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As US Racial Reckoning Escalates, Reformers Target Environmental Icons
State Park Plan Is Conservationist's Dream. But Reformers Want Focus on Neglected Neighborhoods
Elevated Park Will Connect Crissy Field With Presidio
Park Service Proposes Culling Elk Herd to Protect Ranches in Pt. Reyes
Proposition 68: Money for Parks, Beaches and Water Projects
National Park Service Proposes Yosemite Entry Fee Hike: $70 Per Car
Beneath the Pavement: A Forgotten Wetland Resurfaces in New Art Installation
VIDEOS: Scenes from Yosemite National Park
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But as human-caused climate change worsens, some water experts say the stability of San Francisco’s mountain tap is losing its surety for the 21st century and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I no longer think it will be a reliable water system,” said Samuel Sandoval Solis, an expert in water management at UC Davis. He said the ping-pong of drought and deluge are challenging the current system and will require alterations to the water system in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a privilege that San Franciscans have this high-quality water,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hetch Hetchy was a glacier-carved valley located 15 miles north of Yosemite Valley until the dam project was completed in 1923. Now it’s a massive reservoir that holds 117 billion gallons of water. A true triumph of engineering, the system relies on a 167-mile pipeline and gravity to push water down the height of Sierra Nevada, through the Central Valley, over the golden hills and into the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do shoot it with ultraviolet light to kill the bugs,” said Christopher Graham, Hetch Hetchy water operations and maintenance manager with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. “We don’t have to filter out the dirt from the water because it’s so clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white man in a bright yellow jacket descends concrete stairs, surrounded by metal pipes, with more concrete and a few trees visible in the far distance across the unseen water surface\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982574\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Manager Christopher Graham descends into the O’Shaughnessy Dam at the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park on May 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year he said 1.4 million acre-feet of water is likely to melt into into the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, but only a fraction of that will remain at the end of the dry season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water passes over three faultlines and is used for about 85% of the water needs for 2.7 million people in San Francisco and parts of Santa Clara, San Mateo and Alameda counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Christopher Graham, Hetch Hetchy water operations and maintenance manager, SFPUC\"]‘All I’m trying to do is maximize what we got and the storage capacity we have. Climate change is going to make managing this water supply much more difficult.’[/pullquote]But water experts believe the next 100 years of supplying a finite resource to millions of people will be much more complicated than storing water in a mountain bathtub and piping it to the bay. Water officials will need to conserve more and might need to make engineering upgrades so that the system can store more water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hetch Hetchy system has been able to handle recent severe droughts and this winter’s powerful storms, but Newsha Ajami, the president of the SFPUC, said “part of that has been driven by luck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have some of the lowest water use in the state,” she said. “San Franciscans use about 40 gallons per person daily, which is very low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPUC operates the reservoir and expects the Hetch Hetchy system will be tested by even more extreme drought and deluge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year was one of the wettest years we’ve ever seen. Right before we had the driest three-year sequence we had ever seen,” said Graham. “We are seeing what the climate change models are forecasting, wetter wet periods and drier dry periods, which makes managing all this quite a bit more difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water supply may seem stable in a wet year, Graham said, but managing the runoff from a massive Sierra snowpack takes constant attention, especially with no guarantee future years will also be wet. Come August, he said, the reservoir will remain glassy and brimming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For now, all I’m trying to do is maximize what we got and the storage capacity we have,” he said. “Climate change is going to make managing this water supply much more difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling Black woman speaks while gesturing with one hand, wearing a fingerless glove and gray jacket, as the curving concrete arc of a massive dam spreads out at eye level behind her\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed looks out from the O’Shaughnessy Dam at the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir during Tuesday’s centennial celebration. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While San Franciscans don’t use much water, other parts of the Bay Area overuse the resource. Laura Feinstein with the non-profit public policy group SPUR analyzed water use within the system and found that communities like Hillsborough in San Mateo County that receive water from the Hetch Hetchy system use 190 gallons of water per person per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They use water generously even in the winter when it rains,” she said of residents who continue to water large yards and landscapes regardless of season. “Those types of inefficiencies put a lot of pressure on the system. Making communities like that more water-efficient would mean a lot of savings and make the whole system more climate resilient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hetch Hetchy’s success will depend on rethinking its use\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Susan Leal wants to ensure that Hetch Hetchy exists as a thriving water resource in the face of human-caused climate change. She is a former general manager of the SFPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sees three possibilities for the future of water originating from Hetch Hetchy: it will become more expensive over time, officials begin to recycle it on a large scale or they raise the reservoir level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding recycling water, Leal said there is “no alternative,” and city officials must give serious thought this year to creating more recycled water plants. Recycled water, she said, costs more but could relieve pressure on the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To get people off bottled water, we kept telling them how good their Hetch Hetchy water is,” she said. “We have to let people understand that recycled water is like distilled water. It’s very pure water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"the concrete top of a dam stretches away at odd angles into the distance on a cloudy day as dark water can be seen far below, with mountains in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The O’Shaughnessy Dam holds back the Tuolumne River, forming Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another option for increasing the water supply is to raise the dam to hold more water. In 1938, officials raised it from 227 feet to 312 feet. Leal said O’Shaughnessy Dam, which holds back the Tuolumne River, could be built 55 feet taller than its height today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may need to build the dam higher to impound more water,” she said. “We have to consider this because we never planned for the extreme storms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raising the dam and increasing the holding capacity of the reservoir would likely come with substantial pushback from environmentalists and would likely be tied up with lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if it’s being considered, but whether it’s recycling or impounding more water at Hetch Hetchy or other dams, all these things you have to start thinking about yesterday,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>100 years marks the ‘sacrifice of the environment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The story of Hetch Hetchy isn’t all about free flowing, pure drinking water, and its construction kicked off one of the first major U.S. fights over land use and conservation. When officials constructed Hetch Hetchy, the reservoir cut off waterways to the fish, flora and other fauna that relied on flowing water that is now largely stored behind a cement wall deep in the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis’ Sandoval Solis said the building of the reservoir, while good for many people in the Bay Area, has devastated riparian freshwater ecosystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The environment has been compromised already for 100 years,” said Sandoval Solis. “The centennial also marks the centennial of the compromise of the environment or the sacrifice of the environment, and some of the native communities displaced for the sake of the well-being of people living in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hetch Hetchy is the ancient homeland of as many as a dozen Indigenous peoples; across Yosemite many were forcibly removed or killed in the mid-1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sweeping panorama photograph shows a massive lake reflecting the shapes of steep rounded granite peaks rising above it, with alpine forest also visible\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hetch Hetchy Valley has been inundated with water since the construction of the O’Shaughnessy Dam 100 years ago. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Damming rivers across the Sierra Nevada, like the Tuolumne River at Hetch Hetchy, have ramifications on the river systems that unite in the San Joaquin River, flow into the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta and push into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large amounts of freshwater that once flowed helped mix natural algae into the salty water. Still, lesser flows into the bay mean the algae sits on top of the water, creating the perfect habitat for toxic algae blooms. Olivia Yip, an associate professor at San Jose State University who studied algae blooms, said the last outbreak that killed thousands of fish was partly due to decreased freshwater flows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine a little algae floating around in the bay,” said Yip. “If there’s more mixing, then it’s less likely that it can just sit there on the top and grow like crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The future of the system must include equitable use of water, say advocates\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Hetch Hetchy pipeline runs through communities that need clean drinking water themselves in the Central Valley and the Bay Area. UC Davis’ Sandoval Solis said access to clean drinking water should “not be a luxury because it is a human right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pipes are passing through the middle of their communities, but they cannot use it,” he said. “I don’t think there should be a problem with providing clean water to disadvantaged communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around two-thirds of the pure Hetch Hetchy water in the Bay Area is used outside San Francisco’s bounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='climate-change']The pipeline travels across the Dumbarton Bridge and emerges right next to the community of East Palo Alto, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/publicworks/page/utilities\">gets around 80% of its water from the source\u003c/a>. The other 20% comes from local sources, and residents question its purity, said Miriam Yupanqui, executive director of the local advocacy group Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yupanqui dreams of the day when 100% of the water for this town of more than 90% people of color is pure piped in mountain fresh. She said many of the more than 15,000 residents her agency represents want all of the city’s water sourced from Hetch Hetchy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community members want quality water,” she said. “They want to feel comfortable drinking the water. Many of our community members feel that our neighbors in Palo Alto and Menlo Park are not receiving second-rate water. So why should they?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto and Menlo Park receive all of their water from the SFPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, groups like Climate Resilient Communities in East Palo Alto are working to provide hyper-local water sources, like cisterns connected to gutters to catch rainwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a practice that should be used here with the uncertainties of rainfall patterns and extreme events,” said Violet Wulf-Saena, founder and executive director of the nonprofit. “Every home should have a water tank to capture and hold the water that will reduce not only the flooding but also help conserve and use it when there are droughts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to have any real impact on water conservation, reducing flooding risk and increasing water supply, Wulf-Saena said they “need thousands of rain gardens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco's main water source may not be as reliable a tap of Sierra Nevada snowmelt in the coming century.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704846023,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":2041},"headData":{"title":"Celebration and Concern: Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Turns 100, But Climate Change Complicates its Future | KQED","description":"San Francisco's main water source may not be as reliable a tap of Sierra Nevada snowmelt in the coming century.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Water","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/science/1982551/celebration-and-concern-hetch-hetchy-reservoir-turns-100-but-climate-change-complicates-its-future","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>an Francisco Mayor London Breed and a gaggle of water officials gathered in the northwest corner of Yosemite National Park on Tuesday to celebrate the centennial of the creation of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and the O’Shaughnessy Dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hetch Hetchy is one of the reasons why San Francisco is such a resilient city,” said Mayor London Breed with a sweeping view of mountains soaring above the water behind her, their reflections mirrored on the reservoir’s surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [dam] was created and is a testament to the creativity, and the innovation of San Franciscans,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water system, San Francisco’s main water source, provided a stable supply of pristine Sierra Nevada snowmelt for city residents through most of the 20th century. But as human-caused climate change worsens, some water experts say the stability of San Francisco’s mountain tap is losing its surety for the 21st century and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I no longer think it will be a reliable water system,” said Samuel Sandoval Solis, an expert in water management at UC Davis. He said the ping-pong of drought and deluge are challenging the current system and will require alterations to the water system in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a privilege that San Franciscans have this high-quality water,” he added.\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>Hetch Hetchy was a glacier-carved valley located 15 miles north of Yosemite Valley until the dam project was completed in 1923. Now it’s a massive reservoir that holds 117 billion gallons of water. A true triumph of engineering, the system relies on a 167-mile pipeline and gravity to push water down the height of Sierra Nevada, through the Central Valley, over the golden hills and into the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do shoot it with ultraviolet light to kill the bugs,” said Christopher Graham, Hetch Hetchy water operations and maintenance manager with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. “We don’t have to filter out the dirt from the water because it’s so clean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white man in a bright yellow jacket descends concrete stairs, surrounded by metal pipes, with more concrete and a few trees visible in the far distance across the unseen water surface\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982574\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64952_042_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Manager Christopher Graham descends into the O’Shaughnessy Dam at the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park on May 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year he said 1.4 million acre-feet of water is likely to melt into into the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, but only a fraction of that will remain at the end of the dry season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water passes over three faultlines and is used for about 85% of the water needs for 2.7 million people in San Francisco and parts of Santa Clara, San Mateo and Alameda counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘All I’m trying to do is maximize what we got and the storage capacity we have. Climate change is going to make managing this water supply much more difficult.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Christopher Graham, Hetch Hetchy water operations and maintenance manager, SFPUC","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But water experts believe the next 100 years of supplying a finite resource to millions of people will be much more complicated than storing water in a mountain bathtub and piping it to the bay. Water officials will need to conserve more and might need to make engineering upgrades so that the system can store more water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hetch Hetchy system has been able to handle recent severe droughts and this winter’s powerful storms, but Newsha Ajami, the president of the SFPUC, said “part of that has been driven by luck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have some of the lowest water use in the state,” she said. “San Franciscans use about 40 gallons per person daily, which is very low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPUC operates the reservoir and expects the Hetch Hetchy system will be tested by even more extreme drought and deluge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year was one of the wettest years we’ve ever seen. Right before we had the driest three-year sequence we had ever seen,” said Graham. “We are seeing what the climate change models are forecasting, wetter wet periods and drier dry periods, which makes managing all this quite a bit more difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water supply may seem stable in a wet year, Graham said, but managing the runoff from a massive Sierra snowpack takes constant attention, especially with no guarantee future years will also be wet. Come August, he said, the reservoir will remain glassy and brimming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For now, all I’m trying to do is maximize what we got and the storage capacity we have,” he said. “Climate change is going to make managing this water supply much more difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling Black woman speaks while gesturing with one hand, wearing a fingerless glove and gray jacket, as the curving concrete arc of a massive dam spreads out at eye level behind her\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982577\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64922_014_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed looks out from the O’Shaughnessy Dam at the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir during Tuesday’s centennial celebration. