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Mt. Hood NF recognized for ‘Wild’ film
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A 26-CAR PILEUP on I-84 east of Baker City left 12 people with injuries and sent four people to the
hospital early Saturday morning. The crash was still under investigation as of press time, but was be-
lieved to have been caused by black ice.
Twelve injured in Interstate
84 crash in eastern Oregon
BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) —
Black ice is believed to be the
cause of a freeway pileup in-
volving more than a dozen
tractor-trailers that left 12
people injured Saturday in
eastern Oregon, police said.
The 26-vehicle pileup left a
long stretch of Interstate 84
closed for most of the day as
crews worked to clean spilled
diesel fuel and clear away
dozens of vehicles that were
either damaged or stranded.
Twelve people were treat-
ed for injuries at a
Baker City hospital, with
four of them then going to
other hospitals with more se-
rious injuries, Oregon State
Police Sgt. Kyle Hove said.
Police had initially reported
just four people hurt. There
were no fatalities.
The crash occurred short-
ly before 5 a.m. east of
Baker City, about 130 miles
northwest of Boise, Idaho.
Hove arrived on the scene
to find “a sheet of ice” on the
roadway. Troopers are still
investigating, but Hove said
he believes it was a chain-re-
action crash.
“A couple of the trucks
came upon the black ice, and
they jackknifed and crashed
into each other. And it just
continued to escalate,” Hove
told The Associated Press by
phone.
Authorities updated their
report hours after the crash,
increasing the number of ve-
hicles directly involved from
20 to 26, and saying that the
pileup left 50 to 70 vehicles
stranded at the scene.
There were several sepa-
rate collisions over a stretch
of about three-quarters of a
mile in the eastbound lanes,
Hove said. He said many of
the damaged vehicles were
tractor-trailers, and several
spilled their loads.
Two trucks were trans-
porting hazardous materials.
Their cargo did not spill, but
crews had to clean up diesel
from the trucks’ fuel tanks.
“We understand it’s frus-
trating when the freeway is
closed like this,” said Tom
Srandberg, a spokesman for
the Oregon Department of
Transportation. “Our prima-
ry concern is safety, and (we)
want to make sure every-
thing is cleared by our haz-
mat folks before we let any
traffic through the areas.”
I-84 links Salt Lake City
with Portland, Oregon, and
is the primary east-west
highway through eastern
Oregon. The eastbound lanes
were closed for several hours
but officials said at least one
lane was reopening Saturday
night. Westbound lanes were
closed temporarily near the
crash site.
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On Jan. 6, Governor John
Kitzhaber presented an Ore-
gon Film & Television Office’s
Annual Governor’s Award in
the category of “Film Advo-
cate,” to the Mt. Hood Nation-
al Forest for its involvement
and support of the filming of
the major motion pic-
ture, “Wild.” Forest staff
being honored included Kath-
leen Walker, Westside recre-
ation program manager;
Leanne Veldhuis, special uses
program manager; Mary
Ellen Fitzgerald, special uses
specialist, and Bill Westbrook,
Zigzag district ranger. Gordon
Sondland, Oregon Film chair,
Cheryl Strayed, the author of
the book “Wild” from which
the film is based, and Russell
Hornsby, from the hit TV se-
ries, “Grimm,” were among
the many notable attendees at
the event held at the Eastside
Exchange Ballroom in Port-
land.
Honoree Bill Westbrook,
district ranger for the Zigzag
Ranger District appreciated
the recognition. “It always
feels good to be recognized for
hard work,” Westbrook said.
“Putting together filming per-
mits like the one we estab-
lished for “Wild” took great ef-
forts from many talented staff
members. It’s wonderful to
celebrate their efforts in this
way.”
It is projected by the Ore-
gon Film & Television Office
that more money will be spent
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in the state on various media
projects this year than ever
before. The Oregon Film &
Television Office’s Annual
Governor’s Award celebrates
the diversity and achieve-
ments of media productions
in Oregon. Since 2012, accord-
ing to Oregon Film, the num-
ber of projects and companies
benefiting from the various
film advocacy groups and
state agency programs has
more than doubled. The num-
ber of jobs in the motion pic-
ture and video production sec-
tor has increased more than
60 percent in the last five
years, and the number of in-
digenous production compa-
nies has seen growth of more
than 25 percent over that same
period.
The filming of “Wild” was
conducted at many locations
along the Pacific Crest Trail
but with special focus on the
Mt. Hood National Forest. A
75-person crew filmed for
three weeks in October and
November of 2013 shooting a
wide range of scenes around
Mt. Hood National Forest
such as Witherspoon throw-
ing her boot off the cliff, meet-
ing a Forest Ranger, seeing a
fox in the snow outside her
tent, purifying water with
threatening hunters, and vis-
iting a horse in its corral.
“I think part of the reason
why the Mt. Hood National
Forest was featured in the film
is because of its dynamic his-
tory and geographical fea-
tures,” said Veldhuis. “We
have structures that have
maintained their historic in-
te g rity, lakes that make
breathtaking backdrops, Tim-
berline Lodge, and so much
more. The film crews were
able to knock out a lot of their
desired scenes all at once.”
Filming centered on Zigzag
Ranger District and focused
on the historic Clackamas
Lake Ranger Station complex,
Timberline Lodge, and Ski-
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