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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Bridge and tunnel designs give wildlife safe passage
Steps can help
reduce deadly
car collisions
By COURTNEY FLATT
Northwest Public
Broadcasting
The first time Chris Branch
hit a deer, he thought, “Well,
here it is.”
He knew the road he was
driving in north central Wash-
ington state well. Branch drove
Highway 97 every weekday
from his home in Omak to
work in Oroville, often late at
night or early in the morning —
when deer are also on the move.
“I never saw it,” he said —
until his front bumper rammed
the deer. His Subaru was
totaled.
He slammed on his brakes
two other times for deer, skid-
ding into collisions but not
Washington Department of Transportation
View from ground level of the new wildlife-only overcrossing on I-90 east of Snoqualmie Pass.
damaging the car too badly.
He’s seen countless other deer,
on the edge of the road and
darting in front of vehicles.
This 12-mile stretch of cen-
tral Washington’s main north-
south route is one of the state’s
most dangerous corridors for
wildlife collisions. More than
350 deer are hit each year.
“Sooner or later it’s going
to happen,” Branch said. “As
Clatsop County resi-
dents will receive a test
emergency
notification
Nov. 30.
County
Emergency
Management will send
the test of the ClatsopAL-
ERTS! emergency notifica-
tion system between noon
and 3 p.m. The test will
go out to residential and
business landline phones,
as well as cellphones and
email addresses that have
signed up for the service.
Those who wish to reg-
ister for alerts on their cell-
phone, email or pager can
go to co.clatsop.or.us.
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FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
57
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48
Cloudy with spotty
showers
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Partial sunshine
Brilliant sunshine
Full
Nov 22
New
Nov 29
La Grande
27/53
Baker
16/49
Ontario
19/48
Burns
8/51
Klamath Falls
16/57
Lakeview
16/57
Ashland
36/63
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018
REGIONAL CITIES
Tonight's Sky: High in the NE, Cassiopeia, the
queen, look more like the letter M or W.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
11:46 a.m.
none
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
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DUII
• At 1:08 p.m. Monday,
Paul Franklin Reed, 42, of
Vancouver, Washington, was
arrested by Astoria police on
U.S. Highway 30 near Tongue
Point and charged with driving
under the influence of intoxi-
cants, His blood alcohol con-
tent was 0.12 percent.
• At 3:49 p.m. Sunday,
Douglas C. Meyer, 64, of
Astoria, was arrested by War-
renton police on 33rd Street
and Franklin Avenue in Asto-
ria and charged with DUII. His
Roseburg
36/57
Brookings
46/63
Dec 6
John Day
31/57
Bend
30/57
Medford
29/61
UNDER THE SKY
High
7.0 ft.
7.2 ft.
Prineville
25/59
Lebanon
38/59
Eugene
34/60
Last
Pendleton
28/54
Salem
40/57
Newport
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Nov. 10, 2018
McALLISTER, Janet, 81, of Cannon Beach, died in Cannon Beach. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary
is in charge of the arrangements.
CORRECTION
Company name incorrect — Ivan Sultan began a snack company called The Columbia Bar.
The company was incorrectly called the Columbia River Bar in a 1A story Monday.
OREGON
Monday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 5-7-2-5
4 p.m.: 0-0-2-6
7 p.m.: 6-1-4-2
10 p.m.: 5-4-2-5
Monday’s Lucky Lines: 4-7-10-
13-19-22-27-29
WEDNESDAY
Astoria School Board, 5:30
p.m., board retreat, Knight Can-
cer Collaborative Conference
Room, 1095 Exchange St.
Youngs River Lewis & Clark
Water District Board, 6 p.m.,
34583 U.S. Highway 101 Busi-
ness.
Wickiup Water District Board,
6:30 p.m., 92648 Svensen Mar-
ket Road, Svensen.
Estimated jackpot: $11,000
Monday’s Megabucks: 1-12-17-
34-37-38
Estimated jackpot: $3 million
WASHINGTON
Monday’s Daily Game: 6-1-9
Monday’s Hit 5: 13-14-20-23-33
Estimated jackpot: $100,000
Monday’s Keno: 01-02-03-09-
10-11-14-19-22-23-34-39-41-51-
58-61-64-75-76-79
Monday’s Lotto: 03-11-14-35-
39-40
Estimated jackpot: $1.3 million
Monday’s Match 4: 07-08-11-17
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Chelsey Diane Bussert, 33, of
Astoria, was arrested by Asto-
ria police on 10th and Irving
streets and charged with DUII.
Her blood alcohol content was
0.12 percent.