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While San Franciscans don’t use much water, other parts of the Bay Area overuse the resource. Laura Feinstein with the non-profit public policy group SPUR analyzed water use within the system and found that communities like Hillsborough in San Mateo County that receive water from the Hetch Hetchy system use 190 gallons of water per person per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They use water generously even in the winter when it rains,” she said of residents who continue to water large yards and landscapes regardless of season. “Those types of inefficiencies put a lot of pressure on the system. Making communities like that more water-efficient would mean a lot of savings and make the whole system more climate resilient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hetch Hetchy’s success will depend on rethinking its use\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Susan Leal wants to ensure that Hetch Hetchy exists as a thriving water resource in the face of human-caused climate change. She is a former general manager of the SFPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sees three possibilities for the future of water originating from Hetch Hetchy: it will become more expensive over time, officials begin to recycle it on a large scale or they raise the reservoir level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding recycling water, Leal said there is “no alternative,” and city officials must give serious thought this year to creating more recycled water plants. Recycled water, she said, costs more but could relieve pressure on the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To get people off bottled water, we kept telling them how good their Hetch Hetchy water is,” she said. “We have to let people understand that recycled water is like distilled water. It’s very pure water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"the concrete top of a dam stretches away at odd angles into the distance on a cloudy day as dark water can be seen far below, with mountains in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64915_004_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The O’Shaughnessy Dam holds back the Tuolumne River, forming Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another option for increasing the water supply is to raise the dam to hold more water. In 1938, officials raised it from 227 feet to 312 feet. Leal said O’Shaughnessy Dam, which holds back the Tuolumne River, could be built 55 feet taller than its height today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may need to build the dam higher to impound more water,” she said. “We have to consider this because we never planned for the extreme storms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raising the dam and increasing the holding capacity of the reservoir would likely come with substantial pushback from environmentalists and would likely be tied up with lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if it’s being considered, but whether it’s recycling or impounding more water at Hetch Hetchy or other dams, all these things you have to start thinking about yesterday,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>100 years marks the ‘sacrifice of the environment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The story of Hetch Hetchy isn’t all about free flowing, pure drinking water, and its construction kicked off one of the first major U.S. fights over land use and conservation. When officials constructed Hetch Hetchy, the reservoir cut off waterways to the fish, flora and other fauna that relied on flowing water that is now largely stored behind a cement wall deep in the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis’ Sandoval Solis said the building of the reservoir, while good for many people in the Bay Area, has devastated riparian freshwater ecosystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The environment has been compromised already for 100 years,” said Sandoval Solis. “The centennial also marks the centennial of the compromise of the environment or the sacrifice of the environment, and some of the native communities displaced for the sake of the well-being of people living in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hetch Hetchy is the ancient homeland of as many as a dozen Indigenous peoples; across Yosemite many were forcibly removed or killed in the mid-1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1982585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sweeping panorama photograph shows a massive lake reflecting the shapes of steep rounded granite peaks rising above it, with alpine forest also visible\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1982585\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/05/RS64931_019_KQED_HetchHetchyCentennial_05022023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hetch Hetchy Valley has been inundated with water since the construction of the O’Shaughnessy Dam 100 years ago. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Damming rivers across the Sierra Nevada, like the Tuolumne River at Hetch Hetchy, have ramifications on the river systems that unite in the San Joaquin River, flow into the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta and push into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large amounts of freshwater that once flowed helped mix natural algae into the salty water. Still, lesser flows into the bay mean the algae sits on top of the water, creating the perfect habitat for toxic algae blooms. Olivia Yip, an associate professor at San Jose State University who studied algae blooms, said the last outbreak that killed thousands of fish was partly due to decreased freshwater flows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine a little algae floating around in the bay,” said Yip. “If there’s more mixing, then it’s less likely that it can just sit there on the top and grow like crazy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The future of the system must include equitable use of water, say advocates\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Hetch Hetchy pipeline runs through communities that need clean drinking water themselves in the Central Valley and the Bay Area. UC Davis’ Sandoval Solis said access to clean drinking water should “not be a luxury because it is a human right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pipes are passing through the middle of their communities, but they cannot use it,” he said. “I don’t think there should be a problem with providing clean water to disadvantaged communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around two-thirds of the pure Hetch Hetchy water in the Bay Area is used outside San Francisco’s bounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"climate-change"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The pipeline travels across the Dumbarton Bridge and emerges right next to the community of East Palo Alto, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.east-palo-alto.ca.us/publicworks/page/utilities\">gets around 80% of its water from the source\u003c/a>. The other 20% comes from local sources, and residents question its purity, said Miriam Yupanqui, executive director of the local advocacy group Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yupanqui dreams of the day when 100% of the water for this town of more than 90% people of color is pure piped in mountain fresh. She said many of the more than 15,000 residents her agency represents want all of the city’s water sourced from Hetch Hetchy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community members want quality water,” she said. “They want to feel comfortable drinking the water. Many of our community members feel that our neighbors in Palo Alto and Menlo Park are not receiving second-rate water. So why should they?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto and Menlo Park receive all of their water from the SFPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, groups like Climate Resilient Communities in East Palo Alto are working to provide hyper-local water sources, like cisterns connected to gutters to catch rainwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a practice that should be used here with the uncertainties of rainfall patterns and extreme events,” said Violet Wulf-Saena, founder and executive director of the nonprofit. “Every home should have a water tank to capture and hold the water that will reduce not only the flooding but also help conserve and use it when there are droughts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to have any real impact on water conservation, reducing flooding risk and increasing water supply, Wulf-Saena said they “need thousands of rain gardens.”\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1982551/celebration-and-concern-hetch-hetchy-reservoir-turns-100-but-climate-change-complicates-its-future","authors":["11746"],"categories":["science_35","science_40","science_4450","science_98"],"tags":["science_1195","science_4417","science_248","science_2828","science_2078","science_2830","science_448","science_201","science_159"],"featImg":"science_1982570","label":"source_science_1982551"},"science_1967610":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1967610","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1967610","score":null,"sort":[1595884509000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"as-us-racial-reckoning-escalates-reformers-target-environmental-icons","title":"As US Racial Reckoning Escalates, Reformers Target Environmental Icons","publishDate":1595884509,"format":"standard","headTitle":"As US Racial Reckoning Escalates, Reformers Target Environmental Icons | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The death of George Floyd has triggered a top-to-bottom house cleaning of the racial skeletons in America’s collective closet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The broad push for racial justice has touched every aspect of American life and has caught up with a movement many people associate with progressiveness, not overt racism. Even the environmental icon, John Muir, a founding father of the nation’s national park system, isn’t beyond reproach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club, one of the largest and oldest conservation groups in the U.S., circulated a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/michael-brune/2020/07/john-muir-early-history-sierra-club\">detailed post\u003c/a> last week titled “Pulling Down Our Monuments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='right' citation='Michael Brune, Sierra Club']‘The whiteness and privilege of our early membership fed into a very dangerous idea. One that’s still circulating today. It’s the idea that exploring, enjoying, and protecting the outdoors can be separated from human affairs.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the piece, Brune reckons with some of the racist statements and actions of the group’s founders, its early history of excluding people of color, and what he described as an ongoing resistance from current members who say the Sierra Club should “‘stay in our lane,’ and stop talking about issues of race, equity, and privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brune wrote that as “defenders of Black life pull down Confederate monuments,” the conservation movement must also “take this moment to re-examine our past and our substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time to take down some of our own monuments, starting with some truth-telling about the Sierra Club’s early history,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter ignited an online conversation about the future of one of the nation’s most powerful environmental organizations and about the state of the conservation movement, where a new generation of reform-minded advocates have sought to create change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They point to the fact that visitation at national parks \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=8eb4b125e53d4efeb36a6d0495fdddd0\">skews\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=8eb4b125e53d4efeb36a6d0495fdddd0\">white\u003c/a>. They’re pressing for investment in city and county parks in communities of color and for better representation in powerful organizations like the Sierra Club and in the natural places the groups protect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of these reformers is Rue Mapp, the founder of Oakland-based Outdoor Afro, which seeks to challenge what she\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10481490/african-american-hiking-group-turns-to-nature-for-beauty-and-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> calls\u003c/a> the myth that Black Americans don’t get out in nature\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10481490/african-american-hiking-group-turns-to-nature-for-beauty-and-community\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says many Black people like herself have not always felt welcome in groups like the Sierra Club, which she learned from experience when she started Outdoor Afro and partnered with the organization (although Brune remains a friend and a member of her organization’s board).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a fundamental challenge that [Brune] must embrace in this moment; it is a culture of change,” she says. “It’s like turning around a big ship on a dime, nearly impossible. But we can’t deduct points for timing. And it’s not too late for organizations like the Sierra Club to shift and reinvent themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the letter is a good step forward, but that its arrival is overdue. Now it’s on the group’s membership to embrace a new vision of conservation that acknowledges the experience of people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon Nagami, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council and an advocate for environmental justice in conservation, agrees that it’s a reckoning “long overdue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very glad to see Sierra Club taking its history head-on,” he says. “But it’s undeniable that environmentalism and the conservation field is predominantly white.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Japanese American, Nagami says it’s been “difficult at times to navigate this space.” He says a similar conversation is happening within his own powerful environmental organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Troubling Past\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brune’s post examines the history of John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club and a towering figure in conservation circles, especially in California, where he fought to preserve some of the most grand and beautiful places in the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the “patron saint of the American wilderness” was a complicated person, Brune wrote. Muir not only described Black people and Native Americans using offensive and racist language, he maintained friendships with Joseph LeConte, David Starr Jordan and Henry Fairfield Osborn, leaders in the eugenics \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-forgotten-lessons-of-the-american-eugenics-movement\">movement\u003c/a>, which sought to prove the genetic superiority of white people. (Brune does not indicate that Muir personally espoused eugenics.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During its early years, Brune said, the Sierra Club was “basically a mountaineering club for middle- and upper-class white people who worked to preserve the wilderness they hiked through — wilderness that had begun to need protection only a few decades earlier, when white settlers violently displaced the Indigenous peoples who had lived on and taken care of the land for thousands of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s composition was maintained by an exclusive membership program until the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Membership could only be granted through sponsorship from existing members, some of whom screened out any applicants of color,” Brune wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whiteness and privilege of our early membership fed into a very dangerous idea,” he wrote. “One that’s still circulating today. It’s the idea that exploring, enjoying, and protecting the outdoors can be separated from human affairs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s membership and views have evolved. Recently, the Sierra Club led the \u003ca href=\"https://content.sierraclub.org/coal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyond Coal\u003c/a> campaign, a successful effort to shutter hundreds of dirty and aging coal plants across the U.S. and Europe, with a focus on facilities surrounded by neighborhoods of color. The group’s organizers have often partnered with local environmental justice groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Brune’s letter went on to highlight what he calls “willful ignorance” in the environmental movement, adding that this complacency “allows some people to shut their eyes to the reality that the wild places we love are also the ancestral homelands of Native peoples, forced off their lands in the decades or centuries before they became national parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allows them to overlook, too, the fact that only people insulated from systemic racism and brutality can afford to focus solely on preserving wilderness,” he wrote. “Black communities, Indigenous communities, and communities of color continue to endure the traumatic burden of fighting for their right to a healthy environment while simultaneously fighting for freedom from discrimination and police violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brune’s post landed in the middle of a raging debate about whether historical figures should be considered by contemporary social standards, or in the context of the views of their time. Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/23/beyond-john-muirs-racism-the-sierra-club-and-the-changing-face-of-environmentalism/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argue\u003c/a> that parks named after John Muir should drop his name because of his racists comments, while others point to the fact that — as Brune notes — Muir’s views “evolved later in his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the John Muir Wilderness, the Muir Woods National Monument in Marin and many California schools are named after the mountaineer. Visitors to parks such as Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon will find trails with his name; his writing, which strove to describe the sacred aspects of the rugged wilderness, is quoted on postcards, in pamphlets and on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/historyculture/muir.htm\">websites. \u003c/a>Theater groups routinely \u003ca href=\"https://www.johnmuirlive.com/\">perform\u003c/a> his story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board of John Muir Health, a health care system located in the East Bay, said it will “examine the history and legacy of the John Muir name” and consider “recommendations on this complex topic,” The Mercury News \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/22/sierra-club-director-cancels-founder-john-muir-should-parks-schools-be-renamed/\">reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Legislation Brings Hope of Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brune’s manifesto arrived in the same week that Congress \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1967495/the-most-significant-conservation-measure-in-50-years-is-now-headed-to-trumps-desk\">passed\u003c/a> the Great American Outdoors Act, which is being celebrated by Mapp, Nagami and other people of color who work in conservation and hope it can chart a future for the nation’s parklands that is more inclusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GreenLatinos, a national nonprofit watchdog for conservation issues that affect the U.S. Latino community, said in a statement that the bill “allows for more equitable access to outdoor spaces for Latinx communities” and called it “one of the most important environmental legislations in this country’s history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump supports the legislation and has said he will sign it. The bill includes $900 million a year — double the current spending — for the popular Land and Water Conservation Fund, and an additional $1.9 billion per year on improvements at parks across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many communities of color don’t have access to parks or green space, so they don’t get the many proven benefits — physical, emotional and psychological — of being out in nature,” said the NRDC’s Nagami. “This act helps by creating a permanent funding source for our state and local parks, among other things, so we can build and maintain green spaces in the park-poor communities that need them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The act is also seen as a long-needed investment in basic park infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s literally like, how are we going to fix broken pipes and visitor centers and everything that needs updating,” says José González, founder of Latino Outdoors, a group that advocates for diversifying parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With John Muir, it’s the cultural infrastructure,” he says. “How do we define conservation now and knowing that the nation’s parks weren’t designed for people of color? Given this brokenness, how do we construct something different and ideally better?”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The broad push for racial justice has now come to the environmental movement.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704847156,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":1627},"headData":{"title":"As US Racial Reckoning Escalates, Reformers Target Environmental Icons | KQED","description":"The broad push for racial justice has now come to the environmental movement.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Environment","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1967610/as-us-racial-reckoning-escalates-reformers-target-environmental-icons","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The death of George Floyd has triggered a top-to-bottom house cleaning of the racial skeletons in America’s collective closet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The broad push for racial justice has touched every aspect of American life and has caught up with a movement many people associate with progressiveness, not overt racism. Even the environmental icon, John Muir, a founding father of the nation’s national park system, isn’t beyond reproach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club, one of the largest and oldest conservation groups in the U.S., circulated a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/michael-brune/2020/07/john-muir-early-history-sierra-club\">detailed post\u003c/a> last week titled “Pulling Down Our Monuments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The whiteness and privilege of our early membership fed into a very dangerous idea. One that’s still circulating today. It’s the idea that exploring, enjoying, and protecting the outdoors can be separated from human affairs.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","citation":"Michael Brune, Sierra Club","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the piece, Brune reckons with some of the racist statements and actions of the group’s founders, its early history of excluding people of color, and what he described as an ongoing resistance from current members who say the Sierra Club should “‘stay in our lane,’ and stop talking about issues of race, equity, and privilege.”\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>Brune wrote that as “defenders of Black life pull down Confederate monuments,” the conservation movement must also “take this moment to re-examine our past and our substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time to take down some of our own monuments, starting with some truth-telling about the Sierra Club’s early history,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter ignited an online conversation about the future of one of the nation’s most powerful environmental organizations and about the state of the conservation movement, where a new generation of reform-minded advocates have sought to create change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They point to the fact that visitation at national parks \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=8eb4b125e53d4efeb36a6d0495fdddd0\">skews\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=8eb4b125e53d4efeb36a6d0495fdddd0\">white\u003c/a>. They’re pressing for investment in city and county parks in communities of color and for better representation in powerful organizations like the Sierra Club and in the natural places the groups protect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of these reformers is Rue Mapp, the founder of Oakland-based Outdoor Afro, which seeks to challenge what she\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10481490/african-american-hiking-group-turns-to-nature-for-beauty-and-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> calls\u003c/a> the myth that Black Americans don’t get out in nature\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10481490/african-american-hiking-group-turns-to-nature-for-beauty-and-community\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says many Black people like herself have not always felt welcome in groups like the Sierra Club, which she learned from experience when she started Outdoor Afro and partnered with the organization (although Brune remains a friend and a member of her organization’s board).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a fundamental challenge that [Brune] must embrace in this moment; it is a culture of change,” she says. “It’s like turning around a big ship on a dime, nearly impossible. But we can’t deduct points for timing. And it’s not too late for organizations like the Sierra Club to shift and reinvent themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the letter is a good step forward, but that its arrival is overdue. Now it’s on the group’s membership to embrace a new vision of conservation that acknowledges the experience of people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon Nagami, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council and an advocate for environmental justice in conservation, agrees that it’s a reckoning “long overdue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was very glad to see Sierra Club taking its history head-on,” he says. “But it’s undeniable that environmentalism and the conservation field is predominantly white.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Japanese American, Nagami says it’s been “difficult at times to navigate this space.” He says a similar conversation is happening within his own powerful environmental organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Troubling Past\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brune’s post examines the history of John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club and a towering figure in conservation circles, especially in California, where he fought to preserve some of the most grand and beautiful places in the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the “patron saint of the American wilderness” was a complicated person, Brune wrote. Muir not only described Black people and Native Americans using offensive and racist language, he maintained friendships with Joseph LeConte, David Starr Jordan and Henry Fairfield Osborn, leaders in the eugenics \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-forgotten-lessons-of-the-american-eugenics-movement\">movement\u003c/a>, which sought to prove the genetic superiority of white people. (Brune does not indicate that Muir personally espoused eugenics.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During its early years, Brune said, the Sierra Club was “basically a mountaineering club for middle- and upper-class white people who worked to preserve the wilderness they hiked through — wilderness that had begun to need protection only a few decades earlier, when white settlers violently displaced the Indigenous peoples who had lived on and taken care of the land for thousands of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s composition was maintained by an exclusive membership program until the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Membership could only be granted through sponsorship from existing members, some of whom screened out any applicants of color,” Brune wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whiteness and privilege of our early membership fed into a very dangerous idea,” he wrote. “One that’s still circulating today. It’s the idea that exploring, enjoying, and protecting the outdoors can be separated from human affairs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s membership and views have evolved. Recently, the Sierra Club led the \u003ca href=\"https://content.sierraclub.org/coal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyond Coal\u003c/a> campaign, a successful effort to shutter hundreds of dirty and aging coal plants across the U.S. and Europe, with a focus on facilities surrounded by neighborhoods of color. The group’s organizers have often partnered with local environmental justice groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Brune’s letter went on to highlight what he calls “willful ignorance” in the environmental movement, adding that this complacency “allows some people to shut their eyes to the reality that the wild places we love are also the ancestral homelands of Native peoples, forced off their lands in the decades or centuries before they became national parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allows them to overlook, too, the fact that only people insulated from systemic racism and brutality can afford to focus solely on preserving wilderness,” he wrote. “Black communities, Indigenous communities, and communities of color continue to endure the traumatic burden of fighting for their right to a healthy environment while simultaneously fighting for freedom from discrimination and police violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brune’s post landed in the middle of a raging debate about whether historical figures should be considered by contemporary social standards, or in the context of the views of their time. Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/23/beyond-john-muirs-racism-the-sierra-club-and-the-changing-face-of-environmentalism/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argue\u003c/a> that parks named after John Muir should drop his name because of his racists comments, while others point to the fact that — as Brune notes — Muir’s views “evolved later in his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the John Muir Wilderness, the Muir Woods National Monument in Marin and many California schools are named after the mountaineer. Visitors to parks such as Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon will find trails with his name; his writing, which strove to describe the sacred aspects of the rugged wilderness, is quoted on postcards, in pamphlets and on \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/historyculture/muir.htm\">websites. \u003c/a>Theater groups routinely \u003ca href=\"https://www.johnmuirlive.com/\">perform\u003c/a> his story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board of John Muir Health, a health care system located in the East Bay, said it will “examine the history and legacy of the John Muir name” and consider “recommendations on this complex topic,” The Mercury News \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/22/sierra-club-director-cancels-founder-john-muir-should-parks-schools-be-renamed/\">reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Legislation Brings Hope of Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brune’s manifesto arrived in the same week that Congress \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1967495/the-most-significant-conservation-measure-in-50-years-is-now-headed-to-trumps-desk\">passed\u003c/a> the Great American Outdoors Act, which is being celebrated by Mapp, Nagami and other people of color who work in conservation and hope it can chart a future for the nation’s parklands that is more inclusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GreenLatinos, a national nonprofit watchdog for conservation issues that affect the U.S. Latino community, said in a statement that the bill “allows for more equitable access to outdoor spaces for Latinx communities” and called it “one of the most important environmental legislations in this country’s history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump supports the legislation and has said he will sign it. The bill includes $900 million a year — double the current spending — for the popular Land and Water Conservation Fund, and an additional $1.9 billion per year on improvements at parks across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many communities of color don’t have access to parks or green space, so they don’t get the many proven benefits — physical, emotional and psychological — of being out in nature,” said the NRDC’s Nagami. “This act helps by creating a permanent funding source for our state and local parks, among other things, so we can build and maintain green spaces in the park-poor communities that need them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The act is also seen as a long-needed investment in basic park infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s literally like, how are we going to fix broken pipes and visitor centers and everything that needs updating,” says José González, founder of Latino Outdoors, a group that advocates for diversifying parks.\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>“With John Muir, it’s the cultural infrastructure,” he says. “How do we define conservation now and knowing that the nation’s parks weren’t designed for people of color? Given this brokenness, how do we construct something different and ideally better?”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1967610/as-us-racial-reckoning-escalates-reformers-target-environmental-icons","authors":["11608"],"categories":["science_35","science_39","science_40","science_4450"],"tags":["science_192","science_448"],"featImg":"science_1967612","label":"source_science_1967610"},"science_1956446":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1956446","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1956446","score":null,"sort":[1580846272000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-park-plan-is-conservationists-dream-but-reformers-want-focus-on-park-poor-neighborhoods","title":"State Park Plan Is Conservationist's Dream. But Reformers Want Focus on Neglected Neighborhoods","publishDate":1580846272,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State Park Plan Is Conservationist’s Dream. But Reformers Want Focus on Neglected Neighborhoods | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003ch4>California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal includes millions to buy land for a new state park, as well as an equal amount to increase park access for “underserved populations.” Together, the funds address both traditional conservation priorities and those of a new generation of reformers.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Gov. Gavin Newsom outlined his budget proposal last month, he included a tease for conservationists: a $20 million line item, stemming from a one-time budget surplus, to help pay for a new state park, a tantalizing prospect in an era when just one new park has been added to the system over the last 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom hasn’t indicated where the park would be; he said the cost of the land might go up if he shared specific information. But the $20 million figure is exactly what a group of Bay Area lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://sd07.senate.ca.gov/news/2020-01-08-17-bay-area-caucus-members-urge-governor-legislative-leaders-provide-funding-acquire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked\u003c/a> the governor to allocate toward the purchase of a sprawling 50,000-acre \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiaoutdoorproperties.com/listing/n3-cattle-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ranch\u003c/a> for sale, spanning Santa Clara, Alameda, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='right' citation='Mike Lynch, California State Park Rangers Association.']‘If this thing goes, then the state is getting back in the park business again. We’ve had a huge, tremendous drought in new parks since the Great Recession.’[/pullquote]The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Lands, two of the largest conservation organizations in the U.S., have secured $30 million to pay for the property in addition to the state’s proposed earmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The undeveloped land, owned by the N3 Cattle Company of Livermore, is a backpacker’s dream, but given that those 80 square miles abut \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Del Valle State Recreation Area\u003c/a>, a park with meandering hiking trails and bucolic swimming holes, the location will do little to expand access for the “park poor,” those without a convenient and quick way to get to a major public green area, which is a priority for reformers in the conservation movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align='right' citation='Ramya Sivasubramanian, NRDC']‘We need some of those closer-to-home opportunities … Otherwise we’re not redressing the inequities that exist in the current distribution of our system.’