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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
‘How do you feel about fl u shots? Would you get one?’
THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK
“I think they’re im-
portant. Some would
disagree, but at our
age every little leg
up helps.”
“I think they’re very
good. I’m really sus-
ceptible to this stuff.
I’m very religious
about getting the
shot.”
“Yes. Because I think it’s
necessary for younger
kids and seniors. I
took care of a senior,
and I could easily give
her the fl u. If there is
a shot that can prevent
something, and there’s a high percent of
positive result, then that’s a defi nite yes.”
Jeff Campbell, Astoria
Donna K. Wright, Astoria
Terisa Misner, Svensen
Wildfi res push Oregon hunters and hunted into new terrain
By MARK FREEMAN
Medford Mail Tribune
MEDFORD — Wildfi res
will displace both hunters and
the hunted this fall as burning
forests and backwoods pub-
lic-safety closures push men
and beasts into new haunts.
Big-game animals such
as deer and elk do fi ne in the
face of wildfi re, often showing
uncanny abilities to stay ahead
of encroaching fl ames or fi nd-
ing green oases amid a fi re’s
roar. And while deer and elk
won’t be returning to burned
areas around Prospect and
Union Creek anytime soon,
they likely will feel at home in
the smoky areas immediately
around wildfi res and closed
areas, biologists say.
“While they seem to know
how to avoid the fi res, we have
no indication that they avoid
smoke,” says Mark Vargas, the
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife’s Rogue District
wildlife biologist.
“We’ve had many instances
where there’s a herd of elk a
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Smoke from the Chetco Bar Fire.
half-mile from a fi re and smoke
so thick you can’t breathe,” he
says. “And there are the elk,
foraging. It just doesn’t alter
their behavior.”
So add a N95 smoke mask
to your daypack essentials this
fall, because successful deer
and elk hunters likely will
fi nd themselves in precisely
the smoky conditions they and
other Oregonians have been
trying to avoid in town for the
past two months.
“I wouldn’t give up on
smoky areas,” Vargas says.
“You can’t avoid it. There’s
smoke everywhere.”
Closures
With more than 300,000
acres of wildfi re area in south-
west Oregon alone, area clo-
sures in the region are unprec-
edented. The entire Sky Lakes
and Rogue-Umpqua Divide
wilderness areas are closed to
the public for the fi rst time.
Other fi res have caused the
public to be forced out of huge
swaths of land in the Prospect
and Union Creek areas, while
lower elevations continue to
see public-access closures on
private industrial lands.
The Chetco Bar Fire based
largely in Curry County cov-
ers more than 190,000 acres,
while the Miller Complex of
fi res in the Applegate Valley
covers more than 36,000 acres.
While the closed wilder-
ness areas will displace hun-
dreds of hunters who look to
get away from crowds, per-
haps the most hunters will be
impacted by the nearly 64,000
acres in the High Cascades
Complex of fi res.
Because many hunters will
be forced out of their some-
times decades-old comfort
zones, they will have to try
new terrain to get their hunts
in this fall.
“I know it can be an incon-
venience,” Vargas says. “But
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
73
54
55
ALMANAC
61
49
Mostly cloudy with a
couple of showers
Cloudy with a passing
shower or two
Full
Salem
53/85
Newport
54/69
Oct 5
Coos Bay
53/71
New
Oct 12
Ontario
42/78
Burns
32/74
Klamath Falls
39/78
Lakeview
37/75
Ashland
52/86
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
1:52 a.m.
1:55 p.m.
Low
1.1 ft.
3.3 ft.
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Hi
75
76
75
84
78
77
88
86
76
78
Today
Lo
35
42
55
50
58
39
51
54
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53
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City
Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
80
79
83
88
86
81
73
86
82
80
Today
Lo
49
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
Hi
90
81
74
57
70
78
78
53
89
79
69
86
90
89
89
90
90
84
64
88
76
68
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89
Baker
35/77
REGIONAL CITIES
Tonight's Sky: First Quarter Moon (7:53 p.m.)
Today
Lo
69
68
51
45
50
51
63
39
77
53
50
66
64
68
77
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74
68
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68
54
48
60
58
70
La Grande
42/78
Roseburg
52/89
Brookings
55/69
Oct 19
John Day
49/78
Bend
42/79
Medford
51/87
UNDER THE SKY
High
5.9 ft.
6.8 ft.
Prineville
41/81
Lebanon
52/85
Eugene
50/84
Last
Pendleton
49/82
The Dalles
48/85
Portland
59/85
Sunset tonight ........................... 7:03 p.m.
Sunrise Thursday ........................ 7:10 a.m.
Moonrise today .......................... 2:24 p.m.
Moonset today ......................... 11:49 p.m.
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
Mostly cloudy, showers
around; cooler
Tillamook
50/76
SUN AND MOON
Time
8:41 a.m.
7:36 p.m.
