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the Willamette basin dams, they continue to face that heightened risk of extinction, and NOAA Fisheries has said that’s really likely by about 2040.” The dams block access to 75% of the most critical spawning habitat. Because of their height and the landscape in which they are located, “even today it’s not feasible to install fish ladders. Which would be the ultimate ideal, because it would allow fish to move up and down under their own timing and their own volition,” Fairbrother said. Adult fish …

, but it is not stroller-friendly. Park at the Natural Resources Department, 47010 S.W. Hebo Road. Walk behind the Natural Resources office and you will see an entrance. It is unmarked, but clearly visible. The trail is shaded, so it’s a nice place to visit when it gets hot. You’ll be treated to views of wildflowers, as well as the sights and sounds of various wildlife. Turn around when you come to tall grass and barbed wire fence. A “Y” in the road leads to two paths, both of which take you back to Natural Resources …

situations, decades. He says the idea of ancestral remains being kept in a box on a shelf in someone’s office or a storage room was not ideal and goes against the belief system held sacred by many Tribal members. “It’s not appropriate to keep people’s remains in a museum. It’s not appropriate to keep people in Tribal buildings,” says Harrelson. “It’s felt that a building at the cemetery could facilitate that. This can be done in a respectful way. The charnel house is going to be that.” Tribal Council …

then gave the invocation before Tribal Council Chairman Reyn Leno introduced other Tribal Council members in attendance – Tonya Gleason-Shepek, Denise Harvey, Vice Chair Jack Giffen Jr. and Cheryle A. Kennedy. Leno acknowledged past Tribal Councils that always supported a food bank effort in the Grand Ronde area even though the facility moved from location to location. “We still always had the idea of taking care of our community, taking care of our membership,” Leno said. “The ideal was to always …

, Culture Committee members and interested Tribal and community members will gather camas lilies. “Every year we’re going to try to add something new to First Foods so this year we are adding a gathering activity,” Ambrose said. “We won’t just be eating the food and learning about it, but actually going out and identifying it.” Ambrose said the ideal event is one where families feel comfortable coming together and talking about their culture and the role traditional and available foods play …

to go out and advocate for the items to come home is kind of ideal.” What Holliday did was by chance happen upon a large portion of the Kenneth Nelson Russell Collection while visiting with friends at Capital Pawn Shop in Salem. Holliday has no affiliation with the Tribe’s Culture Department or Chachalu, the Tribal museum; he just knew as a Tribal employee that there was a museum. Holliday encountered 84-year-old Norma Yeater, the daughter of Kenneth Nelson Russell, purely by coincidence. Holliday …

activities, not just for when there is a crisis.” McKnight says he thought Flynn would be ideal for the position due to his understanding and history in the community. “He is very well connected with the sports he coaches here and is just very good with the kids overall,” McKnight says. “One of the hardest things for an SRO is building a rapport with kids and he already has that.” McKnight adds, “SROs are not meant to be an armed security presence, scaring kids into behaving, but rather educators …

, taught or worked at the school. Research also is likely to include working with oral histories - both historical recordings and the development of new ones. On the technical side, the work will include scanning photos and posting them online for interactive research. "As a professor," Dobkins said, "this is an ideal project because it is timely and unfolding." The plan for this semester is to develop the project in three stages: Cataloguing the photos with identifying numbers, key words …

have stalled that opportunity. Literally tons of food go through the casino on a daily basis, he said, making the casino facilities an ideal buyer for local food businesses. Tribal Council member Denise Harvey, in a breakout group on education around food choices, discussed incorporating gardening and healthy eating into the Tribe’s education process for Tribal youth. Among the ideas was for the Community Garden to work with the pre-school that has a little garden of its own to help young children …

council has inherited “a bit of a mess with enrollment on a number of levels” and that she favors the amendments because it will promote the ideal of Tribal laws applying equally to everyone. However, Giffen and Bobb said they would oppose the amendments because Tribal Council ignored what a majority of respondents said in their comments. “I feel that we really didn’t address the comments appropriately. … I think it is, in my opinion, disgraceful to the membership that did supply their comments …