[/pullquote]However, Newsom’s proposal also includes a separate $20 million for a grant program \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">established\u003c/a> last year to “improve park access for underserved populations.” That would include investing in transportation and other programs to allow for more diverse groups of people to “participate in outdoor environmental educational experiences at state parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s plan also includes $11.8 million to expand technological and physical access, as well as “culturally inclusive” programs and exhibits, at existing parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With these different line items, the governor is gingerly balancing the interests of two groups of environmentalists who hold competing visions for the state’s park system and are separated by geography, age and race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, the state’s older and whiter backpack-toting conservation groups value parks, in part, for their natural beauty, and they dearly want California to expand wilderness protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the Livermore ranch is an incredible opportunity that the state should seize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a new generation of conservation advocates who value the public health benefits of easily accessible nature over big-ticket parks like the acquisition of the ranch would represent. These younger and more racially diverse proponents assess the desirability of areas targeted for public access in part by their impact on community life. They favor cleaning up polluted areas and restoring smaller neighborhood parks and other local open spaces, and they generally do not advocate for the headline-grabbing establishment of large public parcels of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these reform-minded advocates are Los Angeles-based veterans of a successful $4 billion ballot \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_68,_Parks,_Environment,_and_Water_Bond_(June_2018)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposition\u003c/a> in 2018 to improve smaller parks and green spaces, among other environmental projects, in mostly urban and suburban areas, with a portion of the funds earmarked for lower-income communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That measure, Proposition 68, appeared on the ballot two years after a Los Angeles County “parks and recreation needs” \u003ca href=\"https://lacountyparkneeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ParksNeedsAssessmentSummary_English.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assessment\u003c/a> found that 51% of residents lived more than a half-mile away from a local or regional park, too far to make an impact, according to some research. More than 80% of these residents were located in neighborhoods of color, and advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.advancementprojectca.org/blog/la-county-park-equity-groups-fight-to-turn-park-poor-communities-red-to-green\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argue\u003c/a> the disparity resulted from decades of unequal land-use decisions that led to public neglect and disinvestment in nonwhite neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Competing Visions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California last created a state park in Monterey County in 2009, when the state transformed a 4-mile sandy curve of the coastline donated by the U.S. Army into \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fort Ord Dunes State Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10 years leading up to the park’s opening marked the longest time without an addition to the state system since California created its parks department in 1927, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/12/state-parks-standstill-why-california-hasnt-opened-a-new-state-park-in-10-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data\u003c/a> reviewed by the Mercury News. The current drought of new parkland has surpassed that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Newsom’s proposal is enough to stir the dormant passion of Mike Lynch, president of the California State Park Rangers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this thing goes, then the state is getting back in the park business again,” said Lynch. “We’ve had a huge, tremendous drought in new parks since the Great Recession.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynch doesn’t disagree with efforts to increase access for park-poor communities. But even though the ranch doesn’t fit that bill, he sees it as an opportunity that the state needs to jump on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Opportunities are of the moment, right?” he said. “You can either take it or leave it. But it’s up for sale now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, called the available land a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity, providing accessible backcountry wilderness and protecting a watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s budget \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2020-21/pdf/BudgetSummary/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">summary\u003c/a> acknowledges the gap in park access by framing the proposed millions of dollars of investment in the Department of Parks and Recreation as a “Parks for All” initiative. “Many Californians lack access to parks, open spaces, and natural and cultural amenities,” the section begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative has been \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JenSiebelNewsom/status/1215804374921838592?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">championed\u003c/a> by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/first-partner/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first partner\u003c/a> and the governor’s wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But José González, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://latinooutdoors.org/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latino Outdoors\u003c/a>, a group that advocates for diversifying parks, argues that California should prioritize creating parks around low-income communities of color whom the state has neglected in the past. He says public funding should “ensure that the parks do not perpetuate historical inequities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González says he values the “conservation opportunity” of the ranch and appreciates that the proposed budget includes equitable funding for park access. But he says the state should bring “diverse communities into the decision-making process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is that those who have held the land will continue to benefit through these deals,” he said. “These are not black and brown families that are getting millions of dollars” in state money, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Urban Initiatives\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramya Sivasubramanian, deputy director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/about/healthy-people-thriving-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environmental Justice, Healthy People & Thriving Communities Program\u003c/a> for the Natural Resources Defense Council, says that initiatives like the ones included in the governor’s budget to increase park access do provide good opportunities to “connect people in park poor communities to state parks.” But she said these alone are “insufficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need some of those closer-to-home opportunities as well. Otherwise we’re not redressing the inequities that exist in the current distribution of our system\u003cem>.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sivasubramanian pointed to several locations around Los Angeles that advocates would like California to purchase and run as a state park. The proposed areas include neglected 28-acre \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityprojectca.org/blog/archives/722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Griffith Park \u003c/a>along the Los Angeles River, a concrete-slab that’s partially cordoned off with a chain-link fence and is covered in construction debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Redondo Beach, a city of 68,000 in the L.A. area, Mayor Bill Brand’s two\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-12-12/california-clean-energy-gas-plants\">–\u003c/a>decade \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-12-12/california-clean-energy-gas-plants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crusade\u003c/a> to transform a waterfront power plant into a public park has hit a snag. The plant, surrounded by one of the most densely populated neighborhoods along the entire coast, was set to close at the end of this year. But in November the California Public Utilities Commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/story/2019-11-07/concerned-about-future-power-shortages-utilities-commission-bumps-up-resource-requirements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted\u003c/a> to keep the plant running through 2022 amid concerns over the reliability of the state’s power supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sivasubramanian says advocates want the state to intervene in order to get the park built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an even broader opportunity, too, which is not just looking at these places in a vacuum, but at where we can leverage park funds, affordable housing funds and other funds to meet multiple needs in a community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Accessibility to Quality Parks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates like Sivasubramanian argue that California should evaluate park projects in terms of public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers have found strong evidence for quality-of-life benefits from spending time in nature. This is especially true for children, who score better on tests, exhibit improved emotional well-being and self-discipline, and are more attentive and physically active when they live within a half-mile of a park and spend a couple of hours a week there, one \u003ca href=\"https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/translational/peph/webinars/green_spaces/urban_green_space_disparities_and_health_508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> out of the University of Southern California found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other research in recent years has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204616300846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">illuminated\u003c/a> a disparity in the quality of parks in different neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While low-income people of color may have access to nearby parks, those green spaces tend to be smaller, dirtier, more crowded and in worse condition. They are also subject to more criminal activity than parks in affluent white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204618304316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> that looked at urban parks across the U.S. found that “inequities also emerged for park coverage, park spending per person, and park facilities, with majority-Latino cities being particularly disadvantaged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Wilderness Society’s Urban to Wild director, Yvette Lopez-Ledesma says her job is partly to build a bridge between “nontraditional conservationists” concerned with these type of inequities and “traditional conservation groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience of the nontraditional conservationists hasn’t been valued,” she said. “But people are starting to listen. We are getting closer to — not a middle ground yet — but an awareness that we have to do something. We can’t just be the same conservation movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ranch Land\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the N3 ranch isn’t in the center of an urban area, it is within driving distance from most major cities in the Bay Area, which a slickly produced video presentation of the property highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Y1RHS0jN0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Outdoor Properties \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiaoutdoorproperties.com/listing/n3-cattle-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lists\u003c/a> the property for sale at a cost of $72 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broker Todd Renfrew said he’s been inundated with calls from reporters asking about the ranch, a property larger than the city of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A piece of land for sale that’s more than 50,000 acres so close to the Bay Area is unheard of,” said Renfrew. “It is really unique.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largely untouched land is habitat for tule elk, deer, quail and other animals, as well as, evergreen and native oak trees, bay laurel, California buckeye, and gray and coulter pine, according to the listing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property also includes 200 miles of private roads that could be used for hiking and mountain biking, and 14 hunting camps with cabins that could be transformed into backpacking huts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having partners like the Trust for Public Lands is the kind of thing that makes projects like this work,” Lynch said. “Most new parks must have this kind of collaborative approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino Outdoor’s González said the ranch is “an opportunity to protect and preserve as much of the ecological diversity of the landscape… and that’s fantastic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an opportunity for a transition period,” he said. “As we continue to do traditional — quote unquote — land acquisition deals. It can’t be the same process of 50 years ago. What’s different now is what does this mean in the lens of equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new generation of conservation advocates values the health and community benefits of nature that is near 'park-poor' neighborhoods over traditional big-ticket park expansion. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704847830,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":52,"wordCount":2092},"headData":{"title":"State Park Plan Is Conservationist's Dream. But Reformers Want Focus on Neglected Neighborhoods | KQED","description":"A new generation of conservation advocates values the health and community benefits of nature that is near 'park-poor' neighborhoods over traditional big-ticket park expansion. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Parks","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1956446/state-park-plan-is-conservationists-dream-but-reformers-want-focus-on-park-poor-neighborhoods","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch4>California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal includes millions to buy land for a new state park, as well as an equal amount to increase park access for “underserved populations.” Together, the funds address both traditional conservation priorities and those of a new generation of reformers.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hen Gov. Gavin Newsom outlined his budget proposal last month, he included a tease for conservationists: a $20 million line item, stemming from a one-time budget surplus, to help pay for a new state park, a tantalizing prospect in an era when just one new park has been added to the system over the last 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom hasn’t indicated where the park would be; he said the cost of the land might go up if he shared specific information. But the $20 million figure is exactly what a group of Bay Area lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://sd07.senate.ca.gov/news/2020-01-08-17-bay-area-caucus-members-urge-governor-legislative-leaders-provide-funding-acquire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked\u003c/a> the governor to allocate toward the purchase of a sprawling 50,000-acre \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiaoutdoorproperties.com/listing/n3-cattle-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ranch\u003c/a> for sale, spanning Santa Clara, Alameda, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If this thing goes, then the state is getting back in the park business again. We’ve had a huge, tremendous drought in new parks since the Great Recession.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","citation":"Mike Lynch, California State Park Rangers Association.","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Lands, two of the largest conservation organizations in the U.S., have secured $30 million to pay for the property in addition to the state’s proposed earmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The undeveloped land, owned by the N3 Cattle Company of Livermore, is a backpacker’s dream, but given that those 80 square miles abut \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lake Del Valle State Recreation Area\u003c/a>, a park with meandering hiking trails and bucolic swimming holes, the location will do little to expand access for the “park poor,” those without a convenient and quick way to get to a major public green area, which is a priority for reformers in the conservation movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We need some of those closer-to-home opportunities … Otherwise we’re not redressing the inequities that exist in the current distribution of our system.