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.
Thriftway
Serving
Sign Up to Win a Kenmore Gas Barbecue
Warm
Drawing will be on July 31
Springs
and
M adras
since
1915
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