes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the final resting place for four members of the Life Saving Service, or what we know today as the Coast Guard. Their motto was, \"You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four graves belong to four young immigrants who died out on the brutal seas of Point Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't see this as a depressing story. It's definitely bittersweet to me,\" Carly tells me. \"[The four men] traveled thousands of miles by water, worked in the water and then died for it as well, saving lives. And I just find that really poignant, but not depressing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659870/a-timeline-leading-up-to-the-youtube-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What happened before the YouTube shooting?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659952\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A screen grab image captured from Nasim Najafi Aghdam's YouTube page. The page has since been taken down.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab image captured from Nasim Najafi Aghdam's YouTube page. The page has since been taken down. \u003ccite>(YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I wasn't working on Tuesday, so I missed a lot of the details of the woman who shot three people and then killed herself at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno. But KQED's Sam Harnett and Tonya Mosley were on it from the start, and Sam put together this \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659870/a-timeline-leading-up-to-the-youtube-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">really helpful timeline \u003c/a>that explains what happened in the lead-up to the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660396/jerry-brown-is-turning-80-heres-the-advice-other-seniors-have-for-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy birthday, Jerry!\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown turns 80 on Saturday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-960x649.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-375x254.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown turns 80 on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There must be something in the water that California politicians drink. Sen. Dianne Feinstein turns 85 this summer, just a few months before she hopes to be re-elected to another six-year term in the U.S. Senate. And Gov. Jerry Brown turned 80 on Saturday, extending his reign as the oldest governor in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To celebrate, KQED's politics editor Scott Shafer went to a senior community in San Francisco to get some advice for Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660396/jerry-brown-is-turning-80-heres-the-advice-other-seniors-have-for-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from his fellow seniors\u003c/a> on how to enjoy old age. In the words of one octogenarian, \"No matter how gooda shape you’re in, once you’re 80, you are one old 'motha.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660146/how-california-car-culture-killed-the-promise-of-a-20-minute-commute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How cars and highways have made and broken California\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"Four-level interchange of the 110 and 101 freeways looking northwest, 1956.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-1180x795.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-960x647.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-375x253.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-520x350.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four-level interchange of the 110 and 101 freeways looking northwest, 1956. \u003ccite>(AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHIVES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I've recently become obsessed with cars, highways and the way they've shaped our society. I have a lot of time to think about this during my daily one-hour commute each way, which will eventually add up to \u003cem>seven years of my life\u003c/em> spent driving to and from work—let that sink in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KPCC's commuting and mobility reporter Megan McCarty (yes, that's her real title) traces \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660146/how-california-car-culture-killed-the-promise-of-a-20-minute-commute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the origins of California's freeway system\u003c/a> back to the mid-20th century and how it set the course for the world we live in today. The piece comes to a bit more of an optimistic conclusion than I think most of us have about traffic and congestion, but it's well worth a read.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13828481/need-a-giant-hamster-wheel-kink-com-auctions-off-unique-items-at-sf-armory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Looking for a new human-sized hamster wheel?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ww2.kqed_.orgarmory_hamster_wheel-800x-51fddb44075753263d3bc98fecd783e090712fc8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ww2.kqed_.orgarmory_hamster_wheel-800x-51fddb44075753263d3bc98fecd783e090712fc8-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A human-size hamster wheel is up for sale by Kink.com at the San Francisco Armory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A human-size hamster wheel is up for sale by Kink.com at the San Francisco Armory.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I've never been a big garage sale guy, but I was definitely intrigued by the sale going on at the San Francisco Armory this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fetish porn site Kink.com is having a four-day sale as it moves out of the Armory, where it once made more than 100 films a month. They stopped filming there last year and sold the building earlier this year, meaning it's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13828481/need-a-giant-hamster-wheel-kink-com-auctions-off-unique-items-at-sf-armory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">time for a garage sale\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the more unique items available for purchase are a giant hamster wheel, a torture rack and several old dentists chairs. But there's also a bunch of gym equipment, some nice rugs, handsome furniture and works of art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the company hosting the sale says on its website, \u003ca href=\"https://theyesco.com/current-sale/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"There is something for everyone at this sale.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a small cemetery on the way to the Point Reyes Lighthouse rests the story of four men who risked their lives to save others. Plus other stories you might've missed this week.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1523234989,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":759},"headData":{"title":"The Forgotten Men of the Point Reyes Life Saving Service | KQED","description":"In a small cemetery on the way to the Point Reyes Lighthouse rests the story of four men who risked their lives to save others. Plus other stories you might've missed this week.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Forgotten Men of the Point Reyes Life Saving Service","datePublished":"2018-04-08T21:54:35.000Z","dateModified":"2018-04-09T00:49:49.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11660557 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11660557","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/04/08/the-forgotten-men-of-the-point-reyes-life-saving-service/","disqusTitle":"The Forgotten Men of the Point Reyes Life Saving Service","source":"Q'ed Up","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/news/program/qedup/","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/qed-up/2018/04/QEDUP180408FINAL.mp3","path":"/news/11660557/the-forgotten-men-of-the-point-reyes-life-saving-service","audioDuration":746000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED's reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q'ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a shooting at YouTube, teachers are striking in Oklahoma and President Trump ordered National Guard troops to the border. But that's not all.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659308/you-dont-have-to-come-back-life-and-death-in-the-waters-of-point-reyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">'You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back'\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659483\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-800x496.jpg\" alt=\"The original Point Reyes Life Saving Station (1889-1927) at which the four surfmen would have served.