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","citation":"Ramya Sivasubramanian, NRDC","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, Newsom’s proposal also includes a separate $20 million for a grant program \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">established\u003c/a> last year to “improve park access for underserved populations.” That would include investing in transportation and other programs to allow for more diverse groups of people to “participate in outdoor environmental educational experiences at state parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s plan also includes $11.8 million to expand technological and physical access, as well as “culturally inclusive” programs and exhibits, at existing parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With these different line items, the governor is gingerly balancing the interests of two groups of environmentalists who hold competing visions for the state’s park system and are separated by geography, age and race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, the state’s older and whiter backpack-toting conservation groups value parks, in part, for their natural beauty, and they dearly want California to expand wilderness protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the Livermore ranch is an incredible opportunity that the state should seize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a new generation of conservation advocates who value the public health benefits of easily accessible nature over big-ticket parks like the acquisition of the ranch would represent. These younger and more racially diverse proponents assess the desirability of areas targeted for public access in part by their impact on community life. They favor cleaning up polluted areas and restoring smaller neighborhood parks and other local open spaces, and they generally do not advocate for the headline-grabbing establishment of large public parcels of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these reform-minded advocates are Los Angeles-based veterans of a successful $4 billion ballot \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_68,_Parks,_Environment,_and_Water_Bond_(June_2018)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposition\u003c/a> in 2018 to improve smaller parks and green spaces, among other environmental projects, in mostly urban and suburban areas, with a portion of the funds earmarked for lower-income communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That measure, Proposition 68, appeared on the ballot two years after a Los Angeles County “parks and recreation needs” \u003ca href=\"https://lacountyparkneeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ParksNeedsAssessmentSummary_English.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assessment\u003c/a> found that 51% of residents lived more than a half-mile away from a local or regional park, too far to make an impact, according to some research. More than 80% of these residents were located in neighborhoods of color, and advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.advancementprojectca.org/blog/la-county-park-equity-groups-fight-to-turn-park-poor-communities-red-to-green\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argue\u003c/a> the disparity resulted from decades of unequal land-use decisions that led to public neglect and disinvestment in nonwhite neighborhoods.\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>\u003cstrong>Competing Visions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California last created a state park in Monterey County in 2009, when the state transformed a 4-mile sandy curve of the coastline donated by the U.S. Army into \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fort Ord Dunes State Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10 years leading up to the park’s opening marked the longest time without an addition to the state system since California created its parks department in 1927, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/12/state-parks-standstill-why-california-hasnt-opened-a-new-state-park-in-10-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data\u003c/a> reviewed by the Mercury News. The current drought of new parkland has surpassed that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Newsom’s proposal is enough to stir the dormant passion of Mike Lynch, president of the California State Park Rangers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this thing goes, then the state is getting back in the park business again,” said Lynch. “We’ve had a huge, tremendous drought in new parks since the Great Recession.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynch doesn’t disagree with efforts to increase access for park-poor communities. But even though the ranch doesn’t fit that bill, he sees it as an opportunity that the state needs to jump on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Opportunities are of the moment, right?” he said. “You can either take it or leave it. But it’s up for sale now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, called the available land a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity, providing accessible backcountry wilderness and protecting a watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s budget \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2020-21/pdf/BudgetSummary/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">summary\u003c/a> acknowledges the gap in park access by framing the proposed millions of dollars of investment in the Department of Parks and Recreation as a “Parks for All” initiative. “Many Californians lack access to parks, open spaces, and natural and cultural amenities,” the section begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative has been \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JenSiebelNewsom/status/1215804374921838592?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">championed\u003c/a> by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/first-partner/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first partner\u003c/a> and the governor’s wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But José González, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://latinooutdoors.org/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latino Outdoors\u003c/a>, a group that advocates for diversifying parks, argues that California should prioritize creating parks around low-income communities of color whom the state has neglected in the past. He says public funding should “ensure that the parks do not perpetuate historical inequities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González says he values the “conservation opportunity” of the ranch and appreciates that the proposed budget includes equitable funding for park access. But he says the state should bring “diverse communities into the decision-making process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is that those who have held the land will continue to benefit through these deals,” he said. “These are not black and brown families that are getting millions of dollars” in state money, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Urban Initiatives\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramya Sivasubramanian, deputy director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/about/healthy-people-thriving-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environmental Justice, Healthy People & Thriving Communities Program\u003c/a> for the Natural Resources Defense Council, says that initiatives like the ones included in the governor’s budget to increase park access do provide good opportunities to “connect people in park poor communities to state parks.” But she said these alone are “insufficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need some of those closer-to-home opportunities as well. Otherwise we’re not redressing the inequities that exist in the current distribution of our system\u003cem>.\u003c/em>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sivasubramanian pointed to several locations around Los Angeles that advocates would like California to purchase and run as a state park. The proposed areas include neglected 28-acre \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityprojectca.org/blog/archives/722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Griffith Park \u003c/a>along the Los Angeles River, a concrete-slab that’s partially cordoned off with a chain-link fence and is covered in construction debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Redondo Beach, a city of 68,000 in the L.A. area, Mayor Bill Brand’s two\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-12-12/california-clean-energy-gas-plants\">–\u003c/a>decade \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-12-12/california-clean-energy-gas-plants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crusade\u003c/a> to transform a waterfront power plant into a public park has hit a snag. The plant, surrounded by one of the most densely populated neighborhoods along the entire coast, was set to close at the end of this year. But in November the California Public Utilities Commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/story/2019-11-07/concerned-about-future-power-shortages-utilities-commission-bumps-up-resource-requirements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted\u003c/a> to keep the plant running through 2022 amid concerns over the reliability of the state’s power supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sivasubramanian says advocates want the state to intervene in order to get the park built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an even broader opportunity, too, which is not just looking at these places in a vacuum, but at where we can leverage park funds, affordable housing funds and other funds to meet multiple needs in a community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Accessibility to Quality Parks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates like Sivasubramanian argue that California should evaluate park projects in terms of public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers have found strong evidence for quality-of-life benefits from spending time in nature. This is especially true for children, who score better on tests, exhibit improved emotional well-being and self-discipline, and are more attentive and physically active when they live within a half-mile of a park and spend a couple of hours a week there, one \u003ca href=\"https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/translational/peph/webinars/green_spaces/urban_green_space_disparities_and_health_508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> out of the University of Southern California found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other research in recent years has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204616300846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">illuminated\u003c/a> a disparity in the quality of parks in different neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While low-income people of color may have access to nearby parks, those green spaces tend to be smaller, dirtier, more crowded and in worse condition. They are also subject to more criminal activity than parks in affluent white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204618304316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> that looked at urban parks across the U.S. found that “inequities also emerged for park coverage, park spending per person, and park facilities, with majority-Latino cities being particularly disadvantaged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Wilderness Society’s Urban to Wild director, Yvette Lopez-Ledesma says her job is partly to build a bridge between “nontraditional conservationists” concerned with these type of inequities and “traditional conservation groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The experience of the nontraditional conservationists hasn’t been valued,” she said. “But people are starting to listen. We are getting closer to — not a middle ground yet — but an awareness that we have to do something. We can’t just be the same conservation movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ranch Land\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the N3 ranch isn’t in the center of an urban area, it is within driving distance from most major cities in the Bay Area, which a slickly produced video presentation of the property highlights.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/l_Y1RHS0jN0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/l_Y1RHS0jN0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>California Outdoor Properties \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiaoutdoorproperties.com/listing/n3-cattle-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lists\u003c/a> the property for sale at a cost of $72 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broker Todd Renfrew said he’s been inundated with calls from reporters asking about the ranch, a property larger than the city of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A piece of land for sale that’s more than 50,000 acres so close to the Bay Area is unheard of,” said Renfrew. “It is really unique.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largely untouched land is habitat for tule elk, deer, quail and other animals, as well as, evergreen and native oak trees, bay laurel, California buckeye, and gray and coulter pine, according to the listing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property also includes 200 miles of private roads that could be used for hiking and mountain biking, and 14 hunting camps with cabins that could be transformed into backpacking huts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having partners like the Trust for Public Lands is the kind of thing that makes projects like this work,” Lynch said. “Most new parks must have this kind of collaborative approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino Outdoor’s González said the ranch is “an opportunity to protect and preserve as much of the ecological diversity of the landscape… and that’s fantastic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an opportunity for a transition period,” he said. “As we continue to do traditional — quote unquote — land acquisition deals. It can’t be the same process of 50 years ago. What’s different now is what does this mean in the lens of equity.”\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1956446/state-park-plan-is-conservationists-dream-but-reformers-want-focus-on-park-poor-neighborhoods","authors":["11608"],"categories":["science_35","science_39","science_40"],"tags":["science_3370","science_4008","science_448"],"featImg":"science_1956452","label":"source_science_1956446"},"science_1950770":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1950770","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1950770","score":null,"sort":[1573200068000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"presidio-parkway-tunnels-form-the-foundation-of-a-new-public-park","title":"Elevated Park Will Connect Crissy Field With Presidio","publishDate":1573200068,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Elevated Park Will Connect Crissy Field With Presidio | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Presidio Parkway traffic underneath carried people from San Francisco to the Golden Gate Bridge, a ceremony Thursday marked the beginning of something new: an\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/11/Aerial-of-Tunnel-Tops_panoramic-2019-FINAL.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> elevated park\u003c/a> that will connect Crissy Field on the waterfront with the Presidio. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The roadway has divided the two areas for eight decades. Since the former U.S. Army base at the Presidio became a national park 25 years ago, planners have transformed it into more than two square miles of urban green space. The new project, Tunnel Tops Park, is the most ambitious addition yet. Its 14 acres will offer free public access to a 360-degree view of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Marin Headlands, the Presidio and the San Francisco skyline. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since 1936, when crews built an elevated highway that linked San Francisco to the Golden Gate Bridge, vehicle traffic restricted access to the waterfront and blocked views of the bay. The highway’s demise presented an opportunity to build parts of the road underground and create public space. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=1ktqsq4NeI0&feature=emb_logo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reimagining Urban Spaces\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Planners, including lead designer James Corner, best known as an architect of Lower Manhattan’s popular High Line park, expect Tunnel Tops to open in 2021. It reflects an international movement to repurpose neglected spaces like derelict bridges and railroad rights-of-way. It will add to the Presidio’s existing hiking and biking trails with almost two miles of paths, native plant meadows and picnic areas. The new park also will include a youth education campus and an immersive playground modeled on the habitat of the Presidio.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The nonprofit Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy has privately raised $86 million, and the Presidio Trust has donated another $20 million to the project. Organizers estimate its creation will cost $118 million.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Tunnel Tops will provide greater access to fresh air, beautiful views, gardens, and gathering spaces where people can come to relax, play and connect with each other,” Fraser said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the launch ceremony Nov. 7, Presidio Trust chief executive Jean Fraser pledged that \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">visitors will be able to walk from Crissy Field to the Presidio’s Main Post for the first time in eight decades.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Refuge For Many Species\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She isn’t just talking about human visitors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tunnel Top Park will act as a wildlife corridor, allowing access to Crissy Marsh and Quartermaster Reach Marsh. Those are among the richest habitats in the Presidio. Michael Boland, chief park officer for The Presidio Trust, said, “We are using 21st century ecological principles to stitch the landscape back together.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Presidio is located along the Pacific Flyway, an important route for migrating birds. Tunnel Tops Park’s water features will be designed to attract migrating birds and other wildlife. Its horticulture staff will encourage plants like coyotebush to grow naturally where they will succeed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Native species can flourish in urban areas when given the chance,” Boland said. “Tunnel Top is an ideal opportunity to explore the role cities can play in preserving biodiversity and addressing the extinction crisis.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fast Facts About Tunnel Tops Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Year project began: 2014\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Acres of new parkland: 14\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Total number of plants: 200,000\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Number of native plants: 100,000\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Total square feet of new construction: 6,528\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Design scoping: 10,000 community participants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Year project opens: 2021\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In San Francisco, Tunnel Tops Park, scheduled to open in 2021, will offer free public access to a 360-degree view of the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands and San Francisco skyline.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848164,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":583},"headData":{"title":"Elevated Park Will Connect Crissy Field With Presidio | KQED","description":"In San Francisco, Tunnel Tops Park, scheduled to open in 2021, will offer free public access to a 360-degree view of the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands and San Francisco skyline.