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12A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2015 Jewell:,IVWXGHQWVFDQ¿QLVKERRNE\0D\ WKH\¶OOHDUQDWULSWR5HGZRRG1DWLRQDO3DUN Continued from Page 1A “When the Acquisition Act happened, there were more than 3 million acres (in Oregon) burned or cut over,” Zilli said. Property owners became delinquent on taxes and lost property to foreclosure, he said, and the counties, taking posses- sion, turned to ODF to manage those lands. The 1939 Acquisi- tion Act allowed the Board of Forestry to acquire lands for management. And from the 1940s through the ’60s, coun- ties deeded about 640,000 acres to the Board of Forestry, which manages more than 700,000 acres statewide. Oregon Revised Statutes FRGL¿HV WKH UHODWLRQVKLS between ODF, which gets one- third of the revenue from state land timber sales to help it man- age the land, and the counties, which receive two-thirds of the revenue. Graphic courtesy of Jewell School Students in Jewell School’s forestry class, are creating a 200-page textbook for third- to fifth-graders all about the coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest. Coastal forests While giving back to future generations by planting, Jewell forestry students are also work- ing to educate them. Students are writing articles, shooting photos, illustrating and editing for “Coastal Forests of the Pa- FL¿F 1RUWKZHVW´ D SDJH WH[WERRNIRUWKLUGWR¿IWKJUDG- ers they hope to have done by May. The project is divided into various assignments with- in the textbook, 10th-grader Rylee Lawrence said. There are separate sections for birds, PDPPDOV ÀRZHULQJ SODQWV conifers, deciduous trees, fungi and ferns. The forestry class is using their own photos, and ju- nior Hanna Littlepage is doing the illustrations. Drawing is a regular hobby of hers, Littlepage said, but this ZLOOEHKHU¿UVWSXEOLVKHGZRUN JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Rilee Lawrence, center, Allie Kosmas, right, and Hanna Littlepage, left, plant trees at the recently harvested 40-acre Moore Mullenbach unit while Jeff Brown, far right, a forest management technician, watches. The school district was pay- ing The Daily Astorian $1,000 a month to publish its newslet- ter, forestry and language arts teacher Don Anderson said, EXW¿JXUHGLWFRXOGEUHDNHYHQ by leasing a Xerox J75 digital press for the same amount. “It provides a neat opportu- nity for the kids to run a pub- lishing company,” Anderson said. The name of the company is Falcon Graphics, along with Studio 119 Photography. This school year alone, students have made $4,000, doing one- off jobs like wedding, vaca- tion and other commemorative books, Anderson said. They’re doing discount yearbooks, portraits, prom invitations, ID cards, calendars and team pho- tos. “Our motto is ‘half price or less,’” said Anderson, adding they can bind hardback books and make color copies for as little as 15 cents a copy, getting special deals as a school. ,IWKHVWXGHQWVFDQ¿QLVKWKH book by May, they’ll earn a trip WRWKH5HGZRRG1DWLRQDO3DUN 6WXGHQWVDUHRQO\D¿IWKRIWKH way through the book, with plans to print 100 and market to Clatsop County schools and consult with teachers about what they would like in future editions. Charley Moyer, a resto- ration unit forester, loads saplings into a bag. Students from Jewell School walk through the recently harvested 40-acre Moore Mullenbach unit above the Ne- halem River Wednes- day. JOSHUA BESSEX The Daily Astorian Condos: Dunes rise almost 50 feet above sea level in some places Continued from Page 1A mishaps, LUBA will hear the case in late May or early June, DQGKDQGGRZQLWV¿QDOGHFL- sion by late June, he said. “It’s a pretty fast time schedule.” LUBA, which cannot accept new testimony, can take one of WKUHH DFWLRQV DI¿UP WKH &LW\ Council’s decision (which up- held the planning commission’s January denial), decide there were procedural errors and re- mand the case back to the coun- cil, or — the rarest option — they can overturn the council’s decision and allow Breakers Point to proceed with the dune grading, Alterman said. If LUBA remands the case back to the city, the council may UHKHDU LW DGRSW QHZ ¿QGLQJV from LUBA or, perhaps, send it upstream to the Planning Com- mission. Though most LUBA deci- VLRQV DUH FRQVLGHUHG ¿QDO E\ both parties, the losing party has the right to appeal LUBA’s decision to the state Court of Appeals and, if that doesn’t