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US. POSTAGE BULK RATE PERMIT NO. 2 IN THIS ISSUE Indian W eek Logging K ids C orner R odeo S p ily a y T ym oo Coyote News WARM SPRINGS. OREGON 97761 VOL. 3 NO. 9 Macy Promoted To Operations Manager Bob Macy becam e O pera tions Manager at Warm Springs Forest Products Industries as of Monday, May 1. He stepped into the new position a fte r having been Administrative Assistant at the m ill for the p ast five years. His promotion was announc ed during the presentation of the W SFPI Annual R eport a t the General Council Meeting held at the Agency Longhouse Monday evening, April 24. The announce m ent was m ade by the new WSFPI General Manager, Ralph Demoisy. In announcing the. prom o tion, DeMoisy said th at Macy has a good background for this new position. “ He has a lot of budgeting and planning experi ence and,” said DeMoisy, “he’s ready.” In his new capacity as Oper ations M anager, Macy will be responsible for the sawmill oper ation, the energy plant, tru c k ing, the planer operation, the log yard, and loading dock o p era tions. As O perations M anager, Macy is now part of a manage ment committee which also con sists of the G eneral M anager, Logging M anager, C ontroller, Lumber Sales Manager, and the Plywood-Veneer and Mainten ance-Purchasing superintend ents. I According to DeMoisy and P ersh Andrews, who re tire d April 30, “ there has been good response to Bobby becoming Operations Manager.” BOB MACY — NEW WSFPI OPERATIONS MANAGER In addition to his other du ties, Macy will be very much involved with the M aster De velopment Study being conduct ed for the mill. A forestry graduate, Macy has been with the Warm Springs Forest Products Industries since May 1972. MAY 5, 1978 Tribes Seek Planning . . . Recreation On The Metolius Faces Uncertain Future tal upsets” were cited as efforts of uncontrolled recreational use of the lake. The Tribes are not alone in their attempt to spark communi cation among recreational user groups in Oregon. As T ribal Wildlife biologist Terry Luther pointed out a fte r the hearing, increased leisure tim e m eans heavier use and more competi tion a t re c re atio n a l sites. The controversy raging over power boats on the Deschutes River is just one other instance of com peting users. “ It’s good to start looking at it before it gets out of han d ,” said Luther, noting that it’s only a m atter of time before restric tions will become necessary. Behind the T rib e s’ recom mended speed limit are contin planning. ual complaints from small boat A long history of concern about the use df waters border fishermen who are disturbed by ing the reservation led up to the the noise and w aves of la rg e r T ribal Council’s request for a boats. Luther said at the hearing that the Tribes feel an obligation hearing. In a M arch le tte r to Stpte to protect those to whom they M arine Board directo r B rad extend the privilege to fish. Those fis h e rm e n were M orris the Council suggested lowering speed limits and there noticeably absent (or quiet) at by eliminate skiing on the Meto the hearing. L uther suspected lius Arm, half of which lies on that the psychology of “he who the reservation. “Soil erosion, stands to lose som ething” disturbance of fish habitat and wildlife, and other environmen CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Hopes for mutual recreation al planning on the Metolius Arm of Lake Billy Chinook were temporarily dashed at thé State Marine Board hearing April 24 when discussion gave way to emotion; boaters, water skiers and property owners joined in a loud “no” to restrictions recom m ended by the W arm Springs Tribal Council. About 200 people crammed the Madras City Council Cham bers to listen or re g iste r their opposition to the proposal, but a dialogue never developed. Members of the Council said afterward that they would take the opportunity at the upcoming Marine Board hearings on May 31-June 1 to further “educate” us< rs and recom m end joint Spring Chinook Season Closed Indefinitely The peak of the spring chi- nook salm on run in the upper Columbia appears to have pass ed, said Oregon Department oi Fish and Wildlife biologist Ber nie Bohn this week. He added th at he was “ not o p tim istic” about the opening of the river to commercial fishing this year. Because of the dismal out look for the spring run, Colum bia River Compact officials de cided April 24 to close the river indefinitely to commercial fish ing by both Indians and non- Indians. Re-evaluation of the data