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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
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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. She said she’d like to
pursue sports medicine because
“I like being around athletes,
and I like helping people out.”
She’s been playing volleyball
since she was in sixth grade, and
she said she’s excited about the
opportunity to travel to The
Netherlands.
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