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Lattig: Library landed
a grant that will fund a
program looking at coastal
communities, wildlife
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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’
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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
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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. And
I think perhaps because of
that maybe there’s a bound-
ary between scientists and
city managers ... and maybe
that brings some reluctance
to reach out and talk to the
scientists. It’s a vicious
cycle, really.”
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