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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2016
SMART program volunteers honored
The Daily Astorian
WARRENTON — On May
18, certiicates of appreciation
were presented to the volunteers
of the Start Making A Reader
Today (SMART) Program. The
awards and social event, held
by the Veterans Speaker Bureau
(VSB), took place at the War-
renton Christian Church.
SMART volunteers work
with irst, second and third grade
students at Warrenton Grade
School during the school year to
help enhance the students’ learn-
ing and reading abilities and
provide encouragement.
Speakers at the event were
the vice principal of the school,
Robbie Porter, and SMART
Northeast Area Program Man-
ager Paula Seid. Volunteers
who received an award and
a personal gift were local
SMART coordinator Jeanne
Feds reject request
to lift Snake River
fall Chinook listing
By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho — The irst
attempt to delist one of the 13
species of Columbia Basin
salmon and steelhead pro-
tected under the Endangered
Species Act has been denied
by federal authorities.
The decision made public
Thursday by National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administra-
tion Fisheries cites concerns
Snake River fall Chinook
wouldn’t remain viable with-
out continued protections.
Scott Rumsey, NOAA’s
branch chief for the protected
resources division, said the
agency wasn’t surprised that
the irst petition to delist came
for what he called one of the
healthiest of the listed stocks in
the basin.
“We’re encouraged that
we’re getting close, but in this
determination we’re saying
we’re not quite there yet,” he
said.
An Alaska commercial
ishing advocacy group called
Chinook Futures Coalition
requested the delisting in Jan-
uary 2015.
The group is concerned
that protected Snake River fall
Chinook limit quotas of king
salmon because of incidental
catching of the protected Snake
River ish that travel to waters
off Alaska. The group was hop-
ing to get the species delisted
ahead of Paciic Salmon Treaty
negotiations between the U.S.
and Canada. The current treaty
runs through 2018.
The coalition, in a statement
emailed to The Associated
Press, said it was disappointed
in the decision and believes that
the best available science sup-
ports a decision to delist.
“The Coalition contin-
ues to be committed to pro-
moting sustainable, responsi-
bly-managed salmon isheries
in southeast Alaska and will
be discussing how to proceed
in coming weeks,” the group
said.
Researchers
estimate
500,000 Snake River fall Chi-
nook returned in the late 1800s
but that fell to 350 by 1992
when the salmon were listed
as threatened.
Biologists say the species
is limited to about 20 percent
of its former range, spawn-
ing in a 100-mile section of
the Snake River above Lower
Granite Dam up to the Hells
Canyon Complex of dams in
the Snake River Canyon. The
ish also spawn in the Clear-
water River.
Oficials say the ive-year
average of ish spawning for
2010 to 2014 is about 38,000
ish, with about 70 percent of
those of hatchery origin.
Certificates of appre-
ciation were given
to Start Making A
Reader Today volun-
teers by the Veterans
Speaker Bureau. Pic-
tured, back row, from
left, Bill Logsdon,
Marjorie Landburg,
Helen Dessen, Jeanne
Moha, Carol Snell,
and Mel Jasmin. Seat-
ed, M’Liz Crawford.
Moha, along with M’Liz Craw-
ford, Linda Cox, Helen Des-
sen, Mel Jasmin, Carol Snell,
Karen Ruscheinsky, Karen
Layton, Majorie Landburg and
Lydora Clark. Refreshments
were served and a photo ses-
sion held.
In addition to the volunteer
event, VSB provided “Awe-
some” award certiicates for
each of the 40 students enlisted
in the program.
Submitted Photo
Mushroom hunting
Former Oregon
heating up in wake of irst lady must cover
Northwest wildires
newspaper’s legal costs
By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho — From
lames come fungi.
That means mushroom hunt-
ers are checking maps outlining
last year’s many Northwest wild-
ires before heading into forests
this month searching for the eas-
ily identiiable and woodsy-tast-
ing morels.
“It’s going to be a good sea-
son for inding morel mush-
rooms, there’s no doubt about
that,” said Brian Harris, spokes-
man for the Payette National For-
est in Idaho.
The spongey-looking delica-
cies have deied commercial cul-
tivation and can retail for $20 a
pound.
“They’ve got a kind of cult
following,” Boise Co-op North
End produce manager Tommy
West said. “When they do come
into season they usually move
pretty good.”
Nearly a million acres of U.S.
Forest Service land burned last
year in Idaho, Oregon and Wash-
ington, the National Interagency
Fire Center said. Maps of speciic
wildire perimeters are available
online at the Forest Service’s
InciWeb.
On the Payette National For-
est, harvesters who want the
mushrooms for personal use can
gather up to 5 gallons a day with-
out a permit. A 21-day commer-
cial permit from the U.S Forest
Service allowing more than 5
gallons costs $200.
While the tastiness of morels
is well understood, the dificulty
of studying them in the wild
makes them something of a mys-
tery and pinpointing where they
might appear dificult.
Mushroom spores by the mil-
lions can spread over an area.
The spores germinate and cre-
ate delicate underground growths
that look like spider webs. The
growths eventually include nutri-
ent storage areas. Experts say
these formations, called sclerotia,
can exist for years, but the fruit-
ing bodies desired by mushroom
pickers only appear when condi-
tions are right, and that might not
be for decades.
“After a moderate ire moves
through an area these ‘ready to
go’ sclerotia form fruiting bodies
referred to as post-ire morels,”
said Merlin White, a Boise State
University assistant professor, in
an email to The Associated Press.
“Post-ire morels commonly start
fruiting a few weeks after a ire
and continue to fruit for about
two years before seemingly dis-
appearing from the landscape.”
Prime picking areas can be
hard to identify even with a good
understanding of morel repro-
duction. Some scouting could
pay off, especially if a small
lower called the western white
trillium is spotted, an early indi-
cator morels might pop up, Har-
ris said.
Associated Press
PORTLAND — A judge
has ordered former Oregon
irst lady Cylvia Hayes to pay
The Oregonian/OregonLive
$127,760 to cover the news
organization’s legal costs in her
failed public-records lawsuit.
Hayes had tried to block
the paper from obtaining her
emails in the wake of an inlu-
ence-peddling scandal that
lead to Gov. John Kitzhaber’s
resignation.
Marion County Judge
Tracy Prall notiied attorneys
about her decision Wednes-
day. It came nearly 18 months
after the paper irst requested
Hayes’ emails.
Federal agents are still
investigating the former
governor.
Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum ordered Hayes to
turn over messages from her
private account that concerned
public business. Hayes refused
and iled a lawsuit in Febru-
ary 2015 to block the email
release.
She contended she wasn’t a
public oficial and not subject
to the Oregon Public Records
Law. Judge Prall ruled in
news organization’s favor in
August. A different judge then
reviewed more than 72,000
emails and decided nearly
two-thirds of the messages
should be released.
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