March 23,1981 Page 7
Learn about forestry
at summer camp
For those young people
interested in forestry and the
m any asp ects of fo re st
products, the Western Forestry
Center is offering a camp this
spmmer which will provide
practical experience.
The cam p lo cated at
Wilsonville, Oregon provides
a one-week co-educational
forest resources experience for
students grades 8 through high
school. It is offered in two
separate sessions, the first
during week of July 12 through
July 18 and the second session
is from July 19 to July 25.
The camp agenda begins
with classroom instruction on
forest management, reforesta
tion and harvesting methods.
Stimson Lumber Company of
Forest Grove, Oregon will
discuss log utilization and log
scaling, giving each student the
opportunity to scale a load of
logs. Students will also be able
to familiarize themselves with
tools of the trade including
cruising tools, engineering
tools and chainsaws with safety
and maintenance instruction.
Field trips are an integral
part of the agenda. A trip to
Saddle Mountain State Park
w ill o ffe r n a tiv e p la n t
identification. Jewell Wildlife
Meadow will provide a look at
g am e m a n a g e m e n t a n d
forestry. Students will also
travel to a High Lead logging
operation where they will have
the chance to talk with logging
su p e rin te n d e n t and view
the operation.
Students will participate in
stocking and seedling survival
surveys, a forest inventory
survey and marking timber for
commercial thinning. On the
final day, called Skills Day,
students will be able to
compete in skills learned
during the week including;
cruising, scaling, tree-climbing,
choker-setting, tree identifica
tion and double saw bucking.
Despite the appearance of
the action-packed agenda the
camp doesn’t ignore entertain
ment. There is swimming,
camp fires, movies, outdoor
cooking and astronomy.
Camp accomodations will be
in two separate large tents.
Each student will be supplied
with a cot but should bring
bedding or a sleeping bag. All
food will be provided.
Madras High School forest
products teacher Bill Wysham
has offered to pay half the $80
fee required from the Forestry
Club money to enable more
students to attend the week
long camp. The Warm Springs
C o n fe d e ra te d T rib es has
offered to pay the full fee for
trib al members who are
interested in attending the
camp.
The camp affords the
occasion to find out what forest
products is all about. In view
that forestry is an important
part of the Warm Springs
economy, the camp provides
insight on the Warm Springs
operation. Any interested
students may contact Bill
Wysham at M adras High
School or the Education
Department in Warm Springs.
Commission submits plan
At a March 9th Columbia
R iv er F ish e rie s C o u n cil
(CRFC) meeting, member
e n t i t i e s , in c lu d in g th e
Columbia River treaty tribes,
ended their two-year debate on
the comprehensive salmon and
steelhead plan for the river but
did not approve or adopt it.
Instead, CRFC decided to
submit the latest (March 4)
redraft of the plan, as a
working document, to the
Pacific Northwest Regional
Council (PNRC), the plah’s
funding source. The council
also decided to submit CRFC
members’ comments on the
a re a s of ag reem en t and
disagreement.
A decision on the plan has
been pending for several
months, and until Monday’s
meeting it appeared that state
and federal agency council
members might try to approve
the plan on behalf of CRFC,
even though the tribes objected
to it. To approve without tribal
consent, the agencies would
have had to circumvent the
council procedure of taking
action only when all parties
agree.
How the council makes
decisions became an issue in
O c to b e r a f t e r C R F C ’s
agency members allowed the
public review draft of the plan
to be printed and distributed
without tribal concurrence.
Since then, CRFC meeting
agendas have coupled the plan
and the question of whether
council decisions are made
unanimously or by majority
vote. (Because the tribes have
one seat -on the council, they
would lose if adoption of the
plan were by majority vote.)
But at the M arch 9th
m eeting, the W ashington
D e p a rtm e n t of F ish eries
offered a motion that avoided a
confrontation on adoption.
W D F’s motion, which passed
unanimously, formalized the
council decision to simply
submit the plan to PNRC as a
base framework, with stated
are a s of a g reem en t and
disagreement included as part
of the submittal. The motion
also directed that discussions
on issues raised during the
drafting will continue while the
tribes and agencies implement
fisheries requirements and
enhancement means provided
by recent legislation.
“Now, for a time, we should
set aside ad o p tio n of a
framework plan and proceed
with the essential actions
outlined in the drafts,” said
tribal representative Kathryn
B righam in a sta te m e n t
prepared by the Columbia
R iv e r I n te r - T r ib a l F ish
Commission (CRITFC). “We
should move without delay on
the management directives
contained in the regional power
act and enhancement act, acts
that mandate us to protect and
enhance salmon and steelhead
resources, and give us specific
opportunities for doing so.”
The importance of the power
and enhancement acts was
emphasized in the tribe’s
February revision of the plan,
and was inco rp o rated in
C R FC ’s M arch 4 redraft.
O ther areas of agreement
reached during the past
two months include recogni
tion that improving basinwide
juvenile passage requires spills
and flows throughout the entire
d o w n s tr e a m m ig r a tio n ;
commitment to work—for a
progressive increase in the
n u m b er of salm o n and
steelhead entering the river
f r o m th e o c e a n ; a n d
a c k n o w le d g e m e n t th a t
although many lower river
hatcheries were constructed to
compensate for upper river
losses when dams were built,
these hatcheries have not
benefited fish runs above
Bonneville Dam.
CRFC agency members are
still at odds with the tribes’
version of a plan for the
Columbia River when it comes
to catch allocations, reductions
in ocean harvest, recognition of
the tribes as fishery managers,
a n d r iv e r m a n a g e m e n t
primarily for natural instead of
hatchery stocks. Agencies and
tribes also disagree on some of
the plan’s priorities and on
the structure of management
au th o rities for the river.
Overall, the lastest CRFC draft
fails to fully meet treaty
obligations and omits strong
measures to achieve the plan’s
ambitious projected increases
in salmon and steelhead.
C R IT FC com m issioners,
who represent the Columbia
R iv er tre a ty trib e s, are
therefore glad to set aside the
plan and, in the words of their
sta te m e n t, m ove on the
differences we have identified,
with the commitment to resolve
these differences for the benefit
of the reosurce.”
Hydro project completion date set for July 1982
COFFER D A M COM
PLETED—After months
o f delay, the Warm
Springs hydro project is
once again under way.
Photo at right shows huge
Payloader dumping one
o f hundreds o f loads o f
dirt and rock to finish the
coffer dam. In photo
above, the dewatering
process is being done so
that about 160 feet o f the
existing dam wall can be
removed before installa
tion o f the powerhouse.
Bids were released March
19 for construction o f the
powerhouse. Completion
o f the $26 million project
is expected to be July
1982.
Spilyay Tymoo photos by
Donna Behrend