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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1988)
PACE 2 February ! 2, 1 988 Warm Springs, Oregon Spilyay Tymoo Free clinics offered As a public service free blood pressure and blood glucose screen ings is conducted ul various silcs in Warm Springs. I he next scheduled testing will take place I cbruary 17, from 10 00 a.m. -12:00 noon at the Old Administration Building. Exten sion. Court Natural Resources, Fo restry. J ire and Safety departments are invited to participate. On March 9 from 10.00 a.m. 12:00 noon members of the Police department and jail arc invited to 119 babies delivered in 1987 Information from the tribal Maternal Child Health Program indicates that 1 19 babies were deli vered in I987. T his represents an eight percent drop in deliveries from 1 986 when 1 30 babies were born. Ages of the mothers ranged from 1 4 years to 4 1 years of age. Four children were born to moth ers from 1 7 years and below. The median age group for mothers age is 23 years w hich indicates half of th births occurcd to mothers aged 23 and years and younger. The births the past four years have been: 1987 1 19; 1986-130; 1985-120; and 1984-120. Riparian areas important Vegetation growing along the ;dgcs of rivers are critical in pro viding food and cover for fish and some wildlife as well as being essen tial in maintaining bank stability. Too often little attention is paid to the importance of this riparian environment. Trees, grasses and shrubs along the bank serve as both homes and food sources for insects which in turn provide food for fish inhabi tating the streams. Shade and pro tective cover on hot summer days is found under leafy boughs and in grassy areas. Recently another alder tree on the Warm Springs side of the ziyySil iYw fr fair? Spllyy Tymoo pnoio by Sntwciyt Shade and protection for fish and streamside wildlife are provided by trees and shrubs along the river's edge. Spilyay Tymoo Spilyay Tymoo Staff MANAGING EDITOR Sid Miller ASSISTANT EDITOR Donna Behrend PHOTO SPECIALISTWRITER Marsha Shewczyk REPORTERPHOTOGRAPHER Pat Leno-Baker TYPESETTERCIRCULATION . . Priscilla Squiemphen-Yazziei FOUNDED IN MARCH, 1976 Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located in the basement of the old Girls Dorm at 1115 Wasco Street. Any written materials to Spilyay Tymoo should be adressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, PO Box 870, Warm Springs, Oregon 97761 Phone: 553-1644 or 553-1161. extensions 274, 285, 321 or 286. Subscription rates: Within the U.S. $6.00 per year Outside U.S. $12.00 per year. the clinic. Departments have been scheduled into particular sites at set times for case of handling. If an employee cannot meet this schedule he or she is welcome at any other clinic. Community members arc welcome at any of the clinics. A blood pressure screening is conducted at the Administration Building on the fourth Thursday of each month from 10:15-1 1:45 a.m. The clinics are voluntary. Further breakdown indicates that 80 deliveries, or 67 percent, were to mothers who are tribal members and 39 or 33 percent were to moth ers who arc non-tribal members. Fifty-five dclivcrys were to single mothers while 64 were to married mothers. These figures are obtained by the Maternal Child Health Program and represents only those deliver ies that have been handled by the Indian Health Service Clinic and the Maternal Child Health Staff. Other deliveries to tribal members not residing on the reservation or using other medical services are not included in these statistics. Deschutes River was cut. The loss of tree, which was probably cut for use in a meat or fish smoker, could imperil the existing micro-community. This is not the first incident of tree cutting along reservation streams. Warm Springs Natural Resources department hopes to stop this from happening for the sake of riparian area protection. The depart ment is looking into a source of alder wood to be available to com munity members for use in smok ers. Notice will be given when that wood is available. Everyone benefits with protec tion of the river environment and everyone can help. Two appointed to river Two local people were appointed to the nine-member Deschutes River Management Committee by Gov ernor Neil Goldschmidt. Warren B."Rudy"Clcmcnts.5l. of Warm Springs and Mike C. Ahem. 31, of Madras arc two of three Central Oregonians who will join the committee. Also appointed is Virgil H. Langtry, 76. of Maupin. Clements is chairmen of the tri bal land-use planning commission and Ahcrn is City Council member and businessman. Langtry isa retired judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals and a former circuit court judge who lives on the river and served on the first Deschutes River task force. Other members of the manage ment committee include: Ronald M. Mcdcrmid. 