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Start or stop subscription? 541-385-5800 PHONE HOURS 6 a.m.-noon Tuesday-Friday 7 a.m.-noon Saturday-Sunday and holidays GENERAL INFORMATION LOCAL, STATE & REGION DESCHUTES COUNTY COVID-19 data for Monday, June 7: Deschutes County cases: 9,777 (8 new cases) Deschutes County deaths: 79 (zero new deaths) Crook County cases: 1,237 (1 new case) Crook County deaths: 22 (zero new deaths) Jefferson County cases: 2,338 (1 new case) Jefferson County deaths: 38 (zero new deaths) Oregon cases: 203,374 (125 new cases) Oregon deaths: 2,694 (zero new deaths) COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles Bend on Monday: 26 (4 in ICU) New COVID-19 cases per day 129 new cases 110 103 new cases 7-day average (April 23) 100 90 74 new cases 48 new cases (April 10) 50 new cases (July 16) 60 50 40 *State data unavailable for Jan. 31 31 new cases (Oct. 31) 16 new cases 30 (Sept. 19) 20 10 (March 11) March 2020 70 (May 25) (May 20) 1st case 80 (Nov. 14) 9 new cases EMAIL 120 (May 8) (Feb. 17) 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. bulletin@bendbulletin.com (Jan. 1) (Nov. 27) 130 115 new cases 47 new cases 28 new cases ONLINE (April 29) 108 new cases 90 new cases BULLETIN GRAPHIC 125 new cases (Dec. 4) Vaccines are available. 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They may not be reproduced without explicit prior approval. Lottery results can now be found on the second page of Sports. BY KATIE FRANKOWICZ The Astorian Two trail sections at Oswald West State Park, including a popular route up Neah-Kah- Nie Mountain near Manza- nita, could be closed until 2023 because of damage caused by high winds last summer. The trail closures come at a time when visitor numbers to the Oregon Coast continue to surge and more people are seek- ing outdoor activities during the coronavirus pandemic. On the North Neah-Kah- Nie Mountain Trail, the dam- age is measured in trees down. On a short, less well-known section of the Oregon Coast Trail near Arch Cape, the dam- age is measured in acres. The same east winds that knocked down trees in Sep- tember also fueled the cata- strophic Labor Day fires across Oregon. Smoke from the fires darkened the skies at the coast, but the fires never threatened towns or trees. The wind was a different story. It rushed through private timberlands at the back of state parkland and, with little to soften the blow, pummeled portions of Oswald West State Park. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” said ranger Eric Crum as he surveyed damage on the Arch Cape Trail during a re- cent visit. The trail, its entrance blocked by a closure sign, starts off normally enough. Coastal woods close around you. Salm- onberry sends a riot of new growth over the trail. When Crum and another ranger went to scout out the damage, they hiked along for a short while, chain sawed through a few downed trees and thought, “This isn’t so bad.” But as the trail climbed into the woods, suddenly there was daylight ahead, an entire sky where before there had been shadow-drenched forest. Fallen trees — giant Sitka spruce, hemlock, Douglas fir — piled on top of each other, masses of roots upended. Some trees still stood in the clearing, but the wind had snapped them in half. Crum reported back: “The whole forest blew down.” The winds also damaged a trail at Cape Lookout State Park farther south, closing down the entire North Trail that connects a day-use area to the Cape Trail, A sign blocks the entrance to the North Neah-Kah-Nie Mountain Trail at Oswald West State Park. one of the most popular hikes on the North Coast, according to the Oregon Parks and Recre- ation Department. All three trail sections are impassable. The state expects to use helicopters to remove fallen and dangerous trees within 200 feet of either side of the trail. But these same crews are busy elsewhere in the state, cleaning up damage caused by the fires. The North Coast trails will have to wait their turn. And the state is not even sure of the full extent of the damage on the trails yet. “We don’t have the whole picture because we can’t get to some of the areas to assess the damage,” said Diane Navarrete, a spokeswoman for the Parks and Recreation Department. Until trees are removed, the state will not know if any trails will need to be realigned. The trails were already built in chal- lenging terrain where reroutes — moving large sections of trail — are not feasible. Some trees — like large Sitka spruce — may be left on site as nurse logs for habitat, or given to partner agencies for habitat, Navarrete added. Though helicopter removal is expensive, the state ruled out using ground crews to re- move debris — it would be un- safe and impractical and could cause more damage to the for- est, Navarrete said. Other options Oswald West and Cape Lookout have a number of other trail options for visitors. Hikers can still reach the sum- mit of Neah-Kah-Nie Mountain by parking at a trailhead farther south on U.S. Highway 101 and walking the South Trail. Still, the trail closures could put more pressure on other trail systems and will impact the small trickle of Oregon Coast Trail through-hikers that rangers and park managers sometimes see. With the Arch Cape and Neah-Kah-Nie trails closed, there are not great options for these hikers, said Ben Cox, Ne- halem Bay unit manager for the Parks and Recreation Depart- ment. In this steep, cliffy area, hikers can’t simply drop down and walk along a beach to the next available trail section. The narrow highway shoulder be- comes their only alternative if they remain on foot. But trail closures due to nat- ural disruptions have become a common concern in the North Coast’s more southern state parks. At Ecola State Park, landslides and stormy weather continue to cause seasonal damage to the park’s entrance road while, recently, an entire trail section between Ecola Point and Indian Beach had to be rerouted around a large slide. “We’ve had to, unfortunately, be in this position for a quite a while,” Cox said. A man is accused of be- ing motivated by racial bias during an alleged inter-fam- ily home invasion and assault in Bend. Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel al- leges Reid Timothy Judson, 42, committed 11 crimes, including the felonies of first-degree robbery, aggra- vated harassment and bias crime. Judson is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges Tuesday morning in De- schutes County Circuit Court. Prosecutors allege that on May 30, Judson broke into his brother’s house on Hamehook Road in Bend and attacked his brother and made threats against his brother’s wife, who is Mexican American. “The state alleges the threats against the sister-in- law were motivated in part on her race,” Hummel wrote to The Bulletin. “And the threats against his brother were motivated in part by the fact his brother is married to a woman who identifies as Mexican American.” In the early morning of May 31, Judson was arrested by deputies with the De- schutes County Sheriff’s Of- fice and booked in jail. During the police re- sponse, Judson allegedly in- jured arresting deputy Chris Barringer and spat on Sgt. Aaron Harding. Judson is charged with two counts of first-degree burglary and one count each of coercion, menacing, fourth-degree assault, harass- ment, first-degree criminal mischief, assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, aggra- vated harassment and bias crime. Though court records in- dicate Judson has previously lived in Bend and Salem, his most recent addresses are in South Carolina. Judson’s attorney, Raun At- kinson, declined to comment on the case. Judson is the seventh per- son in Deschutes County charged under Oregon’s 2019 hate crime law, which allows a single person to be accused of the offense. Prior to the law, only a group of two or more people could be charged with a hate crime in Oregon. In June 2020, James Da- vid Lamb Jr. assaulted the 70-year-old Indian Ameri- can owner of the Hub Motel in Redmond. In September, Lamb was ordered to be sent to the state mental hospital for 20 years. One man accused of bias crime in Deschutes County remains on the run from the law. Jeremiah McBride pleaded not guilty to allega- tions he shoved a delivery driver at Red Robin and used a racial slur . In April, Mc- Bride failed to attend a hear- ing in his case and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Reporter: 541-383-0325, gandrews@bendbulletin.com Find it all online bendbulletin.com
