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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2017
Good weather expected for eclipse
Patchy clouds
predicted for
the North Coast
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
The Knappa School Board is deciding what to do with
13 acres of forested land the district owns at the corner
of Grand View Lane and U.S. Highway 30, north of its
main campus.
Knappa schools
mull future of
timber property
Land could
be logged or
developed
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
KNAPPA — North of
Knappa School District lies a
13-acre rectangle of forested
land the district owns.
Last sold to the Columbia
School District in the 1960s
and left to Knappa when it
split with Clatskanie in 1998,
the property is on the same lot
as the main campus but cut
off from the schools by U.S.
Highway 30.
With few options to utilize
the land, the Knappa School
Board is deciding what to do
with the property, directing
Superintendent Paulette John-
son on Monday to seek the
advice of a local retired for-
ester on the value of the tim-
ber, while exploring with the
county a possible partition
of the land from the main
campus.
Johnson said one forester
commented he would not
want to log around a ravine on
the property, but that a Real-
tor determined there could be
six buildable lots in the par-
cel. The school district had
recently taken bids to log the
land, but the school board
was underwhelmed with a
lone response valuing the dis-
trict’s timber at $35,000, and
declined.
Board member Cullen
Bangs, a forest roads coordi-
nator with the state Depart-
ment of Forestry, suggested
contracting Bud Henderson, a
retired forester with Hampton
Affiliates, to help the district
determine the value of tim-
ber on the land and oversee
any bidding process. “He’d be
looking out for the interests
of the school district,” Bangs
said.
Bangs said the last cruise
of the timber stands was fin-
ished in 2012 by employ-
ees with the Department of
Forestry. The department
had worked with Knappa
High School’s forestry class
and former student Kevin
Tilander, who for his senior
project helped cruise the tim-
ber and create a forest stew-
ardship plan. Bangs said the
cruise showed 231,000 board
feet on the parcel north of the
highway, and another 199,000
around the main campus to
the south.
Board member Tammy
Goozee said the school dis-
trict could have Hender-
son help decide if logging
is the best route, and if not,
approach the county about the
partition to make the property
a separate lot. Bangs said the
district could log the land and
use the proceeds to help pay
for a partition.
Board member Ed John-
son said he wants to know
the value of the trees and of
the property as is, considering
potential buyers for residen-
tial property probably don’t
want the land clear-cut.
The school district is also
deciding how best to deal with
trees around campus poten-
tially endangering build-
ings, fences and other infra-
structure. Business Manager
Nikki Fowler said the dis-
trict’s maintenance head,
Bob Brockey, feels confi-
dent he can take most of the
trees down, aside from
some precariously leaning
toward buildings and other
infrastructure.
In other news:
• The school board
voted to accept a bid by
Portland firm DOWA-IBI
Group to perform a facil-
ities assessment and pub-
lic outreach campaign. The
school district recently
received $55,000 in state
Department of Education
grants for the assessments.
Johnson said the firm will
determine the district’s
infrastructure needs and
projected growth, which
will help inform the dis-
trict as it prepares for a
possible bond measure
to fund improvements.
Fowler said the district’s
most recent bond — $5.5
million passed in 2001 for
various campus improve-
ments — will be paid off
in June 2021.
The state Legislature
in 2015 passed legislation
which created a match-
ing state grant program for
up to $8 million for school
districts that secure vot-
er-approved bonds for cap-
ital improvements.
SALEM — Mostly sunny
skies are expected next Mon-
day in Oregon. Except for two
minutes.
At a press conference
Tuesday about the total solar
eclipse that will come to Ore-
gon, one of the rainier states,
before moving across the
country, perhaps the most
anticipated news came from
weather forecaster Tyree
Wilde of the National Weather
Service.
He predicted good weather
on eclipse day, but said patchy
clouds might appear, espe-
cially along the coast. The
weather in Astoria is predicted
to be mostly sunny.
“We really see no major
weather systems coming our
way,” Wilde said.
He added that forecast-
ers are keeping an eye on a
weather system due to arrive
on Tuesday, the day after the
eclipse.
Up to 1 million people are
expected to visit Oregon to
see the eclipse, a quarter of the
state’s normal population.
Officials have been prepar-
ing for worst-case scenarios
— roads jammed with traffic,
cellphone services disrupted
with people unable to call for
help, wildfires breaking out
— with law enforcement, fire-
fighters, ambulance services
and other first-responders
beefing up staffing.
The Oregon National
Guard is also ready to help
deal with the influx. Traffic
could be the heaviest in the
state’s history, officials said.
Authorities, who have used
response drills for a massive
earthquake as a template for
eclipse readiness, are hoping
the worst case scenarios will
not happen, like the Y2K com-
puter bug that was projected to
set off chaos at the beginning
of the year 2000 but ended up
causing few problems.
“We are working together
diligently,” Gov. Kate Brown
said. “So we are hoping that
folks use common sense as
we move forward, that peo-
ple will have a great time for
the 2017 solar eclipse, particu-
larly in the path of totality, and
that everyone stays safe.”
The eclipse will last only
about two minutes in the total
eclipse belt that includes Ore-
gon, but visitors will start
arriving days earlier. Tour-
ism boosters hope they stick
around for a while.
August is peak fire season
in Oregon, and a forestry offi-
cial said there have been more
than 400 fires to date, includ-
ing some in the total eclipse
belt. Rains earlier this week
helped clear the smoky skies
that have limited visibility in
many parts of the state, Wilde
said.
W A NTED
Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber
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AP Photo/Andrew Selsky
Gov. Kate Brown speaks in Salem Tuesday about the com-
ing eclipse that will cross Oregon on Monday.
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