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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.
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