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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Hoopa Champions
March 13, 2019
Warm Springs Nation
Little League sign-ups
Registrations for 2019
Warm Springs Nation
Little League—baseball,
softball and t-ball—are
now open. You can reg-
ister any time from 8 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. at the Com-
munity Center.
Baseball and softball
tryouts will be this Tues-
day through Thursday,
March 19-21. Practices
begin April 1.
Coaches and umpires
need to complete forms
and background checks.
For more information call
541-325-3856. Or reach
the Community Center at
541-553-3243.
Cougars tourney taking entries
The Twenty-Sixth Annual
Warm Springs Cougars All-
Indian High School Boys &
Girls Basketball Champion-
ships are coming up in early
April.
Warm Springs Recreation
will host the championships
April 5-7 at the Community
Center.
Recreation is taking en-
tries up until March 22.
Contact tournament di-
rector Austin Greene at the
Recreation Office for more
information, 541-553-3243.
Can drive for Warm Springs artists
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
Former Madras High School basketball guard Lynden Harry (second from left) played on the All-Indian Ladies
Champion team at the in 2019 Hoopa tournament. Lynden now attends and plays for the College of the
Siskiyous.
For MHS track and field
For their first fund-raiser
for the Madras High School
track and field teams, the
athletes are sending out let-
ters asking for pledges for
laps.
The pledge is for the
number of laps you run in
one hour. Date of the event
is Friday, March 22.
The goal of each mem-
ber of the track teams goal
is $50 per athlete. The
money raised will go to-
wards the following items:
Bussing to and from
track clinics, and track schol-
arships, helping kids who
can’t afford fees. Other
items:
Equipment, team din-
ners, assistant coaches not
paid by the district, the Dis-
trict meet and State meet in
Eugene.
“We are asking family
and friends for a per lap do-
nation or a flat donation,”
said team captain Alex
Lewis.
If your interested please
contact Alex at 541-777-
1209. Or email:
alexlewismmxix@gmail.com
The White Buffalos
teams will travel to Crook
County on March 21 for
relays. After spring break,
the teams will travel to the
Willamette Falls Invitational.
Tribal fishery extended
The four Columbia
River tribes have set the
following fishery plan,
and the Columbia River
Compact concurred:
The
commercial
gillnet fishery at the
Bonneville Pool only will
be extended until 6 p.m.
on Wednesday March
20.
Allowed gear includes
gillnets with no mesh size
restriction. Allowable
sales:
Sturgeon from 38 to
54 inches fork length,
salmon (any species),
steelhead, walleye, bass,
carp, catfish, shad, and
yellow perch may be sold
or kept for subsistence
purposes.
Fish landed during the
open periods are allowed
to be sold after the pe-
riod concludes.
The Tananawit community of Warm Springs artists
is having a fundraising can drive through March 15.
Any donations can be brought the Community Action
Team office on campus.
Warm Springs Higher Education reminds students
who plan to apply for the Tribal Scholarship that the
Tribal Scholarship Early Bird deadline is May 1. Stu-
dents who turn in application packets by this date
will be eligible for certain school supplies. The regu-
lar deadline is July 1. Talk to Carroll at the Higher Ed
office for more information, 541-553-3311.
Sanctuaries: River
mouth and dam closed
areas applicable to gillnet
gear are in effect. The
Spring Creek Hatchery
sanctuary is not in effect
this time of year.
If you have any fish-
ing enforcement prob-
lems or need assistance
or information, day or
night, contact the Colum-
bia River Inter-Tribal
Fisheries Enforcement
Office, 4270 Westcliff
Drive, Hood River.
Phone 541-386-6363 or
toll-free (800)-487-FISH
(3474).
Please show pride in
your tribe’s treaty rights
by carrying your tribal
ID.
Please consult your
tribal Fisheries Depart-
ment for additional de-
tails on tribal regulations.
Sea lions at Bonneville dam below 10-year average
The number of sea lions
at Bonneville dam is below
average, and most are the
larger steller sea lions.
