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Spilyqy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
May 13, 2004
Condor hatches at Oregon Zoo
I PORTLAND (AP) - The
first California condor chick
born in Oregon in more than a
century couldn't have picked a
better day to come into the world
f Mother's Day.
, The chick started to hatch
Thursday at the Oregon Zoo's
hew Condor Creek Conserva
tion Facility in rural Clackamas
County. It was finally out on
Sunday, more than eight weeks
after it was laid.
J "I'm very relieved the chick
lias survived hatching," said Joe
Burnett, the zoo's assistant cu
rator for condors. "I latching is
life and death struggle, but this
Js just the beginning for this
thick." The arrival pushes the
endangered condor population
to 233 birds. In 1982, it had
dwindled to 22.
j The Oregon Zoo bolstered
he California Condor Recovery
Program's two-decade effort to
restore the species when it
opened the worlds fourth con
dor breeding operation last fall.
But when 12 of the prehistoric
looking birds moved to Oregon
in November, keepers doubted
they'd produce any eggs the first
year.
On March 10, however,
Tama-Yawut laid a 4.3-inch-long,
gray-green egg, weighing a
little more than 10 ounces. Con
dor eggs lose weight during in
cubation as liquid inside the shell
evaporates; chicks routinely
weigh 5 to 8 ounces at hatch;
this egg was larger than most.
By the time the chick born
Sunday is 6 months old, it will
be full-grown, weighing about 20
pounds and standing about 3
feet tall. Its wings will stretch 9
to 10 feet.
Tama and her mate, Mandan,
Fisheries
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I Eileen Spino, foreman; An
thony Culps, Earl Charley Sr.,
Sandra McGill, Robert Strong,
Robert Lucci, Valerie Fuiava,
prancelia Wheeler, Floyd Frank
Sr., Davis Sohappy, Mitchell
VChitefoot, Tilden McDonald
and Pam Cardenas.
! Soliz said the results of the
i
team's work are significant: The
team was so good, they finished
the contract two weeks early.
"We were told that our team clip
ping was significantly better than
other well-experienced groups,
and fewer fish died," said Soliz.
The team earned for the
Confederated Tribes an oppor
tunity to be one of three groups
targeted for an upcoming 15
million fish clipping job at Hood
River.
"Our team has earned the
respect from the regional office
of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice," she said. "When we
started they had some reserva
tions that we could be reliable
and productive to the level
needed, due to years past occur
rences," said Soliz.
, With the project successfully
pomplete, "The community
should be very, very proud of
the 2004 fish clippingmarking
team, and let them know this
When you see them. They
worked very hard and did an
exceptional job representing the
tribal membership."
! Soliz has established contact
with 33 state operated fish
hatcheries, sending letters to
each of them. She was able to
talk with 18 state hatchery man
agers by phone. "There are
some possibilities developing,"
said Soliz, "that would take
Warm Springs fish clippers
markers to work around differ
ent parts of the state, if sup
ported by tribal officials."
There may be opportunities
with the nearby Round Butte
hatchery, which would require
cooperation among the tribes,
the Round Butte hatchery, the
Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission, BPA and oth
ers, said Soliz.
Also, she said, there is a
hatchery in eastern Oregon that
already works with Native
Americans from Umatilla and
Kamiah, and said they would
welcome some Warm Springs
tribal members to get involved
with their fish hatchery project.
"The big vision of creating
jobs through fish marking is to
try to bring it to the point of
our people being able to work
from hatchery to hatchery by
season, which can end up being
yearly work opportunities -making
good money and getting
their own contracts," said Soliz.
"Fish and Indian people are a
natural combination when it
comes to job creation."
She said, "Another spin off
could be getting our young
people interested enough to pur
sue a college education in fish
eries or fish and wildlife biol-
ogy."
had already produced 1 1 chicks
and were among the most reli
able breeders at the Los Ange
les Zoo before they moved to
Oregon. But given her age - es
timated at 30 or older - keep
ers didn't know whether she still
could breed.
Five days after Tama laid the
egg, Burnett snatched it from
the nest and placed it in an in
cubator - a move designed to
encourage her to lay a second
egg. Sure enough, she did. Us
ing a camera hidden in the nest
box, Burnett watched Tama lay
a second egg on April 27.
Condors, native to Oregon,
were revered by some Ameri
can Indian tribes, and were sub
jects of curiosity for explorers
Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark. The last wild condor
sighting in Oregon was in 1904,
near Drain.
Seminoles open hotel, casino
$279 million project
HOLLYWOOD, Fla.(AP)
- The Seminole Hard Rock
Hotel & Casino will open
Tuesday with all the glamour
of a Las Vegas event.
The $279 million project's
opening is expected to draw
1,500 people who will attend
a brunch, poolside dinner and
a performance by 1 luey I.ewis
& The News.
"We could pick this thing
up and put it in the middle
of the Las Vegas strip or At
lantic City boardwalk and it
could compete," said James F.
Allen, chief executive of
gaming operations for the
Seminole Tribe of Florida.
A $167 million sister Hard
Rock casino in Tampa opened
in March. The casinos are ex
pected to bring in an estimated
$1 billion in annual revenue.
Existing Seminole operations in
I lollywood, Coconut Creek and
elsewhere already bring in more
than $300 million in profit each
year. For all but Native Ameri
cans, who are allowed to offer
gaming on their reservations, ca
sinos are illegal in Florida.
"I think it's going to be a tre
mendous' success. There's a
huge untapped market for ca
sino gambling in Florida," said
Michael K. Evans, chairman of
Evans, Carroll & Associates, a
Boca Raton consultancy that
tracks the casino industry. "The
Seminoles are filling a huge
void."
The hotel in 1 lollywood has
500 rooms, 4,000 video gaming
machines, poker tables and sev
eral restaurants. The public area
has large ballrooms and a six
acre pool site with a 180-foot
water slide. Guest rooms in
clude marble and granite
baths and sweeping balconies
overlooking the 100-acre site.
The casino does not offer
blackjack or table games such
as craps or roulette, which are
illegal under state law.
Tampa Hard Rock is al
ready exceeding the Semi
noles' expectations, Allen said.
The resort is drawing 20,000
patrons a day on weekends,
he said. He predicts the new
est resort will draw 12,000 to
18,000 visitors on weekdays
and 25,000 to 30,000 on week
ends, most from within a
three-hour driving distance.
Allen said the tribe plans to
market the casino through ad
vertising campaigns on net
work television; radio, print
and billboards, mainly in East
Coast locations.
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