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NEWS
Wallowa County Chieftain
Fishing forecast and
report — July 24
ODFW
Not into Rodeo? Need to
get away to a quiet spot? Grab
a fi shing pole and head out to
some of these places!
In the Grande Ronde River,
anglers are catching good-size
trout in the roadless section
and bass in the lower river
between Troy and the WA state
line.
Trout fi shing has been good
on the Wallowa River with fi sh
taking stonefl ies and caddies
patterns below the surface.
Fish Lake and Wallowa Lake
are scheduled to be stocked
this week.
GRANDE RONDE RIVER:
trout, whitefi sh, bass
The Grande Ronde is fi shing
well throughout the roadless
section for good-size trout.
Flows are currently good for
rafting but are becoming more
diffi cult as fl ows drop. The low-
er river fi shes very well for bass
during the summer months.
Try fi shing between the state
line with Washington and the
town of Troy.
IMNAHA RIVER: trout
While fl ows are still up
on the Imnaha River, anglers
should begin fi nding success
for trout and whitefi sh. The
reaches between the town of
Imnaha and the fi sh weir are
best; however, be sure to get
permission before fi shing on
private property.
The lower river often fi shes
well for bass during the sum-
mer months as they move in
from the Snake River.
Due to poor returns of
spring Chinook there are no
plans for a salmon season.
JUBILEE LAKE: trout
The main access to the lake
is now open. Fishing should
be good for rainbow trout, the
lake was stocked last week with
legal and trophy trout.
LUGER POND: rainbow
trout
This pond is accessible
and has been stocked with
legal-size and trophy-size
rainbow trout.
Take the Palmer Junction
Road north out of Elgin about
10 miles to USFS 63. Follow
USFS 63 for about 9 miles, then
left on USFS 6306. Luger Pond
is 2.5 miles on the right, near
Luger Springs campground.
MCKAY RESERVOIR: perch,
crappie, bass
The reservoir is at full pool,
water conditions are improving
visibility is getting better and
water temperature is warming.
Crappie fi shing should be
heating up as crapping move
into the shallows to spawn, ear-
ly morning and evening pro-
duce the most consistent bite.
Drifting or trolling with, jigs,
spinners and small plugs are
good ways to locate scattered
crappie schools. Once a school
of actively biting crappie are
located slow down and fi sh jigs
slowly under a bobber. Fishing
for small and largemouth bass
should be fair to good.
MORGAN LAKE: rainbow
trout
Morgan Lake is now open to
fi shing and has been stocked
with 500 trophy-size rainbow
trout. That’s in addition to the
trout already available from
fi ngerling stocking last spring.
PEACH (LADD) POND:
rainbow trout
The pond has received its
second stocking with 1,000
legal-size and 75 trophy-size
rainbow trout.
To measure the catch rate
of trout stocked in the Peach
Pond, ODFW marked some of
these with an orange colored
tag just under the dorsal fi n. If
you catch one of these tagged
fi sh, please report the tag
number to Tim Bailey, District
Fish Biologist at 541-962-1829.
Some of these tags will have a
$50 reward available.
Construction of a new ADA
accessible fi shing platform is
now complete.
TAYLOR GREEN POND:
rainbow trout
The pond is stocked with
legal and trophy-size rainbow
trout. Fishing has been good.
From Hwy 203 at Union,
turn left staying on Hwy 203
towards Medical Springs. At
the summit between Union
and Medical Springs, turn left
onto USFS Road 7700 (oppo-
site Snowpark area). Proceed
East on 7700 road for about 9
miles to USFS Road 7740 on
the right. There is a popular
camping area just beyond the
7740 road on the right. Proceed
on the 7740 road for about 1/4
mile. The rock pit and pond are
on the right.
WALLOWA COUNTY
PONDS: rainbow trout
Wallowa County ponds on
the forest and in the valley re-
ceived a fresh batch of stocked
trout this week and fi shing
should be good.
Kinney Lake is fi shing well
for stocked and holdover trout
up to 16-inches.
WALLOWA LAKE: rainbow
trout, kokanee, lake trout
Kokanee fi shing is picking
up for anglers. While most are
fi nding moderate catch rates,
the quality of fi sh is very good
with kokanee to 4 pounds.
Trout fi shing has been
good for holdover and recently
stocked fi sh.
WALLOWA RIVER: steel-
head, mountain whitefi sh,
trout
Trout fi shing on the Wal-
lowa River is currently good.
Fish have been taking large
stonefl ies and caddis patterns
under the surface. Dry fl ies
during the last few hours
of daylight have also been
eff ective.
Please report a caught
tagged fi sh to the ODFW Pend-
leton offi ce 541-276-2344.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Tamkaliks hosts 80 dancers, plus
guests from around the globe
Megan Futter
For Wallowa County
Chieftain
The annual Tamkaliks
Nez Perce homecoming cel-
ebration was held July 19-21
at the Tamkaliks grounds in
Wallowa, Oregon.
The original Wallowa
Band descendents hold this
reunion celebration every
year on the third weekend
of July. The three day cele-
bration is fi lled with danc-
ing, drumming and friend-
ship and many look forward
to it all year.
This year, 80 registered
dancers competed as well
as 12 drum circles. Visitors
came from all over, includ-
ing guests from Germany,
Switzerland, Taiwan and
Spain, to attend this year’s
festivities.
