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Spílyay Tymoo Page 7 April 13, 2006 Young Achiever Snow pack bodes well for water reserves (AP) — Oregon’s snow pack is higher than average this win ter - good news for farmers, operators of dams and others who track the state’s water re serves. Statewide, the snow pack is about 136 percent of average, said Jon Lea, who is with the Natural Resources Conserva tion Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “It’s almost the flip side of what it was last year,” when the snow pack was 38 percent of average, said Lea, supervisor of the conservation service’s snow survey program for Oregon and Washington state. The final survey of the sea son was conducted last week. There has been one drawback this winter - warmer tempera tures that melted snow in low- lying areas. “Even though it snowed quite a bit, it was a relatively warm winter down low, so the snow line goes from a lot of snow to no snow very quickly,” said Lea. “So, some of our low- elevation sites are below aver age.” For example, Deadhorse Grade, at 3,700 feet on Santiam Pass, has 8.4 inches of water stored in its snow pack, com pared with 9 inches for the 30- year average. Twenty-one inches of snow were recorded at ‘the site. Still, after last year, the fro zen storage is good news for farmers. “This spring so far has been fairly cool, and I know we have a good snow pack up in the mountains,” said Larry Trosi of the Santiam Water Control Dis trict. “In the last month or so, the ... river flows have been fairly low, but I think the reason is it has been fairly cool, it hasn’t al lowed the snowpack to begin melting. At some point, it will warm up, and we will see higher Elyse Bagley river flows.” Swimmers, boaters and an glers may have a wet summer to look forward to. “Our forecasts are showing that the reservoirs have a pretty good probability of filling,” said Mary Scullion, a hydrologic en gineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which regulates dams. “So, we should have some pretty good recreation.” Still, said Lea, “even though we have a good snow pack, it’s still worthy to try to conserve those water resources so that all users get to tap into some of that supply.” Sponsored by Les Schwab Elyse bagley turns 10 years old Friday, but she is this edition’s Young Achiever because o f her high statewide creative writing scores. A fourth- grader at Warm Springs Elementary School, Elyse said she likes to write about her fam ily and the trips she has taken. She has been to Portland, Hoopa, Calif, and Colorado, but one o f her most recent trips was to Southern California, where she went to Disneyland and beaches. She likes to read about drawing and teaching her younger cousins about art. Condors seen in Big Sur for first time since 1905 BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — California condors are nesting in the northern part of the state for the first time in more than 100 years, scientists said. A condor couple was found Monday displaying nesting behavior inside a hollowed-out redwood tree in Big Sur, a mountainous coastal region south of Monterey, the Ventana Wildlife Society said Tues day. The last known condor egg in Northern California was collected in 1905. “For the past 10 years when this sort of thing came up, it turned out to be just in my dreams,” said Kelly Sorenson, the group’s executive director. “Now it is a reality.” The male and female took turns guarding the nest every two or three days, never leaving it unattended for more than several min utes, the scientists said. “Although the view into the cavity is very limited and we can’t actually see the egg, we strongly suspect they have an egg, based on their behavior at the nest site,” said Joe Burnett, a wildlife bi ologist. Scientists have worked for years to bring the condor back from the brink of extinction. Condors are among the largest birds na tive to North America, with a wingspan up to 91/2 feet. Ventana, a nonprofit group, began releasing condors into the wild in 1997. The condor recovery effort has increased the number of birds tenfold over two decades. 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