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Page 10 Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon May 5, 2021 Tribe’s fish study is ‘a call to alarm’ ‘Large enough to serve you... Small enough to care’ 866-299-0644 2019 Buick Encore - 20,819 miles - $24,995 #44245A 2018 Chevrolet Malibu - 30,768 miles - $21,995 #10838A 2018 GMC Terrain - 28,686 miles - 2018 Chevrolet Equinox - 65,136 miles - $24,995 $22,995 #96697A #40788A 2017 GMC Terrain - 62,349 miles - 2017 GMC Acadia - 60,970 miles - $23,995 $30,995 #06449A #59731A 2014 Chevrolet Traverse - 113,257 miles - 2012 Chrysler Sedan - 57,045 miles - $18,995 $18,995 #54840A #47231B 2011 Buick Lucerne - 103,630 miles - 2011 Chevrolet Silverado - 129,338 miles - $10,995 #76168A 2007 Yukon Denali - 178,779 miles - Price: Please call #97048C $27,995 #20418W 2005 Buick LaCrosse - 101,525 miles - $7,995 #59731W Nearly half of the wild spring chinook populations in the Snake River Basin have crossed a critical threshold, signaling they are nearing ex- tinction and without interven- tion may not persist, accord- ing to analysis by the Nez Perce Tribe. Modeling conducted by fisheries scientists at the tribe and shared with other state, federal and tribal fish- eries managers in the Co- lumbia Basin indicates if current trends continue, 77 percent of Snake River spring chinook populations and 44 percent of steelhead Veto sought for wolf- killing bill Nearly 30 retired tribal, state and federal wildlife man- agers sent a letter last week to Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little asking him to veto a bill backed by agricultural interests that could cut the state’s wolf population by 90 percent. The former workers at the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, U.S. Fish and Wild- life Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Nez Perce Tribe, U.S. Ar my Corps of Engineers, Univer- sity of Idaho and U.S. Forest Service say the methods for killing wolves allowed in the measure violate long-standing wildlife management practices and sportsmen ethics. populations will be in a similar position within four years. Tribal fisheries officials say a wide array of short- and long-term actions, such as new conservation hatch- eries, predator control, in- creased spill at Snake and Columbia river dams, and adoption of Rep. Mike Simpson’s plan to breach the four lower Snake River dams, are urgently needed. Fisheries officials in Or- egon and Washington agree dam removal should be con- sidered and other actions above and beyond current salmon and steelhead re- covery efforts should be pursued. The tribe found 42 per- cent of Snake River spring chinook and 19 percent of steelhead have reached the quasi-extinction threshold— an analytical tool used by the federal government to assess the risk of extinction or mea- sure the viability of fish populations. The threshold is tripped when a natural origin popu- lation of fish has 50 or fewer spawners return to natal streams for four consecutive years.