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CAMP: Community justice work
crews put items into the dumpster
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
TRIBES:
Some sites are
underwater
behind dams
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everyone abandoned the camp by late
November or early December, but
they left behind the trailer and a lot of
waste and debris.
The sheriff’s office worked with the
planning department’s code enforce-
ment arm and with the community
justice department to remove the
garbage and teamed up with Sanitary
Disposal Inc. of Hermiston, which
provided a large commercial dump-
ster.
The dirty work of putting camp
items into the dumpster fell to
community justice work crews, which
consist of local offenders making
good on community service hours as
part of their probation. Littlefield said
cleaning up the camp was another
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some important sites out
there that we don’t talk about
a lot because of concerns
about what would happen
because of vandalism.”
Fish survival, hydro-
power, irrigation and navi-
gation get the most attention
and will be components in
the environmental review
due out in 2021. But at
more than a dozen public
meetings in the four states to
collect feedback, the cultural
resources program has equal
billing. Comments are being
accepted through Jan. 17.
The review process is
being conducted under the
National
Environmental
Policy Act, or NEPA, an
umbrella law that covers
the well-known Endangered
Species Act. Thirteen species
of salmon and steelhead on
the Columbia and Snake
rivers have been listed as
federally protected species
over the past 25 years.
But NEPA also requires
equal weight be given to
other laws, including the
National Historic Preserva-
tion Act, which is where the
cultural resources program
comes in. Among the 4,000
sites are fishing and hunting
processing areas, ancestral
village areas and tribal
corridors.
“People
were
very
mobile, prehistorically,” said
Kristen Martine, Cultural
Recourse Program manager
for the Bonneville Power
Administration.
Some of the most notable
sites with human activity
date back thousands of years
and are underwater behind
dams on the Columbia and
Snake rivers. Celilo Falls, a
dipnet fishery for thousands
of years, is behind The
Dalles Dam on the Columbia
River. Marmes Rockshelter
was occupied 10,000 years
ago but now is underwater
behind Lower Monumental
Dam on the Snake River.
“If we’re breaching dams,
it would definitely change
how we manage resources,”
said Gail Celmer, an archae-
ologist with the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers.
U.S.
District
Judge
Michael H. Simon ordered
the environmental review
in May after finding that a
massive habitat restoration
effort to offset the damage
that dams in the Columbia
River Basin pose to North-
west salmon runs was
failing.
Salmon and steelhead
runs are a fraction of what
they were before modern
settlement. Of the salmon
and steelhead that now return
to spawn each year, experts
say, about 70 to 90 percent
originate in hatcheries.
Those
opposed
to
breaching the Snake River
dams to restore salmon
runs say the dams are
an important part of the
regional economy, providing
irrigation, hydropower and
shipping benefits.
Meanwhile, several tribes
said they are better able
to take part in the review
process than they once were.
“Tribes have not had
much opportunity to partic-
ipate in these things because
they didn’t have professional
staff or trained people,” said
Guy Moura of the Colville
Confederated Tribes in
Washington state, noting the
tribe employed four people
in its cultural resources
program in 1992 but now
has 38. “With growth in size,
there also came the evolution
of what was being done.”
The tribe at one time
had a large fishery at Kettle
Falls, on the upper part of
the Columbia River, but it
was inundated in the 1940s
behind Grand Coulee Dam.
Dams farther downstream
on the Columbia prevent
salmon from reaching the
area.
Also among the 4,000
historical sites is Bonne-
ville Dam, one of 14 dams
involved in the environ-
mental impact statement.
Bonneville Dam is the
lowest dam in the system
at about 145 miles from
the mouth of the Columbia
River. It started operating
in the 1930s and became a
National Historic Landmark
in 1987.
Photo contributed by Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office
Umatilla County law enforcement and planning department,
with the help of Sanitary Disposal Inc. of Hermiston, cleaned
out property Thursday along the banks of the Umatilla River on
River Road where campers were unlawfully residing in tents and
a small trailer.
example of the fine work the crews
do.
Staff at Sanitary Disposal reported
the trash came to 4,280 pounds, not
including the trailer, which a tow
truck hauled off. Littlefield said the
garbage filled the dumpster, but the
amount was surprising.
The sheriff’s office planned to
clean up the camp at the start of
December, but Littlefield said winter
storms delayed the work.
The sheriff’s office during the
summer also helped clean up a camp
outside Milton-Freewater on the
Walla Walla River, but Littlefield said
that was much smaller. The agency
isn’t aware of more illegal camps,
but come spring, he said, this cycle
of finding and cleaning up transient
camps is likely to repeat.
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