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Page 6 Spilyay Tyrnoo, W arm Springs, O regon February 17, 2016 Cougars co-ed tourneys Feb. 26-28 The Madras High School varsity girls basketball team has a home game this Thursday, Feb. 18. Then on February 23 they play at Corbett. The girls had a great game earlier in the season against Corbett, winning 77-54. The Madras girls are a leading team in the 4A Tri-Valley Conference. At left, Janae Adams and Leah Suppah during the win against Corbett. The 2016 OSAA State Championships begin March 4. The Warm Springs Cou gars AU Indian Sixth-Grade an d U n d er, an d E ig h th - G rade and U n d er C o-E d basketbaU tournam ents are coming up this month. The tourneys are set for Friday through Sunday, Feb. 26-28 at th e C om m unity Center gym. The awards for each tournament include: Ten Championship Pull overs. T en ru n n e r-u p crewnecks. Finalist t-shirts (for third- and fourth); and A ll-T o urney team s. T he E ig h th -G ra d e and U n d er tourney will include an MVP award. For more information con tact Austin Greene, tourna ment director, at PO Box 42, Warm Springs, OR 97761. O r email: austin.greene@wstribes.org You can reach him by phone at 541-553-1953(h); or 553-3243(work and message phone.) The Warm Springs Cou gars AU Indian Sixth-Grade and Under and Eighth-Grade and U nder C o-ed to u rn a ments are sponsored by the C ougars Y outh Basketball Organization; the Recreation Department; and the Confed e rated T rib es o f W arm Springs. Cougars 16-and-under tourney in March Jayson Smith photos. ! 25 i I jf i 1 ■ I The Warm Springs Youth Organization in March will host the 2016 Warm Springs Cougars AU Indian Teen Boys 16 Years and Under Basket baU Tournament. T h e to u rn ey is set fo r March 18-20 at the Commu nity Wellness Center. The en try deadhne is set for Friday, March 4. The fee is $200 per team. Awards: ten C ham pion ship Jackets; ten runner-up ho o d ed jackets; ten third- place crews; and ten fourth- place. t-sh irts. In d iv id u al aw ards include MVP, Mr. Hustle; and 10 AU Tourney players. F o r m ore in fo rm atio n , contact Austin Greene, tour ney director; P O Box 42, W arm Springs, O R 97761. You can reach him by email at: Austin.greene@wstribes.org O r call 541-553-1953(h); or the Recreation office at 553-3243. Spring water polo coming up at aquatic center The Madras Aquatic Center Recre ation D istrict is taking registration for spring w ater polo for youth 18 and Income opportunities for farmers, landowners by Scott J. Duggan, W.S. O SU Extension I was recently asked by a chent, “W hat can we do in regard to climate change?” This seems to be a global issue, yet is there something we can do as an individual? Regardless o f your opin ion o f this controversial sub ject, agro-forestry is a ’B usi ness enterprise you may want to consider. Agroforestry is the inten tional integration of income producing trees and shrubs into crop and animal farm ing systems. T hink o f it as a way to benefit the environment and poUinators while creating a secondary source o f income. Examples include planting windbreaks with edible fruits and berries, or planting trees for biomass energy or coni fers for lumber production. Agroforestry is often over looked by farmers and ranch ers in search o f additional in come opportunities from their land. It offers additional in com e while im proving the land and the environment. In addition to providing in come, trees planted as a wind break can reduce wind veloc ity by up to 70 percent. T h at reduction in wind chill can really make a differ ence for a newborn calf or lam b d u rin g th è w in ter months. I f voles, squirrels or other rodents are- tearing up your good hay ground, a row o f trees at the edge o f the field provides habitat for owls and other mice eating raptors. A barn owl will eat, on av erage, six voles, mice or go phers per night. That adds up to 2,136 rodents per year. - W hen considering agro forestry, landowners should ask themselves if they have livestock areas that are with out trees but have access to water. Are there fence lines along irrigated pastures that could be planted with chokecher- ries, elderberries or thornless Triple Crown berries? Per- haps there is a less produc tive part o f your land that could grow fast-growing trees like hybrid poplar or hybrid cottonw ood. These can be harvested and sold for pulp wood, wood for energy and other solid wood products. Tree plantings can earn in come while reducing soil ero sio n along stream b anks which enhances fish habitat. To d eterm in e th e b e st place oh your ranch for a w indbreak, look for fields that have the strongest wind pressure on the north or west end o f your property. Where can a windbreak be planted that will do the most good? D o you have corrals that have access to water? These are often good areas to plant trees along the fence line in order to produce shade and it helps reduce dust, too. Recently, the precipitous decline in bee populations has been a m ajor concern for farmers. A windbreak is an opportunity to provide habi tat and food for bees. By planting a wide variety o f plants w ith overlapping blooming times, farmers can provide a source o f pollen and n ectar for bees, even w hen th eir crops are n o t blooming. I hope everyone w ould agree th a t in creasin g bee populations is worth a bit o f extra effort, money and time. As an extra bonus, one could include berry produc ing plants like blueberries and raspberries for additional in come opportunities. Diver sification o f income spreads out market risk and can pro vide much needed cash flow. T h e o p p o rtu n itie s fo r profitable agroforestry are limited only by your imagina tion and the growing condi tions in your area. I f you w ould like m ore inform ation on this topic, please feel free to contact the OSU Extension office at 541 - 553-3238 or check