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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2015 142nd YEAR, No. 159 ONE DOLLAR Corps gets ready to kill cormorants 6FDOHGEDFNSODQSURWHFWV\RXQJVDOPRQDWPRXWK&RUSVVD\V option included the killing of nearly 18,000 LQGLYLGXDOGRXEOHFUHVWHGFRUPRUDQWV8QGHU this management plan, the colony would be CHINOOK, Wash. — brought back down to numbers last seen on It looks like it’s curtains the island in the 1990s. for the cormorants. 7KLV¿QDOSODQZLOOJRRXWIRUSXEOLFUHYLHZ In a scaled-back version of the management late next week and, once approved, the Corps’ SODQ LW ¿UVW SURSRVHG ODVW VXPPHU WKH 86 contractors could be on the island at the mouth Army Corps announced Friday that it plans to of the Columbia River as early as this spring, kill 11,000 double-crested cormorants on East according to a representative for the Corps. 6DQG,VODQGDQGXVHDFRPELQDWLRQRIQRQOH Audubon promises litigation thal tactics to reduce the number of breeding ³:H¶UH GH¿QLWHO\ SUHSDUHG WR OLWLJDWH DQG pairs on the island from approximately 13,000 to 5,600. (Originally, the Corps’ preferred VHHNDQLQMXQFWLRQ´VDLG%RE6DOOLQJHUFRQ By KATIE WILSON EO Media Group The double-crested cormorant is one of the bird types that may be shot because nonlethal hazing failed to stop them from eat- ing juvenile salmon and steelhead at the mouth of the Columbia River. Daily Astorian File VHUYDWLRQGLUHFWRUIRUWKH$XGXERQ6RFLHW\RI Portland. That society has successfully pur- sued lawsuits on similar issues in the past, he VDLG%HFDXVHWKH&RUSV¶¿QDOGHFLVLRQLVRQO\ a month away, he said the society had to make a quick decision about how it was prepared to respond. “All the concerns we raised several PRQWKV DJR DUH VWLOO LQ SODFH´ 6DOOLQJHU said. He and others question the science be- hind the Corps’ plan and think the response is too drastic. See CORMORANTS, Page 10A Deer may With quick saws, Knappa gets back have been killed by cougar By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian HAMMOND — A deer carcass found last week outside the entrance WRWKHKLVWRULFDODUHDRI)RUW6WHYHQV 6WDWH 3DUN LQ +DPPRQG ZDV FRQ ¿UPHG WR EH WKH UHVXOW RI D FRXJDU kill. +RZHYHU)RUW6WHYHQV6WDWH3DUN RI¿FLDOVDUHUHFRQVLGHULQJWKHLQLWLDO claim this week, saying the deer, a fawn, could have been killed from a number of sources. “Nobody really knows to be hon- est,” Park Manager Teri Wing said. “We don’t have enough information to say. It’s all speculation.” Warrenton Police Chief Matt Workman said he was notified by park rangers about the kill last week, then sent an email to the Oregon Department of Fish and See COUGAR, Page 10A JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Knappa’s Tabitha Adams, left, competes in the double-buck sawing competition against a team from Clatskanie (not pictured) while being cheered on by Sophie Hansen and Meisha Boettcher at the Astoria Timber Festival Saturday at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds. Loggers win Astoria Timber Festival against former coach By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian T he Knappa Loggers’ FFA forestry team members had friendly revenge on their PLQGV6DWXUGD\ There was revenge against op- ponent Clatskanie, which beat .QDSSD ODVW 0D\ WR ZLQ LWV ¿UVW FFA state forestry championship. And there was friendly revenge against Clatskanie’s coach Jeff 6NLUYLQZKRWZR\HDUVHDUOLHUOHG Knappa to its fourth FFA state for- estry championship before taking a teaching job with his alma mater. The Loggers beat the Tigers E\ OHVV WKDQ D VHFRQG 6DWXUGD\ DW the Clatsop County Fairgrounds in WKH¿QDOHRIDWKUHHVFKRROWLPEHU sports relay, the highlight of the Astoria Timber Festival & Job Fair. 7KH ¿QDO URXQG VWDUWHG ZLWK two students hurling double-sided axes at a large cookie cut of tree trunk painted into a target. After four throws, their teammates at the power buck station, clad in orange Kevlar chaps, each powered their chain saws through another cut of tree trunk. A timber sports relay, said Knappa junior Meisha Boettch- er, can be won or lost at the dou- ble-buck stage, a throwback to the days before chain saws, in which two-person teams stand on either side of a peg-and-raker crosscut saw to see who can saw off another wooden wafer the fastest. 