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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
September 11, 2019
Car, Truck & Bike Show
for DARE at Indian Head
The Warm Springs Police
Department DARE Pro-
gram—with partner Indian
Head Casino—presents the
2019 Car, Truck and Bike
Show, Saturday, September
28 at Indian Head Casino.
The show—with food,
music and fun—will be from
12 to 5 p.m. There is a $25
entry fee for vehicles, all pro-
ceeds go to the War m
Springs Police DARE pro-
gram. There is a $20 play
voucher with the entry. Free
entry for current sponsors.
This is Inaugural DARE
Car, Truck and Bike Show.
Set-up will start at 11 a.m.
on show day. If you’re
proud of your vehicle, show
it off and help a great cause.
Edward Heath Photos at top; Jayson Smith photo below.
Basketball action (left) at the Shoni Schimmel Back
2 School Basketball Classic at the Warm Springs
Community Center. The Classic included a dance
and ice cream social. Many teams participated,
including, for instance, Team Rylan (below).
Sporting notes...
Off-reservation general buck deer rifle season is now
open, and Warm Springs tribal hunters are reminded to
make sure you have your tags.
This year hunting tags are available online at:
hunting.warmsprings-nsn.gov/
Or you can still go to the Branch of Natural Resources
office for a paper tag. Tag and bag limits:
For off-reservation: Include two mule deer tags with
three in possession limit. On reservation buck deer rifle
season runs September 28 thru October 31 this year.
At the Madras White Buffalo home football game on
September 27, distinguished alumni will be honored and
inducted into the school’s hall of fame. Warm Springs is
well represented in this year’s inductees.
Honorees this year include Tommy Tucker, who served
in the U.S. Army 101 st Airborne, and was killed in action in
the Iraq War in 2006. Tucker graduated in 1999.
Jarold Ramsey, class of 1955, was an English Professor
at Rochester University in New York, with a specialty in
Native American Literature.
In retirement Mr. Ramsey has been involved with the
Jefferson County Historical Society.
Dan Ahern, married into the tribes, will be honored.
Judge Ahern is recently retired as a Circuit Court Judge.
He graduated in 1977.
Warm Springs tribal member Dr. Shilo Tippett gradu-
ated with the class of 1991. Dr. Tippett earned a PhD in
Clinical Psychology from Oklahoma State University, and
worked in Seattle with the Veteran’s Administration Medi-
cal Center before returning to Central Oregon to practice.
Dr. Antonio Pena left high school in 1982 and went on
to the University of Washington. He has practiced medi-
cine in Arizona and Texas, and now is in private practice
with his brother, who was inducted into the Madras Alumni
Hall of Fame in its inaugural year.
This the third induction year of the Distinguished Alumni
Hall of Fame.
The hall is designed to inspire students to pursue their
dreams, with the inductees all one time students at Madras
High School who have gone on to achievements in the
region and beyond.
There will be a student assembly on September 27 with
those being honore, as well as recognition at the football
game in Stampede Stadium that evening.
Scaffold and hook and line fishing
Zone 6 scaffold, and
hook and line fishing remains
open until further notice.
Commercial sales are al-
lowed for salmon, steelhead,
shad, yellow perch, bass,
walleye, catfish and carp.
Sturgeon may not be sold
but sturgeon between 38 and
54 inches fork length in the
Bonneville Pool and between
43 and 54 inches fork length
in The Dalles Pool may be
kept for subsistence use.
Fish may be sold after the
period ends if caught dur-
ing the open period.
Zone 6 commercial fish-
eries:
A commercial salmon
fishery has been set. It is
open until 6 p.m. this Thurs-
day, September 12.
The open area is all of
Zone 6.
Allowed gear is set and
drift gill nets with an 8-inch
minimum mesh size.
Allowed sales are salmon,
steelhead, shad, yellow
perch, bass, walleye, catfish
and carp.
Sturgeon may not be sold
but sturgeon between 38 and
54 inches fork length in the
Bonneville Pool and be-
tween 43 and 54 inches
fork length in The Dalles
Pool may be kept for sub-
sistence use.
Sanctuaries are the stan-
dard river mouth and dam
areas applicable to gill net
gear including the Spring
Creek National Fish Hatch-
ery sanctuary.
NOAA Fisheries makes plans for sea lion control
NOAA Fisheries re-
leased a draft plan for pub-
lic comment to remove
and kill as many as 416
California and Steller sea
lions each year in a 180
mile stretch of the Colum-
bia River.
The stretch of river is
from just downstream of
Bonneville Dam at river
mile 112 upstream to
McNary Dam at river mile
292.
An application for a
Section 120 permit to le-
thally remove the sea li-
ons—an estimated 144 to
286 California and 105 to
130 Steller sea lions—was
submitted June 13 to
NOAA by the Confeder-
ated Tribes of War m
Springs, Yakama, Umatilla
and Nez Perce; and the
fish and wildlife depart-
ments of the states of
Oregon, Washington and
Idaho.
