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A police car in Pacific is shown crashed into a Hummer on Friday following Thursday night’s chase involving a man from Quilcene.
Quilcene man shot in police car, truck heist Pursuit over sidewalks, lawns results in crash BY JOE SMILLIE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS DAVE LOGAN/FOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Madison Falls in Olympic National Park is an ice spectacle Saturday morning after a near-weeklong spell of subfreezing temperatures. Jared Higbee of Joyce photographs the 45-foot ice cascade. Temperatures are warming beginning today as rain — possibly laced with a few snowflakes — moves over the North Olympic Peninsula. Five-day forecast, Page C10
More root fungus feared in fir trees species that comprises most of the North Olympic Peninsula’s timber harvest. “It’s definitely the dominant coniferous tree on at least the eastern half of the Olympic Peninsula — and in much of the western BY JOE SMILLIE Peninsula, as well,” said Norm PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Schaaf, vice president of Merrill & Ring, the Peninsula timber and Foresters are looking to hone their management of Douglas fir land-management company. trees in the wake of a new state report that says a changing cli- Cuts into timber harvest mate likely will worsen the spread The DNR panel found that the of a root-devouring fungus. root rot lowers the state’s annual A special panel commissioned timber harvest yields by 5 percent by Washington Lands Commis- to 15 percent currently. That hit sioners Peter Goldmark to study would increase as fungal infecthe laminated root rot fungus pub- tions of firs worsen, experts said. lished a study last month that sug“In the long term, having sites gested warming temperatures and infected with root disease reduces more frequent droughts will make productivity,” said Karen Ripley, Douglas firs more susceptible. DNR forest health program manThe study was commissioned ager. to see the potential future impacts TURN TO FIRS/A4 of the fungus on the Douglas fir
Drying climate blamed in study from state DNR
PACIFIC — A 41-year-old Quilcene man reportedly was recovering in Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center after being shot several times by police to end a chase that involved a stolen police cruiser and a pickup truck stolen from Port Townsend’s Edensaw Woods. King County sheriff’s spokeswoman Sgt. Cindi West said the man was from Quilcene but would not identify him because he has not been charged with a crime. West said Saturday the man was in critical condition but is expected to survive. The King County Sheriff’s Office gave the following account:
The chase began at about 10:40 p.m. Thursday, when a police officer in Pacific, a city southeast of Federal Way, tried to stop a truck that had been reported stolen from Edensaw on Wednesday. Instead, the driver of the truck took off, leading the officer in a pursuit through a residential neighborhood. Edensaw is a well-known Port Townsend supplier and millworker of high-end marine plywood, domestic and exotic lumber, wood veneer and other fine woods.
Stops Edensaw truck The man bounced over sidewalks and lawns until he stopped in the driveway of a house in the 200 block of Sunset Drive. Then he got out and ran. The officer pursued him on foot. The Quilcene man circled around, running around a house, and climbed into the patrol car that the officer had left running. TURN
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Teacher, Sequim native, accused of student sex BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ JOE SMILLIE
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A Douglas fir suffering from so-called root rot has a rounded top, bushy branch ends and thin foliage.
TACOMA — A Sequim High School graduate and former Sequim substitute teacher has been charged with the thirddegree rape of two her high school students in Tacoma as well as sexual conversation with a former student, and ordered to return to her hometown. Meredith Claire Powell, 24, pleaded not guilty Friday in Pierce County Superior Court to the rape charges and to one count of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes after her
arrest Thursday in Tacoma. The students were between 14 and 16 years old, Superior Court records say. Powell, a Powell mathmatics teacher at Lincoln High School in the Tacoma School District since September 2012, was released on her own recognizance and ordered to stay with her mother in Sequim. TURN
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