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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017
Washington loses fight, might pay up to $2B to save salmon
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Washing-
ton state lost a major legal bat-
tle Friday, which could force
it spend nearly $2 billion to
restore salmon habitat by
removing barriers that block
fish migration.
A panel of the 9th U.S. Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals last year
affirmed a lower court’s 2013
ruling ordering the state to fix or
replace hundreds of culverts —
large pipes that allow streams
to pass beneath roads but block
migrating salmon.
Idaho and Montana joined
Washington state in asking the
appeals court to reconsider the
case. The court declined to do
so Friday, but several judges
dissented from that decision,
saying it should be reconsidered
because of its significance.
“This is a win for salmon,
treaty rights and everyone who
lives here,” Lorraine Loomis,
chair of the Northwest Indian
Fisheries Commission, said in a
statement. The group represents
21 tribes in western Washing-
ton that challenged the state
over the culverts in 2001, part
of decades-long litigation over
tribal fishing rights.
“Fixing fish-blocking cul-
verts under state roads will open
up hundreds of miles of habitat
and result in more salmon,” she
said.
Messages left with a spokes-
man for the state Attorney Gen-
eral’s Office were not immedi-
ately returned Friday.
Washington had sought a
rehearing, arguing in part that
the court’s decision forces
the state to spend billions to
replace culverts that in some
cases wouldn’t have an impact
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
Melissa Erkel, a fish passage biologist with the Wash-
ington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, looks at a culvert, a
large pipe that allows streams to pass beneath roads but
block migrating salmon, along the north fork of Newau-
kum Creek near Enumclaw, Wash.
on salmon because other there
were other barriers upstream
or downstream that completely
block salmon. It also said the
decision would have broad
implications for other land and
water use management in the
Northwest.
“Ordering a State to spend
money on something that will
make no difference is an abuse
of discretion,” the state argued
Flood: He’d like to work another five years
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also a factor in his applying for
the job.
“I think very highly of Lisa
Nelson, and I’d always stayed
in touch with her,” he said, not-
ing that he worked for her as
an assistant principal at Ilwaco
High School in the early 2000s,
and she had also worked for
him as a teacher prior to that.
And while some poten-
tial applicants may have been
scared off by the uncertainty
surrounding the future of the
facility, Flood saw it as a great
opportunity.
“The other thing that was
very appealing to me was
working with at-risk youth,”
he said. “Some people might
be wary of this. I wasn’t. I’ve
always enjoyed working with
at-risk youth. I’ve always tried
to help them succeed, educa-
tionally and with life skills.”
One more job
Flood’s hire was approved
last May and he began work as
the principal at the youth camp
late last summer. And while it
differs some from other jobs in
education he has had over the
last 39 years, at its core, it’s no
different than any other princi-
pal’s job.
“It’s interesting, in some
ways it’s the same. It’s high
school. It’s math, English,
social studies, science,” he said.
“But the reason this is differ-
ent is because the entire student
body is in need of our help, to
get it turned around get going
the right direction.”
Flood said he was not
actively looking for a new job
when this one came open, but
the opportunity to live at home
again and work for Nelson was
too good to pass up.
“I really like what I do. This
is my 31st year as a principal,”
he said. “I have a great staff
here and the students are worth
working for 100 percent of the
time. And these students have
been totally respectful of me.
They’re really good kids that
need to turn it around and go
down a different road. A good
road.”
He said he’d like to work for
another five years before ulti-
mately retiring.
Biggest challenge
In Flood’s opinion, there are
three things they need to do as
educators in the juvenile deten-
tion center school environ-
ment: Help them educationally
toward a high school diploma,
help them move toward a GED
and teach them life skills. This
past year they’ve had three
inmates earn their diploma and
23 more earn their GED. The
biggest challenge in this?
“They’re not here that
long,” he explained.
