OSU fire researcher Chris Dunn examines a several-hundred-year-old Douglas fir that stood at the entrance of Delta Campground on the McKenzie River. The tree was cut as a hazard tree after the Holiday Farm Fire.

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As thousands of Oregon homes burned to rubble last month, the states politicians joined the timber industry in blaming worsening wildfires on the lack of logging.

Echoing a longstanding belief in the state that public forests are the problem, U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, a Republican who represents eastern Oregon, equated the federal governments management to that of a slum lord. And Democratic Gov. Kate Brown on Face the Nation accused Republicans in the state Legislature of blocking measures, proposed by a wildfire council, that would have increased logging on public lands.

In the decades since government restrictions reduced logging on federal lands, the timber industry has promoted the idea that private lands are less prone to wildfires, saying that forests thick with trees fuel bigger, more destructive blazes. An analysis by OPB and ProPublica shows last months fires burned as intensely on private forests with large-scale logging operations as they did, on average, on federal lands that cut fewer trees.

In fact, private lands that were clear-cut in the past five years, with thousands of trees removed at once, burned slightly hotter than federal lands, on average. On public lands, areas that were logged within the past five years burned with the same intensity as those that hadnt been cut, according to the analysis.

The belief people have is that somehow or another we can thin our way to low-intensity fire that will be easy to suppress, easy to contain, easy to control. Nothing could be further from the truth, said Jack Cohen, a retired U.S. Forest Service scientist who pioneered research on how homes catch fire.

The timber industry has sought to frame logging as the alternative to catastrophic wildfires through advertising, legislative lobbying and attempts to undermine research that has shown forests burn more severely under industrial management, according to documents obtained by OPB, The Oregonian/OregonLive and ProPublica.

This years wildfires were among the worst that Oregon has experienced. They destroyed more than 4,000 homes across the state and consumed about 1 million acres of public and private land, nearly double the acreage as in previous years. Extreme winds drove fires across federal forest and industrial timber plantations, down through canyons and into populated areas like Sam Drevos community of Gates, about 45 minutes east of Salem.

Drevo stepped outside of his home Labor Day evening and saw flames racing down a clear-cut hillside a quarter-mile away. He and his mother had time only to grab a bag of clothes before evacuating.

Im still kind of spinning. Its hard to believe what just happened, said Drevo, a 44-year-old river guide. The devastation of the loss, everything we lost in the house, everything that was sentimental to me. Its just really hard to cope with that.

Sam Drevo walks through wildfire damage in September 2020 in the town of Gates, Ore., where he owned a home and river guide business.

Tyler Westfall

As fires continue to threaten communities from California to Colorado, state and federal lawmakers have prioritized logging ahead of methods scientists say provide the best chance for limiting damage from wildfires, including prescribed use of fire to clear brush and programs that could help make homes like Drevos more resistant to wildfire.

This country has a huge amount of money, Cohen said, noting that annual firefighting costs have surpassed $3 billion nationally. But if you have a misperception of what the problem is, if you continually define it as a wildfire control problem, then that money largely goes into ineffective kinds of uses.

After last months fires, the Oregon Forest & Industries Council, a statewide timber lobbying organization, spent thousands of dollars on Facebook advertisements promoting forest management to reduce wildfire risks. Four industry groups, including the council, published an opinion piece calling for the state to unite around logging, thinning and prescribed burns to reduce the buildup of dead and diseased trees on federal lands.

Sara Duncan, spokeswoman for the council, said logging is an effective tool for slowing wildfires. She said that this years fires, which burned more than 250,000 acres of logged industrial timberland in western Oregon, should be treated as an outlier because of winds that fueled unanticipated damage.

In such an extreme event, any land would have burned, managed or not, Duncan said in an email.

The idea of managing forests to prevent wildfires began gaining popularity in the 1990s, after logging on public lands plummeted following court battles that led to protections for threatened species like the northern spotted owl.

Related: The fight over trees, owls and the natural world that tore the Northwest apart

Proponents of more logging have argued that a rise in the number of large fires in recent decades coincided with the slowdown in timber sales on federal lands.

In 2018, the Oregon Forest & Industries Council launched a campaign that featured a simple message: Managed Forests Do Good Things. Catastrophic Wildfires Do Bad Things. The campaign aims to build a high-quality, on-line community of activists who will advocate for the industry to policymakers and elected officials, according to an internal strategy document obtained by OPB, ProPublica and The Oregonian/OregonLive.

Over the past decade, 80% of the acres burned in the state have been on federal land, according to data from the Oregon Department of Forestry. The disparity in acres burned is in part because 60% of Oregon forests are managed by the federal government. Most of those forestlands are in drier, remote areas prone to more frequent fire, compared with private forest lands.

