The daily Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1961-current, September 25, 2017, Image 3

Historic Oregon Newspapers

The daily Astorian., September 25, 2017, Page 3A, Image 3

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About The daily Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1961-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 2017)

Prev Page of 10 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (1.4 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Prev Page of 10 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page Text3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 Wildﬁ re season sparks calls for forestry reform Lawmakers seek changes to federal policy By GEORGE PLAVEN EO Media Group PENDLETON — Out of the ashes of another record-breaking wildﬁ re sea- son across the West, Ore- gon lawmakers are calling for changes in the way national forests are managed and how the government pays for ﬁ ght- ing increasingly large, destruc- tive ﬁ res. U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, the state’s lone Republican member of Congress, vis- ited Pendleton and Hermiston on Thursday where he touted the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017, which passed the House Committee on Natural Resources in June. The con- troversial bill includes provi- sions that would expedite cer- tain forest thinning projects, while establishing a pilot pro- gram to resolve legal chal- lenges through arbitration. U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, meanwhile, joined a bipartisan group of senators pushing to end the practice of “ﬁ re borrowing,” where the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are forced to rob money from ﬁ re prevention programs to pay for ﬁ ghting wildﬁ res. Their bill, the Wildﬁ re Disaster Funding Act of 2017, would make federal disaster Genna Martin/Seattle Post-Intelligencer The Eagle Creek Fire was one of several devastating wildfires in Oregon this year. funding available when the cost of ﬁ reﬁ ghting exceeds the 10-year average, thereby maintaining the agencies’ bud- gets for other conservation and restoration programs. In a statement Wednes- day, Wyden said communi- ties are put in danger and ﬁ re prevention work is left undone because of the backward ﬁ re budgeting system. “It’s past time for Con- gress to make it a top priority to end ﬁ re borrowing, stop the erosion of the Forest Service becoming the ‘Fire Service,’ and start treating wildﬁ res like the natural disasters they are,” the Oregon Democrat said. The Forest Service has spent more than $2 billion so far on wildﬁ res nationwide in 2017, setting a new record. Nearly 8 million acres of for- est have been consumed by ﬁ re this summer, including 678,000 acres in Oregon. Lack of management The problem, Walden said, is a lack of active manage- ment in the forests, which has resulted in a buildup of overly dense and dead tree stands ready to burn. “I don’t want to see our forests continue to go up (in ﬂ ames) like they are,” Walden said during a meeting Thursday with the East Oregonian edito- rial board. More than three-quar- ters of the Umatilla and Wal- lowa-Whitman national forests are at moderate to high risk for uncharacteristic ﬁ re, according to the Northern Blue Moun- tains Coalition, a group dedi- cated to increasing forest thin- ning and logging. Across the country, 58 million acres of national forests are at high or very high risk of severe wild- ﬁ res — an area equal to the size of Pennsylvania and New York combined. “We’ve got to deal with these forests,” Walden said. A version of the Resilient Federal Forests Act has passed the House each of the last four years. It focuses on measures to speed up the pace of res- toration, providing categori- cal exclusions for certain proj- ects to expedite environmental review. Projects that would qual- ify for categorical exclusion include hazardous fuels reduc- tion, salvaging dead trees, pro- tecting watersheds or improv- ing wildlife habitat. The bill caps project sizes at 10,000 acres, or 30,000 acres if they are developed by a multi-inter- est collaborative group. Beach cleanups target trash on the coast Volunteers help preserve the environment The Daily Astorian Hundreds of volunteers came to Cannon Beach, Sea- side and Gearhart beaches Sat- urday for