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2C THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015 HISTORIC PHOTOS OF THE WEEK Courtesy Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum The Ilwaco High School was built in 1915 and burned down Feb. 26, 1936. The destruction of Ilwaco High School By AMY BOZORTH For The Daily Astorian ILWACO, Wash. — In the early hours of Feb. 26, 1936 D ¿UH EURNH RXW LQ WKH XSSHU ÀRRU RU DWWLF RI WKH ,OZDFR High School. By the time lo- FDO¿UHPHQDQGDJRRGSRUWLRQ of Ilwaco’s residents managed WRWDFNOHWKHÀDPHVWKHEXLOG- ing was reduced to its exterior walls of cracked concrete and a blackened concrete founda- tion. Photographer Charles Fitzpatrick captured the de- struction several days later in this dramatic photograph that would later become a symbol of hope in hard times. In 1936, the Long Beach Peninsula, along with the rest of the county, was experi- encing one of its worst eco- nomic recessions. The Great Depression brought with it a loss of jobs, loss of homes, and is remembered as a time of great darkness for our nation. The historic “North Beach Peninsula” was not immune to the Depression, and the loss of the beautiful concrete school building that had stood for generations on the hill overlooking Baker Bay and the mouth of the Columbia River was a great blow to the peninsula’s res- Photos by Charles Fitzpatrick Courtesy Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum The newly rebuilt Ilwaco High School was finished less than a year after it burned in 1936. idents. The determination mustered for the rebuilding of the school, completed a little less than a year later, is a testament to the resiliency of the peninsula’s residents DQGWKHLUUHVROYHWR¿QGKRSH amid a hard time. To learn more about the ¿UHWKDWGHVWUR\HGWKH,OZDFR High School and the story of the Depression on the Long Beach Peninsula, be sure to YLVLW WKH &ROXPELD 3DFL¿F Heritage Museum’s special exhibition, “Hope in Hard Times: the Long Beach Pen- insula During the Great De- pression” on view for only a few more short weeks, closing March 8. The museum is lo- cated at 115 S.E . Lake St. in Ilwaco. For more information call 360-642-3446 or visit co- lumbiapacificheriatgemuse- um.org Amy Bozorth is PR/mem- bership coordinator for the &olumbia Paci¿c Heritage Museum in Ilwaco, Wash. Tiny tags help track Columbia River salmon By COURTNEY FLATT Oregon Public Broadcasting Tracking salmon as they move past Columbia River dams just got a little easier. Scientists are using a new tag so small that researchers can inject it with a syringe into the fishes’ bellies. Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Labora- tory and the Army Corps of Engineers have been work- ing with tags since 2001. This newest version is the smallest yet, about the size of two grains of rice. The older tags are three times heavier. The tags track how salm- on travel through dams. Re- searchers hope that the in- formation they collect can KHOS PDNH GDPV PRUH ¿VK friendly. “It really opens the door for letting us understand ZKDWWKHVH¿VKDUHGRLQJDQG when so that we can make good, sound decisions,” said %UDG(SSDUGD¿VKHU\ELROR- gist with the Corps. Daniel Deng, a scientist a Pacific Northwest Nation- al Laboratory, said the new batteries for the tags really helped decrease the overall size. Each battery is assem- bled by hand under a micro- scope. The batteries can now last from the Lower Gran- ite to Bonneville dams — a 300-mile journey that typi- cally takes a salmon two to three weeks to complete. Before, researchers had to send out several groups of tagged fish to get that much information. The tags emit high-fre- quency beeps every three seconds. At 417 kilohertz, the beeps are at such a high frequency that they can’t be heard by humans, marine mammals or fish. The fre- quency travels through the water to multiple receivers that allow researchers to see in 3-D the salmon’s location in the river. Researchers can see how many fish go over dams’ spillways, pass through turbines and bypass routes. “This way we can have a better understanding of each passage route, so we can optimize dam operations to guide the fish through differ- ent routes,” Deng said. These new tags are called active tags, which can pro- vide more data than passive tags, also known as pit tags. Deng said the active tags can cover more area at dam sites. He said they help show where fish are injured at dams and how those injuries occur. In 2013, researchers test- ed the 700 tags out on juve- nile salmon migrating down the Snake River. Deng said initial tests have showed more fish survive with the com ing februa ry 25th in The D a ily Astoria n TH E N EW 20 1 5 ou r coa st This a n n u a l reg io n a l tra vel m a g a zin e sho w ca ses the p la ce w e ca ll ho m e a n d the p la ce p eo p le lo ve to visit OPB/Courtney Flatt A tag for tracking salmon through dams. injectable tags than with the older tags that required a two-minute surgery on the fish. The Army Corps of En- gineers said it would like to start using the tags next year. Researchers are working to design smaller tags that can be used in juvenile lamprey.
