THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2019 // 17
‘River by Starlight’ author A seabird’s life and rehabiliation
reads in Cannon Beach
CANNON BEACH —
Portland author and jour-
nalist Ellen Notbohm, inter-
nationally known for her
award-winning books on
the parenting and teach-
ing of autistic children, will
read from and discuss her
fi rst novel, “The River by
Starlight,” at Cannon Beach
Library, 2 p.m. Saturday,
Feb. 9.
This is the next event
in the Northwest Authors
Series, sponsored by the
library. The event is free
and open to all.
“The River by Starlight,”
set in Montana during the
early 20th century, fi nds
Cannon Beach Library
Ellen Notbohm
Annie Rushton mov-
ing to live at her brother’s
Montana homestead after
struggling with postpar-
tum depression and a diffi -
cult divorce. Not planning
to remarry, she encounters
Adam Fielding. Together,
they buy the property from
Annie’s brother and form
a business and roman-
tic partnership. However,
their efforts to build a life
together are met with many
challenges and Annie’s
depression returns.
Notbohm’s debut novel
received the 2018 Indepen-
dent Publisher Book Award
for U.S. West-Mountain
Regional Fiction.
The library is at 131 N.
Hemlock St.
Major proposal for Oregon’s
corporate forestlands to be unveiled
CANNON BEACH
— Chuck Willer, execu-
tive director of the Coast
Range Association, will
speak at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb.
8, at Tolovana Hall, 3779 S.
Hemlock St.
Willer’s presentation will
be the fi rst full exploration
of the Coast Range Associa-
tion’s (CRA) assessment of
Wall Street forestry in light
of the climate crisis. Given
the warnings from the scien-
tifi c community that society
has 12 years to move into a
full carbon transition, Willer
will address what may be
warranted for Oregon’s cor-
porate forests.
The CRA believes new
factors have arisen that have
not been adequately consid-
ered by Oregon’s climate
change community.
For one, it is now known
that the timber industry is
Oregon’s number one car-
bon polluter, signifi cantly
contributing to greenhouse
Watt Childress
Chuck
Willer,
executive
director of the Coast Range
Association.
gas emissions. Foremost
among new positive fac-
tors is the political initia-
tive known as the Green
New Deal. While the Green
New Deal is being heatedly
debated in Washington D.C.
and supported, in concept,
by Oregon Rep. Earl Blu-
menauer, little discussion
has occurred on how the ini-
tiative may assist Oregon’s
carbon transition.
Chuck’s talk will be the
fi rst exploration of an Ore-
gon carbon transition for
corporate forests in light of
three areas of understanding:
• Insights cataloged by
past Coast Range Asso-
ciation research into
Wall Street driven forest
management.
• The latest fi ndings in
climate science and the doc-
umentation of carbon pollu-
tion by Oregon’s current for-
est owners.
• Opportunities offered
by the Green New Deal that
have not been explored in
their application to Oregon,
much less its forest.
The conclusions drawn
and recommendations
offered will be a fi rst in Ore-
gon’s evolving discussion
of climate, forests and the
required economic transition
we now face.
For more information,
contact Willer at 541-231-
6651 or chuckw@coas-
trange.org.
CANNON BEACH —
Joshua Saranpaa, director
of the Wildlife Center of
the North Coast, will pres-
ent “Lifecycle and Reha-
bilitation of the Com-
mon Murre” at the Cannon
Beach Library, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 13.
The event is part of the
ongoing World of Hay-
stack Rock Library Lecture
Series, presented by the
Friends of Haystack Rock.
The Wildlife Center is
the only wildlife care hos-
pital on the Central and
North Oregon coasts. It
serves communities as far
south as Newport, all the
way up to the Long Beach
Peninsula in Washington.
Our center specializes in
seabird rehabilitation, but
provides professional med-
ical care for all native wild
birds and mammals need-
ing our help.
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A common murre chick.
The library is at 131 N.
Hemlock St.
Upcoming talks
• March 13: Joe Lieb-
ezeit, “Oregon’s Black
Oystercatchers”
• April 10: Shawn Ste-
phensen, “The Puffi n
Study”
• May 8: Katie Voelke,
“Conservation Land and
Public Access: The Pros
and Cons”