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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2016
Man arrested
for sexual abuse
of teenage girl
used a social networking
site to help nurture a year-
A Moses Lake, Wash- long relationship with the
ington, man is suspected of teenager starting in Decem-
online sexual corruption and ber 2014, and met with the
sexual abuse of a local teen- girl — who was 14 when the
abuse began — at
age girl.
B r a n d o n
her home and at
Wayne
Albert
public locations in
Eide, 21, also
Washington state.
known as Bran-
Eide is in cus-
don Bachtold, was
tody on charges
arrested by the
of luring a minor,
Moses Lake Police
online sexual cor-
Department
in
ruption of a child,
late February and
and use of a child
extradited to the
in a sexually
Clatsop County Brandon Wayne explicit display.
Albert Eide
Jail on Thursday.
The Sheriff’s
The Clatsop
2f¿ce, which con-
County 6heriff¶s 2f¿ce said ducted the investigation with
Eide was known to the teen- the FBI in Portland, said fed-
ager as a family friend. The eral charges are also pending
6heriff¶s 2f¿ce alleges Eide against Eide.
The Daily Astorian
Neal Maine/For EO Media Group
The female osprey, far left, kept a close eye on her chicks and on the area surrounding the nest last year.
Storm leaves breeding
osprey without a nest
Osprey pole,
nest to be
replaced
By NANCY McCARTHY
For EO Media Group
SEASIDE — Seaside’s
osprey couple may be home-
less this year, but local nature
lovers hope the condition is
only temporary.
The pole holding the
osprey nest in Broadway Park
snapped in hurricane-force
winds two weeks ago, spilling
both the nest on top of the pole
and a camera that gave a bird’s
eye view of the nest.
But the pole will be
replaced, said Neal Maine, a
local nature photographer and
biologist who was involved
in setting up the ¿rst pole in
2013.
“There’s no doubt about
a replacement,” Maine said.
“We just need some mechanics
to make it happen.”
The breeding pair of
ospreys has set up house in
Seaside every spring for sev-
eral years. At ¿rst, they built a
nest on a power pole bordering
the old football ¿eld in Broad-
way Park. But when arti¿cial
turf was installed on the ¿eld
in 2011, the nest was removed
and preserved in a barn owned
by the North Coast Land
Conservancy.
The nest later was placed
on the trunk of a hemlock tree
donated by a local timber com-
pany. However, the trunk rot-
ted, and the windstorm broke it
in two places, Maine said.
Neal Maine/For EO Media Group
This pole snapped in a storm, causing the destruction of
the osprey nest.
He already has contacted
Paci¿c Power of¿cials to
inquire about obtaining a treated
pole that may last longer.
But the ospreys may not be
able to wait too long.
“We had the male osprey
come into town,” Maine said.
The arrival is early; usually
the birds begin arriving the
¿rst week of May. The female
hasn’t yet been cited. Although
they go their separate ways after
mating season, they rejoin each
other in the spring. Ospreys
mate for life.
A joint fundraising effort by
the city, the Necanicum Water-
shed Council and local donors
raised enough money to buy
and install a camera over the
nest in 2013. The webcam
proved popular, as observ-
ers watched osprey hatchlings
emerge from eggs, Àedge and
Ày away. The pole is already
being missed, Maine said.
“There’s a large contingent
of people who are really anx-
ious about it,” he added. “We
de¿nitely have to replace it.”
Melyssa Graeper, coordina-
tor of the Necanicum Water-
shed Council, said the goal is to
install a new pole in April.
“We have had a breeding
pair there since we installed the
pole,” Graeper said. “The birds
will come back and see that
the nest is gone, but that is not
unusual.”
The ¿ne feathered fowl
most likely will rebuild the
nest, she said. But another fund-
raising effort will be needed to
purchase and install a better
camera.
“We’re trying to ¿gure out
how much it will cost us and
who wants to be involved,”
Graeper said. The Seaside Vis-
itors Bureau, Seaside School
District and the Sunset Empire
Park and Recreation District
may be asked to participate, she
added.
Costs could range from
$3,000 to $13,000, Graeper
said. Adding to the expense
could be adding a hard-wired
connection from the camera
to the computer. This will pro-
vide more ability to focus and
turn the camera, which proved
to be challenges with the former
wireless connection.
