March 9, 2011
Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
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Schimmel leads team in scoring
in Big East quarter finals game
Team makes it to playoffs
H A R T F O R D , C onn. -
Shoni Schim m el scored a
team-high 12 points for the
Louisville Cardinals in the
March 6 Big E ast T ourna
m en t q u a rte r finals gam e
against N otre Dame.
The No. 7-ranked Fighting
Irish won the''game, though,
63-53. Earlier last week, the
Cardinals, advanced to the
quarterfinals with a 69-47 vic
tory over Villanova.
S ch im m el, a fresh m an
guard at Louisville, has a to
tal o f 458 points for the sea
so n , seco n d m o st on the
team.
She averaged 14.3 points
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
Justin Queahpama-Mehlberg, Edward Zacarias, Bobby Ahern and Cyrus Conner were
tribal members on the White Buffaloes boys varsity team this year.
The basketball season for
the White Buffalos boys var
sity team ended last Friday,
when Madras lost to Cottage
Grove in the Class 4A play
offs.
In th e gam e, J u n io r
Bobby A hern led the White
Buffalos in scoring, w ith 12
points, including two 3-point-
ers. Edw ard Zacarias had TO
points.
Madras had a slow start this
season, winning two o f the first
12 games.
They turned things around,
though, winning nine o f their
last 13 and making the play
offs.
Seniors on the team in
clude Ju stin Q ueahpam a-
Mehlberg and Cyrus Conner.
Ahern and Zacarias are jun
iors.
Timber sale assessment released
The Resource Management
Interdisciplinary Team has just
released a draft project assess
m ent for public review. The
draft docum ent provides an
environmental analysis o f the
2012 Buckskin Timber Sale.
The team (RMIDT) also ap
proved small project assess
ments for a helitack facility near
the new Fire Management build
ing, temporary office space for
Community Counseling, and a
realignm ent o f pow er poles
near tribal property at Harpham
Flat on the Deschutes River.
The 2012 timber sale docu
m en t was p re p a re d by th e
Project Interdisciplinary Team
to provide options for timber
harvest in Beaver Creek, Oak
Grove Fork (Clackamas River),
and Clear Creek watersheds.
Two alternatives were for
mulated and numerous logging
m ethods were considered for
this project, taking into account
present resource conditions, for
est health and public input. The
2012 Buckskin sale is expected
to yield approximately 45 mil
lion board feet o f timber.
The document is divided into
sections explaining the purpose
and need for action, resource-
based indicators used to help the
technical staff analyze and miti
gate environmental impacts, and
details o f the alternatives. There
are maps showing the harvest
blocks, quick reference tables to
compare the alternatives, a list
o f measures needed to mitigate
environm ental consequences,
and the Project Interdisciplinary
Team’s recommended alterna
tive.
The goal o f Alternative A is
to continue current m anage
ment. Activities such as hunting,
recreation and cultural food
gathering would continue as in
the past. The only harvest pro
p o se d u n d er A ltern ativ e A
would be through conventional
salvage operations. Alternative B
is designed to harvest volume
approximating the allowable cut
for this planning area. The 2012
sale would include a treatment
area o f 2,457 acres.
The alternatives would have
varying impacts on water, fish,
wildlife, cultural, timber, range,
soil and economic resources and
there would also be changes to
the transportation system.
For more information or cop
ies o f the docum ent contact
Orvie Danzuka or Ryan Single-
ton in the Forestry Department,
or call 553-2416. Tribal mem
bers have 30 days to comment
on the proposed sale.
Shoni Schimmel
per game, and a total o f 67
steals, also second-moSt in
each category for the Cardi
nals.
She started all 32 games
for Louisville this season,
playing 979 minutes, an av
erage o f 30.6 m inutes per
game, most on the team.
Schimmel grew up in Mis
sion near Pendleton and the
Umatilla Reservation. She
a tte n d e d F ran k lin H igh
School in Pordand. She has
many relatives on the Warm
Springs Reservation, includ
ing her grandfather Bobby
Eagleheart.
Trading at the River gathering in April
The Trading at the River
N ative American business
gathering happens April 20-
21 at the Grand Ronde Spirit
Mountain Casino.
The gathering is sp o n
sored by the O regon Native
American Business and E n
tre p re n e u rs h ip N e tw o rk
(Onaben).
The this year the Trading
at the*River theme is “Cir
cling Back and Going For
ward: Celebrating 20 years
o f Indianpreneurship.”
The 2011 gathering will
mark the ninth year o f event.
“This is one is.very special,”
the Onaben event flyer reads.
“We will gather on the banks
o f th e Y am hill R iver at
G ra n d
R on d e, w here
O naben was born two de
cades ago.”
“We have much to celebrate
about our past and much to talk
about for our future.
