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top festival
dignitaries
Kathy Koppen Dean and
Kevin Leahy, co-presidents of
the 2015 Astoria Regatta Fes-
tival, have announced that the
2015 Regatta Festival admiral
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Transmission; the Regatta
Festival Grand Land Parade
grand marshal is Willis Van
Dusen; and the Regatta Fes-
tival admiral’s aide is Andrew
Bornstein.
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sion. Prior to this position,
Reiten served as president and
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er, and as an aide to the late
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in several different capacities
at the U.S. Department of In-
terior.
He serves as chairman of
Associated Oregon Industries
and co-chairman of The Fresh-
water Trust; he also serves on
the Legacy Health System
Board of Directors and the
Oregon Business Council. He
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Bornstein
earned a bachelor’s degree in
political science with an em-
phasis in economics from the
University of Washington and
completed executive train-
ing at the Wharton School of
Business, University of Penn-
sylvania.
Van Dusen, president of
Van Dusen Beverages Inc.,
was elected mayor of Astoria
in 1990, and served in that
position for 24 years. He was
on the Astoria City Council
for six years prior to that, and
has united disparate groups to
complete countless communi-
ty projects.
The Van Dusen family ar-
rived in Astoria in 1847, and
established one of Oregon’s
oldest family businesses in
1849. Originally known as
Van Dusen Mercantile, the
business has evolved over the
years and has been the local
Pepsi-Cola and Dr Pepper
bottler since 1947.
Born and raised in As-
toria, Van Dusen graduated
from the University of Or-
egon with a degree in busi-
ness administration. He has
received numerous awards,
most recently the 2015 Cit-
izen of the Year by the Chi-
nese-American
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Associated Press
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Alaska
(AP) — A study of the migra-
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gray whales has led U.S. and
Russian scientists to question
whether they’re a separate pop-
ulation or simply California
gray whales that have expand-
ed their feeding grounds.
Researchers for decades
have considered the two sub-
populations to be distinct, with
different territories and genet-
ics.
California gray whales
occupy mostly waters closer
to North America, while the
much smaller western Pacif-
ic gray whale population was
thought to roam the eastern
Asia coast.
Recently, scientists over
two migratory seasons tagged
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off Russia’s Sakhalin Island,
hoping to discover exactly
where they spend winters.
The scientists were ex-
pecting western whales to
migrate to breeding and calv-
ing grounds somewhere in the
south China Sea, said Bruce
Mate, director of the Marine
Mammal Institute at Oregon
State University and lead au-
thor of a research paper pub-
lished this week in the journal
Biology Letters.
“It didn’t turn out that
way,” Mate said.
Instead, three whales with
satellite tags were tracked
swimming east and across the
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and into the migratory route
of California gray whales, also
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whales.
“It made us realize that
many of these animals were
born in Mexico,” Mate said.
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whales, once thought to be ex-
tinct, are the most endangered
of the large whales, Mate said.
Only 150 remain as the result
of overhunting.
To protect them, envi-
ronmental groups have cam-
paigned against industrial
activities such as oil and gas
development off Sakhalin.
Federal and international
whale experts have consid-
Craig Hayslip/OSU Marine Mammal Institute via AP
Researchers approach a western Pacific gray whale for tagging near Sakhalin Island in Rus-
sia in 2010. Research by U.S. and Russian scientists who tracked the rare whales across the
Bering Sea and all the way to Mexico have led them to question whether they are a separate
species or simply California gray whales expanding their feeding grounds.
Craig Hayslip/OSU Marine Mammal Institute via AP
A western Pacific gray whale near Sakhalin Island in Rus-
sia in 2010.
ered the two subpopulations
of gray whales to be distinct
because their territories were
thought not to overlap, based
on historic whaling data, and
because of genetics analyses,
Mate said. Those conclusions
are being reevaluated, he said.
The tagging project began
in September 2010 and was
done with scientists from the
Institute of Ecology and Evo-
lution of the Russian Academy
of Sciences, the Kronotsky
State Nature Biosphere Re-
serve and the Kamchatka
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of Geography.
The scientists were startled
when a 13-year-old male whale
they named Flex swam east to
U.S. and Canada waters. He
was tracked to the Oregon coast
until his tag was lost.
A year later, a 6-year-old fe-
male named Agent was tracked
halfway across the Gulf of
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Alaska before her tag was lost.
A third whale, a 9-year-old
female dubbed Varvara, was
tracked all the way to Baja
Mexico, where most Califor-
nia gray whales breed and give
birth.
Varvara spent 42 days off
Baja California and visited
the three main breeding areas
of the California gray whale.
She then swam north and
west and returned to Russia
waters, crossing the Bering
Sea near retreating sea ice in
May 2012. Her trip took 172
days.
