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10A • August 26, 2016 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com Thirty years of success Land trust celebrates its achievements, anniversary LYRA FONTAINE/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE Haystack Rock Awareness Program coordinator Melissa Keyser educates beachgoers on how microplastics harm sea birds and other marine life. Protecting turtles from nurdles Groups partner for microplastics cleanup event By Lyra Fontaine Cannon Beach Gazette What’s in the sand and how it impacts beach life is a matter of concern for environ- mentalists and nature-lovers. Haystack Rock Awareness Program and Sleepy Monk Coffee partnered with Sea Turtles Forever to start what they hope will become a monthly microplastics clean- up event, which would be open to the public and at dif- ferent beach locations. Participants from Sleepy Monk Coffee and Haystack Rock Awareness Program were hard at work iltering sand for microplastics — tiny plastic bits that can harm sea mammals or sea birds when ingested. On Aug. 10, the small team used a microplastics iltration system with static-charged technology. The screen helps make iltering for tiny plastics easier and is patented by Marc Ward, president of Sea Turtles Forever, a nonproit organiza- tion dedicated to marine turtle conservation. When curious passerby stopped at the education stand on the beach, Haystack Rock Awareness Program coordi- nator Melissa Keyser helped them learn about nurdles, tiny pellets of raw plastic that loat and look like food to birds and ish. Keyser educated beach visitors on both the problem of plastic debris and solutions. The group worked near Haystack Rock, but some ar- eas on the beach, like Whale Park, have a denser amount of debris. “We picked up as much as we can,” Frances Holtman, Haystack Rock Awareness Program volunteer coordi- nator, said. “A lot of people learned about microplastics today.” The next cleanup is on Sep. 28. Conservancy honored with national distinction North Coast Land Con- servancy, headquartered in Seaside, announced it has achieved accreditation. North Coast Land Con- servancy has been working since 1986 to conserve and connect the landscape of the Oregon Coast. To date NCLC has conserved nearly 4,800 acres of forest, wetland, and coastal prairie habitat. NCLC was among 38 land trusts across the United States to achieve accredita- tion or to have accreditation renewed in August. The Land Trust Accreditation Commission awarded the accreditation. By Dan Haag EO Media Group Whether you live on the North Oregon Coast or just visit from time to time, it’s easy to take the area’s natural beauty for granted. Surrounded as we are by pristine beaches, swaths of forest and mountain vistas, we often assume it has always been and will always be this way. But without attention to conservation and action by pas- sionate local advocates, forests and ields could be covered in housing developments, high ris- es and clear cuts. As the North Coast Land Conservancy prepares to cel- ebrate 30 years of conserving natural landscapes on the Or- egon Coast, the nonproit land trust knows its best works are yet to come. Time to celebrate For three decades, North Coast Land Conservancy’s fo- cus has been on stewardship actions with a mission of con- servation at its core. It’s a mis- sion with multiple facets: land acquisition projects, facilitating habitat development, and par- ticipating in community out- reach programs. The goal of all of this has always been a fully functioning coastal landscape where people, plants and wildlife thrive. From its grassroots begin- nings, NCLC has evolved into DANNY MILLER/EO MEDIA GROUP Jon Wickersham, associate director of North Coast Land Conservancy, and Lynette Villagomez, administrative and outreach assistant, walk the trail at NCLC’s Circle Creek Habitat Reserve in Seaside. an organization that is respon- sible for coastal property from Astoria to Lincoln City. Jon Wicksersham, asso- ciate director of NCLC, says the organization now manag- es over 3,000 acres north to south, from the tip of the coast range into the ocean. That includes the newly en- hanced 365-acre Circle Creek Habitat Reserve property in Seaside and the recently ac- quired 340-acre Boneyard Ridge on Tillamook Head, which shares a mile-long bor- der with Circle Creek. With those projects coin- ciding with the 30-year an- niversary of NCLC, the time seemed right to share the cel- ebration. ‘Right path forward’ NCLC is especially proud of the Boneyard Ridge property and with good reason; it is the culmination of nearly ive years of work by staff and volunteers. “We’re all very excited about this one,” Wickersham says. “The sweet spot is usually about three years or so to do a project, depending on complexity and the price tag.” Not only was Boneyard Ridge one of the most time-con- suming projects NCLC has tack- led, it was also the most expen- sive, coming in at $1.3 million. “As you can imagine, it took us awhile to igure out the right path forward,” Wickersh- am says. 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