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Parks","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Alice Woelfle","path":"/science/1950770/presidio-parkway-tunnels-form-the-foundation-of-a-new-public-park","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Presidio Parkway traffic underneath carried people from San Francisco to the Golden Gate Bridge, a ceremony Thursday marked the beginning of something new: an\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/11/Aerial-of-Tunnel-Tops_panoramic-2019-FINAL.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> elevated park\u003c/a> that will connect Crissy Field on the waterfront with the Presidio. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The roadway has divided the two areas for eight decades. Since the former U.S. Army base at the Presidio became a national park 25 years ago, planners have transformed it into more than two square miles of urban green space. The new project, Tunnel Tops Park, is the most ambitious addition yet. Its 14 acres will offer free public access to a 360-degree view of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Marin Headlands, the Presidio and the San Francisco skyline. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since 1936, when crews built an elevated highway that linked San Francisco to the Golden Gate Bridge, vehicle traffic restricted access to the waterfront and blocked views of the bay. The highway’s demise presented an opportunity to build parts of the road underground and create public space. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/1ktqsq4NeI0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/1ktqsq4NeI0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reimagining Urban Spaces\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Planners, including lead designer James Corner, best known as an architect of Lower Manhattan’s popular High Line park, expect Tunnel Tops to open in 2021. It reflects an international movement to repurpose neglected spaces like derelict bridges and railroad rights-of-way. It will add to the Presidio’s existing hiking and biking trails with almost two miles of paths, native plant meadows and picnic areas. The new park also will include a youth education campus and an immersive playground modeled on the habitat of the Presidio.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The nonprofit Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy has privately raised $86 million, and the Presidio Trust has donated another $20 million to the project. Organizers estimate its creation will cost $118 million.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Tunnel Tops will provide greater access to fresh air, beautiful views, gardens, and gathering spaces where people can come to relax, play and connect with each other,” Fraser said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the launch ceremony Nov. 7, Presidio Trust chief executive Jean Fraser pledged that \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">visitors will be able to walk from Crissy Field to the Presidio’s Main Post for the first time in eight decades.” \u003c/span>\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>\u003cstrong>A Refuge For Many Species\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She isn’t just talking about human visitors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tunnel Top Park will act as a wildlife corridor, allowing access to Crissy Marsh and Quartermaster Reach Marsh. Those are among the richest habitats in the Presidio. Michael Boland, chief park officer for The Presidio Trust, said, “We are using 21st century ecological principles to stitch the landscape back together.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Presidio is located along the Pacific Flyway, an important route for migrating birds. Tunnel Tops Park’s water features will be designed to attract migrating birds and other wildlife. Its horticulture staff will encourage plants like coyotebush to grow naturally where they will succeed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Native species can flourish in urban areas when given the chance,” Boland said. “Tunnel Top is an ideal opportunity to explore the role cities can play in preserving biodiversity and addressing the extinction crisis.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fast Facts About Tunnel Tops Park\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Year project began: 2014\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Acres of new parkland: 14\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Total number of plants: 200,000\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Number of native plants: 100,000\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Total square feet of new construction: 6,528\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Design scoping: 10,000 community participants\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Year project opens: 2021\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1950770/presidio-parkway-tunnels-form-the-foundation-of-a-new-public-park","authors":["byline_science_1950770"],"categories":["science_35","science_40"],"tags":["science_205","science_1947","science_192","science_956","science_448"],"featImg":"science_1950777","label":"source_science_1950770"},"science_1946325":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1946325","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1946325","score":null,"sort":[1565375425000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"park-service-proposes-culling-elk-herd-to-protect-ranches-in-pt-reyes","title":"Park Service Proposes Culling Elk Herd to Protect Ranches in Pt. Reyes","publishDate":1565375425,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Park Service Proposes Culling Elk Herd to Protect Ranches in Pt. Reyes | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The National Park Service has proposed to shoot a small number of elk each year as a way to reduce conflict with livestock that graze at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/pore/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Point Reyes National Seashore\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft proposal for managing the national park would restrict the herd of tule elk to 120 adult animals in an area known as Drakes Beach. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=science_1920624,science_1866137]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re proposing management of that herd,” said Melanie Gunn, a park spokesperson, “to cap it at a viable population level and at one that is compatible with the ranching in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tule elk are North America’s smallest elk species and found only in California. In this bucolic area of western Marin County, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ranchers say the elk consume grass and feed meant for cattle. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service estimated it could shoot between 10 to 15 elk annually, based on the rapid growth of the herd over the past few years. In 2018, an estimated 124 elk roamed Drakes Beach, up from 76 in 2014. More than 600 elk live on the seashore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two dozen dairy and ranching families have leases on the national seashore and on the adjacent Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Agriculture takes up about a third of the park’s 44 square miles (114 square kilometers).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental groups want the park to prohibit beef and dairy operations in the park and were quick to criticize the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s appalling,” said Jeff Miller, senior conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an anti wildlife plan,” he said. “I’m having a hard time understanding what the Park Service is thinking. This plan calls for shooting and harassing elk in the only national park where they exist, and it does very little to address the significant environmental damage that’s occurring from the ranching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park officials also want to allow some existing ranchers to raise pigs, goats, chickens and other livestock in a small area of the park, as well as grow row crops such as artichokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service drafted the plan and several alternatives to manage the land as part of a 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/aab79f98f1234183912d82ee7742f1f0\">settlement\u003c/a> after conservation groups sued the Park Service in 2016. The lawsuit alleged that the federal agency was violating the law by renewing ranching leases without considering the park’s preservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park employees would likely kill a few elk at various times throughout the year, ensuring a proper ratio of male and female elk, Gunn said. The venison would be donated to charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service expects to have a final plan by early 2020, after a 45-day public comment period, Gunn said, and are hosting two public \u003ca href=\"https://parkplanning.nps.gov/meetingNotices.cfm?projectID=74313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meetings\u003c/a> about the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first meeting will be on August 27 between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. at the West Marin School Gymnasium in Point Reyes Station. The second will be held the following day at the same time, but will be located at the Bay Model in Sausalito .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press contributed to this report. Read their story \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/c48ac87a078242f3a4bc30aea34359ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Park Service estimated it could shoot between 10 to 15 elk annually, based on the rapid growth of the herd over the past few years. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848422,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":534},"headData":{"title":"Park Service Proposes Culling Elk Herd to Protect Ranches in Pt. Reyes | KQED","description":"The Park Service estimated it could shoot between 10 to 15 elk annually, based on the rapid growth of the herd over the past few years. 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In this bucolic area of western Marin County, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ranchers say the elk consume grass and feed meant for cattle. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service estimated it could shoot between 10 to 15 elk annually, based on the rapid growth of the herd over the past few years. In 2018, an estimated 124 elk roamed Drakes Beach, up from 76 in 2014. More than 600 elk live on the seashore.\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>About two dozen dairy and ranching families have leases on the national seashore and on the adjacent Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Agriculture takes up about a third of the park’s 44 square miles (114 square kilometers).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental groups want the park to prohibit beef and dairy operations in the park and were quick to criticize the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s appalling,” said Jeff Miller, senior conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an anti wildlife plan,” he said. “I’m having a hard time understanding what the Park Service is thinking. This plan calls for shooting and harassing elk in the only national park where they exist, and it does very little to address the significant environmental damage that’s occurring from the ranching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park officials also want to allow some existing ranchers to raise pigs, goats, chickens and other livestock in a small area of the park, as well as grow row crops such as artichokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service drafted the plan and several alternatives to manage the land as part of a 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/aab79f98f1234183912d82ee7742f1f0\">settlement\u003c/a> after conservation groups sued the Park Service in 2016. The lawsuit alleged that the federal agency was violating the law by renewing ranching leases without considering the park’s preservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park employees would likely kill a few elk at various times throughout the year, ensuring a proper ratio of male and female elk, Gunn said. The venison would be donated to charity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service expects to have a final plan by early 2020, after a 45-day public comment period, Gunn said, and are hosting two public \u003ca href=\"https://parkplanning.nps.gov/meetingNotices.cfm?projectID=74313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meetings\u003c/a> about the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first meeting will be on August 27 between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. at the West Marin School Gymnasium in Point Reyes Station. The second will be held the following day at the same time, but will be located at the Bay Model in Sausalito .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press contributed to this report. Read their story \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/c48ac87a078242f3a4bc30aea34359ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1946325/park-service-proposes-culling-elk-herd-to-protect-ranches-in-pt-reyes","authors":["11608"],"categories":["science_2874","science_35","science_36","science_40"],"tags":["science_4081","science_205","science_448","science_3830","science_804"],"featImg":"science_1946327","label":"source_science_1946325"},"science_1924321":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1924321","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1924321","score":null,"sort":[1527206759000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"proposition-68-money-for-parks-beaches-and-water-projects","title":"Proposition 68: Money for Parks, Beaches and Water Projects","publishDate":1527206759,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Proposition 68: Money for Parks, Beaches and Water Projects | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/68/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 68\u003c/a> is a $4.1 billion bond measure that will clean up dilapidated parks, improve water projects, upgrade flood protection and protect scenic open spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What You Need to Know About Proposition 68\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>About two-thirds of the money would be dedicated to parks and wildlife, and one-third would be allocated to water and flood control projects.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Payments on the bond will cost taxpayers about $200 million annually over 40 years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=68&year=2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a> (LAO) estimates the\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> infrastructure investments will likely save communities tens of millions of dollars annually.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Here’s how the allocations break down:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Parks and Recreation: $1.283 billion for neighborhood parks in low-income communities, plus city and county park facilities\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Natural Resources: $1.547 billion for conservation projects and climate change preparedness\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Water: $1.27 billion for drinking water treatment, groundwater clean-up and flood protection\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did Proposition 68 Get on the Ballot?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 68 was written by state Sen. Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, and was placed on the ballot by a two-thirds vote of state lawmakers last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up in a neighborhood in San Diego that was all asphalt, that was concrete and cement,” de León says. “No green parks. No open space. No trees for shade. This is an intentional way of democratizing our benefits so that every child regardless of their zip code has access to Mother Nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Do People Support It?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 68 provides funding for disaster prevention, clean drinking water and safe parks for children and future generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1923211\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 5184px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1923211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894.jpg 5184w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5184px) 100vw, 5184px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fellow “fairy lanterns” bloom at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park. This year they are especially abundant following the recent wildfire. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters have not approved a statewide ballot measure to fund parks, beaches, wildlife and forests in 12 years. Environmentalists say the measure is necessary to protect the state from droughts, floods, sea level rise and wildfires that are likely to increase in intensity under climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s never a mistake to invest in people and nature,” said Louis Blumberg, of The Nature Conservancy. “We look back and we always say we are glad we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other proponents include the American Lung Association in California, California Chamber of Commerce and The Nature Conservancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Do People Oppose It?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no organized campaign against the measure. But some critics do not support more state debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t borrow more,” said Sen. John Moorlach, R-Orange County. “We should pay as we go. We actually have extra money because the state has a budget surplus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s budget surplus is $9 billion, but Governor Jerry Brown argues that money should remain in a rainy day fund. Moorlach disagrees because a bond like Proposition 68 will end up costing a lot more than it’s initial price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you borrow money you have to pay double for the infrastructure because of the interest costs,” said Moorlach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interest on Prop. 68 will cost about 200 million dollars annually for 40 years. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=68&year=2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a> that’s about about one-fifth of one percent of the state’s current General Fund budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California voters have not passed a statewide ballot measure to provide funding for parks, beaches, wildlife and forests since 2006. This measure provides 4.1 billion dollars for parks, beaches and water projects, with a focus on parks in low-income neighborhoods.