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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Academy Football
September 27, 2017
Fall fishery open this week
The sixth fall fishing period
has been set. The current fish-
ery is open through this Friday,
September 29 at 6 p.m.
The open area is all of zone
6. Allowed gear is set nets with
an 8” minimum mesh size.
Allowed sales are salmon,
steelhead, shad, yellow perch,
bass, walleye, catfish and carp.
Sturgeon may not be sold.
Legal-size sturgeon between 38
and 54 inches fork length in the
Bonneville pool, and sturgeon
between 43 and 54 inches fork
length in The Dalles and John
Day pools may be kept for sub-
sistence use.
Standard river mouth and
dam closed areas applicable to
gillnets are in effect including
the Spring Creek National Fish
Hatchery sanctuary. Fish may
be sold after the period ends
if caught during the open pe-
riod.
Kah-Nee-Ta Fall Run Oct. 14
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
Warm Springs Academy Eagles running back Derrek Main take rushes against Burns. Derrek ran for a
total of 85 yards and a touchdown. Eagles football travels to Hines on Wednesday, October 4. They’re
at home against Sisters on October 10, game time at 4:30 p.m.
Coming up in Buffs sports...
In Madras High School sports:
Girls junior varsity soccer plays at
Summit High School this Thurs-
day, September 28. The volleyball
squads all travel to Molalla.
Madras High School Buffs
Cross Country competes at the
Oxford Meet at Drake Park in
Bend this Saturday, September 30.
Warm Springs Recreation will
host the annual Kah-Nee-Ta Fall
run—‘For a Change of Pace’—on
Saturday, October 14. The run in-
cludes the 10k and 2-mile fun run/
walk. Registration begins at 8 a.m.,
and the run/walk begins at 9 a.m.
Pre-registration, before October
11, is $15; after October 11, the
registration is $20. For more in-
formation call Recreation at 541-
553-3243.
A thank you for fair livestock auction
Varsity volleyball plays in Junction
City.
Buffs Cross Country competes
on Thursday, October 5 in the
Estacada Meet at McIver State
Park. Meanwhile, boys soccer trav-
els to Molalla. Girls JV and varsity
host Molalla at 4 p.m. Volleyball will
host Gladstone.
Dylan Heath (above) and Hayden Heath (left).
This is a thank you that has
been some time in coming:
Thank you very much to
Chilkat Enterprises Inc., and
Brad Klann Farms for purchas-
ing our 4-H market goats at the
Jefferson County Fair Livestock
Auction in July.
We also want to thank all of
the people and businesses that do-
nated to the auction and raised the
sale prices of our goats.
Courtesy the Heath family.
We, along with our parents,
really appreciate your generos-
ity and investment in our futures.
Thank you again,
Hayden Heath and Dylan
Heath
Community fitness challenge starts in October
The 50 Days of Fitness Com-
munity Cardio Challenge is com-
ing up in October and November.
It’s open to anyone 18 and older
who lives or works on the reserva-
tion and Jefferson County.
There are individual female, male
and 4-person mixed team divisions.
Registrations will be taken on
Monday, October 2 at the Warm
Springs Health and Wellness Cen-
ter in the kitchen conference room
between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m., and at
the Jefferson County Public Health
Department, 715 SW Fourth Street
in Madras between 7:30 a.m. and
5:30 p.m.
The entry fee includes free use
of all activities at the Madras
Aquatic Center and all activities,
except group fitness classes, at the
Madras Athletic Club.
For more information you can
contact Carolyn Harvey at 541-
475-4456, extension 4233. Or email:
carolyn.harvey@co.jefferson.or.us
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
The Madras High School White Buffalos boys varsity football
team won in September against Valley Catholic, 19-7. This
was the first win for the team in past two seasons. They have a
home game this Friday, September 29 at 7 p.m. They are
away at Gladstone the following Friday, and then back at home
Concern for fish after Eagle Creek fire
Communities in and around the
Columbia River Gorge are still feel-
ing the effects of the Eagle Creek
Fire, and so will the river ecosys-
tems in the areas that burned.
Once significant rains return to
Illegal gillnetters busted on Deschutes with 85 salmon
Working on complaints of
illegal gillnetting on the Colum-
bia River at the Deschutes
River Sanctuary, Oregon State
Police teamed with Washington
Department of Fish and Wild-
life Enforcement for a night-
time river patrol.
They caught two people de-
ploying gillnets illegally before
confiscating 85 chinook
salmon and one steelhead.
The patrol located a boat
operating without required
lighting in the sanctuary with
three persons onboard.
Authorities discovered the
boaters had deployed a gillnet
longer than 1,100 feet in vio-
lation of 800-foot length re-
strictions, as well as being in a
sanctuary that’s closed to
gillnetting year-round.
Courtesy Oregon Troopers
Fish and wildlife officers with some of the chinook and steelhead
confiscated from an illegal gillnetting operation on the Deschutes.
Lane Meanus, 26, and Ashley
Leslie, 24, both residents of Celilo
Village, were arrested for multiple
criminal acts.
The investigation discovered 85
chinook and one steelhead with a
current market value of $3,500.
Meanus was lodged at
NORCOR on charges of Com-
mercial Fishing Closed Waters
and cited for Operating a Vessel
Without Required Lighting.
Leslie was given criminal ci-
tations for Commercial Fishing
Closed Waters and Taking Fish
Without Tribal Identification on
Person.
Fish and wildlife preservation
is crucial to the sustainment and
healthy population management
efforts to the Pacific Northwest.
Anyone witnessing, or with
knowledge of fish and wildlife
violation, please report via the
established tip line. To report a
violation or suspicious activity
on the reservation, call 541-553-
2001. Or use the tip hotline: 1-
800-452-7888, available 24-7.
Tip email:
TIP@state.or.us
the Pacific Northwest, loose ash and
sediment will likely wash down into
streambeds and creeks, potentially
filling in valuable spawning grounds
for salmon.
“There is a lot that is unknown
about how the fish and the river are
going to respond, but we have a lot
of scientific research that shows
there are some predictable things
that we can expect,” said Seth White,
a watershed ecologist with Colum-
bia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commis-
sion.
In the short term, White worries
how clogged spawning grounds will
impact spawning salmon in the
gorge, specifically Coho.
“There are these threatened
populations of Coho who spawn in
those streams and their spawning
could coincide with timing with the
fall rains and their might be some
danger with spawning grounds be-
ing covered by sediment that is wash-
ing down from the fire,” White said.
Experts say that it is too early to
tell exactly what will happen to the
river. White added that because the
fire has been spotty in some parts,
some streambeds may be filled with
sediment, others may see no effects.