out the USDA National Agroforestry Center website at: nac.unl.edu/ scott. duggan@oregonstate. edu Chinook continue to set records on Snake River For the third year in a row, fall chinook returning to the Snake River have set a new record. Data released by the Nez Perce Tribe shows that a new record o f 9,345 redds, o r gravel nests, were built by re turning adults in the Snake River Basin between Lower G ranite and Hells Canyon dams. The previous record was set in 2014 when 6,714 redds w ere c o u n te d . T h is new record coincides w ith the th ird highest adult Snake R iver fall chinook retu rn (59,300) since the four lower Snake River dams were com pleted in 1975. The Nez Perce work on the fisheries in coordination with the Umatilla, the O r egon, Washington and Idaho departments o f fish and wild life, the Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisher ies. T he co -m an ag ers are w orking to im plem ent the Snake River Fall C hinook Program, an effort to restore fall chinook salmon above Lower Granite Dam. The success o f the Snake River fall chinook program is the direct result o f efforts to supplem ent existing Snake River fall chinook with bio logically appropriate hatchery- reared fish. The team started the pro gram in 1994, as a result o f legal actions by the tribes un der US v. Oregon. The Nez Perce Tribe an nually releases 450,000 year ling fall chinook, and 2.8 mil lion sub-yearling fall chinook. They release the yearlings from tribal facilities, as part o f an overall program that releases 5 million fish back into the system. T hese releases in to the Snake and Clearwater rivers have increased the number o f adult fall chinook returning above Lower Granite Dam. Many o f these fish spawn naturally and are key to in creasing natural-origin returris. “The continued success o f the Snake River fall chinook returns over the p ast five years strengthens the argu m ent for carefully managed hatcheries as a tool in salmon reco v ery ,” said A n th o n y Jo h n so n , chairm an o f the N ez Perce Tribal Executive Committee. Adult fall chinook salmon retu rn s to L ow er G ran ite D am have increased from fewer than 1,000 adults an nually from 1975-1995, to re c o rd co u n ts o f 56,565 adults in 2013 and 60,868 in 2014. T h ese re tu rn s in clu d e record numbers o f natural- origin fish returning to the spawning grounds, including 21,142 w ild fish in 2013, 1 4 ,l/2 in 2014, and a pre liminary estimate 16,212 in 2015. This equals approxi m ately 28 p e rc e n t o f the 2015 return to the area. The continued increase in returns o f Snake River fall chinook allowed co-m anag ers to open a fall chinook fishery in the Snake River in 2009. T h is was th e first fall chinook fishery on the Snake River in 35 years, and the fishery has occu rred each year since. “The success o f the Snake River fall chinook is some thing this region can really be proud of,” said Paul Lumley, executive director for the Co lum bia River In ter-T rib al Fish Commission. “O ver the last 20 years, we’ve moved from the court room to supporting fisheries while putting a substantial number o f retuning adults on the spawning grounds. This type o f program should be replicated th ro u g h o u t the Columbia River Basin, n o t limited.” younger. The registration deadline is Febru ary 26. Sign up and pay at macaquatic.com, or at the aquatic center. Sweetheart Baby Fair Récréation will hostthe Sweetheart Baby Fair will on Wednesday, February 24 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Community Center. There will be a family photo shoot, and lots o f door prizes. There will be a Little Tykes Regalia F a sh io n Show from walkers to 5 years old, and a baby board gallery where you can showcase your family’s boards. Community notes... Mid Oregon Family Free Saturday is coming up this weekend at the High Desert Museum in Bend Fam ily Free Saturday at the museum is on February 20. Families are invited to enjoy and experience the mu seum at no cost. The Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. See the museum website for details: highdesertmuseum.org The Mobile Medical Unit will be at the Community Center on Tuesday, February 23. You can call IHS to schedule an appointment, 541-553-1196. The Warm Springs k-8 Academy winter sports ban quet will be held Wednesday, February 24 in the school’s cafeteria at 5 p.m.. The Inaugural Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Parade and Expo is scheduled in Warm Springs Warm Springs on March 30. Please register by March 15th by calling 541-460-8212. The Native American program of Legal Aid Ser vices of Oregon offers free legal help with certain types o f cases for low income individuals. It also offers com munity educational presentations about different legal is sues. The Legal Aid Services Native program is seeking your input about what types o f legal assistance the Warm Springs community needs most. They are having a com munity meeting to provide information and take sugges tions on Tuesday, March 1. There will be food and refreshments beginning at 5:30 at the Family Resource Center. CRITFC is hiring B IO M ETR IC IA N - full tim e. The Fishery S ci entist B iom etrician w orks on projects involving the m o d eling o f the p o p u la tio n d yn a m ics of Pacific Salmon. The incum bent will serve on the P acific Salm on C om m ission C hinook Technical Com m ittee, and inter-agency technical com m it tee th a t m odels C hinook salm on stocks and fish e rie s along the P acific coast. W ill perform statistical analyses, and present w ritten sum maries and reports. W ill enhance, evaluate, and develop quantitative m odels o f population dy nam ics, fisheries, and m ulti-stage life histories. Visit critfc.org/blog/jobs/fishery-scientist-biom etri- cian/ fo r a full jo b description and instructions on how to apply. The announcem ent closing date is M arch 31, 2016.