Fires on private industrial timberlands can be more quickly suppressed because firefighters have more access through roads, making data that shows the intensity or severity of fires an incomplete metric for damage, industry groups said.

More important is how the fire spreads and how easy it is to control, Duncan said in an email. Fires on private forestlands are easier to put out because fuels are more receptive to suppression efforts, and access is maintained through roads.

A young tree plantation on private land south of the McKenzie River did not survive the Holiday Farm Fire.

Jes Burns / OPB

Because the state and federal governments have tried to put out every wildfire for decades, forests that would have been cleared of vegetation by frequent, naturally occurring fires became overgrown. Logging or thinning could provide jobs and wood for local mills, but scientists say it wont prevent destructive wildfires like the ones the state experienced this year.

Logging doesnt eliminate the underbrush, twigs and tree needles that fire feeds on. Removing brush and debris requires fire. That includes prescribed fire, using drip torches to safely burn across the forest floor during cooler weather.

A forest that is thinned must then be purposely burned to reduce wildfire spread. In Oregon, more than 1 million acres of federal land have been thinned in the past 10 years, while landscape burning has been completed on less than half that amount, according to data from the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.

Homes most often ignite from flying embers, not flames, and research from the U.S. Geological Survey found vegetation levels on public lands were a poor predictor of home destruction in a wildfire.

Scientists with the U.S. Forest Service and wildfire insurance industry say adapting communities to withstand wildfire by clearing vegetation and using fire-resistant construction like closed eaves, covered vents and double-pane windows provide the best chance to prevent home losses.

In Oregon, neither the state nor federal government track money spent on preventing home ignitions.

Matt Donegan, a former timber investor and consultant who led Browns Wildfire Response Council, acknowledged thinning may not be effective in the rainy forests of western Oregon because the trees would grow back before wildfire.

A recently logged hillside burns on Potato Hill just outside the community of Gates, Ore., during the 2020 Labor Day fires.

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Donegan said the damage caused by wildfires this year, which was almost entirely on the west side of the state, will likely prompt a special legislative session. He expects a debate over how much state funding should go toward fireproofing private residences.

I think one of the most vexing topics Oregon will face is what do you do with the west side forests? Donegan said. Wildfire there is not going to happen often, but when it does, my heavens, the impacts are so great.

The governors wildfire council put forth a set of recommendations this year that

included increasing the states firefighting capacity, creating a buffer around homes and requiring electric companies to shut down power lines during high winds.

The councils most expensive recommendation called for the state to spend $4 billion over the next 20 years on forest management, primarily on thinning. Funding for the proposal would have covered fewer than half of the total acres in Oregon considered at high risk of wildfire.

The cost estimate didnt include maintenance treatments of prescribed fire, which the council acknowledged are essential for maintaining risk reduction over time.

About an hour east of Eugene in a patchwork of heavily managed public and private timberland, with hundreds of acres of clear-cutting and thinning in every direction, the community of Blue River was completely leveled by Septembers 173,000-acre Holiday Farm Fire.

Picking through the burned husks of buildings and cars, researcher Chris Dunn pointed to a nearby hillside that had been logged before the fire.

That kind of management clearly didnt provide community protection, said Dunn, who spent eight years as a wildland firefighter. He now studies fire behavior and risk for Oregon State University and the Forest Service.

OSU wildfire scientists Meg Krawchuk (left) and Chris Dunn (right) examine the damage done by the Holiday Farm Fire to private timberland.

Jes Burns / OPB

In 2018, Dunn co-authored a study with Humboldt State Universitys Harold Zald that found the 2013 Douglas Complex Fire in southern Oregon burned 30% more severely on private industrial timber plantations than on federal forestlands.

Dunn said the research wasnt intended to target the timber industry. It was meant to explain why the fire burned in a particular pattern. He thought perhaps industry leaders might use the study to push for better fire protection funding for their lands, which provide societys wood supply and could be susceptible to burning.

The findings challenged a report by the Oregon Forest Resources Institute, a tax-funded forest education agency overseen by timber companies. The institutes report had pointed to the same fire to caution that unlogged public lands contributed to damage on private lands.

While the study is not receiving attention, enviros are using it, and it is out there as a matter of record, then-director Paul Barnum wrote to staff in 2018 in an email obtained by The Oregonian/Oregonlive, OPB and ProPublica. Without someone challenging the study, those accessing it in the future may assume its legit.

Barnum declined to answer specific questions about the study by Dunn and Zald. He said his emails were not relevant to this years fires.

The institute drafted a guest opinion refuting the study and sought input from industry groups before submitting it to a local newspaper.

