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July 2, 2009 Spiiyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Page 10 Howkak Tichum D onald Sherman Holliday, 1946-2009 D o n a ld S h e rm a n Holliday, a resident o f Warm Springs, passed away on June 25, 2009 at his residence. Mr. Holliday was b o rn on A p ril 26, 1946 in W arm S p rin g s to S h e rm a n an d Velma (Ritter) Holliday. H e was a lifetime resident o f Warm Springs and an en ro lle d m e m b e r o f th e Confedeated Tribes o f Warm Springs. Mr. H o llid ay w as e m ployed as a mill worker for Warm Springs Forest Prod ucts Industries. Mr. Holliday is survived by his father, Sherman o f Warm Springs; ch ild ren A n n ette Susan Polk, M orris D onald Holliday, Vernon Wolfeman S u p p ah an d S onja D aw n H o llid ay , all o f W arm S p rin g s; b ro th e rs E d d y Holliday o f California; Lyle Ray H o llid a y o f W arm Springs; and G ary Holliday o f Madras; sisters Rose Mary Ali and G loria W arner o f Warm Springs; 15 grandchil dren, eight great grandchil dren. His m other, and chil dren Rhonda, Sterling and T rav is p re c e d e d h im in death. Tour, meetings set for Palomar pipeline proposal T here will be a tour o f the proposed Palomar N atural Gas Pipeline on July 7. People wish ing to participate should gather outside the Tribal Administra tion Building beginning at 8:30 a.m. S coping m eetings fo r the P alom ar Pipeline p ro ject are scheduled for July 8 at Simnasho Longhouse (Simnasho District) and July 9 at Agency Longhouse (Agency and Seekseequa dis tricts). Both meetings begin at 6 p.m. R e p re se n ta tiv e s fro m Palomar and from the Confed erated Tribes will be at the meet ings to answer questions and gather tribal m em ber input. T h e p ro p o sed natural gas pipeline would enter the reser v atio n o n th e n o rth w e s te rn boundary and take a diagonal course to Pelton Reregulating Reservoir. T he project on the reservation would connect with a natural gas pipeline running from the lower Columbia River to east Jefferson County. Coquille Tribe celebrates restoration anniversary COO S BAY (AP) - The C oquille Indian T ribe cel ebrated the 20th anniversary o f its restoration this p a st weekend. T he tribe reinstituted an annual salmon ceremony the year before its 1989 restora tion, and a similar salm on d in n e r h ig h lig h te d th is weekend's celebration. T ribal leaders say they Public Notice: Atten tion all Warm Springs and Simnasho Schoolie Flats water users: As a public water sys tem, we are required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) want to continue building on the tribe's success, w ith self- sufficiency a primary goal. Ed Metcalf, the chairman o f the tribal council, says that means supplying trib al m em b ers w ith e d u catio n , jo b s an d medical care. T he tribe con sists o f 905 members. Coos C ounty is hom e to 295 o f them, and another 165 live in four surrounding counties. under the 1996 amend ments to the Safe Drink ing Water (SDWA) to pub lish the Consumer Confi dence Report (CCR). Copies are available by calling the Water Treat ment Plant at 553-1472. Horses: In time there will be no buyers (Continued from page 1) T he coalition will conduct a stu d y to d e te rm in e th e scope o f work, and the cost o f developing a slaughter fa cility o n tribal land, he said. As the meeting got under way, M argaret Suppah said tfiat some action needs to be taken soon. N ear her resi dence on Schoolie Flat, she said, there are 400 unclaimed horses living on a small area o f rangeland. G rant Clements, serving as m oderator at the meeting, said the job o f the coalition is to put together a resolution for the Tribal Council to con sider. A t that point, the coa lition could begin implement ing the plan. Jason Smith, tribal Range and Agriculture manager, and Fara C urrim , o f th e O SU E x ten sio n Service, gave a presentation explaining how the horse population on the reserv atio n has reach ed a critical level. F irst o f all, Sm ith said, “H orses are and always will be im portant to the tribes for many reasons. They are p art o f Eveli- hood and our culture. But a part o f livestock m anagem ent in volves culling. T here’s g ot to be an oudet to trim the herd.” C urrim said th at in the last eight to 10 years, th e grow ing horse population has raised se rio u s n atu ral reso u rc e c o n cerns. “T he numbers are too high to m eet sustainable conditions, a n d th e ra n g e is b e in g d e graded,” she said. “Mule deer populations are lower.” She said there have been no rep o rts o f unclaim ed horses eating cu ltural