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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015
Geese, jet collide
in Warrenton
The only passengers on board
were Paulson, Ramer and Ra-
mer’s wife.
³At ¿rst I thought we land-
ed short and struck the runway
lights, but I later found out it
was geese we hit that caused
the rough landing,” Paulson
said.
Paulson said he and Ramer
had Àown into Astoria twice
Sunday, both times noticing
geese loitering on the runway.
Ramer taxied the jet down the
runway Monday morning to
ensure the geese were not on
the runway when departing,
but he was unable to do a Ày-
over before landing Monday
night.
The aircraft was inspected
for damage, which was limited
to the right-side landing gear.
The jet was deemed safe to Ày
and taken to Salem for repair
with its landing gear down for
fear it might malfunction if
raised.
“I remember when we used
to call ahead to have someone
check to see if the elk were
on the runway, a problem
that plagued the airport until
a Learjet collided with one
during takeoff in the early
2000s, destroying the aircraft
and killing the bull elk,” Paul-
son said.
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — A Lek-
tro company jet hit a Àock of
geese Monday night while
landing at the Astoria Region-
al Airport.
Lektro CEO Eric Paulson
said the plane’s captain, Mark
Ramer, was checking the ap-
proach speed on his dashboard
gauges when he looked up and
noticed the geese, which were
too close to avoid hitting.
Paulson said Ramer was
worried the geese would take
Àight and possibly be ingested
into the engines of the jet, a
Cessna Citation 560.
In 2009, Canadian geese
were sucked into the engines
of a US Airways jet after it
took off from LaGuardia Air-
port in New York. The plane’s
engines lost power and the
plane crash-landed in the Hud-
son River.
The geese at the airport in
Warrenton Monday remained
on runway 8-26 and were hit
by the Cessna’s landing gear.
Walden backs forest management bill
By MITCH LIES
For the Capital Press
SUNRIVER — U.S. Rep.
Greg Walden spoke of frus-
tration with the U.S. Senate’s
unwillingness to address forest
policy and ¿elded Tuestions
on the uncertainty surrounding
the House leadership during a
presentation at the Oregon For-
est Industries Council’s annual
meeting here last week.
Asked who is going to be
the next speaker of the House,
Walden, R-Ore., said: “I hope it
is Paul Ryan, but I don’t know
if he’ll do it.”
Walden said he talked to
Ryan, R-Wis., about replacing
Speaker John Boehner, who
is leaving his seat this month.
Ryan, the Republican vice
presidential nominee in 2012,
said Thursday he would seek
the post.
“There is a lot of pressure
being put on Paul Ryan to step
into this vacuum or void, and
it is the last thing he wants to
The event led the Port of
Astoria, which owns the air-
port, to erect a fence around
the perimeter to keep elk out.
Mike Weston, the Port’s
director of business develop-
ment and operations, said the
Port conducts daily rounds
and hazes geese and ducks
resting or attempting to nest
on Port property. This year, he
said, the Port has experienced
a group of geese continually
returning to runway 8-26.
“We chase the geese off
with a type of shotgun round
that makes a loud bang in the
air above where the fowl are
resting,” Weston said in an
email. “They are called ‘Bird
Bangers,’ silly name but some-
what effective, at least in the
short term.”
Weston said he has wit-
nessed several bird strikes
during his time with the Port,
most recently an adolescent
eagle Àying through an ap-
proach at the same time as a
Citation jet.
Paulson said the Port might
have to look at deterrents to
birds, such as cannons and si-
rens.
“We certainly do not want
to kill any birds, nor do we
want them to kill us”, Paulson
said.
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City resources
The Astoria Parks and
Recreation Department mar-
kets itself to families and vis-
itors, but this year, along with
hordes of tourists, the depart-
ment has also hosted a grow-
ing number of homeless peo-
ple at many of the 63 parks it
manages.
“We’ve been struggling to
keep up with a larger amount
of garbage and just a larger
amount of park visitors,” said
parks Director Angela Cos-
by. Especially, she added, on
the Riverwalk. At least once
a week this summer, Cosby
said park staff had to contact
police to deal with an issue at
park property. Most of these
calls have to do with public
safety concerns, she said. The
staff has not felt threatened or
unsafe.
