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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
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1.7 ft.
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Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
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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
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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.
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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
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