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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Tribes approve off-rez hunting regs
Tribal Council approved off-
reservation hunting regulations, as
proposed by the Branch of Natu-
ral Resources.
Please come by the Natural Re-
sources office to pick up your off-
reservation tags and regulations,
and to sign up for lottery hunts.
Updated hunting information is
also available on the fishing and
hunting hotline at 541-553-2000.
Please take advantage of off
reservation hunting tags: These
opportunities take hunting pres-
sure off the reservation, which
may help improve wildlife popu-
lations.
Please make sure off-reserva-
tion hunting takes place on public
(unclaimed) lands. It is the hunter’s
responsibility to know where they
are hunting, where they are allowed
to hunt, what weapons they are al-
lowed to use, and the bag limit.
For questions regarding hunting
please contact the Natural Re-
sources Department at 541-553-
2001.
The following are the 2016 off
reservation hunting regulations:
15 – November 30. Branched ant-
lered bulls - rifle Only.
Third elk season: December
1 through January 31. Spike bulls
and antlerless elk - rifle.
Buck – Deer rifle: Now
through October 31. One buck
with visible antlers per tag.
Elk – Elk archery: Now through
September 25. Either sex elk
(branched or unbranched) with
archery only.
First elk season: September
26 - October 14. Spike bulls and
antlerless elk - rifle.
Second elk season: October
Each tribal hunter may possess
two tags for each hunt at a time
(except for pronghorn, bear and
cougar) and may be issued addi-
tional tags only after previously
issued tags are filled and reported
on.
Pronghorn – Now through
September 30. Either sex prong-
horn antelope.
Bighor n sheep – Now
throughNovember 30. One ram
per tag. Tags will be awarded to
four tribal members through a
public drawing. Sign up for the
lottery draw is at the Natural Re-
sources front desk or at the Warm
Springs Market. Hunt locations
are West John Day River (one tag),
Deschutes River (two tags) and
Aldrich (one tag).
Black bear – Now through
December 31. Either sex exclud-
ing cubs less than one year and
sows with cubs less than one year.
Cougar – Open season. Either
sex excluding spotted kittens or fe-
male cougars with spotted kittens.
Off reservation hunting is des-
ignated for off reservation public
(unclaimed) lands.
Illegally harvesting wildlife on
the reservation using off-reserva-
tion tags, or harvesting the wrong
sex, can have great long-term nega-
tive impacts to the tribes’ wildlife
populations.
Overharvesting wildlife, and il-
legally harvesting females, reduces
wildlife population numbers for
multiple generations. Please help
protect the tribes’ wildlife resources
by reporting poaching violations to
541-553-2033 or 541-553-1171.
Mandatory reporting
There is mandatory reporting of
all hunter harvest. Failure to re-
port harvest results for off-reser-
vation and reservation hunts will
result in a loss of hunting privi-
leges for subsequent tags.
Please be honest with your
hunter reporting. If you are issued
a tag, you have the right to hunt
and harvest an animal.
Harvest and hunting informa-
tion is important for the wildlife
department in determining wildlife
population sizes, herd composi-
tions and hunting pressure. In ad-
dition, this information helps us
determine where there are and are
not animals. This helps focus our
habitat restoration efforts on the
reservation.
Your continued support and
participation with hunter reporting
is greatly appreciated. Thank you
for your participation!
The Warm Springs Wildlife
Department
September 14, 2016
Potlatch resource protection
award for CRITFC director
Paul Lumley was named the
recipient of the 2016 the Billy
Frank Jr. Natural Resource
Protection Award, presented
by the Potlatch Fund.
Mr. Lumley currently is the
executive director for the Co-
lumbia River Inter-Tribal Fish
Commission, and a member of
the Yakama Nation.
He worked at CRITFC
from 1987-2004 in several ca-
pacities. He returned to
CRITFC after five years in
Washington, D.C., to begin his
tenure as executive director in
2009.
Mr. Lumley has an extensive
history working with North-
west tribes on salmon issues,
particularly in the Columbia
River Basin.
He has worked closely with
the Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs on the fisher-
ies issues that have come up
during his tenure with
CRITFC.
This October, Mr. Lumley
will transition into his new role
Paul Lumley
as the executive director of the
Native American Youth and
Family Center, where the mis-
sion is to enhance the diverse
strengths of youth and families
in the Portland area.
Paul received his Bachelor
of Science degree in Math-
ematics from Western Washing-
ton University in 1986.
