S piiygy T y tn o o , W a rm Springs, O re g o n
July 30, 2 0 0 9
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Oregon Zoo’s condors prepare for release
(AP) — O regon Z oo keepers
say they have moved four Cali
fornia condors in their breeding
program to the next stage o f
their release into the wild.
Three females and one male
that hatched at the zoo's Jonsson
Center for Wildlife Conserva
tion in Clackamas County will
m ove to Boise, Idaho, w here
they will prepare to be released
to wild flocks in Arizona, Cali
fornia and northern Mexico.
T h e C alifo rn ia c o n d o r is
N o rth A m erica's largest land
bird with a wingspan up to 10
feet.
T he species was nearly ex
tinct in the 1980s w hen about
two dozen birds were known to
exist.
Breeding program s boosted
the p o p u latio n to ab o u t 360
with half o f those flying free.
Z oo keepers also say they've
brought in five birds to join the
breeding stock.
T h e O re g o n Z o o co n d o r
breeding program has the sup
port o f the Confederated Tribes
o f W arm Springs. Wasco Chief
N elson Wallulatum chose the
name for one o f the birds that
has already been released on
California.
Obama administration scraps Bush logging plan
(AP) — T he O bam a ad
ministration is withdrawing
the Bush administration's last
attem pt at increasing logging
in N orthw est forests occu
pied by n o rth e rn sp o tte d
owls and salmon.
Assistant Interior Secretary
N ed Farquhar told a conference
call o f attorneys recently that
they had determ ined the U.S.
Bureau o f Land Management's
decision n o t to consult federal
biologists over the logging’s ef
fe c ts o n s p o tte d ow ls an d
salmon was in violation o f the
Endangered Species Act. Parties
to the conference call said the
Meeting on Deschutes incentives program
T he Deschutes Basin Work
G roup recently released a re
quest for project proposals for
the year 2010 E nvironm ental
Quality Incentives Program dol
lars for watershed projects in the
D eschutes Basin that address
the basin’s priority resource con
cerns.
T he purpose o f the request
for proposals was to encourage
collaboration among partners to
w ork together on projects in
order to more strategically invest
program dollars.
The basin work group will be
reviewing proposals and using
an assessment tool to prioritize
the projects at the basin work
group meeting held at 10 a.m.
on August 27 at the Madras Fire
Hall, 765 S. Adams Drive, Ma
dras, Oregon.
All partners, governm ent and
non-governm ent, are invited to
attend this meeting to discuss
how to p rio ritize th e use o f
USDA farm bill dollars in the
Deschutes Basin.
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D e p a rtm e n t o f In te rio r will
seek dismissal o f the four law
suits challenging the logging in
crease. T he BLM sought to in
crease tim b er p ro d u c tio n in
w estern O reg o n and increase
revenues, for rural O regon
counties still hurting from
logging cutbacks. In terio r
Secretary K en Salazar was
scheduled to discuss the de
cision in a teleconference.
Howlak
Tichum
Christopher Chee,
1974-2009
C h risto p h er Chee, a
Efetime resident o f Warm
Springs, passed away on
July 14,2009 at his home.
Chris was b o rn in T he
Dalles, Oregon on August
15,1974 to Charley Chee
Sr. and G reta Polk. H e
was an enrolled m em ber
o f th e C o n fe d e ra te d
Tribes o f W arm Springs,
and was employed on the
cam p crew fo r W arm
Springs Fire A nd Safety.
Funeral services were
held on Thursday, July 16,
2009 at the W arm Springs
Shaker Church.
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H e r p aren ts p reach ed the
value o f e d u catio n , an d al
though G old didn’t know any
one from her community who
went on to higher education, she
planned to attend college. H er
m ath talents were well-known,
and her school adviser recom
m e n d W h itm a n C o lleg e in
Washington.
She was shy, at first, finding
the college environment foreign,
b ut she dug in and tried to ex
perience it all— took ballet, cello,
studied Irish w riters and, o f
course, mathematics.
“To this day I do focus a lot
on reading, various topics. I
don’t focus on just one thing in
my life,” she said. “I think a lot
o f that came from taking classes
at W hitman.”
A bout 44 years ago, she m et
and married her husband, Phil
Gold, an urban N ew York math
ematician w ho had little experi
ence with rural oufdoor activi
ties, b ut the pair shared cultural
similarities. His Jewish cerem o
nies rem ind her o f Wasco tribal
ceremonies.”
H e is patient w hen the bath
tub is filled w ith plant fibers
she’s soaking, Pat said. A nd he
Pat Courtney Gold baskets.
teases her that on her gravestone
he’ll p u t the words “one m ore
row,” because th at’s w hat she
says to him in the middle o f the
night when she’s still up weav
ing.
G old does traditional work,
but she also experiments with
nontraditional materials, such as
metal and plastic. She believes
h er ancestors— w ho changed
with the times and added new
materials when available, such as
yarn from unraveled H udson
Bay blankets— would have liked
that.
She also makes statem ents
with her baskets. Images o f de
fo rm ed stu rg eo n reflect h er
concern about polluted ground-
water that feeds into the Colum
bia River and threatens to im
pact the sturgeon, “old beings”
that she said can reach 1,000
pounds and live 100 years.
In keeping with tradition, she
never weaves w hen she’s sad.
“I believe my feelings go into
the basket,” she said. “I w ant
happiness to go w ith each bas
ket. .
“Some weavers have special
songs that they sing while weav
ing their baskets, b u t I am n o t a
singer,” she said'.
“But I do ‘kiss’ my baskets
goodbye.”
(Note: This article is reprinted
here with the perm ission o f
Whitman Magazine, publication of
Whitman College.)
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