March 7. 2002
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Manion brings years of experience to forest manager job
Spilyay Tyrooo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Started work at
Forestry in 1979
By Bill Rhoades
Spilyay Tymoo
' Doug Manion has been promoted
to the position of forest manager, fill
ing a vacancy left by Mark Jackson,
who took a job in Boise, Id. Manion
takes over the Forestry helm after
working his way through the system,
originally as a seasonal employee dur
ing summer breaks from high school.
"I started working at Forestry in
the summer of 1979 between my jun
ior and senior years," said Manion.
Manion's experience in Forestry
has expanded considerably over the
past 23 years. He's spent thousands
of hours in the field and witnessed
some dramatic changes in the way
forests are managed. He hopes to put
his experience to good use by increas
ing awareness of the various ap
proaches people have towards forest
management.
He knows there are different per
spectives that come from the Natu
ral Resources Branch, tribal enter
prises, and the tribal organization as
a whole. There is a strong desire to
protect natural resources while pro
viding jobs and generating revenue
that support vital programs and ser
vices. "We all have to work together and
try to understand everyone else's po
sition," said Manion. "I think we can
strike a balance that is agreeable to
everyone."
' 'Manion's first job at the Forestry
Branch occurred during summer
break at Madras High School. He was
hired to do fuel surveys, clear brush
and work in reforestation. He con
tinued to work during school breaks
from high school and through the
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What would we do without our
trusty law enforcement? Well, first of
all we might begin to handle our
community's problems internally
without provocation. We might be
gin to recognize that we are in seri
ous jeopardy for the future of this
place. We might begin to recognize
the necessity in which we exist tradi
tionally. There are many things that exist
here today in this place that demand
our attention, such as the lack of re
spect for the environment around us,
our very moral fiber of our well be
ing is all but on the line with the
dealer, the pusher, the gang banging
thug life that our children strive so
much to be a part of, to be cool, to be
in the in crowd, to be a gangster or a
hoodlum.
What is going on around us that
we cannot sec but we constantly feci?
Well, I'll tell you. We live in trying
times when our kids believe that they
do not have to mind what they are
told, or that they can run rampant in
the street, killing each other for
money and greed, for another hit of
weed, another line of coke or crank,
where is it coming from and why?
Are the predators stalking your
babies? Are the ones who smile in
your face stabbing you in the back
while they have their hands covered
in blood and up your daughter's shirt
all in the same moment?
Believe me, they exist to ruin all
that is good in this place, this reser
vation nation. The predators may
even wear i badge and i gun. They
might act like your best friend and
tell you that it's all okay to drink and
do drugs though publicly they arc
saying no it's bad. As the walls arc
covered with NOT, or SUR 13, per
haps they like it this way, maybe they
secretly say it's okay, but who am I
to say?
The other day I saw a boy 12 years
of age out of his mind, so high on
crank that I thought to myself I wish
I could find the one who gave it to
this little baby boy, and in seeing tlus
Doug manion recently was named forest manager for the Confederated Tribes.
early 1980s when he was attending
Mt. Hood Community College.
In 1983 he went to work at For
estry full time and after about a year
was encouraged by his supervisor Bill
Donaghu to join the Forestry intern
program. Donaghu and then forest
manger Bob Harned got Manion into
the system and in the fall of 1984 he
enrolled at the University of Idaho.
The program allowed him to attend
school full-time and work with the
Forestry Branch during the summers.
In 1989 Manion received a bachelor's
degree in Forest Management.
'The intern program has been very
successful," said Manion. "Four tribal
members have completed it so far."
His next job at Forestry was in the
planning department. An integrated
resources management plan was be
ing formulated, so the staff was kept
busy compiling and inputting data for
a model that would calculate the an
I felt rage and hate toward the oppres
sor more than ever before, and I could
see my own babies in the family the
same age still innocent to the prob
lems of the world and again I became
more furious with this life here to
day. Warm Springs, we can no longer
sit back all relaxed and let it slip away.
We have to be the force of good rea
son, and speak for the Seven Drums
and The Bell and the way that our
ciders have given it to us to pass on
such as they have to right as much as
possible, to take our children by the
hand rather than let them walk alone
in that world of darkness, because
that is where the devil likes to play.
He hides in the dark shadows wait
ing to strike, to rape all of us with his
materials and dope strung out and left
alone to fend off the demons on our
own.
