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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2016
Changes at Snake River dams helping Idaho sockeye salmon
Success could
lead to changes
at other dams
By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho — Structural
changes at two Snake River
dams in Washington state
are helping more endangered
sockeye salmon make the trip
upstream to central Idaho this
year, federal oficials say.
The permanent system at
Lower Granite Dam and a tem-
porary system at Little Goose
Dam pull up cold, deep water
for ish ladders to combat high
temperatures that discour-
age ish from completing their
journey. The success of the
new systems could lead to sim-
ilar changes at other dams on
the Snake and Columbia rivers.
“The strategy of putting
cooler water at the top end of
the ladder appears to be effec-
tive,” said Ritchie Graves
of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
“It takes a while to learn how
to do it correctly.”
The permanent structure
installed by the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers at Lower
Granite Dam earlier this year
cost $1.2 million and follows
the massive die-off of sock-
eye salmon in the Columbia
Basin in 2015. Managers say
an unusual combination of low
water and an extended heat
wave pushed water tempera-
tures past 70 degrees, lethal for
cold-water sockeye.
A National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
report released in April cited
hot water throughout the basin
as the cause for the die-off, but
also noted a lack of action by
federal managers as playing a
role.
The report said one of the
factors contributing to the
deaths of sockeye salmon was
“fallback,” a tendency of ish
to successfully climb a dam’s
ish ladder but then, running
into warm water, decide to go
back downstream, often via a
dam’s spillway or through the
turbines.
Fish that survive use up
energy reserves, decreasing
their chance of reaching their
destination. Oficials say fall-
Joe Jaszewski/The Idaho Statesman
Water pours out of the Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River near Pomeroy, Wash. Fed-
eral officials say structural changes at two Snake River dams in Washington state are
helping more endangered sockeye salmon make the trip upstream.
back is a problem at many
dams in the system. Snake
River sockeye have to pass
eight of them to get to central
Idaho.
“We want to get (salmon)
to where they’re going as
quickly as possible,” Graves
said. “Part of that is making
sure there are no delays in the
ladder system.”
That led to the ish lad-
der changes that appear to be
working. In 2014, about 25
percent of sockeye fell back
at Lower Granite Dam. This
year with the new system, that
dropped to 5.5 percent.
“The ladder exit shower has
worked about as well as we
could have hoped for at Gran-
ite,” said Russ Kiefer of the
Idaho Department of Fish and
Game.
The permanent system at
Lower Granite Dam pulls up
water from about 70 feet deep,
which in summer is about 10
degrees cooler than surface
water, and uses a spray sys-
tem near the top of the ladder
to create a plume of cold water.
A temporary system costing
$342,000 is in place at Little
Goose Dam. Kiefer is a mem-
ber of a basin-wide technical
team considering putting in a
permanent system at the dam.
He said similar systems
at dams farther downstream
would tend to lose their effec-
tiveness as the reservoirs them-
selves are hotter and pulling up
deeper water might not make a
signiicant difference.
Overall this year, Snake
River sockeye are doing much
better than last year with cooler
water temperatures throughout
the Columbia Basin. About
1,250 of the ish crossed Bon-
neville Dam on the Columbia
River this year, and about 400
have arrived in central Idaho
so far, with about another
100 expected by the end of
September.
Last year, an estimated
4,000 Snake River sock-
eye crossed Bonneville Dam
in what managers expected
would be one of the best-ever
returns to high mountain lakes
in central Idaho. But only
about 40 ish survived the 900-
mile journey.
“This year, Mother Nature
helped us out,” Kiefer said.
Hunting, ishing licenses on sale again after cyberattack
By GENE JOHNSON
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Hunting and
ishing licenses are on sale
again in Washington state, after
someone hacked or attempted
to hack into an outside ven-
dor’s system, exposing several
million records containing the
personal information of hunt-
ers and anglers throughout the
Northwest.
