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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2015 Drought dries up some seasonal wetlands early Associated Press Brent Drinkut/Statesman Journal A view of Taverner’s Marsh at Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge near Dallas. SALEM — Seasonal wetlands are drying up more quiFkly than usual as drought Fonditions persist in the Willamette Valley. Several ponds at the Ankeny national wildlife refuge have gone dry this year, and Willamette Valley 1ational Wildlife 5efuge Comple[ proMeFt leader 'amien Miller says it¶s rare for that to happen so quiFkly, reported The Statesman Journal. The dry ponds sparked Fon Fern about the Oregon Fhub, a ¿sh taken off the endangered speFies list Must this spring. Ankeny has the largest population of Oregon Fhub in the Willamette River Basin. “Early on, we had heard there Fould be restriFtions on irrigation,” said Miller. “But we¶ve been able to maintain our irrigation waters to manage for that Fhub.” Some speFies, like the red logged frog, need the wetlands to breed. This year, redlegged frog tadpoles matured and left the area before the wetlands dried out, said Miller. But, he said, “with all of the amphibians that use these wet lands, if we get into a longterm sequenFe of multiple dry years where wetlands are drying up be fore their breeding FyFle is done, that would be detrimental to a lot of these speFies.” +ot and dry Fonditions are also inFreasing wild¿re danger. A ¿re earlier this month at Wil liam L. Finley refuge near Corval lis burned several aFres at Pigeon Butte, an area that is home to the endangered Fender¶s Blue butter Ày. “,t¶s pretty unusual,” Miller said. “We don¶t get a lot of ¿res here on the refuge.” Birds: Fish are diving deeper than the birds Fan handle A warming ocean Continued from Page 1A “There¶s a pretty raging debate among seabird biol ogists at the moment,” she added. Parish said an inFrease in deaths during nesting sea son, isn¶t unusual. But they¶ve seen two to three times more than normal. 6piNes typiFally oFFur in 6eptember or OFtober after storm events, also. BeaFhes from 1ewport to the 1orth Coast reported an average of 10 to 14 FarFasses per kilometer this month. “,t¶s all over the map,” Parish said. “1ot everybody is reporting large numbers.” 1ot everyone has reported baFk yet, either, so it¶s hard to tell how bad it is or if it¶ll get worse, she added. Last fall, tens of thousands of the Cassin¶s auklet, a small seabird, died. Parish said there was a Forrelation between warmer waters and a Fhange in the distribution of food. “We¶re kind of hoping we don¶t have another repeat season,” she said. “The 1orth PaFi¿F is pretty darn warm and has been for some time,” Parish said. But there is usually up welling, making it Fooler along the Foast and provid ing the Fommon murre “a fair amount of food.” Josh Saranpaa, assistant direFtor of the Wildlife Center of the 1orth Coast in Astoria, said the Fenter has reFeived about 12 birds a day over the past month, many from Cannon BeaFh. The maMority, about 0 perFent, are Fommon murres. “(very bird we¶re seeing is starving to death,” he said. “,t¶s pretty bad.” Many are adults. Saranpaa said they may be starving be Fause the adult birds are fo Fused on taking Fare of their young. With warming oFean tem peratures, ¿sh are diving deeper than the birds Fan han dle in some areas, he added. The high number of starv ing adults along the 1orth Coast, even e[perienFed sFav enger birds, indiFates a “seri ous sign of a stressed eFosys tem,” Parish said. Saranpaa said seabirds are biologiFal indiFators, a way to FheFk an environment¶s health. “Starvation is the norm” for wildlife, Parish noted. Many young murre die be Fause they¶re separated from their fathers, for e[ample. ,n the Fase of large sFale die offs, she added, sFientists Fare more about the why. “When you see so many starving, something is not quite right out there,” Saran paa said. Parish added that there are multiple reasons a bird Fould starve to death inFluding a laFk of food, more Fompeti tion, illness and poison. Toxic algae bloom ,t¶s also “been a really odd year,” Parish said, with mul tiple regional sFale events, inFluding the West Coast¶s largest to[iF algae bloom on reFord, stretFhing from Fen tral California to Alaska. This summer researFhers found Àoating whale FarFass es near Alaska¶s Aleutian ,s lands as a result of the bloom. Those deaths, Parish said, were essentially Faused by poison. Other speFies are affeFt ed as well. ,n addition to the whales, ¿sh are eating poison ous plankton, and birds are eating those ¿sh. The waiting game At this point, Parish said there¶s not muFh researFhers Fan do but wait and watFh. 5eduFing the number of dead or dying birds will re quire a Fhange of global sFale, she said. “,t¶s like too many holes in a dam,” Parish added. “You Fan¶t put your ¿nger in one hole and stop the leak.” A loss of shell¿sh to the to[ iF algae, for e[ample, would not only affeFt the eFosystem, she said, but the eFonomy. Saranpaa said he fears vol unteers may nurse the birds baFk to health, only to send them baFk out to starve. There are so many birds Foming in staff have to let them go after a month or two of fattening to make room. Santarsiere said the tide was Foming in when they deFided to resFue their bird. They didn¶t want it to get hy pothermia. “We¶re all FonFerned for wildlife so it was niFe to have visitors band together,” she added. GMO: Three states have passed laws requiring GMO labels Continued from Page 1A The debate in Congress Pa\ reÀeFt the stateb\state argument over GMO labeling. Voters in Oregon, Washington, and California have defeated mandatory labeling proposals in reFent years, but it¶s been a hotlyFontested and e[pensive ¿ght. ,n Oregon in 1ovember 2014, a GMO labeling initia tive Zas defeated by a sFant votes out of more than 1.5 mil lion Fast. Vermont, ConneFtiFut and Maine have passed laws requir ing GMO labels. Meanwhile, the marNetplaFe is ¿nding its way through the debate. %ig stores suFh as WalMart are powerful players in food re tailing, but the “rise of these gi ants” has made them more vul nerable to aFtivists¶ Fampaigns beFause they want to proteFt their valuable brand names and reputations, Bain said. 8nder pressure from aFtiv ists, some large retailers have an nounFed they won¶t Farry items suFh as genetiFally engineered salmon, eggs from Faged hens or new GMO potatoes — and their suppliers have to fall in line. But Bain said the Fompanies aren¶t viFtims in these develop ments. They Flearly reFogni]e the “enormous” eFonomiF and soFial value of niFhe marNets made up of Fonsumers who hold those beliefs and are willing to spend more to maintain them, she said. “, thinN they Fould Fare less about the sFienFe,” she said. “,f they Fan sell something they are going to do it.” A YouTube video of Bain¶s remarNs to the 1a tional Press Foundation is available at http://bit. ly/1.h[na CL ASSIF IE D M ARK ETPL A CE P lace classified ad s o n lin e at w w w .d ailyasto rian .co m o r call 503-325-3211 CL ASSIF IE D IN DEX ANNOUNCEMENTS 055 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Care Centers 035 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lost & Found 040 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personals 050 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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