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VOL. 14 NO. 19
Coyote News
In Brief
New staff members
Introduced
A new secretary and five
teachers recently began
working at Warm Springs
Elementary.
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Annual Timber Tour held
Tree thinning, burning
and disease were topics
discussed during the
two-day timber tour Sep
tember 12 and 13.
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COCAAN sponsors
give-away
Needy students and fam
ilies can receive free clo
thing through a project
sponsored by COCAAN.
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Resort busy with cyclists
Nearly 2,000 Oregon
Cycle II tour participants
enjoyed a brief stay at
Kah-Nee-Ta.
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Check your balance
Several factors indicate
when your life is out of
balance.
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Metolius committee
seeks area designation
The "Save the Metolius"
committee hopes to see
the Metolius River area
zoned a conservation
area.
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Deadline for the next
issue of Spiiyay Tymoo
is September 29, 1989.
Weather
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News
Tribal timber enters export
Timber off the Vantage sale unit b
For the first time ever, high-
quality timber from the Warm
Springs block is being exported for
foreign market use, creating revenue
that is, say officials, up to ten times
greater than if it were taken to
Warm Springs Forest Products
Industries for processing.
After thorough examination
and discussion of the proposal over
the last two years, Tribal Council
decided early this year that export
ing a portion of the unit would be
"more profitable" than taking the
entire harvest to WSFPI.
The multi-species timber is being
taken from the Vantage sale unit,
28 miles from Warm Springs. Prime
old-growth Douglas and noble firs
and white woods are being ex
ported, primarily to Japan, while
the remaining less valuable species,
including ponderosa pine, are being
delivered to and manufactured at
WSFPI. A total of 1 8 million board
feet (mbf) is available in the 451-
acre unit with approximately 10
mbf being taken this year. Of the 10
Wildlife mitigation meeting
The Federal government over
the past 50 years has built a series
of giant hydroelectric dams in the
Columbia and Snake River Bsins.
These projects inundated critical
wetlands, riparian zones, river is
lands, bottomlands and other wild
life habitat. Many wildlife species
were displaced or populations grad
ually declined. These hydroelectric
projects have produced cheap elec
tricity for the Pacific Northwest
but the impact on wildlife has not
been mitigated.
Public meetings to discuss mit
igation which is mandated by the
1980 Pacific Northwest Electric
Power Planning and Conservation
Act are scheduled. The Power Plan
ning Council, created by the Act,
has worked to mitieate for fish but
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being exported to Japan. Part of the
mt, approximately hall will be
delivered to WSFPI.
The altitude of the Vantage unit
ranges from 3,700 feet to 5,000 feet.
Sixty-two percent of the stand is
Douglas fir and western larch; 25
percent is grand fir and other spe
cies; six percent is noble fir while
the remaining seven percent is pon
derosa pine and white pine.
Purchasers of the exported timber
are Caffel Brothers, Points West,
International Paper, Vanport
Manufacturing, Inc. Hannel and
James River.
The entire 45 1 -acre plot has been
clear-cut. Logging on the unit are
tribal contractors Wissie Smith and
Johnny Guerin. Harold Barclay is
constructing roads in the area and
Vern Reisch, of Mollala, is con
ducting high-lead logging.
This initial venture will help
determine if exporting will be a
viable and realistic endeavor in the
future. If successful, further such
activity will probably occur, said
BIA forest manager Bill Donaghu.
is falling behind in its work for
wildlife, many conservation groups
feel.
Last July, the Northwest Power
Planning Council released for pub
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General assistance program
set to begin October 1
On October I, I989, the Bureau
of Indian Affairs will start a General
Assistance Program for eligible
Native Americans. To receive this
help a person must live on or near a
reservation orservicearea inOregon
and be enrolled in a federally
recognized tribe.
The General Assistance program
will provide monev for those who
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Springs Indian Reservation
unit is logged with high-lead cable.
In addition, experience gained in
this operation will be useful when
McQuinn Strip management is
turned over to the Tribe in 1992.
"The Tribe is going into this very
slowly and cautiously," said special
projects manager Doug McClel
land. "The Tribe wants to produce
a material in a way that is accepta
ble to buyers, to get full value of the
product and to understand, over
time, the marketing strategy.. ..Sim
ply put, we cut less, cut it entirely
differently and we receive a lot
more money for it."
The reservation Douglas fir is of
exceptionally high quality because
of its slow growth. Japanese home
builders want this type of wood,
said McClelland, because of its
color and fine grain. "It appeals to
their sense of perfection." Because
of this unique quality, this wood is
much more valuable on the foreign
market than on the domestic
market.
