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SILETZ NEWS Siletz News Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians P.O. Box 549 Siletz, OR 97380-0549 Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Vol. 37, No. 10 October 2009 Delores Pigsley, Tribal Chairman Brenda Bremner, General Manager and Editor-in-Chief Photo by Natasha Kavanaugh Indi»** T32 Pl KNIGHT LIBRARY ACQUISITION DEPT./SERIALS 1299 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EUGENE OR 97403-1205 Presorted First-Class Mail U.S. Postage Paid - Permit No. 178 Salem, OR Please see our special section of photos from Run to the Rogue in this issue of Siletz News Tribal and Lincoln City Councils Discuss Housing Needs Helicopter to Move Logs to Enhance Fish Habitat on Tribal Land Tribe also will help fund music class By Diane Rodriquez By Brent Merrill Members of the Siletz Tribal Council gathered in Siletz this summeT to meet with the Lincoln City Council to discuss matters of importance to both groups of leaders. Siletz Tribal Housing Director Terry Fisher reported to the gathering that 20 new housing units at Lakeside Village are nearly finished and the construction will be completed this fall. Tribal representatives also reported that the Siletz Tribe received two Ameri can Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grants for a total of $4.4 million that will be designated for new housing develop ment. The ARRA monies are part of the Obama administration's national eco nomic stimulus package being distributed throughout the country. The Tribe reported that the first use of the economic stimulus monies will be used to build an 11 -apartment complex in Siletz. The second economic package will be used to construct eight apartments at Lakeside Village and another eight apart ments in Siletz. Fisher said the projects are shovel ready. “Construction is planned for the spring (2010),” said Fisher. “The units should be ready for families to move in next year.” Fisher said he realizes that this round of new construction will not solve Lin coln City's existing housing deficit, but it should help. See Councils on page 5. What’s Inside Chairman’s Report 2 Chinook Winds 17 Tribal News 3 Letters to the Editor 19 Passages 19 Tribal Council Timesheets 15 On Oct. 5-6, the Siletz Tribe will join forces with Columbia Helicopter, the U.S. Forest Service and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to place large logs into a seven-mile stretch of Cedar Creek in Lincoln County to enhance the habitat of salmon, steelhead and other fish. Half of the 250 logs to be placed in this section of the Tribe’s Reed Creek property near Lincoln City will come from the “blow down” that occurred after previous winter storms and the other half will come from USFS land in the Siuslaw National Forest. All of this is funded with a $364,780 grant from the Oregon Watershed En hancement Board. This state agency is led by a policy oversight board that promotes and funds voluntary actions that enhance Oregon's watersheds through the col laboration of citizens, agencies and local interests (www.oregon.gov/oweb ). “Without the funds from OWEB and the support from our Department of Fish and Wildlife and Forest Service partners, we wouldn't be able to do this project,” said Stan van de Wetering, Aquatic Proj ects leader for the Tribe. “The cool thing is we know our land management is focused on fish and wildlife, which jibes well with OWEB priorities.” The funding covers the placement of the logs by Nov. 30, 2009, and three years of monitoring afterward to see how the fish respond to the changes in their habitat. The placement of the logs must be done by helicopter because it’s the only way to reach this stretch of Cedar Creek. See Helicopter on page 5. Portions of Werner Road (near milepost 6 on Highway 229) about 2.5 miles up the road will be closed periodically as the helicopter flies over it with two or three logs dangling beneath it per trip.
