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June 2,1989
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All Veterans Welcomel
Northwest Intertribal
Veteran's Association Meeting
to be held at Warm Springs
Community Counseling Center
Saturday, June 24, 1989
8:30-10:30 a.m.
Pl-Umo-Sha Parade 10:30 a.m.
Veteran's Luncheon 1 1:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Pl-Ume-Sha Grand Entry 1:00 p.m.
For information contact Charlotte Herkshan
553-1454
553-1161. Ext. 205
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Madras High School Junior Joe
Boise works on Willow Creek
project. Students are learning what
it takes to rehabilitate a stream.
Forestry students at Madras High
School are putting time and effort
into rehabilitation of Madras' Wil
low Creek. Hopefully, says instruc
tor Bill Wysham. the stream will
someday be able to maintain a
trout population as it once did.
Water removal during the grow
ing season and habitat destruction
causes the creek to dry up each
year. "It is possible,"says Wysham.
"to eventually have water in the
stream bed."
Wysham and students surveyed
the stream when it did have water
in it to determine structures that
would help revitalize the creek. As
a result of the survey and a grant
from the Governor's Waterare able
to install log weirs, gabions, jun
iper rip-rap, boulders and plant
vegetation along the stream bank.
Because this is basically a dem
onstration project and a hands-on
project fo students, the area will
have signs indicating the purpose
of structures. Signs wil also point
out trees, shrubs and grasses famil
iar to this part of Central Oregon.
Forestry students are learning,
through the Willow Creek project,
that "Forestry is multiple-use,"says
Wysham. The health of a forest
depends on many things and in
cludes wildlife, range and water
resources.
Best of luck
to you, Bob
The upside,
down side
of news
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Aliens welcome A Nashville,
Tennessee city councilman urged
his colleagues to build a U FO land
ing pad in that city so extraterres
trials would feel free to visit and
have a place to park their vehicles.
Unfortunately, his constituents
didn't agree. The councilman stated
that he will build the landing pad
himself. Kah-Nee-Ta, are you
listening?
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Scalping seniors Graduating
seniors of Boston University re
cently learned a lesson in basic
economics that of supply and
demand. This year's commence
ment ceremonies featured President
George Bush and French President
rrancios Mitterrand, who irh
received honorary degrees. Nearly
30.000 people were expected
to attend the ceremonies 10,000
more than usual. Because of the
increased interest, each of the 5,600
students was allotted four guest
tickets. Though most parents
wouldn't miss graduation, those
students with small families took
advantage of a good thing and
were selling their extra tickets for
up to $100 each. Will MHS guest
tickets sell for that much?
Parent Involvement
workshop set
A narent involvement workshop,
sponsored by Chemawa Indian
School, will be held June 10, and
II, 1989 at the Warm Springs
Community Center.
Breakfast will be served Satur
day, June 10 beginning at 8 a.m.
Welcoming and opening ceremo
nies will begin at 9 a.m. Three
workshops, covering the topics,
"What I Learned From my Par
ents", "What about Discipline?"and
"Survival Roles and Behavior" will
run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Parents
and youth will then float the Des
chutes River. Evening discussions
will be held on the river following a
picnic.
Sunday activities will include
breakfast and opening ceremonies.
At 9:30 a.m., effective communica
tion will be discussed. Dependency
and love, along with building self
esteem, will be discussed beginning s
at 10:30 a.m. Lunch will be served
at 12 noon. Recreation activities
for both parents and youth will be
held from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
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Catch census
LiSSi8 technician Stan Simtustus (front) assists Wes Bickerstaff from the Oregon Department,
of Fish and W ddltfe in collecting information at Sherar's Falls. Besides keeping track of number and species of
fish taken, S imtustus Is collecting scales necessary to develop a system for identifying Deschutes River stock.
Goals, objectives help in development of Integrated Resource Management Plan
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The Total Integrated Resource
Plan being developed by the Warm
Springs Tribe is in its beginning
stages. Working groups have iden
tified the goals and objectives of
each resource. These will be inte
grated into alternatives in the final
plan.
Defining goals and objectives
gives all working groups the op
portunity to see the values that are
most important in all resource
areas. It helps provide an overall
view of what must be included in
the Total Integrated Resource Plan
rather than focusing on one resource
area.
Water resources
Goals
1 . To manage and protect the over
all productivity of forested water
sheds on the Warm Springs Indian
Reservation.
2. To manage and protect the uni
que and valuable characteristics of
riparian areas; and to protect and
improve water quality, aquatic
habitat and other water dependent
resources.
Objectives
1. Maintain and manage for natu
ral flow regimes in the streams of
the Warm Springs Reservation.
2. Identify the short and long term
trends of watershed stability and
water quality parameters on the
Warm Springs Indian Reservation.
3. Analyze past impacts of man
agement activities to establish sta
bility "Threshold" levels for each
watershed on the Warm Springs
Indian Reservation.
tory of the soil resource.
2. Minimize and mitigate soil ero
sion, compaction and displacement.
3. Maintain and enhance soil fertility.
4. Establish and enforce water
quality standards to provide pro
tection of public health and con
servation of plant, aquatic and
animal life.
5. Monitor water quality and
quantity to provide baseline and
project level information on indi
vidual watersheds. This long-term
monitoring program should pro
vide information to base recom
mendations on all resource man
agement activities.
Soils
Goal
Maintain soil resource at a level
that allows optimum soil produc
tivity and biological divesification
while preventing soil degradation.