Washington halted all
license sales after the intru-
sion was discovered early last
week, but resumed them Sat-
urday through its network of
600 dealers across the state,
after conirming those sales
are secure. Online sales remain
suspended because oficials
still can’t ensure the online
system’s security, the Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife said.
“With many excellent late
summer and fall hunting and
ishing opportunities rapidly
approaching, this is great news
for hunters, anglers, and every-
one who enjoys Washington’s
outdoors,” department direc-
tor Jim Unsworth said in an
emailed statement. “I appre-
ciate our customers’ patience
this last week while license
sales were unavailable.”
The FBI and the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security
are investigating, but the extent
of the hacking effort remained
unclear Saturday. While Wash-
ington oficials said they had
conirmed that millions of
records were “exposed,” the
vendor, Dallas-based Active
Network, said it didn’t receive
reports or ind evidence that
personal information was
compromised.
Rick Hargrave, spokesman
for the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife, said the
state’s network security team
similarly “didn’t ind any evi-
dence that personal data was
taken or viewed,” the States-
man Journal in Salem reported.
Idaho and Oregon also
halted online sales of ishing
and hunting licenses, but they
allowed in-person sales to con-
tinue at businesses and state
ofices. In the three states,
about 80 percent of licenses
are sold at those sites, which
include sporting goods stores
and tackle shops.
Active Network’s event and
activity management software
is used by tens of thousands of
event organizers nationwide,
including marathons and other
races. The company said the
potential threat was isolated to
ishing and hunting licensing
systems in the three states.
It didn’t say whether the
hacking attempt was success-
ful. The company released a
software update to address
the threat within 15 hours and
hired a cybersecurity irm to
conduct a review, it said.
It’s unclear when online
sales might resume in the
three states. Washington said it
would allow sales by phone to
A fly-fisherman casts
his line as early
morning mist rises
above the Boise
River, east of Boise,
Idaho. Idaho, Oregon
and Washington
have shut down on-
line sales of hunting
and fishing licenses
amid concerns a
vendor’s computer
system has been
hacked and personal
information is at risk.
AP Photo/Troy Maben
resume on Monday. In accor-
dance with its announce-
ment last week, Washington is
Marijuana boom brings jobs,
complaints to Josephine County
By SHAUN HALL
Grants Pass Daily Courier
GRANTS PASS — Jose-
phine County’s growing mari-
juana industry is experiencing
growing pains.
The number of medical
marijuana grow sites in the
county has remained steady
from a year ago, at about 2,500.
But growers who sell to
retailers have been sprout-
ing up — 38 new state-issued
licenses have been granted this
summer to people who plan to
grow for the recreational mar-
ket. More applications are
pending.
Pivoting to take advan-
tage of retailer preference for
indoor-grown marijuana, these
new operations are springing
up in former pastures and ields
across the county.
“This industry didn’t exist a
year ago,” observed Dani Jur-
mann, standing outside a row
of industrial-size greenhouses
on Cedar Flat Road near Wil-
liams, where he and his family
employ nearly 30 people grow-
ing marijuana for the recre-
ational market. “The world has
changed, and Oregon is at the
forefront.”
There’s good and bad hap-
pening. The good includes jobs
and investments. Jurmann pays
employees $15 an hour to start,
plus beneits. He employed
contractors and suppliers to get
the place up and running. He
obtained land.
He also bought big green-
house fans and framing lumber,
and built a gravel road.
That’s where the bad comes
in — some neighbors com-
plain about noise from the fans,
and the road had to be moved
to avoid annoying a neighbor
who complained about the new
trafic.
Operating as Shadowbox
Farms, Jurmann employs not
only gardeners and trimmers,
but a compliance oficer and a
foreman. The operation’s aim,
besides providing 6 million
servings of product a year, is
to provide a living for his fam-
ily and employees, in a career
some might consider a dream
job.
It all comes with a price,
of course. There’s the compe-
tition and the new neighbors,
and a county planning depart-
ment that has told him there’s
a need for permits for those
greenhouses.
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