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Irrigo» fish hatchery helps nature
Britt Logging awarded
B rill D igging Company <>l L e *
ink’llm mjn presented a m eni award
lo r an outstanding logging operation
in W heeler County during CBM»
th is company has met and ex
seeded the requirements ut the
Oregon Forest Practices Kules. dur
mg iheir I'lHb harvesting operation
on k in /u u land in the kah le r Basin
area in W heeler C ount) Ih e ir cf
torts to protest the integrity o f the
stirams and stream hanks and mam
tain water quality in tw o stccihe'ad
hearing streams sersc as a good ex
ample to all Oregonians sonscrned
about the lorcst environment
the B ritt laigging Company is a
past lä ste rn ( )regon <Jprrutor o f the
Year and Fnvironm eniul laigger ot
IVH ' fhese awards show the com
pans s continued efforts at protesting
the environment while harvesting
forest lands
Iloardman team headed to state
For the fourth straight year River
side High School has qualified a
team lo r the state O lym pics o f the
M ind Iournam enl to he held in
M onm outh on A p ril 4 O ly m p ic v o !
the M in d is a national com petition
tor qudenis w ith an interest in
creative problem solving
I his year year the Riverside team
entered the Poetic License” con
test th e students had to select a
Poem from a given list and develop
a re creation o l the poem Riverside
chose "H o w Do I Love Ih c c " hy
L li/ab eth Barrett Browning Ih e ir
parody and satire ot the poem is till
ed How |)o I Dislike Thee” At the
f ast of the Mountains Regional held
Saturday March 14 in Bend River
vide took first place in the high
school division and now moves on
to state com petition
Members ot the team arc Lisa
Jumey and Colleen Hensley (the
dueling kn ig h tsi. Harold (ile n n ithc
roving reporter trom the Cnitcd
Stales), and Heather Cum bic (who
plays I li/a hcth Barrett B row ing i
Boh Deeter. Riverside Business In
structor and Academically Talented
Coordinator, is the coach A win in
Monmouth would quality Riverside
tor the national tournament at Nor
them Michigan L n ivcrsiiy in late
May
Heppncrite tours with Linfield choir
Renee Siruthers. daughter o f F.d
and Marie Slrulhorsof llcppncr. w ill
he among thirty eight members ol
the L in fie ld College concert choir
who w ill perforin in It)O re g o n and
C a lifo rn ia cities during the cho ir's
annual spring tour March I ' through
A p ril 7
Most ot the cho ir's
traveling and performances w ill he
during l.in tie ld s spring break
March 21 2V
John Britt (left) receives
merit award from Al
Newman, forest practices
inspector from John Day
eSchool ad v iso n
slots open
So one has tiled lo r a position on
the ballot tor position So 2 ami
position So 7 on the llcppncr
le x in g to n school advisory com m it
tee A w rite in candidate tnav he
elected to the positions. M orrow
C o u n ty
S chool Supt
D o y le
M cCaslin said hut he she must live
w ith in the boundary lor that |x>si
lion Lither the school district office
or the M orrow County C le rk 's ot
flee can help a prospective candidate
determine i f I k - lives w ithin the /ones
to he represented
Its Joyce llc n s lrv
I he Irrigo n Fish Hatchers is help
mg nature compensate tor fish losses
caused hy lour dams on the lowei
Snake River Bv the first ot Mas
1. fvHtl.t * ■ I steel he ad smolt w ill has e
been transported to northeastern
O regon according to the manager.
Rav H ill
Assistant manager M ike ( irihhle
explains
K4().I*K) w ill he settled
into acclim ation ponds at W allowa
Hatchers in I ntcrprisc and Big Ca
nvon Creek, to he released into the
(irandc Rondc River starting A pril
15 ••
W e w ill trui k the other H4t).(■»)
to I title Sheep Creek a tributary ol
the Imnaha
and release them
ourselves, (irih h le added
Between I chmary and May it
w ill take HV loads to deliver the
lish. said H ill
lh e annual c v d c began w ith the
eggs being collected trom spawning
tish ill the Imnaha ami the (irandc
Romk' D ittcrcnt species were kept
separated and brought to this hat
chetv They were then placed in in
cubator trass lo r about a month un
til the volk sac had disappearcxl. ifv n
the lish were transferred to the
starter tanks said H ill
Die fingcrlm gs are hand led every
' l l minutes The entire hatchery iiw s
2 . (*in pounds ot teed a dav accor
ding to H ill
I he fish are then transferred to '2
cement ponds where they stay until
they reach the eight inch smolting
stage l n
nonrts the lish arc fed
every '(• minutes trom daylight to
dark by (ia rro n ’ s automatic feeders
In the fa ll, when they are uN»ut
tour inches long we hire 12 people
to c lip the adipose tin so they c an be
identified as hatchers fis h .” says
H ill
In addition, s o u k - 250 • *<• fish
a year are coded w ith a wire tag in
scried into their nose I vetyone til
the I hHO.OOO have to be m arke d.”
