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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 2017 Cormorants: Corps halted killing of birds Continued from Page 1A According to an update Army Corps spokesman Karim Delgado received Tues- day, the Corps has seen no new nesting efforts on the island as of June 14. Last year, after abandoning thousands of nests and eggs, cormorants did not return to East Sand Island until the end of June. Since finalizing a manage- ment plan in 2015, the Corps, which manages the East Sand Island birds, has secured permits to kill adult dou- ble-crested cormorants and destroy nests each year with the goal of cutting the mas- sive colony in half by 2018, reducing predation on runs of threatened and endangered juvenile salmon. Last year, the agency’s contractors killed nearly 3,000 adult birds and destroyed 1,092 nests. Now, conservation groups say it is clear the Corps’ activ- ities are harming the larg- est known breeding colony of double-crested cormorants in the world. But the Corps blames bald eagles for this year’s exodus and says the cormorants could still return and successfully raise chicks before the breeding season ends. The Corps has halted any killing of the birds until it is clear if the colony will re-estab- lish itself on the island. Last year, double-crested cormorants abandoned approx- imately 8,600 nests, but later returned to the island and estab- lished 3,900 new nests — numbers high enough that the Corps, which had suspended culling activities, resumed kill- ing birds in October. They ended the season with more nests than they would have if culling had gone ahead as planned, Delgado said. “It’s possible still with this year that the same thing could happen again,” he said. Eagles Bob Sallinger, conserva- tion director for the Audubon Society of Portland, sent a let- ter to Robyn Thorson, regional supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, on June 13 requesting that, in light of this year’s dispersal, she imme- diately revoke the permits the agency issued to allow cormo- rants to be killed on and around East Sand Island. “It’s very possible that the combination of eagle preda- tion activity and lethal control activity being conducted by the federal agencies are acting in a cumulative manner to put pres- sure on this colony,” Sallinger wrote. “While the colony may have been able to withstand the pres- sure of eagles alone,” he contin- ued, “the added impacts of per- vasive shooting, egg oiling and other elevated human activi- ties has significantly increased the scope, scale, frequency and intensity of threats to the cormorants.” The only reply he got was an acknowledgment that the agency had received his letter, he said today. He had spoken with the agency before he sent the letter. “And they indicated that they planned to do absolutely noth- ing,” he said. “They are leav- ing it entirely up to the Corps to determine whether or not to resume killing birds.” In his opinion, this is an abdication of their oversight role. The Corps reported in April that eagles were disrupting early nesting attempts on East Sand Island. A whale carcass dumped at nearby Sand Island in early May in an effort to draw bald eagles away from the col- ony attracted up to 40 eagles. Crews worked to remove dead trees from East Sand Island that eagles could use as perches. By May 1, the cormorants had established 258 active nests on the Astoria Bridge, a num- ber that would only continue to grow. Delgado said there are approximately 600 nests on the bridge now, 100 more than last year. Thousands of cormo- rants have been spotted roost- ing there over the past month, but within historic levels, Del- gado said. Nest-building and breeding behavior among double-crested cormorants wasn’t recorded on East Sand Island until mid-May when the Corps counted an esti- mated 5,422 of the birds and 997 nests from aerial imagery. On May 19, only a few days after this count, the Corps says bald eagles scattered the cormo- rants, driving them away from the island. “Clear photographic evi- dence and real-time observation from blinds show bald eagles played a significant role in the dispersal of cormorants,” the Corps reported in a timeline of events. Population According to the Corps, the double-crested cormorant col- ony on East Sand Island — that in 2013 included 14,916 nesting pairs — accounts for more than 40 percent of the entire Western population. At this point, Fish and Wild- life, which monitors the over- all population, does not have concerns about the Western cormorants. There are an esti- mated 76,306 breeding pairs total for the Western popula- tion, according to the agency’s 2016 evaluation. “Looking at that broader population level, we know that it’s common for populations of cormorants to fluctuate and kind of ebb and flow,” said Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Miel Corbett. “The role of East Sand Island is a little bit less than originally assumed,” she said. Graduate: 100 Astoria grads applied for program Continued from Page 1A The promise Oregon Promise debuted this year, subsidizing tuition at the state’s 17 community col- leges for recent high school and GED graduates after fed- eral financial aid and other scholarships were accounted for. The program offered up to nearly $3,400 a year, the aver- age annual tuition at