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SN Siuslaw News Community & Lifestyle ODFW REGIONAL FISHING REPORT www.dfw.state.or.us/RR Local Lakes and Ponds: North Coast lakes are done with trout stocking until next spring, but many lakes have holdover trout from earlier sea- son’s stockings. Warmwater fish- ing should be over for the year as water temperatures are too cold to keep those species active. Mid-coast lakes will receive trout stockings the first couple weeks of February. These lakes include: Cleawox, Munsel, Alder and Dune lakes. Wild coho fish- eries in Siltcoos and Tahkenitch lakes are open and provide a unique opportunity to catch a coho in a coastal lake. SIUSLAW RIVER: Winter steelhead Winter steehead fishing on the Siuslaw has been blown out with the recent high water. Expect the first good push of fish to be around when the river drops back into shape this weekend and next week. The Whitaker Creek area is the best place to target returning hatchery fish. Hatchery fish are also planted in Lake Creek and are released into hatchery fish will start to show See WEDNESDAY EDITION | JANUARY 6, 2021 | $1.00 THESIUSLAWNEWS.COM Final round of ‘king tides’ to take place this weekend The volunteer King Tides Project will collect photos from the year’s highest tides along the Oregon coast This winter’s final series of “king tides” is coming up Jan. 11-13, which means that this will be the final round for the 2020-21 edition of the Oregon King Tides Project. Every winter for the past decade, a growing army of volunteer photographers has documented the highest point reached by these highest of tides. The camera-wielding volun- teers are participating in the King Tides Project, the Oregon branch of an international grass- roots effort to document coast- al areas flooded by the highest winter tides. Here in Oregon, the King Tides Project has been devel- oped and coordinated by the CoastWatch Program of the Or- egon Shores Conservation Co- alition, and the Oregon Coastal Management Program, a branch of the Department of Land Con- servation and Development. From modest beginnings in 2010, the project has grown to the point that more than 100 volunteer photographers con- tributed more than 400 photos Volunteer photographers contributed more than 400 photos to the project’s archives last winter as part of the annual King Tides Project to the project’s archives last win- ter. Anyone with a camera or cell phone can participate. The first two “king tides” have passed, but volunteers are needed for the third round, be- ginning on Monday, Jan. 11, and extending through Wednesday, Jan 13. The exact time of the tidal peak will change each day and will vary with location; on Monday, it will take place near 10 a.m. on the central coast. For information about how to find tide tables, and much else about the project, go to the web- site at www.oregonking tides. net. An online warm-up session for the final round of the project is coming up tomorrow, Jan. 7, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. CoastWatch and the Oregon Coastal Management Program will host a panel discussion fea- turing geomorphologist Peter Ruggiero, coastal ecologist Sal- ly Hacker, and economist Steve Dundas. Their topic will be “Optimiz- ing the ecosystem services of Pa- cific Northwest Coastal Beaches and Dunes.” For more information, or to register, visit www.oregon- shores.org/events/talks-climate -beaches-and-dunes. Thus far this winter, some 60 photographers have document- ed the first two rounds of high tides with more than 200 pho- tographs. But much more need to be done to provide visual ev- idence of the reach of high tides along the entire Oregon coast. To see priority areas where there are gaps in overage, vis- it www.oregonkingtides.net/ participate/ and scroll down to “Where.” Every year in early winter, high tides on the Oregon coast are higher than usual. These extreme high tides, common- ly called “King Tides,” occur at a few specific times during the year when the moon’s orbit comes closest to the earth, the earth’s orbit is closest to the sun, and the sun, moon and earth are in alignment, thereby increasing their gravitational influence on the tides. The goal of this citizen science project is to encourage Orego- nians and visitors to submit pho- tos they take of the king tides to help track sea level rise over time and reveal its impacts on the Or- egon coast. Photographers are also en- couraged to take photos at aver- age high tides from the identical vantage points of their “king tides” shots, for purposes of comparison. The hundreds of photos they take reveal See TIDES 5B Positive community disc course FISHING 5B Tide Tables Entrance Siuslaw River High Tide Low Tide Jan. 6 5:32am / 7.4 5:44pm / 5.6 12:05am / 2.1 11:42pm / 1.8 Jan. 7 6:22am / 7.7 7:13pm / 5.4 1:17pm / 1.3 Jan. 8 7:13am / 8.1 8:38pm / 5.5 12:42am / 2.5 2:23pm / 0.6 PHOTOS BY MARK BRENNAN/SIUSLAW NEWS T he first steps in creating a new disc golf course for the City of Florence has begun at the Munsel Greenway Park. The Florence City Council recently approved the park as the home for the a new, professional quality disc golf course, which is scheduled to open in the summer of 2021. The 18-hole course is receiving financial sup- port from Travel Lane County and the city has provided the land for the development of the course, which is intended to draw competi- tions and recreational players from a growing number of disc golf enthusiasts. Many of these new players have taken up the outdoor, socially distanced sport since the onset of the COVID-19 virus. SVCC announces ‘Celebration’ theme winners Jan. 9 8:06am / 8.4 9:52pm / 5.9 1:47am / 3.0 3:22pm / -0.2 Jan. 10 8:59am / 8.6 10:52pm / 6.2 2:52am / 3.3 4:16pm / -0.9 Jan. 11 9:50am / 8.8 11:44pm / 6.6 3:52am / 3.4 5:05pm / -1.2 Jan. 12 10:41am / 8.8 4:48am / 3.3 5:52pm / -1.4 Members of the Siuslaw Viewfinders Camera Club (SVCC) completed their voting for the December judg- ing with the photo contest theme “Celebration.” First place went to Stephanie Ames with her interest- ing highlighting of the Bay Street Christmas lighting with “Celebrating the End of Darkness.” (below left) Second place went to Bill Stone’s creatively highlight- ed “Red Chair Or- nament.” (above right) Third place went to Cliff Harvey (SVCC’s UK rep- resentative) with his photo of young girls performing a Christmas dance in a church in his photo titled “Cele- brating Christmas in Church.” (right) WLCF 2021 grant applications still available Western Lane Community Foundation (WLCF) contin- ues to accept applications to its 2021 grant cycle. The applica- tion can be found on its web- site located at wlcfonline.org. Each year, WLCF awards several grants to local non- profit organizations for proj- ects/programs in its target area of western Lane County. Grants are awarded in the areas of education, medicine and science, the arts, and so- cial and civic services. See Welcome to 2021. Let’s hope it’s better than last year. As far as real estate....on January 4th there were 58 active residences for sale. 2 in Coast Village, 9 in Greentrees and 6 in Florentine. That leaves 41 residences thru out the city including south to Dunes city and north. That doesn’t give us a lot of inventory to work with. Also there are 80 lots for sale in the same areas. If you are thinking of selling, now is the time. If you need any help in selling your property, give me a call. Take care, wear a mask and wash your hands 100 Hwy. 101, Florence, OR • 541.997.7777 Lynnette Wikstrom Broker “We’re next to the Bridge.” lynnette@cbcoast.com · Cell: 541.999.0786 COAST REAL ESTATE GRANT 5B
