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COASTAL LIFE
Tillamook Head Gathering
New event benefits Seaside High School arts enrichment
THE ARTS
‘Falling from Horses’
Molly Gloss’ latest book will change the way you watch westerns
FEATURE
Scenic railroad dreams
Astoria Railroad Preservation Association works to restore a locomotive
DINING
French lentil salad
This simple, healthy lentil salad tastes anything but
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Atop the boiler of locomotive Number 21, Astoria Rail-
road Preservation Association volunteer Mark Clem-
mens assists in the peening process of large stay bolts
,that is, hammering the bolt ends to flatten them,
which hardens the metal and makes it more resistant
to cracking and abrasion.
Photo by Dwight Caswell
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Learn the story of the nearly
forgotten Olympia oyster
(the marine laboratory of
the University of Oregon) in
Charleston, and received her
Bachelor of Arts in integra-
tive biology from the Uni-
versity of California, Berke-
ley in 2008.
Along the way, Rimler
worked and volunteered at
three different aquariums in
California, caring for jelly-
Rose Rimler to speak at Nature Matters
ASTORIA — Fresh oysters are
a culinary symbol of the boun-
ty of the Oregon Coast, but the
oysters currently raised, sold
and eaten here are not native
to our waters.
The story of the Olympia
oyster — the West Coast’s
“nearly forgotten native oys-
ter” — tells us a lot about
the history, ecology and
economy of our coast.
Learn about the overhar-
vest of the Olympia oyster
around the turn of the 20th
century at the next Nature
Matters free lecture event
at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15
in the Fort George Lovell
Showroom. You’ll also learn
about the fascinating life cy-
cle of this species; current
efforts to restore the popula-
tion to its former abundance;
and the ecological benefits
of a healthy population of
native oysters.
Rose Rimler, the lecture
presenter, is a recipient of
the 2014-15 Oregon Sea
Grant Natural Resources
fellowship, which she is
carrying out at the Tilla-
mook Estuaries Partnership
in Garibaldi. TEP works to
protect and restore critical
estuarine and riverbank hab-
itat in Tillamook County and
monitors water quality in its
Nature Matters
7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15
Fort George Lovell Showroom
426 14th St., Astoria
Free
bays and rivers. Rimler is
spending a year there coor-
dinating the revision and up-
date of TEP’s management
plan.
Her background is in
marine invertebrates and
in ecology and evolution
in general: She graduated
Submitted photo by Brian Kingzett
The Olympia oyster, Ostreola conchaphi-
la, is the native oyster of the West Coast,
where they led to the founding of Oyster-
ville and a still-thriving shellfish industry
based on other oyster varieties brought
from elsewhere.
in March of 2014 with an
Master of Science in marine
biology from the Oregon
Institute of Marine Biology
and many other specie. She
is currently a volunteer at the
Haystack Rock Awareness
Program in Cannon Beach.
This free program takes
place in the Fort George
Lovell Showroom. Doors
open at 6 p.m. Nature Mat-
ters is a program from the
North Coast Watershed As-
sociation and Lewis and
Clark National Historical
Park in partnership with the
Fort George Brewery.
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