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8 March 12, 1998 Warm Springs, Oregon SpilyayTymoo Scoping document product of Two public meetings were held at Kah-Nee-Ta February 12 to discuss the Pelton-Round Butte Project Man agement Plan. A total of 24 people attended the two, three-hour sessions. The Tribe facilitated the planning efforts as part of the FERC relicensing process, however, the focus was on the development of a comprehensive management plan for the Pelton Round Butte Planning Area (see map). The Tribe is also conducting other studies and planning efforts as part of the FERC relicensing process which address fish, wildlife and cul tural resources. Those processes will be integrated into this effort to pro duce a single, comprehensive man agement plan for the entire Pelton Round Butte Project area. Brian Cunninghame, who serves as the Tribe's relicensing coordina tor, facilitated the meetings. The pur OSU offers anthroplogy course Oregon State University will of fer "ANTH 481: Natural Resources and Community Values" during spring term. The course evaluates the role of values, community and systems in approaches suggested for addressing contemporary environmental prob lems. Fishery, subsistence, forestry, population and economic growth and water resource development are cov ered. The course investigates the value of indigenous knowledge, sustainability, sustainable develop ment, adaptation, common property management, privatization, coopera tive management, adaptive manage ment, preserved diversity, bioregionalism, ecosystem manage ment, ecosystem health, risk man agement and their combinations as ways to deal with environmental problems. Examples range from com munities associated with foraging societies to the complexity associ ated with contemporary global re source issues. CASA seeks volunteers The Court Appointed Special Advocate, (CASA) Program that serves abused and neglected chil dren in Crook and Jefferson counties is recruiting volunteers for the Spring training classes. As a volunteer, we will train you to advocate for one to three children who are in the custody of the State Circuit Court You will be joining a team of 32 volunteers serving more than 40 children who have been abused andor neglected. Currently, more than 1 00 children are needing a CASA to speak up for them in court. pose or tnc management plan s scoping document is two-fold; iden tify planning issues and develop the stakeholder's goals and management objectives. Several federal, tribal, state and local entities have manage ment responsibility or regulatory authority over use of land and water in the planning area, which encom passes just over 90,000 acres in Jefferson County. Also present at the meetings were the Core Team members who repre sent the public and private interests in the planning area. Core Team members are Rod Bonacker, US For est Service from the Sisters Ranger District, Jerry Hcnrikson from the BIA, Alan Redman from the Ochoco National Forest, Larry Lolley from the Three-Rivers Association, Janet Brown, a Jefferson County Commis sioner, Steve Brutscher, Oregon The course will be taught by Deanna Kingston, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is currently an instructor in the Ethnic Studies and Anthropology Departments at Oregon State. Her teaching and re search focus on contemporary King Island Inupiaq Eskimos and Alaska Natives in particular, and with con temporary Native American experi ence in general. Ms. Kingston is a member of the King Island Native Community and is actively research ing their stories, songs and dances. In addition, she is a member of the Muktoyuk Ugiuvak Dancers. The course will be offered in Warm Springs and will cost $360. Classes will be held weekends on April 4 and 5, April 25 and 26 and May 30 and 3 1 from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Warm Springs Education Building. To register and receive books, call OSU Statewide, Oregon State Uni versity at 1-800-235-6559. When you become a volunteer, we will train you in investigation techniques so you will be able to look into all circumstances involved in a child's life and making reports and recommendations to the Court. Information as to how to became a CASA volunteer can be obtained by contacting either Chuck Vawter at 475-9426 in Madras or John Campbell at 447-7220 in Prineville. Applications will be accepted through March 1 6. You can make a difference in a child's life. cooperative planning effort Parks and Recreation, and a member of the State's Hydroelectric Authori zation Review Team, Larry Miller, Oregon Parks and Recreation area manager, Ken Rund, Cove Palisades Restaurant and Marina, Terry Luther, tribal Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Manager, Dave Nolte, Trout Unlim ited and Cunninghame. It is estimated that the life of the plan is 1 0 