See tide pool wonders
History center opens HRAP photo exhibit
CANNON BEACH — The Can-
non Beach History Center &
Museum and the Haystack
Rock Awareness Program
have partnered to celebrated
HRAP’s 30th anniversary.
The museum will host
a photo exhibit exploring
the tide pools of Haystack
Rock through the eyes of the
HRAP’s volunteers. The ex-
hibit will open at 6 p.m. Satur-
Submitted photo
The photo exhibit will feature Haystack Rock tide pool creatures, like this sunflower star.
day, April 18.
For 30 years, the Haystack
Rock Awareness Program has
been protecting the delicate
ecosystem of Haystack Rock.
The exhibit celebrates the
program’s aspects of educat-
ing, protecting and inspiring.
From illuminating the begin-
nings of the program to teach-
ing “fun facts” about tide pool
creatures and the birds that
¿nd refuge on the Rock, the
HRAP exhibit will appeal to
all ages.
HRAP is a professionally
staffed, volunteer-driven pro-
gram that receives funding
from the city of Cannon Beach
and private donations. The
Friends of Haystack Rock pro-
vide guidance and support the
program.
The history center is locat-
ed at the corner of Spruce and
Sunset streets. For more infor-
mation visit www.cbhistory.
org
Learn about Pacific Northwest foraging
Douglas Deur to present at next In Their Footsteps lecture
ASTORIA — Lewis and
Clark National Historical
Park, Fort Clatsop announc-
es the next In Their Foot-
steps free speaker series
event. The program is “Pa-
cific Northwest Foraging”
presented by Douglas Deur
at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 19 in
the Netul River Room of the
Fort Clatsop visitor center.
A research professor at
Portland State University,
Deur has worked with tribes
and national parks through-
out the western United
States, and western Canada,
documenting traditional Na-
tive American environmen-
tal knowledge and practices.
Deur’s 2014 book, “Pa-
cific Northwest Foraging,”
distilled some of the lessons
of his work relating to the
abundant plant harvest op-
portunities in the Northwest.
This book, the focus of this
month’s In their Footsteps
presentation, appeared on
the New York Times best-
seller list. While the book
is largely a plant-gathering
In Their Footsteps
1 p.m. Sunday, April 19
Fort Clatsop Visitor Center
92343 Fort Clatsop Road, Astoria
503-861-2471
Author to give talk on ‘The Next Tsunami’
CANNON BEACH — Oregon au-
thor Bonnie Henderson pres-
ents her latest book “The Next
Tsunami: Living on a Restless
Coast” at 7 p.m. Thursday,
April 19 at the Cannon Beach
History Center & Museum.
This presentation is free and
open to the public.
“The Next Tsunami” is the
story of the geological discov-
eries that signal the imminence
of a catastrophic tsunami on
the Northwest coast.
Henderson will talk about
the tsunami that occurred in
March 1964. She will share
the stories from locals like,
then-10-year-old Tom Horn-
ing who awoke near midnight
to ¿nd his yard transformed.
A tsunami triggered by Alas-
ka’s momentous Good Friday
earthquake had wreaked hav-
oc in his Seaside neighbor-
hood. It was, as far as anyone
knew, the Paci¿c Northwest
coast’s ¿rst-ever tsunami.
More than 20 years passed
before geologists discovered
that it was neither Seaside’s
¿rst tsunami, nor was it its
worst. In fact, massive tsuna-
mis strike the Paci¿c Coast
every few hundred years,
triggered not by distant tem-
blors, but by huge quakes
less than 100 miles off the
Northwest coast. Not until
the late 1990s would scien-
tists use evidence like tree
rings and centuries-old ware-
house records from Japan to
¿x the date, hour and magni-
Submitted photo
“The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless
Coast” by Bonnie Henderson.
Submitted photo
Bonnie Henderson will speak about her
book “The Next Tsunami” at the Cannon
Beach History Center and Museum.
tude of the Paci¿c Northwest
coast’s last mega earthquake:
9 p.m., January 26, 1700,
magnitude 9.0 — one of the
largest quakes the world had
known. Henderson reveals in
her book that when the next
one strikes, whether it is this
year or hundreds of years
from now, the tsunami it gen-
erates will likely be the most
devastating natural disaster
in the history of the United
States.
In addition to geologist
Tom Horning’s experience
during the 1964 tsunami,
Henderson will also share
the stories of meteorologist
Alfred Wegener, who formu-
lated his theory of continen-
tal drift while gazing at ice
Àoes calving from Greenland
glaciers, and geologist Bri-
an Atwater, who paddled his
dented aluminum canoe up
coastal streams looking for
layers of peat sandwiched
among sand and silt.
Henderson’s story of how
scientists came to understand
the Cascadia Subduction
Zone — a fault line capable
of producing earthquakes
even larger than the 2011 To-
hoku quake in Japan — and
how ordinary people cope
with that knowledge is es-
sential reading for anyone
interested in the charged in-
tersection of science, human
nature and public policy.
The Cannon Beach His-
tory Center & Museum is
located at 1387 S. Spruce St.
For information, call 503-
436-9301, or visit www.
cbhistory.org
Free
Submitted photo
“Pacific Northwest Foraging” by Douglas
Deur.
guide, it was written with the
guidance of tribal elders and
seeks to engage the deeper
philosophical foundations of
foraging for a general audi-
ence.
Deur’s book is available
at the Lewis & Clark Nation-
al Park Association book-
store in the visitor center.
There will be a book signing
following his presentation.
This monthly Sunday
forum is sponsored by the
Lewis & Clark National Park
Association and the park.
This season of In Their
Footsteps will conclude with
the May 17 presentation
“Lewis and Clark and Cata-
clysms on the Columbia” by
Jim O’Connor, a geologist
with the U.S. Geological
Survey.
For more information,
call the park at 503-861-
2471.
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