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Pqge 10 May 2, 2012 Spilygy Tymoo, Wgrm Springs, Oregon Tribes celebrate 31st treaty fishing access site The Columbia River treaty tribes gathered last week to dedicate the Dallesport Treaty Fishing Access Site. This is the thirty-first, and last, of the rites to be constructed by the Corps of Engineers under the treaty fishing access site pro gram. * The access sites are to miti gate the loss of fishing caused by construction of dams on the lower Columbia, starting with the Bonneville dam in 1937. Completing the construc tion of all the sites has taken several years, as the federal law mandating their devel opment passed in 1988. Con struction of the first site be gan in 1995. The sites are designed with facilities such as boat ramps and docks, fish-cleaning tables, net racks, drying sheds, Restrooms, mechanical build ings and shelters. In total, the in-lieu and treaty fishing ac cess sites occupy approxi mately 700 acres along the C olum bia River from Bonneville Dam to McNary Dam. R epresenting Warm Springs at the dedication were Councilman Reuben Henry, and Louie Pitt, director of tribal Government Affairs. “This is a beginning, not an ending,” Pitt said. “We’re looking for thé next genera tion to come in and take over.” I The Dallesport access site is on 64 acres. There are eight campsites for tribal members, a boat launch and 120-foot dock, restroom and shower facilities, net repair racks and Sonya Jim and Kael Hawk of Yakama walk the pier at the site, with the event tent in the background. Tribal, CRITFC and Corps team cuts the ribbon at the site. a fish cleaning table. Total cost was about $4.8 million. Most o f the contract work was done by members of the treaty tribes. A bout 150 people a t tended the dedication cer emonies last week. Repre senting the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) was executive di rector Paul Lumley. He commended the tribes and the federal agencies for their persistence in getting the project to completion. “This ‘has truly been a tribal project, more than a CRITFC project,” he said. “The tribes are to be com mended.” The 31 treaty fishing ac- MHS Invitational at KNT Saralyn Hilde, Mikkel Hilde, Louie Pitt and Lillian Pitt at the site pavilion, where stones are set (below) recogniz ing the tribes and agencies that worked on the project. Warm Springs group on hand for dedication. cess sites now occupy about 700 acres along the Colum bia, from the Bonneville dam to McNary dam. Warm Springs artist Lillian Pitt created an illustrative map of the sites. The map was presented at the dedica tion last week, with a print going to each of the tribes. More News from Incjidn Country State asks to kill salmon-eating birds Koedy Florendo, a freshman, is the lead-off golfer on the Madras High School team. Koedy and the team were at Kah-Nee-Ta last week for the Madras Invitational. Seven schools participated. There were 40 players. Koedy finished tenth with an overall score of 87. His sister Kecia, a senior, plays for the girls team. The girls were not able to finish their tournament because of lightening. Dave M cMechan/Spilyay (AP) S Oregon officials were successful in getting per mission to kill sea lions that, feed on protected salmon try ing to swim upriver to spawn. Now they want federal ap proval to shoot a type of sea bird that eats millions of baby salmon trying .to reach the ocean. In an April 5 letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Oregon Wildlife Chief Ron Anglin said harassment has “proved insufficient” in con trolling double-crested cormo rants. He said officials want the option of killing some of the birds to protect endan gered wild fish as well as hatchery fish vital to sports and commercial fishing. Oregon needs federal ap proval to start shooting doz ens of the long-necked, dark gray seabirds on coastal' riv ers because they are protected under the M igratory Bird Treaty Act. The letter obtained by The Associated Press was a for mal request to add Oregon to the 28 states authorized to kill corm orants to protect public resources, such as game fish. The Fish and Wild life Service is updating the authorization, which expires in 2014. Anglin said sportsm en’s groups have been pressing the agency for years to do some thing about the growing num bers of cormorants, and re search on the millions o f salmon being eaten by the big nesting colony at the mouth o f the Colum bia River brought the issue to a head. “W hether it’s logging, gravel removal or the fact w e’ve had estuaries co n strained through dikes and road systems and everything else, they are not naturally functioning systems any more,” he said in an interview. “Under that kind of system, it doesn’t take much o f a stressor that could have a sig nificant impact.” Once considered a nui sance bird, cormorants were added to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act in 1972, the same year the pesticide DDT was banned. Like eagles and o th er predatory birds, cormorant numbers started to climb. Current estimates are that about 70,000 cormorants live in the West between southern British Columbia, the Mexico border and the Continental Divide, said Dan Roby, a pro fessor of wildlife ecology at Oregon State University who is studying the birds. The largest nesting colony in the West is now on East Sand Island, at the mouth of the Columbia, where more than 27,000 birds are blamed for eating 22.6 million young salmon last year, 15 percent of the smolts — hatchery and wild 4,; heading to the ocean, Roby said. j^free and everyone Is welcome! May 11th & 12th MacArthur Court University o f Oregon Eugene, OR M O T H E R ’S D A Y P ow w ow | i S s ' MC- . Arena Director - Host Drum - Honor Drum - Friday Grand Entry Saturday Grand Entry Saturday Dihner Sundav Salmon bake ' ' ■/ ? 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