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Page 9 March 2, 2006 Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon One out of every four endangered species dollars goes to salmon (AP) — Northwest popula And the cost promises to rise. tions of Pacific salmon ac The Bush administration says it counted for one of every four will spend $6 billion over the state and federal dollars spent next 10 years to modify eight on saving endangered or threat federally owned hydroelectric ened species during 2004, ac dams on the Snake and Colum cording to a new report by the bia rivers to make them less le U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. thal to salmon. Government agencies spent Cost is increasingly becoming $393 million on helping the five a factor in the debate over how Pacific salmon species protected best to restore struggling salmon by the Endangered Species Act runs. — chinook, steelhead, coho, sock- “Virtually everyone in the re eye and chum. Total government gion supports recovery,” said spending for 1,838 listed species Bob Lohn, Northwest regional was $1.4 billion, the report said. director of NOAA Fisheries, the federal agency responsible for restoring salmon. “The debate is about the most effective way to get there and whether it can be done as effectively at a lower cost. “The ESA plainly makes the value decision that not only is it worth it, but we’ve got to do it,” he added. “That decision is made for us.” Salmon compete for water and habitat with hydroelectric dams, irrigation withdrawals, barge transportation, shipping channels, logging, livestock graz Marrow transplant screening at clinic ing and urban development. And federal plans to minimize the harm from those competing in terests in the Columbia Basin _ particularly the dams _ have yet to get approval from a federal judge making sure they measure up to the demands of the En dangered Species Act. Reps. Greg Walden, R-Ore., Brian Baird, D-Wash., and Norm Dicks, D-Wash., have held a series of hearings putting more pressure on sport and commercial fishing and hatch eries to contribute. Endangered condor lays rare egg PORTLAND (AP) - Tama, the Oregon Zoo’s most prolific California condor, has produced a rare egg at the zoo’s Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conserva tion. But zookeepers were unable to confirm the egg, laid Feb. 16, until the next day because Tama and her mate, Mandan, started making nest switches, and the female was nesting in the only spot not covered by a video sur veillance camera. Zookeepers waited until Tama had left the nest room before examining her egg. “When she went outdoors, we quickly dropped the door behind her, did our work, then raised the door,” said Shawn St. Michael, assistant condor cura tor. “She was back on her egg within minutes. The egg looked great. It has a thick shell, with no flaws or thin spots.” If things go well keepers will leave the egg with Tama and Mandan for a week, then re move the egg to check its vi- ability. If it is determined to be viable, keepers will double clutch the egg, meaning they will incubate it artificially in hopes the condors produce another egg. Once removed, the artifi cially incubated egg will be moni tored until it almost hatches, then placed back with its con dor parents. If Tama produces a second egg, the new egg will be allowed to stay with her and her mate for natural parent rearing. The Oregon Zoo joined the California Condor Recovery Program in 2003. The zoo cur rently has 16 condors and re leased one condor to the wild last year. The 16 condors came from team members at the Los An geles Zoo, San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park and the Per egrine Fund’s World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho. The Oregon facility’s goal is to produce up to 32 young a year. (Note: the following was sub mitted by a department o f the Warm Springs IHS Clinic.) Recently an individual di agnosed with leukemia was told that all conventional treatment options had been exhausted. The one option left is a bone marrow trans plant. Bone marrow transplants have to be much more spe cific than kidney or liver transplants. The National Bone Marrow Donor Pro gram contacted the Warm Springs IHS recently and asked if the program could have a donor drive in Warm Springs for this person. The person with leukemia has numerous relatives on the Warm Springs, Umatilla and Yakama reservations, ft* is extremely important to find a close match. The bone marrow drive will be in the Tribal Confer-" > n, ence Room at the Warm Springs Health and Wellness" Center from 9 a.m. to 1 p.rri. on Wednesday, March 8. All that is required is to ' fill out a short form and( donate a small amount o f' blood. There will be a Na tional Bone Marrow Pro-' gram coordinator, Delores Rue-Jones, present to answer questions and provide infor-" mation. Please help. Come and be screened on March 8 at thé ■' Warm Springs clinic. Boyd, Culpus to wed on March 25 , Family (Continued from page 1) Amanda said she likes living on a ranch, other than the fact “there’s not many people around to play with.” The closest are cousins who live about a mile from her house. Like most kids her age, Amanda said she has no set idea what she’d like to do when she grows up. She knows she wants to go to college eventually. This particular week, she said she was interested in joining the U.S. Army. On this particular Saturday afternoon, there was a bit of a chill in the air and a breeze but one not as strong as earlier in the week. The biggest thing to be careful of was the mud, Edison said. “You’ve got to stay ahead of the mud,” he said, meaning that the softer the ground gets from rain and snowmelt, the easier the cattle can stir up the ground. Then it becomes difficult to ma neuver the pickup with the hay. The trick, he said, is to distrib ute the alfalfa in different spots in the pasture. Once at the haystack at Teri Jo and Amanda’s grandparents’ house, Edison and Amanda jumpstart the International Har vester 706 Diesel tractor, and it eventually runs, allowing him to fork three bales of alfalfa onto the back of the truck. They drive out to what looks to be a solid spot in the pasture, and as Edison slowly drives the pickup, Amanda breaks off flakes of hay and kicks them over the side. Cattle from older bulls and steers to new-born calves mill around, the older ones looking for food, the younger ones looking for the mother cows. This daily routine reminds Edison of his childhood in Ari zona, when he and his grandfa ther would round up cattle on horseback and drive them to a mesa, where they would graze and be branded. “He and I’d be up there cowboying all week, and we’d be up there two months, branding,” he said. Brian Mortensen/Spilyay Amanda helps with the ranch work. The roundup would last for weeks or even all summer. Of course, being raised on a ranch, both Teri Jo and Amanda know how to rope and ride. Teri Jo used to barrel race in rodeos in Warm Springs and at Grande Ronde, and Amanda was once in a roping contest against an other girl where they both hit the target more than 30 times before the duel was called a draw. The children have been able to achieve success in athletics and in the classroom. Amanda takes honors classes and has a 3.9 grade-point average. Her mother said their success is be cause of the constant business of the farm and their union as a family. The older sister Teri Jo said she likes Chemawa, having started this year. “It’s a good school,” she said. “I can be in dependent there. You can do things on your own, by your self.” She said there are now eight students at Chemawa from Warm Springs, and she said she sees them around but mostly hangs around people from her dormitory. Her roommate is from the Yakama Reservation. Even though she lives more than two hours away from home, she sees her family ev ery two weeks when her parents visit or pick her up and take her back to the ranch. Teri Jo said she appreciates life on the farm. “It’s fun,” she said. “It teaches you how to work and it keeps you out of trouble. My favorite part of it’s being with my sister. We were always doing stuff together.” Teri Jo said she plans to go to college at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kan., where a number of stu dents from Warm Springs have attended. 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