\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-800x496.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1180x731.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-960x595.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-375x232.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-520x322.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg 1710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Point Reyes Life Saving Station (1889-1927) at which the four surfmen would have served. \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of my colleagues, Carly Severn, has a knack for doing these stories about bizarre places she stumbles upon. This week, she takes us to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659308/you-dont-have-to-come-back-life-and-death-in-the-waters-of-point-reyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life-Saving Station Cemetery in Point Reyes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the final resting place for four members of the Life Saving Service, or what we know today as the Coast Guard. Their motto was, \"You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four graves belong to four young immigrants who died out on the brutal seas of Point Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't see this as a depressing story. It's definitely bittersweet to me,\" Carly tells me. \"[The four men] traveled thousands of miles by water, worked in the water and then died for it as well, saving lives. And I just find that really poignant, but not depressing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659870/a-timeline-leading-up-to-the-youtube-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What happened before the YouTube shooting?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659952\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A screen grab image captured from Nasim Najafi Aghdam's YouTube page. The page has since been taken down.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/nasim-aghdam-1.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen grab image captured from Nasim Najafi Aghdam's YouTube page. The page has since been taken down. \u003ccite>(YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I wasn't working on Tuesday, so I missed a lot of the details of the woman who shot three people and then killed herself at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno. But KQED's Sam Harnett and Tonya Mosley were on it from the start, and Sam put together this \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659870/a-timeline-leading-up-to-the-youtube-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">really helpful timeline \u003c/a>that explains what happened in the lead-up to the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660396/jerry-brown-is-turning-80-heres-the-advice-other-seniors-have-for-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy birthday, Jerry!\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown turns 80 on Saturday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-960x649.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-375x254.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/JerryBrown-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown turns 80 on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There must be something in the water that California politicians drink. Sen. Dianne Feinstein turns 85 this summer, just a few months before she hopes to be re-elected to another six-year term in the U.S. Senate. And Gov. Jerry Brown turned 80 on Saturday, extending his reign as the oldest governor in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To celebrate, KQED's politics editor Scott Shafer went to a senior community in San Francisco to get some advice for Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660396/jerry-brown-is-turning-80-heres-the-advice-other-seniors-have-for-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from his fellow seniors\u003c/a> on how to enjoy old age. In the words of one octogenarian, \"No matter how gooda shape you’re in, once you’re 80, you are one old 'motha.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660146/how-california-car-culture-killed-the-promise-of-a-20-minute-commute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How cars and highways have made and broken California\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"Four-level interchange of the 110 and 101 freeways looking northwest, 1956.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-1180x795.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-960x647.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-375x253.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CarCultureMain-520x350.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four-level interchange of the 110 and 101 freeways looking northwest, 1956. \u003ccite>(AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHIVES)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I've recently become obsessed with cars, highways and the way they've shaped our society. I have a lot of time to think about this during my daily one-hour commute each way, which will eventually add up to \u003cem>seven years of my life\u003c/em> spent driving to and from work—let that sink in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KPCC's commuting and mobility reporter Megan McCarty (yes, that's her real title) traces \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660146/how-california-car-culture-killed-the-promise-of-a-20-minute-commute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the origins of California's freeway system\u003c/a> back to the mid-20th century and how it set the course for the world we live in today. The piece comes to a bit more of an optimistic conclusion than I think most of us have about traffic and congestion, but it's well worth a read.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13828481/need-a-giant-hamster-wheel-kink-com-auctions-off-unique-items-at-sf-armory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Looking for a new human-sized hamster wheel?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ww2.kqed_.orgarmory_hamster_wheel-800x-51fddb44075753263d3bc98fecd783e090712fc8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/ww2.kqed_.orgarmory_hamster_wheel-800x-51fddb44075753263d3bc98fecd783e090712fc8-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A human-size hamster wheel is up for sale by Kink.com at the San Francisco Armory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A human-size hamster wheel is up for sale by Kink.com at the San Francisco Armory.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I've never been a big garage sale guy, but I was definitely intrigued by the sale going on at the San Francisco Armory this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fetish porn site Kink.com is having a four-day sale as it moves out of the Armory, where it once made more than 100 films a month. They stopped filming there last year and sold the building earlier this year, meaning it's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13828481/need-a-giant-hamster-wheel-kink-com-auctions-off-unique-items-at-sf-armory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">time for a garage sale\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the more unique items available for purchase are a giant hamster wheel, a torture rack and several old dentists chairs. But there's also a bunch of gym equipment, some nice rugs, handsome furniture and works of art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the company hosting the sale says on its website, \u003ca href=\"https://theyesco.com/current-sale/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"There is something for everyone at this sale.