plan ts o f the trib e s. B u t if th e situ a tio n reaches a point where horses are starving, then the animals prob ably would resort to the cultural plants. C urrim gave a brief history o f horses on the reservation: H orses arrived on the reser vation in the 1850s. T here were active h o rse sales as early as 1917, in order to lower the num- bers. “A big difference,” she said, “is back then there was a mar ket.” T here was a severe drought in the 1930s, and the horse population w ent down because o f poor range conditions. T he num bers gradually in creased over the decades, she said, until 1982. In th at year there was a disease outbreak am ong the horses, and 2,500 o f the animals were culled. Since 1982, the numbers have again been on the rise. In 2000, the price for horses began to decline. In 2003 the tribes con ducted the first annual horse auction. T he annual horse auctions have been helpful, she said. But with 4,000 unclaimed horses on the reservation, the sale o f 150 to 170 per year at auction will only help so much. Meanwhile, she said, 220 new horses on average are being added to the range. A t the auction this year, the horses were selling for very low prices, such as $10 per head. “There will be a time when we have n o buyers,” said Smith. C u rrim said th e trib es need to target the mares in o rd e r to re d u c e th e u n claimed horse population. A n option that some have suggested, she said, is steril ization o f the mares, which Smith said is n o t a rational alternative. “I f we w ere to sterilize mares and turn them loose o n to th e ran g e, th e n we should n o t even be in this business,” he said. “T hat is not an option for us.” D uring the m eeting last week, veterinarian Dr. Terry Hensley o f the U.S. D epart m ent o f Agriculture reviewed the rules and regulations that apply to shipments o f horses fo r slau g h ter, su ch as to Canada. T h e N o rth w e s t T rib al H orse Coalition is scheduled to m eet again in August. Burns Paiute reservation going green (AP) — T he Burns Paiute res ervation is O regon's smallest with about 350 residents. But by year's end the tribe will have installed energy-effi cient light bulbs and weather p ro o fin g in each o f its 54 homes. Tribal H ousing director Jody Hill says many aging mem bers are o n fixed incom es and the projects will cut energy bills. T he state allocates federal funds to low-income non-prof its or communities such as the Bum s tribe. Bonneville Power Adminis tra tio n sp o k esw o m an K atie Pruder said the tribe is showing impressive national leadership. State housing officials say other tribes, including the Warm Springs, will begin weatheriza tion programs this year. Klamath dams removal bill goes to governor (AP) — A bill to raise $180 million for removing fou r hy droelectric dams o n th e K la m ath River is on its way to the governor. T h e Senate had approved SB76 earlier this year, and last w eek en d o rsed am en d m en ts made in the House to strengthen protections for ratepayers and taxpayers by a vote o f 19-9. Gov. Ted Kulongoski is ex pected to sign the bill, marking another landm ark in resolving a long-running battle over water allocations and salmon in the Klam ath Basin. Oregon's share o f the money to remove the dams comes from a surcharge o n costum ers o f PacifiCorp, the dams' owners, which amounts to about $1.50 a m onth for a residential cus tomer. California pays $20 mil lion. I f a federal feasibility study shows the dams can be safely torn down, w ork begins around 2020. Plans afoot to truck salmon to upper McKenzie BLUE RIV ER (AP) - Fish biologist G reg Taylor knows b etter than m ost how the 13 dams on the Willamette River have blocked salmon from their historic habitat. “It's a very hum an-altered environment,” he said. A little m ore hum an alter ation is going o n at the base of Cougar D am , where construc tion crews are building a sophis ticated trap-and-haul facility that will allow the U.S. Army Corps o f Engineers to truck salmon to the upper reaches o f the South Fork o f the McKenzie River. T he $10 million project be gan in April and will likely be completed by m id 2010. W ith all the concrete being poured its hard to picture the goal: completing the Efe cycle for a fish that once had the run o f the rivers. T he A rm y Corps o f E ngi neers damm ed the South Fork in 1963 and included a trap-and- haul structure at the base o f the dam. T h e p re -d a m M cK en zie River was salmon heaven, pro ducing about 40 percent o f the entire spring chinook run above Willamette Falls. 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