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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2018 UP A TREE Digging out Forest Service worker describes wolf ordeal Woman was rescued by helicopter By DON JENKINS Capital Press Tami Fraser Bellingham A van that got stuck in the surf near Gearhart on Wednesday was removed this morning. ‘It was quite a job to recover it,’ said Tami Fraser Bellingham, who watched the excavation. FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT SATURDAY SUNDAY 65 55 53 ALMANAC 70 55 Some sun Periods of clouds and sun Portland 54/70 Last New Sep 2 Newport 48/63 Coos Bay 52/66 First Sep 9 Prineville 37/77 Lebanon 49/76 Ontario 50/83 Burns 32/79 Roseburg 51/79 Brookings 51/68 Sep 16 Clatsop County’s seasonal unemployment rate in July was the 10th-lowest in the state, according to the state Employ- ment Department. Seasonal rates com- pare forecasted employment changes with reality. The coun- ty’s seasonal unemployment Baker 37/79 John Day 44/79 Bend 39/76 Medford 49/82 Klamath Falls 40/80 Lakeview 37/80 Ashland 49/83 Tonight's Sky: Pegasus, the fl ying horse, is well up in the east by late evening. Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 7:51 a.m. 7:52 p.m. Low -0.6 ft. 1.7 ft. REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 78 74 65 75 64 78 80 73 63 66 Today Lo 37 39 51 46 56 40 49 50 48 50 W s s pc s pc s pc pc pc s Hi 79 76 67 77 64 80 82 72 63 66 Sat. Lo 45 43 52 51 57 41 54 54 50 53 W s s pc s pc s s pc pc s City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 69 76 72 77 73 65 75 75 71 79 Today Lo 46 49 54 51 48 55 49 48 53 43 W pc s pc s pc pc pc s pc pc Hi 67 76 70 79 73 65 71 78 70 75 Sat. Lo 51 54 56 56 54 57 50 53 56 46 W pc s pc s pc pc pc s pc pc TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES W pc s r s t pc s sh r sh pc s pc pc pc pc s s pc s t s pc pc s Sat. Hi Lo 86 70 82 62 86 72 90 61 93 74 79 71 93 70 60 44 84 76 83 73 95 77 103 81 82 68 92 75 87 80 89 72 89 78 80 66 95 75 83 66 93 77 88 66 70 55 67 56 84 68 U.S. Forest Service employee who was trapped by wolves The woman was inter- viewed by Fish and Wildlife officer Justin Troutman shortly after she was picked up in a meadow by a Department of Natural Resources helicopter crew and flown to Omak. She said she had hiked into the for- est alone to mark where a crew should take samples from a stream for a Forest Service survey of salmon habitat. “I hear the wolf kind of start barking and howl out. At that point, I kind of back away from the stream and get onto higher ground, so I can have a little better view of my sur- roundings,” she said. She called her supervisor on a satellite phone, and he rate was 3.7 percent in July, down from 3.8 percent in June and slightly below the state and national average of 3.9 percent. The county was expected to gain 140 positions in July, but only added 40. The private sector added 510 jobs with the busy summer season, while government employment fell by 470 during the break, including 410 in education. Total nonfarm payroll employment was at 18,600 in July, a 140 increase from the year prior. Leisure and hospi- tality added 260 jobs over the past year, along with 120 in retail trade and 60 in construc- tion. Professional and business services lost 180 jobs over the past year. ON THE RECORD Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 UNDER THE SKY Today Hi Lo 84 67 83 66 71 65 89 61 84 65 80 68 93 70 57 46 84 76 75 67 91 73 103 80 83 68 88 72 89 79 87 71 91 78 82 66 95 76 83 64 80 73 90 62 68 55 70 55 85 65 La Grande 44/77 Salem 48/73 ‘The other thing that was stressing me out was that I knew there was at least one more around me.’ told her to leave the area. A wolf, however, appeared and came toward her. “He’s, like, you should get up a tree.” The woman said she stayed in a tree for 10 to 15 minutes and climbed down. “Pretty much immediately, I maybe walk 100 meters and get cut off by the same wolf, and it starts coming toward me, and at this point I have my bear spray out, and it’s more or less a screaming match between me and the wolf,” she told Troutman. Another wolf was at the far end of the meadow, she said. “I could hear a few others in dif- ferent areas.” “The other thing that was stressing me out was that I knew there was at least one more around me,” she said. “They like to strategize, so I wasn’t sure where that one was relative to where the inter- action was going down.” She fired the pepper spray at the wolf in front of her. According to the can’s label, the spray has a range of 10 meters, or about 32 feet. “I didn’t reach the animal, but I did do a warning spray as I continued to back up,” she said. The wolf continued to weave. “It was doing a lot of zig- zagging. It would come right at me, and then pop off a little bit, and come at me from the other angle and pop off on the other side,” she said. “I was just basically screaming at it the best that I could, and I’d say the interac- tion was probably fairly short. Maybe like 30 seconds to a minute. It wasn’t a long inter- action, but it was long enough to put me back up in that tree.” County employment sizzles with summer The Daily Astorian Pendleton 49/76 The Dalles 53/75 Eugene 46/77 Sunset tonight ........................... 