the annual SOLVE Beach and Riverside Cleanup . More than 4,600 volun- teers joined the event state- wide, which collected an esti- mated 72,000 pounds of trash and marine debris from 140 project sites . According to SOLVE, cleanups took place along all 362 miles of the Oregon Coast. In addition to removing litter, invasive plants were cleared from 2.5 acres of nat- ural area. In Seaside, SOLVE and the Seaside Lions met at the Turn- around at 10 a.m. and contin- ued efforts through the early afternoon. In Cannon Beach, vol- unteers joined SOLVE and Paciﬁ c Alarms Systems for the cleanup. THE DAILY ASTORIAN M ONDAY E VENING A (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 Submitted P hoto Cleaning up in Seaside. In Gearhart, cleanup teams went to Del Rey Beach in Gearhart. Among items sal- vaged was a car exhaust pipe, SOLVE reported. The most common items found during the event were tiny bits of plastic, cigarette butts, ﬁ shing rope, glass bot- tles and plastic bottles. Items found by volunteers included a door and $20 at the Salmon Headwaters Cleanup at Tim- berline, 20 large Styrofoam blocks in the Multnomah Channel and two bikes along Bear Creek Greenway in Medford. SOLVE was originally about stopping litter, but as the years have passed, their mis- sion has focused in on how volunteers can make a differ- ence with the environment and build a legacy of stewardship, Quintin Bauer, program direc- tor of volunteers, told mem- bers of the Seaside Downtown Development Association this spring. “We want to bring peo- ple together and we want to improve the environment,” Bauer said. “We want to get to the heart of this and stop peo- ple from leaving their trash on the beach.” Upcoming Fall Art Classes October 7, 14, 21, & 28 | 9:30pm Brigitte Willse: Driftwood Carving October 11 | 10am-3pm Sabina Turner: Portrait Painting Choose your medium October 13, 14 & 15 www.SabinaTurner.com As for ﬁ re borrowing, a bipartisan group of sena- W A NTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A Contact: John Anderson • 360-269-2500 ASTOR STREET OPRY COMPANY presents THE BIRDS with special permission from Dramatist Play Service DIRECTED BY SHEILA SHAFFER WRITTEN BY Conor McPherson “A gripping, unsettling, and moving look at human relationships in the face of societal collapse” -Dramatist Play Service October 20-21 Show Dates : October 6, 7, 13, 14,15, 20 & 21 Sunday Matinee : th Kristine Trexel: Paper Box Making House opens at 6:30 pm, with show beginning at 7 pm Stan Riedesel: Let’s Paint Boats Robert Paulmenn: Drawing & Oil Painting Financial resources tors has introduced the Wild- ﬁ re Disaster Funding Act to ensure the ﬁ reﬁ ghting bud- get does not eat into the ﬁ re prevention budget, and allow projects to proceed with greater ﬁ nancial resources. In the same joint state- ment with Wyden, Merkley — an Oregon Democrat — said it is time to reverse what has become a vicious cycle. “The way we fund wild- ﬁ re suppression today is counterproductive and crazy,” Merkley said. “As this ﬁ re season has proven all too vividly, robbing from forest health and ﬁ re pre- vention programs to pay for suppression only creates a vicious cycle of bigger and bigger ﬁ res.” The bill would work by capping the ﬁ reﬁ ghting bud- get at the most recent 10-year average, with any additional funding for ﬁ ghting wildﬁ res coming from federal disas- ter relief coffers. That would place wildﬁ res more in line with other natural disas- ters, such as the hurricanes that have devastated parts of Texas and Florida. Supporters include other Western lawmakers from across the political aisle, including Idaho Republi- cans Mike Crapo and Jim Risch; Colorado Republican Cory Gardner and Democrat Michael Bennet; California Democrat Dianne Feinstein; Washington state Democrat Maria Cantwell; and Utah Republican Orrin Hatch. FROM A STORY BY DAPHNE DU MAURIER Judith McElroy: Acrylic PEBO One day workshop September 30 | 9:30am The bill also directs the Sec- retary of Agriculture to estab- lish a pilot program to resolve lawsuits ﬁ led against forest management through arbitra- tion, rather than heading to court, and would prevent plain- tiffs from recovering their attor- ney fees in such cases under the Equal Access to Justice Act. Opponents of the legisla- tion, however, claim it would severely undermine environ- mental review