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Summer 2019 Newsletter Friends of the Columbia Gorge Protecting the Gorge Since 1980 Summer 2019 Newsletter How Much Love Is Too Much for the Gorge? Friends of the Columbia Gorge Board of Directors Greg Delwiche Chair Buck Parker* Vice Chair Kari Skedsvold Secretary/Treasurer Joe Campbell Anne Munch Geoff Carr John Nelson* Gwen Farnham Carrie Nobles Don Friedman Lisa Platt John Harrison Mia Prickett David Michalek* Cynthia Winter* Patty Mizutani Board of Trustees – Land Trust John Nelson* President David Michalek* Secretary/Treasurer John Baugher Hikers boarding a Skamania County Pat Campbell WET Bus at Dog Mountain trailhead. Geoff Carr Take Action Photo: Micheal Drewry Greg Delwiche Dustin Klinger Barbara Nelson Rick Ray* Land Trust Advisor The Columbia River Gorge Commission Address and mail your letter to: and U.S. Forest Service are currently Columbia River Gorge Commission Staff reviewing the National Scenic Area Sophia Aepfelbacher Membership Coordinator Management Plan. One of the priority #1 Town & Country Square Frances Ambrose* Land Trust Assistant topics is recreation, and whether new 57 NE Wauna Avenue Nathan Baker Senior Staff Attorney recreation policies need to be adopted. White Salmon, WA 98672 Mika Barrett Stewardship Volunteer Coord. Dan Bell* Land Trust Director You can submit a comment online at Elizabeth Brooke-Willbanks Development Manager Please send a letter to the Commission gorgecommission.org/about-crgc/ Peter Cornelison* Field Representative and advocate for sustainable recreation in Pam Davee Director of Philanthropy the Gorge. To learn more, see the feature contact. Questions? Contact Ryan Burt Edwards Communications Director article on page 4. Rittenhouse at [email protected]. Natalie Ferraro Trailhead Ambassador Coord. Kevin Gorman Executive Director Stan Hall Digital Content Specialist SAMPLE LETTER Kate Harbour Grant Writer Michael Lang Conservation Director Dear Commissioners and Staff: • Promote more dispersed recreation Kate Lindberg Outdoor Programs Coord. by supporting new recreation sites Libby Martin Development & Database Coord. Please support the following policies Steve McCoy Staff Attorney and discouraging overuse of existing during the review of the Management Ryan Rittenhouse Conservation Organizer sites. Renee Tkach* Gorge Town to Trails Manager Plan for the National Scenic Area. Paige Unangst Finance Director • Limit parking and single vehicular • Promote new recreation Sara Woods* Land Stewardship Coord. access, and require daily use permits opportunities, connectivity, and help *Gorge Area Residents for over-used recreation areas. the economies of local communities through Gorge Towns to Trails. • Promote parking in communities and the use of transit to access Published May 2019 • Support policies for trail systems recreation sites. Publications: linking recreation sites, viewpoints, Newsletter Design: Kathy Fors and and Gorge communities. Thank you for your consideration. Kathleen Krushas / To the Point Collaborative Editor: Betsy Toll / Lumin Creative PDX STAY CONNECTED WITH FRIENDS Portland Office: 333 SW Fifth Ave., Suite 300, Portland, OR 97204 gorgefriends.org/subscribe @gorgefriends 503-241-3762 Hood River Office: WHO WE ARE Friends of the Columbia Gorge was founded in 1980 by the 205 Oak St., Suite 17, Hood River, OR 97031 vision of John Yeon and the tenacity of Nancy Russell. Working with legislative 541-386-5268 champions led by Senator Mark Hatfield, Friends was instrumental in ensuring Washougal Office: the passage in 1986 of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act. 887 Main St., Suite 202, Washougal, WA 98671 360-334-3180 We continue working today to ensure that the beautiful and wild Columbia Gorge remains a place apart, an unspoiled treasure for generations to come. 2 Cover: Spring at Tom McCall Point. Photo: Kate Lindberg Director’s Letter o celebrate our 40th anniversary within public, private, and tribal lands In the last decade, we’ve connected with in 2020, Friends will unveil a new across two states. hundreds of community groups, nonprofits, organizational logo early next year. In our second decade, we emerged as government entities, and Tribes in order to TTo create it, we have taken a deep dive in a protector. Protective rules for the new block the development of more than a dozen recent months to reflect on who we are, National Scenic Area were being adopted, coal and oil terminals. We launched the how the public perceives us, and the core but they would only work if a watchdog ambitious bi-state Gorge Towns to Trails project values that define us. All those factors shape was fighting to ensure that state and federal and created a new public land stewardship Friends’ roles in relation to the Gorge as agencies enforced them rigorously. We spent program, following the 2017 Eagle Creek protector, visionary, and connector. those years commenting, testifying, and fire. These recent efforts led to our winning Protectors draw a line in the sand often litigating decisions that violated the a special matching grant from Grady Britton, to