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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Howlak Tichum ~
Douglas McClelland ~
1933 - 2022
Beloved husband, father
and grandfather Douglas
McClelland, passed peacefully
on Thursday March 24, at his
home
in
Vancouver,
Washington, surrounded by
family. He was 88, four days
from his eighty-ninth birthday.
Doug was born on March
29, 1933 in Portland to Felite
(Henson-McClelland) Piele and
William McClelland.
He is survived by his wife
of 63 years, Carol Jean (Smith)
McClelland and children: Suzi
Rubino (Ron) of Portland,
Patsy Aplin (Alan) of Tualatin,
Mike McClelland (Kellie) of
Philomath, and Margaret Long
(Jeff) of Seattle.
Grandchildren: Jessica
Poonpirom, Julia Rubino,
Austin Aplin, Sam Aplin,
Aundie McClelland, Brian
McClelland, Ashley Long. His
sister Joan (McClelland-Piele)
Smith of Prineville; niece
Michelle Smith of Victoria,
British Columbia, nephew
Mark Smith of Highland Park,
Colorado; Stepbrother Phillip
Piele (Sandy) of Eugene, sister-
in-law Nancy (Smith) Simmons
of Walnut Creek, California;
Cousin Kris Rees of Redmond;
sister-in-law Linda Piele of
Evanston, Illinois, and many
nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by
his father William McClelland,
mother Felite (Henson
McClelland) Piele; step-father
Theodore Roosevelt Piele, step-
brother Donald Piele, brother-
in-law Lee Simmons and
brother-in-law Larry Smith.
Doug’s most precious
blessings were his family. His
daughters and son were his
legacy, his pride and joy, he was
loyal, steadfast and loved them
greatly, and he did what he
needed to do to keep the
family bond strong and
together in good times and bad.
Doug graduated from
Vancouver High School in
Washington, Class of 1951,
where he served as Senior Class
President and was on the
football team.
He was accepted into the
United States Maritime
Academy
School
of
engineering, Vallejo, California.
At the end of one school year
he ranked twelfth in his class.
In 1952 he worked for the
United States Forest Service as
a member of the Regional Fire
suppression crew, assigned fire
control assistant to the
Packwood Ranger District,
Gifford Pinchot National
Forest.
In 1952 he enlisted in the
United States Marine Corps,
and was accepted into Officers
Candidate School.
This preparatory training
included service and training as
a Marine Corps Drill
Instr uctor. He took nine
platoons through boot camp.
When the Korean conflict
ended, the Officers Candidate
program was terminated and
Doug spent the remainder of
ser vice time at Camp
Pendleton,
Oceanside
California, as a Sergeant of
Military Police Battalion. He was
discharged 1955 and set of for
Oregon State University.
In 1958 he married Carol Jean
Smith, and in 1959 he received his
Bachelor of Science Degree in
Forest Management from Oregon
State University.
During the summers while at
OSU he ser ved in various
capacities in the United States
Forest Service on the Gifford
Pinchot National Forest: Crew
foreman, engineering section, and
timber cruiser.
After his graduation from
Oregon State University he worked
for the United States Forest
Service assigned to the Applegate
Ranger District, Rogue River
National Forest. He held the
position of assistant timber
manager officer and also spent
summers fighting fires.
In 1961 he moved his young
family to Vancouver, where he
joined his father-in-law, Sherman
Smith at the Pay’n Takit Stores Inc.
While with Pay’n Takit, he and
his friend Del Mosier started
Christmas tree sales. They bought
and flocked all of their own
Christmas trees with a (borrowed)
vacuum cleaner from Doug’s
mother. He and Del also started
up a parking lot sweeping company
they called Vancouver Sweeper
Service.
While with the Pay’n Takit
Stores he assisted in developing
garden shops, variety stores and
Pharmacies. In the recession of
1974, Pay’n Takit stores went
under and Doug moved his family
to Central Oregon to take a job
with the Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs.
For 22 years he was employed
by the tribes. He worked closely
with Ken Smith, Ed Manion, Ralph
Minnick and Bob Finch,
promoting tribal interests.
He held the position of
administrative manager and fiscal
ser vices manager of the
Confederated Tribes, and acted on
behalf of the Secretary-Treasurer
in the following areas:
Negotiations with the federal
government and state government.
He assisted with Warm Springs
Forest Products Industry board,
tribal Pension Committee, and as
representative to the Inter-Tribal
Timber Council.
He assisted in the development
of
the
tribal
operating
organizational structure, and
assisted the Secretary-Treasurer of
the Tribal Council in obtaining
forestry funding to manage the
forest resource at levels closer to
the state of the art.
He assisted in the funding,
financing, construction and
operation of the Pelton
Reregulating Dam. He assisted in
obtaining grants and debt
forgiveness for the tribe’s
major enterprises.
He assisted in the
development of a tribal
Forestry program; assisted in
negotiations for rental
adjustment for Pelton and
Round Butte dams, and the
‘Skopal Settlement.’
He assisted in the Bonneville
Power Administration south
line right-of-way rental
agreement. He assisted in
improving the tribes’ cash
management program both
with the federal government
and private sector.
He
provided
the
opportunity for tribal members
to obtain professional
education in the fields of
forestry, engineering, and on-
the-job
experience
in
management and leadership.
He assisted in obtaining the
funding to improve and
develop Kah-Nee-Tah Resort.
With Sid Miller he assisted in
establishing
the
tribal
newspaper Spilyay Tymoo, and
establishing the tribal radio
station KWSO; and assisted
with financing to develop the
lumber mill and diatomaceous
earth products.
He was instrumental in the
sale of Noble fir trees to a
Japanese trading company.
Doug was also instrumental in
creating a tribal sewing
enterprise. He was a great
promoter of the tribes, and in
creating and implementing
projects until his retirement in
1995.
