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Woman, 90, receives card from President
Maude Pointer received a
special birthday greeting card
from President Jimmy Carter
at - her recent 90th birthday
party.
Forest Service
on 2 timber sales
H.B. Rudolph, forest super
visor for Umatilla National
forest, announces that the
Hunter II and Round timber
sales were sold during the
month of May.
The Hunter II timber sale
was sold May 14 to Harris Pine
Mills, high bidder. for
$1,930,058.00 The sale was
appraised at $756,512.00 for an
estimated 20.000.000 board
feet.
The sale area is on the
Heppner Ranger District in
Morrow County. Final bid
prices per thousand board feet
were: ponderosa pine. $97.25:
Heppner. Oregon. Thursday.
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Lock and Dam on the Columbia
Mrs. Pointer was the guest
of honor at a champagne
brunch in Corvallis to honor
her birthday.
Hosts were family mem-
reports
Douglas fir and other species.
$22.54.
The Round timber sale was
sold May 28 to Louisiana-Pacific
Corporation, high bidder,
for $756,032.00. The sale was
appraised at $272,444.00 for
11.000.000 board feet. The sale
area is on the Ukiah Ranger
District. Morrow County.
Final bid prices per thou
sand board feet were: ponder
osa pine $186.00: Douglas-fir
and other species. $23.17;
lodgepole pine. $.40 per acre
for 2024 acres and chippable
lodgepole pine. $9.74 per acre
for 228 acres.
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June 12. 1980
River near I'mntilla.
( Corps of Engineers photo )
bers.
Family attending included
Bud and Harriet Batty of
Heppner: Orvilleand Barbara
Cutsforth of Heppner: Mark.
Cathi and Donnie Pointer of
Lexington: Hank. Kathi. Eric
and Amy Pointer of lone;
Mary Louise Pointer of Seat
tle: Fred and Mary Driscoll
Pointer of Calif.: George
Pointer of Roseburg; Mrs.
Don Pointer of Pendleton;
l.:irrv. Barbara and Michael
Pointer of Scappoose;'Jim and
Kathy Pointer of Lebanon;
Charley Pointer and Steph
anie Hendrix of Redmond:
and Donna Pointer Gray and
Jeremy of Beaverton.
After the brunch there was a
reception with more than KM)
persons attending Cake,
punch and coffee were served.
Seven of 10 grandchildren and
five of seven great-grand
children attended.
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Fish can be saved from spinning
There ore two ways to get
juvenile salmon and steelhead
down the lower Snake and
Columbia rivers without sub
mitting them to the dangerous
and sometimes fatal trip,
throuch the spinning turbines
of the eight multipurpose
dams.
They can either be trans
ported aboard tanker trucks
and hnrees. or flushed through
the spillways of the dams.
Transporting has proven to
he fairly successful with more
than five million fish hauled in
each of the last two springs.
Already this year, some four
million have been hauled,
according to fisheries biolo
gists of the U .S. Army Corps of
Engineers at Walla Wnlla.
The transportation system
requires a fingerling bypass
and collection system which
has been installed at three of
the eight dams Lower Gra
nite. Little Goose and Mc
Narv. But not all the fish
arriving at these dams find
their way into the bypass
system.
For these fish and others
arriving at the five other
dams, there are two choices
go through the turbines at an
estimated 15 percent risk of
life and fin. or hope some of
the river's flow is going
through the spilling gates for a
much safer passage.
Fishery biologists think
there might be an answer. If
thev knew a little more about
when, how and why the young
fish approach the dam and
how they mieht successfully
attract them to the spillways,
thev might be able to flush
them through in groups or
schools, rather than simply
spilling water in hopes the fish
will be there.
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Using special sonar equip
ment and hours of personal
observation-often in the mid
dle of the night seven biolo
gists and assistants nre work
ing this spring to try to
determine if selective spilling
is an answer.
In the Walla Walla District,
sonar monitoring programs
are underway at Lower Monu
mentitl and Ice Harbor dams
on the lower Snake River and
n! McNarv
The researchers are seeking
to determine if there are
patterns of fish passage that
is. nre there certain times of
day juvenile salmonids are
most likely to approach the
dams?
They also want to determine
if the fish usually approach
the dam in tight schools or in
spread-out groupings. Still
another objective is to deter
mine ideal spill volumes, spill
patterns, and spill times to
most successfully attract and
pass the young fish through
the spillway.
Success rates of various
spill volumes will he com
pared to determine what
minimum volume of .spill is
necessary to successfully at
tract and pass the fingerlings.
When fish are attracted and
are passing through the spill
way, the volume will be
decreased until passage de
creases or stops. Then the
volume will be increased until
passage increases. The tests
will he repealed until the ideal
spill volume is determined.
Though still experimental,
biologists are confident that
their research will lead to
better efficiency in spilling
water for fish passage. Com
bined with the transporation
program, selective spilling
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