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‘Mink River’ author in Warm Springs Award-winning author Brian D oyle w ill be at th e W arm S prings L ib rary o n Friday evening, March 16. Doyle, author o f M ink River, will be at the Warm Springs Li brary at 7 p.m., as part o f the N inth Annual Jefferson County Community Read. The presentation, sponsored by the Jefferson County Library District, is free to the public. Doyle will expand on the N a tive American themes in M ink River and any other topic that surfaces from dialogue with the audience. Doyle is a frequent speaker and author o f ethical and spiri tual essays. His sense o f hu m or can be seen in his presen tation title: “An evening o f bur bling storytelling & snickering & etc. in that vein with O regon author Brian Doyle.” H is ap p earan ce in W arm Springs is p art o f his visit to Central Oregon, which will also include events at the Madras li brary, and Great Earth Natural Foods. Also in March, the A rt Ad venture Gallery is hosting an ex hibit o f photographs and paint ings created for a project called “Lake O sw ego R eads M ink River.” The photographers “set out to capture the essence o f Brian Doyle’s Oregon coast,” and the 18 professional artists reveled in the “rich visual possibilities” o f March 7, 2012 Spilyay Tym oo, W arm Springs, Oregon Page 8 Book cover of Mink River. the book. A Saturday morning, March 17, writers’ workshop, limited to just 18 individuals, will be held in th e b a se m e n t o f th e R o d rig u ez A n n ex o f th e Jefferson County Library from 10 a.m.-noon. Call the library at 541-475-3351 to sign up for: “A not-workshop with Brian Doyle during which we will play with starts and seeds o f stories for Donkey basketball at MHS The Madras High School gymnasium was the scene on Sunday of a Donkey Basketball tournament. Teams Included the tribes’ Range and Ag summer yo uth, M H S teachers, Madras FFA, and Jefferson County Fire and Safety. The event was sponsored by the Madras FFA alumni. Before the games, Mary Olney of Warm Springs (at left) sang the National Anthem. Dave McMechan/Spilyay sheer entertainment.” The Doyle book o f essays, The Grail: M year ambling & shambling through an Oregon vine yard in pursuit of the best pinot noir wine in the whole wild world, a b o u t th e L ange W inery in Dundee, inspired a wine-tasting event with Great Earth Natural Foods from 2-4 p.m. on Satur day afternoon, March 17. And finally, at 7 p.m. Satur day nig h t, M arch 17, at the Rodriguez Annex, D oyle will make a presentation with the sam e title as th e p rev io u s evening in Warm Springs, “but we can guarantee that it w on’t be the same presentation at all.” Come hear a gifted speaker and au th o r o f 11 books talk about M ink River with its fic tional small town on the Oregon coast in all its humanness and oddity and beauty, and a phi losophizing crow. Brian Doyle is thrilled to be coming to W arm Springs and Madras, because he’s a fervent fan o f o u r local icon Jacoby Ellsbury. For m ore inform ation con tact the Jefferson County Li brary: 541-475-3351. E v ent sponsors: Sum ner and Adele Rodriguez Fund o f The Oregon C om m unity F oundation; the Jefferson County Library D is tric t; G re a t E a rth N a tu ra l Foods; Mail Copies and More; D on and Ruth Ann Hopps; and Mountain Photo and Graphics. Chinook showing progress on Snake From the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Continued high numbers o f Snake River fall chinook redds throughout the Snake and Clearwater river basins demonstrate the success o f tribal restoration projects. D ata released last week in the 2011 C ooperative Fall Chinook Salmon Spawning Summary w ritten by tribal, federal, state and utility biolo gists shows approxim ately 4,600 redds, or gravel nests, were built by returning adults in the Snake River and its tributaries betw een Lower G ranite and Hells Canyon dams. Distributed widely through 11 o f the 12 survey areas throughout the basin, the in crease in redds and their dis tribution are the result o f higher adult returns. O ver 27,000 ad u lt fall chinook passed Lower Granite Dam in 2011, the second highest return since com pletion o f the four lower Snake River dams. The high redd counts are the result o f tribal efforts to supplem ent existing Snake River fall chinook with bio logically appropriate hatch ery-reared fish to assist natu rally spawning runs. The N ez Perce Tribe, in coordination with co-manag- ers from Washington D epart m ent o f Fish and Wildlife, Confederated Tribes o f the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Idaho D epartm ent o f Fish and G am e, U.S. F ish and Wildlife Service, NOAA Fish eries, and O regon D ep art m ent o f Fish and Wildlife are im p lem en tin g th e Snake River Fall Chinook Program in an effort to restore fall chinook salmon above Lower Granite Dam. “The Snake River Fall Chi nook Program is returning fish to the Nez Perce Tribe’s usual and accustomed fishing areas and allowing our tribal m em bers to exercise their treaty reserved fishing rights,” said Joel M offett, commis sioner for the Columbia River Inter-T ribal Fish C om m is sion and treasurer o f the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Com mittee. “This success is the cul m ination o f years o f hard w ork and dedication, both o f w hich m ust continue if we are going to m aintain salmon runs into the Snake River Basin.” The Snake River Fall Chi nook Program was initiated in 1994 as a result o f legal actions by the tribes under US v. Oregon. Oregon condors on track for exceptional year C alifornia co n d o rs at the had been harassing No. 174 be O reg o n Z o o are laying the fore she laid the egg and con groundwork for species recov tinues to be somewhat aggres sive tow ard h er in th