8:09 p.m. Sunrise Saturday ........................ 6:27 a.m. Moonrise today .......................... 7:33 p.m. Moonset today ............................ 4:30 a.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 Tillamook 53/66 SUN AND MOON High 8.0 ft. 7.4 ft. 68 54 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 53/65 Precipitation Thursday .......................................... Trace Month to date ................................... 0.33" Normal month to date ....................... 0.75" Year to date .................................... 36.07" Normal year to date ........................ 37.69" Time 1:00 a.m. 2:11 p.m. TUESDAY REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Thursday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 68°/57° Normal high/low ........................... 69°/53° Record high ............................ 88° in 1911 Record low ............................. 44° in 1959 Aug 26 65 55 Clouds giving way to some sun Some clouds Full MONDAY A U.S. Forest Service employee shot pepper spray and screamed to hold a growl- ing wolf at bay in July in north-central Washington state, according to a taped interview between the woman and a state Fish and Wildlife officer. The 25-year-old woman distanced herself from the wolf by climbing back up a tree. Before that, the wolf weaved toward her and came within about 15 meters, or 50 feet, she estimated. “He or she is kind of growl- ing and barking and howling at me, and I’m kind of giving it back in return,” she said. “It starts coming closer to me, and I’m backing up, and it comes closer to me, and I finally give it all I got with a big scream, and it starts to back off, and we just kind of back off of each other, and I put myself back up that tree.” The tape, obtained by the Capital Press in response to a records request, provides a firsthand description of the July 12 incident in the Okan- ogan-Wenatchee National For- est. Encounters with wolves are rare in Washington, though ranchers and county commis- sioners in northeast Wash- ington have said the growing number of wolves in their cor- ner of the state raises public safety concerns. The Capital Press is not naming the woman, in step with a state law that shields the identities of ranchers who report wolf attacks or enter into agreements with the state to share the cost of hiring range-riders. An effort Thurs- day to obtain further com- ment from the woman was unsuccessful. Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc s pc t s t pc c r t pc s pc s pc pc t s s s s s pc pc s DUII • At 8:24 p.m. Thursday, Adrian Jon Hirt, 43, of Vancouver, Washington, was arrested by the Clatsop County Sheriff’s Office on U.S. Highway 101 in Gearhart and charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants and reckless driving. DEATHS Aug. 22, 2018 WHITE, Dykeman Richard “Rick,” 72, of Astoria, died in Astoria. Ocean View Funeral & Cremation Service of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements. Aug. 21, 2018 AUNE, Howard Allan, 78, of Seaside, died in Portland. Caldwell’s Funeral & Cremation Arrangement Center of Seaside is in charge of the arrangements. PUBLIC MEETINGS MONDAY Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. LOTTERIES Thursday’s Lucky Lines: 02- 08-11-14-20-21-26-30 Estimated jackpot: $27,000 OREGON Thursday’s Pick 4: 1 p.m.: 2-0-7-5 4 p.m.: 0-1-9-6 7 p.m.: 3-4-4-6 10 p.m.: 5-7-2-5 Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. WASHINGTON Thursday’s Daily Game: 9-0-7 Thursday’s Keno: 04-05-08- 12-18-32-34-37-40-43-48-50- 51-58-59-61-62-64-71-78 Thursday’s Match 4: 06-16- 18-19 OBITUARY POLICY The Daily Astorian publishes paid obituaries. The obituary can include a small photo and, for veterans, a flag symbol at no charge. The deadline for all obituaries is 9 a.m. the business day prior. Obituaries may be edited for spelling, proper punctuation and style. Death notices and upcoming services will be published at no charge. 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