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8A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 Park: ‘You can see it is paying dividends’ Continued from Page 1A LCNHP staff and volunteers hike to 68 plots around the park to record the presence and amount of elk feces. “We go and crawl through the forest to collect elk pel- lets,” Clatterbuck said. Recording the pellets show where the elk are roaming. Data collected this year is still being processed. A four- year study completed last year showed the number of elk us- ing the park land is possibly declining. The elk herds in the park are likely not the same as the ones often seen in Gear- KDUWRI¿FLDOVVD\ “There was a beginning of a trend, but it’s not statistical- O\ VLJQL¿FDQW´ &ODWWHUEXFN said. Two more years of data is expected to offer a more ac- curate trend line, according to the park. The other national parks in the North Coast and Cascades Network — Olympic, North Cascades, Mount Rainier, San Juan Island, Fort Van- couver and Ebey’s Landing In Washington — regularly send scientists to assist Lewis and Clark park with monitoring its other vital signs. Without the Network’s help, Tucker said, most of the monitoring would be impos- sible. “It really leverages us,” Tucker said. “On a national park scale, we are brand new. To employ scientists year- round is impossible with our budget.” Monitoring landscape dy- namics is done primarily with Geographic Information Sys- tems, or GIS, which is oper- ated by the three large parks in the Network — Olympic, North Cascades and Mount Rainier. For land-bird monitor- ing, trained scientists come to LCNHP and listen to the bird’s morning calls. “It’s nice to be bundled with these larger parks for those shared resources,” LCNHP Natural Resource Program Manager Carla Cole said. The North Coast and Cas- cades Network is one of 32 Networks of national parks across the country formed in 2001 for the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program. 7KH1HWZRUNZDVWKH¿UVW one to get funded, according to the Network’s I&M Pro- gram Manager Mark Huff. “Stepping back and look- ing at the importance of na- tional parks, these are our treasures that we are giving to the next generation. The important part the parks play here is we want to take the pulse on these vital systems,” Huff said. “That is one of the Recall: ‘There is no question as to how people have felt about this’ Continued from Page 1A JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Lewis and Clark National Historical Park Chief of Resource Management Chris Clatter- buck pulls a marker out of a bush on the South Slough Trail. Sometimes the markers, which are used to track elk numbers, get kicked up by wildlife. underpinnings of why Con- JUHVVZDQWHGWRIXQGWKLV¿UVW for inventory and then long- term monitoring to maintain the health of the ecosystem.” A recent success of the Network revolved around its marine intertidal moni- toring. Huff said marine scientists from Olympic National Park ZHUH WKH ¿UVW WR GLVFRYHU WKH sea star wasting disease that struck the West Coast last year. Sea star populations plummeted last year from the epidemic, which killed more than 90 percent during the 2014 beach season. Through their monitoring, the Olympic National Park scientists were able to alert the problem to other sites along the coast, including LCNHP’s intertidal monitor- ing site at Ecola State Park in Cannon Beach. “By having a program where you are intentionally putting people out in force, you can see it is paying divi- dends,” Huff said. JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian A metal marker is seen along the South Slough Trail at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park. The marker is used with other flag markers to set up a perimeter in which park staff can estimate how many elk are in the area. “Because of her abuse of leadership, lack of trans- parency and strong person- al bias, vote yes to recall Mayor Widdop.” “Restore honesty and trust to Gearhart’s govern- ment,” he added. After the election results came in, Widdop said she was glad there was a large margin. “There is no question as to how people have felt about this,” she said. Her hope is that now Gearhart, which is a tight- knit, small community, can move forward and let the matter rest. “We’ve got our goals, we have a really good City Council. Let’s work together and move forward,” she said, adding, “The voters have spoken and I’m glad they had a chance to. ... I hope the people who wanted me re- called will sit back and listen to what’s been said tonight.” Gable said he and the others who supported Wid- dop’s recall are “just going to keep on keeping on” and try to “keep people informed on what seems right from an- other perspective.” “What is, is what is,” he said. The vote showed that Widdop has a lot of support, Gable said, but he doesn’t think the people who voted yes thoroughly examined the history leading up to the recall. Going forward he and the others who spearheaded the recall campaign will aim “to get people to be honest and to listen and to get things so there is a give-and-take, so there is a respect for things, so you don’t have complaints that are just verbal” but have a physical record, he said. He feels ordinances are not ap- plied equally to everyone in the city, and that’s something he’d like changed in favor of “universal fairness,” he said. He said it is too early give details on how they will go about trying to achieve their goals. “I think things will work out all right. It will just take a little longer,” he said. The city of Gearhart will incur the cost for the recall HOHFWLRQ7KHHOHFWLRQVRI¿FH will send the city an invoice, EXW WKH ¿QDO FRVW KDV QRW been estimated, according to 6ZHHWDQGHOHFWLRQVRI¿FLDOV The estimated cost is $6,000 to $8,000. “I’m glad this election is over,” Sweet said. “I’d like to get back to work for Gear- hart.” ‘We have a road map” While trekking around the Fort Clatsop site to mon- itor vital signs, park staff believe they are carrying on Lewis and Clark’s tradition of scientific observations. More than two centu- ries ago, Lewis and Clark camped at the site for a win- ter season and took inven- tory of the species, made detailed weather reports and collected other data, similar to the work park staff does year-round. Tucker said other park su- perintendents wish they had someone come through their park 200 years ago and doc- ument everything they saw. The local park is lucky in that way, he said, especial- ly also considering the oral history passed down by the JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Chris Clatterbuck, chief of resource management at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, and Carla Cole, natural re- sources project manager, walk along the South Slough Trail. Chinook and Clatsop tribes. “We have a road map of what those natural ecosys- tems were,” Tucker said. The park’s recent focus is on restoring its forest and wetlands after years of log- ging operations. Consistent monitoring is an important piece of the restoration ef- fort, Tucker said. “We can control what comes out of the park,” Tucker said. “And know- ing our park, all of our vital signs are functioning.” KATHERINE LACAZE — EO Media Group A sign on offering support for Mayor Dianne Widdop. 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