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Four governors agree to work together for Northwest salmon
By ANNETTE CARY
Tri-City Herald
PASCO, Wash. — The
governors of Washington,
Oregon, Idaho and Montana
have agreed to work together
to rebuild the Columbia
River system’s salmon and
steelhead stocks.
They may not all agree
on the adequacy of the
recently completed com-
prehensive
environmen-
tal study of the Columbia
and Snake hydrosystems,
which resulted in a deci-
sion by federal agencies in
late September to maintain
the four lower Snake River
hydroelectric dams in East-
ern Washington state.
“However,
regardless
of those differences and
separate from each state’s
recourse, we commit to this
ongoing collaboration,” said
the agreement made public
on Friday, Oct. 9.
The four states will use
the goals of the Colum-
bia Basin Partnership Task
Force for rebuilding 24
stocks of salmon and steel-
head. They also will con-
sider the social, cultural,
economic and environmen-
tal factors identified by the
task force when deciding
how to achieve those goals.
The task force was
formed by the Marine Fish-
eries Advisory Commit-
tee of the National Oceanic
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife/Contributed Photo, File
The governors of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana have agreed to work together to
rebuild the Columbia River system’s salmon and steelhead stocks.
and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration in 2017 and included
the four states, Columbia
Basin tribes and those with
fishing, agriculture, con-
servation, river transporta-
tion, port and hydropower
interests. Advancement of
the goals will be done in a
public process that includes
state residents, federal agen-
cies and tribes, which have
treaty and cultural rights
to natural resources and
will include discussion of
regional issues, the agree-
ment said.
The collaborative pro-
cess among the four states
is intended to provide a
science-based approach to
strategies and actions, the
agreement said.
It pledges to help improve
fish stocks to uphold treaty
rights, support state fishing
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communities have rallied
to retain the lower Snake
River dams that are used
for barging farm crops and
other goods, some irriga-
tion, recreation and to sup-
ply low-cost hydropower to
the region.
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entifically founded,” North-
west RiverPartners said.
Salmon populations have
declined worldwide in riv-
ers with and without hydro-
electric dams, with climate
change likely to blame, it
said.
It cited the recently
released Biological Opin-
ion, in which NOAA Fisher-
ies said that climate change
appears to have a much
larger effect on salmon sur-
vival in the oceans than in
rivers.
NOAA Fisheries also
said that chinook salmon
may only have 20 to 30
years left in the region if
the observed relationships
between warming ocean
temperatures and salmon
survival remain steady.
In addition, scientists at
the University of Alaska
pointed to a more hostile
ocean environment due to
climate change and salmon
spending fewer years at sea
as chinook salmon in Alas-
ka’s rivers are significantly
smaller than they were in
1960, Northwest RiverPart-
ners said.
The governors’ process
needs to ensure the vitality
of the hydropower system
as a means to prevent more
harm to salmon from cli-
mate change and also harm
to people, including from
devastating wildfires, the
organization said.
Two recent calf deaths not from wolves
By RONALD BOND
La Grande Observer
A couple of
showers
region, commercial fish-
ing operations and recre-
ational anglers have called
for more drastic action
than the new federal deci-
sion to help threatened and
endangered populations of
salmon species. The federal
decision calls for increas-
ing the water spilled over
four lower Columbia River
dams and the four Lower
Snake River dams to help
fish passage.
Northwest RiverPartners
said it expects a multi-year
effort under the agreement
to establish processes and
decision-making groups to
find solutions for struggling
salmon populations.
The organization sup-
ports the goals of the agree-
ment, but stresses that the
process must have scientific
rigor and include a holis-
tic look of salmon envi-
ronments that includes the
warming of the Pacific
Ocean.
Northwest
RiverPart-
ners represents commu-
nity-owned utilities in six
western states and farm-
ers, ports and businesses
that rely on hydropower and
low-carbon transportation.