6DWXUGD\ %RHWWFKHU OLQHG XS opposite Knappa alumnus Kev- in Tilander, a prodigious forestry sport and science student. But with the Clatskanie’s double-buck team already halfway through their log by the time Tilander and Boettcher started, revenge looked like a long shot. However small its forestry WHDP7LODQGHUVDLG.QDSSD¿HOGV West Coast shutdown slows Port log loading By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Clatskanie’s Isaac Points, right, falls in the water during a log-roll- ing competition against Knappa’s Trentne Smith. tough competitors there to win every event — and hopefully beat 6NLUYLQ¶V WHDP +H DQG %RHWWFKHU heaved, hoed and sawed through their log almost twice as fast as Clatskanie’s duo, leaving the two VFKRROVLQDGHDGKHDWE\WKH¿QDO event, the choker race. Knappa senior Jimmy Hen- drickson leaped off his perch and hurdled two logs laid crosswise in the main arena, on his way to a length of choker cable laid out in the middle of the arena. Hendrick- son and his competitor were neck and neck with their chokers in tow, before his adversary dropped his cable. Hendrickson approached See FESTIVAL, Page 10A Loading of ships on the West Coast — including the log vessel Bunun Fortune moored next to Pier 1 at the Port of Astoria — was suspended 6DWXUGD\ WKURXJK DP WRGD\ DIWHU terminal operators decided Friday to shut down ship operations at 29 West Coast ports amid increasingly conten- tious negotiations for a new contract with the International Longshore and :DUHKRXVH8QLRQEURNHGRZQ “After three months of union slowdowns, it makes no sense to pay extra for less work,” said PMA spokesman Wade Gates in a press release Friday, “especially if there is no end in sight to the union’s actions, which needlessly brought West Coast ports to the brink of gridlock.” See SHUTDOWN, Page 10A ‘We help the least, the last and the lost’ Rescue Mission’s director is devoted to God, helping poor David Newman, the mis- sion’s executive director, takes the command literally. “We help the least, the last There is a passage from Deu- and the lost,” he said. teronomy posted on the Astoria In January, the mission, Rescue Mission’s website that, which includes separate DW¿UVWEOXVKUHDGVOLNHDUHTXHVW men’s and women’s houses but really is a command. RQ%RQG6WUHHWUHFRUGHG “If anyone is poor among nights lodged, 3,185 meals your fellow Israelites in any served, seven salvations and of the towns of the land the seven baptisms. DERRICK DePLEDGE — The Daily Astorian Lord your God is giving you, While Newman is grateful do not be hardhearted or tight- the mission can offer shelter David Newman stands outside the Astoria Rescue Mis- ¿VWHG WRZDUG WKHP´ 0RVHV and food, his favorite statis- sion on Bond Street. instructed. “Rather, be open- tics by far are the salvations handed and freely lend them and baptisms. “You betcha,” The Astoria Rescue Mis- shelter for the needy but steers whatever they need.” he said. VLRQSURYLGHVWKUHHWR¿YHGD\ people who want to get back By DERRICK DePLEDGE The Daily Astorian on their feet toward six-month, one-year and two-year pro- grams infused with the gospel. The mission also hopes to open a family house on Bond 6WUHHWSRWHQWLDOO\¿OOLQJDJDS in the patchwork of social ser- vices for the homeless. See NEWMAN, Page 10A