The nearly 14,000-mile
swim is the longest record-
ed migratory journey by a
mammal by more than 1,200
miles, Mate said. The bigger
question, however, is whether
the western whales are rem-
nants of a distinct population
of endangered animals or the
westernmost feeding group of
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The marine board formal-
ized a Waterway Marker
Permit Program, which will
inventory existing markers
on Oregon’s waterways. Ad-
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how the agency, its part-
ners, and private individuals
can apply and place their
own regulatory and infor-
mational markers for boat
operation.
The marine board adopt-
ed a rule requiring visual
distress signals in the ocean
or coastal waters, and on the
Columbia River west of the
Astoria Bridge.
Additionally, the marine
board initiated the rulemak-
ing process to consider
Inland Navigation Rules
and Lights and Shapes, to
be consistent with recent
changes in federal law.
The Marine Board is
funded by registration fees
and marine fuel taxes paid
by boaters. No general fund
tax dollars are used to sup-
port the agency or its pro-
grams. Boater-paid fees go
back to boaters in the form
of law enforcement services
(on-the-water enforcement,
training and equipment), ed-
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and boating access facilities.
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Lost Lake Recreation Area to
add information kiosk, toilets
By The Daily Astorian
The Oregon Department of
Forestry plans to upgrade the
Lost Lake Recreational Area in
the Clatsop State Forest with a
new permanent, concrete vault
toilet building and a rustic,
log-structured two-panel infor-
mational kiosk.
Installation of the toilet build-
ing and kiosk will take place
Monday.
The new building will house
two bathrooms that will be open
for public use throughout the en-
tire year. It will replace several
portable privies that were avail-
able only during the summer
months.
The main parking area for
Lost Lake will be closed to vehi-
cles and public access for several
days during the upgrade work to
provide for construction and op-
erational safety.
Parking will still be available
along the roadside, and access to
the lake will not be interrupted.
Funding for the project comes
in part from a grant provided by
the Land and Water Conserva-
tion Fund, which is administered
through the Oregon Parks and
Recreation Department.
A popular spot for anglers,
hikers and nature enthusiasts,
Lost Lake is located in the south-
ern portion of the Clatsop State
Forest about eight miles south of
Elsie, Oregon, off U.S. Highway
26 near milepost 19.
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The Oregon State Marine
Board last week approved a
grant to help fund projects for
the Oregon Youth Conserva-
tion Corps and adopted rules
for “slow-no wake” and wa-
terway markers.
The marine board ap-
proved a grant to conservation
corps to train, hire and assign
22 youths to enhance 23 boat-
ing facilities in four counties.
Additionally, the crews will
be involved in Adopt-A-River
cleanup projects and receive
training on boating safety-re-
lated projects. The marine
board approved $40,000 in
state boater funds, combined
with $28,692 in applicant
matching funds, for a project
total of $70,692.
After more than a year
of consultation with law en-
forcement partners, a rules
review committee and com-
ments from boaters, the ma-
rine board adopted the pro-
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wake,” which removes the
5 mile per hour and “max-
imum” reference where it
appears in conjunction with
“slow-no wake.”
The marine board also ini-
tiated the rulemaking process
to remove the reference to 5
miles per hour as it occurs with
“slow-no wake,” and improve
the general rule language for
readability of the rules.
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fully recovered California gray
whales.
“I don’t have an answer to
that,” Mate said. “I know ev-
erybody would like me to. The
sample size is just too small
with three animals.”
Biopsies and photo iden-
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western whales have made the
crossing to North America,
Mate said.
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whales are not extinct, accord-
ing to the paper. Four western
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nets off Japan between 2005
and 2007; a gray whale was
stranded off southern China in
November 2011; another was
sighted in Mikawa Bay, Japan,
in March 2012.
More study is needed,
Mate said, but a conclusion
that they’re part of the eastern
population could change how
whales are treated and studied.
Margaret Williams, Arc-
tic program director for the
World Wildlife Fund, had not
seen the paper but said Thurs-
day protecting critical gray
whale habitat off Sakhalin
from chronic pollution, noise
and industrial disturbances re-
mains important.
“It doesn’t negate the big
conservation effort to protect
the habitat for this migratory
species in a place that would
otherwise be made more vul-
nerable by offshore develop-
ment,” she said.
Alliance and the 2014 Busi-
nessman of the Year award by
the Astoria-Warrenton Area
Chamber of Commerce. He
is president of Astoria River-
front Trolley Association, a
trustee of the Columbia Riv-
er Maritime Museum, board
member of the Oregon Soft
Drink Association and board
member of the Friends of the
Astoria Column. He is also
past-president of the Astoria
Rotary Club, the University
of Oregon Alumni Associa-
tion, Pepsi-Cola Bottlers As-
sociation and Mount Angel
Beverages.
Bornstein graduated with
a bachelor’s degree in biolo-
gy in 2002 from Santa Clara
University in California, and
a master’s degree in 2007
from the University of San
Francisco. He is an owner
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