“While there are many
stakeholders who genuinely
believe that dams have been
the limiting factor in salmon
recovery, recent research
has shown that this anti-
dam conclusion is not sci-
LA GRANDE — Two of
the most recent livestock dep-
redations the Oregon Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife
investigated in Eastern Ore-
gon lack any markings that
point to a wolf.
The kills occurred in late
September, one in Union
County, according to the
ODFW investigation report,
which showed 25 depre-
dation exams from July to
September.
The first investigation
was Sept. 23 after a live-
stock producer found a dead
400-pound calf in a large pri-
vate pasture in the Manning
Creek area of Baker County.
Investigators estimated the
calf died the day before.
“No attack or struggle
scene was found,” according
to ODFW’s report. “There
were no pre-mortem bite
marks or hemorrhage found
on the carcass. The death
of this calf was not wolf
related.”
A landowner in the McIn-
tyre Road area of Union
County found a dead 500-
pound calf in a large for-
ested private pasture on Sept.
24. The calf, investigators
determined, died about three
days before the examination
on the carcass began. It was
missing intestines and mus-
cle tissue from its spine, ribs
and hindquarters.
The examination of the site
found no signs of an attack
or struggle, and this carcass
also lacked pre-mortem bite
marks or hemorrhaging.
“The death of this calf
was not wolf related,” the
reported stated.
Michelle
Dennehy,
ODFW
communications
director, said there is no evi-
dence of the death falling
in the same camp as recent
mutilation cases that have
been reported around the
state.
“There was nothing to
suggest the death or missing
parts were human caused,”
she said. “The missing por-
tions of the animal were con-
sistent with scavenger activ-
ity — not surprising since
there was sign of coyotes,
fox and scavenging birds at
the scene. This is virtually
always the case unless the
carcass is found very quickly
after death. Had there been
evidence of human involve-
ment it would become a
potential criminal case and
law enforcement would take
over.”
Dennehy said it’s not
uncommon for livestock
deaths not to be a depredation.
“Most livestock, young
and especially adults, die
from non-predator causes,”
she said.
ODFW, though, does not
determine what results in an
animal’s death in cases it’s
called to examine.
“Our process only looks at
whether or not it was wolf-re-
lated, not cause of death,”
she said. “Though we try to
be helpful to the livestock
owner, sometimes a veteri-
nary pathologist is necessary
to determine cause of death.”
The case was one of four
in Union County that ODFW
examined in that three-month
period. The state wildlife
agency blamed the killing of
a 550-pound calf in Septem-
ber on the Five Points Pack
and determined the Ruckel
Ridge Pack in August killed
a guard dog.
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Protesters knock down
Roosevelt, Lincoln statues
in Portland
PORTLAND — Protesters overturned
statues of former Presidents Theodore Roo-
sevelt and Abraham Lincoln in Portland on
Sunday, Oct. 11, in a declaration of “rage”
toward Columbus Day.
Protest organizers dubbed the event
“Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage,” in
response to Monday’s federal holiday named
after 15th-century Italian explorer Chris-
topher Columbus, a polarizing figure who
Native American advocates have said spurred
centuries of genocide against indigenous pop-
ulations in the Americas.
The group threw chains around Roos-
evelt’s statue, officially titled “Theodore Roo-
sevelt, Rough Rider.” They threw red paint on
the monument and began using a blowtorch
on the statue’s base, news outlets reported.
The crowd pulled down the statue just
before 9 p.m. The group later turned their
attention toward Lincoln’s statue, pulling it
down about eight minutes later.
Historians have said Roosevelt expressed
hostility toward Native Americans, once say-
ing: “I don’t go so far as to think that the only
good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe
nine out of every 10 are.”
Protesters spray-painted “Dakota 38” on
the base of Lincoln’s statue, referencing the 38
Dakota men Lincoln approved to have hanged
after the men were involved in a violent con-
flict with white settlers in Minnesota.
After toppling the statues, the crowd began
smashing windows at the Oregon Historical
Society and later moved onto the Portland
State University Campus Public Safety office.
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