Why did my brother have to die?
Why did we lose so much this year
and in recent years past?
The other day another young
brother was shot out of rage because
his brother was not told that killing
him is a sin and his used to be friend
thought, you aren't as cool as me,
look how flashy I am, seel See how
much booze I can drink. I thought
this was supposed to be a dry reser
vation but yet that issue is like most,
just swept aside or under the rug,
never to be seen. Just another girl in
the corner crying from what she has
had done to her by that predator.
"Daddy, 1 was raped by those bad
men at the party." "Don't worry
baby, we'll get those men for this, as
1 will report it to the police."
Week one, nothing. Week two,
nothing, and on and on and still noth
ing has been done and then pop goes
a bullet in his head and one for his
friend and another and so on until
all of those worthless scum arc dead
and then daddy ends up in the pen
but he told the police, but where are
they today?
And yes this will happen again, but
what can be done? Most likely noth
ing, and when she's in the corner cry
tng or that little boy is at that party
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nual allowable cut.
From there Manion moved into
Forest Development, where he had
gained much practical experience
during his high school years. The de
partment was involved in vegetation
management, manual brush removal,
tree improvement, pre-commercial
thinning and reforestation.
His background in the branch ex
panded when he moved to the Presale
Department in 1991. As a presale of
ficer his job was to coordinate imple
mentation of timber sales. He was in
charge of laying out harvest blocks,
marking sale boundaries and trees,
cruising stands to determine volume,
and presenting the forest officer's re
port to Timber Committee.
In February of 2002, he accepted
an intergovernmental personal agree
ment (IPA) to take the job as forest
manager. The agreement allows him
to maintain his status as a tribal em-
again high as a kite where will we be?
At home secure in our bed or watch
ing television and we will remain
blind to this until the warriors take
over again...
Red Thunder
Jesus is savior
To the editor,
What is your excuse? God says
that we know about the invisible
things of the world, by the visible
things of the world, and that we are
without any excuse.
The most idiotic excuse I have
heard recently was that Jesus is the
white man's religion. Jesus was a He
brew, and I lebrews were dark brown
people. The Old Testament of the
Bible was written by I lebrews. As I
have told you before, the brown
people taught it to the white people,
and the white people brought it to
our country. But the truth will al
ways be the truth, no matter who it
comes from.
You can bet your bottom dollar,
that when the rain started pouring
to flood the earth, that those people
didn't care if Noah was red, white,
yellow, or black. Just please let them
into the Ark so they would not die
from the flood. And you can bet that
the people Sodom and Gomorrah,
were all different colors of skin, but
they all died when God rained fire
and brimstone down on those cities.
God doesn't care what color you are,
but cares about the condition of your
heart. Not your heart that pumps
your blood, but the heart God refers
to is the "inner man," the real you.
The heart is your mind, soul, and
spirit, the invisible parts of you.
Jesus is coming soon and he is
coming for all those that trust in him
and believe in him, and knows his
voice. When he comes people will
disappear. Jesus himself said that
there will he two digging roots, one
will be taken and one will be left. Two
will be dip netting, one will be taken
and one will be left. Two will be sleep
ing in bed, one will be taken and one
will be left. This is the great rapture,
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"Most of the natural
stands have been converted
to managed stands and
now we have to decide
what we as a tribe want
the managed forest to look
like. "
Doug Manion
ployee while still holding the Bureau
of Indian Affairs position of forest
manager.
Not one to make snap judgments
or hasty decisions, Manion will make
the transition from being a field man
to assuming Forestry's highest mana
gerial role in a thoughtful and delib
erate manner. He would like to make
the Bible warns us about. Married
people especially, note the last one.
Two will be sleeping one taken, one
left.
Don't refuse to take the Lord Jesus
into your life, just because your
spouse is hardhcaded or hard-hearted.
If your spouse were to jump into the
middle of a fire, or into the rapids of
Sherars Bridge, would you jump too?
You might as well do that, if you
choose to follow your spouse, instead
of follow Jesus. That is simply a case,
of the blind leading the blind.
We know that God gave us our
own prophets back before the white
man showed up, it says so in the Bible.
