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they left home and they came
back, and we’re here tonight.”
Seaside’s Mark Brooks
carried Bronson Brooks on his
shoulders, the youngster cele-
brating his first parade.
Seaside resident and
chamber ambassador Cyn-
thia Miner was among those
giving out cookies, hot cider
and cocoa for guests to enjoy.
The weather, on the cusp of a
downpour, didn’t faze her a
bit. “We’re excited,” she said.
“This is what we’re used to.”
Seaside’s Visitor Informa-
tion Specialist Ken Heman
manned the loudspeaker in
front of the holiday tree. “It
actually stops raining just
before the parade, and starts
raining after,” Heman said.
“You can tell who the true
Oregonians because they are
standing in the rain with no
umbrellas.”
Parade through town
Lo and behold, shortly
after 7, the rain paused and the
parade kicked off from First
Avenue on Necanicum Drive.
In the lead were students
from Seaside schools, wear-
ing the Gulls’ red and white
and celebrating the passage of
the bond to move schools out
of the tsunami zone.
The procession stretched
down Broadway, past Finn’s,
Zingers, Sharky’s and around
the bend.
Honking horns from Sea-
side Fire and Rescue heralded
the convoy to follow, includ-
ing the big trucks of the Clat-
Joe Mabel/Submitted Photo
The downtown waterfront in Hoquiam, Washington as
seen from across Riverside Avenue from the Polson
Museum in 2009.
Oil depot: ‘Whatever
we do, we expect it
to be appealed’
Jeff Ter Har/For The Daily Astorian
Jobs touted
sop County Sons of Beaches.
Thomas the Train, Snoopy
and more cartoon favorites
drew cheers, along with trucks
from Pacific Power, FedEx
and local businesses — about
30 in all. Miss Oregon Alexa
Mather greeted the crowd,
accompanied by local Miss
Oregon scholarship program
contestants. An ornate rendi-
tion of Santa’s Workshop was
followed by a manger scene
presented by Seaside’s River
of Life Fellowship.
Seaside’s Michelle Hughes
marched in Seahawks’ foot-
ball fanwear with family
members from Kennewick,
Washington, to cheer on their
favorite team. “They’re going
to go to the Super Bowl, of
course!” Hughes laughed.
As the parade turned
down Downing and the last
floats moved through the
crowd, onlookers gathered
for the tree-lighting and car-
ols. Voices rang out, singing
holiday favorites including
“White Christmas,” “Win-
ter Wonderland” and “Here
Comes Santa Claus.”
Santa time
Who were the luckiest kids
at the parade?
Leilani, Leila and Keoni
Durham were first in line for
Santa Claus, accompanied by
their parents, Mona and Brian
Durham of Warrenton. Leila
was looking forward to a new
bed comforter and Keoni was
poised to ask Santa for a toy
train.
Sandy McDowall of the
Seaside Chamber of Com-
merce estimated the parade
drew about 2,000-3,000 peo-
ple from “all over.”
“I love the holidays in Sea-
side,” McDowell said, join-
ing the chamber ambassadors
serving cider and cocoa.
“There’s nothing like a lit-
tle bit of ‘sunshine,” chamber
President Brian Owen added.
The rain did hold through
the entire length of the parade.
And by its end, the holi-
day lights shined bright on
Broadway.
Tour: Beach Bill anniversary to be lauded
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Murdy-Trucke also dis-
cussed part of Cannon
Beach’s rich history, includ-
ing the difficult routes peo-
ple endured to get to town
before the highway system
was built.
“They were determined to
get here, despite it being just
a trail,” Murdy-Trucke told
the group. “That kind of spirit
has stuck around.”
Commissioners
then
toured the outside of the rus-
tic West-Bouvy log cabin,
originally constructed by for-
mer Gov. Oswald West in
1913 as a summer home for
his family. The home sold in
the 1930s to the Bouvy fam-
ily, and descendants of the
family still own the home
today.
After an arsonist burned
the home down in 1991, the
family had architects rebuild
the home as a replica of the
original cabin, according to
Murdy-Trucke.
“It is believed by some
that the inspiration for West’s
beach law was his sum-
mer retreat,” Murdy-Trucke
wrote.
Beach Bill
celebration to come
Oregon Parks and Recre-
ation will work with the Ore-
gon Coast Visitors Associ-
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Colorful floats and costumes were the order of the day at the Seaside Parade of Lights.
Lyra Fontaine/The Daily Astorian
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department commissioners tour the historic West-Bouvy
log house in Cannon Beach. The house was built by former Gov. Oswald West in 1913.
ation and Travel Oregon to
organize a yearlong celebra-
tion for the Beach Bill 50th
anniversary in 2017.
West is considered the
“Father of the Oregon
Beaches,” according to a state
parks document from 1977.
West introduced a beach bill
in 1913 declaring the ocean
shore from the Washington
state line to the California
state line a public highway,
providing groundwork for the
Beach Bill.
Dry sand area could still be
privately owned until 1967,
when the Beach Bill was
signed by Gov. Tom McCall.
The bill guaranteed that the
public has free and uninter-
rupted access to the beaches
along Oregon’s 362-mile
shoreline. The ocean shore
also became administered as
a state recreation area.
The tour’s final stop was
at the dunes by the Breakers
Point condominiums, the site
of several contentious dune
grading requests in past years.
Homeowners have expressed
frustration about the dunes’
obstruction of their views of
and access to the ocean.
Houston-based Contanda
says the project would bring
jobs and economic benefits
to the region and the facility
would be built to the strictest
local, state and federal safety
and environmental protocols.