commu- nity colleges. Lloyd Mueller, Clatsop Community College’s director of financial aid, said the pro- gram locally paid $99,914 in tuition and fees for 61 students over the past year. Four students using the program earned aca- demic transfer degrees this year, he said, while a fifth earned a certificate to become a medical assistant. Karna said that most terms, she only paid $40 to $60 out of college,” Beth Frausto, pocket per class after financial aid. She is a counselor at Asto- ria High School, said. working two jobs over the summer, before “If they know they can enroll in college moving in the fall to attend Portland State, and they have mini- where she expects to mal cost, they’re more Katherine likely to try community get more financial aid Karna — and start taking out college.” student loans. Of the 124 Oregon “It’s very amazing that this Promise-eligible Astoria gradu- program exists,” she said. “I ates this year, Frausto said, 100 never thought there would applied for the program, with be something that could help 85 meeting the minimum 2.5 me out this much. It really did GPA requirement. Statewide, seem like a miracle in my life. It more than 6,800 recent high was there when I needed it the school graduates used the Ore- gon Promise program over the most.” last academic year. Endi Harti- gan, a spokeswoman and pol- ‘Biggest advantage’ Local high schools have icy specialist for the state’s pushed as many students as pos- Higher Education Coordinat- sible to apply for Oregon Prom- ing Commission overseeing the program, said the state funded ise, regardless of their plans. “I think the biggest advan- $11.7 million in tuition over the tage that it gives students is if past year. 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Tuesday night’s outcome in a Georgia special House race was a triumph for the GOP, and the most recent, and devas- tating, illustration of the Democrats’ problems, from a weak bench and recruiting problems to divisions about what the party stands for. Instead of a win or even a razor-thin loss by Democrat Jon Ossoff that many had expected, Republican Karen Han- del ended up winning by a relatively comfortable 5 percent- age point margin in the wealthy suburban Atlanta district pre- viously held by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. That followed another recent Democratic disappointment in Montana, where the Republican candidate won even after last-minute assault charges, and an earlier loss for the Demo- crats in Kansas. Indeed the best news Democrats got Tuesday night was that a different special House race, in South Carolina, ended up closer than the Georgia contest even though it had drawn little national attention. 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After eight years of phenomenal growth by upending the taxi business, Uber had reached a point where the culture that created the company had become an albatross that threatened to kill it. In a statement, the 40-year-old co-founder said his resigna- tion would help Uber go back to building “rather than be dis- tracted with another fight,” an apparent reference to efforts on the board to oust him. It was unclear who would replace Kalanick. Saudi king upends royal succession, names son as 1st heir RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman today appointed his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince, placing him first-in-line to the throne and removing the country’s counterterrorism czar and a figure well-known to Washington from the line of succession. The monarch stripped Prince Mohammed bin Nayef from his title as crown prince and from his powerful position as the country’s interior minister overseeing security. The announce- ments were made in a series of royal decrees carried on the state-run Saudi Press Agency. The all-but-certain takeover of the throne by Mohammed bin Salman awards near absolute powers to a prince who has ruled out dialogue with rival Iran, has moved to isolate neigh- boring Qatar for its support of Islamist groups and who has led a war in Yemen that has killed thousands of civilians. LISTINGS THE DAILY ASTORIAN A and GED graduates enter com- munity college, usage of the program is expected to increase. The higher-education commis- sion has requested $39.7 mil- lion to fund and expand the pro- gram over the next two fiscal years, which Gov. Kate Brown also recommended in her pro- posed budget for the coming biennium, along with $151 mil- lion for the Oregon Opportu- nity Grant helping low-income students. But the funding level for such programs amid the state’s efforts to fill a $1.4 bil- lion revenue shortfall is up to the Legislature. “Certainly by the time the 2017 legislative session adjourns we will know the fund- ing levels for the Oregon Prom- ise, but we do not have a predic- tion as to when that vote will be taken,” Hartigan said. “We plan to send notifications to student applicants in August.” WORLD IN BRIEF Evening listings WEDNESDAY J UNE 21 A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 KATU News at 6 Jeopardy! Wheel of Fortune The Goldbergs Speechless Modern Family Amer. Housewife To Tell the Truth (N) KATU News at 11 (:35) Jimmy Kimmel KOMO 4 News Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! The Goldbergs Speechless Modern Family Amer. 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