In fact, all people had prophets be
fore God Jesus became flesh and dwelt
among us. The Jews (I lebrews) had
the Old Testament, which was from
their old prophets. And many Jews
refuse to believe in Jesus, and that re
ligion is called Judaism. But God in
his letter to the Jews told them in the
book of I lebrews, "God who at vari
ous times in various manners, spoke
in times past unto the fathers by the
prophets, has in these last days spo
ken unto us by his Son, whom he
hath appointed heir of all things, by
whom also he made the worlds. What
that says, is that, wc were given our
own beliefs by our own prophets, but
God sent Jesus to have the final word.
Jesus said wc arc to love our neigh
bor, as ourselves. Our old prophets
taugt that, and that is why wc shared
with out neighbor! Wc took care of
our elders, widows, and orphans be
cause wc were brought up like that.
When wc got a deer, wc knew that
any self-respecting Indian must give
to those in need. But Jesus came to
finish up and to clear up, what he had
the prophets before him preach to us.
Jesus came to let us know we arc
all sinners, and condemned to eter
nal damnation in the everlasting lake
of fire, reserved for Satan and his de
mons. But that wc can choose life, if
we believe that I le being God, gave
his life as a sacrifice to pay for the sins
wc have all together committed. If
you say you have no sin, you arc call
ing God i liar, and the truth is not in
some changes over time, but doesn't
feel any need to turn the entire orga
nization upside down.
"Given my 18 years of experience
I have seen the forest go from an in
dustrial management regime to a
more conservative and ecological
based system," said Manion. "We've
gone from one extreme of the pendu
lum to the other and I don't think
we've found a happy medium to meet
the goals and objectives of the tribes.
I am hoping we can find that bal
ance." In the months ahead there will be
opportunities to reevaluate the status
of the branch. Assistant manager Rich
Lohman plans to retire this spring and
Bodie Shaw, the other assistant, has
already left the branch and accepted
a fellowship in Washington D.C.
Manion's promotion will leave yet
another supervisor's vacancy (in
Presale), so this will be an excellent
time to access the situation and de
termine the most efficient way to
move forward.
"We need to revisit the way we're
structured and how we provide ser
vices to the tribes," said Manion. "We
have some areas of inefficiency, but
by-and-large there are no major prob
lems." In terms of general forest manage
ment, Manion will be hearing a great
deal from the professional staff, com
mittees, Tribal Council and the tribal
membership in the months ahead. He
is hoping the balance referred to ear
lier can be achieved and some sort of
consensus can be reached.
"As a tribe we wrestle with the idea
of what a forest should look like," said
Manion. " Most of the natural stands
have been converted to managed
stands and now we have to decide
what we as a tribe want the managed
forest to look like."
you. God says all have sinned, and
come short of glory of God.
If you are still sniveling about
what the white man did to us, and
that's your excuse for refusing to be
lieve the Bible, then we say "get over
it!" That is being stuck on stupid. We
need to live for today, and quit sniv
eling about yesterday. The I loly Bible
is the truth, the way, and the life, and
there is no other way to our Father
except through it. It was written by
40 different authors, in a time span
ning 15 centuries, yet it seems as
though just one person wrote the
whole thing because it never, never
contradicts itself. It never says one
thing, and in another part of the
Bible, says another. Why? Because
God told each author what to write.
The bottom line is that your salva
tion is free, free, free a gift from God,
through faith, and that not of your
selves, so that no man can boast. God
doesn't want boasters, thinking they
earned their way to heaven. God
wants worshippers, who are thank
ful for the free gift of salvation. Jesus
is the gift from God. (God gave his
only begotton son, . . you know the
rest). Jesus is not a religion, he is a
relationship, when you accept Jesus
as your free gift, you also receive the
free gift of the Holy Ghost, which
makes you a spirit brother to the
Lord.
Jesus will know you by his spirit
that will indwell you. Those he
doesn't know, he will say, "I don't
know you. Depart in the lake of fire."
God is a loving God, but God is also
a holy and just God. I le cannot let
you into his kingdom, if you arc not
Holy by your sins not being paid for.
Nor can you go into his kingdom if
you are not just (fair) with your
neighbors. Don't think that God will
allow you who always hurt his chil
dren, let you come live with his chil
dren. God loves his obedient children
too much, to let the likes of some self
ish persons into the same rewarding
life. You become a child of God by
just believing Jesus is your savior and
follow him as Ird.
RT and Mar vena Thompnon