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Community
&
Lifestyle
Missing shared
experience of
sports more than
sports themselves
Things have gotten a little
sparse for sports reporters these
days. From a professional stand-
point, there are no events to
attend, no action shots to photo-
graph,
no
bu z z wor t hy
headlines to
write.
From
a
personal
s t a n d p o i nt ,
nearly all my
favorite pas-
By Nick Snyder times have
Cottage Grove been relegat-
ed to the cul-
Sentinel
tural back-
burner as the global human world
takes on an unprecedented crisis.
This is far from a complaint.
While I’ve been enamored with
sports for as long as I can re-mem-
ber — some of my earliest cogent
memories are watching the early
90s, Clyde Drexler-led Portland
Trailblazers on a grainy tube TV
— I fully recognize their place in
our society.
See
SNYDER 2B
Tide Tables
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
April 29
5:12am / 6.3
7:39pm/ 5.5
12:38pm/ 0.2
April 30
6:32am / 6.0
8:36pm / 5.9
12:58am / 3.5
1:44pm / 0.2
COURTESY PHOTO
“Restoring the Siuslaw” is one of two interactive maps now available to the public, which tell the history of the
Siuslaw River and its restoration through the Siuslaw Watershed and community partners.
SWC, E COTRUST RELEASE ‘S TORY OF THE S IUSLAW ’
A
pril marked the 50th anniversa-
ry of Earth Day, a global cele-
bration encouraging education
and stewardship of the planet’s natural
resources.
A lot has happened in 50 years.
The Siuslaw Watershed has been
shaped by change. Managed and stew-
arded by Siuslaw tribal people for gen-
erations and into today, the watershed
at one time supported such ecologic
proliferation that its salmon run was
second only to the Columbia. In the
time following white European settle-
ment, streams were straightened, for-
ests logged and salmon numbers greatly
reduced.
Now, the Siuslaw enters another era
of change, as partners and community
members join together to restore habi-
tat to benefit both fish and people. But
amidst this change the Siuslaw River,
its tributaries, coastal lakes and estuary
hold great promise for restoring endan-
COURTESY PHOTO
gered coho salmon.
“Story the Siuslaw” interactive map tells the history of the Siuslaw River.
To tell the stories of a place that holds
so much possibility for the coho, Siu- maps — illustrative story experiences.
slaw) with photos, old and new, and
slaw Watershed Council has partnered
Take a scroll through the “Story of the
See SIUSLAW 2B
with Ecotrust to produce two story Siuslaw”
(http://bit.ly/storyofthesiu-
Wild Chinook bag limit reduced on Siletz when opens May 1
May 1
7:55am / 6.0
9:25pm/ 6.4
2:20am/ 2.9
2:46pm/ 0.2
May 2
7:55am / 6.0
9:25pm / 6.4
2:20am / 2.9
2:46pm / 0.2
In the wake of poor Chinook
salmon returns in 2019 and a
low fall Chinook forecast for
2020, the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife this week
announced that it is reducing
the bag limit on Siletz River
early returning wild Chinook
to one adult Chinook per day,
effective May. 1 through July
31. Prior to the rule change,
the bag limit was two adult
wild Chinook.
The reduced bag limit was
triggered by a provision of the
ODFW’s Coastal Multi-
Species
Conservation
Management
Plan
that
requires ODFW to lower har-
vest impacts when population
forecasts decline to a certain
point.
The reduced bag limit is
intended to improve natural
production of wild Chinook.
The temporary rule, adopt-
ed April 22, reduces the sea-
sonal bag limit for adult wild
Chinook salmon in the Siletz
River basin from the perma-
nent limit of one per day and
two for the period of April 1
through July 31, 2020 to one
adult wild Chinook for the
season from May 1 through
July 31.
May 3
9:11am / 6.2
10:09pm / 7.0
3:28am / 2.0
3:41pm / 0.2
May 4
10:19am / 6.4
10:49pm / 7.6
4:25am / 1.0
4:32pm / 0.4
May 5
11:20am / 6.7
11:29pm / 8.1
5:17am / 0.0
5:19pm / 0.6
Be on lookout for nesting birds as spring nesting season approaches
ODFW biologists have
been responding to an in-
creased number of calls about
nesting birds. April through
July is a critical time for most
bird species as they care for
their young.
ODFW reminds Orego-
nians that taking and keeping
an animal from the wild as
well as moving or destroy-
ing an active nest is not only
against the law, but may harm
or kill birds.
Please consider these tips
if you do encounter a nest or
baby bird:
• Leave fledgling birds alone.
It is natural for fledgling
(mostly feathered and on the
ground) birds to be awkward
while learning how to fly.
If you see one on the
ground, leave it alone and
keep your distance. Bring
your pets under control and
indoors if possible.
The bird’s parents will
feed it for several days on
the ground until it can fly.
Some fledglings such as great
horned owls spend up to
several weeks on or near the
ground as they learn how to
fly.
Owl parents protect and
feed their owlets during this
time.
• Return nestling birds to
the nest. Nestlings (baby birds
not fully feathered) found on
the ground can be gently and
quickly returned to the nest.
It is a myth that a nestling
touched by humans will be
abandoned by its parents.
See
BIRDS 2B
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