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B8 The Wenatchee World Sunday, June 7, 2015 BY JOE MOZINGO, RUBEN VIVES AND HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — They hit Summerland more than two weeks ago, globs of oil stink- ing up the beach bad enough to induce headaches. Then they struck Oxnard, Malibu and the South Bay. This week, like a bloom of black jellyfish, they landed in Long Beach. Although beach tar has long been a nuisance of Southern California life, viscous balls of crude oil washing up all over has not. At first, many officials and scientists figured it might be a coincidence that this occurred after the May 19 oil spill in Santa Barbara County. There are natural oil seeps up and down the coast. But now with dozens of affect- ed beaches, the prime suspect is the 21,000 gallons that spilled into the ocean from the ruptured pipeline at Refugio State Beach. “We get tar balls, but not droves of them, at one time, seemingly from one event,” said David Valentine, a professor of microbiology and geochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who studies oil and gas dispersion in the ocean. “I’m suspicious of a coincidence.” The Coast Guard took samples of the Long Beach oil, as it did from other beaches, to see if laboratory testing could identify whether it came from the spill or another source. But that testing could take weeks. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were also trying to determine whether prevailing wind and ocean currents could deliver oil from Refugio to the beaches being hit. In Long Beach, where oil is drilled on artificial islands offshore, officials said they found no leaks or indication that it came from their operations. By Thursday afternoon, much of the mess on the 4-mile stretch of sand — from softball- sized gobs to small bits of harder tar — was clean. Crews removed roughly 55 gallons of “petroleum-based product” according to Long Beach Fire Chief Mike DuRee. Unlike dry and compressed tar that occasionally washes up on shore, this goo was “very unusu- al,” DuRee said. “This had a different smell and sheen to it,” DuRee said. “It smelled fresh and was more of a liquid tar.” The water was closed to swimming and kiteboarding — a popular form of recreation on the beach, due to strong winds from the southwest, which could have carried the tar past the breakwaters that shelter San Pedro Bay. Santa Barbara spill is prime suspect in L.A-area tar balls Environment BY LOUIS SAHAGUN Los Angeles Times SHANDON, Calif. — From the front porch of the ranch house where Daniel Sinton grew up, the toll of drought is all too plain to see. Grassland is turning into bare ground. Pine trees, some four stories tall, are dead or being eaten alive by fungal pathogens. And Sinton’s cattle herd has shrunk to one-fifth its usual size. Canyon Ranch, started near San Luis Obispo by Sinton’s great-grandfather 150 years ago, is withering from lack of rain, as are most other ranches in this once-thriving cattle region. Roughly 75 percent of the cattle in San Luis Obispo County have been sold or taken out of state over the last four years to escape condi- tions in the most drought-stricken region in California. “You’re looking at the whole shebang,” said Sinton, 34, as he looked out over a few dozen head of cattle grazing on dry grass. “That’s all the cattle we’re running right now.” Since the late 1700s, grazing has been the best use for the region’s rolling hills and valleys. Vast tracts of chaparral and oak forests made farming difficult; the soil is generally too shallow for crops, and surface water is limited. Cattle ate vegetation watered mostly by rainfall rather than by aquifers. But last year, the area received just a quarter of its usual rain: 2.24 inches, down from the average of 9.85 inches. Available forage was 5 percent of normal, meaning that when rains return, poorer seed production and ground cover will require several years of conservative grazing to restore normal productivity to range lands. A huge sell-off of cattle by ranchers thinning their herds last year brought in a record $129 million, as beef prices were high and more livestock than usual were sent to auction. This year, with the number of livestock way down, cattle sales will plummet, local officials say. To make things worse, getting the animals to market has become more costly because the most heavily attended local cattle auction has closed. Templeton Livestock Market was sold to a developer who plans to build 110 homes on the property. Ranchers now have to ship their cattle to markets more than 100 miles away. “We see clearly what