From beginning to end I would keep the focus on these two specific researchers and their BS study, advised Nick Smith, a lobbyist for the national timber group American Forest Resources Council.

In response to emailed questions, Smith said he took issue with the researchers' broad policy conclusions and thought the study didnt contribute much to the protection of forest values or communities.

The institutes opinion piece ran nearly two months after the study was published, under the heading Replanted forests dont increase intensity of wildfire.

Dunn said no one from the industry reached out to him before criticizing his findings.

Why wouldnt someone just email me and ask me about it and talk, Dunn said. Its like creating a false perception of me being against them or them being against me, and thats completely incorrect.

Days after the September fires wreaked havoc in Oregon communities, Congress had a hearing on a comprehensive wildfire bill.

In the Senate, Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California and Republican Steve Daines of Montana introduced a wildfire bill focused primarily on expanding logging. The bill, which also includes prescribed burning and funding for home construction, would provide additional exemptions on environmental and legal reviews for logging to help mitigate wildfire.

Logging didnt help Drevos community of Gates. Five of the nine houses on his street survived because they were built to be fire resistant or their owners doused them with sprinklers during the blaze. Drevo, who didnt learn he could fortify his home until it burned down, said politicians should focus on making communities more fire-resistant.

You look at what happened in my little microcosm, Drevo said, and the fact that there was an area that was heavily logged, and it was a huge inferno that helped add to the destruction of our community.

Related: Santiam Canyon firestorm survivors return to survey the damage

Late last year, Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat and her partys nominee for vice president, sponsored a bill to create a $1 billion grant program for making homes more resistant to wildfires. Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden co-sponsored the bill in September. He also filed a separate bill seeking a $300 million federal investment in the use of prescribed fire.

Neither bill has received a hearing.

Jes Burns of OPB and Rob Davis of The Oregonian/OregonLive contributed reporting.

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With the presidential election looming, Akron Beacon Journal reporter Craig Webb heads to his hometown of Conneaut, Ohio, to reminisce and take the political pulse of this recovering Rust Belt town. Akron Beacon Journal

Home, in which journalists from the USA TODAY Ohio network return to the communities where they grew up to share firsthand how the contentious 2020 election is playing out in various corners of this battleground state.

Dave Huser, trustee of the Mt. Healthy Historical Society, speaks about the history of the town at the Historical Society museum in Mt. Healthy, Ohio, on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020.(Photo: Sam Greene/The Enquirer)

Today, nonprofit organizations supply food to the residents of Clovernook Apartments, the new name of my old community, with buildings that are not properly maintained. Mount Healthians I talked to confirm there is criminal activity, and I was stopped and questioned by a security guard on patrol during my visit.

The area doesnt exactly fit the charming and quiet labels people toss around about Mount Healthy, a Democratic territory in the southwestern part of Ohios Trump country. The oft-told story is that the city came up with its name because residents survived the cholera epidemic in the mid-1800s. Prior to that, it was called Mount Pleasant. (Seriously.)

Its a fitting moniker because Mount Healthians will say everyone gets along and no one argues over politics. But there is a deeper layer of neglect and need the small city is trying to address.

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Mount Healthy in the Cincinnati area is grappling with the inequities in its own community as makes a choice between Joe Biden and Donald Trump Cincinnati Enquirer

Cook Park, Canton Ohio(Photo: Charita M. Goshay, Canton Repository)

Founded in 1892, Crystal Park's residents in the 1960s were a hodgepodge of Hungarians, Greeks, Romanians, a sprinkling of Italians and Portuguese, whites from West Virginiaand Blacks whose families took part in the Great Migration.

Crystal Park also is a perfect illustration of what happened to manyAmerican cities, which means it has its ghosts.

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A horse is hooked up to a flatbed wagon at the Byler's Farm in Gallia County on Oct. 21, 2020. (Photo: Albert Cesare / The Enquirer)

After spending a day going up and down those roads talking to Amish families, I get why they like Trump.

Many of them are small business owners who believe they've reaped the benefits of Trump's economic policies. If you're only seeing Trump through that prism, it's easy to understand the support.

These are Old Order Amish in Gallia County, the most conservative group in the faith. They are humble, hard-working people who grow their own food, make their own clothes and raise multiple children.

They don't drive cars. They shun technology. Therefore, they don't experience all the vitriol, angst and anger on the networks and social media about Trump and this election. They couldn't care less about Trump's tweets.

And perhaps the Amish are better for it as the rest of us have a hard time escaping the Facebook squabbles and screaming pundits this election cycle.