“We’re confident that we
can safely build and oper-
ate the facility in a way that
protects our employees, our
neighbors, and the environ-
ment, using the environ-
mental impact statement as
a guide,” Contanda spokes-
man Paul Queary said in a
statement.
“We look forward to
receiving permits from the
city so we can start construc-
tion, put people to work, and
provide the community with
tax revenue and other eco-
nomic benefits,” he added.
An environmental review
completed by the state and
Hoquiam in September pro-
posed dozens of measures
to offset or reduce impacts,
but said there would be sig-
nificant impacts to tribal
resources and to health and
safety if a crude oil spill, fire
or explosion occurs that could
not be avoided even with such
measures in place.
“The variety of impacts
that are discussed and dis-
closed give the city of
Hoquiam the evidence it
needs to deny the permit,”
said Kristen Boyles, an attor-
ney with Earthjustice repre-
senting the Quinault, whose
reservation sits about 30 miles
up the coast from the pro-
posed site.
The tribe says moving mil-
lions of gallons of crude oil by
train and tankers through the
region put the tribe’s safety,
treaty-reserved fishing rights
and way of life at risk.
An environmental review
found that increased vessel
docking and traffic in the nav-
igation channel would restrict
access to tribal fishing areas,
and that proposed measures
such as giving advance notice
of vessels would reduce but
not eliminate that impact.
Consultant
Hoquiam City Adminis-
trator Brian Shay said the city
has hired an independent con-
sultant to review the project
OREGON CAPITAL
Map: The goal is to identify multiple
species in a single test from one sample
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That technology is evolv-
ing, said Michael Schwartz, the
Forest Service’s director of the
National Genomics Center for
Wildlife and Fish Conservation
in Missoula, Montana. Cur-
rently, he said, scientists can
detect only one species at a time
in a stream sample. He said the
goal is to identify multiple spe-
cies in a single test from one
sample. A rough estimate for
when that might be possible is
about a year, he said.
The trove of information has
the potential to be so vast that
questions not presently imag-
ined might arise.
“Any time science under-
takes large projects like this,
the payouts can be in directions
you don’t expect,” Schwartz
said.
Ultimately, he said, the pub-
licly available information
could be used by someone with
an iPad or other device who
could go to a section of river
and see what species it contains.
Genesis
The Aquatic Environmen-
tal DNA Atlas for the west-
ern U.S. has its genesis in a
smaller-scale project called
the Bull Trout Environmen-
tal DNA Atlas involving five
states — Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, Oregon and Wash-
ington — where the feder-
ally protected fish is found.
That effort, Isaak said, has
discovered bull trout in areas
where they were thought not
to exist.
Isaak also has been work-
ing on something called the
Cold Water Climate Shield
to identify streams that could
serve as a refuge for cold
water species, such as bull
trout, if global warming con-
tinues. That map uses mil-
lions of temperature record-
ings going back decades and
has expanded to include most
of the western U.S. Stream
temperatures in lower ele-
vations have risen several
degrees over the past 30
years, Isaak said. The DNA
Atlas has been confirming the
kind of species present as pre-
dicted by the Cold Water Cli-
mate Shield, Schwartz said.
What scientists ultimately
hope to do is combine all
the information from stream
temperatures, DNA Atlas
sampling, topography and
weather patterns to get more
insights into species distribu-
tion patterns and even how
entire ecosystems function.
“The data sets can be big-
ger because computers are
bigger,” Isaak said.
Even for Isaak, who is
called a visionary by his col-
leagues, the leaps in technol-
ogy that make his ideas possi-
ble can be mind-boggling.
“It’s just been an ongoing
revelation,” he said, recall-
ing 15 years ago using pencil
and paper to make streamside
observations. “It still seems
like magic to me that you can
go take a water sample and
you have instruments pow-
erful enough to discern what
species are present.”
INSIDER
and write a draft decision. He
says he typically accepts such
decisions. The public com-
ment period ended a week
ago, and a decision isn’t likely
until January, he added.
“Whatever we do, we
expect it to be appealed,”
Shay said.
Hoquiam
previously
issued a permit for the oil ter-
minal project in 2013.
The Quinault and groups
such as the Sierra Club and
Surfrider Foundation chal-
lenged it, and a state hear-
ings board reversed the per-
mit. The city and Department
of Ecology began an environ-
mental review in 2014 that
was released in September.
That analysis proposes
tug escorts, setting up oil spill
prevention and response plans
and other measures to lessen
environmental impacts, but
says that “no mitigation mea-
sures would completely elim-
inate the possibility of a spill,
fire, or explosion, nor would
they completely eliminate the
adverse consequences.”
The U.S. Fish and Wild-
life Service recently told the
city that it agrees with the
Quinault Indian Nation that
denying the permit “is the
only defensible decision.” It
says the “proposal poses risks
to our communities and to
unique natural resources that
cannot be fully mitigated,
including U.S. Fish and Wild-
life Service trust resources.”
At one time, three oil ter-
minals were proposed for the
Port of Grays Harbor.
U.S. Development noti-
fied the port last year that
it would not renew a lease
option for a proposed oil ter-
minal. Renewable Energy
Group, formerly Imperium,
told state and local regulators
late last year that it dropped
plans to handle crude oil as it
pursues an expansion project.
In the meantime, the
Hoquiam City Council in
2015 approved a ban on any
new crude oil storage facil-
ities within city limits. The
tribe argues that the project
should be covered by that
ban.
The Quinault tribe and
others have also challenged
the review of the project in
court. Last month, the Wash-
ington Supreme Court heard
arguments in the case.
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