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Mountain goat census via helicopter slated First Olympic National Park count since 2004 By Paul Gottlieb
Peninsula Daily News
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Weather permitting, a helicopter census of mountain goats will begin Monday in the first tabulation of the potentially aggressive animals since 2004. The aerial count in Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest will last up to 10 days, park wildlife biologist Patti Happe said Tuesday.
“We’re shooting for six or seven mornings of flying,” she said. The helicopter will operate from a landing area at Deer Park southeast of Port Angeles, which may cause traffic delays, park spokesman Dave Reynolds said. The survey will be funded under a $40,000 National Park Service grant and will be conducted in conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey. The census is essential, Happe said,
Council action lauded
to manage a goat population that can be so aggressive that the park last week issued strict guidelines for human-goat interaction and for how the park deals with overly intrusive goats that are seen as potentially dangerous.
Population control “How can you manage a population unless you know how many you have and if they are decreasing or increasing and how they are distributed?” Happe said. The park’s revised 2011 Goat Action Management Plan, issued last week,
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dmission is free, the studios will be open from 10 a.m. till 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, and a map and complete guide are available at www. SequimStudioTour.org.
Sculptures by Elsbeth McLeod will go on display, along with hundreds of works by 16 other local artists, during this weekend’s studio tour.
By Jeff Chew
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Free art tour set to coincide with Sequim lavender events
Sequim plan to stress access to businesses SEQUIM — Downtown merchants and property owners praised the Sequim City Council’s decision Monday night to adopt a downtown plan that plays down the prospects of creating a “woonerf” and instead stresses the guarantee of access to businesses and residents. “We finally have a City Council that listened, really understood and acted appropriately regarding projected plans for Seal Street in the downtown plan,” said Carol Zellmer, who along with her husband, Gary, co-owns the Sequim Trading Co. Plaza at the northwest corner of Washington Street and North Sequim Avenue. “We were very pleased with the city’s attention to its citizens’ needs.” Others, saying they were surprised by the council’s 6-1 approval of the plan with their concerns in mind, also lauded the council’s action. They called for safety, raising concerns that additional pedestrian and vehicular traffic in the Seal Street area could threaten that. Councilman Erik Erichsen, the lone dissenting vote, was highly critical of the plan, saying he could not support something he believed was not broken. “It looks like we’re creating yuppieville in downtown Sequim,” Erichsen said. “We’re creating a yuppieville ghetto downtown.” The Zellmers’ property is backed by two parking lots that abut Seal Street, which had been recommended for conversion to a woonerf, which Mark Hinshaw, project manager for city-contracted consultant LMN Architects of Seattle, said was a shared space that can be used for festivals as well as opened to traffic.
includes advice for hikers to stay at least 50 yards from all mountain goats and to urinate 200 feet from trails to avoid attracting the animals, which are drawn to the waste and can become aggressive when territorial.
Impressionistic Sequim scenes fill Carrie Rodlend’s studio on Holgerson Road.
Artists will share particular techniques By Diane Urbani
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SEQUIM — This is a weekend to revel in the Dungeness Valley’s native delights: lavender, of course, but also quiet, rural roads and flights of fancy. These flights come in ALSO . . . the form of art, revealed ■ Lavender at the point of creation Festival in the fifth annual poster image Sequim Arts Studio Tour “Mona” from Friday through comes Sunday. alive/A8 “I’m very happy to share my space. It’s very scenic,” said Carrie Rodlend, a painter and art teacher who makes her home near the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge. All weekend, Rodlend will welcome visitors to her studio, which is one of 17 on the tour across Sequim, Dungeness and Blyn. Admission is free, the studios will be open from 10 a.m. till 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, and a map and complete guide are available at www.SequimStudioTour.org. The work, which ranges from color-saturated fused glass to intricate cedar-bark sculpture, could dazzle on its own, tour organizers believe. But the finished art isn’t everything. Several artists, including silversmith Ed Crumley and watercolorist Sally Cays, will be showing people their particular techniques. “I’ve been branching into landscapes and seascapes in acrylics,” Cays said, “and I will be doing some demonstrations in both watercolor and acrylic. “What people will see is very, very realistic paintings and demonstrations of how to achieve that realism.” Cays will also display acrylic paintings few have seen before at her studio at 101 W. Robert Place, which is off Woodcock Road via Ridge View Drive. Crumley, too ,eagerly anticipates demonstrating his craft — and inviting visitors to try it themselves. He makes silver jewelry and will unveil some in-progress pieces during the tour. Turn
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Final clue released for identity of film fest guest By Charlie Bermant Peninsula Daily News
PORT TOWNSEND — It’s anybody’s guess. The Port Townsend Film Festival has released the third and final set of weekly riddles, clues leading to the identity of this year’s special celebrity guest for the three-day event in September.
As of Tuesday, 113 guesses have been sent to the film festival, said Executive Director Janette Force. The annual special guest is always a prominent name, though one who with more commercial success in the past and not as well-known to a younger film audience. “A perfect guest is someone
who has had a really wonderful film career and who hasn’t gotten the attention they deserve,” Force said. Some of the festival’s past guests have been Tony Curtis, Cloris Leachman, Dyan Cannon, Debra Winger and Peter Fonda. This year’s festival, the 12th annual edition, will be Sept. 23-25. Seventy films are already
lined up, with more planned.
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This joins the second clue released last Wednesday. The third “Guess the Guest” clue is: Forced to see indecency Wrote with a wit that we know Our special guest got wise is grand Invented clothes with properties About a young Mr. Braddock Technology for spies. To whom Anne really did talk Turn to Clue/A4 ’Bout her daughter’s impend-
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