Range
Goal
Ensure long term productivity of
the agricultural, range, soil, and
water resources while creating
income and employment for pres
ent and future tribal members.
Objectives
1. Optimize livestock and crop use
of range and agriculture resources
giving consideration to other re
source values.
2. Establish range improvement
projects that increase manageabil
ity and forage availability while
decreasing competition from un
desirable plants.
3. Increase return to livestock
owners through resource manage
ment education, disease control
and livestock loss.
4. Increase public and professional
awareness of range and agriculture
resource management.
Wildlife resource
Goal
To mainatin wildlife populations
and habitats which will sustain the
cultural and subsistence needs of
current and future tribal members;
while providing the environmental
and ecological requirements to
insure wildlife species viability.
Objectives
I. Provide a comprehensive inven-
Objectives
I. To provide for a harvestable
population of deer and elk annu
ally on the Warm Springs Indian
Reservation.
2. To protect and enhance threa
tened and endangered wildlife spe
cies on the Warm Springs Indian
Reservation.
3. To provide a diversity of habitat
for all wildlife species on the Warm
Springs Indian Reservation.
Culture
Goals
I. To further the tribal cultural
mission for the preservation of
ancient and contemporary cultural
use sites and materials which are
fundamental in the recognition of
' traditional lifeways, values and
histories of the Tribes.
2. The identification and manage
ment of these invaluable, irreplace
able and endangered resources for
future generations is a basic tribal
intent. These resources include
archaeological, historical, and
others of traditional value, which
are associated with the gathering of
foods and other natural resources,
habitation, sites, sacred ceremon
ial sites and materials, and areas
and structures associated with his
torical events and personalities.
Objectives
1. Identification of archaeological,
traditional and contemporary cul
tural use sites and materials found
within the forest.
2. Development of a reservation
cultural resource management plan
which identities lang-range objec
tives, needs and goals, and offers a
range of mitigating alternatives for
meeting these goals within the
forest.
3. Development of guidelines for
sustainingenhancing cultural
plants found within or adjacent to
the forest.
4. Provide for the protection and
mitigation of impacts to archaeo
logical, traditional, and spiritual
ceremonial sites and materials
associated with the forest.
5. Monitoring of cultural resource
sites and materials found within
the forest, in order to provide base
line input into all management
activities.
Fish and aquatic resources
Goals
I. To protect and enhance fish
populations, habitats, and water
quality which will sustain the cul
tural and subsistence needs of cur
rent and future tribal members. 2.
Provide the ecological requirements
to insure viability of all aquatic
species.
3. To provide recreational oppor
tunities to the tribes.
3. Protect and enhance aquatic,
riparian and wetland habitats.
4. Protect the genetic integrity of
wild fish populations.
5. Optimize production of anad
romous and resident fishes.
Forestry
Goals
1. Fully utilize the timber growing
potential within the budget and sil
vicultural constraints.
2. Grow trees for boards rather
than fiber within the commercial
forest area.
3. Over
stands.
time establish vigorous
4. Optimize economic return.
5. Minimize and mitigate adverse
impacts to other resources.
6. Enhance beneficial impacts to
other resources.
7. Protection of all Natural
sources.
Re-
Objectives
1. Maintain or improve watershed
conditions for the sustained, long
term production of all aquatic
species.
2. Manage for stable flows and
quality waters for aquatic life in the
streams and rivers.
8. Manage for long-term produc
tivity on a forest-wide basis.
9. Protect cultural, archaeological
and sensitive areas.
Objectives
1. Vary rotation lengths
2. Vary entry lengths
3. Schedule harvest of stagnated
stands within the commercial forest
base.
4. Manage stands to maintain or
improve growth.
5. Promptly regenerate harvested
areas
6. Utilize prescribed fire to enhance
productivity and reduce fire haz
ards. 7. Minimize pathological and en
tomological impacts.
8. Salvage dead and dying.
9. Decrease areas in roads.
10. Continue prudent use of pesti
cides and herbicides.
and enhance soil
14. Establish road closure stand
ards. 1 5. Coordinate and cooperate with
other resource managers.
16. Maintain visual corridors ac
cording to approved policy.
1 7. Adhere to air quality standards.
18. Vigorously suppress wildfires
and insect outbreaks according to
approved policies.
19. Monitor actions and suggest
recommendations if changes are
needed.
Rural housing
Goals
1. Provide to all members of the
Confederated Tribes the opportun
ity to pursue the home site of their
choice.
2. Provide tribal members with a
range of homesite choices in ac
cordance with established zoning
and land use codes.
3. Educate tribal members on the
impacts that are present and future
land management decisions will
have on availability of rural
homesites.
Objectives
I. To make available home sites
that tribal members can afford. '
2. Refrain from putting homesites
in sensitive areas.
3. Develop rural housing stand
ards. Outdoor recreation
Goals '
1. Provide a broad range of out
door recreation opportunities and
activities for tribal members.
2. Maintain the scenic quality of
the reservation.
3. Explore opportunities for com
mercial recreation.
Objectives '
1 .To maintain or enhance outdoor
recreation and scenic experiences
for tribal members.
2. To provide facilities which meet
recreation demands.
3. To provide and enhance family
oriented recreation opportunities.
4. To develop recreational pro
grams and activities for tribal youth.
5. To develop a Parks and Recrea
tion Management Plan for the
-eservation.
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II. Maintain
productivity.
12. Intensively manage high pro
ductivity sites.
13. Evaluate economic returns of
silvicultural treatments.
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The health of the entire landscape is the focus of the Total Integrated
Resource Mangement Plan.
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