DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2017
144TH YEAR, NO. 137
FLIGHT TO FREEDOM
WILDLIFE CENTER OF THE NORTH COAST RELEASES A RESCUED BALD EAGLE
ONE DOLLAR
West Coast
crab strike
ends after
11 days
Fishermen settle on
$2.875 per pound
The Daily Astorian
EUREKA, Calif. — An 11-day strike by
thousands of West Coast crab fishermen has
ended after a successful negotiation of prices
with seafood processors.
The agreement
reached late Fri-
CRABBERS day will restart the
sputtering season
RESCUED
for much-sought-
after Dungeness
Quick response by
good Samaritans
crabs in Northern
saves five.
California, Oregon
and Washington.
PAGE 2A
The
Hum-
boldt Fishermen’s
Marketing Association told KRCR-TV in
Eureka, California, that the crabbers had set-
tled on a price of $2.875 per pound of crabs
See STRIKE, Page 7A
Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Christina Merten, left, and Josh Saranpaa of the Wildlife Center of the North Coast release an adult male bald eagle near Clats-
kanie on Friday. The eagle was rescued in December after being severely injured from what was likely a territorial bird fight. “I
didn’t think he was going to make it,” said Merten, the center’s wildlife rehabilitation technician. This was Merten’s first bald eagle
that she cared for rescue-to-release. “It’s so rewarding,” she said.
Tony Schick/Oregon Public Broadcasting
The forest surrounding Jetty Creek, the
water supply for the town of Rockaway
Beach, has been logged heavily. Some
residents there say the timber harvests
have impacted their water quality, but the
forest owners, industry groups and the
state’s Department of Forestry disagree.
Timber push
scraps state
water report
DEQ ran afoul of
politically influential
timber industry
By TONY SCHICK
Oregon Public Broadcasting
ABOVE: A rescued bald eagle sits
perched in a nearby tree after being re-
leased by Wildlife Center of the North
Coast on Friday near Clatskanie.
ABOVE LEFT: Wildlife Center of the
North Coast staff prepares to release
an adult male bald eagle on the proper-
ty where it was originally rescued near
Clatskanie.
LEFT: Christina Merten, a wildlife reha-
bilitation technician, and Josh Saranpaa,
executive director of the Wildlife Center
on the North Coast, carry an adult male
bald eagle into a field to be released.
The Oregon Department of Environ-
mental Quality drafted a report that identi-
fied logging as a contributor to known risks
for drinking water quality in communities up
and down the Oregon Coast.
But the report has never been published.
It was scrapped by the agency after
intense pushback and charges of anti-logging
bias from the timber industry and the state
Department of Forestry, according to inter-
views and public records.
In summer 2015, state water-quality spe-
cialists finished a draft of a resource guide
for 50 public water systems along the coast.
It assessed threats to surface water and
offered guidance on how to protect it before
it reaches treatment systems.
See TIMBER, Page 7A
BRINLEY ELIZABETH ANDERSON
Astoria’s first baby of 2017 arrives
The Andersons,
of Naselle, say
their family is
now complete
B
efore dawn broke Jan. 2,
Brinley Elizabeth Ander-
son, the first birth at Columbia
Memorial Hospital this year,
entered the world.
She may have missed her
Jan. 1 due date, but Brinley,
born 8 pounds, 20 inches long,
still holds the title of Astoria’s
New Year’s baby of 2017 and
the first baby born in a Clatsop
County hospital this year. (See
related story on Page 7A)
“My water broke at home
at 3:30 a.m. and she was here
at 6:58 a.m.,” her mother, Mar-
ijane Anderson, of Naselle,
Washington, said. “She came
really quick.”
The experience reminded
Marijane of those movies
where “they’re rushing you in,
and you feel like your baby’s
going to come out in the park-
ing lot.” But she and her hus-
band of 12 years, Wesley
Anderson, managed to reach
the maternity ward in time.
Brinley, who had jaundice,
remained in the hospital an
extra night. But since her dis-
charge Wednesday, the infant
is eating well and gaining
weight, Marijane said.
Both Naselle natives, Mar-
ijane, 31, and Wesley, 32,
were high school sweethearts.
She works as a server at Cast-
aways Seafood Grille, he as
a mechanic and operator for
See BABY, Page 7A
Erick Bengel/The Daily Astorian
Marijane Anderson holds Brinley Elizabeth Anderson,
Astoria’s New Year’s baby, one day after giving birth. The
mother is with her husband, Wesley Anderson (right) and
their children William (far left), 9, and Brielle, 5.