Two hundred seventy stu-
dents went through the youth
camp last school year, and out
of those, only 121 were there
90 days or more. The average
length of time for students on
site is around two months. So
when they arrive, Flood and
his team have to put together an
educational plan for each stu-
dent based on how long they
will be there.
“When we get a stu-
dent in that is in pretty good
shape to graduate and we see
we’re going to have them a
few months, everybody goes
to work,” he said. “We try to
make that happen. We’ve had
so much success with that this
year, it’s pretty exciting.”
Buy-in is everything
“I like to work as a team,
and I’ve got a real good team
here,” Flood said. “The other
thing is I like the youth. I really
like them, and I have that
empathetic desire to see them
succeed, not only in educa-
tion — though that’s huge —
but in life. I like to encourage
them. These kids are worth it. I
believe that with all my heart.”
Flood has long been a pro-
ponent of working with stu-
dents one-on-one, and contin-
ues to do that with his current
students.
“You’d be surprised. I con-
gratulate them day to day if
they do well the day before.
If they get A’s, I congratulate
them one-on-one, shake their
hand. I would say a large per-
centage of them enjoy that
congratulation.”
He said if the students don’t
work to their full potential he
meets with them to fix it.
“Not in a critical way or
negative way,” he said. “What
do they think the fix is, and try
to get them to buy-in.”
Flood believes buy-in with
students is the same regardless
if they are in elementary school
or a juvenile detention center
high school. He also feels that
showing the students he per-
sonally believes in them will
promote the idea that doing
their best is what they should
be shooting for.
“Sometimes I tell them that
they need to believe in them-
selves as much as their princi-
pal believes in them,” he said.
“You should see the response I
get on that. You want them to
buy-in to the fact that you can
get good grades every day.
He also talks to them often
about free will.
“I tell them, ‘It’s your
choice. It’s up to you, because
I know you can do it.’ And a
lot of them say, ‘I’ll do better
tomorrow Mr. Flood.’”
FUN-damental
Flood was recently featured
in a Seattle Times article about
a challenge among the juve-
nile detention centers across the
country to promote the reading
of novels. Flood said this was
incredibly popular at Naselle
Youth Camp.
“One of my favorite things
about this high school is these
students read so much,” he said.
“And I’m not just talking in a
class. No, they’re checking out
books and reading on their own
back in their lodges. I just think
that’s so wonderful.”
According to the Times arti-
cle, The Unbound Read-a-thon
challenge saw 23 students at
Naselle, most of them ninth-
grade boys, check out 248 nov-
els during February. And even
after the challenge ended they
are continuing those habits.
“They were so interested
and so wanting to read more,
and they keep reading too. I’ll
often see students holding two
or three books. If they are read-
ing at a 12th grade level, that’s
the level of book they will be
reading.”
The librarian at the school
uses Accelerated Reader — the
same program used in lower
school grades to track the
amount students read — and
holds a pizza party every quar-
ter for those students who reach
a certain reading goal. And
while it may sound silly, out-
side food is great motivator for
students who, in some cases,
haven’t had anything but facil-
ity food for months.
‘Inte-GRIT-y’
When Flood was the prin-
cipal at Hilltop — when it was
a fourth- through sixth-grade
school in the early 2000s — he
was a big proponent of reward-
ing students of the month. The
Bulldog award was given to
students who reached certain
goals for each month, and he
reminded them at each of those
assemblies that “Once a Bull-
dog, always a bulldog.” He has
recycled that idea at the youth
camp with his “Inte-GRIT-y”
award.
“We have a quarterly awards
assembly and I had started giv-
ing what I called the ‘Princi-
pal’s Grit award,’ to remind
them that they must persevere,
no matter what,” Flood said.
“You need to go down the right
road no matter the obstacles or
challenges or difficulties you
face.”
in asking for another hearing.
Culverts, or concrete pipes
or steel structures, can be a
problem for fish in several
ways. Among them, the angle
of the structure may be too steep
for fish to navigate, or stream
flows running through a small
pipe can be too fast for fish to
swim upstream.
