Spilyay T ym o o , W arm Springs, O regon
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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
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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
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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.
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