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October 17, 2012
Spílygy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Ex-governors oppose private casino ballot measures
(AP) — Three form er O r
egon governors are joining
the current chief executive in
opposing a proposal to build
the state's first nontribal ca
sino.
Republican Vic Atiyeh and
Democrats Barbara Roberts
and Ted Kulongoski implored
voters to oppose Measures
82 and 83, which would al
low developers to build a ca
sino in Pordand's eastern sub-
u rb s. C u rre n t G ov. J o h n
Kitzhaber filmed a television
commercial last week urging
a “no” vote.
The governors warned in
a news conference that a new
casino would increase crime
in the area w hile harm ing
In d ian tribes th a t operate
Oregon’s nine existing casinos
and rely on the profits to pay
fo r social services such as
housing, health care and edu
cation.
i Casino proponents tout a
fun destination that they say
would create jobs and gener
ate money for parks, police
and schools.
“D o n ’t be fooled by the
multimillion-dollar TV ads,”
said Roberts, w ho was gov
ern o r fro m 1991 to 1995.
“This is n ot about water fea
tures or m ovie theaters or
farmers markets or fine din
ing. This is about money, big
m oney— gam bling money,
and gaming profits.”
O re g o n ’s trib al casinos
don’t bring the same burdens
as private casinos because
th ey ’re lo cated o n rem o te
“This isn ’t going
to solve
Oregon's fin a n
cial problem s...”
Former Gov. Kulongoski
tribal land, n ot in the middle
o f a big city, Roberts said.
Casino proponents have
said that the issue will be de
cided by voters, n ot by politi
cians.
“The opposition campaign
is funded by O regon’s cur
rent casino establishment. It’s
n o t Surprising they would be
opposed to competition,” said
Stacey Dycus, campaign man
ager for th e casino p ro p o
nents.
B oth sides have spent lib
erally on television commer
cials touting the benefits and
d raw b ack s o f ex p a n d in g
gambling in Oregon.
Casinos are currently ille
gal in Oregon, b ut the state's
ban doesn’t extend to Indian
reservations. Tribes run casi
nos on their land under fed
eral law, with the state’s per
mission.
' Voters shouldn’t look to-,
ward the casino’s profits as
the solution to struggling gov
ernment budgets, Kulongoski
said.
“This isn’t going to solve
Oregon's financial problems,”
Kulongoski said.
Measure 82 would change
the state constitution to allow
gam bling in O reg o n , w ith
some restrictions, i f each ca
sino is approved in a state
wide vote and in the comm u
nity where it would be located.
Measure. 83 w ould specifi
cally authorize the casino in
W ood V illage w ith up to
3,500 slot machines and 150
tables, and require th at 25
percent o f revenue go to the
state lottery fund.
C lairvest G ro u p Inc., a
private equity firm based in
Toronto, is the primary inves
tor in the casino, working with
G reat Canadian Gaming Inc.,
w h ich ru n s m o re th a n a
dozen casinos and race tracks
in B ritish C o lu m b ia and
W ashington state, and two
Lake O swego businessm en
w ho have been trying since
2005 to ,get voter approval
for a privately owned casino.
The developers are adver
tising their project as a fam
ily-friendly destination called
“The Grange,” which they say
would include a casino, hotel,
theater and water slide on the
site o f th e a b a n d o n e d
Multnomah K ennel Club in
W ood Village, a town o f less
than 4,000 people on the east
ern edge o f m e tro p o lita n
Portland, about 15 miles from
downtown.
They say the casino would
be 130,000 square feet—
about the' size o f an average
Target store— with 2,200 slot
m ach in es an d 100 tab le
games. T heir plans call for a
125-room hotel, water park,
bow ling alley, co n cert hall
and a pubhc space for farm
ers markets and other gath
erings.
Study shows hatcheries rebuild salmon populations
From the Columbia River I
Inter-Tribla Fish Commission
H atcheries are an effec
tive tool for rebuilding abun
dance and productivity o f
chinook salmon w ithout im
pacting wild fish, according
to research published recently
in the journal Molecular E col
ogy-
T hrough a study o f the
N ez Perce trib e’s Jo h n so n
Creek Artificial Propagation
E n h an cem en t P ro ject, re
searchers fo u n d hatchery-
reared salmon that spawned
w ith w ild salm on had the
same reproductive success as
salmon left to spawn in the
wild.
T he study focused on a
p o p u la tio n o f c h in o o k
salmon whose natal steam is
located in central Idaho, al
m o st 700 m iles u p stream
from the Pacific Ocean.
The Johnson Creek A rti
ficial Ptopogation Enhance
m e n t P ro je c t (JC A PE )
project study results refute a
commonly held m isconcep
tion, and some previous re
search, that suggests inter
breeding o f hatchery-reared
fish with wild fish will always
decrease productivity and fit
ness o f the wild populations.
“T he Joh n so n Creek re
search clearly dem onstrates
how supplem entation p ro
grams can boost populations
and minimize impacts to wild
fish populations,” said Dave
Johnson, Nez Perce tribe fish
eries p ro g ra m m anager.
“There will always be a need
fo r h a tc h e rie s as lo n g as
dams exist on the Columbia
River. T he goal should be
w iser use o f th e hatchery
tool.”
The study used D N A from
all returning adults collected
over a 13-year period to track
parents and their offspring
and to determ ine how suc
cessful hatchery fish were at
•Courtesy of CRITFC
A weir across Johnson Creek allows tribal biologists to
collect wild fish for broodstock while remaining fish are
passed upstream to spawn.
mating in the wild when com
pared to wild fish.
