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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
High school, Academy football in October
Listen to KWSO 91.9 FM
for Madras High School foot-
ball this Friday, October 26.
Madras hosts the Salem
Academy. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.
This will be the last home game
of the 2018 season for the
White Buffalos football team.
Wednesday, October 31:
Warm Springs Academy Foot-
ball has a game against the
Jefferson County Middle
School at the Madras High
School football stadium at 4:30.
The concessions will be
open during the football
games. The school Drama
Club is fundraising for this
year’s plays.
Nike run for
Native American
Heritage Month
Tribes set Columbia River fall fishery
Allowable sales: Sturgeon from
38 to 54 inches fork length in the
Bonneville pool may be sold or
kept for subsistence purposes. Fish
landed during the open period are
allowed to be sold after the period
concludes.
Sturgeon with the 38-54 inch
fork length slot limit caught in the
platform or hook and line fishery
may be sold when caught during
periods when both the platform
and hook and line fishery and
setline fishery are open in the same
area at the same time.
Platform and hook and line
fishing for salmon and steelhead
continues under current regula-
tions. For information, please con-
sult the tribal fishery department,
541-553-2001.
If you have any fishing enforce-
ment problems, or need assistance
or information, day or night, con-
tact the Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission Fisheries Enforce-
ment office, 541-386-6363. Or toll
free at 800-487-FISH (3474). Please
wear your life jacket for safety, and
avoid overloading your boat.
EPA to protect salmon from warm temps
A federal judge has ordered pro-
tection for salmon in the Columbia
River basin from warm water tem-
peratures that have been lethal to
salmon and steelhead as the climate
changes.
The U.S. District Court for the
Western District at Seattle in a 16-
page ruling last week ordered the
U.S. Environmental Protection
Ancestral
Voices at
Smith Rock
Smith Rock State Park will have
a free lecture this Friday, October
26 from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Smith
Rock Welcome Center.
Dallas Winishut will present An-
cestral Voices: The Ancient Lan-
guages of the Warm Springs Reser-
vation.
This is part of the annual Or-
egon Archaeology Celebration. Lec-
tures are free and open to the pub-
lic.
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
The treaty tribes of the Colum-
bia River have set the following
fishery plan, and the Columbia
River Compact has concurred:
Bonneville pool commercial
sturgeon setline fishery: Bonneville
pool only, through 6 p.m. on
Wednesday, October 31.
Sanctuaries: Standard closed
areas applicable to setline gear.
October 24, 2018
Agency to protect Columbia Basin
salmon and steelhead from danger-
ously warm water temperatures in
the Columbia and Snake Rivers.
Climate change has exacerbated
a long standing problem with wa-
ter temperature in reservoirs be-
hind hydropower dams on the riv-
ers, increasing the number days in
which temperatures exceed what
Memory of the Land
at the Museum
can be tolerated by salmon and
steelhead, which are cold-water
species. In 2015, 250,000 adult
sockeye salmon died when the Co-
lumbia and Snake rivers became
too warm. Hot water pushed sur-
vival rates for critically endangered
Snake River sockeye to only 4 per-
cent in 2015.
The court found that the EPA
has failed to undertake its manda-
tory duty to enforce and ensure a
temperature daily maximum, just as
it must also enforce other types of
water-quality parameters under the
Clean Water Act. Federal Judge
Ricardo Martinez ordered the
agency to issue a temperature stan-
dard for the river.
November is Native American
Heritage Month, and the Nike
Native American Network is host-
ing a 5k run and walk on Satur-
day, November 10 at the Nike
World Headquarters in Beaverton.
The race, beginning at 8:30
a.m., is hosted by the Nike Native
American and Friends Employee
Network.
This event is free and family
friendly—open to all community
members. Free t-shirts to the first
200 runners. Special guest: Jordan
Kent, Portland Trail Blazers broad-
caster. Music by DJ Emcee One.
Extras
needed for
film First Cow
Weeble Mountain Casting
Agency is looking for Pacific
Northwest and other Natives
to be extras in an upcoming
feature film.
The project is called First
Cow. They are looking for
talent of all ages, including
infants and kids.
The shoot dates are No-
vember 2 through Decem-
ber 11 in the Portland and
Eugene areas.
Pay is $12 an hour with a
minimum of eight hours
work guaranteed. To sign up
you
can
go
to
weeblemountain.com
Or visit their Facebook
page.
Warm Springs Police De-
pa r t m e n t A n o n y m o u s Ti p
Line: 541-553-2202. The
Tip Line has no caller iden-
tification program attached.
The caller can leave a mes-
sage after the recorded
message, and it is checked
daily by a staff member.
Columbia Fish Accords
extended up to 4 years
Tribes, states and three federal
agencies continue to work for the
good of endangered salmon and
steelhead, as this month they ex-
tend the historic Columbia Basin
Fish Accords for up to four more
years.
The original agreements, signed
in 2008, provided states and tribes
more than $900 million to imple-
ment projects benefiting salmon,
steelhead, and other fish and wild-
life, and $50 million for Pacific lam-
prey passage improvements at fed-
eral dams on the Columbia and
Snake rivers.
The Accords’ partnerships over
the past 10 years balanced the
agencies’ needs to perform their
missions of navigation, flood risk
management, hydropower produc-
tion, fish and wildlife mitigation,
recreation, water supply and irri-
gation in a manner consistent with
tribal trust and treaty rights.
The new Accords extensions
could run through September
2022 and will set aside more than
$400 million for fish and wildlife
mitigation and protection.
Since 2008, Accord dollars
have: protected more than 36,000
acres of riparian habitat and im-
proved nearly 7,000 acres; pro-
tected nearly 100,000 acre-feet of
water; restored nearly 600 miles
of streams and tributaries; opened
access to nearly 2,000 miles of
blocked fish habitat; and improved
Pacific lamprey passage at dams
operated by the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers. The agreements also
committed funding for hatcheries.