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Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Happy Canyon honors long-time Report: Faster response needed
to minimize salmon die-offs
volunteers Bronson and Ward
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press
Happy Canyon shined
the spotlight Tuesday night
on two treasured volunteers
– Bryson Bronson and Gary
Ward.
About 40 people gathered
at the Pendleton Convention
Center for a presentation
and short speeches. In all,
73 volunteers have been
honored since 1981 when the
award was created. This is
Happy Canyon’s 100th year
of existence.
Bryson Bronson is one of
Happy Canyon’s most well-
known faces.
Clad in a war bonnet and
leather leggings, Bronson
rides a paint horse named
Chinook during the four
Happy Canyon Night Shows
each year. The iconic visage
also guides the horse the
length of the Westward Ho!
Parade route each September
and
represents
Happy
Canyon by riding in out-of-
town parades events. In June,
Bronson and Chinook will
lead Portland Rose Festival’s
Grand Floral Parade.
The relationship between
Bronson and Chinook started
with a ride together in the
Kennewick Parade and a
subsequent trip to the moun-
tains where they bonded.
“This bonding has led to
a dynamic partnership,” said
emcee Dennis Hunt.
In December, Bronson and
Chinook ferried an American
lag into the National Finals
Rodeo arena in Las Vegas
and stood solemnly during
the singing of the national
anthem.
“The entire country got
to see what we locals have
known for years — there is
nothing more spectacular
than the American lag being
BOISE — Northwest
isheries managers must
respond faster to reduce
ish kills of sockeye
salmon in the Columbia
River Basin if warm-water
conditions return, a draft
report taking a hard look
at last summer’s massive
die-off says.
The National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration report released late
last month describes condi-
tions and assesses actions
of isheries managers in a
year when 90 percent of the
510,000 sockeye salmon
that entered the Columbia
died.
Endangered
Snake
River sockeye perished at
an even greater rate, with
only about 1 percent of
the estimated 4,000 ish
returning from the Paciic
Ocean
surviving
the
900-mile journey to central
Idaho.
“We need to be faster,”
NOAA’s Ritchie Graves
said. “There was too much
talking and not enough
action and experimenta-
tion.”
In 2015 a rare combi-
nation of an extended heat
wave coincided with low
lows in rivers to push
water temperatures above
70 degrees, conditions
that had not occurred in
the basin since at least the
1950s and can be lethal for
cold-water sockeye.
“Should
similar
events occur frequently,
the impact on sockeye
salmon populations in
the Columbia River basin
could be substantial,” the
report says.
The draft report lists
Bronson
Ward
carried by a Native American
wearing a war bonnet, astride
a beautiful paint horse,” said
Hunt.
Last spring, Bronson,
Chinook and Chinook’s
owner, Rusty Black, made an
850-mile round trip to Vegas
to present the lag at the
Federation Equestre Interna-
tionale World Cup, a world
class dressage and jumping
event. For the past seven
years at the Happy Canyon
arena, Bryson has nudged
Chinook up a steep wooden
ramp to a platform high above
the crowd, where they form a
tableau during the singing of
the national anthem as they
ignore the lash of ireworks
and lightshows.
Bryson missed the appre-
ciation event because he was
ishing for the Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation. By letter, he
thanked the board for the
award and also Chinook’s
owner, Rusty Black, for
trusting him with “her spec-
tacular horse.”
Gary Ward considers
himself a newbie as a Happy
Canyon volunteer. So his
jaw dropped a bit to learn
he was receiving a Happy
Canyon Appreciation Award
for his 13 years serving on
the grounds crew and main-
taining Happy Canyon’s leet
of motorized vehicles.
“If you’re familiar with
the grounds crew, you know
that they don’t just meet two
weeks before Round-Up,”
Hunt said. “These guys
and gals start in April or
May and meet nearly every
Wednesday night to make
sure the Happy Canyon arena
and stands are ready for the
concert, (Professional Bull
Riding) and four nights of the
show.”
Ward was lauded by
various Happy Canyon
directors for doing anything
that needs to be done from
mopping the directors’ room
loor to ixing a gas tank in
which vandals had punched
a hole. Ward brushed off the
praise.
“Happy Canyon is just
a great place to volunteer,”
Ward said. “You made it fun
and it will continue to be fun.
It doesn’t get any better than
this.”
Additionally, Ward serves
as security director with
the Round-Up and Happy
Canyon Hall of Fame Board.
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THURSDAY
TODAY
FRIDAY
A t-storm in spots
in the p.m.
