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Park: ‘You can see it is paying dividends’
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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-
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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.
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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’
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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“Oregonians should not
have to worry that their per-
Kitzhaber resigned Feb. sonal information such as So-
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tigations into allegations he addresses or health records
and Hayes used their public held by state agencies could
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consulting business. Jordan said in a press release Thurs-
submitted his resignation to day. “Although I have been
Brown March 5 without ex- assured that no personally
planation.
identifying information was
Before Jordan resigned, he compromised, this incident
told The Oregonian that Rod- causes me to have serious
gers and Wells were placed on concerns about the integrity
leave during an internal in- of state data.”
vestigation into a dispute over
Brown said the state will
how to handle computers and use an “expedited competitive
phones used by the Kitzhaber process” to hire the indepen-
administration.
dent expert to review manage-
ment and vulnerabilities at the
data center.
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the same day Attorney Gener-
al Ellen Rosenblum appeared
before a legislative commit-
tee to testify in favor of a bill
that would expand protections
for consumers’ personal data.
The bill would also allow the
state Department of Justice to
pursue civil penalties against
individuals and organizations
that fail to comply.
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