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A6 THE ASTORIAN • TuESdAy, AuguST 20, 2019 Lattig: Library landed a grant that will fund a program looking at coastal communities, wildlife Continued from Page A1 2018 increased the space for books and opened the door to programs and ser- vices the library had not been able to offer before. For now, Lattig runs weekly story time hours with art projects afterward. A summer reading pro- gram is in its final weeks and the library has started hosting movie nights. But still more plans are in the works. The library landed a grant that will fund a program, starting in September, that looks at coastal communities and wildlife. Lattig plans to put kids to work creating bird feeding stations and send them home with informa- tion about plants they can grow that benefit birds and pollinators. Other grants are in the works that she hopes will fund more bilingual pro- gramming for the Span- ish-speaking community. Lattig, who has lived in the area for more than 20 years, sees many opportu- nities to continue some of the work she has done else- where, developing English as a second language pro- grams and finding ways to connect people to career and educational resources. “We are a small com- munity library and it’s very different from Astoria and Seaside’s libraries,” Lattig said. Those librar- ies and their staff have been important mentors as Lattig looks to develop new programs in Warren- ton, but Warrenton’s size and scope mean the library plays a slightly different role in the community. “You have to be extremely flexible, almost a contortionist, to meet the needs of everybody because you don’t know who is going to come that day,” Lattig said. She has families who show up regularly, but then there are others who might be homeless or just pass- ing through town. A read- ing may draw only three kids or more than a dozen. For Lattig, the goals in the children’s programs are straight-forward, but hopefully far-reaching: She wants to foster the kids’ creativity and she wants to help build confi- dence and self-esteem in each child. “First of all, it’s not like being in school so it’s a lit- tle bit more wild at times, in a good way,” she said. She has her “drive-bys,” her term for the 2-year- olds who need to zoom around the room in circles a bit before settling down to listen to a story or work on a project. “I want to give them an opportunity where their imagination can just flour- ish,” she added. “They are just natural creators … they’ll do things you never could imagine.” ‘I WANT TO gIVE THEM AN OPPORTuNITy WHERE THEIR IMAgINATION CAN JuST FLOuRISH.’ Laura Lattig | coordinates children and family programs at the Warrenton Community Library Estuary: ‘There’s a big question about sea level rise’ Continued from Page A1 Coordination with land- owners and the layering of historic information remains crucial to understanding how and why estuaries have shifted over time and what can be done to restore them. But there was a recogni- tion that past mapping efforts had fallen short. The new surveys and estuary mapping technique were possible thanks to an influx of new data — includ- ing accurate elevation data and the federal water models — in combination with an accumulation of field experi- ence among researchers and a widely recognized urgency to understand loss in the estu- aries, Brophy said. Taken together, the new information about estu- ary loss, what the estuaries used to encompass and what remains today provide an important baseline for under- standing what the future holds when it comes to cli- mate change-related shifts like rising sea levels. “We have a better abil- ity to determine what future tidal wetland extent might look like,” Brophy said, add- ing, “You can’t estimate future change if you don’t have a good handle on cur- rent conditions.” Hailey Hoffman/The Astorian Small island wetlands in the Columbia River. “There’s a big question about sea level rise and how that’s going to be influenc- ing the landscape,” Greene agreed. “This work is really a first step in making good pre- dictions for that.” While similar work has already been undertaken by local and regional groups on the Columbia River, Cath- erine Corbett, chief scien- tist for the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, said the new maps provide an import- ant context. “We can compare what we have in the Columbia to the rest of the West Coast,” she said. Given what the surveys reveal about where estuaries and associated wetlands once existed, Greene, who works at NOAA’s Northwest Fish- eries Science Center in Seat- tle, hopes the new maps will help agencies and groups that work on restoration pri- oritize projects and identify new sites. The areas where much of the current restoration occurs are low in the estuaries, Greene said. At these sites, the economic cost of main- taining the land for agricul- ture might be relatively high compared to the benefit and landowners might be more open to giving it back to the tides. But these are also sites that are more vulnerable to sea level rise. The historic information opens up an entirely new landscape of possibilities when it comes to restoration. The surveys have their limits, however. In highly urbanized areas like Port- land, LIDAR can only reveal so much. Greene thinks it is likely researchers are under- estimating the amount of estuary loss in these places. Research: Everyone can do a better job of communicating Continued from Page A1 going to be concerned with just evacuation procedures during the hazard to try to get their population to higher ground or to safety and then setting up emer- gency shelters and relief after the event,” he said. The Oregon Department of Transportation is going to be responsible for mov- ing the needle on retrofitting critical bridges, as it is very costly, he said. And since it is difficult for coastal towns to obtain enough funding to improve infrastructure, they need to prioritize their strategies. “When you start talking about a hazard that might only occur, let’s just call it every 500 years, it’s very hard to convince govern- ments to spend money to invest in resources and especially retrofit bridges or infrastructure,” Mason said. “The No. 1 thing I’m always a proponent of is, which I think is a lot cheaper and a lot more effective, is educating the population and the government offi- cials about what we expect to happen during the next natural disaster and what are some more cost-effective strategies for keeping the population safe.” As local governments develop emergency pre- paredness plans and scien- tists continue to improve research methods, Mason said everyone can do a bet- ter job of communicating. “Sometimes when the scientists come and talk to government officials, they don’t really know how to interact with people very well and they can come across as like the annoying computer guy who knows more than you and can’t really talk without using jar- gon,” Mason said. “A lot of times, that’s not even ill-intentioned, it’s just that we’re not taught the skills of how to do that. 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