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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2015 Long Beach wrestles with bear woes Plentiful food draws bruins into the heart of resort community By NATALIE ST. JOHN EO Media Group LONG BEACH, Wash. — Mayor Bob Andrew recently held a meeting with wildlife managers and local of¿cials to discuss strategies for prevent- ing human-bear encounters in- side city limits. Despite wildlife managers’ well-publicized efforts to re- locate or kill “problem bears” over the last two years, Long Beach Police Department log entries show the animals con- tinue to make forays into Il- waco and Long Beach. Long Beach police have recorded 10 bear-related log entries this year and a total of about 50 since Jan. 1, 2014. These records also show that cut- ting off access to garbage would prevent the majority of bear-related incidents. Seeking bear solutions Councilman (and mayor- al candidate) Jerry Phillips said in a phone interview the May 7 meeting was initiated at the request of the Washing- ton Department of Fish and Wildlife. In attendance were Long Beach Police Chief Flint Wright, representatives from Peninsula Sanitation, wildlife Deputy Chief Mike Cenci and other WDFW staff. The meeting was not an of- ¿cial city workshop and other city council members were not invited — some said they did not even know about the meeting until it had happened. Phillips said he was invited to attend because he is the presi- dent of the Merchants’ Associ- ation. Andrew did not respond to email and phone message requests for comment last week. Phillips said local WDFW staff wanted to hear sugges- tions from city leaders about how to discourage contact between bears and humans. During the meeting, WDFW staff said strategies that pre- vent bear encounters are much more effective than trapping, killing or relocating. Those methods have removed a few particularly aggressive bears, but they are costly, labor-inten- sive tactics that don’t address the root causes of the problem. “The common thread is trash. How do we control our trash?” Phillips said. He has been researching methods Alaska communities have used to keep bears away from NATALIE ST. JOHN — EO Media Group A tranquilized bear’s grasp on a tree in Safari RV Park was loosened by a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officer last year in preparation for relocation to a less-populated area. garbage. Some options include using bear-proof trashcans, or passing an ordinance that lim- its the hours when citizens can have their trash out. “The answer is not going out and killing every bear,” Phillips said. Lots of contact Locals have had a number of remarkable bear encounters during the last year. An Ilwaco woman was tried for allegedly feeding bears on the de facto nature reserve she’d created in the Sahalee neighborhood. Ilwaco High School and Long Beach Elementary School were both placed on tempo- rary lockdown when bears were spotted roaming around campus. In July, a rash of gar- bage raids in downtown Long Beach led WDFW of¿cials to authorize Long Beach Police to shoot the “suspect bear” who had grown disturbingly bold. Two night-shift of¿cers killed the bear in July. In No- vember, a mother bear and her two cubs got spooked while Two Cannon Beach women arrested for possessing meth The Daily Astorian CANNON BEACH — Two women from Cannon Beach were arrested for methamphet- amine possession early Thursday morning. At a.m. Cannon Beach 3olice Of¿cer Josh Gregory pulled over a vehicle at 84806 Junction Road at the U.S. Highway 101 and U.S. Highway 26 junction. The occupants — Wendy G. Phillips, 33, and Kathleen J. Skin- ner, 47 — were discovered to have metham- foraging for garbage inside of Safari RV Park and climbed a tree in a resident’s back yard. WDFW of¿cers used tranquil- izer darts to shoot the bears out of the tree. They were relocat- ed. This spring, the continued presence of bears prompted Barb and Chuck Kelly, Mill Creek residents who own a vacation home here, to write a critical letter to the mayor and other local of¿cials, urg- ing them not to “let bears run around the city streets.” “We bought a place in the city, close to ‘town,’ so that we could walk to the mov- ie theater, many restaurants … coming home often in the dark. But now all of that has been taken away from us, be- cause of this inexcusable lack of action on your part!” Chuck Kelly wrote. “I know of no other city where bears can be free to inhabit, and I guess be a citizen of it, too. I’d like to see the taxes they pay.” Kelly said the city’s prac- tice, of advising citizens to secure their trash cans, “is not acceptable.” Food is the issue In an interview after the meeting, Cenci said the driv- ing factor behind almost all of the encounters is “an abun- dance of food available, both from people leaving garbage and from fruit trees.” The Po- lice Department log entries clearly support this claim. More than half of the 51 log entries involved bears get- ting into garbage cans — most recently, on May 24, a resident on Main Street in Ilwaco ¿red a riÀe in the air after he saw a bear going through trashcans. Another 12 incidents described bears prowling in parking lots and yards. These were proba- bly searching for garbage, but the police didn’t speci¿cally cite garbage in the reports. The garbage-related inci- dents describe similar scenari- os: Bears usually waited until the period between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m., then tipped unsecured trashcans to get at the stinky treasures inside. Roughly half of these occurred at private residences or along residen- tial streets. The remainder occurred at commercial prop- erties and public facilities, where dumpsters can provide an overwhelming temptation. Bears have gotten into trashcans at the elementary school, the Neptune Theater, the Chinook Observer, and the Worldmark condominiums. Shooting the bear that fre- quented the Bolstad approach and Super Eight last summer didn’t solve the problem. This spring, a log entry noted that bears are still “ransacking” the motel’s garbage. Astoria awards recognize historic preservation The Daily Astorian The Astoria Historic Landmarks Commission has chosen Justin Power for an award for historic preservation for his work on the Thompson House. Power, of Astoria, was recognized in the residential category for the preser- vation of the house at 778 38th St. The Dr. Edward Harvey Historic Preservation Award is given out an- nually to property owners who have completed exterior restoration or beau- phetamine in their possession. Both subjects were charged with possession of a controlled substance. In addition, Phillips was charged with fugi- tive arrest, and Skinner was charged with distri- bution of a controlled substance (methamphet- amine). They were taken to Clatsop County Jail. Altogether, 22 grams of methamphetamine were con¿scated. Though Gregory found the narcotics himself, K- Of¿cer Gunner was de- ployed at the end of the search. tification of buildings that reflect the historical and architectural heritage of Astoria. Power will receive a certificate at the June 15 Astoria City Council meeting. 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