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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2018
In farm bill, a familiar fi ght over wildlife management
Delegation divided
over logging
By JEFF MAPES
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Congress passed a new
farm bill last week that also
contains several provisions
aimed at reducing the sever-
ity of Western wildfi res. And
that left the Oregon delega-
tion divided along familiar
battle lines.
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden,
a Republican who represents
fi re-prone eastern Oregon,
criticized Democrats in the
Senate for blocking provi-
sions that would have eased
environmental rules on
logging.
“(W)hen we’re losing
towns and people and fi re-
fi ghters, and our communi-
ties are choked with smoke,
we can do better,” Walden
said on the House fl oor. He
wound up voting for what
Bradley W. Parks/Oregon Public Broadcasting
The Eagle Creek Fire as seen from the Bonneville Fish
Hatchery in 2017.
he said was overall a “pretty
good bill” that authorizes a
wide range of agricultural
programs.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley,
D-Oregon, said he success-
fully pushed to increase the
amount of money for for-
est-thinning projects over-
seen by collaborative groups
from $40 million to $80
million.
“The process involves
bringing together all kinds
of different stakeholders to
work out a plan” for thinning
and brush removal projects,
Merkley said in an interview.
“And that keeps it out of the
courts.”
He argued that the Repub-
lican proposals would have
taken logging on federal
lands “back to authorizing
clearcuts on a massive scale
with basically no environ-
mental review.” He argued
this would worsen the prob-
lem by allowing the removal
of larger, more fi re-resis-
tant trees, opening the way
for denser forests that burn
hotter.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden,
D-Oregon, said in a state-
ment that the farm bill con-
tains
“proven
wildfi re
approaches.” And he said
the “provisions Congress-
man Walden is complain-
ing about failing to get in the
most recent farm bill were
simply masking a Repub-
lican Christmas wish list
for further environmental
degradation.”
The House version of the
farm bill would have dou-
bled — to 6,000 acres —
the size of logging projects
exempted from environ-
mental review. And it also
included provisions to allow
additional salvage logging in
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gives local and state gov-
ernment more funding and
authority to work on projects
aimed at reducing fuel loads
on forests and rangelands.
Hemp, meanwhile, is
about to get the nod from
the federal government that
marijuana, its cannabis plant
cousin, craves.
A provision of the farm
bill removes hemp from the
list of federally controlled
substances and treats the
low-THC version of the can-
nabis plant like any other
agricultural crop. THC is
the cannabis compound that
gives pot its high.
The change sets the stage
for greater expansion in
an industry already seeing
explosive growth because
of growing demand for can-
nabidiol, or CBD, a nonpsy-
choactive compound found
in hemp that many see as a
way to better health.
The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
Marion ‘Greta’ Passetti
FRIDAY
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 55°/49°
Normal high/low ........................... 48°/36°
Record high ............................ 61° in 1980
Record low ............................. 15° in 1964
Precipitation
Sunday ............................................. 0.91"
Month to date ................................... 4.08"
Normal month to date ....................... 5.26"
Year to date .................................... 57.47"
Normal year to date ........................ 62.63"
Full
THURSDAY
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burned areas.
U.S. Interior Secretary
Ryan Zinke and other Trump
administration offi cials also
argued for loosened log-
ging rules in the wake of
the deadly wildfi res that hit
California in the last several
months.
“For too long, our for-
est management efforts have
been thwarted by lawsuits
from misguided, extreme
environmentalists,” Zinke
said in a September op-ed
in The Sacramento Bee fol-
lowing the massive Carr Fire
in California. “The time has
come to act without fl inch-
ing in the face of threatened
litigation.”
But Senate Democrats —
along with some Republican
colleagues — pushed back
against the changes, which
were also fi ercely opposed
by environmental groups.
In addition to adding
money for collaborative for-
estry work, the legislation
Seaside
Oct. 17, 1932 — Dec. 11, 2018
Marion “Greta” Passetti, age 86, passed taught through example, “sisu” and pride
away in Portland, Oregon, on Dec.
in her Finnish heritage, serving in
11, 2018. She was born Oct. 17,
the Finnish Brotherhood for many
years.
1932, in Los Angeles, California,
Throughout her life she loved to
to George and Helmi Wilson. Greta
share her voice, singing in Our Sav-
was one of four daughters, and was
iour’s Lutheran Church. She found
raised on a small farm outside of
fulfi llment in life’s simple blessings;
Astoria, Oregon.
lunch with good company, a beauti-
She married Peter Passetti, and
ful pair of shoes, a refreshing walk
together they had two sons and one
on the beach, a good book, a dog
daughter. Together they lived in
chasing a ball, relaxing with pub-
San Francisco, California, Guam
Marion ‘Greta’
lic radio and, of course, her famous
(during his Naval service) and the
Passetti
home cooking. Her love of life and
majority of their years in Sonoma,
all its joys were evident as she lit up
California. They enjoyed camping
and recreational vehicles , hosting friends and a room, almost fl oating from one person to
another. May she continue to fl oat into God’s
family, traveling and dancing.
In her working years, Greta was a school embrace as she leaves this life.
She is survived by her sisters, Evelyn
secretary, a family business CEO for Passetti
Trucking , a family jewelry store clerk and Helmhout, age 90, of Memphis, Tennessee,
a winery executive assistant — there was a and Louise Suvan, age 88, of Washington; her
children, Vince Passetti and Tony Passetti,
short modeling gig in there, too.
As a widow, Greta moved to Seaside, both of Sonoma, California, and daughter,
Oregon. She had a strong passion for the Teresa Fonseca, of Cotati, California; eight
organizations that served veterans and their grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
A celebration of life service will be held at
families, as well as seniors and children, vol-
unteering thousands of hours with the Veter- Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Seaside,
ans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion Oregon, on Dec. 21, 2018, at 11 a.m.
Please visit hughes-ransom.com to sign
(and auxiliary), the Lions Club, retirement
communities, schools and hospitals. She the online guest book.
DEATHS
Dec. 16, 2018
WEBER, Edward Paul,
79, of Astoria, died in Port-
land. Caldwell’s Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary of Astoria is in
charge of the arrangements.
Dec. 14, 2018
RAY, Virginia Ellen, 94,
of Seaside, formerly of War-
renton, died in Seaside. Cald-
well’s Luce-Layton Mortu-
ary of Astoria is in charge of
the arrangements.
Dec. 13, 2018
KERANEN, Duane, 82,
of Seaside, died in Tigard.
Ocean View Funeral & Cre-
mation Service of Asto-
ria is in charge of the
arrangements.
Dec. 3, 2018
KISTLER, Kevin Ray,
57, of Naselle, Washington,
died in Naselle. Ocean View
Funeral & Cremation Ser-
vice of Astoria is in charge
of the arrangements.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Jewell School Board, 6 p.m.,
Jewell School library, 83874
Oregon Highway 103
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
TUESDAY
Cannon Beach Public Works
Committee, 9 a.m., City Hall,
163 E. Gower St.
Sunset Empire Transporta-
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Port of Astoria Commission,
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Astoria Historic Landmarks
Commission, 5:15 p.m., City
Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Sunset Empire Park and
Recreation District, 5:15 p.m.,
Bob Chisholm Communi-
ty Center, 1225 Avenue A,
Seaside.
Seaside Planning Commis-
sion, 7 p.m., work session, City
Hall, 989 Broadway.
Shoreline Sanitary District
Board, 7 p.m., Gearhart Hertig
Station, 33496 West Lake Lane,
Warrenton.
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