The request is for a dep-
redation permit for up to
five years. NOAA put the
draft plan out for com-
ment in the Federal Regis-
ter August 30 and public
comments are due
Octotber 29.
The Sec. 120 permit
application is also for any
tributary to the Columbia
River that includes spawn-
ing habitat of threatened or
endangered salmon or steel-
head, NOAA says in the
August 30 Federal Register.
“This action is intended
to reduce or eliminate sea
lion predation on the fish-
ery stocks that are listed as
threatened or endangered
under the Endangered Spe-
cies Act of 1973,” it says.
ESA-listed species are
Lower Columbia River
chinook salmon, Snake
River fall chinook, Snake
River
spring/summer
chinook, Upper Columbia
River spring chinook, Upper
Willamette River chinook
salmon, Lower Columbia
River steelhead, Middle Co-
lumbia River steelhead,
Snake River Basin steel-
head, Upper Columbia
River steelhead, Upper
Willamette River steelhead,
Columbia River chum
salmon, Lower Columbia
River coho salmon, Snake
River sockeye salmon and
Southern Distinct Popula-
tion Segment of eulachon
(smelt).
NOAA and the appli-
cants say that “sea lion pre-
dation is having a significant
negative impact on the re-
covery on the above-men-
tioned fishery stocks. Addi-
tionally, the application states
that removal of sea lions is
also intended to protect spe-
cies of lamprey or sturgeon
that may not be listed as
endangered or threatened
but are listed as a species of
concern.”
Addressing sea lion pre-
dation is part of a compre-
hensive salmon and steel-
head recovery strateg y,
NOAA says.
“As reported in the ap-
plication, significant actions
to address the decline of
salmon and steelhead stocks
in the Columbia River basin
have been underway for sev-
eral decades, and are pro-
gressing each year as a re-
sult of the implementation
of ESA recovery plans
throughout the Columbia
River basin.” NOAA says.
“These actions include
harvest reductions, hydro-
electric system mitigation,
habitat restoration, preda-
tion management, and
hatchery reforms.”
Not everyone favors le-
thal removing of the pinni-
peds. The Wild Fish Conser-
vancy says that habitat de-
struction, dams and over-
harvest have far greater
impacts.
The Conservancy, which
works to recover and con-
serve wild fish, opposes kill-
ing sea lions. The group says
habitat destruction, dams
and overharvesting have far
greater impacts.
Conservancy spokesper-
son Emma Helverson said
that killing sea lions “is a
kind of scapegoating when
there are a lot of other ac-
tions we are choosing not to
do that would have a larger
impact.”
Sea lions, or pinnipeds,
are protected under the
Marine Mammal Protection
Act.
However, since 2008
some 92 California sea lions
have been lethally removed
under such a per mit at
Bonneville Dam where the
predators have targeted
mostly spring chinook. The
number of Steller sea lions
at Bonneville now far out-
number California sea lions,
according to a January 24,
2019 report on sea lion pre-
dation at the dam by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
neers.
In the spring of 2018,
the report concludes, sea li-
ons ate 3,112 salmonids
(spring chinook and steel-
head), 3 percent of the run.
And in 2018, the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife received a Sec. 120
permit to remove up to 93
California sea lions at
Willamette Falls where they
were targeting threatened
wild winter steelhead and
spring chinook. As of late
May, ODFW had removed
33 of the pinnipeds at the
Falls.
The new plan now out
for review would expand the
areas where lethal removal
of sea lions is legal; it would
allow the tribes to kill sea li-
ons and it includes Steller
sea lions, which until now
NOAA has not been allowed
to be lethally removed.
The Section 120 applica-
tion by states and tribes is
the first since Congress
passed an amendment to the
MMPA in December 2018.
That amendment, spear-
headed by the Pacific North-
west congressional delega-
tion, passed with strong bi-
partisan support and offers
greater flexibility to wildlife
managers when determining
if a sea lion should be le-
thally removed in waters
that host ESA-listed runs of
salmon or steelhead.
NOAA Fisheries is solic-
iting public comments on
the application and addi-
tional infor mation that
should be considered by a
Task Force that will be mak-
ing the recommendation.
The agency asks that com-
ments are specific:
“In particular, we request
information regarding:
Observations of sea lion
predation activity on salmo-
nids and eulachon within the
geographic area established
in section 120(f); and,
Infor mation on areas
where numbers of sea lions
are concentrated within the
geographic area established
in section 120(f), including
resting/haul out sites and
locations where sea lions
have been repeatedly ob-
served taking salmonids and
eulachon; and
Dates when sea lions
have been observed within
the geographic area estab-
lished in section 120(f),” the
notice says.
The agency also wants to
hear from the public the
names and affiliations of ex-
perts from the academic and
scientific community, tribes,
federal and state agencies,
and the private sector for
consideration as potential
Task Force members.