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Mogadam teaches physical, nutritional well-being
By ERICK BENGEL
EO Media Group
Contributed photo
A map shows a watershed above the Naselle estuary
owned by The Nature Conservancy of Washington, which
just purchased additional acreage.
Acquisition adds to big
conservation project
near Willapa Bay
refuge for restoration on ref-
uge lands.
The preserve includes
pockets of real old-growth
forest as well as forests
that have been harvested
for timber. The conservan-
cy is modeling different
methods of restoration to
discover what will most
quickly put the forest on
the path toward old-growth
conditions.
The property was sold by
Vic and Debbie Boekelman.
“We bought this land 26
years ago as an investment
for our retirement,” said Vic
Boekelman. “Over the years
the conservancy has bought
the land around us, and
we’ve been really impressed
with the work they’ve been
doing to manage and restore
the forest. This is a win-win
for us, to know that the for-
est will be here and we can
bring our grandchildren out
to see it.”
The Boekelmans have
always permitted hunting
on their property, and it will
continue to be open for hunt-
ing in compliance with state
fish and wildlife regulations,
as is the rest of Ellsworth
Creek Preserve.
The acquisition was
funded by a National Coast-
al Wetlands Conservation
grant, and funding for on-
going stewardship of the
property was provided by a
private donor.
By EO Media Group
NASELLE, Wash. — The
Nature Conservancy com-
pleted a purchase of 79 acres
of timberlands that are com-
pletely surrounded by the
conservancy’s existing Ells-
worth Creek Preserve, “fill-
ing in an important piece of
the puzzle in restoring this
watershed that feeds into
Willapa Bay,” the conserva-
tion group said last week.
The property has big tim-
ber and is visible from U.S.
Highway 101. Stands of old-
growth temperate rainforest
are nearby, and endangered
marbled murrelets have been
identified in the area.
“This acquisition is a
milestone in our work to re-
store rainforests on the Wash-
ington coast,” said Mike Ste-
vens, Washington director
for The Nature Conservancy.
“At Ellsworth Creek we’re
advancing the science of for-
est restoration in an entire
watershed. I look forward to
seeing the forest filled with
towering moss-laden hem-
locks, spruce and cedars, and
streams alive with salmon.”
TNC began buying land
in the Ellsworth Creek wa-
tershed in 1998. With this
latest acquisition, the Con-
servancy now owns and
manages more than 8,000
acres adjacent to the Willa-
pa National Wildlife Refuge.
TNC also partners with the
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CANNON BEACH —
Imagine what would happen
if most people put the same
amount of energy into the
preventative maintenance
of their bodies that they put
into their cars.
Chris Mogadam, a fam-
ily and community health
program coordinator with
the Oregon State University
Extension Service, has seen
what happens when people
don’t take care of themselves
— and when conditions like
heart disease, obesity and di-
abetes come to rule people’s
lives.
Through the extension of-
fice in Astoria, Mogadam, a
Cannon Beach resident since
February, educates children,
teens, adults and seniors re-
lying on the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Pro-
gram on how to live health-
ier by eating well and exer-
cising regularly.
And a lot of his job comes
down to dispelling myths
and raising awareness.
For example, “there’s this
fallacy that eating health-
ier costs more, but it really
doesn’t,” he said. “It does in-
volve a little bit more effort,
a little bit more thinking, a
little bit more meal plan-
ning.”
One technique for shop-
pers with limited resources:
Don’t shop the aisles of a
grocery store; instead, work
the perimeter, especially
where the raw produce is
kept. Buying fresh kale and
spinach in a bunch often
stretches one’s dollar further
than buying them in pre-
packaged form, he said.
It also pays to read nu-
trition facts and track the
number of calories — and
the kinds of calories — one
consumes daily: carbs, fats,
proteins, sodium, etc.
“With most of us, we
don’t know our numbers,”
he said. “The numbers add
up real quick.”
In collaboration with
Clatsop County 4-H, Moga-
dam is running a “preseason
teen conditioning” program
at Astoria High School,
where students not playing
a sport can sign up for 40 to
45 minutes of guided phys-
ical activity.
Soon he will launch a
six-week “Walk With Ease”
program through the Amer-
ican Arthritis Foundation
for the seniors of a housing
Chris Mogadam
facility in Astoria, a pro-
gram he hopes to hand off
Becoming self-aware
a health and well-being di- to the residents once his
Before Mogadam earned rector.
role in it is finished.
a bachelor’s degree in
And, with each venture,
Time and again, he has
physical education and a met people who changed he promotes the nutrition-
master’s degree in exercise their lives by making small ally sound life, often point-
physiology — both from adjustments to their rou- ing people to the OSU web-
San Diego State University tine.
site foodhero.org, a free
— he worked at an inten-
There’s the woman in resource full of simple,
sive care unit in Modesto, her mid-40s on blood pres- healthful recipes.
Calif., as a high school se- sure medication who didn’t
The sooner one picks
nior.
know she was eating two up healthy habits, the bet-
Though he played sports days’ worth of salt in a sin- ter off one will be over the
— which, he said, saved gle meal. And the woman long run — not least be-
him from getting into trou- who would drink more than cause, “as we age, we usu-
ble — Mogadam always 30 cups of coffee a day and ally don’t get less stressed,
knew he came from a fam- couldn’t figure out why she we get more, with fam-
ily predisposed to Type 2 had trouble sleeping.
ily life, work, kids,” he
(adult onset) diabetes. He
After becoming more said.
experienced firsthand what self-aware about their diets
Mogadam knew a car-
a relative’s chronic illness and lifestyles, both women diologist from India who
can do, not only to the pa- changed them, he said. The observed that, in the United
tient but to his or her loved first woman soon cut her States, young people tend
ones.
medication in half, and the to trade in their health to
“When you have a fami- second got to a point where make money; they focus
ly, it’s no longer just about she could sleep again, he said. on their careers and ignore
their mental and physical
you. If you have kids, and
Spreading the word
well-being.
you got a husband or wife,
Mogadam, who lives
Eventually, the cardiolo-
your health directly has an
impact beyond just things with his wife, Ellen Boyle, gist said, when these people
you’ve got to deal with,” keeps himself busy spread- get older and the illnesses
of aging begin to take their
he said. “When you’re rais- ing the fitness gospel.
He is promoting a “mo- toll, they need to spend that
ing a family and you’re on
benefits, you really can’t bile garden” program for lo- money to become healthy
cal schools — devised by his again.
afford to get sick.”
“But that model doesn’t
He decided he would do co-worker Miki Souza and his
whatever he could to help predecessor — in which stu- work,” Mogadam said.
others realize that such ill- dents take donated shopping “You can’t always trade
carts lined with gardening in your money to get your
nesses are avoidable.
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Mogadam worked at a hos- grow their own fresh edibles. tion to it.”
pital doing electrocardio-
gram monitoring, and, as
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rehabilitation center. Later
on, in Seattle, he worked as
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