“Like the historic gatherings
that occurred here and in many
places among the traders o f this
region, Trading at the River is a
place w here connections are
m ade, b u sin ess-to -b u sin ess,
tribe-to-tribe, and from past to
present.”
The Ninth Annual Trading at
the River conference will in
clude:
An intensive business devel
opm ent conference with com
munity discussions, workshops,
symposiums, and celebrations.
A Trading at the River mar
ketplace o f ideas, p ro d u cts,
and services-—the famous tra
d itio n a l
g a th e rin g
of
Indianpreneurs.
A gathering o f emerging and
Canoe Family:
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O n Mondays and W ednes
days are language study with
Culture and Heritage.
O n Tuesdays there are sweat
ceremonies.
O n T h u rsd ay s are trib al,
dance w ith D eanie Jo h n son,
Tribal Youth Program director,
established Native Capital
Development Funding Insti
tu tio n s convened by the
new ly established Pacific
N orthw est N ative Capital
D evelopment Peer Group,
which will explore ways o f
generating new form s o f
capital to support Native en
trepreneurship and tribal-in
dividual joint ventures.
The kick off for Innova
tions in Indianpreneurship
2012— a biennial business
plan competition and busi
ness showcase.
A Founders recognition
luncheon that will highlight
the last 20 years o f tribal
economic development.
A Business Alliance re
cep tio n g ath erin g the
region’s Native businesses
and chambers o f commerce.
inspiring, empowering youth
and the dance group Ayayat
Idait, also members o f the Ca
noe Family.
As its mission states, the Ca
noe Family “is for Native Ameri
can youth o f the Warm Springs
Indian Reservation to connect
with, interact, and bond with
their adult community in a posi-
tive way that inspires, encour
ages, and empow ers one an
other.’”
Anyone wishing more infor
mation can contact Greene at
the museum, 541-553-3331; or
by email:
jgreene@wstribes.org
Commercial salmon expectations up, sport down
(AP) — S trong retu rn s o f
chinook salm on should give
Oregon commercial fishermen
their first decent season in years,
but declining runs o f coho from
Columbia River hatcheries and
worries over wild coastal fish
mean charter boats and sports
anglers can expect another me
diocre year.
“Guys are pretty excited and
happy that we will have increased
opportunities this year,” New
p o rt com m ercial fish erm an
Mark Newell said Friday. “As
salmon fishermen we know how
it works on the unemployment
line. We’ll be glad to have the
o p p o rtu n ity to go b ack to
work.”
The Pacific Fishery Manage
m en t C ouncil is m eetin g in
Vancouver, Wash., next week to
draw up three sets of options
for West Coast ocean salmon
fishing seasons. The final sea
sons will be set in April.
The establishment o f ocean
seasons was promising in 2007,
but the catch was poor. In 2008,
the seasons were practically shut
dow n coast-w ide for fear o f
w iping o u t th e S acram ento
chinook run after it took a sud
den and unexpected drop.
Both years Congress voted
disaster assistance to salmon
fishermen. Last year commer
cial seasons were again poor.
Since th en greater efforts
have been taken to assure young
salm on m ake it thro u g h the
gauntlet o f irrigation pumps and
canals in the Sacramento Delta
to the ocean. And conditions in
the ocean have been improving
since 2010, offering more food
to the fish as they grow to adult
hood before returniiig to their
native rivers to spawn.
S p o rt an d com m ercial
salmon fishing accounted for
$3.7 m illio n o f O re g o n 's
economy in 2010, down from a
high o f $17.6 million in 1974 in
inflation-adjusted dollars, ac
cording to the council web site.
Since the 1990s, the bulk o f
the chinook catch has been al
located for the commercial fleet
and sports fisherman have pri
marily targeted coho.
T he bulk o f the ch in o o k
swimming o ff O regon’s coast
come from the Sacramento and
Klamath Rivers during the tra
ditional commercial season run
ning from mid-March through
October.
After improving returns three
out o f the past four years, Kla
math River stocks are no longer
considered overfished, easing
protections that have been in
place fo r years, said Mike
Sorensen, skipper o f the New
po rt charter boat Miss Raven
and adviser to the council.
The Sacramento is projected
to see 729,900 fall chinook re
turn this year, more than double
2009. The Klamath is projected
to see 371,100, up from
331,500 in 2009.
Charter boats and sports fish
erm en can expect to have a
shorter season than last year,
said Sorensen. It could run from
the end o f June to mid-August,
compared to June 26 through
Labor Day last year.
Sorensen said the biggest
concern for sports fishermen
was whether they would have-to
release wild fish to protect coho
com ing from coastal rivers,
kn o w n as O re g o n C oastal
Naturals. Returns o f hatchery
coho from the Colum bia are
expected to be down. I f fisher
men are allowed to keep wild
fish, the season will be shorter,
he said. Sports anglers can also
expect to be able to take some
chinook.
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