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Range plan finalized, adopted by Tribal Council
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This is the second installment
of a three-part series on the
recently adopted Range and Agri
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culture Management plan.
The recommendations listed
below name particular plans of I l I B i
action for reservation range and
agriculture lands and how the
recommendations relate to other
resource uses.
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Land Ownership and Use
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1. Tribal policies for granting
leases and assignments be deve
loped to clarify how competing
land uses will be handled. •
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2. Leases and assignments in
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the designated rangelands and
rangeland and agricultural use
areas be limited to those needed
for improved grazing or farm
ing operations and the impact
on established range areas be to be mentioned by the Natural
3. Culturally important root
considered before lease and as Resource department annually. digging sites need to be added
signments are approved.
If the invididual is not in com to Range and Agriculture offi
3. Leases and assignments for pliance, steps should be taken ce’s resource computer mapping
homesites in rural areas Con to achieve compliance. If com system (MOSS). This will allow
form to reservation comp plan. pliance cannot be achieved in for easy access when range use
4. A review be made of exist due course, the lease or assign and range improvement practi
ing leases and assignments to ment should be cancelled.
ces are planned.
determine how many are in use
4. Archeological and histori
for the purposes for which they Relationship to other resource cal sites need to be investigated
uses
were granted.
in the non-timbered portions of
1. Spacing requirements of the reservation. As sites are
5. The Council considered
exercising the authority of Sec Policy 410.881 should be care identified on the reservation,
tion 5, Article VIII of the Con fully reviewed in the develop they need to be added to the
stitution by cancelling assign ment of new zoning codes.
computer mapping system.
2. Approval of new rural hous
ments and leases which are not
5. Communications need to
in compliance to simplify the ing should include a require be maintained between the Cul
management of tribal resources. ment for fencing developed part ture and Heritage committee
6. The Council adopt a clear of each homesite.
and department, and the range
3. A clearly established pro and agriculture office so that
statement of policy for granting
cedure for review of all pro action may be taken to protect
and cancelling assignments.
7. Ordinance 33 should be posed developments in range cultural features.
amended to include Kah-Nee- and agricultural areas by the Forestry
Natural Resources department
Ta and Simnasho.
1. This plan reaffirms the
8. Establish a procedure for a n d t h e R a n g e / I r r i g a stated Tribal Council policy that
review for all proposed devel tion/ Agriculture committee will forage production for wildlife
opments in range and agricul help avoid site-specific conflicts. and livestock, is a secondary
ture areas by the N atural Re Cultural Resources
allocation to timber production.
1. Enhancing and preserva Prescriptions for range empha
sources department and Range/ Ir
rigation/ Agriculture Committee tion. of traditional sites—root sis in forest management, as
to help avoid site-specific con digging and and archeological outlined in the Forest Manage
and historical—is important.
flicts.
ment are compatible with range
2. Policy 410.590of the Comp and agriculture management and
9. Leases and assignments for
grazing or agriculture need to Plan that calls for the investiga Will be applied as each grazing
have an attached grazing plan tion of culturally important roots area develops five year and an-
developed jointly by the indi- and the impact range use and nual grazing plans» Forage pro-
wdual requesting tne leage ana range improvement practices duefionjn timber, ateas will be
the Natural Resources depart would have on themp-needs to m a x im iz e ff’TrincTer th ese c o n
ment. Compliance of plans need be carried out.
straints.
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Carla Buckland
The newest BIA employee,
Carla Buckland went to work
as a forestry technician for the
forestry departm ent January
1985. Carla likes her job as it
allows her to spend a lot of time
outdoors. She attended Central
Oregon Community College in
Bend for two years. She is sin
gle. H er m o th er, M argaret
Buckland works for the tribal
court and her father, Daniel
Buckland works at the mill.
Carla is of Blackfeet/Wasco
co/G ros Ventre descent. Her
special interests are softball, bead-
work and drawing.
Working as the secretary for
the BIA law enforcement de
partment since June 1984, Val
Little Crow came to Warm
Springs from Billings, Montana.
Val is from the Flathead reser
vation in Montana. She is single
and resides in Warm Springs.
