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Good Health Guide Seaside Car Shows Guide WEEKEND EDITION INSIDE 142nd YEAR, No. 193 INSIDE FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 ONE DOLLAR Gearhart Mayor Widdop prevails Majority of voters say no to recall JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Chris Clatterbuck, chief of resource management at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, and Carla Cole, natural resources project manager, look for a water temperature probe along the South Slough Trail. The probe check is to make sure the water temperature is within the accepted range, and is checked about twice per year. Lewis and Clark park checks its pulse By monitoring elk, birds, water and more, the park sees trends By KYLE SPURR The Daily Astorian See RECALL, Page 8A S imilar to a someone check- ing their cholesterol or blood pressure, Lewis and Clark National Historical Park regularly checks its own vital signs. The national park is a member of the North Coast and Cascades Network, a group of seven national parks that work together to monitor 12 vital signs. Results are collected for the National Parks Service In- ventory and Monitoring Program. Lewis and Clark National His- torical Park Superintendent Scott Tucker said his park monitors sev- en vital signs, which include elk, land birds, marine intertidal, land- scape dynamics, forest vegetation, water quality and climate change. Much of the monitoring is done in the spring and summertime. The importance, Tucker said, is to collect baseline data to see what the environmental impacts are on the park, which is especially valu- able for climate-change and wa- ter-quality trends. A healthy national park often in- dicates a healthy ecosystem in the surrounding area, Tucker said. “Our goal is to restore the land- scape to the atmosphere the Corps of Discovery would have recog- nized, which is the natural ecosys- tem of the area,” Tucker said. How it’s done One of the more interesting, but least glamorous, monitoring is to see GEARHART — It appears May- or Dianne Widdop will get to keep KHURI¿FHWKURXJKWKHHQGRIKHUWHUP after an effort to recall her failed. In Thursday’s special recall elec- tion, 63.56 percent of voters, or 321, voted against the recall of Widdop, DFFRUGLQJ WR WKH ¿QDO XQRI¿FLDO UH- sults from the Clatsop County Elec- WLRQV 2I¿FH $ERXW SHUFHQW RU YRWHUV ZHUH LQ IDYRU RI WKH recall. Of 925 registered voters, 505 cast ballots for a voter turnout RI SHU- cent. The recall process was initiated in No- vember, when Gearhart res- ident Harold *DEOH ¿OHG D Dianne Widdop prospective pe- tition with City Administrator Chad Sweet. He then started circulating his petition Dec. 1, after his prospective petition form was approved. On his form, Gable listed Wid- dop’s alleged offenses as reasons she should be recalled. He stated, Helping Hands hits a roadblock Partners say Hyak Building project still will move forward By KATHERINE LACAZE EO Media Group Submitted photo — National Parks Service Jason Smith, a former National Parks Services biological technician (now with Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce), tests water quality at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park. how the elk use the approximately 1,000 acres around Fort Clatsop Na- tional Memorial, LCNHP Chief of Resources Chris Clatterbuck said. (DUOLHUWKLVPRQWKWKHSDUN¿Q- ished its seventh year of elk mon- itoring. Unlike the larger national parks in the North Coast and Cas- cades Network that use helicopters, ‘Our goal is to restore the landscape to the atmosphere the Corps of Discovery would have recognized, which is the natural ecosystem of the area.’ See PARK, Page 8A — Scott Tucker SEASIDE — The Hyak Building project in Seaside is facing yet an- other challenge, this time in the form of soon-to-be neighbors who don’t want the facility nearby. The building in question is a large multi-unit dwelling on the corner of Edgewood Street and Avenue S that is owned by the Clatsop County Housing Authority. The county au- thority is ready to transfer the prop- erty and building to the Northwest Oregon Housing Authority, which has partnered with Helping Hands to use part of the building to house men who are in the last phase of the 6HDVLGHEDVHG QRQSUR¿W¶V UHHQWU\ program. Clatsop Community Ac- tion also plans to contribute to the Lewis and Clark National Historic Park superintendent See BUILDING, Page 3A Data Center hacked again; governor orders review By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown announced Thursday she will hire an independent expert to review management practices and vulnerabilities at the state data center, after hackers gained access to infor- mation at the center last week. Brown also directed state &KLHI ,QIRUPDWLRQ 2I¿FHU Alex Pettit to take charge of daily operations at the center “for the foreseeable future.” The data breach occurred at a time when two top managers at the data center — Michael Rodgers, the acting director of the data center, and Tech- nical Engineering Manager Marshall Wells — are on paid Gov. Kate Brown administrative leave pending a human resources investiga- tion. The two men have been on leave since February and remained on leave Thursday, according to a DAS spokes- woman. Auditors from the Secretary RI6WDWH¶V2I¿FHZHUHDOUHDG\ conducting a routine review of security at the data center when the breach occurred. They had LGHQWL¿HGYXOQHUDELOLWLHVDWWKH data center in a 2010 audit, but a March 2012 follow-up audit mostly gave the data center good marks for security. Brown revealed the data breach in a press release Thurs- day, and said she plans to ask leaders in the Legislature for money to pay for the review. The governor said an “un- known external entity” had accessed limited information at the data center. Chris Pair, a spokesman for Brown, de- scribed it as information about the location of data on state computer servers, but not the actual data. State employees QRWL¿HG WKH JRYHUQRU RI WKH breach on March 20, and Pair said it occurred a few days be- fore that. It was the third high-pro- ¿OH GDWD EUHDFK WR RFFXU DW a state agency in the last 13 months. Hackers accessed the Secretary of State’s business UHJLVWU\DQGFDPSDLJQ¿QDQFH databases in February, and the Oregon Employment Depart- ment revealed a similar breach in October. The state data center, which is housed at the Department of Administrative Services, also came under scrutiny in Feb- ruary when a staffer for then- Gov. John Kitzhaber asked employees at the center to de- lete emails from Kitzhaber’s personal account that were stored on state computer serv- ers. Employees ultimately refused to delete the emails, and the U.S. Department of Justice has since subpoenaed the emails and other state re- cords for an investigation into .LW]KDEHUDQGKLV¿DQFHHIRU- PHU¿UVWODG\&\OYLD+D\HV The Willamette Week newspaper reported on the de- letion request, and emails from Kitzhaber’s personal account were apparently leaked to the newspaper. Michael Jordan, who was director of the De- partment of Administrative Services, asked the Oregon State Police to investigate the leak. See HACKED, Page 8A