and cater to the interests of the timber indus- try. Steve Pedery, conserva- tion director for Oregon Wild, described the bill as a wish list for timber lobbyists. “It’s really about maximiz- ing the proﬁ ts of logging cor- porations over the health of our public lands, and the ability for Americans to enjoy them,” Pedery said. Speaking earlier this month to the House Energy and Com- merce Committee, Walden urged support for the bill as a means to jump-start forestry reform. “Year after year, we have catastrophic wildﬁ res on fed- eral lands, some of which have been set aside and managed in a way that they have no man- agement,” Walden said. “So if you want to do something that is extraordinarily important, join us in reforming the way we manage our precious pub- lic lands and federal forests to reduce the fuel loads.” October 21 | 9:30am until finished Sandi Kelley: Zentangle Card Making October 28 | 1:00pm until finished The Great Holiday Gift Sale December 2 9:30am-4pm Second Saturday Art Walks 503.325.4442 106 3rd Street AstoriaArtLoft.com Astoria, Oregon 97103 AstoriaArtLoft@gmail.com October 15 SHOW RUNS THROUGH OCTOBER 21 ST Tickets on Sale ONE HOUR before all shows ***Reservations Recommended*** For tickets, visit our website www.astorstreetoprycompany.com or call 503-325-6104 129 West Bond Street | Uniontown | Astoria www.facebook.com/AstorStreetOpryCompany SCHEDULE A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach at 2 p.m. Evening listings MONDAY S EPTEMBER 25 PM 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 Wheel Fortune (N) Dancing With the Stars (N) KATU News at 6 (N) Jeopardy! (N) The Good Doctor "Burnt Food" (P) (N) KATU News (N) (:35) Jimmy Kimmel KOMO 4 News (N) Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! Dancing With the Stars (N) The Good Doctor "Burnt Food" (P) (N) KOMO 4 News (N) (:35) Jimmy Kimmel NBC News (N) KING 5 News (N) KING 5 News (N) Evening The Voice "The Blind Auditions Premiere" The 'Blind Auditions' start out. (SP) (N) The Brave "Pilot" (P) (N) KING 5 News (N) (:35) Tonight Show KOIN Local 6 (N) Evening News (N) Extra Ent. Tonight BigBang (SP) (N) Sheldon (P) (N) Kevin Can (SP) (N) Me, Myself (P) (N) Scorpion "Extinction" (SP) (N) KOIN 6 News (N) (:35) Colbert KIRO 7 News (N) Evening News (N) KIRO 7 News (N) Ent. Tonight BigBang (SP) (N) Sheldon (P) (N) Kevin Can (SP) (N) Me, Myself (P) (N) Scorpion "Extinction" (SP) (N) KIRO News (N) (:35) Colbert KGW News at 6:00 p.m. (N) Live at 7 (N) Inside Edition The Voice "The Blind Auditions Premiere" The 'Blind Auditions' start out. (SP) (N) The Brave "Pilot" (P) (N) KGW News (N) (:35) Tonight Show Modern Family Modern Family The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Supergirl "Resist" Penn & Teller: Fool Us (N) News at 10 (N) Mom Two and a Half Two and a Half This Old House Business (N) PBS NewsHour (N) Antiques Rd. "Seattle (Hour Two)" The Vietnam War "The Veneer of Civilization (June 1968-May 1969)" (N) The Vietnam War 6 O'Clock News (N) Family Feud Family Feud So You Think You Can Dance "The Finale" The winner is announced. (N) 10 O'Clock News (N) News (N) Page Six TV Mike & Molly Mike & Molly Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory FOX 12's News (N) 9 O'Clock News (N) Family Guy American Dad! The Game The Game Modern Family Modern Family Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory So You Think You Can Dance "The Finale" The winner is announced. (N) Q13 News at 10 (N) Q13 News (N) The Simpsons Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy People of Earth (N) Conan (N) Friends Friends The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Modern Family Modern Family Q13 News at 9 (N) Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Two and a Half Two and a Half (5:15) NFL Football Dallas Cowboys at Arizona Cardinals (L) (:20) SportsCenter Scott Van Pelt presents the day in sports. (N) NFL PrimeTime SportsCenter With Scott Van Pelt (5:15) NFL Football Dallas Cowboys at Arizona Cardinals (L) (:20) SportsCenter (N) Sports Shorts SportsCenter With Scott Van Pelt Jalen & Jacoby ESPN Films Dude Perfect (N) Henry Danger "Live and Dangerous" I Am Frankie (N) Full House Full House Full House Full House Fresh Prince Fresh Prince Friends Friends Jessie Bunk'd K.C. Undercover K.C. Undercover Raven's Home Stuck in Middle Bizaardvark