3l,of Wasco, a pri vate landowner member; Dick D. Scott, 39, president of the Mid Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles; State Rep. Larry Sowa. 49, D-Orcgon City, a veterinarian and the legislative appointment to the committee; Pansy L. Nofzigcr, 46, of Portland, representing non-commercial boaters; Machacl D. Sal Ice, 38 of Portland, a Deschutes River guide who w ill represent per mitted outfitters; Ray L. Naff. 37. of Salem, field director for U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield. The former teacher will represent fishermen. Terms of the nine members will expire at different times. The terms of Sallce, Ahem and McDcrmid expire in June 1989; Nofziger, Scott and Sowa in 1990; and Langtry, Naff and Clements in 1991. Basic flreflghting course scheduled Fire Management will be instruct ing Basic Fircfighting Course (S 1 30) and Introduction to Fire Beha vior (S-190) at Fire Management training room during the weekend of March 5 and 6. Classes will begin at 8:00 a.m. each day. There will be an enlistment sheet availa ble at Fire Management office, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Classroom capacity limits the amount of students to 30, there fore, the first to register will attend. The classes are necessary if you wish to fight wildland fires on the reservation. ' Please do not register if you have passes the classes within last three years. BP A projects aimed at Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is required by law to mit igate for loss of fish due to con struction of dams on rivers in the Northwest. As part of this mitigat ing effort the Warm Springs Natu ral Resources department is involved in the seventh year of a 11 -year stream enhancement project. Impro ving anadromous fish runs is the focus of stream enhancement pro jects on the Warm Springs Reserva tion. The first phase of the project, completed in 1981, involved com piling information about the sal monid resources on the reserva tion. Approximately 266 miles of potential spawning and rearing ha bitat for chinook salmon and sum mer steelhead was identified within the Warm Springs River and Shi tike Creek systems. Limited production for salmon and steelhead has resulted from insufficient juvenile rearing and over-winter habitat, extreme water temperatures and lack of pool deve lopment. Beginning in 1 984, habitat enhance ment projects were implemented to correct factors limiting salmonid production. That same year, rem oval of the blockage at Strawberry Falls opened passage for fish in Mill Creek. In 1986, an enhancement project in Beaver Creek Dahl Pine pro vided pools and rearing areas and facilitated adult passage upstream. In 1987, an enhancement project created pools and rearing areas in the Potter's Pond site of Mill Creek. To date, 13 miles of reservation streams have been enhanced. To evaluate the success of the above mentioned and future pro jects, ten permanent monitoring sites are sampled annually, a migrant trap is operated at the mouth of the Warm Springs River, and water temperatures are recorded. In addi tion, annual surveys are conducted to monitor spawning distribution and success of the adult spring chi nook and summer steelhead in the Warm Springs River and Shitike Creek systems. In a similar fashion. 1988 pro jects will include implementation of appropriate instream andor streamside work measures aimed at enhancinganadromous salmonid runs. Four projects are proposed to improve fisheries resources on the Warm Springs Reservation, all funded by the BPA Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife program. The group is charged with develo ping a recreation management plan in coordination with the nine man aging agencies and the public. I he legislative bill limits the life of the committee to six years. The bill also specifics that committee mem bers represent a broad range of river users, local residents and elected officials. The first meeting is scheduled early in February. Mike Ahem Five injured Five people were injured in a single car roll over in the Dry Creek area Sunday February 7 at 7 p.m. According to BIA investigator Rob Moran, the driver of the vehi cle, Owens Yahtin 29, of Warm Springs, was transported first to the Warm Springs Police depart ment and booked on Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants(DUII). He was later transported to Mt. View Hospital in Madras and received treatment in the emergency room and was then returned to the jail. Passengers in the vehicle, France lia Stevens, 25; Valerie Govenor, 25; Julie Govenor, 24 and Ernest Jackson, 23, were taken to Mt. View Hospital by ambulance. Julie Govenor and Jackson