The U.S. government sued
Washington in 2001 on behalf
of the 21 tribes to force it to
replace the culverts with struc-
tures that allow fish to pass
through.
Seattle U.S. District Judge
Ricardo S. Martinez held that
fish-blocking culverts contrib-
ute to diminished salmon runs
by blocking access to miles of
suitable streams. In 2013, he
ordered the state to replace hun-
dreds of the highest-priority cul-
verts within 17 years.
The state appealed, arguing
Hillgaertner: His career has
taken him to 44 states and 17
countries on five continents
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Army’s Civil Air Patrol and
in Washington County as a
volunteer firefighter.
His career has taken him
to 44 states and 17 countries
on five continents. He has
regular conversations over
radio with other enthusiasts
around the world and as far
away as Antarctica.
‘Talk to the world’
“If you talk on ham radio,
you can talk to the world,”
Hillgaertner said. “When you
get bored with one particular
activity or style, you can try
another.”
He’s even communicated
through Morse code using
World War II equipment, and
astronauts at the International
Space Station have heard
Hillgaertner’s voice. Hill-
gaertner knows some oper-
ators, with whom he’s com-
municated with for decades,
only by their call signs rather
than their actual names.
The far-reaching connec-
tions also serve a strategical
purpose in Clatsop County.
When a major disaster hits,
internet access, and the boat-
loads of vital communication
that come with it, often halts.
Having a quick form of com-
munication with the outside
world is important in these
cases, Hillgaertner said.
“Local internet will be
down, but someone in the
world will have access to it,”
he said.
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Real-life rehearsal
Though internet was
still working, Hillgaert-
ner and crew responded to
what turned out to be a real-
life rehearsal for potential
disasters.
Earlier this year, someone
hacked in to the fiber optic
LISTINGS
M ONDAY E VENING
that its treaties with the tribes
created no obligation to restore
salmon habitat.
In declining to reconsider,
the panel said Friday that the
lower court properly found the
state violated the treaty rights
of tribes to fish by building and
maintaining salmon-blocking
pipes under those roads. It said
there’s ample evidence that fix-
ing the fish-blocking barriers
will benefit salmon runs, result-
ing in more harvestable salmon
for the tribes.
But several judges disagreed,
said the panel’s opinion “sets up
precedent that could be used to
challenge activities that affect
wildlife habitat in other western
states.” They said the panel’s
decision upholds an overbroad
injunction that requires the state
“to spend millions of dollars on
repairs that will have no imme-
diate effect on salmon habitat.”
cables that support 911 com-
munications in the county,
attempting to steal parts of
them. The hack damaged
cables and rendered 911 tele-
phone lines connected to the
Astoria Regional Dispatch
center useless for a couple
hours.
Those wishing to report
emergencies were directed to
call the main numbers of law
enforcement agencies. Hill-
gaertner and his team spread
out to various fire and police
stations, the Clatsop County
Sheriff’s Office and the dis-
patch center. As calls trick-
led in, the radio operators
helped dispatchers continue
communication between law
enforcement agencies.
“On a moment’s notice,
he went there, he got it
going, When I went there,
it was already in operation.”
Clatsop County Emergency
Services Coordinator Tom
Manning said at a recent
Board of Commissioners
meeting. “He does a fantastic
job and we really do appre-
ciate the good work that he
and all of our volunteers do
in Clatsop County. Manning
nominated Hillgaertner for
a county volunteer award,
which he received at the
April meeting.
Hillgaertner vacated his
current position twice before,
but subsequent departures by
his successors brought him
back. He currently is training
other volunteers to take over
his position some time in the
next few years.
But he ultimately says he
will continue to operate ham
radios until it is no longer
fun. More than half a cen-
tury and dozens of experi-
ences and connections after
he started, it’s not clear when
that day may come.
— Jack Heffernan
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