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11660557/the-forgotten-men-of-the-point-reyes-life-saving-service","authors":["11260"],"programs":["news_20407"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_3286","news_20564"],"featImg":"news_11659314","label":"source_news_11660557"},"news_11659308":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11659308","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11659308","score":null,"sort":[1523058340000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"you-dont-have-to-come-back-life-and-death-in-the-waters-of-point-reyes","title":"'You Don’t Have to Come Back': Life and Death in the Waters of Point Reyes","publishDate":1523058340,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>“You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back” -- motto attributed to the Life Saving Service, 19th century\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The words “California coast” conjure a certain image -- sun-drenched beaches, warm waters -- in the popular imagination. Point Reyes National Seashore, 50 miles north of San Francisco, does not fit that image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the foggiest, windiest places in North America, for hundreds of years this stretch of the Pacific Ocean has posed incredible danger to seafarers. And hidden away inland, just off the road to Point Reyes’ famous lighthouse, there’s a tiny burial ground that conveys the human cost of this rugged, treacherous coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11659314 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The graves of the four \"surfmen\" in Point Reyes at the Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery is concealed within a knoll of cypress and eucalyptus trees, and most visitors drive right past it. Here, simple headstones mark the bodies of four young immigrants from Sweden, Finland and Germany. Known as “surfmen”, they were members of what was then called the Life Saving Service -- what we now know as the United States Coast Guard. All four lost their lives working in Point Reyes in the 1890s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the cemetery, you can just see the exact stretch of coastline on which those surfmen spent their last months at Point Reyes’ very first Life-Saving Station. This area is known as the Great Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the most treacherous stretch of water out here,” says John Dell’Osso, who has worked in Point Reyes for the National Park Service for 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11659318 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 12 mile stretch of coastline known as the Great Beach, where Point Reyes' first-ever Life-Saving Station was built \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Point Reyes stretches out 10 miles from the mainland into the Pacific Ocean, resulting in its infamous high coastal winds and thick shrouding fogs. Even the logbooks of Sir Francis Drake’s ship in 1579 complain of \"the stinking fogges\" here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where the first recorded shipwreck on the West Coast occurred: a Spanish galleon, torn on the rocks in 1595. Until the lighthouse was built in 1870, sailors on these waters making the turn into San Francisco Bay had no warning of the jagged land they were about to strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service says that before the Life-Saving Station was built around 1890, the beaches were littered with shipwrecks -- that residents often had to watch as those passengers and crew drowned in the waters in front of them. They couldn’t go in because in a place like Point Reyes, the surf is the thing that will kill you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11659483 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg 1710w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-800x496.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1180x731.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-960x595.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-375x232.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-520x322.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Point Reyes Life-Saving Station (1889-1927) at which the four surfmen would have served, \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We don’t know a lot about the young men lying in the cemetery, but we know how dangerous, punishing and isolating their work was in the Life Saving Service. At the Point Reyes Lighthouse, says Dell’Osso, winds “have been clocked at 133 miles per hour. We close the [visitor] stairs at 40 miles per hour because you can barely stand in that condition.” Regardless, he says, “if there was a rescue to be done, these individuals did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no motorized boats, or radios, or powerful searchlights like the Coast Guard has today. These men were dragging their small lifeboats across the hard sand, through mounds of driftwood, and rowing out to shipwrecks by hand, in swells that could reach as high as 12 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you've ever seen some of the stormy conditions in the Point Reyes Seashore when we have pounding surf coming in,” says Dell’Osso, \"it's frightening to think that they did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11659487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-960x631.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-520x342.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surfboat launch at Drakes Bay in Point Reyes, circa 1900 \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often, when the waves prevented the surfmen’s rowboat from reaching a sinking ship, they would have to rescue the passengers one by one using a “breeches buoy”: a pair of thick, wide pants sewn into a life-ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was into this that an exhausted, freezing, wet survivor would slide their legs and be hauled over to safety, high above the raging waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11659319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An original \"breeches buoy\" in the Point Reyes Lifeboat Station at Chimney Rock \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they weren’t making rescues, these men were relentlessly training -- ready to launch themselves into the ocean at a moment’s notice. So dangerous was their work that the four surfmen lying in the cemetery didn’t even die making a rescue, but in training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Carstens, of Germany, and Andrew Anderson, a Swede, died on a freezing December morning in 1890, as they were pulling their training boat back onto shore. According to the station’s logbooks, a huge breaker rose and overturned the vessel onto them, inflicting massive internal injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account of the accident in the \u003cem>Sausalito News\u003c/em> relates how Anderson in particular was dragged from the surf “insensible, with the blood pouring from his mouth.” Both men died within hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11659497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-800x468.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-1020x597.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-1180x690.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-960x562.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-240x140.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-375x219.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-520x304.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A \"breeches buoy' rescue, circa 1912 \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over two years later, the second Swede, George Larson, died in the same spot, in exactly the same way. Yet their Finnish crewmate, John Korpala, wasn’t anywhere near a boat when he died in 1891. After hours patrolling the freezing wet beach, he went to bed with chills and never woke up. The coroner’s verdict was a hemorrhage in his lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they were kind of a different breed of individuals,” says Dell’Osso. “So I'm not sure if they were frightened, or they were, like, gung-ho to go out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, he says, their story is one “about lives of sacrifice and service. And that's that's exactly what they did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11659494 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1094\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-800x456.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-1020x581.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-1180x672.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-960x547.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-240x137.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-375x214.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-520x296.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life-Saving team at Point Reyes, date unknown \u003ccite>(National Maritime Museum, San Francisco/Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the turn of the century, the Lifesaving Service was combined with the United States Revenue Cutter Service to form the Coast Guard we know today. In 1927, the station was moved to Chimney Rock, away from the deadly surf of the Great Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Lifeboat Station still stands today, complete with pier and “marine railway” tracks used to launch the agency’s new motorized lifeboats. Although it demonstrates just a few decades' technological advancement, this newer building is a world away from the hand-dragged rowboats commanded by the earlier surfmen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, only the tiny cemetery a few miles away bears witness to the life and work of those first rescuers. Yet the reason that the four surfmen are buried here, of all places, lies a little further up that hill in the form of \u003cem>more\u003c/em> headstones -- all belonging to a local Swedish family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11659323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Driftwood on the Great Beach of Point Reyes. On foggy days like this, visibility is minimal. