Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
August 19, 2004
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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-
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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.
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(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.
The Eyerly sale was the first
in Central Oregon to be declared
an emergency by the government.
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