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July 22, 2004
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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.
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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.
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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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