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back when the surfmen died, the land belonged to a dairy rancher called Peter Henry Claussen. This is the Claussen family graveyard, on the historic G Ranch, and he made space here “realizing that there was no [other] place to bury these individuals -- and they were for the most part very young men,” according to Dell’Osso. Claussen himself is buried here, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claussen’s gift doesn’t attract too much attention these days, and it’s often mistakenly attributed to his own father, Hinrik, who by then had been dead for several decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659320\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11659320 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Dell'Osso, National Park Service chief interpretation officer, in front of Point Reyes' Historic Life-Saving Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for Claussen's motives for donating this land on his own family’s burial plot, a place he’d already buried his father and his wife, it’s generally assumed he felt a sense of duty to fellow immigrants -- the community’s young local heroes with no real family in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a tribute to him in the \u003cem>Marin Journal\u003c/em>, written by a friend in 1915 just after his death, may offer a little further insight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it we learn that Claussen himself had been a sailor, from the age of 15 -- that it was men like him that the surfmen sacrificed their lives to rescue. He was also no stranger to the terror of life-saving, having assisted in the rescue effort when a British ship called the \u003cem>Warrior Queen\u003c/em> ran aground in Point Reyes back in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11659316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign off the highway points to the knoll of trees that hides the Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tribute also makes clear how tight-knit the Scandinavian community at Point Reyes was in those days, asserting that “all the Scandinavians on Point Reyes called him not Captain but 'Papa Claussen.' They came to him for advice, sympathy, and comfort, which he never denied them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So perhaps the four immigrant surfmen weren’t just courageous strangers to Claussen. These young men may have been his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps it’s right that a place as hidden, and still as this, keeps a few secrets yet.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A tiny hidden cemetery reveals the brutal realities of saving shipwrecked sailors in the 19th century.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1523066330,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1607},"headData":{"title":"'You Don’t Have to Come Back': Life and Death in the Waters of Point Reyes | KQED","description":"A tiny hidden cemetery reveals the brutal realities of saving shipwrecked sailors in the 19th century.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'You Don’t Have to Come Back': Life and Death in the Waters of Point Reyes","datePublished":"2018-04-06T23:45:40.000Z","dateModified":"2018-04-07T01:58:50.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11659308 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11659308","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/04/06/you-dont-have-to-come-back-life-and-death-in-the-waters-of-point-reyes/","disqusTitle":"'You Don’t Have to Come Back': Life and Death in the Waters of Point Reyes","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/04/SevernPointReyes.mp3","path":"/news/11659308/you-dont-have-to-come-back-life-and-death-in-the-waters-of-point-reyes","audioDuration":554000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>“You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back” -- motto attributed to the Life Saving Service, 19th century\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The words “California coast” conjure a certain image -- sun-drenched beaches, warm waters -- in the popular imagination. Point Reyes National Seashore, 50 miles north of San Francisco, does not fit that image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the foggiest, windiest places in North America, for hundreds of years this stretch of the Pacific Ocean has posed incredible danger to seafarers. And hidden away inland, just off the road to Point Reyes’ famous lighthouse, there’s a tiny burial ground that conveys the human cost of this rugged, treacherous coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11659314 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30221_DSC_0965-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The graves of the four \"surfmen\" in Point Reyes at the Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery is concealed within a knoll of cypress and eucalyptus trees, and most visitors drive right past it. Here, simple headstones mark the bodies of four young immigrants from Sweden, Finland and Germany. Known as “surfmen”, they were members of what was then called the Life Saving Service -- what we now know as the United States Coast Guard. All four lost their lives working in Point Reyes in the 1890s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the cemetery, you can just see the exact stretch of coastline on which those surfmen spent their last months at Point Reyes’ very first Life-Saving Station. This area is known as the Great Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the most treacherous stretch of water out here,” says John Dell’Osso, who has worked in Point Reyes for the National Park Service for 35 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11659318 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30208_DSC_1071-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 12 mile stretch of coastline known as the Great Beach, where Point Reyes' first-ever Life-Saving Station was built \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Point Reyes stretches out 10 miles from the mainland into the Pacific Ocean, resulting in its infamous high coastal winds and thick shrouding fogs. Even the logbooks of Sir Francis Drake’s ship in 1579 complain of \"the stinking fogges\" here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where the first recorded shipwreck on the West Coast occurred: a Spanish galleon, torn on the rocks in 1595. Until the lighthouse was built in 1870, sailors on these waters making the turn into San Francisco Bay had no warning of the jagged land they were about to strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service says that before the Life-Saving Station was built around 1890, the beaches were littered with shipwrecks -- that residents often had to watch as those passengers and crew drowned in the waters in front of them. They couldn’t go in because in a place like Point Reyes, the surf is the thing that will kill you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11659483 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut.jpg 1710w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-800x496.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-1180x731.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-960x595.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-375x232.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30223_surfmen-in-front-of-life-saving-stn-qut-520x322.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Point Reyes Life-Saving Station (1889-1927) at which the four surfmen would have served, \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We don’t know a lot about the young men lying in the cemetery, but we know how dangerous, punishing and isolating their work was in the Life Saving Service. At the Point Reyes Lighthouse, says Dell’Osso, winds “have been clocked at 133 miles per hour. We close the [visitor] stairs at 40 miles per hour because you can barely stand in that condition.” Regardless, he says, “if there was a rescue to be done, these individuals did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no motorized boats, or radios, or powerful searchlights like the Coast Guard has today. These men were dragging their small lifeboats across the hard sand, through mounds of driftwood, and rowing out to shipwrecks by hand, in swells that could reach as high as 12 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you've ever seen some of the stormy conditions in the Point Reyes Seashore when we have pounding surf coming in,” says Dell’Osso, \"it's frightening to think that they did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11659487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-960x631.