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704927889,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":562},"headData":{"title":"Proposition 68: Money for Parks, Beaches and Water Projects | KQED","description":"California voters have not passed a statewide ballot measure to provide funding for parks, beaches, wildlife and forests since 2006. This measure provides 4.1 billion dollars for parks, beaches and water projects, with a focus on parks in low-income neighborhoods.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/05/Prop68DebateMcClurg.mp3","sticky":false,"audioTrackLength":215,"path":"/science/1924321/proposition-68-money-for-parks-beaches-and-water-projects","audioDuration":201000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/68/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 68\u003c/a> is a $4.1 billion bond measure that will clean up dilapidated parks, improve water projects, upgrade flood protection and protect scenic open spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What You Need to Know About Proposition 68\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>About two-thirds of the money would be dedicated to parks and wildlife, and one-third would be allocated to water and flood control projects.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Payments on the bond will cost taxpayers about $200 million annually over 40 years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=68&year=2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a> (LAO) estimates the\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> infrastructure investments will likely save communities tens of millions of dollars annually.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Here’s how the allocations break down:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Parks and Recreation: $1.283 billion for neighborhood parks in low-income communities, plus city and county park facilities\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Natural Resources: $1.547 billion for conservation projects and climate change preparedness\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Water: $1.27 billion for drinking water treatment, groundwater clean-up and flood protection\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did Proposition 68 Get on the Ballot?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 68 was written by state Sen. Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, and was placed on the ballot by a two-thirds vote of state lawmakers last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up in a neighborhood in San Diego that was all asphalt, that was concrete and cement,” de León says. “No green parks. No open space. No trees for shade. This is an intentional way of democratizing our benefits so that every child regardless of their zip code has access to Mother Nature.”\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>\u003cstrong>Why Do People Support It?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 68 provides funding for disaster prevention, clean drinking water and safe parks for children and future generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1923211\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 5184px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1923211\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894.jpg 5184w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/IMG_0894-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5184px) 100vw, 5184px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fellow “fairy lanterns” bloom at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park. This year they are especially abundant following the recent wildfire. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters have not approved a statewide ballot measure to fund parks, beaches, wildlife and forests in 12 years. Environmentalists say the measure is necessary to protect the state from droughts, floods, sea level rise and wildfires that are likely to increase in intensity under climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s never a mistake to invest in people and nature,” said Louis Blumberg, of The Nature Conservancy. “We look back and we always say we are glad we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other proponents include the American Lung Association in California, California Chamber of Commerce and The Nature Conservancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why Do People Oppose It?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no organized campaign against the measure. But some critics do not support more state debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t borrow more,” said Sen. John Moorlach, R-Orange County. “We should pay as we go. We actually have extra money because the state has a budget surplus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s budget surplus is $9 billion, but Governor Jerry Brown argues that money should remain in a rainy day fund. Moorlach disagrees because a bond like Proposition 68 will end up costing a lot more than it’s initial price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you borrow money you have to pay double for the infrastructure because of the interest costs,” said Moorlach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The interest on Prop. 68 will cost about 200 million dollars annually for 40 years. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=68&year=2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a> that’s about about one-fifth of one percent of the state’s current General Fund budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1924321/proposition-68-money-for-parks-beaches-and-water-projects","authors":["11229"],"categories":["science_31","science_35","science_40","science_3423","science_98"],"tags":["science_448","science_201"],"featImg":"science_1486032","label":"science"},"science_1917212":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1917212","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1917212","score":null,"sort":[1508886717000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"national-park-service-proposes-yosemite-entry-fee-hike-70-per-car","title":"National Park Service Proposes Yosemite Entry Fee Hike: $70 Per Car","publishDate":1508886717,"format":"standard","headTitle":"National Park Service Proposes Yosemite Entry Fee Hike: $70 Per Car | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>The National Park Service is floating a steep increase in entrance fees at 17 of its most popular parks, mostly in the West, to address a backlog of maintenance and infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors to the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Zion, Joshua Tree, Kings Canyon and other national parks would be charged $70 per vehicle, up from the current fee of $30 for a weekly pass. At others, the hike is nearly triple, from $25 to $70.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 30-day public comment period opened Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says the entrance fee increases will help restore and renovate the park units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to have a vision to look at the future of our parks and take action in order to ensure that our grandkids’ grandkids will have the same if not better experience than we have today,” he said in a statement. “Shoring up our parks’ aging infrastructure will do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal comes not long after many of the parks that charge entrance fees upped them. The rationale is the same this time around — to address a backlog of maintenance and infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service estimated deferred maintenance across its sites at $11.3 billion as of September 2016, down from $11.9 billion in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service says it expects to raise $70 million a year with the latest proposal at a time when national parks repeatedly have been breaking visitation records and putting a strain on park resources. Nearly 6 million people visited the Grand Canyon last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher fees would apply during the five busiest, contiguous months. For most, that means May through September when many families are on vacation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Dahl, Arizona senior program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, said maintenance costs should fall to Congress, not visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve supported increases at the parks, they are a huge value for the price of entrance,” he said. “But we want to look closely at this and we want local communities to look closely at this to see if it would impact visitation because we don’t want to price people out of the parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all Park Service sites charge entrance fees. The 118 that do keep 80 percent of revenue and send 20 percent into a pot to help all park units with things like fixing restrooms, signs, trails and campgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entrance fee proposal applies to Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands and Zion in Utah; Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Joshua Tree in California; Grand Teton and Yellowstone in Wyoming; Mount Rainier and Olympic in Washington; Shenandoah in Virginia; Acadia in Maine; Rocky Mountain in Colorado; and the Grand Canyon in Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fees also would go up for pedestrians and motorcyclists. Annual passes for federal lands would be unchanged at $80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"NPSNewsRelease\">\u003cem>\u003cspan lang=\"EN\">A public comment period on the peak-season entrance fee proposal is open from October 24, 2017 to November 23, 2017, on the NPS Planning, Environment and Public Comment (PEPC) website \u003c/span>\u003ca id=\"anch_11\" href=\"https://parkplanning.nps.gov/proposedpeakseasonfeerates\">https://parkplanning.nps.gov/proposedpeakseasonfeerates\u003c/a>\u003cspan lang=\"EN\">. Written comments can be sent to 1849 C Street, NW, Mail Stop: 2346 Washington, DC 20240.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The proposed fee changes would take effect in summer 2018, pending a public comment period. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704928324,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":530},"headData":{"title":"National Park Service Proposes Yosemite Entry Fee Hike: $70 Per Car | KQED","description":"The proposed fee changes would take effect in summer 2018, pending a public comment period. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Felicia Fonseca \u003c/br> Associated Press","path":"/science/1917212/national-park-service-proposes-yosemite-entry-fee-hike-70-per-car","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The National Park Service is floating a steep increase in entrance fees at 17 of its most popular parks, mostly in the West, to address a backlog of maintenance and infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors to the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Zion, Joshua Tree, Kings Canyon and other national parks would be charged $70 per vehicle, up from the current fee of $30 for a weekly pass. At others, the hike is nearly triple, from $25 to $70.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 30-day public comment period opened Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says the entrance fee increases will help restore and renovate the park units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to have a vision to look at the future of our parks and take action in order to ensure that our grandkids’ grandkids will have the same if not better experience than we have today,” he said in a statement. “Shoring up our parks’ aging infrastructure will do that.”\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 proposal comes not long after many of the parks that charge entrance fees upped them. The rationale is the same this time around — to address a backlog of maintenance and infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service estimated deferred maintenance across its sites at $11.3 billion as of September 2016, down from $11.9 billion in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Park Service says it expects to raise $70 million a year with the latest proposal at a time when national parks repeatedly have been breaking visitation records and putting a strain on park resources. Nearly 6 million people visited the Grand Canyon last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher fees would apply during the five busiest, contiguous months. For most, that means May through September when many families are on vacation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Dahl, Arizona senior program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, said maintenance costs should fall to Congress, not visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve supported increases at the parks, they are a huge value for the price of entrance,” he said. “But we want to look closely at this and we want local communities to look closely at this to see if it would impact visitation because we don’t want to price people out of the parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all Park Service sites charge entrance fees. The 118 that do keep 80 percent of revenue and send 20 percent into a pot to help all park units with things like fixing restrooms, signs, trails and campgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entrance fee proposal applies to Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands and Zion in Utah; Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Joshua Tree in California; Grand Teton and Yellowstone in Wyoming; Mount Rainier and Olympic in Washington; Shenandoah in Virginia; Acadia in Maine; Rocky Mountain in Colorado; and the Grand Canyon in Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fees also would go up for pedestrians and motorcyclists. Annual passes for federal lands would be unchanged at $80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"NPSNewsRelease\">\u003cem>\u003cspan lang=\"EN\">A public comment period on the peak-season entrance fee proposal is open from October 24, 2017 to November 23, 2017, on the NPS Planning, Environment and Public Comment (PEPC) website \u003c/span>\u003ca id=\"anch_11\" href=\"https://parkplanning.nps.gov/proposedpeakseasonfeerates\">https://parkplanning.nps.gov/proposedpeakseasonfeerates\u003c/a>\u003cspan lang=\"EN\">. Written comments can be sent to 1849 C Street, NW, Mail Stop: 2346 Washington, DC 20240.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1917212/national-park-service-proposes-yosemite-entry-fee-hike-70-per-car","authors":["byline_science_1917212"],"categories":["science_40"],"tags":["science_3370","science_956","science_1349","science_448","science_159"],"featImg":"science_1370439","label":"science"},"science_1885106":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1885106","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1885106","score":null,"sort":[1501866037000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"beneath-the-pavement-a-forgotten-wetland-resurfaces-in-new-art-installation","title":"Beneath the Pavement: A Forgotten Wetland Resurfaces in New Art Installation","publishDate":1501866037,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Beneath the Pavement: A Forgotten Wetland Resurfaces in New Art Installation | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>The corner of 17th Street and Folsom is a magnet for water when it rains. Perhaps the water remembers where it belongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 years ago, the area now known as San Francisco’s Mission District was a vast marsh where frogs splashed and croaked, tules swished in the winds and ducks peacefully floated. The headwaters of Mission Creek met with a tidal inlet, forming a pool whose center was right where 17th and Folsom cross today. For many who walk these streets daily, what’s underneath has been long forgotten. But there are some in the Mission District community who have advocated for years to turn the empty lot into reminder of what the city looked like in its past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, that corner took on new life, harkening back to a bygone landscape with the opening of the new In Chan Kaajal community park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 31,850-square-foot park holds a community garden, outdoor amphitheater, fitness equipment and a playground. It also features art installations and a water fountain commemorating Mission Creek and the water that once passed below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in an amnesiac culture,” said Chris Carlsson, a local historian and co-author of the second edition of \u003cem>Nancy Olmsted’s Vanished Waters: The History of San Francisco’s Mission Bay\u003c/em>. “And beyond the amnesia, it’s almost impossible to learn about what’s underneath the pavement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The designers of the park decided early on that celebrating the Mission District’s natural and cultural history would be central to the project’s mission. The park’s name, revealed at the opening, means “my little town” in Mayan, honoring the community of Mayans who reside there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Oscar Grande, community organizer at People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Justice, community groups involved in the park’s development committed to honoring the indigenous and native cultures once sustained by the fertile lands. One of their guiding principles was “En armonia con la naturaleza,” Spanish for “In harmony with nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the installations acknowledge the juxtaposition of urban culture and the natural environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our natural history,” he says and reconnecting with it means reconnecting with the natural landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Imprint of Vanished Waterways\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlsson, who runs online local history archives FoundSF.org and Shaping San Francisco, says there were no flat areas in San Francisco at all before European settlers arrived. Instead, there were sand dunes, ridges, freshwater ponds, natural springs and long stretches of swampy wetlands like those that comprised the Mission. A tidal inlet from Mission Bay drew seawater up to the tidal pool, while the headwaters of Mission Creek cascaded down a steep dropoff, traveling down 18th Street on its way to the tidal pool and Mission Bay beyond. The topography remains the same—steep streets now line these hills. But the natural waterways have vanished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1885291\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1885291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-1020x738.jpg\" alt=\"A map depicting the natural habitat upon which the Mission District was built shows how modern-day San Francisco traces its vanished waterways. \" width=\"640\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-800x579.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-768x556.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-1920x1390.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-1180x854.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-960x695.