The study showed a clear
boost to the num ber o f adult
salmon returning to the popu
lation from supplementation,
w here fish taken in to the
hatchery produced an aver
age o f nearly 5 times the num
ber o f returning adults com
pared to the fish th at were
left in the wild to spawn.
A key fin d in g o f th e
JC A PE study was that hatch
ery-origin fish that spawned
naturally with a wild fish had
equivalent reproductive suc
cess as two wild fish, suggest
in g th a t c h in o o k salm o n
reared for a single generation
in this supplementation hatch
ery did n ot reduce the fitness
o f wild fish.
Similarly, productivity o f
two hatchery fish spawning
naturally was n o t significantly
lower than for two wild fish.
“O ur results question the
generalization that all hatch
ery fish negatively im pact the
fitness o f wild populations,”
said Maureen Hess, geneticist
with the Columbia River In
ter-Tribal Fish Commission
and lead author on the study.
Critical time
T he N ez Perce tribe be
gan the Johnson Creek Arti
ficial Propagation Enhance
m en t P roject in 1998 after
grams that play a significant
role in recovering Columbia
Basin salmon runs. The Pa
cific salm on m an ag em en t
world should consider supple
mentation as a recovery tool
if the region is going to real
ize healthy and sustainable
salmon returns.”
Salmon populations in the
Columbia Basin continue to
face problem s o f loss and
d egradation o f fresh w ater
habitat, and significant juve
nile out-migration mortality
associated with the hydro-sys
tem.
T he trib es have argued
th a t su p p lem en tatio n p ro
grams that incorporate wild
fish as broodstock into their
hatchery programs and place
fish back in to their natural
spawning areas are im portant
to recovery.
“T he pubhc and the Pa
cific N orthw est w ant abun
trib a l b io lo g is ts o b s e r v e d
dan t salm on runs. We all de
critically low numbers o f re
tu rn in g adults to Jo h n so n
Creek, a tributary to the South
Fork o f the Salmon River.
By 1995, the num ber o f
spawning fish pairs in Johnson
Creek had been reduced to
five.
Adult return numbers are
now consistently meeting the
JC A P E P ro ject sh o rt-term
abundance goal o f 350 re
tu rn in g ’a d u lts, w ith th e
p ro je c t alread y re tu rn in g
m ore th an 1,000 adults in
some years.
“Supplementation is a tool
that, m ust be employed if we
are going to maintain and re
build declining salmon popu
lations,” said Silas Whitman,
chairman o f the N ez Perce
Tribal Executive Committee.
“T h ejo h n so n Creek study
is ju st one example o u t o f
several supplementation pro-
serve’ abundance,” »’said N.
Kathryn ‘K at’ Brigham, chair
w o m an o f th e C o lu m b ia
River Inter-Tribal Fish Com
mission.
“T he tribes have always
supported using the best avail
able science to inform good
management decisions,” she
said. “This study documents
w hat we have believed all
along— th a t hatcheries are
n eed ed to reb u ild n atu ral
salmon populations.
“O ur goal is to use hatch
eries as wild salmon nurser
ies to protect our treaty fish
ing rights in all o f our usual
and accustomed areas and to
rebuild salmon runs. We hope
that the co-managers and the
science groups will use the
Johnson Creek study results
because it sets a new bench
m ark to guide the manage
m ent o f hatcheries.”
Museum to host art
market in November
The Museum at Warm
Springs next m onth will
host the Native American
Heritage A rt Market. E v
eryone is invited to enjoy
a fanfare and festive time
a t th e m a rk e t, set fo r,
Nov, 24.
A uthentic N ative art
and crafts will be for sale,
including bead barettes,
bracelets, decorative key
rings, earrings, m ed al
lions, w oven items, and
small and large baskets.
For v endor or other
inform ation, call the m u
seum at 541-553-3331.
Umatilla attorney
appointed special
assistant U.S. Attorney
M. Brent Leonhard, an at
torney for the Confederated
Tribes o f the Umatilla Res
ervation, has been appointed
to the position of Special As
sistant U.S. Attorney.
Leonhard will assist in pros
ecution o f federal crimes oc
curring in Indian Country,
while continuing to work full-
time for the Umatilla tribes.
“We are incredibly excited
to have B rent prosecuting
cases in Indian Country,” said
U.S. A tto rn e y A m an d a
Marshall.
“His dual roles, as both a
lawyer for the tribes and a
Special Assistant U.S. .Attor
ney, will further improve co
ordination between tribal au
thorities and federallaw en
fo rcem en t during crim inal
investigations.”
Leonhard has a long his
tory o f advocating for tribal
nations, H e is currently serv
ing on Attorney General Eric
H o ld er’s V iolence A gainst
W om en Federal and Tribal
P ro secution Task Force in
Indian Country.
W hile w o rk in g fo r th e
Umatilla tribes, Leonhard as
sisted in drafting language for
the T ribal Law and O rd e r A ct
o f 2010.
Leonhard has already be
gun prosecuting federal cases
on the Umatilla Indian Res
ervation, including a case in
which a non-tribal m em ber is
charged with stealing money
frotn a tribal m em ber at the
Wildhorse Casino and Resort,
and another case in which a
non-tribal m em ber is charged
with defrauding the A rrow
head Travel Plaza.
L eonhard has previously
served as the lead prosecu
tor for the W hite M ountain
A pache T ribes and as the
head o f the public defender
office for the C onfederated
Tribes o f the Colville Réser
vation.
Leonhard received his J.D.
from the University o f Wash
in g to n and his B.A. fro m
W estern Washington Univer
sity.
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