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-240x158.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-375x246.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30226_Launching-lifeboat-7930-qut-520x342.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surfboat launch at Drakes Bay in Point Reyes, circa 1900 \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often, when the waves prevented the surfmen’s rowboat from reaching a sinking ship, they would have to rescue the passengers one by one using a “breeches buoy”: a pair of thick, wide pants sewn into a life-ring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was into this that an exhausted, freezing, wet survivor would slide their legs and be hauled over to safety, high above the raging waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659319\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11659319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30203_DSC_1049-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An original \"breeches buoy\" in the Point Reyes Lifeboat Station at Chimney Rock \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When they weren’t making rescues, these men were relentlessly training -- ready to launch themselves into the ocean at a moment’s notice. So dangerous was their work that the four surfmen lying in the cemetery didn’t even die making a rescue, but in training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Carstens, of Germany, and Andrew Anderson, a Swede, died on a freezing December morning in 1890, as they were pulling their training boat back onto shore. According to the station’s logbooks, a huge breaker rose and overturned the vessel onto them, inflicting massive internal injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account of the accident in the \u003cem>Sausalito News\u003c/em> relates how Anderson in particular was dragged from the surf “insensible, with the blood pouring from his mouth.” Both men died within hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11659497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-800x468.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-1020x597.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-1180x690.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-960x562.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-240x140.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-375x219.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30227_14970-Samoa-shipwreck-large-200-dpi-qut-520x304.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A \"breeches buoy' rescue, circa 1912 \u003ccite>(Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over two years later, the second Swede, George Larson, died in the same spot, in exactly the same way. Yet their Finnish crewmate, John Korpala, wasn’t anywhere near a boat when he died in 1891. After hours patrolling the freezing wet beach, he went to bed with chills and never woke up. The coroner’s verdict was a hemorrhage in his lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they were kind of a different breed of individuals,” says Dell’Osso. “So I'm not sure if they were frightened, or they were, like, gung-ho to go out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, he says, their story is one “about lives of sacrifice and service. And that's that's exactly what they did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11659494 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1094\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-800x456.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-1020x581.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-1180x672.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-960x547.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-240x137.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-375x214.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30225_Surfmen-qut-520x296.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life-Saving team at Point Reyes, date unknown \u003ccite>(National Maritime Museum, San Francisco/Point Reyes National Seashore Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the turn of the century, the Lifesaving Service was combined with the United States Revenue Cutter Service to form the Coast Guard we know today. In 1927, the station was moved to Chimney Rock, away from the deadly surf of the Great Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Lifeboat Station still stands today, complete with pier and “marine railway” tracks used to launch the agency’s new motorized lifeboats. Although it demonstrates just a few decades' technological advancement, this newer building is a world away from the hand-dragged rowboats commanded by the earlier surfmen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, only the tiny cemetery a few miles away bears witness to the life and work of those first rescuers. Yet the reason that the four surfmen are buried here, of all places, lies a little further up that hill in the form of \u003cem>more\u003c/em> headstones -- all belonging to a local Swedish family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11659323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30207_DSC_1074-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Driftwood on the Great Beach of Point Reyes. On foggy days like this, visibility is minimal. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back when the surfmen died, the land belonged to a dairy rancher called Peter Henry Claussen. This is the Claussen family graveyard, on the historic G Ranch, and he made space here “realizing that there was no [other] place to bury these individuals -- and they were for the most part very young men,” according to Dell’Osso. Claussen himself is buried here, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claussen’s gift doesn’t attract too much attention these days, and it’s often mistakenly attributed to his own father, Hinrik, who by then had been dead for several decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659320\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11659320 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30218_DSC_0986-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Dell'Osso, National Park Service chief interpretation officer, in front of Point Reyes' Historic Life-Saving Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for Claussen's motives for donating this land on his own family’s burial plot, a place he’d already buried his father and his wife, it’s generally assumed he felt a sense of duty to fellow immigrants -- the community’s young local heroes with no real family in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a tribute to him in the \u003cem>Marin Journal\u003c/em>, written by a friend in 1915 just after his death, may offer a little further insight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it we learn that Claussen himself had been a sailor, from the age of 15 -- that it was men like him that the surfmen sacrificed their lives to rescue. He was also no stranger to the terror of life-saving, having assisted in the rescue effort when a British ship called the \u003cem>Warrior Queen\u003c/em> ran aground in Point Reyes back in 1874.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11659316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30219_DSC_0982-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign off the highway points to the knoll of trees that hides the Historic Life-Saving Station Cemetery \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tribute also makes clear how tight-knit the Scandinavian community at Point Reyes was in those days, asserting that “all the Scandinavians on Point Reyes called him not Captain but 'Papa Claussen.' They came to him for advice, sympathy, and comfort, which he never denied them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So perhaps the four immigrant surfmen weren’t just courageous strangers to Claussen. These young men may have been his friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps it’s right that a place as hidden, and still as this, keeps a few secrets yet.