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Spilyay Tyrooo, Warm Springs, Oregon April 4, 2002 Fisheries regulations set for 2002 Guild t0 market artwork Warm Sorinps Ventures The marina trill he at the Fishing from scaffolds using hoopnets, setnets allowed until June 15 The Natural Resources De partment of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs has announced the highlights of the Tribal Council resolution regulating the spring chinook salmon ceremonial and subsis tence fishery at Sherars Falls. The following restrictive regulations were adopted by Tribal Council on March 5, as part of Resolution 10154. 1. In recognition of the tra ditional methods of fishing, fishing from scaffolds using hoopnets and setnets will be allowed seven days per week from, April 1 through June 15. All wild steelhead must be released and returned to the river unharmed. The provisions of Warm Springs Tribal Code 340.310 (8), requiring that setnets and hoopnets are attended continu ously, will be enforced. 2. A subsistence fishery will be allowed up to a harvest cap of 325 adult wild spring chinook salmon. There will be unrestricted fishery for hatch ery spring chinook salmon. 3. The Department of Natural Resources will be re sponsible for monitoring the fishery. Once the harvest cap of 325 adult wild spring chinook salmon is reached, fishing for adult wild spring chinook salmon will be closed and all adult wild spring chinook must be released and returned to the river un harmed. Fishing will remain open for hatchery spring chinook salmon. 4. Hook and line fishing, one pole per person and single hook only (no treble hooks), will be permitted. 5. Snagging of fish will be prohibited, any fish that is snagged incidentally must be returned to the river un harmed. 6. The Natural Resources Department and Police De partment shall closely monitor the Sherars Falls fishery and strictly enforce the regulation requiring the release of un marked steelhead by hook and line fishers. 7. The Warm Springs River and all its tributaries will be closed to all fishing. 8. Pursuant to Warm Springs Tribal Ordinance 68, Section 490.500 and Section 490.510 (8), the sale of fish caught for subsistence pur poses is prohibited. 9. Monitoring of the tribal harvest, fish escapement over Bonneville and The Dalles dams, and fish returns to Warm Springs National Fish Hatch ery and Round Butte Hatchery will be used to determine if in season harvest modifications will be necessary. The Natural Resources De partment is expecting the re turn of approximately 20,000 hatchery spring chinook salmon and approximately 2,000 wild spring chinook salmon to the Deschutes River. This years return is expected to be the largest return on record. If anyone has any questions please call the Natural Re sources Department at 553 2001. Also, please call the fish ing information hotline to get the latest updates on Tribal Fishing opportunities. would like to invite all inter ested tribal member artists to join the Warm Springs Guild. The main objective of the guild is to help individual tribal member artists market their crafts nationwide using the largest on-line auction house in the world. Anyone interested in selling beadwork, painting, pottery, silverwork, basketry or other traditional crafts on-line is in vited to attend a meeting on Thursday, April 18, at 6 p.m. Warm Springs Ventures office at the Plaza. Refreshments will be served. The Guild is a natu ral match for Warm Springs, as there are a number of gifted craft people who carry on tribal traditions. j With the assistance of OIS, everything necessary to auc- ! tion tribal artwork will be pro- vided by Warm Springs Ven- 1 tures. There is no cost to join the J guild. For more information, ! call Danzuka at 553-3565. Tribes launch enterprise 25 years ago this week From the April 2, 1976 edition of the Spilyay: A tour conducted by the Confederated Tribes Fish and Wildlife Committee at Shear ers Bridge on the banks of the Deschutes River was to view a site for a possible Indian campground. The Fish and Wildlife Committee members are Harold Culpus, Delbert Frank and Nelson Wallulatum. Teresa Katchia is secretary,5' auM. Others who.' Were on "the ?. tour included Gene Greene, director of Natural Re sources; Harry Pagett, mu seum director; Ray Welch, BIA land operations office; Don Schmit, BIA roads; Cy Katchia of the Water Board, Sid Miller, editor of the Spilyay Tymoo, and Olney "J.P." Patt Jr., photographer and reporter for the paper. There were several sites discussed and also the facili ties that would be installed to accommodate the Indian fish ermen. A brief history of the Shearers Bridge area was pre sented, as this was a custom ary event for generations. The 'Warrrf vSpringtf"f nmsmr fnigratetl into theVrea luring the heavy fish runs. In other news: Night hunters are being blamed for at least four of the six cattle killed in reservation grazing areas during the past year. Spilyay Tymoo CCoyote News, Est. 1976) Publisher Emeritus: Sid Miller Executive Editor: Management Successor: ReporterPhotographer: Media Advisor: Dave McMechan Selena T. Boise Tina Aguilar Bill Rhoades Secretary: Trudee Queahpama-Clements Established In March 1976 Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confed erated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located in the white house at 1 100 Wasco Street. Any written materials submitted to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761 (541)553-1644 or 553-3274 FAX No. (541)553-3539 E-Mail: spilyaytymooOwstribes.org Annual Subscription rates: Within U.S.-S 15.00 Outside U.S. or 1st Class In the U.S.