In response to any concerns that
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lic comment a complex proposal to
establish a Wildlife Mitigation
Program for the Northwest. A final
decision should be made bv the
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are not receiving public assistance.
The money is a limited amount for
basic living needs. This program is
intended to promote self-sufficiency.
For more information, call the
Bureau of Indian Affairs. Warm
Springs Agency, Social Service
program at (503) 553-241 1 or
553-2406.
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market
exporting timber off the reserva
tion would cause a reduction of
jobs to tribal members at WSFPI,
management is confident that no
job loss will occur. In fact, some
jobs could be created with export
ing.
To ensure fair market value, an
independent scaling bureau out of
Portland is scaling the logs betore
they're shipped out. The BIA ran- j
domly check scales the third-party
scalers, thus meeting their trust
responsibility.
The profit margin of exporting is
great enough that Wbrrl could
purchase logs from off the reserva
tion to keep the mill running when
their supply is low.
The Vantage unit is just one of
20 active units under contract this
year. Ten of the units had some
clear-cutting, three had a combina
tion of clear-cutting and shelter-
wood applications while one unit
was cut with shelterwood being
left. The remaining six units were
selectively cut.
Remains to be returned
A newly established Smithson
ian Institute policy could allow the
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs to bring home from Wash
ington, D.C., the remains of long
dead ancestors that were removed
from an island in the Columbia
River.
According to tribal attorney Jim
Noteboom the Smithsonian's Na
tional Museum of Natural History
has 28 sets of skeletal remains
gathered in 1934 from Memaloose
Island in the Columbia River. The
Tribe believes the remains are those
of the ancestors of the Wasco tribe.
Although the Tribe has had a
request for the return pending for
several years with the Smithson
ian, a formal request, under provi
sions of the new policy, will be
made soon, said Noteboom.
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SEPTEMBER 22, 1989
Proper resource
management is
essential
The more we look to the forest
resource in this scries of articles,
the more important its resources
become. Wildlife is an important
feature of the forest ecosystem.
Wildlife is an integral part of the
Tribe's culture. Big game species,
such as deer and elk, furnish an
important component of many tri,
bal members' diets. They also play
an important role in some of the
Tribes'cultural activities. This role
predates the time when tribal bands
were primarily found along the
Columbia River and utilized this
area for seasonal hunting.
Today, hunting provides a recrea
tional and subsistence opportunity
for many tribal members. Others
get satisfaction just knowing that
deer, eik, bear, courgar, eagles,
rabbits and squirrels are out in the
forest for present and future gener
ations. To some tribal members,
sounds and sights of wildlife are a
vital part of the forest's cultural
and aesthetic value.
There are four basic requirements
needed by wildlife. They are water,
food, shelter and space. The
amounts and arrangements of these
things are termed habitat. The
quality and quantity of habitat
determines what types of wildlife
and how many of them can exist.
Some species of wildlife benefit
from timber harvest while others
are negatively affected. In some
cases, such as the spotted owl, large
areas of old growth timber may be
required to ensure the species does
not perish.
What types and numbers ol wild
life do tribal members want to have
on their reservation?
The direction taken by the Tribes
in the Integrated Resource Plan
will determine what types and lev
els of resources will be available to
tribal members over the next sev
eral decades. With a rapidly ex
panding human population and a
finite amount of land, it will be
imperative that the decisions are
carefully made and the resources
wisely utilized.
Fishing season
extensions noted
The Columbia River Compact
adopted the following Zone 6
commercial fishing season exten
sion: SEASON: 6.00 a.m., Sep
tember 20, to 6:00 p.m., September
24, 1989. AREA: Zone 6 (Bonne
ville, The Dalles, John Day pools)
An 8 inch or greater mesh res
triction remains in effect.
There will be a review of the run
and harvest situation on September
20 to determine if more fishing is
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The Smithsonian will form a
five-member commission to in
ventory and identify its collection
of remains with the intent of return-.
ing them to their descendants. The
Smithsonian has an estimated
18,600 sets of Indian remains.
The Warm Springs remains were
collected without permission by
Herbert Krieger, curator of eth
nology at the Smithsonian from
lower Memaloose Island in 1934.
While the Smithsonian housed
the remains for 55 years, Wasco
Chief Nelson Wallulatum enlisted
the aid of tribal attorneys to seek
the return of the remains for burial
on the reservation.
Noteboom added actual return
coukJ occur within six month' to .
year.