LOP elk tag drawing available to Tribal members
The Tribal Natural Resources Department once again will offer a limited number of landowner preference (LOP) elk tags to
Tribal members for this fall’s hunting season.
As a landowner, the Tribe is eligible to participate in the State’s LOP program. Based on the number of acres that the Tribe
owns, we can get six additional antlerless elk tags from the State.
These LOP tags are not related to the Tribe’s Consent Decree tags that we receive each year. They are based solely on the
Tribe being a landowner. There are a number of important differences between the LOP tags and the Tribe’s regular tags. These
are summarized in the table below.
Tribal Tags
LOP Tags
State hunting license required?
No
Yes – Tribal member must purchase both a 2017
and a 2018 State hunting license
Area to be hunted
Anywhere within the specific
tag’s hunt boundaries
Only on Tribal land within the unit selected during
that unit’s antlerless elk season. Units available
include Upper Siletz, NW Alsea, SW Alsea, SW
Alsea Private Lands and West Siuslaw
Eligible for other State elk tags?
Yes
No*
Give tag to another licensed Tribal
member to hunt for you?
Yes
No
Application and selection process
Apply to Tribe for Tribal
drawing
Apply to Tribe for LOP drawing; if selected, apply
to State for controlled hunt tag (list LOP unit in
LOP section on State controlled hunt application)
Obtain tag from
Tribe
State – Tribal member must
purchase tag
* Note: If you are drawn for an LOP tag, you are still eligible to apply for and be drawn for a Tribal tag.
Please note that a major difference between the LOP tags and the Tribe’s regular tags is that only the person drawn for the tag
can hunt that tag. The tag cannot be given to someone else to hunt for you. Therefore, only those folks serious about hunting
this hunt themselves are eligible to apply.
The drawing for the six LOP elk tags will be held at the Natural Resources Committee meeting on April 3 at 4:45 p.m. in the
Natural Resources Department map room. Applications are available on the Tribal website and at the Tribal Natural Resources
Office in Siletz.
Completed applications are due in the Natural Resources office by 4:30 p.m. on March 31. For more information regarding
these tags and the differences between the Tribe’s regular tags and the LOP tags, contact Natural Resources Manager Mike Kennedy
at 541-444-8232 or 800-922-1399, ext. 1232.
Siletz Tribal Behavioral Health Programs
Prevention, Outpatient Treatment, and
Women’s and Men’s Transitional
Siletz: 800-600-5599 or
541-444-8286
Eugene: 541-484-4234
Salem: 503-390-9494
Portland: 503-238-1512
Narcotics Anonymous Toll-Free
Help Line – 877-233-4287
For information on Alcoholics
Anonymous: aa-oregon.org
Tribal RV parks
have space
available for you
Logan Road RV Park, Lincoln City,
Ore. – loganroadrvpark.com or
877-LOGANRV
Hee Hee Illahee RV Resort, Salem,
Ore. – heeheeillahee.com or
877-564-7295
Tribal Council, con’t from page 1
Through its economic development
division, the Siletz Tribal Business Cor-
poration, the Tribe purchased the Lincoln
Shores office complex in Lincoln City in
2001 and opened the Siletz Gas & Mini-
Mart in Siletz in 2004, the Logan Road
RV Park in Lincoln City in 2004 and the
Hee Hee Illahee RV Resort in Salem in
2006. The Tribe purchased the Imprints
printing business, now called Siletz Tribal
Prints & Gifts, in Lincoln City in 2008.
Tribal offices in Portland, Salem and
Eugene are housed in Tribally owned build-
ings. The Eugene office moved to its cur-
rent location in 2005, the Salem office did
the same in 2006 and the Portland office
moved to its current location in 2008.
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The Tribe also played a lead role in
opening Siletz Valley School in 2003 and
the Siletz Valley Early College Academy
in 2006.
The Siletz Tribal Arts & Heritage
Society (STAHS) was formed in 2013 as
a nonprofit to enhance the Tribe’s ability to
develop the Siletz Tribal Cultural Center.
STAHS also helps the Tribe with acquiring
object and archival collections.
Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln
City opened in May 1995. In June 2004,
the Siletz Tribe purchased the former
Shilo Inn adjacent to the casino and
opened Chinook Winds Casino Resort.
Chinook Winds Golf Resort opened in
April 2005 when the Tribe purchased the
March 2017
former Lakeside Golf and Fitness Center
in Lincoln City.
The combination of Tribal employ-
ees and those at Chinook Winds Casino
Resort has made the Siletz Tribe the larg-
est employer in Lincoln County.
The Siletz Tribe has honored its tra-
dition of sharing within the community
by distributing more than $13 million
through the Siletz Tribal Charitable Con-
tribution Fund and other Tribal resources.
Chinook Winds has donated more than
$2.8 million in cash and fund-raising
items since 1995. It also provides in-kind
donations of convention space for various
fund-raisers as well as technical support,
advertising and manpower for events.
THRIVE seeks
Native veterans
for suicide
prevention
campaign
THRIVE (Tribal Health: Reaching
Out InVolves Everyone) is the suicide
prevention project at the Northwest Port-
land Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB),
which serves the 43 federally recognized
Tribes in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
THRIVE has received funding from
the Garrett Lee Smith Youth Suicide
Prevention Grant to develop a suicide
prevention social marking campaign for
American Indian and Alaska Native mili-
tary personnel and veterans.
THRIVE is recruiting male and
female Native veterans (preferably located
in the Pacific Northwest) who may be
interested in being photographed and
interviewed for the next Lived Experience
videos to be released for Veterans Day in
November 2017.
A professional will conduct the inter-
views and the primary content discussed
will be the veteran’s experience struggling
with depression and/or suicidal thoughts
or even attempts. (Possible language:
Interviewees are also encouraged to talk
about how they overcame their thoughts
of suicide or how they work hard now to
keep suicidal thoughts out of their head.
What/who helped them? How did they/
it help? What tips or knowledge does the
interviewee have to help another veteran
in a similar situation?)
Please see our past videos to see how
the interview (that turns into a video)
may be setup at youtu.be/Q9D_lGw5IOc,
youtu.be/d6cXssBuoqY and youtu.be/
hIfpvtw1qCA.
Since 2010, THRIVE has developed
health promotion messages and cam-
paigns that resonate with AI/AN commu-
nities. It has used this community-driven
process to design social marketing cam-
paigns addressing health topics important
to AI/AN communities. View past social
marketing campaigns at npaihb.org/
social-marketing-campaigns/.
Information
We will reimburse for travel to/from
the interview location (most likely
Seattle or Olympia, Wash.).
Each interviewee will receive a mon-
etary stipend.
We can make the interview anony-
mous if necessary (use a silhouette
and make the audio sound different).
Each interviewee will need to discuss
his/her experience over the phone
with the interviewer (a licensed
psychologist) 2-3 times prior to the
interview so he/she feels comfortable
with the content.
The recording of the interviews will
be set up for one full day and each
interviewee will have a scheduled time
slot. This may be a weekend day to be
sure everyone is available.
Dates TBD