pan out, to the state Supreme Court. However, whereas the former must hear the case, the latter may refuse it. Alterman said his Breakers Point clients don’t want to sug- gest that their LUBA appeal stems from “animosity or any problem with the city. They’re doing what they need to do to protect their interests.” ‘Waiting for a decision’ Why did Breakers Point choose to pursue a LUBA ap- peal rather than start over with the Planning Commission, as the City Council advised? “Because we’re at a point where we’ve got a building that’s about to drop into the ocean,” said Bruce Francis, property manager of the home- owners association. Part of Breakers Point’s orig- inal proposal involved placing 7,000 cubic yards of the graded sand on the embankment of the Ecola Creek Estuary to stabilize %XLOGLQJ 1R 7KH FRQGR which sits near the creek’s edge, has seen its backyard erode away. This rapid process threat- ens to expose the gas main and undermine the building’s foun- dation. Soon, Breakers Point may have to turn to the municipal code’s clause that allows them to place emergency riprap be- neath the building, in lieu of graded sand. “We’d be left no alternative,” he said. 6LQFH IRXU WR ¿YH PRQWKV ERICK BENGEL — EO Media Group Bruce Francis, property manager of the Breakers Point Homeowners Association, tromps through European dune grass that has trapped windblown sand west and south of Breakers Point. passed between Breakers Point submitting its request for a con- ditional use permit to the City Council’s unanimous denial, Francis said it doesn’t make sense to begin again with the planning commission. “We don’t want to let the EXLOGLQJ VLW WKHUH ¿YH PRUH months, waiting for a decision,” he said. Creeping sand In recent years, an enor- mous volume of sand has be- come lodged in non-native European dune grass along the HUGE APRIL GOLF SALE!! Mention Or Bring In This Ad And Save!! Save Big on Last Year’s Gear from Titleist, Callaway, TaylorMade, Cobra, Nike, Adams, Cleveland, and more! Breakers Point beachfront, cre- ating dunes that rise in some places almost 50 feet above sea level, according to Tom Horn- ing, a local geologist working with the homeowners associa- tion. These dunes have begun to block the expensive ocean- front views of Breakers Point property owners. Wind gusts frequently push loose sand onto yards, decks and patios. The Breakers Point plan in- volves removing about 73,400 cubic yards of dune in phases over the next few years, there- by saving oceanfront views, where it could smother razor clams, Francis said the home- owners association would de- posit it above the high-tide line. Instead of carrying out the dune grading in two large phases over two years, the as- sociation said it would do it in increments of 15,000 cubic yards, every six months, until WKHSURMHFWZDV¿QLVKHG And, instead of dumping sand onto the embankment of the estuary to stabilize the soon- to-be-compromised condo, the association said it could revisit that issue as part of a separate application. Though Breakers Point framed the revisions as a matter of giving the planning commis- sion different options to consid- er, the commission felt that they were looking at a new proposal HQWLUHO\DQGGHQLHGLW Planning Commission members Charles Bennett, Joe Bernt, Hank Johnson and Lisa A tale of two proposals Kerr voted to deny the request, Between the planning com- and members Ryan Dewey and PLVVLRQ¶V 'HFHPEHU Chairman Bob Lundy voted to PHHWLQJ DQG LWV -DQXDU\ approve it. Member Janet Pat- meeting, Breakers Point chose rick, a Breakers Point home- to modify its proposal based on owner, recused herself. The appeal before LUBA criticism from the commission encompasses both the original and the community. Instead of dumping the proposal and the revised one, graded sand onto the shoreline, Alterman said. reducing sand inundation and returning the sand to the coast’s natural sedimentation system. However, the total amount of sand to be graded and relo- cated is unprecedented in Can- non Beach’s history. This fact SURYRNHG VLJQL¿FDQW RSSRVL- tion from the community at two planning commission meetings and at the City Council meeting earlier this month. Several community mem- bers spoke out against, among other concerns, what they per- ceived to be the destruction of a beloved environment that should be considered a com- munity resource. 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