For the record - Oct. 21, 2015

Debt limit: In the Oct. 19 Business section, an article about the federal government’s debt limit said that Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the nation’s credit rating in 2011 caused the Treasury Department to pay $1.3 billion more in borrowing costs that year, according to a Government Accountability Office report. The report said it was the delay in raising the debt limit that led to the increased borrowing costs.

Stressed forests: In the Oct. 20 Section A, an article about a survey of California’s drought-stricken forests included a photo of an observation plane flying over what was identified as Pinnacles National Park. It was Los Padres National Forest.