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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 2013)
Spilyay T ym o o , W arm Springs, O regon Page 2 Outdoor Market A u g u s t 21, 2013 Museum looking to resolve water issue The Warm Springs Outdoor Market hap pens every Friday on the campus park area, starting around 10 a.m. Eraina Palmer (right) was among the vendors at the most recent Outdoor Mar ket. For information on becoming a vendor at the market, please call 541-553-3148 during regular business hours, and ask for Val or Patricia. Community Action Team is also looking for people interested in learning how to grow organic veg etables for selling at the Outdoor Market next season. Vai and Pat can provide infor mation on this pro gram. The Museum at Warm Springs is hoping a new well will resolve a water -supply matter at the m u seum. The Utilities D epart ment is scheduled to Be gin drilling the well on A ugust 26, said Carol Leone, museum director. The weE location is on the far west side o f the mu seum grounds. I The museum was built over 20 years ago. The original museum design called fo r using creek w ater for operation o f the heating, ventilation a n d air c o n d itio n in g (HVAC) system, and for irrigation. O ver time, as the con figuration o f the creek has changed— due to de bris build-up, flooding, etc,— the original system has become unworkable. Because o f supply, the tribal m unicipal w ater supply should not be used for the HVAC and irriga tion at the museum; so the solution is to driU a weE, funding is through the tribal capital funds. E C E clo su re fo r p rep aration Dave McMechan/Spilyay W arm S prings E arly Childhood Education Center will be closed Thursday and Friday, A ugust 22-23, plus the entire week o f August 26. The closure is for pre'-ser- vice training to prepare for a new year. Contact Jodi Begay at 541- 553-3242 if parents or com munity partners are interested in participating in the train ing. Limited slots are avati- able. New paint at Power and Water Feral horse matter at Tribal Council The feral horse issue came Up at T ribal C ouncil last week and again this week. N a tu ra l R esources B ranch G en eral M anager Bobby Brunoe, Range and Ag m anager Jason Smith, and tribal attorney Jo h n O gan updated CouncE on the situ atio n reg ard in g th e N ew Mexico company that is at tempting to resume a. horse slaughter operation. The Navajo Nation faces the largest feral horse prob lem , w ith an e stim ated 60,t)00 u n claim ed ho rses roaming the drought-stricken range. The Yakama Nation has an e stim a te d 15,000 horses on its reservation; and W arm Springs has a b o u t 5,000 to 7,000. The horses destroy the range, damaging fish and wEdlife habitat. The federal government blocked horse slaughtering operations several years ago, leading to a growth in the feral horse populations on reservations. The BLM re ceives about $178 million per year to manage the un claimed horse problem on BLM land, whEe the tribes receive no funding. The slaughtering opera tions created a m arket for the unclaimed horses, as the m eat was able to be sold overseas, for instance. A co m p an y in N ew M exico was p rep ared re cen tly to b eg in a h o rse slaughter operation, but the Humane Society filed suit to block the operation, at least temporarEy. A question was whether W arm Springs should join the lawsuit in some capac- ity, as a tribal interest is in volved. The tribes could partici pate in the New Mexico law suit by filing a brief helping to explain the feral horse problem on reservations. O r the tribes could agree to pro vide Natural Resources in formation at the request o f the parties involved in the suit. Ogan said the Humane . Society lawsuit wiE Ekely not be the final resolution o f the matter, as it is a poEtical ques tion that ultimately will be determined by Congress, and the President. A fter co n sid eratio n o f the m atter, Tribal Council voted to submit a legal Brief in su pport .of the Yakama p o sitio n , ex p lain in g th e Warm Springs position on the feral horse issue. • — Dave McMechan T h e W arm S prings Power and Water buEding received a new ,coat o f paint recently. The enter prise used the Vets handy- Vets - If you man services for the work, and the project m ined out great, said Jim M anion, Power and Water general manager. can think o f it, We can get it done! ~ Handyman services Contact Anthony Davis JL 541-460-2537 ‘N o jo b too b ig or too sm all. Why wait till school starts?? Get r ICHOOL HCTUHt taken early August 20th-24th while you’re tan, clothes are clean & hair is perfect BPA updates Council on fish, lamprey work T he Tribal Council met with representatives o f the BonnevEle Power Adminis tration last week, for a re view o f recent accompEsh- ments. Lori Bodi, BPA vice presi dent o f environm ent, fish and wEdlife, reviewed ac- compEshments from 2008 to the present, including: C h in o o k p ro d u c tio n , habitat restoration, fish pas sage and access, wEdEfe miti gation, natural production monitoring and pacific lam prey monitoring. Regarding Chinook, Bodi said the H ood River faciEty has released 150,000 smolts annuaEy. »Habitat restoration work includes 17.2 mEes o f chan nel re s to ra tio n in th e D eschutes, Jo h n Day and H ood river basins. AnnuaEy, about 78 mEes o f spawning and rearing habitat are pro tected, enhanced and main tained, Bodi said. Seventy-eight passage bar riers have been rem oved, providing access to 374 mEes o f new habitat, Bodi said. WEdEfe mitigation has in clu d ed 500 acres o f im proved habitat; with a plan to p ro te c t an a d d itio n a l 4,500 acres o f wEdEfe habi- • tat through the Spring Basin I exchange. BPA is monitoring Pacific lam prey in the D eschutes, WElamette, and the Fifteen- M Ee/H ood rivers. Since re m o v al o f th e P ö w erd ale dam, Bodi said, the lamprey ‘ project has documented ju- venEe lamprey in the H ood River system. Fish and lamprey projects are m ade p u rsu an t to the C o lu m b ia F ish A cco rd s, which the Colum bia tribes an d te n fed eral agencies signed in 2008. Five years in to the plan, Bodi said, there are significant improvements to report. Juvenile fish passage is im proved at the Snake and Colum bia River dams, she said. “Survival through the hydro system has been sig nificantly unproved primarily due to surface passage and spill.” Survival rates at the dams are on average above 95 p e rc e n t, acco rd in g to studies. T rib al C o u n cilm an Reuben Henry said the tribes have b een w aitin g m any years for land at the river to compensate for the land lost to the hydro projects. “O ur famiEes are from there and we want to move back,” he said. Take them now, pay now & receive 10% Off* No appointments needed At Snap Shots August 20th & 22nd from 9:30-12:30 & 2:00-5:30 August 21st from 10:00-12:00 and 2:00-8:00 August 24th from 9:00-4:00 At Warm Springs Museum - Educational Room August 23rd from 11:00-300 REMINDER - JCMS Students Pictures are before school starts!! September 5th @ JCMS from 12-5 or come to the store or WS on the above dates Same packages, poses and colors offered at the schools. Packages start at $13 and this Is open to anyone no matter which school they attend or if homeschooled from ages 3yrs to 18yrs. Pictures will be Imported Into students school so they will not need to take pictures on picture day. This only applies to the students that attend the schools that we service. J C M S & M H S S t u d e n t s including S E N IO R S not purchasing a package? thats okay, we still need to get a new picture for those ID Cards. Events start right away so the sooner we can get those cards out the better. Stop by and get your picture taken! 541.475.3805 546 SW 4th St. Madras, OR www.snapshots1hr.com i
