THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 11, 2015
NORTH COAST
Land Conservancy closer
to Boneyard Ridge deal
Land trust gets $524,000 grant from Watershed Enhancement Board
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — North Coast
Land Conservancy recent-
ly was selected to receive
$524,000 from the Oregon Wa-
tershed Enhancement Board
toward the purchase of Bone-
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of commercial timberland
threaded with salmon-bearing
streams on the northeast slope
of Tillamook Head.
“Receiving the OWEB grant
is a critical step for this amazing
project,” NCLC Executive Di-
rector Katie Voelke said.
Boneyard Ridge is tucked
between conserved lands
in Ecola State Park and the
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Circle Creek Habitat Reserve
south of Seaside. Purchase of
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created Ecola State Park. The
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to advance that vision by cre-
ating a connected, conserved
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the summit of Tillamook Head
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Its stewardship goal for
this property is to allow it to
mature into a complex rain-
forest of the kind that once
characterized headlands all
Astoria budget
committee
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spending plan
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from draft
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A creek high on Boneyard Ridge.
along the Northern Oregon
Coast.
Owners of the property are
asking $1.8 million for Bone-
yard Ridge. To date NCLC has
secured $560,000, including
the watershed board’s funds.
“When funders at the state
level invest with a half a million
dollars, that’s proof you’ve got
something special.” Voelke said.
“We’re excited to work with our
community to raise the rest of the
money and conserve the natural
and recreational wonderland of
Tillamook Head, forever.”
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conservancy founder Neal
Maine’s 75th birthday. The do-
nations helped the organization
more than double a $10,000
matching grant challenge from
the Mintkeski Family Fund
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the acquisition of Boneyard
Ridge.
NCLC is seeking additional
funds from a variety of sourc-
es, including public agencies
and private foundations. The
land trust plans to complete
acquisition of Boneyard Ridge
by the end of 2016.
Based in Seaside, North
Coast Land Conservancy has
been working since 1986 to
conserve and connect the land-
scape of the Oregon Coast
from the Columbia River to
northern Lincoln County. The
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works to ensure that this re-
gion is a place where healthy
communities of people, plants
and wildlife can all thrive.
For more information, visit
NCLCtrust.org
Hiker medevaced from Saddle Mountain
WARRENTON — A Coast
Guard helicopter crew and local
responders medevaced a report-
edly unconscious hiker suffering
from heat exhaustion from Sad-
dle Mountain Saturday.
An MH-60 Jayhawk heli-
copter crew, from U.S. Coast
3A
Guard Air Station Astoria, hoist-
ed the 24-year-old female hiker
and safely transferred her to
medical personnel at Columbia
Memorial Hospital in Astoria.
Coast Guard Sector Co-
lumbia River watchstanders
received a call from Warren-
ton Fire Department personnel
around 6:17 p.m., requesting
assistance in transporting an un-
responsive hiker.
“With summer rolling in,
whether you’re on the water or
on a mountain, it’s important
to stay hydrated, take breaks
and keep your body cool,” said
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A. Parrales, a watchstander at
Sector Columbia River. “Plan
ahead, be prepared and know
your limits.”
See the video at http://bit.
ly/1QAbB22
ladder truck for the Asto-
ria Fire Department. The
money would come from
a $2.5 million carryover
balance the city estimates
for the start of the fiscal
year.
By DERRICK
The city would spend
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$250,000 on improve-
The Daily Astorian
ments to the Astoria
A city budget com- Aquatic Center, $80,000
mittee Thursday night on a new roof for the
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million spending plan brary, and $72,000 for
for next fiscal year, up weed eradication and re-
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Cemetery and other park
year.
The budget, which is grounds.
The budget commit-
expected to go before
the Astoria City Council tee, made up of the City
in June, includes $10.6 Council and five ap-
million in general fund pointed residents, did not
spending, up from $9.2 make significant changes
to the draft presented by
million.
The new fiscal year city financial analysts.
But with two new coun-
starts in July.
Consumers can ex- cilors in Zetty Nem-
pect 2 percent increases lowill and Cindy Price
in water and sewer rates and other new faces, the
and a 5 percent increase committee did engage
in the surcharge used to city staff with detailed
help pay for the city’s questions that extended
$40 million to $50 mil- the talks for more than
lion sewer improvement eight hours over four
project. The sewer im- meetings.
The budget committee
provements are necessary
to reduce wastewater into voted 9-0-1 to recom-
the Columbia River and mend the budget. Shel
meet the requirements of Cantor, a retired engi-
the federal Clean Water neer who serves on the
committee,
abstained
Act.
The city projects that over his concern that the
the rate and surcharge in- Astoria-Warrenton Area
creases will add $4.65 to Chamber of Commerce,
the average monthly res- which receives money
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toria fund, has not been
bimonthly payments.
Big-ticket
expens- filing semiannual fi-
es in the budget include nancial reports with the
a $500,000 down pay- city as outlined by city
ment on a new $880,000 code.
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