Mostly cloudy with
a t-storm
80° 55°
74° 52°
SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy and
comfortable
Very warm with
sunshine
SUNDAY
Very warm with
sunshine
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
80° 53°
83° 56°
81° 50°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
82° 55°
78° 51°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
87°
67°
94° (1900)
57°
43°
25° (1897)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.00"
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3.13"
5.25"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
90°
70°
92° (1937)
50°
43°
28° (1928)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
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SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
May 6
May 13
88° 56°
86° 52°
Seattle
65/51
ALMANAC
Yesterday
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85° 58°
Full
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8:06 p.m.
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Last
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May 29
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Wenatchee
78/56
80/59
Tacoma
Moses
65/47
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 81/55
77/53
60/47
66/46
81/54
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
63/48
81/57 Lewiston
84/58
Astoria
82/59
61/47
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
67/52
Pendleton 75/51
The Dalles 82/55
80/55
76/57
La Grande
Salem
79/54
67/50
Albany
Corvallis 65/50
66/50
John Day
80/51
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
86/56
65/49
66/46
Caldwell
Burns
85/52
76/44
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
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WORLD CITIES
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Medford
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Klamath Falls
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Pendleton
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NNE 4-8
WSW 4-8
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UV INDEX TODAY
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today; a couple of
showers, except dry in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A shower or
thunderstorm in spots today, except dry in
the upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: Cloudy today and
tonight with a couple of showers.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today
with a thunderstorm in spots; however, dry
across the south.
Cascades: Cloudy today into tomorrow with
a couple of showers. Friday: warmer across
the north.
Northern California: Mainly cloudy today
with showers around.
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River sockeye needed it
most. The mistake went
unnoticed for about a week,
and by then managers were
moving forward with the
capture and transport of
Snake River sockeye to a
ish hatchery.
But managers say 90
percent of Snake River
sockeye died before even
reaching the Snake River.
“It deinitely didn’t help,
but I don’t think it was a
signiicant factor in the
loss,” said Russ Kiefer of
the Idaho Department of
Fish and Game.
The report notes that
one of the quandaries
facing managers is the
downstream transporting
by barge of juvenile Snake
River sockeye. In 2015, the
report said, transported ish
with poorer homing skills
spent more time in the
river. That proved lethal,
and none of the returning
adults survived the journey
upstream to Lower Granite
Dam on the Snake River.
However,
barging
juvenile ish downstream
is intended to boost the
number of returning adult
Snake River sockeye,
an endeavor isheries
managers say they are now
having to reconsider.
The 58-page report is
being reviewed by federal
and state managers as well
as tribes, with comments
from those entities being
incorporated into a inal
report expected early this
summer ahead of this
year’s sockeye run.
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nine actions isheries
managers could do to
recognize earlier when a
massive die-off is looming
and some actions to poten-
tially reduce the die-off.
Among the recommen-
dations is making changes
to get real-time reporting of
temperatures in ish ladders
at dams to provide an early
warning. Graves said he’d
be surprised if that change
isn’t accomplished in the
next two years.
The report also said
drawing cold water from
deep in reservoirs to use
in ish ladders could help
keep ish moving upstream.
That was a problem last
year when warm water in
some ish ladders caused
migrating salmon to stall.
The report says that in
2016 a new, permanent
intake structure at Lower
Granite Dam will draw
water from 60 feet deep and
give managers a greater
ability to keep water cool.
Much of the report
deals with the Snake River
where managers have more
ability to control water
temperature by releasing
cold water from Dworshak
Dam.
“Honestly, there are not
a lot of things you can do
to manage temperatures
in the lower Columbia
River,” Graves said.
The report notes that
last year faulty temperature
readings caused managers
to
reduce
cold-water
releases from Dworshak
Dam just when Snake
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0-2, Low
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8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
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National Summary: Severe storms will affect the Florida Peninsula as a mosaic of showers
and storms extends from the Midwest to the Northeast today. Showers and storms will
expand southward along the Pacific coast.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 96° in Thermal, Calif.
Low 8° in Hohnholz Ranch, Colo.
NATIONAL CITIES
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Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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Memphis
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Miami
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Milwaukee
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Minneapolis
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Nashville
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New Orleans
78
New York City
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Oklahoma City
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Omaha
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Philadelphia
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Phoenix
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Portland, ME
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Providence
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Raleigh
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Rapid City
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Reno
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Sacramento
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St. Louis
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Salt Lake City
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San Diego
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San Francisco
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Seattle
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Tucson
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Washington, DC 63
Wichita
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