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11659308/you-dont-have-to-come-back-life-and-death-in-the-waters-of-point-reyes","authors":["3243"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_22926","news_20397","news_21880","news_19542","news_22924","news_3286","news_3287","news_5467","news_21131","news_22923"],"featImg":"news_11659531","label":"news_72"},"news_97144":{"type":"posts","id":"news_97144","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"97144","score":null,"sort":[1368568101000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"point-reyes-oyster-farm-gets-its-day-in-court","title":"Point Reyes Oyster Farm Gets Its Day in Court","publishDate":1368568101,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>(BCN) Calling Drakes Bay Oyster Co. a \"shining example of sustainable agriculture,\" a lawyer for the business urged a federal appeals court in San Francisco today to allow the company to keep operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88271\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/05/judge-upholds-removal-of-calif-oyster-farm/drakes-bay-oyster-harvest-justin-sullivan-getty/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88271\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-88271\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/Drakes-Bay-Oyster-Harvest-justin-sullivan-getty.jpg\" alt=\"Drakes Bay Oyster Co. workers harvest strings of oysters on Schooner Bay near Point Reyes. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drakes Bay Oyster Co. workers harvest strings of oysters on Schooner Bay near Point Reyes. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attorney Amber Abbasi argued that former U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar \"ignored the public interest in preserving an 80-year-old farm\" when he declined last year to extend the company's permit to operate in Point Reyes National Seashore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company owners Kevin and Nancy Lunny are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to issue a preliminary injunction that would enable the farm to continue harvesting oysters while the owners challenge Salazar's action in a federal trial court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-judge panel of the appeals court took the case under submission after hearing arguments this morning and will issue a written decision at a later date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm grows oysters on 1,000 acres of submerged land in Drakes Estero, an estuary of Drakes Bay, and packages them on 1.5 acres of land along the shoreline. It says it produces more than a third of all oysters grown in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Interior Department contends that a 2009 law gave Salazar discretion to decide whether to continue the permit beyond 2012, and that he had the authority to decide the area should return to wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Department attorney David Gunter argued that the Lunnys and a predecessor company, Johnson Oyster Co., reached a bargain with the government when the farm received a 40-year permit in 1962.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They got their 40 years,\" Gunter told the appeals court.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1368569845,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":286},"headData":{"title":"Point Reyes Oyster Farm Gets Its Day in Court | KQED","description":"(BCN) Calling Drakes Bay Oyster Co. a "shining example of sustainable agriculture," a lawyer for the business urged a federal appeals court in San Francisco today to allow the company to keep operating. 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(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drakes Bay Oyster Co. workers harvest strings of oysters on Schooner Bay near Point Reyes. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attorney Amber Abbasi argued that former U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar \"ignored the public interest in preserving an 80-year-old farm\" when he declined last year to extend the company's permit to operate in Point Reyes National Seashore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company owners Kevin and Nancy Lunny are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to issue a preliminary injunction that would enable the farm to continue harvesting oysters while the owners challenge Salazar's action in a federal trial court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-judge panel of the appeals court took the case under submission after hearing arguments this morning and will issue a written decision at a later date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm grows oysters on 1,000 acres of submerged land in Drakes Estero, an estuary of Drakes Bay, and packages them on 1.5 acres of land along the shoreline. It says it produces more than a third of all oysters grown in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Interior Department contends that a 2009 law gave Salazar discretion to decide whether to continue the permit beyond 2012, and that he had the authority to decide the area should return to wilderness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice Department attorney David Gunter argued that the Lunnys and a predecessor company, Johnson Oyster Co., reached a bargain with the government when the farm received a 40-year permit in 1962.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They got their 40 years,\" Gunter told the appeals court.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/97144/point-reyes-oyster-farm-gets-its-day-in-court","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_3845","news_3286","news_3287"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_90645":{"type":"posts","id":"news_90645","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"90645","score":null,"sort":[1362180004000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"90645","title":"National Parks' Benefit to Bay Area: $445 Million","publishDate":1362180004,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90646\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/01/90645/248407403_cea145f2b9_o/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90646\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/248407403_cea145f2b9_o-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tourism to Point Reyes, seen here on a low-traffic day during a winter storm, brings an economic boon to local communities. (Dan Brekke/KQED) \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90646\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourism to Point Reyes, seen here on a low-traffic day during a winter storm, brings an economic boon to local communities. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Point Reyes Station, a pastoral West Marin outpost, has a population of 848. But on one recent weekday, parking is tight on the town’s main street and there is a steady stream of foot traffic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Costa, co-owner of Point Reyes Books, has an easy explanation. He points to the 2.3 million visitors who flocked to Point Reyes National Seashore last year. He says 70 percent of his customers com from outside the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think any business on Main Street would exist without this flow of constant visitors,” says Costa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.nps.gov/socialscience/docs/NPSSystemEstimates2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study from the National Park Service this week\u003c/a> found that three North Bay parks generated $445 million in visitor spending in 2011. Point Reyes National Seashore accounted for $93 million in tourism impact and helped support over 1,000 jobs in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s no surprise to Michael Zilber, the retail manager for the Tomales Bay Food Barn, which houses the artisinal cheese shop \u003ca href=\"http://www.cowgirlcreamery.com/pt-reyes-shop-creamery\" target=\"_blank\">Cowgirl Creamery.\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a pair of out-of-state tourists ooh and aaah over the cheeses at the counter behind him, Zilber explains the founders actually chose the location in part because of the nearby park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea was to service those visitors with great local artisinal food to bring on their picnics,” says Zilber. “And in doing so really grow an appreciation not only of the park but of the great agricultural history of the area too.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the visitors are daytrippers from the Bay Area. Like Mary Ann Miller. She’s visiting from San Rafael. She says she first came to check out the park’s lighthouse.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n“Then I discovered the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/visitorcenters.htm#CP_JUMP_63132\" target=\"_blank\">Bear Valley visitors center\u003c/a>,” says Miller. “And then I started doing all the history walks out there. So [in the past year] I’ve made about a dozen trips out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each time, she says, she comes into town and spends between 20 and 30 dollars at the bookstore and food shops. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big ticket item in the area, though, is lodging. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the café down the block, local Karen Gray has stopped in for an afternoon pick-me-up. She’s lived here for 40 years. Twenty-five years ago she says she started renting out a cottage in the back of her house to visiting families. Now she rents out four guest cottages. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray says Marin County promotes tourism without opening up to big chains. She says that helps residents and also maintains the area's character. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve managed to do that with small hospitality places that will welcome a family or three or four guests at a time,” says Gray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few locals did say the visitors are a double-edged sword. A house painter who didn’t want to give his name said it’s great to have the economic benefit, but sometimes the crowds can be overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Dell’Osso, the chief of interpretation and resource education at \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a> says the park has worked with local businesses in the past to try to do some special events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a whole week of activities,” says Dell’Osso. “We worked with the businesses on these to see would this generate some more business for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dell’Osso says the effect was small, but positive. As far as the impact of spending cuts from the \"sequestration\" going into effect today, Dell’Osso says the impact is an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be some impact to park visitors, what we don’t know is how are they going to react to it,” says Dell’Osso. “Will they cut their trip shorter, are they not going to come because a visitors center isn’t open on a particular day?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All together the report says the three local parks--Point Reyes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/muwo/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Muir Woods\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/goga/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/a>--helped create 3,400 jobs in 2011. The biggest economic engine was the Golden Gate National Recreation Area whose visitors spent almost 300 million dollars that year.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1362181058,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":731},"headData":{"title":"National Parks' Benefit to Bay Area: $445 Million | KQED","description":"Point Reyes Station, a pastoral West Marin outpost, has a population of 848. But on one recent weekday, parking is tight on the town’s main street and there is a steady stream of foot traffic. Steve Costa, co-owner of Point Reyes Books, has an easy explanation. He points to the 2.3 million visitors who flocked","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"National Parks' Benefit to Bay Area: $445 Million","datePublished":"2013-03-01T23:20:04.000Z","dateModified":"2013-03-01T23:37:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"90645 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=90645","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/01/90645/","disqusTitle":"National Parks' Benefit to Bay Area: $445 Million","path":"/news/90645/90645","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90646\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/01/90645/248407403_cea145f2b9_o/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90646\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/248407403_cea145f2b9_o-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tourism to Point Reyes, seen here on a low-traffic day during a winter storm, brings an economic boon to local communities. (Dan Brekke/KQED) \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90646\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourism to Point Reyes, seen here on a low-traffic day during a winter storm, brings an economic boon to local communities. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Point Reyes Station, a pastoral West Marin outpost, has a population of 848. But on one recent weekday, parking is tight on the town’s main street and there is a steady stream of foot traffic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Costa, co-owner of Point Reyes Books, has an easy explanation. He points to the 2.3 million visitors who flocked to Point Reyes National Seashore last year. He says 70 percent of his customers com from outside the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think any business on Main Street would exist without this flow of constant visitors,” says Costa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.nps.gov/socialscience/docs/NPSSystemEstimates2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study from the National Park Service this week\u003c/a> found that three North Bay parks generated $445 million in visitor spending in 2011. Point Reyes National Seashore accounted for $93 million in tourism impact and helped support over 1,000 jobs in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s no surprise to Michael Zilber, the retail manager for the Tomales Bay Food Barn, which houses the artisinal cheese shop \u003ca href=\"http://www.cowgirlcreamery.com/pt-reyes-shop-creamery\" target=\"_blank\">Cowgirl Creamery.\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a pair of out-of-state tourists ooh and aaah over the cheeses at the counter behind him, Zilber explains the founders actually chose the location in part because of the nearby park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea was to service those visitors with great local artisinal food to bring on their picnics,” says Zilber. “And in doing so really grow an appreciation not only of the park but of the great agricultural history of the area too.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the visitors are daytrippers from the Bay Area. Like Mary Ann Miller. She’s visiting from San Rafael. She says she first came to check out the park’s lighthouse.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n“Then I discovered the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/visitorcenters.htm#CP_JUMP_63132\" target=\"_blank\">Bear Valley visitors center\u003c/a>,” says Miller. “And then I started doing all the history walks out there. So [in the past year] I’ve made about a dozen trips out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each time, she says, she comes into town and spends between 20 and 30 dollars at the bookstore and food shops. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big ticket item in the area, though, is lodging. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the café down the block, local Karen Gray has stopped in for an afternoon pick-me-up. She’s lived here for 40 years. Twenty-five years ago she says she started renting out a cottage in the back of her house to visiting families. Now she rents out four guest cottages. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray says Marin County promotes tourism without opening up to big chains. She says that helps residents and also maintains the area's character. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve managed to do that with small hospitality places that will welcome a family or three or four guests at a time,” says Gray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few locals did say the visitors are a double-edged sword. A house painter who didn’t want to give his name said it’s great to have the economic benefit, but sometimes the crowds can be overwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Dell’Osso, the chief of interpretation and resource education at \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a> says the park has worked with local businesses in the past to try to do some special events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a whole week of activities,” says Dell’Osso. “We worked with the businesses on these to see would this generate some more business for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dell’Osso says the effect was small, but positive. As far as the impact of spending cuts from the \"sequestration\" going into effect today, Dell’Osso says the impact is an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be some impact to park visitors, what we don’t know is how are they going to react to it,” says Dell’Osso. “Will they cut their trip shorter, are they not going to come because a visitors center isn’t open on a particular day?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All together the report says the three local parks--Point Reyes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/muwo/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Muir Woods\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/goga/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/a>--helped create 3,400 jobs in 2011. The biggest economic engine was the Golden Gate National Recreation Area whose visitors spent almost 300 million dollars that year.