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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JULY 20, 2015
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The Associated Press
PORTLAND — What
grows quickly, is packed with
protein, has twice the nutri-
tional value of kale and tastes
like bacon?
The answer, according
to scientists at Oregon State
University, is a new strain of
seaweed they recently patent-
ed.
Dulse is a form of edi-
ble seaweed that grows wild
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coastlines. It’s harvested and
commonly used by people in
dried form as a cooking in-
gredient or nutritional supple-
ment.
But OSU researchers say
the variety they’ve developed
can be farmed and eaten fresh,
with the potential for a new
industry for Oregon.
Scientists have been try-
ing to develop a new strain
of the seaweed for more than
15 years. Their original goal
was to create a super food for
commercially grown abalone,
a mollusk prized in Asia.
The strain of dulse they
came up with, which looks
like translucent red lettuce,
is a great source of minerals,
vitamins and antioxidants, not
to mention protein. The aba-
lone grew exceedingly quick-
OSU Extension
Dulse prepared in a dish.
of dulse-based specialty foods
and exploring the potential for
a new aquaculture industry.
There are no commercial
operations that grow dulse
OSU Extension
for human consumption in
Chris Langdon has been growing and studying dulse at Hatfield Marine Science Center the U.S. and chefs say fresh,
in Newport Oregon for decades and is now working with the Food Innovation Center in high-quality seaweed is hard
Portland on creating healthly and appealing dishes.
to come by.
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abalone operation in Hawaii based rice cracker and salad cials said. The team brought said OSU researcher Chris
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a commercial scale.
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new foods with the dulse, re- a grant from the Oregon De- sea “vegetable” in its raw or coast with a bit of supplemen-
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Timber harvest tops
4 billion board feet
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — Ore-
gon’s timber harvest de-
creased slightly last year,
ending a four-year run of
gains that began after the
Great Recession, the state
Department of Forestry
said Wednesday.
The 4.13 billion board
feet harvested in 2014
represents a 1.7 percent
decline from the year be-
fore. It was, however, the
second consecutive year of
more than 4 billion board
feet, a total Oregon had not
seen since 2006.
The state hit a reces-
sion low of 2.7 billion
board feet in 2009. It takes
10,000 board feet to build
a roughly 1,800-square-
foot house.
The Forestry Depart-
ment said in its annual
harvest report it doesn’t
expect a big change in
2015. Brandon Kaetzel,
a top economist at the
department, said sever-
al issues will likely keep
the harvest from rising,
including reduced port ac-
cess, a challenging export
market and housing starts
not reaching the levels
some expected.
Sixty percent of Ore-
gon’s forest land is feder-
al. Industrial and family
owned lands comprise an-
other 34 percent and the
rest is divided between
entities such as the state,
counties and tribes.
Percentage-wise, the
largest harvest spikes in
2014 were on U.S. Bu-
reau of Land Management
lands west of the Cascades,
boosted by salvage logging
from the Douglas Complex
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Service lands east of the
Cascades.
The private industry
harvest declined 5 percent,
the report states, and the
harvest on Native Ameri-
can forestland dropped 14
percent — from 66 million
board feet to 57 million
board feet.
Douglas County, in the
southwestern part of the
state, replaced neighboring
Lane County as the state’s
top producer in timber vol-
ume. Both topped more
than 600 million board
feet.
Klamath County har-
vested the most timber east
of the Cascade Range, with
103 million board feet.
Though Oregon’s har-
vest has increased since
the recession, it’s far less
than what it was before en-
vironmental issues such as
the spotted owl prompted
sharp cutbacks in logging
on federal lands
Oregon’s largest tim-
ber harvest was 9.74 bil-
lion board feet in 1972. It
has not exceeded 5 billion
since 1993.
Astoria grad on Navy tour
Tom Wilson’s father was
also in the Navy: He was at
Omaha Beach on D-Day.
Astoria native Kari Wilson
Kari Wilson and her grand-
is making her way around the father would talk about his
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in her four years in the Navy. lowing in his footsteps.
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aboard the USS Rushmore, WKH1DY\KDVEHHQ¿QGLQJP\
which is on its way to Arabi- true potential,” said Kari Wil-
an Gulf for a routine deploy- son in a Navy news release.
ment, according to a Navy She was promoted to work
news release.
center supervisor in April.
Kari Wilson graduated “Before I joined, nothing
from Astoria High School in would push me the way I push
2006. She received the “Best myself here. Before the Navy,
of the Best” award after going the most I’d done with elec-
through the Navy’s electron- tronics was screw in a light
ics technician training.
bulb. I never thought I could
“Once she made her deci- do the things I do in my job. It
sion to get into the military, makes me believe in myself a
she just rocked,” said her fa- lot more.”
ther, Tom Wilson.
Kari Wilson’s ship rescued
By McKINLEY SMITH
The Daily Astorian
The Daily Astorian
BUXTON — L.L. Stub
Stewart State Park welcomes
beginning campers to join in
an overnight guided camping
excursion July 31 to Aug. 2,
part of the statewide Let’s Go
Camping program hosted by
Oregon Parks and Recreation
Department.
Stub Stewart is just 34
miles west of Portland, and is
home to an 18-hole disc golf
course and 25 miles of hiking,
biking, and equestrian trails
that highlight its 1,800 acres
of forest glades, streams and
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For $30 per family, the
parks department provides
tents, sleeping bags and oth-
er gear for those interested in
learning more about camp-
ing. Volunteers will help
campers set up tents, build
campfires, prepare meals in
the campsite and more. Ac-
tivities could include rang-
er-led hikes, introduction
to disc golf, and plenty of
s’mores.
Let’s Go Camping pro-
grams are scheduled through-
out the state through Labor
Day weekend. Participating
campgrounds are listed at
http://oregonstateparks.org
Contact: Steve Axtell • 360-430-0885 or John Anderson • 360-269-2500
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