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April 13, 2006
Young Achiever
Snow pack bodes well for water reserves
(AP) — Oregon’s snow pack
is higher than average this win
ter - good news for farmers,
operators of dams and others
who track the state’s water re
serves.
Statewide, the snow pack is
about 136 percent of average,
said Jon Lea, who is with the
Natural Resources Conserva
tion Service, an agency of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
“It’s almost the flip side of
what it was last year,” when the
snow pack was 38 percent of
average, said Lea, supervisor of
the conservation service’s snow
survey program for Oregon and
Washington state.
The final survey of the sea
son was conducted last week.
There has been one drawback
this winter - warmer tempera
tures that melted snow in low-
lying areas.
“Even though it snowed
quite a bit, it was a relatively
warm winter down low, so the
snow line goes from a lot of
snow to no snow very quickly,”
said Lea. “So, some of our low-
elevation sites are below aver
age.”
For example, Deadhorse
Grade, at 3,700 feet on Santiam
Pass, has 8.4 inches of water
stored in its snow pack, com
pared with 9 inches for the 30-
year average. Twenty-one inches
of snow were recorded at ‘the
site.
Still, after last year, the fro
zen storage is good news for
farmers.
“This spring so far has been
fairly cool, and I know we have
a good snow pack up in the
mountains,” said Larry Trosi of
the Santiam Water Control Dis
trict.
“In the last month or so, the
... river flows have been fairly
low, but I think the reason is it
has been fairly cool, it hasn’t al
lowed the snowpack to begin
melting. At some point, it will
warm up, and we will see higher
Elyse Bagley
river flows.”
Swimmers, boaters and an
glers may have a wet summer
to look forward to.
“Our forecasts are showing
that the reservoirs have a pretty
good probability of filling,” said
Mary Scullion, a hydrologic en
gineer for the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, which regulates
dams. “So, we should have some
pretty good recreation.”
Still, said Lea, “even though
we have a good snow pack, it’s
still worthy to try to conserve
those water resources so that all
users get to tap into some of
that supply.”
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Elyse bagley turns 10
years old Friday, but she
is this edition’s Young
Achiever because o f her
high statewide creative
writing scores. A fourth-
grader at Warm Springs
Elementary School, Elyse
said she likes to write
about her fam ily and the
trips she has taken. She
has been to Portland,
Hoopa, Calif, and
Colorado, but one o f her
most recent trips was to
Southern California,
where she went to
Disneyland and beaches.
She likes to read about
drawing and teaching her
younger cousins about art.
Condors seen in Big Sur
for first time since 1905
BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — California condors are nesting in the
northern part of the state for the first time in more than 100
years, scientists said.
A condor couple was found Monday displaying nesting behavior
inside a hollowed-out redwood tree in Big Sur, a mountainous coastal
region south of Monterey, the Ventana Wildlife Society said Tues
day.
The last known condor egg in Northern California was collected
in 1905.
“For the past 10 years when this sort of thing came up, it turned
out to be just in my dreams,” said Kelly Sorenson, the group’s
executive director. “Now it is a reality.”
The male and female took turns guarding the nest every two or
three days, never leaving it unattended for more than several min
utes, the scientists said.
“Although the view into the cavity is very limited and we can’t
actually see the egg, we strongly suspect they have an egg, based
on their behavior at the nest site,” said Joe Burnett, a wildlife bi
ologist.
Scientists have worked for years to bring the condor back from
the brink of extinction. Condors are among the largest birds na
tive to North America, with a wingspan up to 91/2 feet.
Ventana, a nonprofit group, began releasing condors into the
wild in 1997.
The condor recovery effort has increased the number of birds
tenfold over two decades. But about 40 percent of released con
dors have died because of power lines or attacks by golden eagles,
among other causes.
She has a one-year-old
brother, and she and her
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