-$25.00 For questions on advertising rates and policies, please call Bill Rhoades at 553-2013, or the Spilyay office at 553-3274. Spilyay Tymoo 2002 copyright For the latest Information on advertising rates, subsclptlons and (In the future) news from the Spilyay, check us out on the Internet at: http7Aivww.warmsprlngs.comcommunltynews lndex.htm Highway is closed i n Beverly Arthur is working for the Oregon Department of Transportion, helping direct traffic to the detour around the Mlt Creek- Bridge project. v fir vi Highway 26 has been closed this week, as work began on the Mill Creek Bridge maintenance project. The highway will remain closed during weekdays through May 3. Passenger vehicle traffic is using routes 3 and 9 through Simnasho. Truck traffic is us ing the route over highways 97, 197 and 216, through the Maupin area. The highway is open on weekends, beginning at noon on Fridays. The newest tribal enter prise, formed earlier this year, is Warm Springs Geo Visions, specializing in computer-based spatial information. Geo Vi sions is an enterprise branch of the Warm Springs Geographic Information System (GIS) De partment. The GIS department, di rected by Jim Crocker, is housed at the Forestry build ing at the Natural Resources Industrial Park compound. Geo Visions has developed into an enterprise with fund ing assistance from Warm Springs Ventures, a tribal busi ness and economic develop ment corporation. As Warm Springs Geo Vi sions pursues contract oppor tunities that would generate revenue for the tribes, the GIS department will continue its traditional duties, said Crocker. GIS employs seven people. The department gen erates information and com puterized mapping that is use ful in many ways. .' The GIS department works t with Warm Springs Fire Man- agement and other fire control agencies, and assists in moni- J toring of natural resources. ! Early this year, the depart- ment began exploring the pos- ' sibility of developing an enter- ; prise. ! The plan is for Warm ! Springs Geo Visions to con- tract with government and pri- vate entities for the kinds of ; services in which the GIS em- ployees are specialized. 1 Toward launching the new enterprise, Warm Springs Ven- tures has retained the services of consultants Beltram & As- J sociates and 7D systems for ' sales and marketing. "The consulting group i brings over 50 years of com- bined expertise in this field," ' said Tom Henderson, chief ; executive officer of Warm J Springs Ventures. Youth passes away from gunshot A 15-year-old Warm Springs youth has passed away from a . gunshot . wound.!, . .., T- Tommy Dickson passed away on Tuesday at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend. This week, Warm Springs Police and the FBI were inves tigating the circumstances of the shooting, wihch occurred on Sunday, March 31. Tommy was in critical con dition at the hospital until he -' passed away. He was suffering from. a gunshot wound o5 head.'? 3 J 1 ' & '.' Police dispatch received no tice of the March 31 incident at 4:28 a.m. Location was on Poosh Avenue in Warm, Springs. Tommy was then , transported by ambulance to Mountain View, and then: flown to St. Charles. Teens to help with home repairs Project benefits students, seniors,, families in need The Sierra Service Project will be offering its services to the Warm Springs Reservation this summer. Sierra Service Project volun teers work on four different reservations throughout the nation each year. This year, for the first time, one of the sum mer 2002 volunteer project sites will be in Oregon. A different group of young people will work each week, starting at the end of June and continuing through the begin ning of August By the end of the project 300 young people will have paid tuition fees to attend the camp and given up one week of their summer vacation to provide home repairs to seniors and families in need. The Sierra Service Project was started 27 years ago by sev eral pastors from the United Methodist Church. Its goal is to introduce young people to community service, while providing hous ing assistance to families in need on reservations. Over the years, the Sierra Service Project has worked on over on 45 different reserva tions and on nearly 1,500 homes. The volunteers provide all of their own food, tools and materials. The repair work they do does not come out of the tribal housing budget. "This will allow us to do some work and help some people we wouldn't otherwise be able to help," said William Fucntcs, Tribal Chief Operat ing Officer. Clinic: expansion is first since 1993 While on the reservation the youth will be living in the Community Wellness Center. They will sleep and ear there during their stay on the ' reservation. About Sierra Service Project, this is a nonprofit cor poration affiliated with the United Methodist Church.' For more information contact' (916)488-6441 or email at infosicrrascrviccprojcct.org.'- Local inquiries as to how homes will be selected can be directed to Chet VanPclt or Rudy Clements at the Hous-' ing Department, 553-3250. Senior can also contact Elton Greeley, at the Seniors Program, 553-3313. (Continued from page 1) Construction of the new building is a major part of the expansion plan, but there are other aspects as well. For in stance: The dental program, which is in need of more room, would expand into the area that is now the adjacent optometry department. The optometry depart ment, which is also crowded, would move into new building addition. The clinic warehouse and storage facility arc greatly in need of more space, and this would be addressed by the ex pansion. Another part of the plan is to develop a family room next to the urgent care room. This would eliminate the situation where family members have to wait in the hallway while a loved one is receiving urgent care. Tribal elders will be asked to help design the family room, said Alger. Some other reasons why the clinic expansion and remodel ing are needed: The medical files containing patient information have mul tiplied over the years to the point where the records de partment is running out of room. Managed care and the business office need additional space. Doctors and others at the clinic share small offices lo cated back by the warehouse area. The optometry depart ment, because of limited space, is not convenient for people with handicaps. There are many instances that demonstrate the need for more room, said Alger. The clinic expansion and remodeling would be the first such project at the clinic since its opening in 1993. Alger said that his hope is that this will not be the last. Looking five or so years into the future, Alger said that one day he would like to sec the development by the clinic of prevention center, including a large swimming pool, a gym nasium, and other health-related facilities. Smoke visible from burn areas Notice to the public: Fire Management will be conducting two burns dur ing the next three weeks. The crews started march 25. Smoke will be ob served for several weeks in the burn areas. They will be burning along Highway 9, on the Island, and on Miller Flat approximately two miles south of County Line Road. Any questions, please contact Fire Management at 553-1146.