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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.
The Historic Landmarks Commis-
sion also recognized Astoria Brewing
Company with an honorable mention
for the restoration at 1196 Marine Dr.
The building had been known as the
Fisher Building.
The award will be presented at the
commission’s June 16 meeting.
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