Frank Hill and Thomas
Morning Owl kept crowds
entertained as the masters
of ceremonies for the 2019
homecoming celebration.
Things kicked off Satur-
day with a memorial proces-
sion, led by Celeste “Cece”
Whitewolf on foot. White-
wolf has ancestry of Cay-
use and Nisqually, and
Wallowa-Band Nez Perce.
Whitewolf lives in Tigard
Oregon. Although she
missed the fi rst two Tam-
kaliks celebrations, she has
attended every year there-
after. Whitewolf enjoys
the social dancing on Fri-
day night and says it is very
spiritual.
Logan Quaemps, from
the Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla, led the Sat-
urday morning Memorial
Horse Procession. Quaemps
and a friend made the three
day ride over the hill from
Pendleton. Quaemps said
of the seven year old quar-
ter horse and a six year old
“wild horse off the hill,”
“They both are tough as
nails to make the ride over
here”. The fi ve horses in
memorial procession circled
three times — one circle to
honor those from the past,
one for those in the present,
and one for the future.
Dance
performances
kicked off with the grand
entry. Flag bearers led the
procession carrying the
Eagle Staff, American Flag,
and the Canadian fl ag. Sat-
urday’s dance performances
included the circle dance,
Megan Futter/For Wallowa County Chieftain
Turak Andrews, Colville Nation, Nespelem, Washington. This is Andrews’ fi rst year at Tamkaliks.
men & boys traditional,
women and girls traditional,
men’s fast and fancy, grass
dance and women’s jingle
dress.
Jesse Bevis Sr. of the Con-
federated Tribes of Umatilla
has been coming to Tam-
kliks for years; he remem-
bers performing in the junior
category when he was nine
or ten years old. Bevis has
passed the tradition on to
his own family who were in
attendance this year. He and
style. Bevis said Tamkaliks
is very special to his family;
he looks forward to catching
up with friends and family
who come to visit not only
from Pendleton but from
other places like Lapwai and
the Yakima valley as well.
The friendship potluck
held Sunday served venison,
elk and salmon to hungry
natives, locals and visitors.
Volunteers and committee
members served over 480
people at this year’s feast.
his wife Nukinka Manuel
have two children. Daugh-
ter Alayna Bevis, 14, com-
petes in the Women’s Fancy
Shawl. When asked about
her favorite part of celebra-
tion, she couldn’t decide on
one set thing and stated that
everything was her favor-
ite. Son Jesse Bevis Jr., 5,
was also performing this
year and he said his favor-
ite part was dancing in the
Tiny Tots division, where
he danced “prairie chicken”
Petting dogs, cats really does reduce stress
Scott Weybright
Washington State University
College is stressful. Stu-
dents have classes, papers,
and exams. But they also
often have work, bills to pay,
and so many other pressures
common in modern life.
Many universities have
instituted “Pet Your Stress
Away” programs, where stu-
dents can come in and inter-
act with cats and/or dogs to
help alleviate some of the
strain.
Scientists at Washing-
ton State University have
recently
demonstrated
that, in addition to improv-
ing students’ moods, these
programs can actually get
“under the skin” and have
stress-relieving physiologi-
cal benefi ts.
“Just 10 minutes can have
a signifi cant impact,” said
Patricia Pendry, an associate
professor in WSU’s Depart-
ment of Human Develop-
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ment. “Students in our study
that interacted with cats and
dogs had a signifi cant reduc-
tion in cortisol, a major
stress hormone.”
Pendry published these
fi ndings with WSU grad-
uate student Jaymie Van-
dagriff last month in AERA
Open, an open access jour-
nal published by the Amer-
ican Educational Research
Association.
This is the fi rst study that
has demonstrated reductions
in students’ cortisol levels
during a real-life interven-
tion rather than in a labora-
tory setting.
The study involved 249
college students randomly
divided into four groups.
The fi rst group received
hands-on interaction in
small groups with cats and
dogs for 10 minutes. They
could pet, play with, and
generally hang out with the
animals as they wanted.
To compare effects of dif-
very high or low levels to
begin with.
“We already knew that
students enjoy interacting
with animals, and that it
helps them experience more
positive emotions,” Pendry
said. “What we wanted to
learn was whether this expo-
sure would help students
reduce their stress in a less
subjective way. And it did,
which is exciting because
the reduction of stress hor-
mones may, over time, have
signifi cant benefi ts for phys-
ical and mental health.”
Now Pendry and her team
are continuing this work by
examining the impact of a
four-week-long animal-as-
sisted stress prevention pro-
gram. Preliminary results
are very positive, with a fol-
low-up study showing that
the fi ndings of the recently
published work hold up.
They hope to publish the
fi nal results of that work in
the near future.
ferent exposures to animals,
the second group observed
other people petting ani-
mals while they waited in
line for their turn. The third
group watched a slideshow
of the same animals avail-
able during the intervention,
while the fourth group was
“waitlisted”. Those students
waited for their turn quietly
for 10 minutes without their
phones, reading materials,
or other stimuli, but were
told they would experience
animal interaction soon.
Several salivary cortisol
samples were collected from
each participant, starting
in the morning when they
woke up. Once all the data
was crunched from the var-
ious samples, the students
who interacted directly with
the pets showed signifi -
cantly less cortisol in their
saliva after the interaction.
These results were found
even while considering that
some students may have had
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