A high view with wild flowers from the Minam River property near the Eagle Cap Wilderness, photo by David Jensen, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
Minam River Wildlife Area acquisition complete, adding 15,573 acres in Oregon landscape-scale conservation MISSOULA, Mont. — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), Manulife Investment Management Timber and Agriculture Inc. (Manulife) and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation have announced what they are calling “a major conservation victory for elk, mule deer and other wildlife, fish, hunters, anglers, hikers and…
Kayak Public Transit is introducing a new bus schedule and route in Milton-Freewater.
MISSION, Ore. – The National Rural Transit Assistance Program has announced Kayak Public Transit as its most recent recipient of the RTAP Tribal Transit Agency Award. The national award honors innovation, efficiency, commitment and performance in the tribal transit industry and recognizes challenges overcome and best practices that raise the bar for tribal transit, according to RTAP. “This award is…
Someone drove a vehicle onto the recently completed basketball court, leaving behind tire tracks over much of the court, then damaged the court in other ways – gauging holes in the playing surface, ripping up and breaking tiles, and ruining the alignment or mangling tiles in other spots. PHOTO BY CHRIS AADLAND
BY CHRIS AADLANDReporter MISSION, Ore. — Tribal housing officials are searching for ways to discourage vandalism to projects meant to increase quality of life after a new basketball court was intentionally damaged just weeks after it was installed. On Oct. 9, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Housing Department staff discovered damage to the recently completed basketball court installation…
BY CHRIS AADLAND Reporter MISSION, Ore. – Tribal leaders reviewed the findings of a report on Thursday that laid out several options for adding grades kindergarten through eighth at the Nixyaawii Community School, but didn’t leave them in a position to decide whether to say whether they will officially pursue expansion anytime soon. Earlier in 2023, the Confederated Tribes of…
Karen Malcolm, second from left, – was awarded ACT Lead of the Year by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Sept. 17 in Washington, D.C.
Local Cancer Advocate Receives National Recognition from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) WASHINGTON – Karen Malcolm was awarded ACT Lead of the Year by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) for her exceptional commitment to advocacy work and making cancer a national priority. This annual award is given to a lead congressional district…
Gov. Tina Kotek, center, holds a Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation design blanket alongside Kat Brigham, Board of Trustees Chair, left, and Corinne Sams, BOT At-Large Member, right.
SALEM, Ore. – Gov. Tina Kotek on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, proclaimed November as Native American Heritage Month for the state of Oregon. In an official proclamation, Kotek stated Oregon recognizes the “rich and diverse heritage of Native American communities who have called this land home since time immemorial.” Along with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon…
During fall 2022, most mortality in wild waterfowl occurred in cackling and snow geese, however the virus is also commonly detected in wild ducks that had been harvested by hunters.
Do not handle sick or dead waterfowl, hunters should take precautions SALEM, Ore.— Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has been circulating in wild birds in North America since December 2021 and continues to be detected in waterfowl in Oregon. More detections are expected during this fall and winter as waterfowl migrate through Oregon or spend the winter here. An increase…
Russell Eagle Bear, with the Rosebud Sioux Reservation Tribal Council, talks to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland during a meeting about Native American boarding schools at Sinte Gleska University in Mission, S.D., Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. Haaland wrapped up her nationwide tour confronting the legacy of the institutions where students were often abused on Sunday, Nov. 5 in Bozeman, Mont.
AP FILE PHOTO BY MATTHEW BROWN
By MATTHEW BROWNAssociated Press BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) – Donovan Archambault was 11 years old in 1950 when he was sent from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana to a government-backed Native American boarding school in Pierre, South Dakota, where abusive staff forced him to abandon his community’s language and customs. Archambault emerged bitter from the experience and said he drank alcohol…
Julann Spromberg, a research toxicologist with Ocean Associates Inc., working under contract with NOAA Fisheries, observes a salmon placed in a tank of clear water after it died from four hours of exposure to unfiltered highway runoff water on Oct. 20, 2014. Federal regulators will investigate the use of a chemical found in almost every tire after a petition from Native American tribes in California and Washington state that want it banned because of its lethal effect on salmon, steelhead trout and other aquatic wildlife.
AP FILE PHOTO BY TED S. WARREN
By MARK THIESSENAssociated Press U.S. regulators say they will review the use of a chemical found in almost every tire after a petition from West Coast Native American tribes that want it banned because it kills salmon as they return from the ocean to their natal streams to spawn. The Yurok tribe in California and the Port Gamble S’Klallam and Puyallup tribes in Washington…
The 276-foot Lookout Point Dam on the Middle Fork of the Willamette River poses a major obstacle for tiny juvenile salmon as they attempt to migrate downstream.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Photo
The Army Corps of Engineers says its fish collection machines can save salmon in Oregon. Many disagree. By TONY SCHICK Oregon Public Broadcasting To free salmon stuck behind dams in Oregon’s Willamette River Valley, here’s what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has in mind: Build a floating vacuum the size of a football field with enough pumps to suck…