e n est ery one egg at a time. Six eggs have been laid so far room . She said the birds will during this year’s condor-breed probably not be given a chick in g seaso n , w ith p e rh a p s a to rear this season, and they will couple more still to come. The likely be split as a breeding pair two m ost recent eggs arrived on due to ongoing problems dating Feb. 16, laid by Ojai, and Feb. back to 2006. Earlier the same day, Walker 18, laid by Squapuni. The condors and their mates had pulled the season’s second will sit on them for up to two egg to test its fertility and no weeks before keepers remove ticed w hat appeared to be a the eggs to determine whether small hole in the egg’s shell. Af ter treating the area with sterile they are fertile. “We’re proud to be making a water and a diluted antiseptic, contribution to the California Walker used a thin layer o f white condor’s comeback,” said keeper glue to cover it. Despite the defect, the egg Kelli Walker. “Each new egg is critical to the survival o f this did p ro v e to be fertile and Walker is hopeful her repair will species.” The fourth egg o f the sea ensure a normal hatching. The son arrived on Feb. 8 with a bit parents, Timocho and Willie, are o f dram a. T he parents, Mali doing extremely well with incu (male) and No. 174, squabbled bation and egg-sitting duties,: over the new egg as soon as it Walker noted. Through a pro had been laid. Keepers quickly cess called candling— which uses pulled the egg from the nest a bright tight source behind the room to prevent any damage, egg to show details through the shell— Walker has already deter replacing it with a dummy egg. A ccording to Walker, Mali mined the first four eggs o f the season are fertile. These eggs are now in an in cubator. The condor parents are sitting on dummy eggs. When hatching begins, usually in 54 to 58 days, Walker switches the real eggs back, so that the chicks can hatch under their parents. The conservation center should see its first chick o f the season to ward the end o f March. The California condor is clas sified as a critically endangered species. In 1982, only 22 indi viduals remained in the wild. W ith the help o f breeding programs like the Oregon Z oo’s, fo r w hich the C o nfederated Tribes have expressed their sup port, condor numbers now to tal around 390, counting those in programs and in the wild. T hirty healthy chicks have hatched at the Jonsson Center since the p ro g ram began in 2003. Around 20 Oregon Zoo- reared birds have gone out to field pens, with m ost released to the wild. Last year, three eggs laid by O regon Z oo condors w ere placed in wild nests to hatch. Ore., Calif, rivers may get big chinook returns Wild chinook protection plan would create fishery (AP) — An effort to reduce the number o f hatchery salmon spawning in the McKenzie River will spur the release o f m ore than 200,000 Chinook smolts into the Coast Fork Willamette River. The Oregon D epartm ent o f Fish and Wildlife plan would attem pt to create a recreational fishery between Cottage Grove and Springfield for the first time in more than 30 years while pro tecting the genetic stock o f the wild Chinook. O D FW plans to release the smolts on March 12, and expects a return o f between 1,000 and 2,000 Chinook in 2014. “We hope to create a tittle m ore intim ate and dispersed sa lm o n fis h e ry ,” said J e f f Z ille r, fish b io lo g is t fo r O D F W ’s S o u th W illam ette W atershed D istrict, in a press release. “The Coast Fork is n ot a giant river, b ut it runs enough w ater in the springtime to p ro vide the structure for a good spring Chinook fishery.” Last year m ore than 6,000 hatchery spring C hinook re turned to the M cKenzie River. (AP) - Federal biologists are forecasting a big increase in salmon returns to two N orthern California rivers that have been stingy in turning out catches for O regon and California fisher men in recent years. While a lot o f work has been done to provide more water for fish in the Klamath and Sacra m en to rivers, experts say an upturn in the cyclical supply of food in the Pacific O cean is largely responsible. The Pacific Fishery Manage m en t C ouncil forecasts 1.65 million adult Chinook salmon for the Klamath, and 819,000 for the Sacramento. T he two rivers drive the process for set ting ocean fishing seasons o ff much o f California and Oregon, and recent downturns in returns have proved disastrous for the commercial fleet. T he K lam ath expectations are more than four times higher th an last year, and 15 tim es higher than 2006. B ut forecasts d o n ’t always prove correct. O n the Sacram ento River, last year’s predictions were for 729,900 returning chinook, but the actual returns w ere only 200,000. Council salmon staff Chuck Tracy said the computer model has been revised in hopes o f getting better results. In 2005, before a spate o f clo sures or sharp reductions in com mercial salmon fishing, Oregon fishermen landed $8.46 million worth of salmon. Landings were down to $2 million last year. Dams adviser claims firing unjustified (AP) « A scientist who ad vised a federal agency on ethical issues that included rem oving K lam ath R iver dams filed a whistleblower complaint over his firing. Paul Houser, an associate professor o f hydrology at G eorge M ason University, tsays he was fired by the U.S, Bureau o f Reclamation af ter questioning the positive spin U.S. D epartm ent o f In terior officials were putting on scientific studies that sup ported dam removal. PacifiCorp wants to re move its four aging hydro electric dams on the Klamath River rather than pay to up grade them to meet modern salmon protections. In te rio r Secretary K en Salazar announced this week he can’t make the decision on dam removal until Con gress gives him the author ity- j L 1 1