California sea lions had
been more prevalent over
the past decade. Each
spring they would feast on
hundreds of salmon and
steelhead.
So far this year, though,
the fish predation has been
by steller sea lions, with no
obser ved predation by
California sea lions. This
is according to the first
2019 monthly pinniped
status report released by
the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers.
During the period of
December through January,
just one chinook salmon,
four coho salmon, 11 steel-
head and one white sturgeon
were observed by the Corps
being eaten by pinnipeds in
the dam’s tailrace.
A spike in the number of
coho salmon passing
Bonneville Dam in Decem-
ber raised salmonid passage
at the dam to above the 10-
year average for the month;
but January’s passage of
salmonids was below nor-
mal.
Also during the Decem-
ber-January period, 11
‘other’ fish were taken.
Those include: one small
mouth bass, four chum
salmon (listed as threatened
under the federal Endan-
gered Species Act), one wall-
eye and five unidentified
fish. A separate category
‘unidentified’ added 13
more fish for a total preda-
tion of 43 fish.
During spring 2018, the
last sea lion departed from
U.S., Canadian negotiators have ‘frank’ talks on Columbia Treaty
A British Columbia
cabinet minister moni-
toring negotiations with
the United States over
the future of the expir-
ing Columbia River
Treaty says talks have
been ‘frank’ around op-
erations and benefits.
The treaty covers the
three dams that were
placed on the Columbia
River in B.C. for flood
control down river in
Washington and Oregon.
In return for the dams,
Canada received half of
the electricity generated
from the project.
When treaty negotiations
began last year, the Ameri-
cans said the electricity en-
titlement for Canada is too
large and they want to add
environmental measures to
the agreement, allowing
them to increase water flow
to protect salmon habitat.
Katrine Conroy, the B.C.
cabinet minister responsible
for the treaty, says every-
thing is on the table, includ-
ing reducing Canada's elec-
tricity entitlement and cut-
ting downstream benefits to
the United States. Conroy
says there has been some
frank conversations about
operations and benefits that
are on both sides of the
border. “I know from our
perspective, the operations
on this side are incredibly
important, especially the
lake levels in both east and
west Kootenay. It’s always
an issue for people on this
side of the basin," she says.
Conroy says the current
requests from the United
States for increased water
flow means fluctuating lake
levels in British Columbia
and has also prompted com-
plaints from Okanagan
apple growers that their
American counterparts
are being favored.
Extreme weather in re-
cent years has also made
flood-risk mitigation top
of mind, she says.
“Because of climate
change and the fluctuat-
ing levels of our rivers
in the last few years and
some of the floods that
have come about, we do
need the flood control
and we do need that
flood control down-
stream.”
the dam June 2, but the first
steller sea lion arrived back
at the dam July 14; and
some number of the animals
have been present at the
dam ever since.
The first California sea
lion arrived November 5
last year. The study says that
steller sea lions arrived 14
days earlier than in the pre-
vious year and their num-
bers have been increasing at
a greater rate.
According to the
Corps’ final pinniped re-
port for 2018, steelhead
were hit hardest by steller
and California sea lions in
the fall of 2017 and the
spring of 2018, but most
of that predation was by
a rising number of steller
sea lions in the spring and
fall.
In major reversal, Washington
agrees to gillnets on Columbia
The Washington Fish and
Wildlife Commission has
agreed to allow the use of
gillnets during the fall salmon
fishery on the Lower Colum-
bia River, while state fishery
managers work with Oregon
counterparts to develop a
joint long-term policy for
shared waters.
The commission, ap-
pointed by the governor to set
policy for the Washington
Department of Fish and Wild-
life, took that action and re-
ceived public comments on
the proposal in early March.
The commission’s action
to extend the use of gillnets
was one of a number of
recommendations for Co-
lumbia River fisheries devel-
oped by a joint committee
with members of the Or-
egon Fish and Wildlife Com-
mission. Oregon’s full com-
mission will also consider
the recommendations when
it meets later this month.
Commissioners from both
states are working on an over-
haul of their respective Co-
lumbia River salmon man-
agement policies.