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.
The land was purchased
from Greenwood Resources,
and monetary support was gar-
nered from more than 120 pri-
vate donations and a $524,000
grant from the Oregon Water-
shed Enhancement Board, the
funding agency for acquisitions
and protection of watersheds in
the state.
“There’s no way we could
have done this without private
donations or the help of Green-
wood,” Wickersham says.
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