In 1980s with his good
friend David Jordan, he helped
to develop the Baker Road
Convenience Store in Bend.
In 1997 he went touring the
U.S. in his motor home,
traveling to Montana, where he
loved visiting relatives, and on
to the East Coast. Wintering
in the warmth of California
and Arizona was one of his
delights. In 2003 he moved to
Vancouver, Washington, where
he lived until his death.
Doug was a member of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars of
Warm Springs; the Society of
American Foresters; board
member and one of the
original founders of the Inter-
Tribal Timber commission;
Wauna Lake Club president
and board member.
He was a member of the
Washington State Food Dealers
Association; the United Good
Neighbors, chairman of the
budget committee; member of
Parks
and
Recreation
Commission; Citizens for the
Good Schools Committee; and
chairman of the School Levy
Election campaign.
All are welcome at the
Memorial Service to be held
on at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May
7 at the Church of the Good
Shepherd, 805 SE Ellsworth
Road, Vancouver, Washington.
Suggested in lieu of flowers,
memorial contributions may be
made to:
The Museum at War m
Springs, P.O. Box 989, Warm
Springs, OR 97761 - Attn: In
Memory of Doug McClelland.
Or to: The Peace Health
Hospice PHSW Foundation
LB#1094 PO Box 35146
Seattle, WA 98124 - Attn: In
Memory
of
Doug
McClelland.
Tribal consultation bill hits snag in Congress
A bill to strengthen the policy of
tribal consultation hit a snag last
week on Capitol Hill, leaving some
supporters wondering about its fu-
ture.
H.R.3587—the Requirements,
Expectations, and Standard Proce-
dures for Effective Consultation
with Tribes Act—was supposed to
be advanced by the House Com-
mittee on Natural Resources ear-
lier in April. But when the notice
for the markup was released, the
bill was noticeably absent from the
schedule.
The absence was all the more
glaring because Rep. Raúl
Grijalva (D-Arizona), the chair-
man of the legislative committee
with jurisdiction over Indian is-
sues, had previously announced
April 6 as the markup for the
Resoect Act. At a press confer-
ence at the U.S. Capitol a week
prior, he highlighted the “historic
step” being taken in the Demo-
cratic-controlled Congress.
April 20, 2022
River Alliance says Deschutes
quality is out of compliance
An environmental group says
the Oregon Department of Envi-
ronmental Quality is failing to en-
force water quality standards on the
Lower Deschutes River.
The Deschutes River Alliance is
urging regulators to penalize Port-
land General Electric and the
Warm Springs tribes for water qual-
ity violations at the Pelton Round
Butte dams.
Sarah Cloud with Deschutes
River Alliance says dam operations
have caused an explosion of harm-
ful algae in the lower river. And that
has led to salmon and steelhead de-
clines in recent years.
“The laws are written to pro-
tect aquatic life and their biologi-
cal needs. And right now, they’re
not being enforced on the Lower
Deschutes River.”
DEQ says PGE and the tribes
are in compliance with the state
permit that allows them to oper-
ate the dams. But the agency has
listed the Lower Deschutes as “im-
paired” due to water quality issues
and will soon take steps to limit
pollution on the river.
Historic revision to Oregon
forest law excludes tribes
After decades of conflict, 10
months of tense negotiations and
the stroke of a pen, Oregon’s
outdated forest practices have
gotten a major update.
The historic Private Forest
Accord legislative package, com-
prising three bills aimed at revis-
ing the Oregon Forest Practices
Act (OFPA), flew through the leg-
islature during the short February-
March 2022 session with biparti-
san support. Gov. Kate Brown
signed the legislation into law.
The bills were the result of an
unlikely agreement struck between
conservation and logging stake-
holders over expanding environ-
mental protections in logging ac-
tivities that occur on 10 million
acres of private land across the
state.
Under the new law, the state’s
Department of Forestry will be-
gin developing new rules on an ar-
ray of logging activities, from for-
est road maintenance to establish-
ing stream buffers to tracking bea-
ver removals.
But the landmark legislation
is missing support from one key
group: Oregon’s tribal govern-
ments.
Colin Beck, forest lands man-
ager of the Confederated Tribes of
Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw
told the legislature that the
Governor’s Office failed to include
them in the negotiations, and didn’t
consult with the tribes on the agree-
ment before drafting legislation.
“This legislation has broad im-
plications for tribal interests, and
yet the Tribes were excluded from
the year-long process of develop-
ing this legislation,” he said.
Though CTCLUSI supports up-
dating logging laws, the tribes can-
not support an agreement that left
them out, he added.
“State regulation of tribal for-
est practices is inconsistent with
the principles of tribal sover-
eignty. And it is especially inap-
propriate to subject Tribes to for-
estry regulations, which were ne-
gotiated in secret by large timber
interests and environmental
groups without involvement or
input from tribes,” he said.
Tribes oppose Klamath water plan
The announcement by the Bu-
reau of Reclamation that it would
be releasing 50,000 acre-feet of
water to the Klamath Project for
limited irrigation is drawing criti-
cism from tribes.
The Klamath Water Users As-
sociation estimated the total is ap-
proximately 15 percent of what is
needed to grow crops and raise
livestock by farmers and ranchers
in one of the driest years ever.
Local tribes believe that’s 15
percent more that could go toward
helping save endangered fish like the
sucker fish and Coho Salmon.
The Klamath Tribes called it per-
haps the saddest chapter yet in a
long history of treaty violations by
the United States.
Donald Gentry is the chairman
of the Klamath Tribes and he hopes
to avoid a repeat of 2001 when the
U.S. government sent federal mar-
shals to maintain the peace as the
water issue reached a boiling point
during a drought year as farmers
threatened to breach the head gates.