Assault
• At 7:07 a.m. Saturday,
Penny L. Mundell, 54, of War-
renton, was arrested by War-
renton police on the 92250
block of Whiskey Road and
charged with fourth-degree
assault. She allegedly slapped
and scratched a woman in a
previous incident.
DEATH
TUESDAY
Miles Crossing Sanitary Sewer
District Board, 6 p.m., 34583
U.S. Highway 101 Business.
Warrenton City Commission,
6 p.m., City Hall, 225 S. Main
Ave.
Clatsop Community College
Board, 6:30 p.m., Columbia Hall
PACKAGE DEALS
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blood alcohol content was 0.11
percent.
• At 1:34 a.m. Sunday, Jef-
frey Don Benthin, 24, of Asto-
ria, was arrested by Asto-
ria police on Duane and 13th
streets and charged with DUII.
His blood alcohol content was
0.15 percent.
• At 6:58 p.m. Saturday,
Larry G. Kelly, 45, of Olym-
pia, Washington, was arrested
by Warrenton police on U.S.
Highway 101 near Ensign
Lane and charged with DUII.
• At 2:50 a.m. Saturday,
PUBLIC MEETINGS
APPLIANCE
3 A 0 RS
For those who wish to
attend and would like to
request
accommodations,
contact Karla Hoggan at the
state Office of Developmen-
tal Disabilities Services at
503-945-9780 or karla.hog-
gan@state.or.us.
For questions, contact
Sherryll Johnson Hoar, a
Department of Human Ser-
vices spokeswoman, at 503-
779-9317 or sherryll.j.hoar@
state.or.us.
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The state Department of
Human Services will hold
two local forums this week
to discuss services for those
with intellectual and develop-
mental disabilities.
Preparations for a state-
wide strategic plan began in
2015. The forums, two in a
series throughout the state,
will begin with a short pre-
sentation followed by a group
discussion.
Those with disabilities and
their families are invited to a
two-hour session Thursday
starting at 6 p.m. at the Asto-
ria Library Flag Room.
Organizations that work
with those with disabilities
can attend a discussion Fri-
day at 9 a.m. at the Clatsop
County Community Devel-
opmental Disabilities Pro-
gram conference room in
Warrenton.
ON THE RECORD
The Dalles
32/55
Portland
41/55
Sunset tonight ........................... 4:46 p.m.
Sunrise Wednesday .................... 7:15 a.m. Coos Bay
Moonrise today ........................ 12:31 p.m. 43/59
Moonset today ........................... 9:54 p.m.
City
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Mainly cloudy
Tillamook
45/57
SUN AND MOON
Time
6:25 a.m.
5:09 p.m.
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Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
48/57
Precipitation
Monday ............................................ 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 1.76"
Normal month to date ....................... 4.01"
Year to date .................................... 48.49"
Normal year to date ........................ 50.23"
Nov 15
SATURDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 62°/44°
Normal high/low ........................... 54°/41°
Record high ............................ 67° in 1907
Record low ............................. 21° in 1955
First
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Cloudy; morning rain,
then a shower
ALMANAC
FRIDAY
Kehne estimates the first
part of this project in north cen-
tral Washington — covering
about 4 miles — could reduce
collisions by 50 percent over
the worst stretch of highway.
Completing the entire project
could nearly end vehicle-wild-
life crashes.
“So it just solves it,” Kehne
said. “It can be expensive. But
it’s about $1 million a mile to
fix it, while we’re spending
about $2 million a year now
just with fixing cars and hospi-
tal bills and all that.”
The groups have raised
$300,000 for the first phase of
the Highway 97 project and are
hoping lawmakers will add it to
a line item budget this upcom-
ing session.
Other dangerous sections of
highway in Washington include
Highway 97 near Goldendale,
most traffic corridors on Whid-
bey Island and several routes
near Spokane.
State to hold disability
services forums this week
County schedules emergency alert test
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much as you try to see their eyes
glow in the dark, and things like
that. … If you’re traveling and
you’re thinking about some-
thing else, it only takes a split
second.”
Now, Branch is work-
ing with the area’s Mule Deer
Foundation, which was formed
specifically to address wrecks
with wildlife, and other con-
servation groups to fix the
problem.
The best solution they’ve
found: constructing wildlife
underpasses. Jay Kehne has
worked with Conservation
Northwest for 10 years to get
these underpasses built in stra-
tegic areas along this part of
Highway 97.
“Underpasses and over-
passes and crossing structures
are dotted all over the West, par-
ticularly where there’s a migra-
tion pattern of antelope or deer
or elk,” Kehne said. “So it’s not
a new technology, but it’s very
effective.”
These types of wildlife
undercrossings have proven
to work well in places such as
Banff, Canada; Pinedale, Wyo-
ming; and Bend.
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