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Jim Potter points to a photo for himself and his first wife Judy on their wedding day in 1961 on a wall of family photos in his home he shares with his second wife on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 in Bay Village. Potter tells how his father who was a Democrat switched party affiliation when FDR went for his third term in 1940.(Photo: Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)

My sisters and I affectionately refer to Bay as the bubble. But in presidential politics, there has been a shift. In recent years Democrats have made inroads in Bay much like in suburbs across the nation.

In 2016, Bay flipped from red to blue. Democratic nominee Hilary Clinton won with 53% of the vote, 10 percentage points over Republican Donald Trump. Four years earlier, GOP nominee Mitt Romney won by 8 percentage points over Democrat Barack Obama.

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Cars travel down Glenway Avenue in West Price Hill on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Glenway Avenue travels all through the west side of Cincinnati.(Photo: Hannah Ruhoff)

Most of the West Side just outside Cincinnati's city limits is still President Donald Trump country, but Joe Biden could get more votes here than past Democrats.

In the West Side neighborhoods of Price Hill, Westwood and South Fairmount, all in Cincinnati's city limits, Hillary Clinton easily won in 2016 beating Trump 71% to 23%.

But once you get to the suburban hillsides and villages of Green Township, Cheviot, Delhi and the more rural communities of Cleves, Harrison and Whitewater Townships, Trump dominated four years ago, 65% to 28%.

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Many of the storefronts at the Austintown Plaza are now vacant, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Austintown, Ohio. [Jeff Lange/Beacon Journal](Photo: Jeff Lange, Akron Beacon Journal)

Suburban Youngstown isthe centerpiece of the deep-blue Mahoning Valley that Democrats have reliably controlled for decades.

In 2016,though, something changed. President Donald Trumpcarriedthe Mahoning Valleyon his way to an 8.1percentage point win in Ohio.It was the first time a Republican carried the Valley since 1972, when President Richard Nixon won 86 of Ohios 88 counties in his national landslide.

Inthe combinedMahoning and Trumbull counties where former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, won with more than 60% of the vote, Trump narrowly defeated Hillary Clinton.

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Joe Orlando, the retired owner of Orlando Brothers Golden Dawn grocery store grabs a ham loaf mix form the meat cooler at the store on Thursday Sept. 17, 2020 in Conneaut. The ham and pork mixture is made at the store.(Photo: Mike Cardew/Beacon Journal)

Aside from the infamous "Proud Republican" bumper sticker incident, my parents never publicly declared their politics. However, many neighbors proudly bled blue.

That's certainly not the case in Conneaut now.

The sea of Democratic signs of my youth are now a patchwork of political leanings, with signs and flags for both Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

I know signs can't vote, but it seems that Trump may have an edge, at least in this small corner of the political landscape.

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In 2016, Trump triumphed among Jeromesvilles 230 residents who went to the polls by 40 percentage points, 67% to 27%, over Hillary Clinton.

The runaway was even bigger in surrounding rural areas, leading to a Trump blowout, 74% to 19%, in the village and three adjoining townships combined.

It was a microcosm of how well Trump performed in rural Ohio four years ago, from the 71% he won in eastern Ohios Carroll County to the stunning 81% he took in Mercer County on the states western border.

Can he do it again?

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It all happened so fast.

Jamie Carlson was enjoying a leisurely afternoon Oct. 13 with her 2-year-old grandson at the Conifer Lawn in the western part of the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Golden Gate Park.

Carlson spread a blanket on a sloping grassy hill under a tree, and as she and her grandson have done on many days, they enjoyed a picnic.

When it was time to leave, she put her grandson in the grass and folded up the blanket. At this point, the food was already packed up.

Carlson walked about 8 to 10 feet to the stroller to pack up when, from out of nowhere, a coyote with its mouth open and teeth bared charged down the hill straight toward the child.

The animal's mouth was within inches of her grandson, Carlson said, when she swooped in and grabbed him, screaming as loud as she could to scare it away.

"The animal didn't scare but instead started moving toward a baby sitting nearby with his mother," said the San Francisco native and resident.

The report collected by officials on the incident reveals that Carlson said the coyote was moving with intent and aiming for her grandson's neck. Carlson also said when she ran toward her grandson, he fell over and this saved him from being physically attacked.

In response to the incident, San Francisco Recreation and Parks closed the Conifer Lawn, installed new signs warning visitors of coyote activity and initiated a protocol for greeters at the garden entrance to alert visitors.

"While Animal Care and Control is handling the investigation and has alerted the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Recreation and Park Department remains vigilant and is conducting outreach and monitoring of coyote activities and behavior," Recreation and Parks spokesperson Tamara Aparton wrote in a statement. "No bold coyote behavior has been reported to Rec and Park or the Botanical Garden since the incident. We will continue to work with our colleagues at Animal Care and Control to monitor, adapt and respond to the situation."

