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Expand your sustainable gardening Learn how a former dairy farm is
skills at master gardener workshop being restored to wetland habitat
Learn to propagate
herbaceous plants,
join work party at
Discovery Garden
ILWACO, Wash. — The
Washington State University
Master Gardeners of Paciic
County will hold their inal
2016 gardening workshop at
the Columbia Paciic Heri-
tage Museum: “Sustainable
Gardening by Propagating
Herbaceous Plants.”
Master gardeners will
demonstrate how to success-
fully propagate plants using
stem cuttings. Bring a small
sharp knife and a favorite
plant to propagate and share.
The workshop will begin at
10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 15
at the museum’s Discovery
Garden, located behind the
museum’s parking lot at 115
S.E. Lake St.
After the workshop,
master gardeners invite at-
tendees to join a work party
in the Discovery Garden.
Bring your favorite garden-
ing tools, and dress for the
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Lower Nehalem
Watershed Council
kicks of 2016-17
speaker series
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weather. The WSU Master
Gardeners of Paciic County
and the Columbia Paciic
Heritage Museum aim to
renovate and maintain a
Paciic County Master Gar-
dener demonstration garden
at the museum.
The workshop and plant
clinic are free and open to
the public.
If you have plant ques-
tions or problems, stop by
and ask a master gardener
any time between 10 a.m. to
1 p.m. If possible, bring sam-
ples of your plant problem.
In addition, master garden-
ers still have raspberry sundae
peony roots available for sale,
just in time for fall planting
ahead of next year’s spring-
time blooms. Add showy col-
or to your garden with these
hardy, dependable shrubs.
For more information,
contact Bev Arnoldy at bev-
arnoldy@gmail.com
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MANZANITA — How do you
restore tidal channels and
wetland habitat in loodplain
areas that have historically
be diked and disconnected?
The Lower Nehalem Wa-
tershed Council’s kick-off
event for its 2016-17 speak-
er series will aim to answer
that question.
Dick Vander Schaaf,
associate director of the
Coast and Marine Conserva-
tion Program for The Nature
Conservancy, will talk
about the Kilchis Estuary
Restoration Project, which
focuses on restoring critical
habitat for native salmon in
Tillamook Bay.
The event will take place
Thursday, Oct. 13 at Pine
Grove Community House,
225 Laneda Ave. Doors open
at 6:30 p.m. for refresh-
ments. The presentation will
start at 7:20 p.m. following
an update from the Lower
Nehalem Watershed Council
at 7 p.m. The event is free
and open to the public.
The Nature Conservancy
purchased a former dairy
farm in 2010 on the low-
er Kilchis River with the
intention to restore the tidal
wetland habitat that once
dominated. The Conservan-
cy used hydrologic model-
ing to develop restoration
scenarios for the project
and to foresee impacts due
to climate change. Vander
Schaaf’s presentation will
step through the planning
and restoration process and
discuss future work at the
site. The project also has
broader implications for
wetland restoration on agri-
cultural lands in Tillamook
County.
Joining Vander Schaaf on
COURTESY OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
At the Kilchis Estuary Preserve in Tillamook County, The Nature
Conservancy is working to restore the land of a former dairy
farm to tidal wetland habitat.
Oct. 13 will be Tillamook
County Community De-
velopment Planner Hilary
Foote, who will give a short
introduction to Senate Bill
1517. Sometimes called the
Oregon Wetlands Bill, it des-
ignates Tillamook County
as the site for a 10-year pilot
project to create a land-use
review process where the
restoration and agricultural
communities of the county
can engage in an exploration
of the ways in which the ag-
ricultural use of high-value
farmland can be preserved in
coordination with wetlands
restoration and enhancement
to the beneit of the larger
community. SB-1517 result-
ed from Oregon’s 2016 leg-
islative session in response
to the restoration work at the
Kilchis Estuary Preserve.
Vander Schaaf provides
leadership and oversight in
coastal and marine projects
that guide and support The
Nature Conservancy’s con-
servation work in Oregon.
He leads estuary conserva-
tion activities on Oregon’s
North Coast, coordinates the
Conservancy’s involvement
in marine reserve implemen-
tation in Oregon’s territorial
waters, and is working on
climate change adaptation as
it relates to coastal conser-
vation. Before focusing on
coastal conservation issues,
Vander Schaaf directed
ecoregional conservation
assessment work for the
Oregon Nature Conser-
vancy and led The Nature
Conservancy’s effort at
public lands conservation in
Oregon. He has been with
the Conservancy since 1983
when he was the Cascade
Head ield intern. He has
a Master of Science in
ecology from the University
of Oregon and a Master of
Planning from the Univer-
sity of Oregon’s Urban and
Regional Planning Depart-
ment.
Foote is a land-use plan-
ner for Tillamook County
focusing on farm and forest
uses and is the project man-
ager for the implementation
of SB-1517. In her spare
time she runs a grass-fed
beef cattle operation in
Nehalem with her husband.
Prior to moving to the North
Coast, Foote spent over a
decade working in utili-
ty-scale renewable energy
development and regulatory
affairs.
For more information,
call 503-368-7424 or email
LNWC@nehalemtel.net