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Tourism: ‘It’s a good problem to have’
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A rural tourism studio is a
multiyear project where pro-
fessionals from Travel Oregon
lead workshops and offer guid-
ance on how to make tourism
sustainable — environmen-
tally and economically — for
Clatsop and Tillamook coun-
ties. The grant must be used
to finance a tangible change or
product, like connecting a trail
system or launching an envi-
ronmental education program.
A committee of about 30
industry leaders from private
businesses, state and national
parks, environmental groups
and visitors associations met
last week in Cannon Beach to
figure out how to expand tour-
ism without sacrificing the
area’s natural resources and
quality of life.
“The city (of Cannon
Beach) asked for an ecotour-
ism strategy in their strate-
gic plan,” Melissa Keyser,
the program coordinator for
the Haystack Rock Awareness
Program, said. “It’s everyone’s
job to protect this area. We all
have positive ideas, but how
do we make it happen?”
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Ecola State Park is a popular destination for tourists on the North Coast.
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Sustainability
At places like Fort Stevens
State Park, Oregon State Parks
North Coast District Manager
Teri Wing sees the impact of
the booming tourism industry
almost every day.
Wing has been with the
parks system for more than 30
years and said it’s almost hard
to describe the influx of trav-
elers. At Fort Stevens, people
book RV spots nine months in
advance, and for most of the
summer the park is at capacity
with more than 5,000 visitors
at once. Being constantly at
capacity leads to more main-
tenance for staff, as well as an
increase in people parking and
camping alongside U.S. High-
way 101 when the park is full,
she said.
Overuse of certain parks
and trails has lead to erosion
issues, as well. Cape Kiwanda
State Natural Area in Pacific
City has had to put up fenc-
ing and more signage to keep
people out of actively eroding
areas.
“When the understory
(on the trail) isn’t allowed to
heal, all you are going to have
is mud,” Wing said. “Grass
doesn’t grow back, so you end
Spending by tourists in the region has increased from
$391 million in 2000 to $779 million in 2016.
up with a lot of erosion. With
how much use they get, we
don’t have the infrastructure to
fix them.”
Terms like ecotourism
or sustainable tourism often
make people think of traveling
in an eco-friendly way, said
Kristin Dahl, the vice presi-
dent of destination develop-
ment at Travel Oregon, who
led Monday’s workshop.
But making tourism sus-
tainable also means tack-
ling local livability issues like
affordable housing for service
industry employees, having
accessible public transit and
representing cultural heritage.
For Jon Burpee, the super-
intendent of Lewis and Clark
National Historical Park, cre-
ating sustainable tourism
means developing affordable
housing.
“It is hard to manage a
park effectively when seasonal
park rangers can’t find hous-
ing that’s affordable,” he said.
“Sustainable tourism has to be
a way to meet greater needs.”
Often when Dahl leads
these workshops, she said
communities are looking for
ways to bring more people to
their area. But the challenge for
the North Coast will be learn-
ing how to manage the volume
of tourists already coming,
which could come in the form
of asking them to visit differ-
ent times of year other than
summer and to try underuti-
lized parks and attractions.
“It’s a good problem to
have. Tourism is good for the
economy,” Wing said. “We
just want to lessen the pressure
on these areas.”
A path to follow
Casey Roeder, the exec-
utive director at the Skama-
nia County Chamber of Com-
merce in Washington state,
participated in the Columbia
River Gorge tourism studio
last year.
As the former president
of the Columbia River Gorge
Visitors Association, Roeder
said the region faced similar
issues to Clatsop and Tilla-
mook counties.
“We have very highly used
areas that feel congestion —
Multnomah Falls, Dog Moun-
tain, et cetera. The same time
of year we would have too
many people,” Roeder said.
“So we had to ask, ‘How do
we disperse people to other
areas that get less use?’”
Out of their tourism studio
came the Columbia Express, a
shuttle system that takes visi-
tors to and from Multnomah
Falls, which reduced traffic
and parking challenges.
Another project funded by
the grant was a 20-year plan
to connect biking and hiking
trails, as well as an itinerary
of events that lined up with
bus schedules to reduce vehi-
cle use.
“Our biggest outcomes
came from moving people
around the Gorge without
cars. Sometimes we think we
have to figure out how to do
this yourself, but brainstorm-
ing with people from around
the region was really benefi-
cial,” she said.