Funds from a rafÀe during
the watershed’s 10th annual
Bird Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturday in the Bob Chisholm
Community Center will go
toward the osprey project,
Graeper said.
Wet season brings numerous
slides, but dangers aren’t over
Associated Press
EUGENE — A wet winter
in Oregon has led to numer-
ous landslides, and of¿cials
warn of continuing dangers
even as the weather shifts in
coming months.
Oregon is in the midst of
a “pretty active landslide sea-
son” after a relatively dry
winter last year, said Ali Ryan
Hansen, a spokeswoman for
the state Department of Geol-
ogy and Mineral Industries.
Repeat storms have destabi-
lized many hillsides and for-
mer landslide sites, she added.
A woman was killed in
December when a slide hit
her home north of Florence.
The same storm led to another
landslide near Newport that
damaged four homes and a
sinkhole that swallowed a car,
The Register-Guard reported.
Slides have closed state
highways on the Oregon
Coast and in the Coast Range.
A slide closed Highway
36 west of Triangle Lake for
eight days earlier this month
and another slide shut down
Highway 42 in rural south-
west Oregon for 10 days in
December. Smaller landslides
closed U.S. Highway 101
south of Heceta Head on the
Oregon Coast for a day in late
February.
State of¿cials warn motor-
ists and others to be cautious
of slides in coming months.
“With the wet and wild
weather, we’ve had a lot
of slides, big and small,”
said Angela Beers Sey-
del, a spokeswoman with
the state Department of
Transportation.
“People need to be aware
of their surroundings and
know that when you’re driv-
ing around corners, there’s
always the possibility that
something may have come
down off of that hill. Be
aware, be cautious, and be
ready,” she added.
A recent state study found
as much as a third of Oregon’s
land mass is deemed high
risk for landslides, including
swaths of land in the Coast
and Cascade mountain ranges
and in southwest Oregon.
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Oregon Supreme Court
rejects Kitzhaber bid to
keep emails secret
By NICK BUDNICK
Capital Bureau
PORTLAND — The
Oregon Supreme Court has
rejected former Gov. John
Kitzhaber’s last-ditch bid to
deny access to emails that
were inadvertently archived
by the state.
His criminal defense
lawyer, Janet Hoffman, had
petitioned the state’s highest
court to block a lower court
decision that an indepen-
dent special master would
con¿dentially sift through
emails to see which would
be released as pertinent to
ongoing litigation with the
California software giant
Oracle over the failed Cover
Oregon project.
The Thursday order,
signed by Chief Justice
Thomas Balmer, did not
explain the court’s reason-
ing. However, Oracle had
argued that Hoffman and
Kitzhaber failed to show
how the plan for outside
review would harm him, or
was legally Àawed.
Outside lawyers for
Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum did not take
a position on whether the
emails, which had been
in the state’s possession,
should be reviewed or
disclosed.
Hoffman had already
released selected emails
from the account, which
was used for both state
and personal business. But
Kitzhaber argued letting
someone else go through
the emails would violate his
privacy.
Oracle had suggested
Kitzhaber might be with-
holding some emails that
should have been disclosed,
however. The company
claims politics, not poor
workmanship, is why the
$300 million website was
never launched.
The court ruling comes
a week after Kitzhaber gave
his
¿rst
interview, to
Oregon Pub-
lic Broad-
casting,
since resign-
ing in Feb-
ruary 2015.
In a new
Former
F a c e b o o k Gov. John
video, he Kitzhaber
expressed
his desire to lead again, and
blamed his resignation on a
“media narrative” that was
“long on speculation and
short on facts.”
And he expressed con-
¿dence that he will be vin-
dicated when the federal
inÀuence-peddling probe is
complete.
“I know all about being
scrutinized,” he said. “When
the truth is known and the
current investigation com-
plete the public will know
that I was not involved in
any wrongdoing.”
Hoffman had earlier ¿led
a motion on Kitzhaber’s
behalf to quash a federal
grand jury subpoena for the
emails, and appealed a fed-
eral judge’s ruling denying
that motion to the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals.
The status of that case,
which is sealed, is unclear.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
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