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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2015
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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.
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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.”
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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-
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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. We’re
nothing without it.”
Which is why he wants
Cannon Beach to keep it pris-
tine and “cultivate a sense of
place.”
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