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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
June 2, 2021
Fisheries update for Sherars Falls
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Due to an upgrade in the
number of spring chinook
returning to the Columbia
River—and the Warm Springs
National Fish Hatchery likely
meeting brood require-
ments—the joint Fish and
Wildlife Committees have
eased fishing restrictions at
Sherars Falls.
Fishing is now open from
Thursday at 6 p.m. through
Monday at 6 a.m. Only adi-
pose marked spring chinook
may be kept. Wild fish must
be released all year.
All chinook, other than
wild spring chinook, may be
retained from July 16 through
March 31 of the following
year.
The remainder of the
Deschutes is closed through
July 15.
Other salmon species, with
the exception of sockeye,
maybe kept.
Making a Monument along the river
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In the Pacific Northwest,
Maya Lin’s ‘art landscapes’
celebrate the river’s partner-
ship with Native American
tribes.
The Confluence Project
commissioned Ms. Lin to de-
sign six public ‘art landscapes’
along 438 miles of the Co-
lumbia River system, from
the basalt fish-cleaning table
engraved with the Chinook
creation story at Cape Disap-
pointment State Park on the
Washington coast, to the story
circles at Sacagawea Histori-
cal State Park, and the Lis-
tening Circle amphitheater at
Chief Timothy Park on an
island in the Snake River
near Clarkston, Washington.
Each site was chosen by
Columbia River tribes to
mark a significant con-
fluence—or spot where bod-
ies of water or cultures con-
verge. Five of the six are
complete.
“The
Confluence
Project built that bridge,”
said Antone Minthorn,
chair man
of
the
Confluence Project board
and a member of the Con-
federated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reserva-
tion.
“You begin to wonder,
Well, what is our legacy?”
Mr. Minthorn said the
project works to unite a small
group of people—Native
Americans—with their fellow
citizens in learning how to
“become American” and how
best to steward the land to-
gether.
The goal, he said, is to
create visual markers, not
monuments per se, that are
in harmony with the land-
scape and serve as remind-
ers that “just because you
don’t see us does not mean
Tribes give statement of unity about dams
Some Native American
tribes in the Pacific North-
west are criticizing the sug-
gestion they have competing
opinions on how best to save
endangered salmon runs, say-
ing tribes are united in pur-
suing the removal of four
hydroelectric dams on the
Snake River in order to pre-
serve the iconic fish.
A dozen tribes last week
issued a joint press release on
Wednesday rejecting the no-
tion that tribes based near
Puget Sound might have dif-
fering goals than inland
tribes.
“Any efforts to divide the
indigenous peoples of this
region by suggesting that the
Puget Sound Tribes don’t
have the same interests as the
Northwest Inland Tribes
have been soundly rejected
by tribal leaders,” Nez Perce
Tribe Chair man Samuel
Penney said in the release.
“We are all salmon people.”
The dozen tribes are
united behind a controver-
sial proposal by U.S. Rep.
Mike Simpson, an Idaho Re-
publican, to spend some $33
billion on efforts to save
salmon that include breach-
ing the four dams.
The dams are located on
the lower Snake River be-
tween the cities of Pasco and
Pullman in eastern Washing-
ton state, and are blamed by
some for blocking salmon
from reaching spawning
grounds. Supporters of the
dams point to ocean condi-
tions, overfishing and other
causes for the decline of
salmon numbers.
Simpson’s plan to remove
the Ice Harbor, Little Goose,
Lower Granite and Lower
Monumental dams also in-
cludes a 35-year moratorium
on lawsuits, ending costly liti-
gation over the dams’ envi-
ronmental impact.