Her special interests are read
ing, listening to music and at
tending rodeos. As for living
and working in Warm Springs,
she thinks it is all right.
is to rep air dam age they
cause.
i 1966-69. He boxed in the welter
weight division and then in the
middle-weight division. He had
a total of 127 amateur bouts.
Though he is not actively box
ing, he Still enjoys the sport. Ben
said he has a nephew, who boxed
on the Junior Olympics team.
In the last issue of the Spilyay
it stated that Clarence Jeffer
son, facilities management
manager was of Yakima/Sioux
descent. That was incorrect,
Jefferson is of Yankton Sioux
descent.
Pool closed
Linda Langley
Linda Langley has worked
intermittently for the BIA in
the last year and in November
1984, she went to work fulltime
as the social services secretary.
She.is married to Jack Langley
who works at the mill as a swing
shift supervisor. She is the mot
her of three boys, William Trim
ble, 16; Delton Trimble, 14 and
Ellis Langley, 8; and a daughter
Jacklyn, 5.
Linda is an enrolled member
Ben Richards
of the Warm Springs Confed
erated Tribes and has lived all
“It is a nice reservation, the
of her life in Warm Springs. people are nice, it is the best
During her free time she enjoys place I have ever worked and I
reading and bowling.
like it here,” sums up how Ben
Richards, BIA investigator, feels
about working and living in
Warm Springs. Ben went to
work for law enforcement in
Warm Springs in February 1984.
He transferred to his present
position from the Navajo reser
vation where he had worked at
Tuba City and Chinle, Arizona.
He is originally from Pine Ridge,
South Dakota andjs of Oglala
Sioux descent. He* is married
and his wife, Nancy, works at
the Warm Springs Iridian Health
Service clinic as a secretary. The
Richard’s have two children,
Stacey Beualiea, 47 and Jona
than, 2 ^ . Ben’s special interests
are basketball and boxing. He
had boxed and.was the Golden
Gloves M idw est cham pion
Val Little Crow
Part 2
Forestry will provide for
correcting erosion problems
caused by logging on each
logging unit. Consultation
between Forestry and Range
and A griculture will re
commend corrective practi
ces. Such» practices will be
the responsibility of the or
ganization causing the pro
blems.
Range staff will provide
for correcting erosion prob
lems created by forest graz
ing and coordinate with Fo
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Funds for correcting these
erosion problems will be the
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responsibility of Range and
Agriculture.
Branches of Roads and
Forestry will minimize ero
sion caused by road con
struction through thèir Con
^ 2. Range staff will be part of
trat t requirements.
Fire Management’s fire rehabil
Range staff will receive
itation team to coordinate:
Forest Officer’s reports and
Prefire plans to repair da
mage to the range resource
maps.
Forest grazing plans will
and livestock facilities, by
be reviewed by Forestry.
7 fire or suppression activi
Seeding of forage will be
ties. Suppression money can
coordinated between Fore
be used to restore resources
stry and Range and Agri
and facilities to the condi
culture in all timber areas
tion before a fire.
including clearcuts. •.
Prescribed burns for range
Range and Agriculture of-
renovation.
fice will be responsible for
3. Tribal/ BIA Range and
involving other parties in
Agriculture and BIA Fore
terested in range and lives
stry will involve each other
tock tri assist communica
in development of activities
tion 'concerning forestry
that will have impact on the
plans.
other’s programs. This in
Livestock facilities, fences
volvement will include, but
and other improvement items
not be limited to the fol-
will be mapped and condi
, lowing:
tion noted. These will be
Range staff will take part
considered in planning and
in preplanning activities on
added to maps on alllog-
logging units, timber shies,
ging units and timber stand
thinning sites and rehabili
improvement sites by Range
tation work.
and Agriculture. If these im
Range staff will supply
provements are damaged by
estimates of cost to replace
logging or stand improve-;
»forage that will be damaged
ment activities, they will be
or destroyed in each logging
returned to the condition
unit.
before the damage occurred.
Branch of Forestry will
This will be carried out by
budget administrative fees
the party causing such da
to cover the cost of forage
mage.
replacement that would not
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Water
New faces, jo b assignments in BIA staff
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
(BIA) activities on the reserva
tion are defined as fulfilling the
federal trust responsibilities to
the tribe. The BIA employees on
the reservation are the people
who represent the government
in this role. They are the people
who work with the Tribe to
ensure the trust responsibility is
carried out for the betterment
of the Tribe, and Superintend
ent Bernie Topash feels it is
im portant for the local people
to know these BIA people.
