1.0 Executive Summary of Tribal Circumstances and Impacts from the Lower Snake River Project

Objections are ignored, do not matter, or are positively opposed to the interests of some non-Indians - the tribal squid's harvest will continue to decline

Today, five research tribes manage the original reserves of 6 million acres - they are only 22% of the land held in the treaty with the United States. 9 Million Acres of Convention Protected natural tribal land and wealth generated by these lands are no longer in hand to the tribe and its members. These lands are forcibly taken away primarily from the tribe, the borders are opposed by a "wrong" investigation to oppose Indian interests, and illegal taxation of non-Indians is subject to "new Law "was enacted and legalized. In other words, the "provisional treaty" of the "several Naz Conventions" in 1863, and subsequent laws such as the Daws law in 1887, are the transfer of tribal assets and related assets relating to non-Indian reserves Promoted.

As a result of these actions, the tribe not only lost a large area of ​​land, but often nonindians had the highest land value within the reserved boundary. In addition, the protected areas possessed by the Indians are often scattered with the land owned by non-Indians, strengthening the protection of tribal resources and economic development.

Estimate the scope of tribal "natural land" - Traditional time until now Shoshone Benchmark Nez Perce Bannock Yakama Umatilla Spa ------------------- Thousands of acres thing--- -----------

This is not surprising. In 1995, the Fisheries Agency of the National Marine and Life Agency approved independent tribal, state and federal biologists, investigated for four years and spent 7 million dollars on the four snake dams of the lower I found that partial removal is the best. The method is also the best way. Restore the rich snake river salmon. The various framework approaches of the Northwest Power Planning Committee against the Columbia River Basin significantly increased the competitive cost of the Snake River squid population in 2000 compared to other alternatives that require lower Snake River dam removal I showed that. Earlier this month, the scientific journal "Protective Biology" announced fishes biologists of fish and wildlife in the United States. Research Report Again, the dismantling of some dams is the most reliable and best choice for repairing heavy snow.

The Sub - Committee asked those who testified to evaluate the recovery of wild salmon and steel heads at Columbia and the Snake River. Since December 2000, the Federal Squid Plan - also known as the 2000 opinion on the federal dam system - has dominated these efforts. This plan admits that removing the four dams at the bottom of the Snake River is the most reliable scientific tool for re-storing Snake River Trout, but choosing a way to remove the dam Did. Federal, state, and tribal representatives estimate that the program implementation cost is about $ 1 billion annually. Its implementation requires close coordination -

Irrigon Hatchery began operation in 1984 as part of a program designed to reduce the loss of spring chinook and summer steel head caused by four federal dams built downstream of the Snake River in 1984 Did. This facility is used as an egg hatching and breeding facility for summer steel head for Grande Ronde and Imnaha's river system, and as a facility for hatching 575,000 Umatilla coho eggs for relocation to Cascade Hatchery. Irrigon Hatchery also offered 1.4 million Autumn Chinooks to the Grande Ronde River and the Snake Rivers River for use as legal size and trophy rainbow trout breeding ground in the northeastern state of Oregon.