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OR. COLL. E 75 .S68 v. ?6 no. 17 August sF P.O. Box 870 Warm Springs, OR 97761 Gr"x:ei SERIALS DITT. KNWII'n.MKAIlY i2wuNiv:us!iYor(i:u'(iON 1 i;ni-N-. ()!'. V7-UU Coyote News, est. 1976 U.S. Postage Bulk Rate Permit No. 2 Warm Springs, OR 97761 35 cents News from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation August 23, 2001 Vol. 26, No. 17 Spilygy yrnoo s ..A .' . ' 1 ' ' w ' I' LL . t ' ! r 4 .fi r..'Tf. .rU Judy Kalama searches for huckleberries Hundreds of firefighters this week con tinued the effort to extinguish a series of wildfires that have been burning for sev . eral days in the western area of the reser vation. Favorable weather conditions in recent days have helped the fire-fighting effort. Clay Penhollow, information officer at Fire Management, said that a tentative containment date for the fires had been set for Sunday, Aug. 26. The Olallie Fire Complex began Aug. 12, when a thunderstorm passed over the region. During the storm, lightning strikes ignited 17 fires on the reservation and in the adjacent Mt. Hood National Forest. As of Wednesday, the fires had burned across 2,500 acres. The largest fire in the series has been the OlallieMonan Lake (Dark Lake) Fire, which consumed 2,000 acres. The OlallieMonan Lake Fire grew from five separate lightning strikes that happened on the reservation south of Olallie Butte near the Long, Dark and Is land lakes. One strike hit east of Monan Lake, west of the reservation boundary. Following the Aug. 12 storm, seven Weather helps firefighters THbal mill undergoes big By Dave McMechan Spiyaj Staff A visitor to the Warm Springs Forest Products Industries Mill comes away with the impression that the people who work there like their jobs. The work is not easy, and many of the positions require expert skill and concen tration, but above the noise of the machin ery the workers can often be heard joking and kidding with one another. This makes the workday pass in a more agreeable way, said John Katchia, production coordina tor at the mill. The WSFPI mill employs 148 people. The workers include the operators of the various saws, the lumber graders, mill wrights, electricians and operators of the forklifts and other heavy machinery. The administration part of the mill includes the purchasing, personnel and support staff. Seventy-five percent of the mill work 7T 7 .' v.. iT 1 -V 1 5 Photo by Dav McMechan during a gathering trip early this week y "if; 1 -t' , . f Vernon Tias and Jason Schjoll of Warm smaller fires were also reported on the res- ervation. Two were located east of Olallie Butte, two north of Lake Sarah near Rock Cone, one near Campbell Butte, one ers are tribal members or married into the tribes. The mill operates 40 hours a week, from about 6 in the morning until 2:30 in the afternoon, Monday through Friday. The powerhouse at the mill runs 24 hours a day, seven days week. Twelve full time people are responsible for keeping the power facility in operation. The power house is fueled by logging slash and wood by-products of the mill operation. Electricity from the powerhouse is sold Also, the lumber-drying kiln at the mill is powered by steam from the power plant The mill produces lumber of the 2-by-4 to 2-by-12 inch dimensions. Other prod ucts include industrial grade moldings and shop lumber. The industrial grade prod uct is sold to another manufacturer that makes windows and doors. Until early this year, the mill employed about 210 people. Then in February, one of two shifts at the mill was cut. Con tin He J on Page S 1; ( f''' ecklebeoy memories Traditional task of gathering continues today By Da, MMtcban . Spilyay Staff ruriayWalicndia,lilniiuiyoduTtrib!dcl ders, first went huckk-bchy picking a good numlxrofj'carsagci 'Iwasjustachildwtienrnygnuidparents and mother first took me to pick berries," Wahcneka was saying recendy, during a trip to I liyh Rock, wlicrc in some years die berries are quite plenrifuL Walicncka said that years ago pcxple fkii die reservation would travel by wagon and on horseback to the berry-picking areas. They woijUgotDtheXychcsarea,SaduMiunm Zigzag, places in Washington, among many other locations. "People were hard-working back dien," Wahcneka said Hie people worked especially hard in the summer because they had to store food for winter, Waheneka said. Judy Kalama, a couple of generations younger than Walicncka, remembers that as a young gid she would pick and can large quanti- ties of huckleberries. . She and odxis would camp during late sum- t .1. rein in XP' fi Photo by Dave McMechan Springs Fire Management discuss blazes. north of Papoose Lake and northwest of Lake Hilda, and one northwest of Fort Butte. Close to 600 fire-fighting personnel re 7 If?, iff changes, expects more Received Spilyay i Warm Springs Forest Product Industries f i ' ' '.V y ' ' k : ' V . S v ' VM t V-- ' ; ' L';., 'i ,,(v ; I . 