protect what they believe is right. A legislation we had worked so hard to pass. a leading Portland-based communications visionary looks beyond the present moment In the third decade, threats facing firm, to sharpen our brand identity and to imagine the future. To succeed, though, the Gorge shifted from expansion of communication approaches in order to visionaries and protectors have to embrace residential development to plans for major engage more people in loving and protecting being connectors. Understanding that the commercial and industrial activities: the Columbia Gorge. sum is greater than its parts, connectors pull casinos, destination resorts, coal- That all brings us up to today. It’s others together to achieve greater goals. fired plants, and more. In response, as exciting to imagine what the next forty These core values have been in Friends’ connectors and visionaries we opened our years will bring. DNA since our inception, rotating in first Gorge office in Hood River, and we prominence over the last four decades. launched our land trust. Friends’ shifted In our first decade, we were primarily from being just a protector and watchdog visionaries – a tiny nonprofit pushing for to the role of connector, becoming a Kevin Gorman, Executive Director legislation to create a National Scenic Area community leader and problem solver. [email protected] Camas in bloom at Memaloose Overlook. Photo: Mark McConnell 3 In peak seasons, traffic congestion on the Historic Columbia River Highway can stretch for up to a mile. How Much Love Is TooPhoto: Courtesy ofMuch? OR Department of Transportation Kevin Gorman, Executive Director, [email protected] he Columbia River Gorge is loved Portland metro area, and many come to enjoy a than double the visitors. Most visitors by countless people, near and far. quality of life that includes the Gorge. Finally, congregate along a six-mile corridor So many people, in fact, that a key 99 percent of Gorge visitors get to their favorite similar to our waterfall area. So Zion Tchallenge of the future is, “How do we love trailhead or scenic viewpoint using one form of has implemented several strategies. In the Gorge without loving it to death?” transportation: private automobiles. the 1970s, the Park Service took the As we approach the summer season of mile-long backups on the Historic More voices are asking what’s causing the Columbia River Highway and trailheads full by 9:00 in the morning, more voices congestion and what can we do about it? are asking what’s causing the congestion and what can we do about it? The Oregon Department of Transportation dramatic step to close the Scenic Canyon Three primary causes of the congestion (ODOT) and other agencies have added mass Road to automobiles in the busy season. are clear. First, the region has become a transit in the Gorge. That’s great, except it’s Despite initial concerns, use of buses was prime travel destination. Portland tourism not part of a bigger plan so it does little to a huge success. Congestion on the road tax receipts went up 80 percent between address congestion. disappeared, bicycles started showing up, 2010 and 2017, and from 2012 to 2017 The Columbia Gorge is not a national and the shuttle service provided local jobs. the number of international passengers park, but there are aspects of national However, the shuttle service suffered as flying into Portland International Airport parks that should be considered to address park attendance skyrocketed. The park is increased by 68 percent; domestic air congestion. Utah’s Zion National Park is half now considering bringing more electric traffic saw a similar rise. Second, 30,000 the acreage of the Columbia River Gorge buses into Zion, as well as limiting daily to 40,000 people a year are moving to the National Scenic Area and receives more entry into the most congested areas. 4 The Gorge has tremendous unifying factors: the National Scenic Area designation and a bistate management plan. Similarly, ODOT recently finalized a Gorge Towns to Trails – our vision for and created a Transportation Management congestion planning process for the Historic a 200-mile loop trail around the Gorge Association (TMA). Highway. In the long run, it could mean connecting communities, farmlands and wild The TMA was able to set up a uniform that during busy periods, the waterfall areas – is a great example of how to protect parking system in Washington Park that section of the highway is only open to shuttle lands through acquisitions and disperse includes about as many parking spaces as buses, cyclists, and local vehicles. Short- recreation to less-popular areas and support Rooster Rock State Park and generates more run solutions include having a flagger at local communities through a multi-day than $4 million a year in fees. That revenue Multnomah Falls and having Benson Lake trekking system. We also should consider pays for shuttle buses, websites that highlight serve as overflow parking for Multnomah daily use permits for sensitive areas like transportation alternatives, and apps that can Falls.
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