The North Coast is at the
very beginning of this process.
Workshops and public forums
won’t occur until next sum-
mer, Dahl said.
But for Carrier, he’s excited
to get started.
“This is our community,”
he said. “It’s too important to
ignore.”
Kreider: ‘It does really feel good to work for the library’
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Later she discovered the
routine, the plans that prior-
itize firefighter safety, all the
varied and exciting modes of
transportation — the helicop-
ters and engines — the hik-
ing for days in the woods, the
camaraderie, the sometimes
astonishing beauty of one of
nature’s most destructive but
also rejuvenating forces. Once,
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in a high mountain desert in
Utah, she stood in the mid-
dle of nowhere and watched a
fire climb up and down nearby
cliffs.
“There’s just nothing like
it,” she said.
When fire season ends and
fall begins, the transition back
into library work can be a lit-
tle disorienting. The pace, the
tasks — everything is different.
“But it does really feel good
to work for the library,” Kreider
said. She is, she says, “a true
believer in libraries as places
for access to information and
the exchange of ideas.”
As a library assistant, much
of her work is customer ser-
vice in nature, but she also
organizes and facilitates adult
programs, including book dis-
cussions and community con-
versations. The interactions
are often inspiring, she said.
“Even though it’s not as
intoxicating as being out in
the field (fighting fires), I leave
with a kind of high,” she said.
“I get to witness and partic-
ipate in people using their
minds and sharing ideas.”
For rainy day reading,
Kreider recommends Philip
K. Dick’s classic novel, “Do
Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep?,” the inspiration for the
movie “Blade Runner.”
Students in Misty Lindstrom’s third-grade class sand
the hull of a miniature boat.
Boats: Students will
monitor progress online
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Elementary and mid-
dle school classes in Ore-
gon are building 10 minia-
ture fiberglass boats. Five
will be shipped to classrooms
with students of a similar age
in Japan. On each side of the
Pacific, students will launch
the vessels and hope they
make landfall on the other
side.
Nate Sandel, education
manager for the maritime
museum, visited the East
Coast this summer to meet
with Dick Baldwin, a solo
sailor. After retiring from his
hobby, Baldwin launched
Educational Passages, trading
miniature boats around the
world to spread knowledge
of oceanography and sailing
while promoting cross-cul-
tural exchanges.
The boats, funded through
the museum and private
donors, are built to withstand
rough weather. Each carries
a GPS unit that uploads the
boat’s position twice a day,
along with a watertight com-
partment acting as a time cap-
sule carrying mementos from
students.
“I contacted the Japanese
consulate and said, ‘We’re
doing this in five schools in
Oregon, but those boats prob-
ably aren’t going to cross the
ocean this school year,” he
said.
Because of the clock-
wise current swirling around
the North Pacific Gyre, boats
launched from Japan can
potentially cross the ocean
this school year and provide
students results from their
project.
Expanding world view
Reid came into work one
day to find a flyer for the pro-
gram in her inbox, applied and
was chosen along with teach-
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the Portland metro area.
“I love the Columbia
River Maritime Museum and
am passionate not only about
teaching and science, but
also about bringing different
cultures and languages into
the classroom,” she said. “It
seemed like the perfect fit.”
Reid’s class has built
Boat-a-Lahti, which will be
launched next month from a
platform chosen by students.
The boat Lindstrom’s class
is building will be shipped
to Japan, named by a class
there and launched toward
America.
“There’s maybe a 1 per-
cent chance one of the U.S.
boats make it to Japan,” San-
del said.
There’s about a 20 per-
cent chance a boat launched
from the U.S. will make land-
fall on Asia at all, he said. The
hull will carry information in
six different languages about
the builders and directions
for what to do if the vessel is
found.
Students will monitor the
progress of the boats online
and communicate with peers
in Japan each month. A local
mentor, originally from
Japan, is teaching students
about Japanese language and
culture. Reid is also hoping to
take her students to the Port-
land Japanese Garden.
A native of Knappa, Reid
said locals often don’t venture
very far or experience differ-
ent cultures.
“I believe that peace is
only achievable if we know
each other, and this is an
incredibly important and
meaningful project in those
terms,” she said.
“Finally, we are a tiny
community with lots of fish-
ermen,” she said. “We should
be connecting across the
ocean, right?”
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