this week left little hope for a spring fishery. According to the fish man agement plan agreed to by four tribes and the states of Oregon and Washington, at least 120,000 fish must escape above the Bon neville Dam and 30,000 into Idaho or there can be no fishery. As of Thursday, 113,162 chinook had passed Bonneville and the daily count is down from a high of over 4,000 to under 3,000. The Compact’s decision fol lowed a b e tte r than averag e winter season for Indian fisher men but the loss of the prized spring chinook will be acutely felt by those netters who suffer ed financial hardship when the 1977 fall season was closed be fore the Indians’ 40 per cent of the harvest was reached Fishermen from the Warm Springs, Yakima, Umatilla and Nez P erce trib es lost an e sti m ated $1 m illion la st fall and could face a loss of $400,000 this spring. The closure will also prove to be a substantial loss for non-Indians who w ere looking forw ard to 60 percent of the spring h a rv e st and a possible income of over a million dollars. The riv e r is still open to Indian subsistence and ceremon ial fishing, although th ere is some question about the large numbers of steelhead that have been caught “incidentally” since February by Indian fishermen. Steelhead are not a target fish ery for Indians according to the plan. Last year’s spring commer cial catch was the first in two y ears. In 1974 non-Indian fish ermen had only a one-day sea son and the fishery was com pletely closed to both Indians and non-Indians in 1975 and 1976. Such poor runs w ere preceded by the “biggest run in history,” according to Bohn — 275,000 fish in 1972. That year also marked the largest catch since 1958. Bohn pinned this year’s poor salmon run on the small return upper river and tributaries. of four year-olds, which usually Bohn did not blam e ocean m ake up 60-70 percent of the trollers for the low numbers of run. He also noted th a t last returning salm on because, he year’s “jack” (three year-old) said, they are not interested in return was poor. fish that small. A special team has been as Daily counts at Bonneville signed by the D epartm ent of and The Dalles are being moni Fish and Wildlife to look into the tored closely with an eye to life history of this particular age meeting escapement goals. Bi group. “ Sonfething m ust have ologists are concerned that there happened two y ears ago when m ight actually be fewer fish the fish went to the sea,” specu than have been counted at Bon lated Bohn, since there seemed neville, since at the second dam to be enough spaw ning in the there has been a markedly lower count (a difference of 53,000 fish earlier in the week). Mortality and travel into tributaries can account for a loss of 30,000 at The Dalles Dam, said Bohn, but officials are wondering if “fall APRIL HI LOW PREC. back ” m ight explain the r e April 22 55 33 m ainder of the loss. During April 23 60 26 tim es of high flow, fish can be April 24 67 40 swept back through ladders at April 25 64 50 .13 Bonneville and be counted a- April 26 54 50 .79 gain, thus giving an inaccurate total. April 27 62 46 .02 Compact agencies and tribes April 28 61 40 are anxiously following the pro April 29 66 33 gress of adult salm on into the April 30 62 44 Snake R iver System in Idaho w here 50 percen t of the spring May 1 66 46 run o riginates. And while the May 2 67 36 Lower Snake Compensation Plan May 3 56 39 awaits funds to implement fish resto ratio n pro g ram s for the WEATHER four-dam a re a , other fishery enhancem ent p ro jects aim at saving escapements. The soon-to-be-opened Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery will be one of sev eral upper riv er h a tc h e rie s th at will be contributing to the salmon popu lation In the Columbia R iver basin. The four treaty tribes joined with the state of Washington and Oregon early in 1976 to protect the Columbia River fishery and allocate harvest among the vari ous user groups. Although the Compact has been well support ed by the Warm Springs, Uma tilla and Nez Perce, the Yakima general council voted last fall to withdraw from the group. R ecent decisions on the spring season have been greeted by threats of court action from members of the Yakima Nation whp say that they weren’t repre sented when the allocation plan was negotiated. Warm Springs Tribal coun cil Chairman and Natural Res ources D irector Gene G reene, who sits on the Harvest Advisor- y Com m ittee of the Com pact, said he supported the closure of the fishery “Based on the biolog ical data presented.”