Bizaardvark Liv and Maddie K.C. Undercover Bizaardvark Raven's Home Coming to America (1988, Comedy) Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Eddie Murphy. Date Night (2010, Comedy) Steve Carell, Mark Wahlberg, Tina Fey. Movie The 700 Club (5:00) 2012 (2009, Action) Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, John Cusack. (:10) FXM Presents 2012 (2009, Action) Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, John Cusack. (:40) FXM Presents (5:00) Love and Other Drugs (‘10) Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal. To Be Announced Mariners Access MarinersPre-game MLB Baseball Seattle Mariners at Oakland Athletics Site: Oakland Alameda Coliseum -- Oakland, Calif. (L) Post-game Press Pass (N) MLB Baseball Seattle vs Oakland (5:00) UFC UFC Fight Night MLB Whiparound (L) Speak for Yourself Skip and Shannon: Undisputed Opinions on the biggest sports topics of the day. Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Futurama South Park South Park South Park South Park South Park South Park South Park South Park South Park The Daily Show (N) Opposition (P) (N) American Pickers "Coin-Op Kings" American Pickers "Full Speedo Ahead" American Pickers "The Superfan" American Pickers "Catch-32" (N) (:05) Pawn Stars (N) (:35) Pawn Stars (:05) Pawn Stars (:35) Pawn Stars Streets of Compton Streets of Compton Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G. A revealing story about the late Christopher Wallace. Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress 90 Day Fiancé "What Now?: Part 2" (N) 90 Day Fiancé "Moment of Truth" (N) Counting On "Finding Joy's Dress" (N) Meet the Putmans (N) The American Family Diesel "Race Against the Machine" Diesel Brothers "3 Axles and a Baby" Diesel Brothers "Snow Job" (N) Diesel Brothers "Clash of the Titan" (N) Gear Dogs (N) Diesel Brothers "Clash of the Titan" Alien Deep "Wrecks of the Abyss" Stonehenge Decoded Moose: Titans of the North The Rise of Black Wolf Cougars Undercover KingdomNorth "Return of the Giants" The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013, Drama) Josh Hutcherson, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Lawrence. (5:15) The Hunger Games (‘12) Josh Hutcherson, Jennifer Lawrence. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Pa... (5:00) Blazing Saddles Gene Wilder. Tombstone (1993, Western) Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Kurt Russell. Tombstone (1993, Western) Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Kurt Russell. Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family WWE Monday Night Raw (:05) Modern Fam (:35) Modern Fam Halloween Baking "Monster Mashups" Halloween Baking "Field Of Screams" Halloween Ba "Haunted House Party" Baking "Filled With Surprises" (N) Halloween "Most Monstrous Scares" Cake Wars "The Addams Family" Love It or List It "Tree House Trouble" Love It or List It "Functioning for Four" Tiny Luxury (N) Tiny Luxury (N) Tiny Luxury (N) Tiny Luxury (N) House Hunters (N) House Hunters (N) House Hunters House Hunters We Bought a Zoo (‘11, Comedy/Drama) Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Matt Damon. We Bought a Zoo (‘11) Matt Damon. (5:30) American Reunion (‘12) Alyson Hannigan, Jason Biggs. Anderson Cooper 360 CNN Tonight With Don Lemon CNN Tonight With Don Lemon Anderson Cooper 360 Anderson Cooper 360 CNN Tonight With Don Lemon The Five Hannity Tucker Carlson Tonight The Five Hannity Tucker Carlson Tonight Shark Tank American Greed: Scam American Greed: Scam American Greed "The Lady Killer" American Greed: Scam Paid Program Housewives "Drag Bingo Bombshell" H.Wives "Loose Lips Sink Friendships" Orange County Social (N) The Real Housewives (N) Real Wives Dallas "Viva La Mexico" (N) WatchWhat (N) Real Housewives The Paris Express (‘53) Marius Goring, Claude Rains. Movie (:45) The Phantom of the Opera (‘62) Michael Gough, Herbert Lom. (:15) The Ladykillers (‘55, Cri) Katie Johnson, Herbert Lorn, Alec Guinness. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, Sci-Fi) Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Race to Witch Mountain (‘09) Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. The Princess Bride (‘87) Cary Elwes. Rancher (N) Red Steagall Horse Master Inside Reining Craig Cameron Rural Eve. News Rural America 'Live' "CanCooker" American Rancher Red Steagall Product Showcase