Carlson feels the city needs to do more. Signs in the park describe coyotes as generally afraid of humans, but she said the coyote that approached her grandchild was fearless of humans. She has heard from two friends who visited the garden since the incident that they weren't warned of coyotes at the entrance.

"Had I known there was any abnormal animal behavior, I wouldnt have walked away to the stroller," she said. "I feel really strongly that we need to do more to protect people in the garden. In the garden, you feel a sense of security that you should not feel. If we were told there has been abnormal animal behavior, we could all help each other out."

The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department roped off the Conifer Lawn in the San Francisco Botanical Garden after a coyote came within inches of a child on Oct. 13, 2020.

Coyote sightings are common in San Francisco, where the animals have colonized the urban landscape, building dens and raising young in pockets of vegetation tucked among neighborhoods. A Nextdoor neighborhood group is filled with stories of coyotes killing backyard cats, and Instagram is flooded with images of coyotes sauntering S.F. streets. Even though the animals are generally nocturnal, sightings often occur in broad daylight.

Earlier this month, Bay Area resident Zaki Lisha reported picnicking in the Botanical Garden around a crowd of people when a coyote dropped by "as if it owned the place."

"Young families scattered at its sight, protecting their young ones," Lisha said.

Lisha snapped a photo (see below) and it shows the animal closely passing by humans in broad daylight.

With all the talk and photos of coyote activity, it may seem the animals have suddenly descended on San Francisco in recent years, but actually they are native to California and are repopulating an area where they lived in abundance until the mid-1900s.

Police officers killed coyotes that crossed the Golden Gate Bridge out of the city for many years, and when this practice stopped, coyotes began building dens around the city in the early 2000s. Nobody knows exactly how many coyotes live in the city, but Amy Corso, field services supervisor for San Francisco Animal Care and Control, estimates the number is below 100.

"It depends on the time of the year," Corso said. "A lot of pups are killed by cars in spring and fall, and numbers go back down."

Coyote activity increases and sightings become more common in spring and summer, when they're raising young and searching for food, but Corso has noticed a consistent increase in sightings during the pandemic.

"I think people are home more and people are walking their dogs more often," she said. "We went through that period when we were pretty locked down, and people weren't venturing out. At that point, wildlife came out more. It was more comfortable for them to do so with the lockdown. This is what I think. This isn't scientific fact."

While the number of conflicts between humans and coyotes in the city is unknown, Corso shared for aprevious SFGATE article that Animal Care and Control has received more reports in recent years.

"Were getting more reports of people being uncomfortable with the amount of sightings, seeing them walking by so close to them." Corso said there have also been reports of coyotes killing small pets left in the backyard, and she encourages residents to not leave cats and small dogs unattended outdoors, especially at night.

Corso said she has never heard of a coyote acting aggressively toward a child in San Francisco or biting either a child or adult, but incidents have occurred outside the city.A 5-year-old girl was hospitalized after a coyote bit her in Dublin Hills Regional Park in April. A coyote bit a woman on Tennessee Beach in the Marin Headlands in September.

A coyote sighting in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in broad daylight, October 2020.

Stanley Gehrt, a coyote researcher and wildlife ecologist who teaches at Ohio State University, has studied coyotes living in Chicago for years and often hears from city officials when aggression occurs in urban environments across the country.

"I do get a lot of inquiries from San Francisco folks, both agency folks and the general public," he said. "That has been going on for over a decade."

Gehrt has observed a similar pattern unfold in all cities with coyotes whether Washington, D.C., Cleveland or Los Angeles where a small number become more bold than others.

"Its still a very rare event for a coyote to bite a person," he said. "Its still a big step for them to take to go from just bold to actually biting someone. You dont want to ignore the situation. People need to be aware so they can take precautions."

He said the reason coyotes become problematic and lose their fear of humans is almost always due to them being fed human food, and Corso said she knows this occurs in San Francisco.

"We really get into problems when that happens," Corso said. "Years ago, someone was busted for hand-feeding a coyote. That hand is now seen as a food source."

While Corso specifically knows of some individuals who intentionally feed coyotes from their backyards or at areas frequented by the animals, she said most of the feeding is likely unintentional.

Pet food left outdoors and trash cans are two sources of food for the animals. She said the city encourages people to secure lids on cans left outside and to bring pet food inside when animals are done eating. Animal Care and Control can help residents who like to feed feral cats build special platforms for food that the cats, and not the coyotes, can reach.

Another issue is overgrowth in backyards where coyotes hunt for rodents.

"We have seen coyotes create a den in someones yard that has a lot of this overgrowth," Corso said. "Its really important for residents to keep those yards tidy, not allow it to be harborage for coyotes."

