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NORTH COAST THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2015 3A LanG EoarG aSSoLnWs memEers Wo ocean WrusW By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau SALEM — The State Land %RaUd haV aSSRLnted the ¿UVt members of the new Oregon Ocean Science Trust, which is supposed to encourage peer-re- viewed ocean and coastal re- search and potentially issue grants to support such work. The trust does not have any money to distribute, but an ad- viser to Gov. Kate Brown said one possible source of revenue is the state’s share of future off- shore renewable energy leases in federal waters. Lawmakers created the trust and accompanying Ore- gon Ocean Science Fund, from which the trust will distribute money for research, in 2013. The fund can legally accept money from a variety of sourc- es including grants, donations and appropriations by the Leg- islature. Revenue from ocean leases The 2013 state law also re- quires Oregon to deposit the state’s share of revenue from any federal ocean leases into the fund. The federal govern- ment commonly leases portions of land submerged under the ocean to companies for oil and gas exploration, but Brown’s administration is currently Astoria man arrested for assault, drug possession The Daily Astorian Clatsop County Sheriff’s Of¿ce deputies arrested a 34-year-old Astoria man Fri- day night after he allegedly assaulted a man and wom- an on the John Day Point Logging Road, an isolated stretch of road not far from the Fernhill Road area. Andrew Bue was charged with two counts of fourth-de- gree assault (one of these charges was considered do- mestic assault, two counts of menacing, second-degree attempted assault, possession of heroin and possession of methamphetamine. According to the wom- an, Bue also chased them and attacked them with a splitting maul. According to a sheriff’s deputy, Bue had to go to the hospital for some minor injuries and his two alleged victims also suf- fered some injuries, though none of them were major or life-threatening. It is not clear what the three people were doing out on the logging road, though deputies say it is very likely drugs were involved. Bue was taken to the Clatsop County Jail and will be ar- raigned in District Court Monday afternoon. CAPITAL THE BUREAU working to secure money for an offshore wind pilot project that would also have a federal lease. “If there’s ever renewable energy revenues in the feder- al waters, it would go to the trust,” said Gabriela Goldfarb, natural resources policy adviser to Brown, after the State Land Board meeting last week. Gold- farb was also an adviser to for- mer Gov. John Kitzhaber. “The trust will provide a transparent way to prioritize funding and accept funding for those activities,” Goldfarb said. Ocean acLGL¿caWLon research If the state receives money from federal offshore leases, 30 percent of that money will go into the coffers of counties ad- jacent to leased areas that gen- erated the money, according to the 2013 law. One reason it took two years to launch the trust was that Department of State Lands employees had to sus- pend work on it in late 2013, when they learned there would be a bill in the 2014 session to change some of the trust membership require- ments. As for the areas of re- search the trust might fund, Goldfarb said “ocean acidi¿- cation issues would be one.” The Governor’s Of¿ce has been interested since at least the most recent Kitzhaber administration in addressing acidi¿cation from the increas- ing amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the ocean, which can prevent oyster and clam larvae from developing shells. Goldfarb said the trust might also be able to help with “better assessments of our ¿sh stocks, for example, social science about recreational use of our coasts and what impact that has, how the resources might be affected by climate change. There’s really a whole range, and the emphasis in the legislation is also to focus on community priorities, so I think that would be another role of the trust.” ASSoLnWees are volunWeers Members of the trust are volunteers and under state law, they are not allowed to accept compensation. They can receive reimbursement for expenses. The governor’s nominees to the trust, who were appointed on Tuesday, are: • Louise Solliday, a retiree from Tidewater whose experi- ence includes serving as direc- EO Media Group The Oregon State Land Board has named members to the Oregon Ocean Science Trust. tor of the Department of State Lands and natural resources policy adviser to Kitzhaber during his ¿rst two terms and former Gov. Ted Kulongoski. • Laura Anderson, owner of Local Ocean Seafoods in New- port and an Oregon Fish and Wildlife commissioner. • Emily Goodwin of Hood River, executive director of the Cascade Mountain School and former foundation ocean pro- gram of¿cer. • Jim Sumich, Ph.D., a re- tiree from Corvallis and former professor of marine biology and zoology at Grossmont Commu- nity College in California, ma- rine mammal expert and marine biology textbook author. • Krystyna Wolniakowski of Lake Oswego, executive director of the Columbia River Gorge Commission and former northwest region director for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. None of the nominees were at the State Land Board meet- ing, but all were appointed to the trust by a vote of Secre- tary of State Jeanne Atkins and state Treasurer Ted Wheeler. The governor, who is the third member of the land board, was on a trade mission in Asia. The president of the Senate and the Speaker of the House will also appoint one non-voting mem- ber from each chamber. The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Me- dia Group and Pamplin Media Group. Cleaning up local beaches requires a team effort Volunteers come together to clean beach Chater and Karen Voyt help out, too. Trash ¿shLnJ roSe By DANI PALMER EO Media Group CANNON BEACH — Summer is over, but garbage on the beach is a year-round concern. The Parks and Com- munity Services Committee wants people to remember the beach is not just a play- ground for residents and vis- itors, but a natural habitat. Along with the city of Can- non Beach, Chamber of Commerce and Oregon De- partment of Parks and Rec- reation, the city is working on a campaign encouraging residents and visitors alike to keep the beach clean. A complaint was ¿rst brought to the committee this summer. “People were tending to stake out spots on the beach for their vacation,” Committee Chairwoman Barb Knop said, and some hotels were leaving chairs out overnight. “We decided to tackle the problem through education.” Representatives from the Parks Committee attend- ed chamber board meetings where members agreed to help. The chamber sent out weekly newsletters to hotels and rental homes to remind guests to bring their items W A NTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A Submitted Photo Garbage is a nuisance on the beach. back with them, rather than leave them overnight. But it continued to hap- pen, so the Parks Committee brought in Tracy Sund, with the city’s Public Works De- partment, and Matt Rippee, from the state Department of Parks and Recreation, to dis- cuss education and enforce- ment tactics. Sund performs beach cleanup on Mondays and Fridays over the summer, re- trieving big and small items. Civilians like Pam Chorlton Chater and Voyt picked up “at least a shopping bag ¿lled with trash each and every day,” Chater said. She also bought magnets to drag through the sand and retrieve as many nails and other sharp items as she could. During the March clean- up, 200 feet of ¿shing rope was found in Cannon Beach. After the Labor Day weekend storm, Sund found 50 broken chair pieces spread out across the beach from Gower Street to Chapman Point. Knop said the chamber worked with the hotels leav- ing out chairs this summer to come up with a plan. They have cooperated and made some changes, she added. Sund cleans up 100 cu- bic yards of marine debris a year, and it is not unusual to retrieve 4 bushels of trash a week during the tourist sea- son. August is the messiest month, he added, as people try to squeeze out the last of summer. Sund said he has seen tourists leave items on the O cto b er 23 rd 1 PM o r 6 PM CON CEAL CONCEAL CARRY CARRY PERM IT PERMIT CLASS CLASS Oregon – beach intentionally and un- intentionally. He can usually tell the difference, pointing out items left next to a chair. Those, he said, were likely left behind believing a hotel cabana boy would retrieve them. )ocus on eGucaWLon noW SenalWLes Sund donates much of what he ¿nds to Goodwill or recycles it. One of the committee members is working on a brochure with a message for visitors: Leave the beach as you ¿nd it. It’s a topic the committee will hit hard again in February, before the tourist season begins. The state has the power to enforce penalties when there are Beach Bill violations, but Knop said they’re focusing on education. “The beach is everything,” Sund said. “The town owes the beach everything. 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