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Posted by David Haviland
on August 11, 2009 at 8:20 am (622 social interactions)
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HOQUIAM, Wash. - The City of Hoquiam entered into a lease agreement with the Port of Grays Harbor last night that gives them a lot to process biosolids removed from the Hoquiam Lagoon.
City Administrator Brian Shay explained "The first thing we'll do is we'll go in and remove all the biosolids, then once that's done we'll build the dike. Like when you see the Port out there dredging the channel, we'll bring in a floating barge and we'll dredge it out, pipe the material to that site, they'll squeeze the water out of it, and then it will be loaded into containers and hauled away"
The property will be leased from October 1st of this year to September 30th 2010 for 1 thousand, 87 dollars per month.
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Posted by David Haviland
on August 11, 2009 at 5:29 am (1331 social interactions)
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OLYMPIA - The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is seeking volunteers to participate in a cooperative arrangement that has given hunters access to approximately 250,000 acres of private timberlands near Mount St. Helens in the last two years.
For the third year, Weyerhaeuser Company is prepared to give hunters holding special elk permits additional motorized access to miles of private logging roads on the St. Helens Tree Farm - provided that enough volunteers can be found to assure a safe and orderly hunt.
Key tasks for volunteers include orienting hunters, staffing access points and maintaining safety buffers between hunters and active Weyerhaeuser operations, said Sandra Jonker, regional wildlife manager for WDFW.
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Posted by David Haviland
on August 11, 2009 at 4:52 am (713 social interactions)
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ASTORIA, Ore. — The Coast Guard airlifted a 10-year-old boy from Cape Arago, Ore., Monday.
A person contacted local authorities at approximately 3 p.m. to report that three people, two adults and their son, were in distress after they were stranded while exploring the caves of Cape Arago on foot.
The Charleston, Ore., Fire Department arrived on scene as the mother and father were helping their unconscious son out of the water. The emergency medical services personnel were able to stabilize the boy and requested Coast Guard assistance.
Coast Guard Group/Air Station North Bend, Ore., launched a rescue helicopter crew to help. The boy had to be hoisted out due to the terrain. The boy was transported to Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, Ore.
His condition is unknown.
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Posted by David Haviland
on August 10, 2009 at 1:10 pm (508 social interactions)
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SPOKANE, Wash., (Aug. 10, 2009) — USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced that it will begin continuous sign-up for the revamped Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) today, August 10, with the first sign-up period cutoff scheduled for September 30. CSP encourages agricultural and forestry producers to maintain existing conservation activities and adopt additional ones on their operations.
The NRCS administers CSP, a voluntary conservation program designed to encourage agricultural and forestry producers to adopt additional activities and to improve, maintain and manage existing ones. Eligible lands include cropland, grassland, prairie, improved pastureland, rangeland, non-industrial private forestland—a new land use for the program—and agricultural land under the jurisdiction of an American Indian Tribe. Individual landowners, legal entities, and American Indian Tribes may be eligible to apply for CSP assistance.
The program will be offered to producers nationwide through continuous sign-ups. Agricultural and forestry producers must submit their applications by Sept. 30 to be considered for funding in the first ranking period. Congress capped the annual acreage enrollment at 12,769,000 acres for each fiscal year nationwide.
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Posted by David Haviland
on August 10, 2009 at 11:00 am (974 social interactions)
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Pacific/Wahkiakum Counties - As you travel to your summer destinations or just around the block, the Washington State Patrol would like to give you a couple things to think about to help keep everyone safe on our roadways.
During this time of year, our roadways get very crowded with cars, trucks pulling boats, trailers, motor homes, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians. We have already had five fatal collisions in Pacific and Wahkiakum Counties this year and four of those were caused by operator errors. Two of the fatal collisions involved motorcycles. The causes include impaired driving, excessive speed, falling asleep to not knowing the equipment and its capabilities.
Know your vehicle. Understand your vehicle’s size compared to the lane width and know when you need to take a turn wide or how much you need to slow down for corners and curves. Think about what you will have to do if there are bicycles riding down the edge of the lane (They do have a right to ride on the right edge of the lane.)
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