As these animals have made themselves at home in the city, it's important for residents to know what to do when they encounter a bold coyote.

"Be confident in your actions: Clap, yell, look it in the eye and go on," she said.

Gehrt echoed the importance of hazing coyotes.

"Usually, its making a loud noise and taking a step or two in their direction," he said. "You may have to wave your arms. You may even throw something in their direction. If you do something like that and the animal isnt afraid of you and perhaps stands its ground and may exhibit aggressive behavior, then you need to report that to officials."

He added, "Once you have animals exhibiting bold behavior you have to do some sort of reaction, that might involve hazing, it might be opportunistic hazing or programmatic hazing, looking for opportunities to haze the animals, sometimes that works, sometimes its not effective. If the animals are becoming more of a threat to the health and safety of people then at some point they have to be removed."

A coyote looks over the water during a visit to a mostly deserted Kirby Cove on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge. Photographer Scott Oller captured the moment on April 9, 2020.

Robert Hughes of Pacifica attempted to haze the coyote that nearly attacked the child at Golden Gate Park earlier this month. He didn't see the animal running after the child, but he saw Carlson clutching her grandson and running away from it.

"This was an extremely large coyote," Hughes said. "I live in Pacifica and frequently see coyotes in my backyard. Im not surprised by coyotes. This was a very big coyote. I made a lot of noise. I waved my hands. I yelled. That coyote was not intimidated at all. That was an extremely bold coyote. Finally, it left. It didnt run away. It left as if it were thinking, 'Oh, youre going to continue with that. I guess I'll go.'"

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In a giant victory for liberals of a certain age Jon Stewart is returning to television via Apple TV+, hosting an original current affairs series that will span multiple seasons made up of hour-long episodes. Said episodes will explore topics that are currently part of the national conversation and [Stewarts] advocacy work, according to a news release from the platform earlier this week.

And while Stewarts return to the airwaves might feel to some like a return to pre-Trump normalcy the hosts tenure at Comedy Centrals The Daily Show ran from January 1999 until August 2015 at the same time it feels like a potential misstep disguised as a safe bet, a blunder that the nearly year-old streamer seems particularly prone to.

But first, the HBO of it all.

If the headlines trumpeting Stewarts return to television feels familiar, theres a good reason for it, namely that there have been similar headlines bouncing around for the last five years, but connected to HBO and not Apple TV+. In November 2015 it was announced that Stewart had signed a four-year digital development deal with HBO for their streaming services, including HBO NOW, HBO Go, and others. First on the slate was a short-form animated parody of a cable news channel that was originally scheduled to premiere in fall 2016, then in the first quarter of 2017, before ultimately being axed in May 2017 having never aired an episode.

But two months later, things were back on track with Stewart, as HBO announced that he would be producing his first stand-up special since 1996 for the network. Then it was never mentioned again.

Needless to say, Apple TV+s announcement has to be bittersweet for the cable giant who was never able to make anything happen while they had Stewart under contract. That or theyre certain this new project will never see the light of day because, well, hindsight.

That said, this new endeavor feels like more evidence that the streamer would really love to be mid-2000s HBO, all prestige drama and upper echelon conversation pieces. Its not TV. Its not HBO. Its Apple TV+. Maybe thats why the platform was so quick to make a deal with former HBO Chairman and CEO Richard Plepler at the beginning of the year after the exec exited WarnerMedia in February 2019.

Plepler, perhaps unsurprisingly, will serve as an executive producer for Stewarts new show.

Setting aside whether or not the series is good for Apple TV+ or bad for HBO, let us now focus on whether or not its good or bad forAmerica. Or audiences, whatever.

There is no arguing that Stewart revolutionized how younger generations consumed both news and media, mastering both political theater and the skewering of journalistic failures and, maybe most importantly, cultivating a team of talent that was more than willing and able to further the craft after his retirement.

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Trevor Noah, Samantha Bee, and John Oliver all bring different points of view to the table for their late-night news programs so did Larry Wilmore and Wyatt Cenac before being cancelled before their time, but thats a different rant. Stephen Colbert has now stepped into the elder statesman role formerly inhabited by Stewart, taking his talents to network television and making The Daily Shows whole thing mainstream and easily consumable for our parents.

If, and or when, Jon Stewart returns to TV he needs to bring with him a different insight into the world than he used to offer. Weve moved on. Weve lived through Trump (so far)(also, barely). We dont need another older white guy named Jimmy (or John) cracking wise about how screwed up things are. We have plenty already. Because were now living in an age where the president tells such shameless, blatant lies on such a regular basis that regular news coverage requires chyrons that would have been right at home on the Bush-era Daily Show.

This is not the same media landscape Stewart left in 2015. This is the thunderdome. Give us a narrative we havent been fed a thousand times before or get out of the way.