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/90645/90645","authors":["252"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906"],"tags":["news_41","news_3971","news_3286","news_383","news_566"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_90146":{"type":"posts","id":"news_90146","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"90146","score":null,"sort":[1361832311000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"drakes-bay-oyster-farm-gets-reprieve-to-stay-at-point-reyes","title":"Drake's Bay Oyster Farm Gets Reprieve from Point Reyes Eviction","publishDate":1361832311,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A federal judge is allowing Drake's Bay Oyster Company to stay at Point Reyes National Seashore while it fights an eviction order in court, according to lawyers representing the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88271\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/05/judge-upholds-removal-of-calif-oyster-farm/drakes-bay-oyster-harvest-justin-sullivan-getty/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88271\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-88271\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/Drakes-Bay-Oyster-Harvest-justin-sullivan-getty.jpg\" alt=\"Drakes Bay Oyster Co. workers harvest strings of oysters on Schooner Bay near Point Reyes. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drakes Bay Oyster Co. workers harvest strings of oysters on Schooner Bay near Point Reyes. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/11/29/feds-deny-oyster-farm-lease-renewal/\"> announced\u003c/a> in November that the federal government would not renew the farm's lease at the national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm's 40-year lease was originally negotiated with the Johnson Oyster Co. in 1972 and taken on by Drakes Bay in 2004 with the full knowledge that it would expire eight years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing a March 1 deadline to vacate the park, owner Kevin Lunny filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunny lost that round, and brought his case to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ruling allows the farm to stay until its appeal is heard. The court said it would schedule a hearing for the week of May 13-17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are beyond thrilled that our business will now remain open while we continue to fight the decisions from the court and Secretary Salazar that have put our business at risk,\" said Lunny in a written statement. \"Our fight is, and will continue to be, about the great service Drakes Bay Oyster Farm provides to the community as an innovative sustainable farm, an educational resource, and part of the economic fiber of Marin County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunny is represented by Cause of Action, a public interest law firm based in Washington D.C., which \u003ca href=\"http://causeofaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/22-Order-granting-injunction.pdf\">posted\u003c/a> the judge's ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Interior Department could not be reached for comment on the ruling, but has declined to comment on the litigation in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In explaining the reason for the ruling, the court said, \"Appelants' emergency motion for an injunction pending appeal is granted, because there are serious legal questions and the balance of hardships tips sharply in appelants' favor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neal Desai, pacific region associate director of the National Parks Conservation Association, wants to see the oyster farm leave the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are confident the District Court got it right when it decided that the Interior Secretary had full discretion to let the lease expire and that the oyster company was unlikely to win its lawsuit,\" he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The 9th Circuit Court's decision today unfortunately delays by two months the ability for Americans to enjoy their national park wilderness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's some background on the case from the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Environmentalists and the National Park Service said the farm's operations threatened nearby harbor seals and other native species. The area is a key pupping site for the seals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oyster farm had many powerful allies who fought vociferously on its behalf. Many hailed the oyster operation as an example of sustainable aquaculture and the local foods movement....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar did not stop all commercial activities in the park. He sought to extend the terms of the cattle ranch leases from 10 to 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ranching operations have a long and important history on the Point Reyes peninsula and will be continued at Point Reyes National Seashore,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1361837105,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":534},"headData":{"title":"Drake's Bay Oyster Farm Gets Reprieve from Point Reyes Eviction | KQED","description":"A federal judge is allowing Drake's Bay Oyster Company to stay at Point Reyes National Seashore while it fights an eviction order in court, according to lawyers representing the farm. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced in November that the federal government would not renew the farm's lease at the national park. 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(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drakes Bay Oyster Co. workers harvest strings of oysters on Schooner Bay near Point Reyes. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/11/29/feds-deny-oyster-farm-lease-renewal/\"> announced\u003c/a> in November that the federal government would not renew the farm's lease at the national park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm's 40-year lease was originally negotiated with the Johnson Oyster Co. in 1972 and taken on by Drakes Bay in 2004 with the full knowledge that it would expire eight years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing a March 1 deadline to vacate the park, owner Kevin Lunny filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunny lost that round, and brought his case to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ruling allows the farm to stay until its appeal is heard. The court said it would schedule a hearing for the week of May 13-17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are beyond thrilled that our business will now remain open while we continue to fight the decisions from the court and Secretary Salazar that have put our business at risk,\" said Lunny in a written statement. \"Our fight is, and will continue to be, about the great service Drakes Bay Oyster Farm provides to the community as an innovative sustainable farm, an educational resource, and part of the economic fiber of Marin County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunny is represented by Cause of Action, a public interest law firm based in Washington D.C., which \u003ca href=\"http://causeofaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/22-Order-granting-injunction.pdf\">posted\u003c/a> the judge's ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Interior Department could not be reached for comment on the ruling, but has declined to comment on the litigation in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In explaining the reason for the ruling, the court said, \"Appelants' emergency motion for an injunction pending appeal is granted, because there are serious legal questions and the balance of hardships tips sharply in appelants' favor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neal Desai, pacific region associate director of the National Parks Conservation Association, wants to see the oyster farm leave the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are confident the District Court got it right when it decided that the Interior Secretary had full discretion to let the lease expire and that the oyster company was unlikely to win its lawsuit,\" he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The 9th Circuit Court's decision today unfortunately delays by two months the ability for Americans to enjoy their national park wilderness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's some background on the case from the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Environmentalists and the National Park Service said the farm's operations threatened nearby harbor seals and other native species. 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