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January 9, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 7A City hopes to get more fragile areas to access different areas, does not have a particular Dreyer said. position on the project at The watershed is about As the consulting forest- this time and may not take 83.7 square miles; the wa- er, Dreyer will hire a log- one as a collective body. tershed of the south fork of ging contractor, manage the The council is made up of the Necanicum River, where timber sales, obtain permits, various stakeholders, some Seaside’s approximately make arrangements to sell specialists or profession- 1,500 acres of property are the wood, help purchase DOVLQ¿HOGVSHUWLQHQWWRWKH located, is about 12 to 14 trees for reforestation and su- watershed, that represent a square miles. Boundaries are pervise the contract through variety of geographic loca- GH¿QHGE\WKH8QLWHG6WDWHV to completion. He will have tions and community inter- Geological Survey and based purchase orders in place be- ests, Graeper said. on surface water drainage to fore the project starts, and if City staff members will a particular point in an area. the purchase orders are low meet with watershed council Considering a square mile DQG LW GRHVQ¶W PDNH ¿VFDO members in the following is 640 acres, Wallace said the sense to do the project now, weeks to provide them with scope of the city’s upcom- he can advise the city to wait, more information about the ing project is small relative Dreyer said. project. to the watershed’s size. The He’s approached both Graeper said, ultimately, city has not harvested tim- Berlog, of Clatskanie, and the council’s goal is to be a ber since 2008 after back- Bighorn Logging Corpora- resource for all watershed to-back storms hit in 2006 tion, of Banks, about logging property owners and to guide and 2007 and damaged some the parcels. them in best management forest areas, left ragged edg- es and required salvage log- ging. ‘Our management on the watershed is going to The city is contracting be one of water quality and not timber profi ts’ with forester Mark Dreyer, owner of Lone Cedar Con- Seaside Public Works Director Neal Wallace sulting, to handle the overall project, which is scheduled to start in February, pending the availability of crews and Pros and cons practices. When it comes to the acquisition of permits timber harvest, the council Two of the main risks encourages owners to “tai- from the Oregon Depart- ment of Forestry. The proj- associated with harvesting lor their harvest in the most ect should take about two to timber are harming water sustainable way for the given three months, depending on quality and increasing the situation.” potential for erosion. weather and other factors. Reforestation after The timber market is good 7KHUH LV D PHGLXP ¿VK right now, Wallace said, and VWUHDP DQG D VPDOO ¿VK the project When it comes to re- the city wants to take advan- stream in the area the city tage of that. He anticipates intends to cut, Dreyer said. foresting after the harvest, the harvest will bring in a net He expects the company he the city hopes to plant the SUR¿WRIDERXW contracts with to take extra typical spruce and hemlock The city will clear-cut precautions to protect the seedlings, but also other in- nearly 50 acres of timber in streams and leave at least the digenous plants to “create a one area. The 2007 storm minimal setbacks or buffers more natural, diverse forest,” damaged part of the area, required by the department Wallace said. but the project will extend of forestry. “We want to do it in the beyond mere cleanup. In Other precautions they most responsible way we another area, the city will can take are to stop work can,” he said. primarily salvage clear-cut during heavy rain to limit Oregon’s Forest Practic- on about 10 acres near the VHGLPHQW ÀRZ DQG WR PLQL es Act holds the landowner southern end of the city’s mize road building, he said. responsible for reforestation ownership. The city select- 7KH ULVNV DQG EHQH¿WV RI after certain projects. Within ed the two areas because clear-cutting can vary based 12 months of completing a they’re removed from the on how a project is done, harvesting operation or after main body of the Necan- said Necanicum Watershed felling begins, landowners icum River, and the proj- Council Coordinator Melys- must start reforestation tasks ect should clean up a large sa Graeper. such as site preparation and boundary edge while re- “The city is seeking sup- ordering seedlings. They quiring virtually no major port and suggestions from have 24 months to complete road building, Wallace said. the council to make their har- planting. Residual seedlings, The logging crew will vest as sustainable as it can saplings or poles and trees have to build a few 100- to be,” she said. all count toward stocking, 200-foot spurs, however, The watershed council according to the Oregon De- Timber from Page 1A Stocking winner partment of Forestry. “The landowner must see to it that the trees are in ‘free to grow’ condition six years after harvesting,” according to state regulations. “Free to grow” means that a tree has a good chance of outgrowing competing grass and brush to become part of a vigorous, healthy forest. Dreyer said there has been a shortage of seedlings, so it may be hard to purchase them all this year, but he should acquire them in time to plant in 2016. Future deals The city does not know what new watershed areas it might purchase with the money from this harvest, Wallace said. He believes there are some future deals that could be made to ac- quire property. Campbell Global, a forest and natural resource investments man- agement company, and Wey- erhaeuser, a forest products company, own the property adjacent to the city’s. prop- erty Regardless of what deals can be made, the money made in the watershed will be spent in and on the water- shed, Wallace said. “Our management on the watershed is going to be one of water quality and not WLPEHUSUR¿WV´KHVDLG7KH city’s objectives are differ- ent and less aggressive than those of some other owners, such as timber companies, Wallace added. “Timber companies man- DJHWKHLUODQGIRUSUR¿W´KH said. “We think we would probably be better stewards of the land within the wa- tershed. We’re not driven by SUR¿WHYHQWKRXJKZH¶UHGR ing a small clear-cut here.” The city hopes to not just buy any acreage but to get more fragile, higher-risk and FULWLFDO DUHDV 7KH 8QLWHG States Fish and Wildlife Ser- vice has indicated the agency might be able to augment the city’s funds, as it encourages municipalities to own big- ger chunks of the watershed, Wallace said. SUBMITTED PHOTO Niculina Pavel, of Portland, right, won the grand prize — a 7-foot-long stocking stuff ed with goodies and gift cer- tifi cates contributed by business members of the Seaside Downtown Development Association — in the SDDA’s “Shop Local” event during the holidays. Ruth Swenson, left, SDDA president and general manager of Hillcrest Inn, presented Pavel with her prizes. Pavel is a frequent visitor to Seaside. Liberty Theater begins yearlong celebration A yearlong celebration of the Liberty Theater’s 90th birthday and the 10th anniversary of its grand reopening begins Jan. 24 in the theater. The day begins with a free open house from 1 to 3 p.m. with birthday cake, tours and some surprises. At 5:15 p.m. a celebra- tion dinner will be served in the McTavish Room. Seating is limited to 150; table seating for groups is available. The dinner ticket also in- cludes a concert of storytell- ing, classical and contem- porary music. The 7 p.m. performance is “The Road to Carnegie Hall,” featuring tenor Ken Lavigne. Lavigne has performed on many world stages, in- cluding New York’s Car- negie Hall. He has per- formed for Prince Charles KEN LAVIGNE DQG KDV UHOHDVHG KLV ¿IWK solo CD, entitled “Show- time.” Visit kenlavigne. com to hear him sing. Tickets to the combined GLQQHU DQG FRQFHUW DUH and are being sold only through the Liberty box of- ¿FH 7LFNHWV WR WKH FRQFHUW RQO\ DUH DQG DOVR DUH available at the Liberty box RI¿FH &DOO ext. 55 or Ticketswest.com 1-800-992-8499. 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