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Spilyay Tyvnoo, Warm Springs, Oregon July 22, 2004 Pqge7 Kulongoski opposes BPA summer spill plan PORTLAND (AP) - Gov. Ted Kulongoski said Friday the state will join a lawsuit filed by environmental ists, fishermen and Northwest Indian tribes to block the Bonneville Power Administration summer spill plan for salmon. Kulongoski is the only one of four Northwest governors to oppose the plan to reduce spills at four hydroelec tric dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in August. Kulongoski said state and tribal bi ologists estimate the spillway closures will kill about 500,000 migrating juve nile salmon, which eventually will trans late to up to 20,000 fewer adult salmon returning to the Columbia River in four to five years. The Bonneville plan is aimed at bal ancing salmon conservation with en ergy demand as required under the Northwest Power Act. But Kulongoski said the plan does too much damage to salmon runs. In stead, he is urging BPA and the Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the dams, to upgrade fish passage systems. "We need to implement a long-term solution that can achieve the dual goals of power generation and fish recov ery," the governor said. "Simply shut ting off water spills is not the best way to meet all the competing economic needs." U.S. District Judge James Redden has scheduled a July 28 hearing on the lawsuit. The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs are among the tribes of the Columbia that are very strongly against the BPA plan to curtail sum mer spilling. Jffl ( ... ,:'.WK id': -y: ... i A m a r - " .r - ! Pholo by Jottnt Botit, ubmtiltd by litnt Towa. The Jefferson County Majors All-Stars won at districts recently. The tournament was held in Hermiston. The team lost at state, though, this past weekend In a tournament held in Gresham. Museum features native plant exhibit GOLDENDALE, Wash. (AP) - As they journeyed West in their search for a passage to the Pacific Ocean, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were struck by the sturdy yellow flow ers with the large, arrow-shaped leaves growing by the Columbia River. The arrowleaf balsamroot, a regu lar source of food and medicine for American Indian tribes in the North west, was one of 176 plant specimens - 45 in the Northwest - collected and documented by the Corps of Discov ery close to 200 years ago. The flower inspired Indian artists, who recreated the sunflower-like im- age on leather beaded bags. Decades ; later, contemporary artists photo ; graphed and painted delicate watercol ors featuring the wildflower. Now, the Maryhill Museum of Art ! celebrates the passions inspired by na ; tive plants with an exhibit that includes : study specimens from the Corps of : Discovery, early 20th century photo graphs, American Indian basketry and i beadwork, and contemporary works of ; art. "The plants are the focus. They en i dure, and all these people have seen J different things about them," said : Lynette Miller, guest curator for the exhibit from the Washington State His torical Society. Lee Musgrave, special projects of ficer for the Maryhill Museum of Art, agreed. "You have Native American objects from the times of Lewis and Clark, then you have the Lewis and Clark specimens. Then, more than 100 years later, you have contemporary works of art," he said. "To see it interpreted by such a variety of people in such dif ferent ways, that's what enriches our lives. It's wonderful to have something that almost anyone will find appealing to them." The exhibit running through Nov. 15 centers on 12 to 15 plants docu menting what Lewis and Clark saw, how American Indians viewed and used the plants and what inspiration contempo rary artists have drawn from them. Photographs of the original her barium sheets created by Lewis and Clark, which were provided by the Academy of Natural Sciences in Phila delphia, join early 20th century hand tinted photographs by Northwest pho tographer Albert Barnes. The images of cattails, wild roses, bluebells, lilies and other plants adorn beaded bags, gloves and leggings cre ated by American Indian artists in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Coiled bas kets woven from beargrass and cedar root add dimension to the exhibit. More important, they stress what American Indians have known for cen turies: these plants add significance to our lives, said Ella Jean Jim, a member of the Klamath band of Indians from the Yakama Nation who lives near Goldendale. "Time changes everything. Fifty years, 100 years, 200 years ago, these plants were everywhere," Jim said. "What was is not what is now, but it can be revived. It can be brought back. It can come alive again." The contemporary artists, too, had a deep desire to see the environment preserved a trait they all had in com mon, Musgrave said. And finding the artwork was easy. "When we started this project and determined we wanted to include con temporary artists, I thought we'd have a difficult time finding artists who fo cused on plants related to Lewis and Clark. Then we started looking and found them all over the place," he said. They include delicate watercolors by Rebecca Allan and bold photographs by Ineke de Lange and Ron van Dongen. Kay French of Portland drew inspi ration from the original herbarium sheets created by Lewis and Clark to document their botanical finds. Her romantic acrylic paintings on wood in clude numbers and figures alongside the plants, flowers and bugs. "It was quite a feat, what they col lected," she said. "I deal with plants that would be found in an imaginary para dise bighead clovers, chickweed, desert parsley. When I work, I often alter them, but in this situation I tried to be more reasonably accurate and faithful to the plant. That was a chal lenge to me." Some of the artists researched Lewis and Clark's botanical contribu tions before creating their work. Stephan Soihl, also of Portland, cre ated watercolors and mixed-media prints that feature the love for the wil derness he shares with the Corps of Discovery. "It was 200 years ago and things were very "Wild out here. It's kind' of wonderful because it's what I've loved for many years, and to have a chance to put what I would enjoy doing any way to good use as part of the Lewis and Clark commemoration, it's been wonderful to me." Deer, elk permits available Deer and elk hunting permits are available for Pine Creek, Oxbow, and Forrest Conservation properties in the John Day Basin. Applications are due by July 31, and permits will be awarded by lot tery. Permits are divided equally be tween tribal members and the gen eral public. Tribal members will need to use a Ceded Area tag, and may apply for one deer and one elk season. Non-tribal members must hold an appropriate unit tag. For more information about Pine Creek, call 541-489-3477; for more information about the Oxbow and Forrest properties, call the John Day Basin Office at 541-820-3568 or 541-421-3931. On tint catalog PRINTING llBti(HV) Tribal Business Cards I jtMrmiLvt;i;frv,rMM:H i Business Forms For Conventions, Workshops EnvelopesLetterheads Sports Awards, Pow-wow, Golf Tourn. Raffle Tickets Child Awards, Giveaways, Gaming C pS, ptftf, t-ihiib, tnuyS, tajS, ttt. -. lEmbroidery - screen printing) jffif Hand-painted murals and designing. Jrv CZ TO fl Signage: Wood, plastic, metal, & vinyl " graphics si promotions : c& 9234377 Warm Springs, please support the businesses you see in the Spilyaj Tymoo. Endangered wolf killed ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a federal sharpshooter has killed an endangered Mexican gray wolf that was preying on cattle on an Indian reserva tion in Arizona. Trappers had been trying to capture the wolf, a member of the Saddle Pack, since March but the rough terrain and the wolfs erratic movements made it too difficult. The wolf was tracked to the San Carlos Apache reservation on Sunday and killed with a single gunshot, said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Elizabeth Slown. The agency decided in June to au thorized the lethal action, marking the second time federal agents have killed a wolf in the New Mexico-Arizona re gion since the Mexican wolf reintro duction program began in 1998. "Lethal take is our last choice for removing wolves," said Dale Hall, di rector of the agency's southwest region. 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