a bust cycle looks like,” said Mark Battany, the county’s viticulture and soils farm advisor. “Ranchers have no choice but to sell off their cows and rebuild the herd when the rain comes back.” Many ranchers say they are hunkering down, determined to ride out the drought. Once it ends, Sinton said, “it’ll take a decade to rebuild the herd.” And that assumes water will be plentiful for the 10 years. As dire as conditions are, they are not new to a ranching industry that has survived dry spells over the centuries. During a drought that ended in 1864, some ranchers drove their herds off cliffs and into the ocean below to stop their suffering. Sinton’s grandfather, James Sinton, 98, the family historian, pointed out that “in the drought of 1898, people ran out of hay and started feeding cattle anything that was green, including chopped-up sycamore trees. It was that, or the cattle just died.” “The current drought is worse,” he said. “I’ve never seen one last this long.” Ranchers today do have one advantage their ancestors didn’t enjoy: a burgeoning Central Coast wine industry. Sinton has converted 120 acres of his 6,000-acre Canyon Ranch, 25 miles northeast of San Luis Obispo, into vineyards. He found that the vines yield higher economic returns on water than ranching. In Central Coast, drought continues to shrink herds Al Seib/Los Angeles Times Rancher Daniel Sinton, 34, walks past dead or dying trees affected by the drought on Canyon Ranch on May 18 near Shandon, Calif. Canyon Ranch is located in the heart of the most drought-stricken region in California. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times Tar is removed from the coastline that remained closed on Thursday in Long Beach, Calif., after tar balls washed ashore. Bite Me! - Your Guide to Dining Out in the Valley. 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B8 The Wenatchee WorldSunday, June 7, 2015
BY JOE MOZINGO, RUBEN VIVES AND
HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — They hit Summerland more than two weeks ago, globs of oil stink-ing up the beach bad enough to induce headaches. Then they struck Oxnard, Malibu and the South Bay. This week, like a bloom of black jellyfi sh, they landed in Long Beach.
Although beach tar has long been a nuisance of Southern California life, viscous balls of crude oil washing up all over has not.
At fi rst, many o� cials and scientists fi gured it might be a
coincidence that this occurred after the May 19 oil spill in Santa Barbara County. There are natural oil seeps up and down the coast.
But now with dozens of a� ect-ed beaches, the prime suspect is the 21,000 gallons that spilled into the ocean from the ruptured pipeline at Refugio State Beach.
“We get tar balls, but not droves of them, at one time, seemingly from one event,” said David Valentine, a professor of microbiology and geochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who studies oil and gas dispersion in the ocean. “I’m suspicious of a coincidence.”
The Coast Guard took samples of the Long Beach oil, as it did
from other beaches, to see if laboratory testing could identify whether it came from the spill or another source. But that testing could take weeks.
Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were also trying to determine whether prevailing wind and ocean currents could deliver oil from Refugio to the beaches being hit.
In Long Beach, where oil is drilled on artifi cial islands o� shore, o� cials said they found no leaks or indication that it came from their operations.
By Thursday afternoon, much of the mess on the 4-mile stretch of sand — from softball-sized gobs to small bits of
harder tar — was clean.Crews removed roughly 55
gallons of “petroleum-based product” according to Long Beach Fire Chief Mike DuRee.
Unlike dry and compressed tar that occasionally washes up on shore, this goo was “very unusu-al,” DuRee said.
“This had a di� erent smell and sheen to it,” DuRee said. “It smelled fresh and was more of a liquid tar.”
The water was closed to swimming and kiteboarding — a popular form of recreation on the beach, due to strong winds from the southwest, which could have carried the tar past the breakwaters that shelter San Pedro Bay.
Santa Barbara spill is prime suspect in L.A-area tar balls
Environment
BY LOUIS SAHAGUN
Los Angeles Times
SHANDON, Calif. — From the front porch of the ranch house where Daniel Sinton grew up, the toll of drought is all too plain to see.
Grassland is turning into bare ground. Pine trees, some four stories tall, are dead or being eaten alive by fungal pathogens. And Sinton’s cattle herd has shrunk to one-fi fth its usual size.
