NORTH COAST
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2015
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Traditions observed
EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian
Crew from the USS Chosin, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser that docked at
the Port of Astoria Wednesday, observe evening colors, a long-standing naval tradition
in which the ship’s flag is lowered at sunset to mark the end of the day. The Chosin,
homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, stopped in Astoria on its way to the Portland Rose
Festival.
EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian
The USS Champion, an Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship based in San Diego,
Calif., stopped in at the Port of Astoria Tuesday and Wednesday on its way to the Port-
land Rose Festival.
Orcas back at Columbia River as
2015 tracking comes to an end
coast of Canada’s Vancouver
Island to the Columbia River
CAPE
DISAPPOINT- plume between May 11 and
MENT, Wash. — Orcas made May 17, NOAA Fisheries
it back to the vicinity of the West Coast-Science & Man-
Long Beach Peninsula in agement reported.
time for the Memorial Day
The orcas then went a little
weekend as this year’s satel- farther south for a few days,
lite-tracking program came to hunting off Tillamook Head
an end.
and Clatsop Beach, before re-
“As we sat on the beach on turning to the Columbia River
Long Beach Peninsula on Me- on the morning of May 21.
morial weekend, we saw killer
Scientists from Olym-
ZKDOHV¿VKLQJMXVWRQWKHRWK- pia-based Cascadia Research
er side of the surf. It was very Collective intercepted the
cool,” visitor Geneane Bentley whales and observed L84
Stahl wrote.
and a few other members of
Orca L84, an adult male his pod, or extended family
member of the L pod of group.
Southern Resident Killer
The tag that permitted
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with Puget Sound, along with keep such close watch on
other family members, made orca movements along the
a rapid swim from the west outer coast this winter and
EO Media Group
Helping hand
spring is designed to eventu-
ally fall off, and apparently
did so late last month, so this
will be this year’s last track-
ing report.
It has been a fascinating
set of sightings. This year at
least, all or most of L pod —
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bers of the K and J pods —
spent four months ranging up
and down the West Coast be-
tween Vancouver Island and
northern California. Much of
that time was centered in the
waters of the Columbia River
plume, and the ocean off the
mouths of Willapa Bay and
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2013 as a successful deploy-
ment of the satellite tags; in
2014, the tag came off soon
after it was attached to an
orca.
EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian
Bruce Jones, a former commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Columbia River and
now a pilot for Brim Aviation, swoops in next to the Canadian frigate Calgary to
hoist off a Columbia River Bar Pilot near Tongue Point Wednesday morning. The
Calgary is one of many ships on its way to the Portland Rose Festival.
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Members of the L pod of Southern Resident Killer Whales came back to the mouth of the
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