to 1 5 years, however, if the Tribe is granted the FERC license to operate the project, they will commit to everything in their application and be held to those statutes by the fed eral government for the life of the license. There will also be a commit ment from the Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department to use this plan in their master plan for the Cover Palisades State Park. The , State's master plan and the US For est Service management plan will , NWPP Council cuts funding Continuing its effort to bring ad ditional scrutiny to decisions about fish and wildlife spending in the Columbia River Basin, the North west Power Planning Council, on February 25, decided to phase out electricity ratepayer funding of fish and wildlife law enforcement efforts in favor of state or tribal funding, reduce a northern pikeminnow man agement program to its most produc tive elements and approve emergency funding to repair and remodel an Idaho hatchery that assists the re covery of endangered Kootenai River sturgeon. The recommendations continue a process started last September, when the Council approved more than $9Q million in fish and wildlife projects for 1998, and delayed or canceled, pending additional scientific and fis cal reviews, nearly $50 million in' other projects. With some of the ad ditional reviews completed, the Co-' lumbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Au thority, which represents the region's state, federal and tribal fish and wild life managers, recommended new budgets or budget revisions. The Council rejected a request from the region's state, tribal and federal fish and wildlife managers for $2.2 million to pay for fish and wildlife law enforcement in 1998 a nearly $2 million reduction from the original request last September, when the Council also said no. The Council believes law enforcement is' the responsibility of law enforce ment agencies. Chairman John' Etchart of Montana said. The citizens of the Northwest demand their salmon back. They called on the Power Planning Coun cil to assure that every dollar is effi ciently and effectively spent. Their compliment each other and incorpo rate the recommendations developed through this planning process. The goal for recreation manage ment is to maintain or enhance re source conditions while providing a range of safe, high-quality recre ational opportunities supplemented with appropriate public facilities and services, law enforcement and man agement presence on and around Lake Billy Chinook and Lake Simtustus. As Oregon's population grows, the demand for quality recreational opportunities increases. Conflicts arise between users of powerboats, houseboats, personal watercraft and fishing boats on Lake Billy Chinook. Enforcement and management agen cies do not have adequate staff or budgets to resolve these problems or the problem of erosion and arbitrary roads caused of off-road vehicles. Management of current facilities and looking to the future for ex panded services is also an issue ad dressed in the scoping document. Users desire additional hiking and biking trails and off-road vehicle ar eas on BLM and national forest lands as well as along Willow Creek and The Cove. Parking, boat ramps, boat moorages, day-use and overnight facilities at The Cove are not ad equate to accommodate public de mand during peak-use periods. In creased use at already popular sites are not adequate without causing re source impacts to water quality, vi sual quality, wildlife habitat, soil sta bility and vegetative conditions. Other amenities could be added that would ensure positive experiences for users. . Public safety at The Cove is a very real concern. Numerous dan gerous situations, such as people jumping off the bridge, unsafe roads, boat operators under the influence, unmarked navigational hazards and threat of serious wildfire, among other issues, contribute to potentially unsafe situations. Because safety is an issue, con cerned individuals expressed the de sire for additional law enforcement officers, EMT services, improved ra dio communications and fire protec tion. Several interpretiveeducational facilities and materials could be pro vided for visitors, as well. Geology, vegetation, tribal culture, treaty rights, reservation lands, archaeol ogy, wildlife, history, fish popula tions and othertopics of interest could be presented. An educational center andobrti'eren'ce.faeility that focuses ; on the management of ecosystems, natural and cultural history and con temporary values could be built. The goal of land use management is to manage lands within and adja cent to the project boundary to pro tect water quality, enhance fish and wildlife habitat, protect cultural re sources, maintain recreational and scenic values, while providing pub lic access and allowing for appropri ate compatible uses of the