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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
October 25, 2007:
Fire camp crews bring local benefits
By Dave McMechan
Spilyay Tymoo
During the summer months.
Warm Springs Fire Management
has more fire; camp crews than
any other organization in the
Northwest.
During the summer months
of this year, seven fire camp
crews from Warm Springs
helped in the response to 15
separate fires in Oregon, Wash
ington arid Idaho.
The Warm Springs fire camp
crew program, in its fourth year,
provides jobs that help the lo
cal economy, said Bobby
Eagleheart, camp crew leader.
During2007, the camp crews
from Warm Springs’ earned to
tal wages of $528,160. The in
come provides a boost, to the
Warm Springs economy, said
Eagleheart. -
The Warm Springs fire camp
crews are very dedicated to their
profession, said Ken Lydy, as
sistant fire management officer
at Warm Springs Fire Manage
ment.
The crew members go
through training in the spring,
in preparation of fire season.
They I»© through the training as
volunteers, without pay, which
shows their dedication, said
Lydy. He mentioned also that he
is trying to find a way to fund
the training sessions, so the
people who participate can be
paid for their time.
The camp crews consist of
the crew leader, and eight to 10*
crew members. They travel by
bus to the fires, and then stay in
the field anywhere from a
couple of days to over a month.
The crews provide support
to wildland fires under any fire
management jurisdiction. In
most Causes the jurisdiction is
that of the U.S. Forest- Service.
The agency of jurisdiction pro-:
vides the funding;
Warm Springs usually has
eight fire camp crews. This year
the number was seyeri,.; as one
camp crew leader was ojat due
to injury. During the summer,
130 people participated in the
¡camp crew^program. They?
logged a total of 46,283, paid
working hours.
High river breaches earthen coffer dam
Leslie Mitts photos
The Recreation
Department sponsored a
“Spooky” Indian Nite Out
Drummerz Jammz
Powwow on Oct. 18 at
the Community Center.
SANDY, Ore. '(AT)‘— The-
first high-river flows of the sea
son triggered the last stages of
the removal of Marmot Datii on
the Sandy Riyer Friday, breach
ing the earthen coffer darn that
held back water during Portland
General Electric's demolition
Crews finished removing the
47-foot-high dam on September
30. Workers had built an eight-
to nine-ftiot-high coffer dam on
top of the reservoir sediment to
keep the work area dry.
The. coffer dam forced the
river to bypass the old dam site.
Scientists and regulators had
decided the best thing was to
allow its autumn flows to re
move the coffer dam and dis
tribute accumulated sediment
behind it.
In 1999, PGE decided to re
move Marmot Dam and the rest
of its Bull Run Hydroelectric
Project; to help threateried
salmon and stedhead runs.
|JjIt was determined .jhat jre-
-‘fritwal' Would "efeST JriSs than’Up-
grading the facility with salmon
* arid steelhead protection "mea-
The event featured
drummers and dancers,
as well as door prizes
and a special “clown”
dance.
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Salmon and steelhead now. human help for the first time
sures and years of expensive
can go to upstream spawning since Marmot Dam eoristruc-
maintenance.
As the' Sandy River rose, grounds without a fish ladder or > tion in the early 20th Century.
demolition crews removed
sump pumps in the coffer dam,
making it more likely to slide
downstream.
‘ A notch was cut in the cof
fer dam, then earth movers
dammed the bypa.ss channel that
had routed river water around
the construction site, building 24 NE Plum S t
additional water pressure on the
in Madras
coffer dam.
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