were treated at the emergency room and released. Yahtin is in jail until he is arraigned in Tribal Court. Lower Shitike Creek project The objective of the Lower Shi tike Creek project is to improve riparian and instream habitat. Speci fically, the project seeks to increase spring chinook salmon and summer steelhead trout passage, spawning and rearing potential. Proposed work will take place between river mile 1 .0 and river mile 3.0. A com bination of boulder clusters, stream bank rip-rap and log sills will pro vide pools and protection of the stream channel. Preliminary stu dies of fisheries benefits indicate ' that the project could contribute to doubling the current salmonid run ' in the Shitike Creek svstem. Lower Beaver Creek Juniper Rip-Rap project The objective of the Lower Beaver ' Creek Juniper Rip-rap project is to improve fisheries habitat in the , Lower Beaver Creek area by stabil j" izing badly eroded streambanks. ' This will result in decreased instream sedimentation which in turn improves salmonid spawning habi tat and overall water quality. Appro ximately 800 meters of eroded upper r . i - - i 5 i i 'i ?. ' " iJ- - & ; : irvf - x-w : : . :. 4 ' - i ,.,, . , ' iZVi '4-x'- V-w- J Rehabilitation work on Mill Creek at Bonneville Power A dministration. management (A Rudy MJH Parent program to Can't understand the everchang ing moods of your adolescent stu dent? Can't stand their absent-mind-ness? The Jr. Buff Parent Club has planned a two-part program that parents of sixth, seventh and eighth grade students should find helpful. Part I of the program scheduled for Monday. February 22 will be the showing of a video program entitled, "Adolescence: A Time of Change." This is a forty-five min ute program designed for parents of young adolescents. It reviews the social, physical, sexual, intel lectual and emotional changes this age group goes through as they move from childhood to adulthood. It gives parents suggestions as to how to positively work with their children as they move through this difficult period. i V". .i ; i stream enhancement and lower streambanks will be tar geted for improvement. Obtained from nearby areas out side the riparian zone, juniper trees will be secured to affected stream banks with cables anchored to the ground. Beaver Creek Fencing project The Beaver Creek fencing pro ject will provide protection for the riparian zone from livestock over grazing. Currently, livestock are impacting critical salmonid habitat and are lowering overall watershed quality. A fence line now exists between U.S. Highway 26 and the creek. The project will consist of a corridor fence line east of the creek from river mile 12.5 to river mile 14.0 and would include 7,869 feet of fence. Cul-de-sacs for livestock water access will be developing outside the riparian fenceline. Cur rently, Natural Resources staff is conducting preliminary meetings with range officials and meetings with grazing groups are in progress. Mill Creek (Potter's Pond) fencing project This project's objective is to pro- T Potter's Pond is one of sterol stream committee Clements Spllyy Tymoo pholo by ififKly Club plans help parents Part II of the program on Mon day, February 29 will give parents an opportunity to listen to several specialists speak on the topic of the adolescent period. The parents will then have an opportunity to have an open discussion period between the panel members and parents in the audience. Wedding announced Ed and Urbana Manion proudly announce the engagement of their daughter Kim Manion to Eric Pitts ley of Morton, Washington. Their impending wedding is planned for . Saturday, April 23 at the First Christian Church in Madras. vide protection for the Potter's Pond riparian area from livestock overgrazing. A two mile fenceline is planned from the B-100 bridge to one mile above the existing fence line on the north side of Mill Creek. The fence will protect stream banks, the stream channel and exist ing fisheries habitat improvement structures recently constructed dur ing the Potter's Pond Habitat Enhancement project. Water access plans for livestock are being examined. The Natural Resources depart ment is currently soliciting input from livestock user groups and tri bal committees regarding the develop ment and implementation of 1988 BPA projects. In late March a pub lic forum is proposed to provide tribal members an opportunity to participate in the projects' plan ning processes. The Natural Resources depart ment fisheries staff is also develop ing a cooperative educational cur riculum with Warm Springs Jefferson County 509-J District Schools. The curriculum will involve students in hands-on activities focusing on tri bal fisheries resources. fpltytf Tyw pff&!9 tof 9ttwcwjt enhancement projects funded by