Four new BIA employees who
came to work at Warm Springs
in the last 12 months are Carla
Buckland, Linda Langley, Val
Little Crow and Ben Richards.
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February 1,1985
I The Kah-Nee-Ta Village pool/
will be closed for repairs from
February 1 to February 28. The ,
River Room restaurant will re-
Open on March 1 and all Village
operations, will begin at that
time.
Band scheduled
sible for coordinating with the
Watermaster arid Water Con
trol Board as necessary to assure
that all range management acti
vities cortfply with the policies
and guidelines approved by the
Tribal Council for water ma
nagement.
2. The. Watermaster must be
involved in the development of
.grazing area plans,
r 3. Each grazing organization
will make application to the
Water Control board, through
the Watermaster, for existing
and proposed uses of water re
sources as indicated in the Water
Management Plan.
4. AU existing feedlots located
at the bottom of a classifiable
stream be moved away from the
area, at least 100 feet. All future
. feedlots should be located away
from the bottom of water drain
ages.
Wildlife
1. In the absence of a Tribal
Council policy on wildlife man
agement, a clearly established
procedure for review of all graz
ing area plans and range and
agriculture development plans
be implemented between Natu
ral Resources’ Range and Agri
culture and Wildlife offices.
2. If by 1988, a policy is not
approved by the Tribal Coun
cil, then a formal review be
undertaken to reduce impacts
Of livestock on wildlife (to be
carried out every tltree years
thereafter).
3.Once a policy on wildlife
management has been adopted,
it will be necessary to set aside
the recommended AU M’s for
wildlife from the overall forage
available. Adjustments in each
grazing area will have to be
made accordingly. Continued
close coordination as outlined
in recomipendation III-16, will
need to be maintained.
Grazing Resource
1. Specific recommendations
dn range improvement and graz-
irig plans will be made for each
grazing area wheri livestock op
eratorsdevelop livestock man
agement plans and goals for
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RMhge and i m p r o vi ng ra nge cond i t i on a nd
Agriculture staff will be respon- forage production.
Conference set at resort
“Making the dream a reality” beaded tobacoo pouch, beaded
is the theme for the 10th Annual coin purse, pine needle basket,
Oregon Indian Education Asso Shawls^ sports bag and beaded
ciation' conference to be held earrings. Raffle ticketsare $ L00
April 10-12 at Kah*Nee-Ta,
Trational fashions will be dis
The three-day conference will played during a fashion show
be composed of workshops rang scheduled during the conference.
ing from education and faririly Attire worn by babies to chiefs ,
life topics to commuity resour will be modeled. For informa
ces. Some workshop titles in tion regarding the fashion show
clude parent education, parent-1 contact;. GeneVa Smith or Ver
student rights, traditional versus bena Greene.
contemporary values, curricu
Registration forms for the
lum and higher education.
10th Annual Oregon Indian Edu
Other activities during the cation Association conference'
conference begin Wednesday, will be available soon through
April 10, with a western dance out the community and in the
for ages 21 and over. The cost of mail. The $35 fee will cover
the dance is $4.00 in advance, membership fees, workshop ses
$5.00 arithe door.
sions and two meals.
A powwow is scheduled for
For more information con
April 10. The location has not tact Dean Azule at 393-3903,
yet been determined.
Winona Strong at'553-1161, ext
A raffle drawing will also 314 or Jody Calica at 5534161,
take place during the powwow. ext. 228.
Items collected so far include a
Fund raising planned
By popular demand the dance
band Street Legal will be per
An auction; rummage sale
Proceeds from the everits will
form ing at the Kah-Nee-Ta and bake sale will be held at the go to ' the Lincoln’s Powwow
Lodge loünge beginning at 9:00 Simnasho Longhouse on Suh- committee for the upcoming
day, February 3 at 4 p.m.
powwow.
a.m. February 1 and 2.
Plug pulled
A very rare sight: Happy Valley reservoir emptied by someone who was overly curious.