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Summit: Cape Falcon is the second-largest of state’s marine reserves
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More than 20 seabird col-
onies are found in the area,
including common murres,
black oystercatchers, marbled
murrelets and bald eagles.
The coastal headlands are
where the Columbia River used
to be, Smith said. The headlands
are uplifted because the area is
on a subduction zone that was
formerly at sea level.
“Oswald West State Park
is the gateway to the marine
reserve,” Smith said. “Cape
Falcon unites land and marine
conservation.”
Joe Liebezeit, of the Audu-
bon Society of Portland, identi-
¿ed about 00 common murres
and a bald eagle seen through
his telescope.
Karen Driscoll, who volun-
teers at Newport’s Otter Rock
Marine Reserve, found Cape
Falcon particularly “outstand-
ing” because of its diversity.
“This is spectacular,” she
said. “It has some of everything
— grasslands, forests, rocky
headwaters.”
Research, tourism
opportunities
It is “too soon” to know if
reserves are working, said Brit-
tany Huntington, an Oregon
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Oswald West State Park overlooks the adjacent Cape Falcon Marine Reserve.
Department of Fish and Wildlife
scientist. Researchers will con-
tinue to re¿ne methods, report
¿ndings, e[pand partnerships
and increase student involve-
ment through undergraduate
research programs, she said.
Kirsten
Grorud-Colvert,
from Partnership for Interdis-
ciplinary Studies of Coastal
Oceans, discussed global
trends in marine reserves that
provide insight on what hap-
pens when we protect ocean
areas, and how they can be bet-
ter protected.
The Science of Marine
Reserves Project is an interna-
tional effort of collecting data
from marine reserves across
the globe. The study found that
within 2 marine reserves,
the mass of animals and plants
increased percent on aver-
age, the number of animals
and plants in an area increased
percent, and animals’
body sizes increased 28 per-
cent, and the number of species
increased 2 percent. Heavily
¿shed species increased most
dramatically.
At 2. sTuare miles, Cape
Falcon is the second-largest of
Oregon’s ¿ve marine reserves,
where ocean development and
removing sea life are prohib-
ited. Connected to the reserve
are two .-mile Marine Pro-
tected Areas, where some ¿sh-
ing activities are allowed.
The state’s protection of
ocean areas was the result of
a -year effort involving sup-
port from local and state gov-
ernments, residents, the ¿shing
community and other groups.
Anne Nelson, with the
National Oceanic and Atmo-
spheric Administration, dis-
cussed the ecological and eco-
nomic value of marine reserves,
which can encourage sustain-
able tourism. Visitors travel
to the Great Barrier Reef spe-
ci¿cally because of the care-
ful decisions made by govern-
ments to protect and manage
ocean areas, she said.
“We have this unbelievably
beautiful resource that peo-
ple want to see,” Nelson said
of Oregon’s marine reserves.
“How can we let people in,
but still make sure areas are
protected?”
Lawyers: Three of¿cers who were with Smith will testify in April
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The details
According to MarTuis’
response, the state will present
evidence alleging that Smith
made speci¿c plans to drug her
daughters and used razor blades
to cut the throat and arms of her
-year-old daughter, Alana.
Smith allegedly placed over-
the-counter dental gel on Alana’s
neck, then cut her neck causing
her to bleed profusely. Smith
then drugged and drowned her
2-year-old daughter, Isabella,
the prosecution says.
At some point early in the
morning of Aug. , 20, Mar-
Tuis wrote, Smith abandoned the
hotel room. She left behind both
a cellphone and electronic tablet
along with the access codes.
Housekeeping staff used
their master key card to enter the
room at about 0 a.m., but a
voice told them to go away. The
staff could hear the person, later
identi¿ed as Alana, slipping and
falling. Staff became concerned
and called Cannon Beach Fire
and ambulance personnel, who
arrived 0 minutes later.
Cannon Beach Police Chief
Jason Schermerhorn, the ¿rst
of¿cer to respond, will testify he
saw Isabella, who appeared life-
less and posed, and Alana, who
was seriously injured.
An arrest warrant was issued
for Smith on Aug. 2, 20.
A day later, a U.S. Coast
Guard MH-0 helicopter spot-
ted Smith near her gold 2007
Chevy Suburban on a heavily
forested logging road, just off
of U.S. Highway 2, about
miles east of Cannon Beach.
Smith appeared unharmed
and in remarkably good shape,
according to the state’s evidence.
However, the defense claims
in their motion that law enforce-
ment had learned of Smith’s
intentions to end her own life
in the forest. She was found in
great distress, living out of her
vehicle, without food and drink-
ing water from a stream, accord-
ing to the defense.
MarTuis wrote the evidence
will show that arresting of¿cers
offered food and drink, but she
initially rejected the items that
were not vegetarian.
The three law enforcement
of¿cers who were with Smith
from her arrest to booking will
testify in April. The state also
plans to present a written tran-
script, video and audio record-
ings of Smith’s statements.
“As the recordings will con-
¿rm the nature of the Tuestion-
ing was polite, civil, even light-
hearted on the defendant’s part
at times,” MarTuis wrote.
Aid and assist
A court-appointed psycholo-
gist is evaluating Smith’s mental
¿tness to proceed in her criminal
trial. Smith pleaded not guilty to
aggravated murder and attempted
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aggravated murder. She recently
told the state-hired psychologist
she had “little to no memory of the
events of July , 20.” Her law-
yers claim she is unable to aid and
assist in her own defense.
While she is claiming mem-
ory loss, MarTuis points out she
had no dif¿culty remembering
her planning and e[ecution of
the actions that led to her daugh-
ter, Isabella’s, death and to Ala-
na’s serious injuries.
“She manifested no evidence
of any serious thought or mental
disorder,” MarTuis wrote.
A status hearing to address
the results of the evaluation is
set for later this month.
If Smith is deemed un¿t to
proceed, the judge will send her to
the Oregon State Hospital. In that
case, the upcoming April hearing
and June trial may be postponed.
Smith had a consultation
Feb. with Clatsop Behavioral
Healthcare, the county’s men-
tal health provider, to determine
if the county has the e[pertise
available to treat Smith if she
is found un¿t to proceed, rather
than sending her to the Oregon
State Hospital.
Clatsop Behavioral Health-
care concluded it does not have
the resources available.
“There are no known Com-
munity Restoration Programs
in either Tillamook or Clatsop
County to assist this client with the
ability to aid and assist in her own
defense,” the agency concluded.