land. Numerous conservation measures are included in the plan that would allow for maintenance and protec tion of sensitive areas near and bor dering the lakes. , The draft management plan will be released in June of this year, with public meeting following in July. The proposed final management plan will be developed by September and a public meeting will be held in Oc tober, The management plan will be finalized by November 1998. demand is forcing us to make hard decisions. One of those decisions concerns law enforcement. "The Northwest Power Planning Council supported use of electricity ratepayer money to supplement law enforcement in the past. However, the time for change is upon us. "It is the Council's collective judg ment that continued law enforcement assistance is no longer an appropri ate use of limited Bonneville ratepayer dollars. "The Council decided last Sep tember to en ratepayer support for law enforcement. Because we were sensitive to the fact that people's jobs would be affected, we used Chinook, steelhead listed by NMFS "The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), on February 26, announced 13 proposed listings of salmon and steelhead in Oregon, Washington and California. Among those stocks are upper Columbia River spring Chinook and middle Columbia steelhead. NMFS also proposed to include Deschutes River fall chinook as part of the Snake River fall chinook stock. Assistant Commerce Secretary Terry Garcia said today that fostering sus tainable use of these species and their habitat is a high priority. Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Watershed Department Manager, Don Sampson, pointed out that the four tribes with treaty-reserved fishing rights have a salmon restoration plan that has worked. "As Will Stelle (NMFS Regional Direc tor) himself has said, the tribes are the only ones who have a plan for Corner on Health .TV H-t ixw. jr 7 March is National Nutrition Month! "Make Nutrition come alive-It's all about you!" by Sara Thomas, MS, LD, I.H.S Nutrition Dept. Focus on Calcium Calcium is needed at all ages to build and maintain strong bones, help regulate blood pressure and help nerves and muscles work. Milk, yo gurt and cheese are excellent sources of calcium. Traditional sources of calcium Many tribes added wood ash to their stews and mush. The Navajo add juniper ash to their corn mush. This corn mush contains more cal cium than a cup of milk (355 ms of calcium vs. 300 mg per cup of ration. Using the wood ash was just like taking a multi-mineral supplement since the ash also contains other valu able minerals the body needs. Some tribes ate soft cooked fish bones and made fish-head soup. Sometimes bones boiled along with the stew. The Warm Springs Indians traditional got the calcium they needed by eating salmon and large amounts of roots. Common Myths about calcium Myth: Calcium increases the risk for getting kidney stones. Celebration honors children "Community Support for Chil- tion, scheduled for April 19 through dren " is the theme of Warm Springs ' 25. Many fun and educational activi "Week of the Young Child" celebra- ties are planned. Monday, April 20 Sponsor a Child Day plus ECE tours This is an opportunity for adults, not familiar with ECE, to come in for a tour and spend an hour with a child that they sponsor. Adults can sponsor a child that they know, or they can call and be assigned a child. Tours will be at 9, 10 and 11 a.m. and at 3, 4 and 5 p.m., all beginning in the ECE lobby. Car Safety Seat and Seat Belt check by the Community Health Education Team will be conducted during the late afternoon pick up time. Tuesday, April 21 Grandparents Day and Kid's Carnival Grandparents of children enrolled in ECE program will receive a special invitation to spend time in the classroom this day. . From 6 to 8 p.m., the Kid's Carnival will be held at the Community i Center and will be designed for children two to eight years of age. All children must be accompanied by an adult. All of the carnival booths will be free and will involve an activity that children can participate in. There will be food and entertainment in the Social Hall. " Wednesday, April 22 ECE Zoo Day 10 to 11:30 a.m. will be Zoo Day. This will be an opportunity for children to experience different animals and creatures. Families will be asked to bring in family petsanimals. Animals not in a cage will need to be escorted by the owner. Classrooms who choose to can have their children bring in a stuffed animal to create their own classroom "zoo". Thursday, April 23 ECE Kid's Parade The Parade, to be held from 10:30 to 11 a.m., will carry the theme "Community People, Occupations, Careers, or What I Want To Be When I Grow Up". The parade will begin in the kitchen area parking lot and will go down Kot-Num Road, turning in by the Longhouse and then return to ECE. This year, parents are