(Also, this unnamed, unscheduled show sounds like,a lot, like Last Week Tonight except an hour long so maybe address that in the meantime.)

For more on the return of Jon Stewart, check out this weeks episode of IndieWires TV podcast Millions of Screens as hosts Deputy TV Editor Ben Travers, Creative Producer Leo Garcia, and TV Awards Editor Libby Hill, further discuss the return of the prodigal son of late-night news shows.

Plus, we get into the nitty gritty of the spooky season and dig into what our favorite scary shows to consume are yes, were talking Hannibal again and what TV format seems to support horror storytelling best. In keeping with ongoing social distancing mandates, this weeks episode was again recorded from the comfort of everyones respective Los Angeles-area apartments and were again offering viewers a video version of the podcast, as embedded above.

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Global Medical Bed Market Report 2020 by Key Players, Types, Applications, Countries, Market Size, Forecast to 2026 (Based on 2020 COVID-19 Worldwide Spread)

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Valerie and the great hanging garden of Chestnut Hill.

By Stan Cutler

According to legend, the king ofBabylon constructed a high-rise, irrigated garden to please his wife. She was aMedean (Persian) princess who missed the greenery of her hometown when she wasforced to move to her new husbands arid city between the Tigris and Euphrates.Archaeologists havent been able to find the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one ofthe Seven Wonders of the ancient world, reportedly built around 600 BCE.

Earthquakes, wars and naturalerosion may have obliterated the clay brick walls. The layout was described byGreek and Hebrew historians as three, four or five (descriptions vary) sets ofwalls, each smaller than the one below. There were trees and decorative gardensinside each enclosure. Hand-turned irrigation pumps pulled water from theEuphrates to a holding pond at the top. The edifice was covered with thegreenery of vining species that sent runners down the walls and by attachedcontainer plants. The effect was spectacular a green mountain rising in thesere landscape.

My wife, Valerie, is not aprincess. She is a retired art teacher from Michigan and an avid gardener. I amnot a king. I am an ex-this-and-that from southwest Philly who providesgardening assistance when called upon. Valerie hangs plants on two low chainlink fences that separate our narrow backyard from our friendly neighbors oneither side. Our neighbors are also gardeners, convivially sharing opinions,encouragement, cuttings, tools and advice. Good fences do make for goodneighbors.

We live in a twin house on HighlandAvenue. Lori lives in the house next door; Beth lives on the other side of theparty wall between our houses. In fair weather, all three of them are out theredoing their things. Their neighbors, two doors away from us on either side, arealso friendly gardeners. There are days when all five households are out back,calling to each other, extolling the wonders of their plants or cursing theweeds. There are gardeners up and down the block on both sides of the street.This is the heart of Chestnut Hills renowned Garden District. Our lots arejust big enough for experimentation, small enough to be manageable. People maynot be gardeners when they move in, but most become enthusiasts soon afterward.

Chain link is the ideal fencing forgardeners. Solid wood fences block sun and air. The metal chain link fenceposts are sunk in cement, sturdy enough to support trellises, bird feeders,netting and contraptions of all sorts. For example, we clamped 2X4s verticallyto several posts, screwed brackets into the tops, and attached eight-foot pipesto the brackets. In springtime, when Valerie brings the houseplants outside,she hangs dozens of them on the pipes.

Lori, as crazy as Valerie, has amagnificent garden. The pair of them collaborate on straw baskets hung from thetop of the fence near the houses, a shaded area. They go to nurseries, togetherand separately, and choose annuals to put in the baskets. This year, Lori hadgreat success with tuberous begonias.These are finicky plants that grow from tubers, thus the name. They do betterin containers than in the ground. Its difficult to get them to bloom becausethey dont do well in direct sun, chill, wind or poorly drained soil. But, ifyou give them proper conditions, their flowers are amazingly vibrant reds oryellows that look like luscious, thick-petaled roses. (I used to misspell themin my head as tube rose, wondering where the tubes were.)

Valeries pride and joy are herorchids, which spend winters in her 7 X 12-foot greenhouse. She never, everallows one of her orchid pots to touch the ground. In the greenhouse, they areeither on the potting benches or hanging from the ceiling. She brings them outin springtime, setting them on plastic tables, suspending them from pipes laidin the crotches of the maple trees, or on shelves attached to the chain linkwith picture wire. Every October, after she sterilizes the greenhouse, shemoves them back inside. The orchids would not thrive if they couldnt hangoutside for half the year.

