TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS
UO Class Drafts Conceptual Plans for Hatchery Education Center
by Ryan French and Mike Kennedy
Master’s students majoring in archi
tecture and landscape architecture at the
University of Oregon (UO) undertook
a class project to develop conceptual
master plans for an education center,
basket making pavilion, and interpretive
hiking trails at the Lhuuke Illahee Fish
Hatchery property on Little Rock Creek.
Michael Cockram and Sara
Geddes, class instructors, chose the
hatchery site because it offered a unique
opportunity for students to incorporate
historic and cultural Native American
traditions into the design of a modem
educational facility.
In January 2004, the students came
to Siletz and met with Robert Kentta
and Bud Lane, who showed them some
traditional basketry and explained the
cultural significance of the hatchery
property. They then toured the hatchery
site, where Stan van de Wetering
explained current management
objectives for fish rearing, spawning,
and providing fishing opportunities for
tribal members.
The objective of creating an
interpretive center and hiking trails was
to educate visitors about important
tribal customs, values, and cultural
perspectives. It also would give tribal
members a place to practice basket
making and perform ceremonies,
dances, and other traditional activities.
Information could be provided about
native fish, wildlife, and plant species
as well as relating historical practices
of fish hatchery management with
current, more natural methods offish and
habitat enhancement.
Each student developed an indi
vidual master plan for the project and
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was given roughly two months to
design a final proposal. The architecture
students focused primarily on building
an education center, indoor/outdoor
classrooms, exhibit space/display
cases, a basketry pavilion, a smoke
house, restrooms, viewing platforms,
and a fish trap interpretive overlook.
The landscape architecture
students addressed projects that
included creating hiking trails,
footbridges, parking areas, fishing
platforms, picnic shelters, camp
grounds, stream/pond restoration, and
spawning channels, and planting native
trees and shrubs such as hazelnuts,
huckleberries, and fems.
The final class presentation was
given on March 10 at the UO campus.
Pete Downey and Ryan French of the
Siletz Tribe attended, and final projects
currently are on display in the Natural
Resources map room at the Siletz office.
The projects also were presented to
Tribal Council on March 30 at the
Natural Resources workshop in Siletz.
Natural Resources, Culture, and
Planning department staff have begun
developing a comprehensive plan for
the entire hatchery property, including
the more than 200-acre designated
cultural area across Little Rock Creek
from the hatchery.
While the UO student project wasn’t
intended to become a reality at this time,
the student’s ideas may prove useful in
designing future plans for the property.
Tribal staff will seek funding to imple
ment the project after Tribal Council
approves the comprehensive plan.
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Fish Toxicity, con’t from page 10
may contain unsafe levels of chemicals
because of pollution found in other
areas, including the ocean.
It may seem as though cultural
practices (greater fish consumption)
pose a greater risk to tribal health, but
as one Warm Springs tribal member in
attendance stated, “Practicing the
traditional or ‘old ways’ of smoking eels
and salmon can reduce the tribes
exposure to fish toxins.”
In the long-term, tribes can use their
knowledge and political influence to
encourage the U.S. government to more
quickly and more thoroughly clean up
the polluted waterways. Tribes also
must continue to remind the EPA that it
has a trust responsibility to protect the
environment and tribal health as it
relates to the environment.
For more information, contact Tom
Downey, Frank Simmons, or Ryan
French in the Natural Resources
Department in Siletz, 1-800-922-1399
or 541-444-2532.
One of several plans developed by UO students
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