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By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
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It took about 45 minutes for emergency responders to extricate a woman from a car that collided with a logging truck on U.S. Highway 101 in
Gearhart on Tuesday morning.
Two women injured in motor vehicle
accident on Highway 101 in Gearhart
Driver of car backed up
into path of logging truck
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
Two people were injured in
a two-vehicle accident on U.S.
Highway 101 in Gearhart on
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a.m. that a car and a logging
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and Gearhart and Seaside po-
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lice Chief Jeff Bowman and
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woman driving the car had
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was one passenger in the car.
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time.
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get out of the car and was
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they cut the roof off the car.
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man on Monday said he would
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to drive the truck away from
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Anticipating the impact
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Two women were injured after it was hit by a logging truck Tuesday,
Dec. 29.
To all of you that ever sat under a tree on a hot August afternoon
sipping lemonade or after school doing homework, or climbed a tree
and sat on its branches, slept overnight in a tree house, swung in a tire
from a tree branch, jumped from a branch into a swimming hole, or
just had a tree best friend growing up — this letter is directed to you.
The trees need your help and they
deserve your help. On Jan. 19, three units
of the Homesteader Tract of Buster Creek
Basin in the Clatsop State Forest will be
auctioned off by Oregon Department of
Forestry (ODF) despite the thousands of
phone calls and letters to Doug Decker,
Oregon chief forester, asking (actually
begging) him to either cancel or delay this
auction.
This tract is home to trees that are over
200 feet tall, over 100 years old, and up
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boasts ferns as tall as a man’s chest. This
is a multi-culture forest and needs to be
saved. For pictures showing the beauty
of this amazing piece of north Oregon
coast, go to the North Coast State Forest
Coalition website. On the north coast of
Oregon, for an old growth forest — this is
it — a healthy ecosystem home to some of
the few remaining old trees on the north
coast.
ODF says they are raising revenues for
Clatsop County. The question is: Does
Clatsop County need funds bad enough to
destroy this forest, or is ODF creating a
fake revenue crisis to support their plans
to destroy this forest? Have the citizens
of Clatsop County been polled to see how
they feel? After all, the state forests, just
like the state parks, belong to the public.
In my naiveté I thought the job of ODF
was to protect these assets for all of us.
Join climatologist John Stevenson as
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Listening to the Land is a monthly
winter speaker series offered January
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Coast Land Conservancy and the Neca-
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more at NCLCtrust.org.
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world committed to plans that would pro-
tect the world’s forests, and to regenerate
those destroyed. ODF should be leading
and supporting these efforts.
There are many, many arguments
against destruction of this forest. The
North Coast State Forest Coalition web-
site, the Upper Left Edge website, and
the Aug. 15 issue of HipFISH all carry
articles discussing why destruction of this
forest is a very bad idea.
The Coast Range Association, Oregon
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are only effective because you are behind
them. A call to these organizations for
help could make a positive difference.
I would like to suggest you call Mr.
Decker but he won’t take your calls. He
has, instead, forwarded calls to the Astoria
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is no guarantee he will read your letter.
Still, you all need to know that this is
going down.
ODF did request public input before
it was decided to clear-cut this tract. I
wonder, was the decision to clear-cut this
forest decided before the public comment-
ed? It seems to me if ODF cared about
public opinion, this coming auction would
be delayed in the hope that a win-win
solution could be worked out. I am still
naive enough to believe this is possible.
We have just survived a very seri-
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washouts. This tract is along the Nehalem
River and is part of the watershed for both
Clatsop and Tillamook counties. Destroy-
ing this forest would create additional
complications for the watershed during
serious storms.
I am a 76-year-old single woman living
in Nehalem. It is the time of the year
when, like you, I re-evaluate my goals:
What is precious to me, what makes
me smile, what makes me feel joy. It is
time for us (like our lobbyists, our major
corporations) to be relentless in pursuit of
what is important to us.
Interesting enough is the ODF website
where they describe the type of for-
ests they plan to create in Oregon. That
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Buster Basin. So why destroy it?
I am not anti-logging. I use wood like
many others, but I subscribe to the Nature
Conservancy approach. Spare the old
trees; select cutting or thinning the forests
is a healthy way to provide needed wood
and to provide necessary funds.
At the Paris Climate Conference, major
corporations and countries around the
A three-vehicle accident on U.S.
Highway 101 in Gearhart on Saturday
caused damage to a telephone pole and
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hospital with minor injuries.
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Department responded to an accident on
the highway near G Street.
The driver of a Chevrolet Camaro was
attempting to make a lefthand turn onto
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Jeff Bowman said. When he pulled out to
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The drivers of the other vehicles were
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