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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon August 19, 2004 Page 3 New tribal commitee members begin work The newly chosen mem bers of the tribal committees took the oath of office last week, Ind held their first gatherings. The committees of the tribes are Culture and Heri tage, Education, Fish and Wildlife on- and ofT-rcserva-tion, Health and Welfare, Land-Use Planning, Range and Agriculture, Timber, and the Water Board. The members of the Cul ture and Heritage Committee are Gladys Thompson, Madeline Mclnturff, Emily Waheneka, Margaret Suppah, Joe Henry and Geraldine Jim. The Education Committee members are Dorothea Barney, Marie Calica, Ginger Smith and JoAnn Smith. The Fish and Wildlife Off Reservation Committee members are Bruce Jim Sr., Leslie Bill, Gerald Danzuka and Ryan Smith. Fish and Wildlife On-Res-ervation Committee mem bers are Jonathan Smith, Gary M. McBride and Emerson Squiemphen. Health and Welfare Com- y ,, a a a .ja m H 1 "- www- I I 1 1 1 TW mittee members are Urbana Manion, Janice Clements, Geneva Charley and Dorothea Barney. Dave McMechaa Spilyay The committee members for Land-Use Planning are Rafael Qucahpama, Fritz Miller, Jimmy Tohct and Gene Smith. Above and at left, the new committee members take the oath of office, administered by Paul Young of the BIA. The Range and Ag Com mittee members are Jacob Frank, Jimmy Tohct, Irene Towe and Carmclla Scott. The Timber Committee in cludes Ken Miller, with other members not yet confirmed. Water Board members are Raymond Tsumpti Jr., Dclford Johnson and Roy Spino. Timber salvage planned after Log Springs fire The tribal Timber Commit tee will host two scoping meet ings to discuss the proposed sal vage of trees killed during the recent Log Springs Fire. The meetings are being scheduled to gather tribal mem ber comments regarding the sal vage effort. The first meeting is scheduled for August 19 at Agency Longhouse and the second will be August 24 at Simnasho Longhouse. Both meetings start at 6 p.m. Refreshments will be served. The Log Springs Fire con sumed approximately 13,000 acres near Simnasho Bulte. The fire-killed trees arc lo cated within the commercial forest and conditional use areas. A number of allotments were also impacted by the fire. Tribal members who would like to comment on the project are urged to attend one of the meetings. Staff from the Natural Re sources and Forestry branches will be on hand to answer questions. -f, J; H , .,"; -Demolition v' ' ; f . , v . , -Driveways r-: "TP S0lt H v m -Water, sewer hookups (541) 553-1471 L'?'vs -Cattle guards P.O. Box 535 -Home sites Warm Springs, OR 97761 -Debris removal CB No. 89498 -Rock products Locally owned and operated All work guaranteed Scientists listen for sound of salmon Ad for the Spilyay? Call 553-3274. The Spilyay Tymoo reaches more tribal member households than any other newspaper in Oregon. (AP) - A new tracking sys tem at the mouth of the Colum bia River is allowing scientists to study how dams are affecting threatened and endangered salmon. Until now, no one has been able to track what happens to salmon during their final migra tion to the sea once they pass Bonneville Dam, almost 150 miles upriver. The federal government spends more than $700 million a year in the Columbia River Basin to sustain and rebuild salmon runs. The spending, however, has not turned things around for many stocks, particu larly those bound to the farthest upriver reaches of the Snake River, past eight large hydro power projects. The Corps of Engineers, which runs the Columbia's ex tensive system of hydroelectric dams, spent close to $2 million to develop the new tracking sys tem. To track the fish, biologists suspended two rows of auto mated electronic sensors, called hydrophones, to listen for baby salmon passing by. The sensors pick up recorded pinging signals sent from transmitters im planted in a thousand smolts. "We'd like to know how much mortality is due to travel through the hydropower system, then try to manipulate the sys tem to reduce the causes of that mortality," said Lynn McComas, a fisheries biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Ser vice. The detectors float about 15 to 25 feet below the surface of the river and about 15 feet from the river bottom, tethered to a heavy steel anchor. "We have detections from several hundred fish, of the 923 released, and have some great new insights about how long it takes these fish to get to the ocean from Bonneville Dam," said Geoff McMichael of the Battelle Pacific Northwest Na tional Laboratory in Richland, which helped develop the sys tem. Based on a preliminary analy sis, he says juvenile Chinook take about three days to make the trip. The trial run also shows it's possible to pinpoint where in the river channel fish migrate, and how tides and daylight af fect their entry into the ocean. Assuming funding comes through, the re'searchers expect to place a larger set of hydro phones next year and complete a full survival study on juvenile Chinook salmon from Bonneville Dam to the ocean. "At the end of all this, we'll have a monitoring function to see how change in the manage ment of the hydro system and changes in hatchery releases af fect survival in the lower river," McMichael said. Eyerly fire salvage sale attracts no bidders (AP) - A sale of timber sal vaged from 2002's Eyerly Fire in Central Oregon attracted not a single bidder this week, with most concluding that the timber was too old to be of any value. In a salvage sale, trees killed, or otherwise damaged in a fire, are sold and logged. Dead trees can lose their value quickly be cause they are especially vulner able to rot, insects - which can stain the wood blue - and, even tually, more fires. "It's two-plus years old, it's blue-buggy, the sap is shot and it's just uneconomical," said Dan Bishop, timber lands manager for Prairie Wood Products in Prairie City, of the wood in cluded in the sale. Forest Service officials say they have not yet decided what to do about the timber burned in the 23,573-acre Eyerly Fire, but acknowledged that whatever happens, they'll have to act quickly. Sisters District Ranger Bill Anthony said that he hopes to repackage the sale, and lower the price, in order to attract a bid der. About 6.8 million board feet of timber went up for sale last week, at a starting price of $28.50 per 1,000 board feet. Anthony said the sale took two years to coordinate because his district has been busy with several large wildfires and a handful of lawsuits and appeals filed by conservationists. Environmentalists who op pose salvage logging said they were far from declaring the stalled sale a victory. "First of all, this isn't the whole sale, (it's) just one small part of it. And second of all, there's no reason why they wouldn't just lower the price and re-sell it," said James Johnston, executive director of the Cascadia Wildlands Project. Last week, the Forest Service gave the Eyerly sale emergency status under new legislation backed by the Bush administra tion that eliminates the usual 105-day waiting period for ap peals after a timber sale. Under the legislation, an emergency can be declared if waiting for appeals would cause a "substantial loss of economic value" to the government. 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