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The selie — in an elevated form
LightBox gallery
opens juried
photo exhibition
ASTORIA — LightBox Pho-
tographic Gallery will open
“The Elevated Selie: Be-
yond the Bathroom Mirror”
with an artists’ reception
from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday,
May 14.
“The Elevated Selie” is
a juried group exhibit and
collaboration with Portland
nonproit Photolucida. Juried
by Photolucida’s Laura
Moya and Laura Valenti,
selected images will be ex-
hibited at LightBox May 14
to June 7 and at the Grifin
Museum of Photography in
Massachusetts from July 12
to Sept. 13.
Dedicated to increas-
ing understanding through
photography, Photolucida, is
a nonproit organization that
awards merit-based schol-
arships to their Portfolio
Reviews and international
scholarships to their Critical
Mass program.
Participating photog-
raphers include Rebec-
ca Akporiaye, Suzanne
Explore the land this
summer with NCLC
Enjoy guided walks,
hikes in meadows,
forests, wetlands
SUBMITTED PHOTO
LightBox Photographic opens “The Elevated Selie” with a re-
ception May 14.
Beaumont, Sheri Lynn
Behr, Beata Bernina, Lika
Brutyan, Lorenka Campos,
Carol Dass, Elizabeth Bai-
ley Dyer, Shana Einhorn,
Cheryl Fallon, Jennifer
Henriksen, Erika Huffman,
Diana Nicholette Jeon,
Kinsey Kline, Lauren Ko-
plowitz, Patricia Lay-Dors-
ey, Elizabeth Clark Libert,
Andrew Lucchesi, Caroline
MacMoran, Kelsey Ma-
gennis, Susanne Maude,
Jennifer McClure, Kathryn
Mussallem, Michel O’Ha-
ra, David Pace, Catherine
Panebianco, Connie Gardner
Rosenthal, Barbara Rufini,
Jacinda Russell, Sunny Sel-
by, Ilma Szekeres, Randall
Tosh, David Wolf, Shelley
Wood and Birgit Zartl.
Visit lightbox-photo-
graphic.com/shows for
complete exhibit and
artists’ info. LightBox offers
associate memberships as
a way of becoming part of
the community of sup-
porters that help to further
the mission of the gallery.
LightBox provides photo-
graphic printing and archival
framing, restorations and
other photographic services.
LightBox is located at 1045
Marine Drive. For more
information, call 503-468-
0238.
CLATSOP and TILLAMOOK
COUNTIES — North Coast
Land Conservancy is
offering a series of 13
guided outings to the pub-
lic beginning in early June
and continuing through the
end of August.
Most of the outings take
place between Warrenton
and Manzanita with one
excursion taking place at
Clay Myers State Natural
Area in Pacific City.
Several walks at Circle
Creek Habitat Reserve
will explore the floodplain
in all its many stages,
encourage participants to
slow down and observe
the dynamic processes of
the forest, and venture up
Tillamook Head and into
Boneyard Ridge. Two easy
hikes are planned at Clear
Lake in Warrenton, one
focusing on the restoration
project and the other tak-
ing a geologist’s point of
view. Two other walks are
set along the Coastal Edge
at Devil’s Cauldron and
the Elk Flats in Oswald
West State Park.
A geology walk is
planned at the Nation-
al Park Service’s Yeon
Property north of Gear-
hart, and a coastal prairie
walk highlighting NCLC’s
stewardship strategies is
planned at Reed Ranch
Habitat Reserve, set in the
Neacoxie Wildlife Corri-
dor between Gearhart and
Warrenton. Participants
can visit the returning for-
est, spot birds and learn to
identify trees in the Ecola
Creek Forest Reserve in
Cannon Beach. And a 3.7-
mile hike is planned along
the Fort to Sea and Kwis
PHOTO BY JOSHUA BESSEX
Carla Cole, the natural resources program manager at Lewis
and Clark National Historical Park, discusses a hemlock tree
during an On the Land event in July 2015. This summer, Cole
will lead a hike along the Fort to Sea and Kwis Kwis trails.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
NCLC Executive Director Katie
Voelke will lead three On the
Land outings this summer.
Kwis trails in Lewis and
Clark National Historical
Park.
North Coast Land
Conservancy’s Summer on
the Land outings bring to-
gether staff and volunteer
naturalists to offer guided
outings on special lands
in NCLC’s service area,
including in some habitat
reserves that are not nor-
mally open to the public.
Most outings are two
hours in length. All out-
ings are free, but partic-
ipants must sign up in
advance to help NCLC
keep groups small. Most
excursions are limited
to about 15 participants.
The first and last outings
— hikes at Circle Creek,
led by NCLC Executive
Director Katie Voelke and
ecologist Mike Patter-
son — have no cap on the
number of participants, but
registration is still encour-
aged.
This year, registration
opens 30 days in advance
of each outing. Registra-
tion for June walks is now
open.
Visit North Coast Land
Conservancy’s website,
NCLCtrust.org/on-the-
land-summer-outings, for
details or to register.
Based in Seaside, North
Coast Land Conservancy
has been working since
1986 to conserve and
connect the landscape of
the Oregon Coast from
the Columbia River to
northern Lincoln County.
The private, nonprofit land
trust works to ensure that
this extraordinary region
is a place where healthy
communities of people,
plants and wildlife can all
thrive.