he explained
D us year w ill sec the return o f the
first clipped steel head raised in Ir
rigon hate hers Ihev were released
in IV H '
It takes tw o to tour years
before steelhead swim up river to
spawn
H ill said
The Irrigo n hate hers is part ot the
lower Snake River CompensaiKin
Agreement It is federally funded
and was designed by the Oregon
Department ot lis h ami W ild life
(O D W f
Ih crc were several hat
c hones built in ( )regon W ashington
and Idaho
I he l nited States Army Corps ol
Lnginecrs chose the site three miles
west ot Irrig o n on the south side ol
the Colum bia River, because the
temperature o l the water is warm
fluctuating only between SO and h2
degrees winter o r summer, accor
ding to H ill
Die warmer the water the more
the fish want to eat. the nmre they
m ctabo li/c tood. and the taster they
grow
It u n i tiy to raise steelhead
in cold water it usually takes (wo
years to get them to smolting s i/e .”
explained H ill
We want to get
them there in a year
The operational part o l the pro
gram was completed in February ot
IVHTi but the fandscaping was not
finished until November IVKb
Lhere are six three bedroom houses
built to accommodate the fam ilies ot
the emplov ces. a viewing fa cility, a
halcherv bu ild in g, a shop and
screens to protect the lish ponds
from birds
Pilot ponds were built in |VK() to
experiment w ith the complete cycle
o t the steelhead smolting process to
see it
when we finally built this
huge hatchery we would have son«:
adults coming back w ith enough
eggs to till this place up. and we did
It worked.
H ill said
The hatchery has a lew spring
chinook that w ill be trucked to
lo o k in g (ilasvC reek Fish Hatchery
in A pril to be released in the spring
of l')HK and also a lew tall chinook
that w ill be released in to the
l mat ilia River in May ot this year
Lhcv w ill be about three inches long,
according to H ill
" After releasing our smolt to the
(irandc Rondc and to the Imnaha by
the first ot Mas most ot the ponds
and starter tanks in the hatchery w ill
be emptv Bv Mas I ' we w ill have
tw o m illio n eggs in the incubators, ’
H ill said ‘ ' Then w e 'll start all over
again
Kin/ua's aerial observer awarded
H.uh.u.i \.in A i sdale was presented
a civ ’[*’ Tutor recognition award lues
dav at (I k * Chamber ot Commerce
meeting
VanArsdalc has tlow n a patrol
plane tor the past three years on a
enniruct w ith K m /ua C orp She is
cxtremelv conscicntious about her
role in the protection pmgnun, t-ossd
I nit Forester Dan th o rp e s a id She
tlies a pre arranged pattern ol seven
c hev kpoints duilv thnmghout the en
tire lu e seuson The route lakes in
excess ot two hours euch duy. in ad
dition . the patrol plane is av.ulable
tor l< * i hours bevond the normal pal
lern. Thorpe continucd
A ttci lightning storms. it is not
iitKom m on tot her to bc asked to fly
trom H a m un til dark (Juite offen,
several people are dirccting her to a
varietv ot lo cu tio n s." Thorpe suid
She ctoes not tust tlv her route euch
day hut conlinually leanis new land
marks She w ill lease her normal |\it
Barbara Van Arsdale (left)
receives
cooperator
recognition award from
Fossil Unit Forester Dan
Thorpe
tern to check something out She
gives good reports to personnel on
the ground and in the dispatching
center." he concluded
Betore her work in Central ( iregori
D istrict. VanArsdale tlew tire patrol
for the I S Forest Service out ot
Susans tile. ( alilortua She has an ex
cess ot It).(M h ) hours ot flight lime
S/fow S oftball
Playing in the snow means
s n o w b a ll tig h ts and b u ild in g
snowmen, right ’ Not in I or! Snell
mg. Minnesota, where
Ranger
K ic k ” magazine reports that some
spo rts lo v e rs have in ve n te d
snow shoe softball I he rules are the
same, but u n ifo rm s
in c lu d e
snow shoes, clown tuckets and wool
caps When it gets slushy they're
ready lo r spring training
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