“Different folks camping
in parks, public defecation…
we’ve had it all across the
board,” she said. She estimates
their calls to police this year
went up by about 40 percent.
The porta-potty plan is
still very preliminary, said
Astoria City Manager Brett
Estes, but it could be one step
toward addressing a larger is-
Melvin Richard Schoessler
Astoria
Sept. 27, 1923 — Oct. 22, 2015
Melvin Richard Schoessler passed away on the Bible, and photography. He traveled to Ha-
Oct. 22, 2015, at 92. He was born Sept. 27, 1923, waii, Norway, the Philippines and Mexico.
on a wheat farm in Ritzville, Washington, to John
He was preceded in death by his parents, his
and Kathryn Schoessler. He was the fourth of brother Rueben, sisters Elsie and Viola, and his
¿ve children.
stepson James Allen Crane Sr.
In 1932, the family moved to As-
He is survived by his sister Geneva
toria, where Schoessler lived the rest
Pechstein, stepdaughters Diana Velder
of his life. He graduated from Astoria
and husband Duane, and Alice San-
High School in 1942 and then went
tilli and husband Ron. He has seven
into the U.S. Army on June 16, 1943.
grandchildren and 14 great-grandchil-
He served some of his time in the
dren.
Army in Okinawa, Japan.
Remembrances may be sent to
On Aug. 17, 1944, he married Ber-
hospice or the charity of your choice.
nice Gustafson. They were married for
Visitation will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Sun-
30 years at the time Bernice passed away.
day, Oct. 25, at Caldwell’s Luce-Lay-
Melvin
He worked at Lovell Auto Co. as
ton Mortuary. Funeral services will
Schoessler
a body man for 40 years and retired
be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 26,
in 1989.
at Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary
Mel was very spiritual his entire life and be- with a reception following at Grace Community
longed to Grace Community Baptist Church for Baptist Church, 1195 Irving Ave., Astoria.
many years.
A private graveside service with vault inter-
He enjoyed camping, reading and studying ment will follow at Ocean View Cemetery.
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The Coast Guard then re-
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search, including the cutter
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Washington, the cutter Alert
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Lockheed P-3 Orion aircrew
WESTPORT, Wash. — The
U.S. Coast Guard suspended
the search for an overdue ¿sh-
erman Thursday morning after
he made contact and said he
was safe and headed back to
Westport, Washington.
The ¿sherman, about 30
miles offshore from West-
port, received an emergency
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from Warrenton to Cannon
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to Astoria. But these days
the jail is almost always at or
above capacity. If the charges
against the person are minor,
often they’ll be let go hours
later to make room for a more
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resources, he said.
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social services, but now it is
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“This year seemed to re-
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funding stream to replant after
these ¿res on federal lands.
“This legislation, through
expediting recovery operations,
would reTuire 75 percent of
burn lands to be reforested and
paid for with salvage,” he said.
“Also, just like you are af-
fected in our rural communi-
ties, every time a forest project
is halted, the outside groups that
sue on forest projects should
have to have a little skin in the
game,” he said. “So under this
bill, they would be reTuired to
post a bond before litigating on
collaborative, or community,
wild¿re protection plans.”
The bill also includes lan-
guage pertaining to Oregon
and California Railroad lands,
directing the federal Bureau
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do. He is a policy guy,” Walden
said.
“He’s always wanted to
chair Ways and Means and
rewrite the country’s tax code
and deal with trade issues. He
doesn’t want to do manage-
ment, especially big ego man-
agement. And there is a lot of
that in (Washington) D.C. right
now,” Walden said.
Outside of the Tuestions on
the House leadership, Walden
focused on forest policy during
his luncheon presentation, spe-
ci¿cally on the unwillingness
of the Senate to revise federal
forest management.
“Three years in a row, in the
U.S. House, bipartisan legisla-
tion has been passed to try and
give us active management of
federal forests to improve their
health, to protect their water-
sheds,” Walden said.
“It provides larger categor-
ical exclusions to move Tuick-
ly on projects that reduce fuel
loads,” he said. “And when
there is a ¿re, there is really no
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