Canyon Ranch, started near San Luis Obispo by Sinton’s great-grandfather 150 years ago, is withering from lack of rain, as are most other ranches in this once-thriving cattle region. Roughly 75 percent of the cattle in San Luis Obispo County have been sold or taken out of state over the last four years to escape condi-tions in the most drought-stricken region in California.
“You’re looking at the whole shebang,” said Sinton, 34, as he looked out over a few dozen head of cattle grazing on dry grass. “That’s all the cattle we’re running right now.”
Since the late 1700s, grazing has been the best use for the region’s rolling hills and valleys. Vast tracts of chaparral and oak forests made farming di� cult; the soil is generally too shallow for crops, and surface water is limited.
Cattle ate vegetation watered mostly by rainfall rather than by aquifers. But last year, the area received just a quarter of its usual rain: 2.24 inches, down from the average of 9.85 inches. Available forage was 5 percent of normal, meaning that when rains return, poorer seed production and ground cover will require several years of conservative grazing to restore
normal productivity to range lands.A huge sell-o� of cattle by ranchers thinning
their herds last year brought in a record $129 million, as beef prices were high and more livestock than usual were sent to auction.
This year, with the number of livestock way down, cattle sales will plummet, local o� cials say. To make things worse, getting the animals to market has become more costly because the most heavily attended
local cattle auction has closed.Templeton Livestock Market was sold to
a developer who plans to build 110 homes on the property. Ranchers now have to ship their cattle to markets more than 100 miles away.
“We see clearly what a bust cycle looks like,” said Mark Battany, the county’s viticulture and soils farm advisor. “Ranchers have no choice but to sell o� their cows and rebuild the herd when the rain comes back.”
Many ranchers say they are hunkering down, determined to ride out the drought. Once it ends, Sinton said, “it’ll take a decade to rebuild the herd.” And that assumes water will be plentiful for the 10 years.
As dire as conditions are, they are not new to a ranching industry that has survived dry spells over the centuries.
During a drought that ended in 1864, some ranchers drove their herds o� cli� s and into the ocean below to stop their su� ering.
Sinton’s grandfather, James Sinton, 98, the family historian, pointed out that “in the drought of 1898, people ran out of hay and started feeding cattle anything that was green, including chopped-up sycamore trees. It was that, or the cattle just died.”
“The current drought is worse,” he said. “I’ve never seen one last this long.”
Ranchers today do have one advantage their ancestors didn’t enjoy: a burgeoning Central Coast wine industry. Sinton has converted 120 acres of his 6,000-acre Canyon Ranch, 25 miles northeast of San Luis Obispo, into vineyards. He found that the vines yield higher economic returns on water than ranching.
In Central Coast, drought continues to shrink herds
Al Seib/Los Angeles Times
Rancher Daniel Sinton, 34, walks past dead or dying trees affected by the drought on Canyon Ranch on May 18 near Shandon, Calif. Canyon Ranch is located in the heart of the most drought-stricken region in California.
Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times
Tar is removed from the coastline that remained closed on Thursday in Long Beach, Calif., after tar balls washed ashore.
Bite Me! - Your Guide to Dining Out in the Valley.Watch for your copy this Friday, June 12th in
The Wenatchee WorldWatch for your copy this Friday, June 12th in
The Online Auction
Starts June 15th at 8am
wenatcheeworld.com/auction/
Save up to 60%on gift cards from
Restaurants in this guide!
A supplement to The Wenatchee World.
June 2015
Bidding starts Monday, June 15th at 8am & ends Wednesday, June 17th at 8pm.
Save up to 60% off! • Buy it Now option!Incremental Bidding - Don't be outbid!
Winning bidders can pick up their gift cards at The Wenatchee World · 14 N. Mission, Wenatchee
Mon-Fri 8am-5pm50¢ handling fee for each item purchased.
The Online Auction
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from most restaurantsfeatured in Bite Me.
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