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Birds: Snowy plovers nest in shallow sandy scrapes
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nesting at Fort Stevens is a
huge step for species recov-
ery and people who support a
healthy environment. We can
all be proud of this moment.”
So far, the state reports
seeing one nesting pair with
three eggs on the river side
of Clatsop Spit. Such sight-
ings prompt special precau-
tions within the manage-
ment area. Several activities
are restricted, including dogs
(even on a leash), vehicles,
kites, drones, camping and
fires. People walking along
the beach are required to stay
on wet sand areas and keep to
official trails.
Signs on dry sand identify
plover nesting areas. Snowy
plovers nest in shallow sandy
scrapes. Eggs and chicks are
well-camouflaged and can be
accidentally crushed by peo-
ple or pets. Repeated distur-
bances that cause parent birds
to flee the nest — permanently
or temporarily — can also be
lethal for eggs.
Last year, the sight-
ing of snowy plover nests
and one successful hatch-
ling marked a major success
at Nehalem Bay State Park
south of Manzanita in Tilla-
mook County. That same year,
three chicks also hatched at
the Sitka Sedge Natural Area
near Pacific City. The nests in
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
A snowy plover (not the nest on Clatsop Spit).
2017 were an important turn-
ing point for Oregon’s conser-
vation efforts in the northern
part of the state. In 2015, the
first nest since conservation
began in earnest at Nehalem
Bay failed.
There is a chance that the
male snowy plover nesting in
the Clatsop Spit area now is
the same one that successfully
nested in Nehalem Bay last
year. The bird carries a similar
colored band.
If it is the same bird, he
likely bypassed Nehalem
Bay this year because win-
ter storms kicked up piles of
driftwood onto the beach,
eliminating good nesting hab-
itat, Blackstone said.
This year, there is evi-
dence that a chick may have
hatched at Sitka Sedge. There
are no confirmed nests at all at
Nehalem Bay yet.
The habitat at Clatsop Spit
isn’t always guaranteed. “The
river moves things around so
much,” Blackstone said. But
down by the South Jetty, hab-
itat happened to accumulate.
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, which owns the
land and leases it to State
Parks for recreational use,
plans to further develop that
habitat as the agency goes
about jetty repair work in the
future.
Western snowy plovers
were listed as a threatened
species in 1993. Sitka Sedge,
Clatsop Spit and Nehalem Bay
are just some of the snowy
plover management areas the
state oversees through a legal
agreement between the parks
department and the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service.
Warnings: ‘We feel low on the priority list’ Taylor: ‘These
are my people’
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medical response, search and rescue, HAM
radio operations and mass casualty triage.
While out of the tsunami inundation zone,
inland communities have concerns of their
own: flooding, power outages, landslides.
But the most pressing is an earthquake, which
could take out two bridges, isolating the rural
community and anyone else who may be
there.
The team feels most emergency efforts are
geared toward coastal cities, leaving commu-
nities inland along Highway 26 “way behind
the curve,” Mulder said.
“All those supplies, they are going to fly it
over us to the coast, to the popular centers,”
Mulder said. “We feel low on the priority list.”
While the fire station is prepared with
about 100 cots and blankets as a Red Cross
shelter, unlike other towns along Highway
101, the area has limited access to food and
water. There are only a couple of restaurants
and one general store that would be pillaged
quickly by 100 evacuees.
“If a tsunami really happened, who is
going to feed them for two or three days? We
can’t afford that much food — it’s just not in
the budget,” Mulder said.
The volunteer fire department operates on
about $65,000 each year.
Proper education
Some issues could be addressed by con-
tinuing to educate more people about where
the inundation zone actually ends, and how to
find other safe assembly areas already located
in coastal cities, emergency trainer George
Jette said.
Jette remembers responding to a vehicle
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An emergency kit is displayed at the Elsie-Vinemaple Fire Department.
rollover in 2011 where the driver abandoned
his car, his credit cards and other personal
items on the road.
“He just kept going on foot. He was just
so scared of drowning,” he said. “I think
sometimes people think they need to get to
Portland.”
Because of their relative isolation, both
George and Diane Jette said more cross-train-
ing with other emergency teams in the county
could help them prepare more effectively.
Donations of nonperishable food and water
would also make a difference.
Overall, Elsie is happy to act as an emer-
gency safe haven the next time either a disas-
ter or disaster warning inevitably happens.
But before heading up to the hills, the team
has a few requests.
“Remember that we are here, if you need
to come up,” Diane Jette said. “But also, when
people come up, remember we need aid to
help take care of them. Don’t fly over the top
of us and drop packages just in Hillsboro and
Seaside.”
people who would settle in such a landscape and
persist there. She imagined they would create resil-
ient, forgiving, fluid communities capable of adapt-
ing to and weathering changes.
Taylor is descended from Swedish immigrants
on her father’s side, and all the men were carpen-
ters. As she learned about Astoria’s Scandinavian
roots, there was that connection as well.
“I just thought to myself, these are my people,”
she said.
That feeling has not gone away.
She ran into a stranger recently who encour-
aged her to smile. “Every day is a great day in
Astoria!” he said.
First, she thought “OK” ... then “true.”
“I don’t look at the weather report because I
don’t care,” she said. “Bring on the wind, the rain
— it doesn’t matter.”
Astoria suits her, Taylor said, and she is begin-
ning to find her place in the community. Her first
job was at Costco — a whirlwind introduction
to Clatsop County. But before moving here, she
worked for business involved in historic resto-
ration and historic structures. She filled a number
of roles, including that of a tour guide.
She has a passion for preserving history; it was
what drew her to the job with the city. As adminis-
trative assistant she will assist the city planner and
other department staff in fielding questions from
the public and developing plans for old and new
buildings alike.
“I came with an idea of what I wanted my life
to be like,” Taylor said.
Now, she feels like she has always lived
here.
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