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Cash storm, Bob Eubanks,
appraise-a-thon, craft fair
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Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Vol. 35, No. 2 February 2007
Dan Smith, former mayor o f Siletz; Sally Jennings, president of Siletz I alley
Friends of the Library; and Diedre Conkling, district librarian. Lincoln
County Library District cut the gold ribbon to officially open the Siletz Public
Library on Jan. 6. See additional photos on page 7 and a letter on page 2.
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A 60-foot boom crone with a “grappling hook attached sits on barge in
Longview, Wash., equipment for STBC s new business.
River Reclamation Group, Inc.
. Century-old documents and books are donated to tribe and library.
See article on page 12.
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STBC Creates New Underwater
Logging Business
by Dennis Lancaster
The Siletz Tribal Council recently
approved the creation of a new busi
ness by the Siletz Tribal Business Cor
poration (STBC). River Reclamation
Group, Inc. (RRG) was created to lo
cate and retrieve timber lost in river
waters over the past decades, a prac
tice sometimes referred to as “under
water logging.”
STBC has been working with Ross
Bennett for several months, firming up
a strategy to develop the business and
begin operations. RRG will use state-
of-the-art sonar technology and re
cently purchased retrieval equipment
to recover logs lost in past timber trans
portation and milling operations.
The initial focus of RRG will be on
the Columbia River between Portland
and Astoria.
Although a fairly new concept in
the western United States, underwater
logging has been growing throughout
the East and Great Lakes regions.
Timber operations of the past some
times included transporting cut logs
through waterways in “rafts” or using large
bodies of water next to mills as storage
for logs before being cut into finished
lumber. A few of the floating logs would
sink to the bottom and their retrieval
may not have been cost-effective.
These sunken logs - called “sink
ers,” “snags,” and “deadheads” - are
gaining attention as hazards in water
ways. Also, because the water has pre
served the quality of the sunken logs,
a small percentage of them have be
come a highly valued commodity in the
lumber market.
In some cases, old growth timber
can be retrieved from the water in the
What’s Inside
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Siletz News
Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians
P.O. Box 549
Siletz. OR 973X0-0549
Delores Pigsley,
Tribal Chairman
Brenda Bremner.
General Manager
and Editor-in-Chicf
PRESORTED
FIRST-CLASS MAIL
U.S. POSTAGE PAID
PERMIT NO. 178
SALEM. OR
See River on page 6.
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Letters to the Editor
Chairman's Report
Tribal Program News
Tribal Member News
Notices
The Siletz Tribal Commnity Center is covered with several inches of snow in
mid-January as a winter storm created snowy and icy conditions for several
days throughout Lincoln County.
Tribal Council Timesheets
Siletz Clinic
Chinook Winds
Passages
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