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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2017
Next Siuslaw Baseball Association meeting set for Feb. 7
The
Siuslaw
Baseball
Association will host its next
early registration and informa-
tional meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 7,
in the Siuslaw High School
mall area, beginning at 6 p.m.
Register and pay fees early,
or come learn about financial
assistance and ssk questions.
Also, come learn about volun-
teer opportunities and meet
other parents of baseball play-
ers this season.
Registration fees are $50 per
T-ball player or $60 for all
other players. There is also a
$30 “Opt Out” fee available for
volunteering.
Fees are nonrefundable after
Feb. 19.
SBA Registrations and fees
are due by Friday, Feb. 17, or at
assessments on Feb. 18 and 19.
Late registrations will be
accepted only if approved by
the SBA Board on available
team space and when accompa-
nied by additional fees deter-
mined by late uniform order-
ing, printing, delivery and
administrative expenses.
To register by mail, send
forms and fees to: Siuslaw
Baseball Association, P.O. Box
873, Florence, Ore. 97439.
Email questions to siuslaw-
baseball@gmail.com
Players will be placed into
leagues based on their age as of
May 1, 2017.
Leagues will include:
T-ball: Boys and girls, ages 5
and 6 years old. There will be
no assessments for this group
unless a 6-year-old would like
• Saturday, Feb. 18
Minors — 9 to 10:30 a.m.
Majors — 10:30 a.m. to
noon
Rookies — 12:00 to 1:30
p.m.
• Sunday, Feb. 19
Rookies — 1 to 1:45 p.m.
Minors — 1:45 to 2:30 p.m.
Majors — 2:30 to 3:15 p.m.
Players with gloves should
bring them to assessments.
Coaches will use assessment
results when drafting players
for teams.
interested in softball can regis-
ter at Boys and Girls Club by
calling 541-902-0304.
Coaches will call players
assigned to their teams by
March 7 to inform them of
practice times.
Rookies, Minors and Majors
should turn out for assessments
at Miller Park one time, either
Saturday or Sunday. T-ball and
Prep teams do not need to
attend assessments.
Assessments times will be as
follows:
to try-out for Rookies.
Players must have 1 year of
T-ball, be assessed at a Rookie
level by coaches at assessments
and be approved by the SBA
Board as being safe to play up.
Rookies: Ages 7 and 8 for
boys and girls.
Minors: Boys ages 9 and 10
year old.
Majors: Boys ages 11 and 12
years old.
Prep: Boys ages 13 and 14
year old.
Girls ages 9 years and older
the hard work by the state,
coastal communities and
landowners to restore habitat
and reduce threats from hatch-
eries and harvest,” said Barry
Thom, Regional Administrator
of NOAA Fisheries’ West Coast
Region. “Strong partnerships
have brought us this far, and
they will be critical to get the
rest of the way to delisting.”
As many as one to two mil-
lion coho once returned to
rivers and streams on the
Oregon Coast, supporting fish-
eries that helped anchor local
economies. Intensive fishing
and heavy logging through the
1900s contributed to declines,
and the number of spawning
adults dropped below 15,000 in
the 1980s.
NOAA Fisheries initially
listed Oregon Coast coho as a
threatened species in 1998.
The condition of the species
has since improved as state fish
and wildlife officials reduced
the risks posed by harvest and
hatcheries. Partnerships bridg-
ing state, local, tribal and feder-
al levels have helped imple-
ment projects to reopen and
improve habitat.
Recent numbers have ranged
from more than 350,000
spawning adults in 2011 and
2014, dropping back to 57,000
in 2015.
The threats still affecting
coho include degraded habitat,
especially the loss of floodplain
S IUSLAW N ATIONAL F OREST
at 285 pounds, and Riley
Jennings (152 lbs.) each went
4-1 on the day.
Even though as a team the
Vikings didn’t win any of its
dual meets, falling to Renegade
(57-21), Coquille (36-30),
Harrisburg (40-12), North
Bend (33-22) and Hidden
Valley (36-30), Wartnik said he
was extremely pleased with his
team’s performance.
“We came into the tourna-
ment short handed, but we still
outwrestled several teams,”
Wartnik said. “I saw some real-
ly stellar performances by our
wrestlers.”
Among them was Lady
Viking and senior Eyza Abbas,
who competed primarily
against boys and won 2 out of
her 5 matches at 120 pounds.
“She has been training dili-
gently, usually with Richard
Huff,” Wartnik said of Abbas,
who will compete this week-
end at Thurston High School
for a chance to qualify for state
in the women’s division.
Tonight, Siuslaw will com-
pete in the Far West League
tournament at North Bend
before finishing out the regular
season at the two-day Cottage
Grove Invitational — the Viks’
final tune-up meet before dis-
trict Feb. 10 and 11 at South
Umpqua.
