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July 8,1981 Page 11 Spilyay Tymoo Foresters keep an eye on pine beetles Trees, like people, are living entities and sometimes have to / ; struggle for life. Many pine i fez trees in central Oregon are having to battle a small insect - Y which burrows beneath the ’ — ■ ■■ - bark, eventually cutting off the \ ' X' * -( tree’s water supply.. 'X The mountain pine beetle is ' k l/ threat to the lodgepole pine 1 X i while the western pine beetle ' ' can badly injure or kill a ponderosa pine tree. ' Groups of reddish-browni ' • ' X J trees among the green of the -Y•< --A ~ forest are becoming visible in X A \ • many parts of central Oregon, z f J .. The Warm Springs area hasn't , ' ~ been affected to anv great zX ; z' degree by the beetle, as yet. In y'/-^ parts of Central Oregon, though, the population of the ' beetle has increased to z - X epidemic proportions. , \ The western pine beetle is the ......v: ; ri: I ,&.. .-'• greatest threat to the forests of % — the Warm Springs Reserva- ■^Jri..^ -7 ''»HI. X tion. The value of ponderosa pine is great enough to warrant ' keeping an eye on this pine gj r / beetle. For years, salvage, W&X'zra -a»/. operations have cut out trees ' x B that have been affected by the - 11 beetle, keeping the population R °f pine beetle at ■ controllable proportions. ■'mmF' ■ ^The last major outbreak of 5 S l^e Astern pine beetle was in w SB» S 1977, according to Warm a Springs forester Larry Hanson. X z W a “In the 20’s or 30’s an outbreak 7 X , B resulted in the salvaging of 3 BEETLE INFESTEDTREE— Although pine beetles have not as million' boaidTeet of timber,” yet affected many of the trees on the Warm Springs reservation Hanson says. there is always a threat. This is one tree the beetles have killed. ’ inc beetles have a one-year Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk cycle- According to Hanson Pi-Ume-Sha parade results Men’s Traditional Dress: 1. Nick Kalama The pine beetle burrows beneath the bark of a tree. After maturity the following spring, the beetles bore their way out of the trees and fly off to attack new ones, leaving the tree with an inability to conduct water. The trees do not turn to a red color until the spring or summer after attack. By that time the tree is already dead. Healthy trees are usually not victims of the beetle. Hanson pointed out. A healthy tree that is not under stress in its struggle for existence will produce pitch which pauses the beetle out. Stress in a tree is created when the tree has to fight for water. The pine beetle is found in forest fringes such as the Tenino Bench area, the Metolius Bench area, around Potter’s Pond and at south Sidwalter Butte. These areas receive a limited amount of moisture. “Summer rains affect the fringe areas and has a large effect,” Hanson says. He also mentioned; “The only time there is a major outbreak is in drought years.” Annual air flights over the state by the forest service and the Oregon Department of Forestry pinpoint sites where the beetle is abundant. Patches red trees are very obvious from the air. The Continuing Forest Inventory, conducted by the forest service along with foresters working in the woods, keeps tabs on the beetle level in the Warm Springs’ forests. As long as the beetle population is within natural, balanced proportions there is nothing to worry about. The population of the beetle, like other living creatures, “is always in flux,” Hanson commented. Environ- mentental conditions may change causing a population decline or increase. Wood peckers are the greatest natural control over the pine beetle. As long as everything is in balance, with moisture and natural predators, the beetle will not go into epidemic proportions. Good health demands constant attention Proper exercise and a balanced diet is the key to a healthy body. These are the two Women’s Traditional Dress essential ingredients to 1. Sarah Quaempts maintaining physical fitness 2. Geraldine Jim according to visiting lecturer Dr. Vincent Quas of the Body Boy’s Traditional Dress Accounting clinic' in Bend, l.Max Jim Oregon. Dr. Quas is also an 2. Joe McKnight Orthodontist in that city. Dr. Quas has lectured at the Girl’s Traditional Dress Community Center in Warm 1. Merle Ann Kirk Springs on three separate 2. Ramona Colwash occasions in an effort to inform interested persons of the Best Dressed Male on importance of physical fitness. Along with conducting water Horseback displacement tests and sub 1. Wilson Wewa, Jr. 2. Flint Scott max stress tests to measure fat- muscle proportion and maximum heart rate efficiency, Best Dressed Female on respectively, Quas offers Horseback advice. 1. Louise Jackson According to Quas “there is 2. Leontyne Tanewasha no magic percentage of fat” that a body should have on it. Oldest Traditional Dress He states that 22% fat on one Susan Moses person’s body might be as good as 10% on another. The average Floats l.Celilo Wyam-Wilbur percentage of fat on woman is in good physical shape is 22 Johnson percent and 15 percent for men. 2. Frazier Valley A person who maintains a 3. Siletz Group standard weight for his age and 4. Scott Family height does not necessarily have proper fat-muscle 1 1 children paraded on foot. proportions. To obtain proper “nothing takes the place ot exercise,” Quas stated,” along with modifying food intake.” Getting proper exercise is For sale—1977 Camaro 305 V8, 3 speed, power steering not an easy task. For exercise power brakes, AM—8track, to be of value the heart must gets 25 miles per gallon. Runs reacn a training rate. (To good, looks good. $3,800—or determine this, subtract your best offer. Call 553-1412 after age from 220 and then take a 60,70 or 80 percent of that 3:00 p.m. 2. Tom BeGay the beetle burrows into the cambrium layer of the tree. “This is the thin layer of live tissue beneath the bark,” says Hanson. The adult beetle moves down the tree laying eggs along the way. The eggs hatch into hungry larvae, or grubs, feeding on the inner bark in a horizontal direction which eventually encircles the tree. depending on individual goals and conditioning level.) a rate below this when exercising is as inefficient as a rate above the training rate. A balanced diet is important to everyone. It should contain approximately 20 percent protein, 15 percent fat and 65 percent complex carbohy drates, says Quas. He states, “People should get high- quality protein with the least amount of calories and the least An example -of food with little value is “white stuff” (as Quas calls it) such as white sugar and white flour. Excess calcium is produced from the intake of these foods, he says. The calcium enters the blood and much of it is stored in the joints and possibly in the gall bladder. Deposits will eventually form on the arteries increasing the capability of arteries to collect cholesteral which cations. Quas says, “this all starts when we are very young.” The “white stuff,” Quas says, enters the body with nothing of value to the body. So the body takes the nutrients it needs from the body’s muscle, making that food of no value what-so-ever. Exercise and diet both demand constant attention, Quas emphasized. “There is no instant gratification in health. It’s a slow process.” For Sale FITNESS QUESTIONS ANSWERED—Dr. Quas goes over the results of MadelineQueahpama’s test scores with her. Madeline along with others took a water displacement test and a sub-max test in March to find out just how physically fit they really are. Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk
