Spilyay Tyrooo, Warm Springs, Oregon
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At the Jefferson County Fair last week, Daisy Ike shows a visitor some
on display during the four-day event.
Timber sale in 2004 targets 38 million board
By Bill Rhoades
For Spilyoy Tymoo
An interdisciplinary team from the
Forestry and Natural Resources
branches has been collecting tribal
member comments on a timber sale
being proposed for 2004.
Responses to a number of com
ments and concerns are included with
this article produced for Spilyoy
Tymoo readers.
The Pathfinder Timber Sale will
target approximately 38 million board
feet of timber (approximately 9,500
truck loads) in the Upper Warm
Springs watershed. The process for
planning this sale officially began on
June 11 when the project interdisci
plinary team (PIDT) met with Joint
Committee. Subsequent meetings
were held for Agency, Seekseequa and
Simnasho districts, initiating a 90-day
process to complete a draft planning
document. A tour of the proposed
project area will be held on August
29.
The PIDT, which presents infor
mation about the proposed sale to
interested tribal members, is com
prised of individuals from the Natu
ral Resources technical staff and com
mittees. The team includes a fish bi
ologist, forester, wildlife ecologist,
hydrologist, fuels manager, forest en
gineer, silviculturist, archaeologist,
range conservationist, soil scientist,
writereditor and representatives
from Timber Committee, Fish and
In the Tribal Court for the Confederateed Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
To: Frederick Bobb. Public notice of
informal hearing. An informal hearing has
been scheduled with the Warm Springs
Tribal Court on the 21" day of August,
2002, at 2pm. This hearing has been sched
uled at the request of Oregon Student As
sistance Commission for the following rea
son: overdue account.
You are hereby required to appear at this
time on your own behalf. It is important
that you attempt to resolve this issue, in
order to prevent further action against you
in State Court. If you fail to appear at the
scheduled time, the presiding judge may
issue a warrant for your arrest.
Public Notices of
Restraining Orders
To! Trudie Smith, petitioner. Fawn
Dcmui Martinez, respondent. Case No.
R07-02.
Based upon complaintspetitions filed
with this Court, this Court herby orders
FawnDcmui Martinez to restrain him
selfherself from Trudie Smith and from
any manner of communication or contact
in any public or private place including: 410
N.E. Oak No. 9, Madras, including Taco
Time in Madras. There is to be no phone
contact. This order shall remain in effect
until: show cause hearing (sec below).
Doth petitioner and respondent in each
case arc in contempt of court if fails to com
ply with the court restraining order.
Order to show cause: You arc herby or
Wildlife Committee, Water Board and
Warm Springs Forest Products Indus
tries (WSFPI). Presentations made
during the scoping meetings contain
general information regarding the
project area and sale objectives. For
the most part the team has not iden
tified specific blocks to be harvested
or the breakdown of volume per spe
cies. Comments from the scoping meet
ings are used to develop a planning
document known as a project assess
ment. The assessment contains alter
natives for implementing the sale, a
strategy to monitor the sale after it
has been implemented, and mitiga
tion measures to offset negative im
pacts. After considering input from
team members and the tribal public,
the PIDT recommends one of the al
ternatives to the Resource Manage
ment Interdisciplinary Team
(RMIDT) and they in turn release the
assessment for public review. Follow
ing a 30-day review RMIDT attaches
a decision document to the assess
ment and forwards it to Tribal Coun
cil and the BIA superintendent for
final approval. Tribal member com
ments are accepted throughout the
process at the main office of the For
estry Branch.
The entire process and all manage
ment activities related to the forested
area must adhere to goals, standards
and best management practices
adopted under the Integrated Re
sources Management Plan (IRMP) for
dered to appear before the Warm Springs
Tribal Court on the 20th day of August,
2002, at the hour of 11 a.m. To show cause
why this restraining order should or should
not remain in effect.
If you fail to appear as so ordered, the
hearing will proceed and a decision ren
dered. So ordered this 19lh day of July, 2002.
Lola Sohappy, Tribal Judge.
To: Victoria Gerba, petitioner. Tammy
Robinson, respondent. Case No. R018
02. based upon complaintspetitions filed
with this Court, this Court herby orders
Tammy Robinson to restrain himselfher
self from Victoria Gerba and from any
manner of communication or contact in
any public or private place including: 1132
Paiute St. There is to lie no phone contact.
This order shall remain in effect until: show
cause hearing (see below).
both petitioner and respondent are in
contempt of court if fails to comply with
the court restraining order,
Order to show cause: You arc herby or
dered to appear before the Warm Springs
Tribal Court on the 20th cluy of August,
2002, at the hour of 11 a.m. To show cause
why this restraining order should or should
not remain in effect.
If you fail to appear as so ordered, the
hearing will proceed and a decision ren
dered. So ordered this 1') day of July, 2002.
Lola Sohappy, Tribal Judge.
August 8, 2002
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of the tribal member items that were
There have been a lot of
rumors about the mill
shutting down, but there
are no such plans at this
time...
the Forested Area. Federal law, as it
relates to natural resources, empha
sizes the protection of various re
sources. Because the Warm Springs
Tribes shall, as they always have,.iive.
in balance with the land and never
use more of the precious natural re
sources than can be sustained forever,
they do not give up their sovereignty
when abiding federal law.
From 1998 to the present, portions
of five timber sales were conducted
within the bounds of the proposed
Pathfinder Timber Sale. These most
recent sales harvested a net volume
of approximately 28.6 million board
feet of timber (approximately 7,150
truck loads) from about 1,663-for-ested
acres. Other timber harvests
included miscellaneous salvage sales,
which focused primarily on
windthrown material. For the pro
posed Pathfinder sale, projected tim
ber species breakdown and associated
volumes will become available once
the actual treatment areas are identi
fied and prepared for harvest.
Timber sales are designed to sup
port jobs and generate income for the
Confederated Tribes. The price for
timber is based on the quality and size
To: Kerrick Gerba, petitioner. Tammy
Robinson, respondent. Case No. R017
02. Based upon complaintspetitions filed
with this Court, this Court herby orders
Tammy Robinson to restrain himselfher
self from Kerrick Gerba and from any man
ner of communication or contact in any
public or private place including: 1132
Paiute St. There is to be no phone contact.
This order shall remain in effect until: show
cause hearing (see below).
Both petitioner and respondent are in
contempt of court if fails to comply with
the court restraining order.
Order to show cause: You are herby or
dered to appear before the Warm Springs
Tribal Court on the 20th day of August,
2002, at the hour of 11 a.m. To show cause
why this restraining order should or should
not remain in effect.
If you fail to appear as to ordered, the
hearing will proceed and a decision ren
dered. So ordered this 19 day of July, 2002.
Lola Sohappy, Tribal Judge.
To: Alison Mitchell-Schuster, peti
tioner. Wendell Switzlcr, respondent.
Case No. R032-02.
Based upon complaintspetitions filed
with this Court, this Court herby orders
Wendell Switzler to restrain himselfher
self from Alison Mitchell-Schuster and
from any manner of communication or
contact in any public or private place in
Salmon require clear passage
The Fish and Wildlife staff is ask
ing swimmers to think about migrat
ing salmon when they build recre
ational dams for swimming.
Salmon migrations are currently
underway in Shitike, Mill, Badger and
Beaver creeks, and the Warm Springs
River.
The fish are en route to spawning
grounds, where they will produce
future runs of chinook salmon.
As the fish move upstream they are
sometimes confronted with rock bar
riers built by local swimmers who are
Fires raise
By Gerry Shipps
Air Quality Specialist
The air quality at Warm Springs
is usually very healthy and clear, with
unlimited visibility.
Recently, the wildfires in the re
gion, together with unusually high
winds have caused large amounts of
particulate matter in the air.
Coarse and fine air particulates can
be unhealthy for sensitive people such
children, elders, some adults who are
active outdoors, and especially people
with asthma, respiratory or heart dis
ease. The Natural Resources Branch
cautions sensitive people to limit their
time and activity outdoors, because
air particles of this kind can accumu
of logs. Each quarter new prices are
assigned based on how the market
reacts. Logs are scaled and volume is
calculated using a board foot measure.
The U.S. Forest Service and other
agencies are using cubic scale near the
Canadian border, but BIA Forestry
does not utilize this measure.
The Forestry staff develops sus
tainable harvest schedules designating
where, when and how much timber
will be harvested from each watershed
..in ,the.,ommercial forest. WheOf the,
sustainable annual allowable cut does
not meet WSFPI demand, timber is
purchased from outside sources.
Sometimes loggers are shuffled be
tween blocks to meet the market de
mands for timber. When markets fa
vor a particular type of wood, includ
ing species-specific requests for in
cense cedar or other logs, WSFPI
takes advantage of the opportunity.
Profit or risk is a predetermined per
centage the mill can make after the
logs are processed.
A balance between income and
other forest resource values is factored
in during the planning process. There
are seasonal limitations and soil mois
ture restrictions on logging opera
tions, which help to protect vulner
able natural resources or lower road
maintenance costs. Seasonal restric
tions may result in loggers being
moved from one area to another.
There have been a lot of rumors
about the mill shutting down, but
there are no such plans at this time.
cluding: 1311 -B Decrloop and including mi
nor children. There is to be no phone con
tact. This order shall remain in effect until:
show cause hearing (sec below).
Both petitioner and respondent are in
contempt of court if fails to comply with
the court restraining order.
Order to show cause: You are herby or
dered to appear before the Warm Springs
In Warm Springs Tribal Probate of the Confederated Tribes
of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
The following cases and individuals arc
set for informal probate hearings during
August at the Tribal Probate Court.:
August 6, 2002-Tucsday
Melissa Johnson, Probate No. 960-PR07-00,
at 9 a.m.
Nadine Scott, Probate No. 908-PR 10
98, at 10 a.m.
Heather Johnson, Probate No. 987-PR34-00,
at 2 p.m.
Muriel Carrasco, Probate No. 026-PR07-02,
at 3 p.m.
August 8, 2002-Thursday
Beatrice Scott, Probate No. 977-PR10-
87, at 9 a.m.
Vclma Frank, Probate No. 862-PR20-
96, at 10 a.m.
Marilyn Lawcrcnee, Probate No, 863-
PR2I-96, at 2 p.m.
trying to escape the summer heat.
Unfortunately, the barriers that cre
ate excellent swimming holes for hu
mans can also become insurmount
able barriers to salmon.
To avoid potential problems for
salmon, the Fish and Wildlife staff
recommends leaving a minimum two
foot gap in recreational dams so fish
can pass without difficulty.
Gaps should be placed in deep
water portions of the main channel,
giving salmon the right-of-way to
their spawning grounds.
air-quality concern
late in the respiratory system and are
associated with various health effects.
For example, people with heart or
lung diseases such as asthma, long
term lung disease, heart disease or the
elderly are at increased risk of admis
sion to a hospital or emergency room.
Children and people with lung dis
ease may not be able to breathe as
deeply or as fast as they normally
would, and they may experience
coughing and shortness of breathe.
Also high amounts of particulates
can increase the risk of respiratory in
fections and can aggravate respiratory
diseases.
Sensitive groups are therefore
strongly advised to limit their time
and activity under these conditions.
The Pathfinder Timber sale is
proposed for 2004.
However, accessing enough of the
desired logs to maintain operations,
and profitability of the mill are issues
that may have to be addressed in the
future.
WSPFI works with tribal loggers
whenever possible. The length of
time loggers are employed may vary
from year to year due to weather con
ditions, cutting contracts, the num
ber of active timber sales and the al
lowable cut. Some interest in having
a sort yard has been expressed, but
such a venture would only be benefi
cial if value is added to the sort in
order to cover additional handling
costs.
Please see TIMBER SALE on 10
Tribal Court on the 20th day of August,
2002, at the hour of 11 a.m. To show cause
why this restraining order should or should
not remain in effect.
If you fail to appear as so ordered, the
hearing will proceed and a decision ren
dered. So ordered this 19 day of July, 2002.
Lola Sohappy, Tribal Judge.
Clydcll Gilbert, Probate No. 825-PR17-93,
3 p.m.
August 13, 2002-Tucsday
LII'Franny Suppah, Probate No. 586-
PR 10-87, at 9 a.m.
Mary Splno, Probate No. 786-PR17-93,
at 10a.m.
Perry Greene, Probate No. 661-PR17-89,
at 2 p.m.
Woodrow Smith Sr., Probate No. 841-PR33-95,
at 3 p.m.
August 15, 2002-Thursday
Christopher Heath, Probate No. 896-
PR26-97, at 9 a.m.
Ellen Heath, Probate Ncx 623-PR21-88,
at 10 a.m.
Donavan Danzuka, Probate No. 845-PR03-96,
at 2 p.m.
Marcna Miller, Probate No. 846-PR04-96,
at 3 p.m.
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