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Cute, Colorful Puffins Subject of Oregon Coast Talk, May 12
Published 05/09/21 at 3:05 PM PDT
By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff
(Cannon Beach, Oregon) – Oh, those adorable and slightly comical puffins of the Oregon coast. Now that they’ve returned for the spring and summer, puffin love is in the air. So is monitoring them for scientific purposes. And who wouldn’t want to monitor puffins?
(Photo courtesy Tiffany Boothe / Friends of Haystack Rock)
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Yet “just how do you monitor puffins?” That’s an actual question and the title of the latest World of Haystack Rock Library Lecture Series, set to take over your digital airwaves on May 12. The virtual lectures continue, this time with bird expert Tim Halloran – starting at 7 p.m. on the Friends of Haystack Facebook page.
Lori Tobias, arguably one of the hardest-working journalists travelling the 363 miles of U.S. 101 between the Astoria-Megler bridge and the California border, will discuss her recently published memoir, âStorm Beat: A Journalist Reports from the Oregon Coast,â via a Zoom/Facebook Live presentation at 2 p.m., Saturday, May 15.
Hosted by the Cannon Beach Libraryâs Northwest Authors Series, Tobias will discuss her ten years as a correspondent and feature writer for the Oregonian who focused mostly on small-town events, boating disasters, accidents, murders, storms, drownings and 165-ton dock the Tohoku tsunami pushed onto Agate Beach, just north of Newport, on my 65th birthday in 2012.
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This time around features Katie Volkie talking about “Conservation IS Climate Action!” It’s a presentation and conversation about climate change and what we can do in Oregon and on the coast to combat it with local conservation. It will also delve into why the time really is now.
Volkie is head of the North Coast Land Conservancy, whose entire goal is to preserve the western peaks of a large section of the north Oregon coast. The group is now laying the groundwork for perpetually protecting and rewilding 3,500 acres of temperate rainforest - creating Oregon s own Rainforest Reserve.
The lecture happens at 7 p.m. on Facebook Live (@Friends of Haystack).
These are recurring lectures with different speakers and topics, according to the group’s Tiffany Boothe. They are held on the second Wednesday of every month from November to May.
Flynn’s lecture is entitled “Insights into large whale entanglements in the Pacific Northwest from research of populations, responses and reports.”
She worked professionally in the boat based education field for 10 years as an educator, deck officer and as a US Coast Guard certified Captain on large traditionally-rigged sailing vessels and other boat-based educational vessels.
In 2004 she received her Masters in Environmental Management with a focus on aquatic invasive species vector management. She came back to Cascadia from 2006-2008 assisting with the SPLASH project, out in the field and as an educator.