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Page 8A East Oregonian Friday, January 30, 2015 OFF PAGE ONE CREEK: Park was under four feet of water in 1993 the White Eagle Grange. “There’s been a history is the home waters of a third of change along the water- of all wild steelhead in the shed,” Staldine said. “The Umatilla Basin. river’s trying to seek equilib- In 1989, the Oregon De- rium, and we have to make partment of Fish & Wildlife it work with our current us- put up fencing along the ers.” creek at Hemphill’s ranch to Birch Creek has been re- keep their cows from over- ferred to as a “sanctuary” grazing the banks. ODFW for wild steelhead and the also planted new riparian watershed council estimates vegetation, including cotton- 70 percent of the basin’s sal- wood trees, to provide more monids use the creek at some VKDGHIRU¿VKZKLOHKROGLQJ point in their life cycle. Past the stream in its bank during restoration efforts include KLJKÀRZV habitat rehabilitation, as well The Umatilla Basin Wa- as removing abandoned or tershed Council, in collabo- obsolete irrigation dams that ration with partners, is now EORFN¿VKSDVVDJH taking stock of past projects, The assessment will iden- as well as natural and unnat- tify where problems remain ural functions along Birch and help the agencies iden- Creek to come up with an tify priorities. Research is action plan for future resto- funded by the Oregon Wa- ration. tershed Enhancement Board Protecting federally listed and Bonneville Power Ad- steelhead is the primary eco- ministration through its 2008 logical driver of the assess- ¿VKDFFRUGVZLWKWKHWULEHV ment, said watershed council Staldine is optimistic the director Jon Staldine, though ¿QDO DFWLRQ SODQ ZLOO WDNH D VROXWLRQV FRXOG EHQH¿W DOO holistic approach, addressing landowners in the area. ERWK WKH ¿VK DQG ÀRRGLQJ Members of ODFW, the concerns. He hopes to have Confederated Tribes of the WKH DVVHVVPHQW ¿QLVKHG E\ Umatilla Indian Reserva- summer and plan signed off tion, U.S. Forest Service and by early 2016. Umatilla County Soil & Wa- One particularly worri- ter Conservation District are VRPH ÀRRG ]RQH LV DORQJ all taking part in the assess- the creek’s east fork near the PHQW 7KH ¿UVW FRPPXQLW\ southern edge of Pilot Rock, input meeting was Jan. 22 at a city of about 1,500 people. Continued from 1A :DWHU ÀRZV IDVW RXW RI WKH canyon moving north, drop- SLQJTXLFNO\LQWRDÀDWDOOX- vial plain where the channel slows and deposits river rock and sediment. The area is known as the “Miracle Mile,” because lo- cals say it will take a miracle to solve the issue. There are about 15 landowners in the DUHDZKLFKPDNHVLWGLI¿FXOW to coordinate clearing the blockages. Flooding comes danger- ously close to town, creep- ing along the Pilot Rock community park and grade school. Public Works Direc- tor Steve Draper remembers 1993, when the park was un- GHUIRXURU¿YHRIZDWHU Yet despite the danger, Draper said they haven’t yet found a solution. The next public meeting is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 28 in Pilot Rock. Hemphill said landowners are eager to see how they can deal with VRPH RI WKH GLI¿FXOWLHV WKDW have dogged them for years. “There’s people who have been waiting for an answer to their problems, and who DUH KRSLQJ WKH\¶OO ¿QG DQ answer through this assess- ment,” he said. ——— Contact George Plaven at gplaven@eastoregonian. com or 541-564-4547. LIBRARY: Other frequent thefts are test prep ERRNVDQGERRNVRQPXVKURRPLGHQWL¿FDWLRQ H[SHQVLYH ERRNV WR ¿OO WKH void, but eventually the li- tanism, including the Satanic brary stopped stocking titles Bible at the Milton-Freewa- on those subjects. According to Finney, ter Public Library, the Pend- leton library has no books other books that see fre- quent theft are test prepara- directly about Satanism. Pendleton interim library tion books and books about director Mary Finney said PXVKURRPLGHQWL¿FDWLRQ The Pendleton library’s the dearth of books like these has been part of a concerted problems are compounded strategy by library staff to by a lack of an electronic se- VORZGRZQWKH¿QDQFLDOORVV curity system, which would alert staff members if a pa- from stolen books. Finney said books dealing tron was leaving the library with these dark subject mat- without checking out a book. Library security upgrades ters have been disappearing from the shelves since the could be part of a Pendleton late 1990s. For a while li- bond issue in November. But brary staff tried to buy less even if successful, Finney Continued from 1A said adding electronic identi- ¿FDWLRQWRWKHOLEUDU\¶VHQWLUH catalogue would take a con- siderable amount of time. Patrons can still seek out information about the occult or tarot cards through the li- brary’s electronic database, but Finney is saddened that those patrons will have a dif- ¿FXOW WLPH WDNLQJ WKDW LQIRU- mation home with them. Finney said she thinks some patrons might be em- barrassed of checking out a controversial book, but she didn’t condone the books’ theft. “I don’t understand theft. Period,” she said. Seahawks fans! Stock up for the big game COUPON 10 OFF $ Some mothers who have been dropped by their doctors feel “betrayed and upset,” said Dotty Hagmier, founder of the support group Moms in Charge. She said these parents made up their minds about vaccines after “careful research and diligence to un- derstand the risks versus the EHQH¿WV IRU WKHLU RZQ FKLO- dren’s circumstances.” Dropping patients who refuse vaccines has become a hot topic of discussion on SERMO, an online doctor hangout. 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