Spilyay tymoo., March 26, 1982, Page 3, Image 3

March 26,1982 Page 3
Spilyay Tymoo
“Tent City” springs up at In d u s tria l site
A row o f tents lines the edge o f the industrial site by Kah-Nee-Ta road where a crew of tree planters has set up camp ‘til mid-April.
by Sandy Rangila
A tree-planting crew of
nearly 60 people set up camp at
the Warm Springs Industrial
Park site this week. Local
curiosity about why the 22 tents
are there has been on the rise
since the group first arrived.
To keep expenses down, the
crew camps wherever they
receive a planting contract. The
Tribal Council, after discussion
o f th e o p t i o n s , v o te d
unanimously to allow them to
camp at the Industrial Park.
The other possible camping site
th a t had been u n d e r
consideration was at the Old
Mill.
Most of the crew are
Vietnam veterans working to
fulfill four of nine contracts,
part of an ambitious project to rehabilitation areas where
plant a total of 2,446 acres with brush has beeft cleared, said
l .7 million seedlings. But not Bill Apgar of BIA forestry.
all planting crews are from off
The plants were grown from
the reservation.
seed collected from superior
An all-Indian crew, headed trees on the reservation, said
by Rubin- Henry, received one Donaghu. “Fit trees produce
of the contracts—the largest an better-growing seedlings and
Indian crew has been awarded what we want is improvement
on the reservation to date, in the growing stock,” he
according to forester Bill explained.
D o n ag h u . They will be
“This year’s planting projects
planting 101 acres in seedlings. are double what was done last
Plantings areas are scattered year—-and last year’s was
all over the reservation, from double that of the year before,”
Jefferson Creek to Units on the Donaghu said.
M cQ uinn S trip. V arieties
Donaghu also noted that this
include Douglas Fir, Noble Fir, is the first year that the tribally-
and Ponderosa Pine.
built cooler complex (up by the
The seedlings are being blue warehouses) has been
planted in new and old used. Right now the cooler is
c j e a r c u t s , b u r n s , a n d full of trees, over a million of
them. The cooler, which is kept
at 33 degrees, will be used to
store seedlings for spring and
fall plantings.
The tenters will probably be
here for three or four more
weeks when it is anticipated
th a t th eir w ork will' be
co m p le te d . A cco rd in g to
Apgar, the group has a good
reputation for their work and
for cleaning up their camp site
before they leave.
Photos by Sandy Rangila
Over a million trees are being stored in the Tribe's new cooler
complex at the Industrial site. Containerized seedlings, such as
these 1 year-old Ponderosa Pines, are now being planted in a
massive reforestation effort.
A Newport family pauses before dinner-time at their campsite.