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-375x271.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-520x376.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map depicting the natural habitat upon which the Mission District was built shows how modern-day San Francisco traces its vanished waterways. \u003ccite>(Christopher Richard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People don’t have a sense of the original landscape, or the unbelievable abundance and ease of living that was once the norm here before Europeans arrived,” Carlsson said. “The water was teeming with life. The wetlands were full of birds and fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ohlone and other native tribes gathered here, sustained by the rich offerings such as the salmon runs and the acorn bounty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When settlers first arrived, they hand carried water in buckets from a spring at Corbett and Clayton streets. Cattle ranches dotted the landscape before the Mission developed into a San Francisco suburb, its appeal bolstered by the new streetcars that could easily whisk workers to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wetlands were soon paved over, the creek confined to culverts and Mission Bay filled in. But the landscape’s legacy remained: Mission Creek is the reason the street grid takes the curve it does at 11th and Mission streets. And, Carlsson says, cyclists find that the easiest, most natural bike routes often trace the wiggles of buried streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1885292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 936px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1885292 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps.jpg\" alt=\"A composite of what the Mission wetlands may have looked like, drawn from historical maps, first-hand written accounts and old photos as well as photos of still-existing ecosystems that resemble the natural landscape of San Francisco. \" width=\"936\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps.jpg 936w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A composite of what the Mission wetlands may have looked like, drawing from historical maps, first-hand written accounts and old photos as well as photos of still-existing ecosystems that resemble the natural landscape of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Mark Brest van Kempen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The former marshland proved an unsteady foundation for the budding town. When the 1906 earthquake struck, the tremors lashed cracks in the Mission streets built on soft, wet soil. According to Olmsted’s book, the trail of collapsed buildings lined up with the old channel of Mission Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘A Natural Flow of Water’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco artist Carmen Lomas Garza drew inspiration from the area’s natural history when developing what would become two larger-than-life iron cutouts worked into In Chan Kaajal’s fencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Though Mission Creek may today be confined to culverts, In Chan Kaajal has brought water back to the surface\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There is a natural flow of water there,” Garza said. “I wanted to focus in on how the creek was important in ancient times for the animals in that area and the first people who were in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The great blue heron she created carries a bare twig in its beak with which to line its nest, a behavior Garza herself has seen in the local heron population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California condors were also native to San Francisco, once scanning the luscious wetlands for a quick meal. The iron cutouts – funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission – recall not just the landscape, but also the indigenous people who revered these birds as symbolizing their elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water resurfaces in the park through a long trough-like fountain split in two. Visitors can walk between them. Each section has a series of fountains that send thin jets of water arcing down the trough. It’s low enough for children to climb upon and splash down the troughs. The fountains turn on and off with the press of a button. The opening ceremony took place earlier this summer on a relentlessly sunny afternoon, and local kids found the fountain irresistible. They splashed, shrieked and soaked themselves and anyone within a surprising range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Mission Creek may today be confined to culverts, In Chan Kaajal has brought water back to the surface, though that may mean splashing a few unsuspecting passersby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think you gotta wear a rain jacket when you go to that park,” Grande joked.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new community park in San Francisco memorializes the wetlands and wildlife of a bygone era.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704928450,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1122},"headData":{"title":"Beneath the Pavement: A Forgotten Wetland Resurfaces in New Art Installation | KQED","description":"A new community park in San Francisco memorializes the wetlands and wildlife of a bygone era.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"path":"/science/1885106/beneath-the-pavement-a-forgotten-wetland-resurfaces-in-new-art-installation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The corner of 17th Street and Folsom is a magnet for water when it rains. Perhaps the water remembers where it belongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 years ago, the area now known as San Francisco’s Mission District was a vast marsh where frogs splashed and croaked, tules swished in the winds and ducks peacefully floated. The headwaters of Mission Creek met with a tidal inlet, forming a pool whose center was right where 17th and Folsom cross today. For many who walk these streets daily, what’s underneath has been long forgotten. But there are some in the Mission District community who have advocated for years to turn the empty lot into reminder of what the city looked like in its past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, that corner took on new life, harkening back to a bygone landscape with the opening of the new In Chan Kaajal community park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 31,850-square-foot park holds a community garden, outdoor amphitheater, fitness equipment and a playground. It also features art installations and a water fountain commemorating Mission Creek and the water that once passed below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in an amnesiac culture,” said Chris Carlsson, a local historian and co-author of the second edition of \u003cem>Nancy Olmsted’s Vanished Waters: The History of San Francisco’s Mission Bay\u003c/em>. “And beyond the amnesia, it’s almost impossible to learn about what’s underneath the pavement.”\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 designers of the park decided early on that celebrating the Mission District’s natural and cultural history would be central to the project’s mission. The park’s name, revealed at the opening, means “my little town” in Mayan, honoring the community of Mayans who reside there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Oscar Grande, community organizer at People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Justice, community groups involved in the park’s development committed to honoring the indigenous and native cultures once sustained by the fertile lands. One of their guiding principles was “En armonia con la naturaleza,” Spanish for “In harmony with nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the installations acknowledge the juxtaposition of urban culture and the natural environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our natural history,” he says and reconnecting with it means reconnecting with the natural landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Imprint of Vanished Waterways\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlsson, who runs online local history archives FoundSF.org and Shaping San Francisco, says there were no flat areas in San Francisco at all before European settlers arrived. Instead, there were sand dunes, ridges, freshwater ponds, natural springs and long stretches of swampy wetlands like those that comprised the Mission. A tidal inlet from Mission Bay drew seawater up to the tidal pool, while the headwaters of Mission Creek cascaded down a steep dropoff, traveling down 18th Street on its way to the tidal pool and Mission Bay beyond. The topography remains the same—steep streets now line these hills. But the natural waterways have vanished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1885291\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1885291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-1020x738.jpg\" alt=\"A map depicting the natural habitat upon which the Mission District was built shows how modern-day San Francisco traces its vanished waterways. \" width=\"640\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-800x579.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-768x556.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-1920x1390.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-1180x854.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-960x695.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-375x271.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Habitats-on-Modern-520x376.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map depicting the natural habitat upon which the Mission District was built shows how modern-day San Francisco traces its vanished waterways. \u003ccite>(Christopher Richard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People don’t have a sense of the original landscape, or the unbelievable abundance and ease of living that was once the norm here before Europeans arrived,” Carlsson said. “The water was teeming with life. The wetlands were full of birds and fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ohlone and other native tribes gathered here, sustained by the rich offerings such as the salmon runs and the acorn bounty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When settlers first arrived, they hand carried water in buckets from a spring at Corbett and Clayton streets. Cattle ranches dotted the landscape before the Mission developed into a San Francisco suburb, its appeal bolstered by the new streetcars that could easily whisk workers to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wetlands were soon paved over, the creek confined to culverts and Mission Bay filled in. But the landscape’s legacy remained: Mission Creek is the reason the street grid takes the curve it does at 11th and Mission streets. And, Carlsson says, cyclists find that the easiest, most natural bike routes often trace the wiggles of buried streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1885292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 936px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1885292 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps.jpg\" alt=\"A composite of what the Mission wetlands may have looked like, drawn from historical maps, first-hand written accounts and old photos as well as photos of still-existing ecosystems that resemble the natural landscape of San Francisco. \" width=\"936\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps.jpg 936w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/07/Mission-Bay-c1700-by-Mark-Brest-van-Kempen_7786ps-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A composite of what the Mission wetlands may have looked like, drawing from historical maps, first-hand written accounts and old photos as well as photos of still-existing ecosystems that resemble the natural landscape of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Mark Brest van Kempen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The former marshland proved an unsteady foundation for the budding town. When the 1906 earthquake struck, the tremors lashed cracks in the Mission streets built on soft, wet soil. According to Olmsted’s book, the trail of collapsed buildings lined up with the old channel of Mission Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘A Natural Flow of Water’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco artist Carmen Lomas Garza drew inspiration from the area’s natural history when developing what would become two larger-than-life iron cutouts worked into In Chan Kaajal’s fencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Though Mission Creek may today be confined to culverts, In Chan Kaajal has brought water back to the surface\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“There is a natural flow of water there,” Garza said. “I wanted to focus in on how the creek was important in ancient times for the animals in that area and the first people who were in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The great blue heron she created carries a bare twig in its beak with which to line its nest, a behavior Garza herself has seen in the local heron population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California condors were also native to San Francisco, once scanning the luscious wetlands for a quick meal. The iron cutouts – funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission – recall not just the landscape, but also the indigenous people who revered these birds as symbolizing their elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water resurfaces in the park through a long trough-like fountain split in two. Visitors can walk between them. Each section has a series of fountains that send thin jets of water arcing down the trough. It’s low enough for children to climb upon and splash down the troughs. The fountains turn on and off with the press of a button. The opening ceremony took place earlier this summer on a relentlessly sunny afternoon, and local kids found the fountain irresistible. They splashed, shrieked and soaked themselves and anyone within a surprising range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Mission Creek may today be confined to culverts, In Chan Kaajal has brought water back to the surface, though that may mean splashing a few unsuspecting passersby.\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>“I think you gotta wear a rain jacket when you go to that park,” Grande joked.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1885106/beneath-the-pavement-a-forgotten-wetland-resurfaces-in-new-art-installation","authors":["11376"],"categories":["science_4450"],"tags":["science_448","science_5183","science_207"],"featImg":"science_1885289","label":"science"},"science_1500654":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1500654","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1500654","score":null,"sort":[1490715024000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"videos-scenes-from-yosemite-national-park","title":"VIDEOS: Scenes from Yosemite National Park","publishDate":1490715024,"format":"video","headTitle":"VIDEOS: Scenes from Yosemite National Park | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":3259,"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>As we wait for the premiere of PBS Nature’s \u003cem>Yosemite,\u003c/em> here’s some additional clips from the documentary, including reporting from KQED’s Science Unit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cn8FsOsBmY&t\u003cbr>\nGiant sequoias can live for thousands of years. Yet in California’s fourth year of historic drought, these resilient trees are starting to feel the effects of the lack of snow in the Sierra Nevada. University of California, Berkeley, researchers climb the trees to investigate. KQED Science video producer Gabriela Quirós investigates for KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/tag/quest/\">\u003cem>QUEST.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmNZGr9Udx8&t\u003cbr>\nLearn how the destructive force of fire gives birth to new life. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/\">PBS Nature’s \u003cem>Yosemite\u003c/em>.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m37QR_4XNY&t\u003cbr>\nEvery winter, California newts leave the safety of their forest burrows and travel as far as three miles to mate in the pond where they were born. Their mating ritual is a raucous affair that involves bulked-up males, writhing females and a little cannibalism. One of our favorite \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/series/deep-look/\">\u003cem>Deep Look\u003c/em>\u003c/a> episodes from former KQED Science intern Mallory Pickett and KQED Science video producer Gabriela Quirós.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNkNzNOX1AM\u003cbr>\nSierra newt males battle it out for the chance to get froggy. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/\">From PBS Nature’s \u003cem>Yosemite\u003c/em>.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEji9I4Tcjo\u003cbr>\nThe humble pine cone is more than a holiday decoration. It’s an ancient form of tree sex. Flowers may be faster and showier, but the largest living things in the world? The oldest? They all reproduce with cones. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/series/deep-look/\">\u003cem>Deep Look\u003c/em>‘s\u003c/a> Christmas Special from KQED Science video producer and Deep Look cinematographer Josh Cassidy.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIUcuLqakgA\u003cbr>\nAround the third week of February each year, Horsetail Fall lights up Yosemite National Park with a spectacle of orange and red. The phenomenon, which has taken on the decidedly majestic nickname “firefall,” is an optical trick of the sunset when a host of conditions are just right. From \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIUcuLqakgA\">Kevin Key via Storyful.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704928927,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":3,"wordCount":355},"headData":{"title":"VIDEOS: Scenes from Yosemite National Park | KQED","description":"As we wait for the premiere of PBS Nature's Yosemite, here's some additional clips from the documentary, including reporting from KQED's Science Unit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cn8FsOsBmY&t Giant sequoias can live for thousands of years. Yet in California’s fourth year of historic drought, these resilient trees are starting to feel the effects of the lack of snow in","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"videoEmbed":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0f1noOj0Vs","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1500654/videos-scenes-from-yosemite-national-park","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As we wait for the premiere of PBS Nature’s \u003cem>Yosemite,\u003c/em> here’s some additional clips from the documentary, including reporting from KQED’s Science Unit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cn8FsOsBmY&t\u003cbr>\nGiant sequoias can live for thousands of years. Yet in California’s fourth year of historic drought, these resilient trees are starting to feel the effects of the lack of snow in the Sierra Nevada. 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