January 9, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 7A
City hopes to get more fragile areas
to access different areas, does not have a particular
Dreyer said.
position on the project at
The watershed is about
As the consulting forest- this time and may not take
83.7 square miles; the wa- er, Dreyer will hire a log- one as a collective body.
tershed of the south fork of ging contractor, manage the The council is made up of
the Necanicum River, where timber sales, obtain permits, various stakeholders, some
Seaside’s
approximately make arrangements to sell specialists or profession-
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located, is about 12 to 14 trees for reforestation and su- watershed, that represent a
square miles. Boundaries are pervise the contract through variety of geographic loca-
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Geological Survey and based purchase orders in place be- ests, Graeper said.
on surface water drainage to fore the project starts, and if
City staff members will
a particular point in an area. the purchase orders are low meet with watershed council
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is 640 acres, Wallace said the sense to do the project now, weeks to provide them with
scope of the city’s upcom- he can advise the city to wait, more information about the
ing project is small relative Dreyer said.
project.
to the watershed’s size. The
He’s approached both
Graeper said, ultimately,
city has not harvested tim- Berlog, of Clatskanie, and the council’s goal is to be a
ber since 2008 after back- Bighorn Logging Corpora- resource for all watershed
to-back storms hit in 2006 tion, of Banks, about logging property owners and to guide
and 2007 and damaged some the parcels.
them in best management
forest areas, left ragged edg-
es and required salvage log-
ging.
‘Our management on the watershed is going to
The city is contracting
be one of water quality and not timber profi ts’
with forester Mark Dreyer,
owner of Lone Cedar Con-
Seaside Public Works Director Neal Wallace
sulting, to handle the overall
project, which is scheduled
to start in February, pending
the availability of crews and Pros and cons
practices. When it comes to
the acquisition of permits
timber harvest, the council
Two of the main risks encourages owners to “tai-
from the Oregon Depart-
ment of Forestry. The proj- associated with harvesting lor their harvest in the most
ect should take about two to timber are harming water sustainable way for the given
three months, depending on quality and increasing the situation.”
potential for erosion.
weather and other factors.
Reforestation after
The timber market is good
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When it comes to re-
the city wants to take advan- stream in the area the city
tage of that. He anticipates intends to cut, Dreyer said. foresting after the harvest,
the harvest will bring in a net He expects the company he the city hopes to plant the
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contracts with to take extra typical spruce and hemlock
The city will clear-cut precautions to protect the seedlings, but also other in-
nearly 50 acres of timber in streams and leave at least the digenous plants to “create a
one area. The 2007 storm minimal setbacks or buffers more natural, diverse forest,”
damaged part of the area, required by the department Wallace said.
but the project will extend of forestry.
“We want to do it in the
beyond mere cleanup. In
Other precautions they most responsible way we
another area, the city will can take are to stop work can,” he said.
primarily salvage clear-cut during heavy rain to limit
Oregon’s Forest Practic-
on about 10 acres near the VHGLPHQW ÀRZ DQG WR PLQL es Act holds the landowner
southern end of the city’s mize road building, he said.
responsible for reforestation
ownership. The city select-
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ed the two areas because clear-cutting can vary based 12 months of completing a
they’re removed from the on how a project is done, harvesting operation or after
main body of the Necan- said Necanicum Watershed felling begins, landowners
icum River, and the proj- Council Coordinator Melys- must start reforestation tasks
ect should clean up a large sa Graeper.
such as site preparation and
boundary edge while re-
“The city is seeking sup- ordering seedlings. They
quiring virtually no major port and suggestions from have 24 months to complete
road building, Wallace said. the council to make their har- planting. Residual seedlings,
The logging crew will vest as sustainable as it can saplings or poles and trees
have to build a few 100- to be,” she said.
all count toward stocking,
200-foot spurs, however,
The watershed council according to the Oregon De-
Timber from Page 1A
Stocking winner
partment of Forestry.
“The landowner must see
to it that the trees are in ‘free
to grow’ condition six years
after harvesting,” according
to state regulations. “Free to
grow” means that a tree has
a good chance of outgrowing
competing grass and brush
to become part of a vigorous,
healthy forest.
Dreyer said there has
been a shortage of seedlings,
so it may be hard to purchase
them all this year, but he
should acquire them in time
to plant in 2016.
Future deals
The city does not know
what new watershed areas
it might purchase with the
money from this harvest,
Wallace said. He believes
there are some future deals
that could be made to ac-
quire property. Campbell
Global, a forest and natural
resource investments man-
agement company, and Wey-
erhaeuser, a forest products
company, own the property
adjacent to the city’s. prop-
erty
Regardless of what deals
can be made, the money
made in the watershed will
be spent in and on the water-
shed, Wallace said.
“Our management on
the watershed is going to be
one of water quality and not
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city’s objectives are differ-
ent and less aggressive than
those of some other owners,
such as timber companies,
Wallace added.
“Timber companies man-
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said. “We think we would
probably be better stewards
of the land within the wa-
tershed. We’re not driven by
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ing a small clear-cut here.”
The city hopes to not just
buy any acreage but to get
more fragile, higher-risk and
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States Fish and Wildlife Ser-
vice has indicated the agency
might be able to augment the
city’s funds, as it encourages
municipalities to own big-
ger chunks of the watershed,
Wallace said.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Niculina Pavel, of Portland, right, won the grand prize —
a 7-foot-long stocking stuff ed with goodies and gift cer-
tifi cates contributed by business members of the Seaside
Downtown Development Association — in the SDDA’s
“Shop Local” event during the holidays. Ruth Swenson,
left, SDDA president and general manager of Hillcrest
Inn, presented Pavel with her prizes. Pavel is a frequent
visitor to Seaside.
Liberty Theater begins
yearlong celebration
A yearlong celebration
of the Liberty Theater’s
90th birthday and the 10th
anniversary of its grand
reopening begins Jan. 24
in the theater.
The day begins with a
free open house from 1 to
3 p.m. with birthday cake,
tours and some surprises.
At 5:15 p.m. a celebra-
tion dinner will be served
in the McTavish Room.
Seating is limited to 150;
table seating for groups is
available.
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cludes a concert of storytell-
ing, classical and contem-
porary music. The 7 p.m.
performance is “The Road
to Carnegie Hall,” featuring
tenor Ken Lavigne.
Lavigne has performed
on many world stages, in-
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negie Hall. He has per-
formed for Prince Charles
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information, visit www.lib-
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