The fences also serve the wildlife.The pipes along the tops of the fences are squirrel paths and songbird perches.Foxes, possums, cats, dogs and raccoons are too big to squeeze through thelinks. Baby rabbits, frogs, toads, snakes and chipmunks easily travel from yardto yard through the ground-level links. For the smaller creatures, the fencesoffer safety without confinement.

I dont think folks in ChestnutHill would like to see chain link fences in front of houses; they are kind ofugly. But if youre thinking about installing a fence in your backyard, chainlink makes a lot of sense.

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CHERRY HILL, NJ Bargain retailer Stein Mart announced its plans to shutter nearly 300 of its locations across the country on Wednesday, including the Cherry Hill store and all other New Jersey locations. The decision comes after the company previously filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

In a statement, the 112-year-old company cited changing consumer spending habits (exacerbated by the global pandemic) and a new economic landscape that fails to provide the business with "sufficient liquidity to continue operating in the ordinary course of business."

The chain stated its intentions to close a "significant portion, if not all" of its nationwide locations. While closing dates will likely vary by store, liquidation sales are set to begin immediately.

The store in Cherry Hill is located in the Ellisburg Shopping Center, 1600 Kings Highway North, Suite 20. It also has stores in Holmdel, Ocean and Watchung.

Stein Mart first opened its doors in 1908 as a department store in Mississippi before expanding to 30 states. The company employs over 8,000 people at nearly 300 locations.

The discount retailer is not the first business to cave under the economic stress of the coronavirus pandemic: JCPenney, Men's Wearhouse, Pier 1 Imports, Sur La Table and Muji have all filed for bankruptcy as of late.

Earlier this year, Victoria's Secret's parent company, L Brands, announced that over 250 stores in North America would close permanently this year, including stores at The Grove in Shrewsbury.Tween retailer Justice's parent brand Ascena Retail Group has also announced plans to shutter hundreds of stores nationwide.

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NEW BEDFORD This summer, the New Bedford Whaling Museum is sharing samples of some of its gallery exhibitions, outside on its plaza at the corner of Johnny Cake Hill and William Street. The five-part series called "Inside Out!" runs through Oct. 15, with a new exhibition starting every two weeks. A curator talk is scheduled for each of the five exhibitions. "Inside Out!" is on display daily, Monday through Sunday, free of charge. The Whaling Museum galleries are open Thursday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m. Details are available at http://www.whalingmuseum.org.

Photographs representing a sampling of the exhibition "Youth Voices for the Ocean" are on view through Aug. 19 as part of "Inside Out!" The exhibition features the student winners of the international Ocean Awareness Contest run by Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs. The outdoor exhibition was curated by Robert Rocha, Director of Education and Science Programs at the Whaling Museum.

Next up for Inside Out! is "A City of Immigrants: The Standard Times Collection," running Aug. 20 through Sept. 5. The Standard Times Collection of photographs captures turn-of-the-century communities and individuals in Greater New Bedford.

Akeia de Barros Gomes, PhD, curator of Social History at the Whaling Museum, commented, New Bedford was, and is, a cosmopolitan city of incredible opportunity. Immigration shaped the landscape, culture, cuisine, and very character of the city. These captivating images from the Standard Times Collection help tell the stories of Polish, Chinese, Middle Eastern, Irish, Italian, Cape Verdean, Portuguese, Jewish, Greek, and other immigrant communities in the early 20th century.

A virtual curator talk with de Barros Gomes takes place online on Aug 20, 6 to 7 p.m. The event is free, but advance registration is required. Information on how to register is at http://www.whalingmuseum.org.

"A City of Immigrants: The Standard Times Collection" complements the Whaling Museums initiative Common Ground: A Community Mosaic, which is documenting the stories, memories, and lived experience of people and communities in Greater New Bedford. Both A City of Immigrants and Common Ground are curated by de Barros Gomes. Community members can contribute their own stories to the initiative at http://www.CommonGroundMosaic.com.

"Inside Out! A Moment in Time," showcasing images from the Whaling Museums photo archives, runs Sept. 3 through Sept. 16 and is curated by Emma Rocha, curatorial assistant. Each image has characteristics that makes it identifiable as being from a specific time period. Viewers will be invited to guess the year each photograph was taken. A curator talk date will be announced in the near future as will the remaining two Inside Out exhibitions.

About the New Bedford Whaling Museum

The New Bedford Whaling Museum ignites learning through explorations of art, history, science and culture rooted in the stories of people, the region and an international seaport. The cornerstone of New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, the Museum is located at 18 Johnny Cake Hill in the heart of the city's historic downtown. The Museum is operating on reduced hours due to the corona virus pandemic. Hours are Thursday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Admission is free for Museum members and children ages three and under; adults $19, seniors (65+) $17, students (19+) $12, child and youth $9. For more information visit http://www.whalingmuseum.org.

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