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mso-fareast-font-family: ' AR-SA? mso-bidi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: mso-ansi-language: Roman?; New Times italic; mso-bidi-font-style:><A href='mailto:tbennett@dailyastorian.com'>tbennett@dailyastorian.com</A></SPAN></SPAN></P></FONT><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'><STRONG>August&nbsp;10, 2004</STRONG></SPAN><BR><BR> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=4 align=right border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD colSpan=3 height=2><IMG height=2 src='http://www.dailyastorian.info/image/cleardot.gif' width=4></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width=2><IMG height=2 src='http://www.dailyastorian.info/image/cleardot.gif' width=2></TD> <TD><IMG alt='17-year-old Robin Rose works on trail' hspace=0 src='http://www.nwyouthcorps.org/images/news_fort-to-sea17910.jpg' border=1><BR><FONT face='ARIAL NARROW, ARIAL, SANS SERIF' color=#3366aa size=2><B><I>LORI ASSA&nbsp;-- The Daily Astorian</I><BR>'I'm hooked,' says 17-year-old Olympia, Wash. resident Robin Rose, right, of trail-building, as she cuts the edge of the trail. 'I love nature. It's my favorite place to be.'</B></FONT> </TD> <TD width=2><IMG height=2 src='http://www.dailyastorian.info/image/cleardot.gif' width=2></TD></TR> <TR> <TD colSpan=3 height=2><IMG height=2 src='http://www.dailyastorian.info/image/cleardot.gif' width=4></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><FONT face='TIMES NEW ROMAN, TIMES, SERIF' color=#000000 size=3> <H4> <H4 style='MARGIN: auto 0in'><SPAN style='COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> <P class=MsoNormal style='MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt'><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = 'urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office' /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style='MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt'><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Construction begins on centerpiece of </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = 'urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags' /><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Fort</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Clatsop</SPAN></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> expansion<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></SPAN></H4></H4></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style='MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt'><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Blazing a trail where Capt. William Clark (probably) walked, young workers are helping make the long-awaited fort-to-the-sea hiking trail a reality for Fort Clatsop National Memorial.<BR><BR>Crews from two youth organizations are working at both ends of the trail this month, putting in place the first sections of the six-mile route that is planned for completion in time for the local Lewis and Clark Bicentennial commemoration in November 2005.<BR><BR>The trail is the centerpiece of </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Fort</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Clatsop'</SPAN></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>s ambitious expansion effort, which includes the construction of the Netul Landing transit stop south of the park and the inclusion of three sites in </SPAN><st1:State><st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Washington</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> within the park's boundaries.<BR><BR>The trail is intended to follow the route that William Clark and a small band of men are believed to have taken in a trek from Fort Clatsop to the sea in December 1805 just after the explorers set up their winter encampment. The trail became one of the regular routes that expedition members used to reach the beach and points to the south, including the saltworks at present-day </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Seaside</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>.<BR><BR>The new trail heads west from the </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Fort</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Clatsop</SPAN></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> visitor center over Clatsop Ridge, following </SPAN><st1:Street><st1:address><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Perkins Road</SPAN></st1:address></st1:Street><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>, and reaches U.S. Highway 101 near the entrance to Rilea Armed Forces Training Center, where the Oregon Department of Transportation plans to build a pedestrian tunnel to carry trail users under the highway. From the west side of the highway, the trail runs along the southeast edge of Camp Rilea, then meanders south between Sunset and Slusher lakes before reaching Sunset Beach Road just east of the beach.<BR><BR>At the </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Sunset</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Beach</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> end, a 12-member crew from Northwest Youth Corps is clearing salal, scotch broom and other vegetation and scraping away the thin layer of moss and soil to expose the sand underneath. A general route was marked through the pine forest, and the crew dug a path 'where it flows best' through the trees, according to field supervisor </SPAN><st1:PersonName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Devin Jenkins</SPAN></st1:PersonName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>. After the sand was packed down, the crew spread moss along the edges.<BR><BR>'We're trying to make it look as professional as we can right, from the start,' he said.<BR><BR>Based in </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Eugene</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>, Northwest Youth Corps is a residential job-training and education group serving teens 16 to 19 years old. Under the organization's leadership about 700 youths take part in outdoor projects such as trail-building, noxious weed removal and historic restoration each summer.<BR><BR>The group has worked with Oregon State Parks for 10 years, and has sent crews to such local projects as the new Indian Beach Trail at </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Ecola</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>State Park</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>.<BR><BR>State parks, which purchased the county-owned </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Sunset</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Beach</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> property last year, secured the youth corps' services for two weeks. Fort Clatsop Superintendent Chip Jenkins said the group will complete as much of the route as possible in that time&nbsp;-- all the way, it is hoped, to the </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Camp</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Rilea</SPAN></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> boundary.