MAY 27, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A11
FLOOR,
continued from Page A1
to make it part of the annual
fl oor refi nishing that would be
happening anyway.”
The project is expected to
take about six to eight weeks
to complete after the work
begins.
The dinner and auction,
which is celebrating the
golden
anniversary
of
McNary athletics, will include
a “raise-the-paddle” session to
fundraise specifi cally for the
gym project.
Other highlights this year
are “Golden Tickets” that will
be sold only at the auction.
Fifty tickets will be sold for
$50 each and the winner
will get to choose any of the
oral auction packages to take
home before it goes on the
block.
Bethell said the gym
renovation
and
planned
dugouts for the varsity softball
fi eld are the last large projects
on the horizon for the
group. Once those are in the
rearview, Bethell wants to see
the ABC's fundraising efforts
set to work on wish lists for
individual programs.
“We don't hear a lot from
wrestling or tennis and those
are programs we'd like to be
able to support,” Bethell said.
In the past year, Bethell said
the ABC saw the boys golf
program engage in a big way.
It resulted in new rainsuits,
golf balls, and a driving range
tracker for the team.
The ABC also chipped
in to help cover the costs
of a substitute teacher for
Rick Ward, the team's head
coach. While golf is an
OSAA-sanctioned
sport,
the associated costs are
not covered by the school,
meaning the program must
come up with the money to
cover the cost of a substitute
when Ward isn't in the
classroom.
Frosh b-ball camp begins May 31
The McNary High School
boys basketball program is
now signing up participants
for its summer camps.
The Freshman Training
Camp is slated to meet May
31 through June 19. The cost
is $105 and includes a camp T-
shirt and entry to the summer
youth camp June 20 through
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June 23. The camp consists of
seven 90-minute training ses-
sions and fi ve tournaments.
Players will be selected –
based on skill and availability
– to participate in tournament
games.
The summer youth camp,
$55, will be held at Whiteaker
Middle School. Grades three
through fi ve will meet from
9 a.m. to noon. Grades six
through eight will meet from
1 to 4 p.m. The camp focuses
on developing fundamental
skills to help athletes improve
their game.
Registration forms for both
camps are available at McNary,
595 Chemawa Road N.
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Jackie Ramos, a McKay High School student won the grand
prize in the “Discover Your Watershed” photo contest. The
contest was judged by members of the Keizer Art Association.
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and Wildlife explains. “Sea
lions have either killed, or
chased, them out.”
Around the year 2000, sea
lions below Bonneville Dam
begin to discover they could
kill broodstock females for
the roe. Bonneville Dam and
Willamette Falls prevent stur-
geon from traveling upstream.
Flow conditions in these areas
are ideal for white sturgeon
spawning. Large numbers of
spawning size fi sh concentrate
in the areas, making them vul-
nerable to predation by sea
lions.
Traditionally, when water
temperature in the Columbia
becomes a few degrees colder
than the Willamette, sturgeon
move into the Willamette.
Now, even more have been
chased into the Willamette.
Sea lions have followed. The
area below the falls is much
smaller than the Columbia.
Sturgeon become much easier
prey. The slaughter continues.
“It won’t be long before
sturgeon will be wiped out in
the Willamette,” Watts adds.
“I had two regular clients
from Germany, fi shing for
oversized sturgeon in the Wil-
lamette,” Donald Koskela, of
Pastime Fishing Adventures
explains. “A massive lion sur-
faces, a few feet from us, with
a seven-footer in his jaws. He
thrashed it back and forth,
ripping it to shreds. We see it
happen again and again.”
The U.S. Corps of Engi-
neers (USACE) observation
program at Bonneville Dam
documented a steady increase
in total predation – by sea li-
ons – of all sizes of white stur-
geon through 2011. Only one
kill was recorded in 2005, but
jumped to 3,003 in 2011, and
an estimated 2,498 in 2012.
Predation on smaller whites
throughout the river appears
to be increasing in frequency,
based on observations by staff
and reports from anglers and
commercial fi shers. In 2009
the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife (ODFW)
estimates a total annual preda-
tion on white sturgeon, in the
entire lower Columbia and
Willamette Rivers, to be from
6,700 fi sh in 2009, to 10,600
in 2014.
Each attempt ODFW has
made to reduce the number
of killer sea lions has been met
with injunctions and lawsuits
fi led by well-funded animal
rights groups.
If the number of mature
sturgeon is rapidly declining
now, what hope is there for the
future of these living fossils?
Will history repeat itself? Will
sea lions reduce the number of
broodstock like over harvest-
ing did in the 1800s?
Powerful indicators are
there. Thousands of brood-
stock are being killed. Num-
bers of juveniles and “keeper”
size fi sh are down. Recovery
from the low of the 1800s was
long and slow. Over harvesting
by man was stopped through
consciousness and regulations
to protect the species. Preda-
tors lack those capabilities.
Will man be able to regu-
late predation, or will the pre-
dictions of the historic fi shery
“never reopening” be accu-
rate?
For more information on
Columbia Sturgeon contact:
Jimmy Watts, Biologist, Or-
egon Department of Fish and
Wildlife, Northwest District,
971-673-6000, or visit www.
dfw.state.or.us.
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