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.Pqge 8 &oddn' 4-H: "(Continued from page 1) Working for him, Bullcr learned about horses, and the experience has been a part of his life ever since. Last fall Buller was teaching at Jefferson County Middle School, when he got to know Jasper Smith, one of his eighth grade students from Simnasho. They shared a common inter est, riding horses. Buller began meeting with Smith and other young people at Simnasho for informal riding sessions. Butch David, Warm Springs liaison at the middle school, helped Buller meet other families in the Simnasho area. Soon there was a core group of riders who were meeting ev ery week. They would spend some time riding and learning skills needed for ranching. Then they would have a barbecue. The parents thought it was a good thing, and the young people liked it too. About this time Fara Currim became the Warm Springs OSU Extension Office agriculture agent. As part of her work with livestock on the reservation, Currim wants to see young tribal members involved in cattle ; ranching. She thought the i Rockin' 4-H Club would be the perfect way, but the club needed I to be revived. The first thing was to find a club leader, so she approached : Buller, who agreed to take on I Yakamas prepare to study TOPPENISH, Wash. (AP) -1 The faded gray stallion with four white socks and a long face fer tvently nods his head, serving t notice not to come any closer to his herd. Moments later, I startled by a sudden movement, ;the horses kick up a cloud of dust as they storm across the ; hillside, disappearing behind a ridge. : The stallion is just one of several thousand wild horses I thundering across south-central ."Washington's Yakama Indian Reservation. Their exact num bers are unknown. But in the desert scrubland known as Dry I Creek, tribal wildlife officials know there are too many to : share habitat with the native Salmon: chemicals found in wild and hatchery fish (Continued from page 1) The highest levels were in Scotland, where the fish tested at almost 4 ppb. It's unclear exactly how the PBDEs leach out of products, but they've have been turning up in everything from house hold dust to women's breast milk. "Add this study to the mount ing evidence that shows the PBDEs are in the environment and moving up the food chain," said Ivy Sager-Rosenthal of People for Puget Sound, an en vironmental group. The study's lead author, In diana University professor Ronald Hites, said it "was a real surprise to us" to learn that some wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest had levels as high or higher than farmed fish. Studies of Puget Sound chinook and coho also have shown levels of PCBs on par with farmed fish. Besides Hites, the study in volved researchers from Cornell University, the University at Al bany, the Midwest Center for Environmental Science and Pub lic Policy and AXYS Analytical Services. The source of PBDE con tamination is likely the salmon's food. Farmed fish eat a fish meal made from ground-up smaller fish, and Chinook also T 0 I 1 . - :av V 0 the task. They went to Tribal Council with the suggestion that the 4-H pastures again be put to use by the Rockin' 4-H Club. The Council was enthusiastic in its support, as this kind of project - encouragement of young tribal members - is a top priority of the Council. Donations of cattle for the species they aim to restore to the land. "We know just by observa tion that there are problems -inbreeding, overgrazing, lack of range management. We know that they have displaced other natural species, such as deer and elk, in some places of the res-' ervation," said E. Arlen Washines, wildlife manager for the Yakama Nation. "But we don't know what's needed to fix that, to create a balance." The Yakama Nation has be gun preparing a wildlife manage ment plan they believe will bet ter help them understand how plants and animals best coexist on the reservation. They also hope to reintroduce some na Health authorities and scientists urged people to continue eating salmon, which is a good source of protein and fatty acids. eat smaller fish. The other salmon species generally eat lower on the food chain, feed ing on jellyfish and planktoa Pol lutants such as PBDEs, PCBs and mercury tend to build up in animals, concentrating in organ isms higher on the food chain, such as orcas and people. Unlike other pollutants, there are no dietary recommendations restricting how much PBDE is safe for people to eat Health authorities and scien tists urged people to continue eating salmon, which is a good source of protein and fatty ac ids. PBDEs and PCBs concen trate in the fatty tissue of the fish, so removing the skin and using cooking methods that al low fat to drip off can reduce exposure. Next month, the state Ecol ogy Department plans to release a draft version of a plan to re duce PBDEs. "These things shouldn't be out in the environment when we don't know what their effects are," Sager-Rosenthal said. I V 4 Spilyay Tyrooo, Back in A ' VV ' J J : r m . f L' ''Avt 1 . er m " 1 t ' v Jasper Smith and Leander Smith on their horses. newly reformed club are com ing from Tribal Councilman Buck Smith and his son Jason Smith, Council members Rita and Earl Squiemphen, Council man Raymond Tsumpti, and Secretary-Treasurer Jody Calica. The hope is for each Rockin' 4-H Club member to have two cattle, said Currim. And along wild horses tive species that haven't been seen in the area for decades, in cluding pronghorn antelope, big horn sheep and sage grouse. But to reintroduce native species, the tribes first must learn more about the wild horses that roam freely across the land and their habitat. ' , Research has shown that wild horse herds across the West are the descendants of horses brought to North America by the Europeans. Whether horses were extinct on the continent before the Ice Age remains un der debate. American Indians believe the horse was already on the land, much like any other native spe cies, Washines said. Spill (Continued from page 1) But Redden rejected the analysis, calling it "arbitrary and capricious." In their lawsuit and their ar guments to Redden in court, conservation groups said more than a half million young salmon could die if spills were reduced at the Bonneville, John Day, The Dalles and Ice Harbor dams. r 1. CZnSUPERMARKETSCl 1 . Warm Springs, Oregon the saddle again JV . . A .: with the livestock will come re sponsibility, and in the long run a profit. "We're trying to build stew ards of the range, to support a cattle industry that is geared to the uniqueness of the reserva tion," said Currim. Part of this involves horsemanship, as the reservation rangeland can't be 15 off Dinette Sets Aug 1-31 6500 raw - c' We now have DRY ICE j- ..A. - Dave McMechaiVSpilyay worked only with trucks and 4 wheelers, she said. So there are many aspects to Rockin' 4-H: horseback riding and horsemanship, cattle-working skills, ranch management and business skills, roping, ani mal doctoring and breeding. "The kids are going to have their own cattle ranch," said Currim. ,,4.-,. Lift Chairs uurrentiy special order item. Ralph's 561 SW Madras, Assorted flavors Cool-Aid 10 for $1.00 mix or match (no sugar added) August 19, 2004 wypF-w ..v-pip j 11 1 " Chris Buller, 4-H leader This won't happen overnight, and that is a good thing. "These are long-term goals, and when you're thinking about the future, you have hope," said Buller. "This is something the kids can feel is uniquely theirs in Warm Springs, and they can have pride in where they live and in what they're doing. A blessing of the reservation is the 60,000 square miles of range." Rockin' 4-H can be a way for the generations of people on the reservation to learn from one another. "There are elders in the community who are not con nected with the youth," said Buller. "And the youth want to know what the elders know." And as much as anything else, the Rockin' 4-H Club is about having a good time. "The kids would be out here every day riding if they could," said Buller. r;.V ':";.;'! .."."5 a Furniture & T.V. (541)475-2578 525 S.E. 5th St. Madras, OR 97741 Edward & Donna Hagedom, owners 4th Street OR 97741 475-3637