A golf scramble this Sunday, September 18, will ben-
efit the Madras High School football team.
This is a four-person scramble, $60 per player (checks
payable to Madras High School). Tee time is 10 a.m.
Putting string: $5 each, two per team, one string per
nine holes. Contact Butch David at 541-475-7265, or email:
bdavid@509j.net
Jayson
Smith
photos/
Spilyay
The Madras White Buffalos have an away game this Friday, Sept. 16, at Valley Catholic. Game time
is at 7 p.m. To start the season the Buffs have played The Dalles (above and above at right) and
Cottage Grove (lower right), dropping both games.
Meanwhile, you can see football action closer to home, at the Warm Springs Academy on Tuesday,
Sept. 20. Game time is at 4:15 p.m.
Healthy floodplanes, living rivers theme for conference
The 2016 Future of Our
Salmon Conference is coming up
in October.
In preparation for the event, the
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish
Commission—with other inter-
tribal organizations and tribes—
recently co-hosted a pre-
conference technical workshop in
Spokane.
The Columbia Basin is home to
numerous tribal nations on both
sides of the U.S. and Canada
border. They all have long known
that the actions and decisions of
one group can impact and influ-
ence those who live both upstream
and downstream.
The understanding of this
shared impact, and responsibility
to the natural resources of the re-
gion, are reasons why 15 U.S. tribes
and
17
Canadian
First
Nations have come together for
the second time to host the Fu-
ture of Our Salmon Conference,
planned for mid October in Port-
land.
These tribal nations come from
and have ancestral use and man-
agement authorities throughout
the entire Basin—from the upper
reaches of the Columbia River in
British Columbia, to the Snake
River headwaters in Yellowstone
National Park, to the mouth of
the Columbia as it empties into the
Pacific Ocean.
Their health and fate are
linked—along with that of the en-
tire region—to the health and fate
of the waters of N’Chi Wana—the
Big River.
This year’s conference theme
is Healthy Flood plains, Living
Rivers.
The theme highlights the vital
role of floods and floodplains to
healthy rivers.
The tribes viewed floods as
natural occurrences that helped
heal and sustain the land. They
knew the times of the year when
floods normally occurred and
acted accordingly.
They also knew that rivers are
Tepee doors always faced
east except when they
were set up near rivers,
because thousands of
years of experience had
taught them to always be
aware of the river.
by their nature unpredictable and
needed to be respected at all times.
At
the
recent
work-
shop, Colville tribal leader John
Sirois spoke about traditional
knowledge of rivers.
He pointed out that tepee doors
always faced east except when they
were set up near rivers. They did
this because thousands of years of
experience had taught them to al-
ways be aware of the river, as it
could change in an instant. From
the time they were born, children
learned to respect rivers and their
potential to flood.
A Nez Perce story tells how chil-
dren should never to fall asleep
near a stream because Dragonfly
would come by and sew their eyes
shut. This scary possibility—much
more effective and memorable to
kids than saying ‘always be aware
of the river because it could rise
and sweep you away in an instant’—
taught them to never let their guard
down when it came to interacting
with a river.
In our modern world, humans
have tricked themselves into believ-
ing that they can have absolute con-
trol of rivers, and they seem sur-
prised when a river doesn’t obey.
Unfortunately, this has resulted
in rivers and streams that can be
harmful or inhospitable to salmon
and other fish, degrade rather than
replenish the land, or cause human
suffering when floods destroy
homes and other infrastructure in
areas where they shouldn’t have
been built.
Hopefully, the efforts to undo
the damage that avoiding floods
and controlling rivers has done will
gain broader support. By working
together, we can help rivers act like
rivers again.
The goal of the Future of Our
Salmon conferences is to facilitate
dialogue between co-managers of
the resource, and a broad range
of other interested parties, in an
ongoing quest for a unified vision
of fish restoration in the Colum-
bia River Basin.
The conference is for federal,
tribal, First Nation, state, provin-
cial, and local government repre-
sentatives; Indian, sport, and com-
mercial fishers; environmental or-
ganizations; and anyone else inter-
ested in maintaining and restoring
ecosystems for sustainable popu-
lations of anadromous and resi-
dent fish throughout the Colum-
bia River Basin and its tributaries.
Visit the conference page at
critfc.org for more information,
and to register.
The Columbia River Inter-
Tribal Fish Commission.