'V-V, " ' vV. - , y" V ' I ""-V. I ,"" '': V, x " 'l,V I - t-ni.ljij - I . - I - "l J? .. rf W i X I sources, earlier tins week " s, mtr in die higlier ekrion areas, wlx;re die xr- ries grow After dicy were done camping and picking die berries, diey would spend many hours dc ling die canning work. TlieludAbem' feast has happaiedcach year firm time knmcrrxsiJ near 1 Id le Ikute. In die past die feast went on for many days. People camped all around die area where die I le He Longhouse now stands. sponded to these fires, and other fires lo cated on nearby national forest land. The personnel included inter-agency and Warm Springs hot shots. Along with those from the Northwest region, fire crews ar rived from Arizona, New Mexico, North Carolina and Oklahoma. Two Blackhawk helicopters from the Oregon National Guard were employed early in battling the Olallie Fire Complex. Sometime later, a larger twin-rotor heli copter also arrived on the scene. Other equipment included 16 engines, three doz ers and five water tenders. Total cost of fighting the blazes was es timated at over $2.4 million, payment of which comes from a federal fund. Fire crews worked to protect endan gered species habitat, commercial timber, traditional food-gathering areas and anadramous fish habitats. On the Mt. Hood National Forest side of the fire, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office or dered an evacuation of all non-fire-fighting people. On the reservation side, Trout Lake Campground was closed. The trails in the Trout Lake area were also closed. Olallie blazes 'Mil f - filf3i"I- jb" ;4y University of Oregon Library' on: 08-30-01 tymoo. 'A has seen many changes recently. T1 1 I 1. Ul AilU UVWII bcxh skks of die Warm J SiRK-cratllcIlc. , ,f 1 nc Iramc 01 an ,u I swkU kxjp B SUU scuu- I i& as are some of the ' I smaJl wooden bmUiiigs I w-re interspersed J among die camping ar- I c& , i. During the feast, ii there were dozens of ' J families that carnped at , I I kJIe. Lous Scott, who 1 works in Cultural Ke- I was driving with , 1 Wahcneka through the 1 encamping areas. Walicncka would point out the sites where all of die different families used to camp People don't camp much at I Idle anymore during die huckleberry feast, because many )oungpaipk'hmk)st interest, said Waheneka. IxwisSaitt remembered that, beadier years, die hillside by I Id le would be covered with children playing Continued on Page 5 Museum board hopes for interview Board members of The Museum at Warm Springs are hoping next month to begin interviewing candidates for the po sition of museum director. The museum has been under interim directorship since February, when former director Mary Ellen Conaway resigned. She was director for 13 months, and quite in a mutual agreement with the board. Since that time, Ed Manion has been serving as interim museum director. Over the past several weeks a recruiting firm, Opportunity Resources, Inc., based in New York, has been contacting potential candidates to fill the directorship position. The museum board used the Opportu nity Resources firm in hiring former di rector Michael Hammond, who was di rector from 1991, before the museum opened, until 1999. Museum officials are taking the time necessary to find the right candidate to in hiring a new director, said Ken Smith, mu seum board chairman. "Everyone feels that this is a great mu seum, and that it will take a special per son to manage it. We need to search for the right person with the right back ground," Smith said. Under the best circumstances, the mu seum board could begin interviewing can didates in September, Smith said. If the process goes as hoped, then a hiring a de cision could happen in October, he said. An ideal candidate, Smith said, would be a person with a strong education back ground, museum management experience, including museum fund raising. "Our hope is to find someone with that back ground, and the hope is always that we will find a Native American with the right background," he said. Meanwhile, the museum is operating smoothly, said Smith. Interim director Ed Manion "would be the first to say that he is not a museum director, but he is a good manager," Smith said. "He's making sure the museum contin ues running, and we think he's doing a great job."
