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Page A-38 Shelton-Mason County Journal — Thursday, July 30, 2020
RECREATION
Discover Pass V
checkout expands
As state parks and public libraries
begin to reopen, Washington State
Parks and the Washington State
Library have resumed the popular
Check Out Washington program in
libraries across the state.
Check Out Washington allows pa-
trons of participating libraries to bor-
row a Discover Pass for one Week. The
program, which launched last year
in 37 library locations, now serves
almost 175 locations in most parts of
the state. Library cardholders can use
the pass to enter parks and recreation
lands managed by Washington State
Parks, the Washington Department of
Fish & Wildlife, and the Department
of Natural Resources.
“We are resuming and expand— '
ing Check Out Washington to give
people who may not have the means
to purchase their own Discover Pass
an opportunity to visit some of our
beautiful parks and lands,” said state
Deputy Librarian Crystal Rowe in a
news release;
People can contact their local par-
ticipating library for more information.
State Parks'meeting
onfinetoday
The Washington State Parks and
Recreation Commission will host its
next regular meeting online today via
Microsoft Teams.
In accordance with the governor’s
Safe Start guidelines and in an effort
to limit in-person interactions, the
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commission has changed its regularly
scheduled meeting from J my and
30 at Skamania Lodge to a one-day
online meeting and work session.
Commission action includes the
approval of the agency’s capital and
. operating budget proposals, amend-
ing a lease with the Fort Worden
‘ Public Development Authority, au-
thorization of several grant requests
and the sale of surplus land to the
state Department of Transportation
and the adoption of the 10-year stra-
tegic plan. The commission also will
make changes to its 2020 meeting
schedule.
In addition, the commission will
hear updates and reports from execu—
tive leadership about the agency’s
COVID-19 efforts. '
The meeting begins at 8:30 a.m.
and goes until approximately 5 pm.
To View the meeting, visit https://
bit.ly/2Dh9KU4, select “Watch on the
web instead” ‘and then “Join anony-
mously.”
Final roundof
mountain goat
removal begins
The fourth and final scheduled
round of mountain goat transfers
from the Olympics to the Cascade
Range began Monday at Hurricane
Ridge in Olympic National Park.
A coalition of state and federal
agencies, with support from local
tribes, began the fourth and final
two—week round of moving moun-
tain goats from Olympic National
Park and Olympic National Forest
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to the northern Cascade Mountains
to meet wildlife management goals
in all three areas. Since September
2018, 275 mountain goats have been
moved.
This effort is a partnership be—
tween the National Park Service
(NPS), the Washington Department
of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW), and the
USDA Forest Service (USFS) to re-
establish and assist in connecting de-
pleted populations of mountain goats
in the Cascades while also removing
goats from the Olympic Mountains.
Mountain goats were introduced to
the Olympics in the 1920s.
WDFW plans to release the moun-
tain goats at 12 sites in the North
Cascades national forests this round.
Nine sites are in the Darrington,
Preacher Mountain, Mount Loop
Highway, and Snoqualmie Pass areas
of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie Na—
tional Forest. Three release sites are ,
in the Chikamin Ridge, Box Canyon
and Tower Mountain areas of Okano-r
gan-Wenatchee National Forest.
“A project of this magnitude would
be impossible without our partner
agencies and, the expertise and co-
operation of hundreds of people,”
said Olympic National Park Wildlife
Branch Chief Patti Happe in a news
release. “Because of this expertise
and cooperation throughout the proj-
ect, we anticipate reaching our objec-
tives for capture and translocation in
this final round.”
After the this final round of cap-
ture and removal, the agencies will
lethally remove a number of moun-
. tain goats to reach determined popu-
lation targets.
The staging area for the mountain,
goat operation is beyond the Hurri-
cane Ridge Visitor Center in Olympic
National Park along Hurricane Hill
Road and is closed to the public.
Hurricane Hill Road is closed
beyond the Hurricane Ridge Visitor
' Center through Aug. 9. This closure
includes the Hurricane Hill Trail, Lit- .
tle River Trail, and Wolf Creek Trail.
Hurricane Ridge Road and all other
area trails remain open.
No‘other closures will be in place
for this project in Olympic National
Park or the national forests.
Hood Canal spot.
shrimp season closes
After five days of What the Wash-
ington Department of Fish and
Wildlife called_“highly successful”
shrimping, the department has closed
Marine Area 12 for the seaé'bn.
Marine Area 12 encompasses Hood
Canal.
“This action is required to remain
Within catch limits and to preserve
population numbers for future fishing .
opportunities, said Katelyn Bosley,
WDFW Puget Sound crustacean bi-
ologist in a news release. “Shrimp-
ers were very successful this year in
Hood Canal, harvesting the quota in
just five days of fishing. The number.
of harvesters catching full limits in
Hood Canal increased from 43 percent
in 2019 to 68 percent this year.”
The harvests in this area were
largely mirrored across the sound,
Bosley added.
I Compiled by Sports Outdoors ‘
Editor JuStin Johnson
Cars park along state Route 106 near Twa‘noh State Park on Saturday. The
Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission asks visitors to seek
other parks when lots are full. Journal photo by Justin Johnson
CrowdRWSafety is priority
continued from page A—37
Canal.
the south shore of Hood
er two parks on- Hood
Canal also have seen
state Route 106 between
Union and Belfair on
With all of Twanoh’s
designated parking full,
visitors parked along
the side of Route 106
near the park, some-
thing the commission
asks visitors not to do.
“The safety of our
staff and visitors is our
top priority,” said State
Parks Director Don
Hoch in the release. “We
need to be able to offer
access to the outdoors
without putting people
at risk.”
Other parks state-
wide. that the com-
mission mentioned as
dealing With crowding
include: Beacon Rock, '
Kanaskat-Palmer, Mill-
ersylvania State Park,
Palouse Falls, Riverside
.and Wallace Falls state
parks.
Mason County’s oth—
surging crowds on week-
ends.
State parks aren’t the
only areas seeing large
crowds. I
On Tuesday, the Pa»
cific Northwest Region of
the US. Forest Service’s -
Twitter account tweeted
several photos of highly
crowded recreation ar-
eas across Washington
and Oregon.
- “Unprecedented
crowds have hit Pacific
NW outdoor locations
which is leading to facil-
ity damage & damage
to wildlife habitat,” the
agency wrote in a tweet.
“Plan your outdoor ad-
ventures on weekdays &
have a backup plan loca-
tion further away from,
urban areas if your Plan
A is crowded. #Recreat-
eResponsibly.”