being encouraged to march in the parade with their child. Children will be allowed to decide what they want to be in the parade and, with parents' and teachers' help, come up with an appropriate outfit. Following the parade, there will be a Bar-B-Que on the ECE patio, for family and friends. Children will still be served luncii in their classrooms, as usual, but can accompany their parents to the Bar-B-Que. There will be some outside seating, otherwise parents can take their food to their child's classroom and eat there. for law enforcement unspent law enforcement funds to provide a 90-day transition period. We also provided an opportunity for law enforcement proponents to de velop specific proposals that ad dressed our policy concerns regard ing use of ratepayer money. "The region's fish and wildlife managers responded by asking the Council to provide an additional 90 days for development of law enforce ment projects appropriate for ratepayer support. The Council be lieves the original 90-day transition period was sufficient. It is time for decisions not delays. It is time to ensure that ratepayer dollars are in vested in actions that directly ad rebuilding these stocks. It works. Look at the success we've had in the Umatilla River. There is a sport fish ery and a tribal fishery on spring Chinook. Spring Chinook were ab sent from the basin for 70 years, but we've put them back." Sampson concurred with Garcia's statement that the status quo is unac ceptable, and added, "We also agree with Will Stelle that these salmon stocks are sick because the water sheds are sick. There is very broad scientific agreement about what has to be done. We have to protect what good salmon habitat remains, and we have to restore habitat that has been degraded. We also know that something has to be done about the impacts of the mains tern dams." But Sampson took some excep tion to putting the blame on overharvesting and hatcheries. He said, "There's been no commercial Fact: Eating more milk and milk products actually decreases, not in creases, the risk for kidney stones. Women and men who eat the most milk products have less chance to get kidney stones that the people who eat the least amount of calcium. Why? Most kidney stones are made of cal cium oxalate, but the main culprit in the diet is oxalate, not calcium. Ac tually, the more calcium you eat the less oxalate you absorb from food because the calcium-bound oxalates will just get excreted instead of be ing absorbed. Myth: "Natural" calcium pills are the best. Fact: Natural calcium pills can be the worst. Calcium from bonemeal, carbonate (oyster shells) and dolo mite, unless purified, can have harm ful amounts of lead in them. Your best bet is to look for calcium pills that meet "U.S.P. standards" like the kind available at the clinic. You should see "meets U.S.P. standards" on the bottle. Action Tips for a Calcium boost: -Grab a yogurt for breakfast or snack. A cup of yogurt has even more calcium than a cup of milk. -Add calcium to your daily diet the food label way-20 DV is an excellent source. -Shopping on the run? Choose products that say "low", "high" or "reduced" on the label-these terms are easy to see and mean what they say. -If you don' t want to give up whole milk, balance it out with lewer-fat food choices you like. -Cure your sweet tooth with a thick milk-fruit smoothie. Frozen bananas work especially well. -Whip up some instant pudding made with milk. -Use plain yogurt in party dip reci pes in place of sour cream. dress Bonneville's current fish and wildlife obligations. "Consequently, the Council rec ommends that ratepayer support for state and tribal law enforcement end and that money currently reserved for law enforcement activities be used to support other fish and wildlife recovery actions. "Because law enforcement pro vide benefits to the region and be cause peoples' jobs are at stake, the Council is willing to consider spe cific short-term requests for transi tion support only that will allow law enforcement proponents to find other, more appropriate sources of finan cial support." harvest of upriver spring Chinook since 1977, and no commercial har vest of summers since 1964. If har vest were really the problem, these stocks would have rebounded by now. Instead, they've continued to decline. "Here in the Columbia Basin, there is no question that the way hatcheries and hatchery fish have been managed has been a problem. But we must draw a careful distinc tion between hatcheries themselves and hatchery management practices. Put to proper use, hatcheries are tools that can help us put fish back into the river and stream habitat that we pro tect and restore. If we are going to have healthy, harvestable salmon populations, we will have to use hatcheries to help get us there. We' ve proven that it works in the Umatilla. Let's get going on it."