Top finishers will advance to
state Feb. 24 and 25 in
Portland.
Buying or Selling? I can help.
Area (ODNRA), protect critical
habitat for threatened and
endangered species, provide
trainings for coastal communi-
ties to learn how to detect and
control invasive species on the
dunes, and establish a network
of partners all working towards
the mutual goal of dunes
lenges out there. By joining
forces with our partners to tack-
le them, we have the ability to
make great strides in improving
outcomes for fish and wildlife,
and people who live, work and
play on the Oregon coast.”
restoration.
We’re so thrilled about the
opportunities these grants will
provide to work with our part-
ners to address critical restora-
tion needs up and down the
Oregon coast,” said Jerry
Ingersoll, Siuslaw forest super-
visor. “We have some big chal-
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landowners and others.
Oregon dunes restoration
efforts will benefit from the
Pulling Together Initiative
grant that is being awarded to
Cascade Pacific Resource
Conservation and Development
(CPRCD) by the National Fish
and Wildlife Foundation. This
grant will support an effort with
the Siuslaw National Forest,
CPRCD, Save the Riders
Dunes and other local partners
to identify and eradicate inva-
sive species on the Oregon
dunes and build capacity for
broad scale dunes ecosystem
restoration projects into the
future.
This $82,000 grant will sup-
port restoration of 200 acres of
sand dunes within the Oregon
Dunes National Recreation
Wrestling
Conservation Service (NRCS).
Funds totaling $413,000 will
be shared among the Siuslaw
National Forest and the NRCS
Oregon state office to restore
and improve habitat for the
endangered coho salmon, pro-
tect water quality, increase for-
est health, and support local
communities through economic
development, increasing infra-
structure resiliency and reduc-
ing fire risk.
It builds on the existing
Salmon SuperHwy initiative
that aims to fully address fish
passage and habitat needs on
federal and private lands in the
Nestucca and Tillamook Bay
watersheds through a partner-
ship of Forest Service, NRCS,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Trout Unlimited, private
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CORVALLIS — Siuslaw
National
Forest
officials
received good news in the form
of two large grants awarded to
the forest and its partners for
restoration efforts spanning
much of the Oregon coast.
A total of $495,000 in feder-
al funds will support invasive
species management and eco-
logical restoration on the
Oregon dunes, as well as
stream and forest restoration on
and off Forest Service land on
the north Oregon coast.
The “Salmon SuperHwy
Basin Management Project”
was selected for a highly com-
petitive
Joint
Chiefs’
Landscape
Restoration
Partnership award by the heads
of the U.S. Forest Service and
Natural
Resources
“The plan recognizes the
critical role of local landowners
and communities in bringing
about recovery,” said Guido
Rahr, president and CEO of the
Wild Salmon Center in
Portland, which is leading
development of a business plan
to guide local recovery meas-
ures. “We all must be part of a
solution that will deliver multi-
ple benefits for Oregon in the
form of resilient communities,
improved habitat and healthy
fish populations.”
For more details and to view
the recovery plan, visit NOAA
Fisheries West Coast Region
website at www.go.usa.gov/
x8w53.
mate change on the rivers and
streams where they spawn and
rear, but improved habitat can
help mitigate those impacts.
The plan is voluntary, not
regulatory, and hinges on local
support and collaboration.
Coho recovery, and ultimately
delisting, will depend in large
part on voluntary actions by
partners implementing the
recovery plan, complemented
by regulatory protections under
the Endangered Species Act
and other state and local direc-
tives.
The plan promotes a network
of partnerships that integrate
the needs of Oregon Coast coho
with the needs of coastal com-
munities.
habitat where many juvenile
coho spend their first year
growing before migrating to the
ocean.
A lack of large wood in
rivers that provides rearing
habitat for young fish is also a
factor. Reduced water quality
and barriers such as culverts
that block migrating fish pose
continuing threats.
“The best available science
tells us that habitat is the bot-
tom line in stabilizing and
rebuilding coho to the point
they can sustain themselves,”
said Rob Walton, recovery
coordinator
for
NOAA
Fisheries’ West Coast Region in
western Oregon. Coho remain
vulnerable to the effects of cli-
NOAA Fisheries
have
released a recovery plan for
Oregon Coast coho salmon that
calls for public-private partner-
ships to conserve habitat for the
threatened species, positioning
coho for possible removal from
the federal list of threatened
and endangered species within
the next 10 years.
If the plan is successful,
Oregon Coast coho could
become the first of 28 threat-
ened and endangered species of
salmon and steelhead on the
West Coast to recover to the
point they can be delisted from
the Endangered Species Act.
“We can see that recovery is
in reach for Oregon Coast
coho, which is a testament to
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