<BR><BR>At </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Fort</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Clatsop</SPAN></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>, another group, the Student Conservation Association, is building a three-quarter-mile loop trial from the park visitor center to the intersection of </SPAN><st1:Street><st1:address><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Fort Clatsop Road</SPAN></st1:address></st1:Street><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> and </SPAN><st1:Street><st1:address><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Perkins Road</SPAN></st1:address></st1:Street><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>.<BR><BR>The next phase includes the construction of a trailhead at </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Sunset</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Beach</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> consisting of a parking lot and restroom. The project, set to begin late this month, is a joint project of state parks and the Oregon National Guard, and is funded by a $90,000 National Park Service grant.<BR><BR>In February a trail crew from </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>North</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Cascades</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>National Park</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> in </SPAN><st1:State><st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Washington</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> is set to tackle the segment along </SPAN><st1:Street><st1:address><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Perkins Road west</SPAN></st1:address></st1:Street><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> of </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Fort</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Clatsop</SPAN></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>. Much of that route lies on land still owned by Weyerhaeuser Corp., and while the company has allowed the park service to survey the terrain and map out the trail route, actual work will have to wait until federal funding for the purchase of the property, now in the proposed 2005-06 budget, is approved, most likely early next year, Jenkins said.<BR><BR></SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Clatsop</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>County</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> vacated </SPAN><st1:Street><st1:address><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Perkins Road</SPAN></st1:address></st1:Street><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> earlier this year for use in the trail project. As part of the trail project the rutted dirt road, originally built as a stagecoach road in the late 1800s, will be improved 'so it looks less like an abandoned road,' Jenkins said.<BR><BR>While the entire project won't be completed until next year, the public is welcome to trek those sections of the trail now under construction by the youth crews, Jenkins said.<BR><BR>'People can come out and start hiking,' he said.<BR><BR>The project has benefited from donated services from several design and engineering firms including David Evans and Associates Inc., W&amp;H Pacific, OBEC Consulting Engineers, KPFF Consulting Engineers, as well as Weyerhaeuser Co., Geotechnical Resources Inc., Parametrics, Vigil Agrimis, Inc., Spencer B. Gross, Inc. and Walker Macy.<BR><BR>But the park service still needs money for labor and materials, Jenkins said, including an estimated $150,000 for the </SPAN><st1:Street><st1:address><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'>Perkins Road</SPAN></st1:address></st1:Street><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial'> stretch. The agency is accepting donations for the project&nbsp;-- those interested in giving can get more information by contacting Jenkins at 861-2471 ext. 401 or by email at <A href='mailto:chip_jenkins@nps.gov'>chip_jenkins@nps.gov<BR></P> <P></A>&nbsp;</P> <P><o:p><IMG alt='A general route was marked through the pine forest, and the crew dug a path 'where it flows best' through the trees.' hspace=0 src='http://www.nwyouthcorps.org/images/news_fort-to-sea-2_web.jpg' border=1></o:p></SPAN></P></span> <br> </span><span class="text"><img src="images/line_hor1.gif" width="430" height="21"></span> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="5%"><a href="friendly.asp?id=239" target="pop"><img src="images/icon_printer.gif" width="17" height="13" border="0"></a></td> <td width="19%" class="navL4"><a href="friendly.asp?id=239" target="pop">Printer Friendly</a></td> <td width="5%"><a href="friendmail.asp?id=239" target="pop"><img src="images/icon_email.gif" width="17" height="11" border="0"></a></td> <td width="21%" class="navL4"><a href="friendmail.asp?id=239" target="pop">Email to a Friend</a></td> <td width="4%"><a href="donatenow.html" target="pop"><img src="images/icon_application.gif" width="13" height="13" border="0"></a></td> <td width="27%" class="navL4"><a href="donatenow.html" target="pop">Make Donation Online</a></td> <td width="4%" class="navL4"></td> <td width="15%" class="navL4"></td> </tr> </table> <span class="text"><img src="images/line_hor1.gif" width="430" height="21"></span><br> <span class="footer"><a href="index.html">HOME</a> | <a href="aboutus.html">ABOUT US</a> | <a href="contactus.html">CONTACT US</a> | <a href="sitemap.html">SITEMAP</a><br> <a href="programs.html">PROGRAMS</a> | <a href="americorps.html">AMERICORPS</a> | <a href="staffpositions.html">STAFF POSITIONS</a> | <a href="parentpage.html">PARENT PAGE</a> | <a href="newsevents.html">NEWS &amp; EVENTS</a> | <a href="alumni.asp">ALUMNI</a> | <a href="sponsorship.html">SPONSORSHIP</a> <br> 541-349-5055 (phone) &#149; 541-349-5060 (fax) &#149; <a href="mailto:nyc@nwyouthcorps.org">nyc@nwyouthcorps.org</a> (email)<br> Copyright 2003 Northwest Youth Corps<br> <br>Developed by <a href="http://www.pacinfo.com/" target="_blank">PacInfo Internet Solutions</a> </span> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td align="right" width="153"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" align="right"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="right"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="right"><img src="images/spacer1.gif" width="20" height="10"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="11"> <tr> <td class="navL1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="textsm">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <p class="navL2">&nbsp;</p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <script language="JavaScript1.2">fwLoadMenus();</script> </body> </html>