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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
December 6, 2017
Tourney entry by Friday
The Fifty-Fourth Annual
Warm Springs All-Indian Holi-
day Men’s Basketball Tourna-
ment is coming up Wednesday
through Saturday, December
27-30 at the Community Cen-
ter gym.
The deadline to enter is this
Friday, December 8. For in-
formation contact Austin
Greene, tournament director,
at 541-553-3243. Or email:
austin.greene@wstribes.org
Awards for this tourney in-
clude first-place Pendleton jack-
ets; second-place solid wool
jackets; third-place jackets;
fourth-place hoodies; and fifth-
place crew neck sweaters. Plus
the MVP, Mr. Hustle and All
tourney awards.
Coming up in youth sports
Jayson Smith photos/Spilyay
The White Buffalo boys varsity
basketball team plays in Madras
Invitational tournament this Friday
and Saturday, Dec. 8-9. Games
are at 7 p.m. The team opened their
season on Tuesday of this week
away at Scappoose.
War m Springs Academy
boys basketball is at Sisters this
Thursday, December 7. Both sev-
enth- and eighth-grade games start
at 3:30 p.m.
Madras High School wrestlers
have a meet at Culver High School
on Friday, December 8.
War m Springs Academy
boys basketball hosts Elton Gre-
gory on Monday, December 11.
Seventh-grade is at 4 and the eighth-
grade at 5.
In Madras High School sports:
Boys and girls, freshman and JV
basketball teams play at La Pine
High School on Monday evening,
December 11.
The 2017-18 Madras White Buffalos girls varsity basketball team was at Kah-Nee-Ta recently. Here
are Alesha Freeman, Vanessa Culps, Jayden Davis, Jiana Smith Francis, Monika Stacona, Chloe
Smith, Jackie Zamora Heath, Kaliyah Iverson, Jalaney Suppah, Lynden Harry, Ellise David, Annalise
Whipple (from back). The team got off to a 2-0 start this season. Their next home game is Dec. 17.
CRITFC launches lamprey project
The Columbia River Inter-
Tribal Fish Commission is explor-
ing the historical range and abun-
dance of Pacific lamprey through-
out the Columbia River basin.
The project will compile histori-
cal photographs, written accounts,
newspaper articles, and other his-
torical documents that show or
reference Pacific lamprey in Or-
egon, Washington, Idaho and Brit-
ish Columbia.
The hope is that this informa-
tion will allow scientists to recon-
struct the range and abundance
of the species in the interior Co-
lumbia basin.
For the project to succeed,
CRITFC is asking the public to
dive deep into their family photo
albums for pictures of lamprey,
also called eels, and share them
with CRITFC.
Anyone wanting to participate
can send CRITFC an electronic
copy of photos or documents to
the project’s website or email ad-
dress. Or send a physical copy to
CRITFC via mail.
If there is any additional infor-
mation about the photo—for ex-
ample the location, date, photog-
rapher, where the original is stored,
whether the information is consid-
ered sensitive, or any other relevant
information— send it along too.
This provides valuable context that
can help increase our understand-
ing of this little studied fish.
The website is:
http://bit.ly/lamprey-photos
Email address:
lamprey@critfc.org
Mailing address: 700 NE
Multnomah St., suite 1200, Port-
land, OR 97232
Phone number 503-238-0667.
Shrinking population
Pacific lamprey are one of the
oldest creatures in the Columbia
River basin. Like salmon, they are
anadromous, spending time in the
ocean and returning to spawn in
freshwater tributaries.
Unfortunately, Pacific lamprey
numbers have seen a severe de-
cline throughout the Columbia ba-
sin.
“The Creator told the people
that the eels would always return
as long as the people took care of
them,” said Tribal Councilman Ron
Suppah said. “But if the people
failed to care of them, they would
disappear.”
The development of the Co-
lumbia River hydropower system
posed a significant challenge to the
potentially millions of adult Pacific
Lamprey that migrated up the Co-
lumbia, Snake, and Willamette riv-
ers to spawn.
This challenge was further com-
plicated by intermittent, inaccurate,
or non-existent adult lamprey
counts-creating a large knowledge
gap for the region.
To help fill in this gap, CRITFC
is hoping that this project will allow
scientists to reconstruct the range
and abundance of the species in
the interior Columbia basin.
Courtesy CRITFC
Decades ago, lamprey at the base of Willamette Falls. Photo from the Oregon Historical Society.
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
Warm Springs Academy eighth-grader Jyden Beck drives past
a much taller (6’3”) Jefferson County Middle School player, as
the Eagles went on to win 50-39.
The Madras Aquatic Center Recreation District will
have 30 and over, and 18-29 adult basketball
leagues from January 14-March 11. The registra-
tion deadline is January 5. See macrecdistrict.com