62
49
Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
55/73
Precipitation
Tuesday ............................................ 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 2.68"
Normal month to date ....................... 1.75"
Year to date .................................... 52.74"
Normal year to date ........................ 39.85"
Sep 27
SUNDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Tuesday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 72°/57°
Normal high/low ........................... 66°/48°
Record high ............................ 85° in 1967
Record low ............................. 38° in 1908
First
64
49
Nice and warm with
plenty of sunshine
Clear
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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Harry G. Bernier
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March 15, 1929 — Sept. 14, 2017
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“Captain” Harry Bernier was born and raised DHC-4s and C-123-Ks, supplying food and arms
in Astoria, Oregon, the son of Arnold G. Bernier to insurgents fi ghting the Viet Cong and North
(Estacada, Oregon) and Mary Constance Bell Vietnamese Army, and in support of CIA opera-
(Astoria, Oregon). Harry was a descendant of tions in Southeast Asia. In 1971, he returned to
Astoria and started commercial fi sh-
an early Oregon pioneer and Oregon
ing. He worked as a mate on ocean
statesman, Samuel Terry McK ean,
tugboats, and then got his master’s
who came out on the Oregon Trail in
license. He worked various shipping
1847.
jobs up and down the West Coast. He
Harry was raised by his mother,
was a cruise ship master in the Inland
Connie, his late uncle, Burnby Bell,
Passage, up the Columbia River, on
and his grandmother, Polly McK ean
the East and West coast of the U.S. and
Bell, a Clatsop County historian.
in the Caribbean. He worked in Prud-
Harry graduated from Astoria
hoe Bay, Alaska, in support of the oil
High School in 1948, enlisted in the
industry, assisted with the Exxon Val-
Air F orce, and served as an air traf-
Harry Bernier
dez oil spill cleanup in the late 1980s,
fi c control operator during the Euro-
and was master of a research vessel in
pean Operations following World War
II, including the Berlin Airlift. He was accepted Puerto Rico in the early 1990s.
He was captain of the Oregon Responder
into fl ight school in 1952, and during the Korean
War he fl ew F-86-D fi ghter jets, serving in the during the New Carissa shipwreck off the Ore-
445th Fighter Squadron. Later he served in the gon C oast in 1999. Later in his career, he was a
497th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, supporting captain of the Portland Spirit on the Willamette
Strategic Air Command operations from Fair- River, and his last job, at 75, was piloting the
child Air F orce Base, Spokane, Washington, as Canby Ferry in Canby, Oregon. He was a life-
long member of the American Legion Post 12 in
a fi rst lieutenant.
He married Margaret L. Wallen in 1956, and Astoria, Oregon, and the Order of Elks No. 180
had one child, Mark. He served as air traffi c in Astoria, Oregon.
He is survived by his former wife, Patri-
controller for the Federal Aviation Administra-
tion at Boeing Field in Renton, Washington, in cia Brock Winter, formerly of Astoria, Oregon;
1957, and then was back in the air fl ying cargo in his cousin, Thomas M. Bell of Portland, Ore-
C-46 and DC-3s in Alaska in 1958. From 1959 gon; son Mark (Bernier) Mousseaux, and grand-
to 1966 he fl ew cargo, and then air retardant daughter Kora Mousseaux, of Phoenix, Oregon;
bombers (TBM’s and B-26s), for forest fi res in siblings Joy, June, Donna, Jack and John; and
nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death
the western U.S.
In late 1966, he was recruited by Continental by a brother, Jim Bernier.
He resided in Gladstone, Oregon, with his
Air Service — Air America, and fl ew contracted
military missions in Southeast Asia during the cat, Kitty Kat, and is now free to fl y and sail
Vietnam War until April 1971. He fl ew C-45s, again.
New Youngs Bay Bridge will
close next week for repairs
The Daily Astorian
The Oregon Department
of Transportation is closing
the New Youngs Bay Bridge
on U.S. Highway 101 from
9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Oct. 5 and
Oct. 6 to complete a variety
of maintenance activities.
Drivers can use U.S.
Highway 101 Business as a
detour.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
WEDNESDAY
Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, 6 p.m., Judge Guy
Boyington Building, 857 Commercial St.
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
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Public access
Recent rains and even
high-elevation snow has given
hunters hope that nature will
quell these lightning-ignited
blazes and return public access
to closed areas — particularly
wilderness areas — if not for
the start of the general elk sea-
son three weeks from now,
then at least for the second half
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of the general buck deer sea-
son for rifl e hunters.
But those could be false
hopes.
“There have been no
inclinations to even dis-
cuss that,” says Chamise
Kramer, the Rogue Riv-
er-Siskiyou National Forest’s
spokeswoman.
“The closures aren’t just
about active fi re, but also
where equipment and fi refi ght-
ers are,” Kramer says. “There
are a lot of factors that come
into play, a lot more than just
weather and active fi re.”
Until then, it’s smoke
masks and Visine while ply-
ing the smoky woods for buck
and bulls.
“Hopefully the weather
cooperates and they open it,”
Vargas says. “If not, we’ll be
in the smoke.”
OBITUARIES
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
there are usually plenty of
areas to hunt.
“This is an opportunity
to try out new areas,” Vargas
says. “I am.”
For four decades the Vargas
family has hunted blacktails in
the Dixon Unit between Union
Creek and Prospect. With his
traditional hunting area and
deer camp now off limits, Var-
gas will be looking to hunt
new lands.
THURSDAY
Clatsop County Recreational Lands Planning and Advisory
Committee, 1 to 3 p.m., fourth fl oor, 800 Exchange St.
Arcadia Beach RV park public meeting, 11 a.m., Cannon Beach
Fire Hall, 188 E Sunset Blvd.
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