内容摘要：Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, whose district includes the Palisades fire, said misinformation is demoralizing for firefighters.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, whose district includes the Palisades fire, said misinformation is demoralizing for firefighters.

Zeise and her mother Laura Manthe, who helped found the organization, said that by growing corn communally, families can learn from each other. They can all chip in on the labor-intensive processes of sowing, weeding, picking cobs by hand, winnowing to separate the chaff from the grain and other tasks, Manthe and Zeise said. The group can also still have a substantial crop even if the animals get to some of it, and they have a better chance of surviving extreme weather events if they’re growing on a larger area of land.But even growing together was no match for this year’s spring inundation. Drive around Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan and there are a lot of farmers “whose corn looks horrible,” Manthe said. But commercially grown corn, which uses more uniform varieties than heirloom ones and is often genetically modified, is looking pretty good this time of year, she said.

Lea Zeise, one of Ohe·laku’s co-coordinators of the non-profit that works with the families planting crops, picks a cob of white corn in its early form known as green corn, during a harvest on the Oneida Nation Reservation on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)Lea Zeise, one of Ohe·laku’s co-coordinators of the non-profit that works with the families planting crops, picks a cob of white corn in its early form known as green corn, during a harvest on the Oneida Nation Reservation on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)Lea Zeise, one of Ohe·laku’s co-coordinators of the non-profit that works with the families planting crops, right, and Stephanie Stevens bag up corn after picking white corn in its early form known as green corn during a harvest on the Oneida Nation Reservation, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

Lea Zeise, one of Ohe·laku’s co-coordinators of the non-profit that works with the families planting crops, right, and Stephanie Stevens bag up corn after picking white corn in its early form known as green corn during a harvest on the Oneida Nation Reservation, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)Oneida and commercial farmers take different approaches to dealing with smut, too — a type of fungus that can grow on corn. While many commercial growers consider it a disease to be eradicated, some Mexican growers use it for cooking and consider a delicacy. Ohe·láku members have taken inspiration and are just starting to use it as the wetter seasons make it more prevalent, but by this time the corn smut is already too mature to use.

Becky Webster, who grows with Ohe·láku, is also executive director of another Oneida farmstead and non-profit Ukwakhwa, where she plants white corn in smaller plots and in two different ways. Some of it she plants in rows, and some of it in a method called Three Sisters, where corn, beans and squash are all planted together in mounds. She said the Three Sisters corn wasn’t flooded out because it was protected by the mounds, but that an unseasonably late wind storm blew over many of the stalks. She thinks it’s still salvageable but not in a great position. And she can’t remember ever seeing weather this wild.

“Our springs were pretty steady before, aside from storms here and there. But we’ve had to deal with extremes. Last year was extreme drought and this year was extreme rain,” Webster said. She added that it’s harder to anticipate which planting methods might be most effective, and described how it’s been a challenge to save seeds strategically because the ones that did well in a wet year won’t do as well in a dry year and vice versa.A fisherman kicks up spray while shaking out a net on the Quinault River, Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in Taholah, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

A fisherman kicks up spray while shaking out a net on the Quinault River, Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in Taholah, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)The Quinault, historically known as skilled fishers and hunters who traveled the water for trading, ceded millions of acres to the U.S. government more than 150 years ago in exchange for a roughly 200,000-acre reservation on the coast. The tribe was promised peace and a permanent home,

But now a key section is threatened.Taholah is close to the ocean and rests on estuary soils and fill that are infiltrated more easily by saltwater. With tidal ranges that average 9 feet, the sea level rise that is expected to accelerate in coming years will have significant impact, said John Callahan, climate scientist for NOAA.