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Grande Ronde Model Watershed From Grande Ronde the Model Watershed 1114 J Avenue La Grande OR 97850 Archives ph 541-663-0570 fax 541-962-1585 ipples Winter 2011 The Town of Summerville, Oregon Ripples Board of Directors R compiled by Heather Hall, GRMW Mike Hayward, Chairman Wallowa County Board of Commissioners in theGrande Ronde Steve McClure, Vice Chairman . Union County Board of Commissioners R I V E R S U N I T I N G N E I G H B O R S Q U A R T E R L Y N E W S F R O M T H E G R A N D E R O N D E M O D E L W A T E R S H E D Anna Cavinato, Eastern Oregon University The Results Are In! Allen Childs, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation The First Year of the Catherine Creek Chinook Salmon Tracking Project Dave Yost, Agriculture and Education Representative by Lyle Kuchenbecker, GRMW Ted Taylor, Public Interest Representative & Scott Favrot, ODFW ELH All images and figures Norm Cimon, Conservationist Representative About the Project courtesy of the ODFW ELH The Catherine Creek spring Chinook population is one of the highest Larry Cribbs, Economic Development & Industry priority populations for restoration in the Grande Ronde subbasin due to the Representative potential productivity of the population and the severe decline in numbers of wild fish. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) Early Life History Bruce Eddy, Fish and Wildlife Representative (ELH) Project has been conducting research on juvenile Chinook salmon in Catherine Creek since the early 1990s. The objectives of the research have been to ABOVE: The historic Dry Creek School (built 1885) Daryl Hawes, Private Landowner Representative in Summerville is listed on the document juvenile migration patterns, estimate egg-to-migrant survival rates, and U.S. National Register of Historic Places Joe McCormack, Nez Perce Tribe determine overwinter mortality. Image courtesy Ian Poellet, Wikimedia Commons The Winter 2010 issue of the Ripples newsletter featured an article The town of Summerville was an early Pat Wortman, Private Forest & Landowners describing the latest ELH research effort. The research involved capturing trading and commercial center in the Grande juvenile salmon in a rotary screw trap on Catherine Creek just above the City Ronde Valley. Settled in the spring of 1865, Summerville boasted saloons, churches, its own town doctor, and even a large brewery Staff Members of Union (see picture below center), implanting radio transmitters into the fish, Summerville was founded by Mr. W.H. Patton and then tracking the movement of the fish throughout the valley. Juvenile soon after its founding. For many years, as a stage coach station. Summerville was Chinook were captured in October and November 2009 and tracked as long as the named after a good friend and neighbor of Mr. Summerville offered a daily stage coach Jeff Oveson, Executive Director transmitter batteries lasted (an average of 41 days). Patton’s who lived in the Willamette Valley. Mr. service to Elgin, but with the construction Juvenile Chinook salmon in Catherine Creek display two distinct of the railroad in 1891, the stage coach ABOVE: Fish were tracked on foot Patton was the postmaster of the post office, Lyle Kuchenbecker, Project Planner migratory patterns. Early migrants begin leaving headwater rearing areas in service soon disappeared, and the town using hand-held receivers when river which was established in 1865. His homestead late September and overwinter in the Grande Ronde Valley between Union and of Summerville was no longer the trading conditions precluded the use of boats. was also the site of the original town center. Coby Menton, Monitoring Coordinator Elgin before out-migrating with high spring flows. Late migrants begin leaving One of the first businesses established in center it used to be. headwater reaches in early February and continue Jesse Steele, Field Biologist Summerville was a meat market operated Today, Summerville has a population out-migration through the valley with high spring by Mr. Henry Rinehart. As the only trading of around 117 citizens. It still has its own Leigh Collins, Public Involvement/Education Coordinator flows. stop north of La Grande and Island City, post office, store, and tavern. Results of the ELH research indicate that Mason Bailie, Database Manager early migrant survival to Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River is typically lower for Catherine Mary Estes, Office and Fiscal Manager Creek juveniles compared to other spawning tributaries in the Grande Ronde subbasin. Heather Hall, Receptionist This newsletter is funded by the Bonneville Power Administration and Continued on page 2 ABOVE: Juvenile Chinook salmon the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board overwintering from November 2009 LEFT: Juvenile Chinook are captured in this to January 2010 primarily occupied Margaret McGladrey, rotary screw trap above Union as they migrate stream reaches between Union just Ripples Editor downstream. Radio transmitters are implanted in below the rotary trap and Davis Dams 8 [email protected] fishes’ body cavities so they can be tracked as they just below Highway 203. migrate down through the Grande Ronde Valley. RIGHT: During periods when Meet the Board Catherine Creek was Dave Yost free of ice and Fish flows were Profile by Jeff Oveson, GRMW sufficient, juvenile If you live in Wallowa County, chances salmon were are that the last name “Yost” rings a familiar Online! tracked using bell. If not, chances are that you haven’t lived boats and in Wallowa County for very long. The first of the Yosts to live in the “county” was Paul, who canoes. moved from Canada to the Prairie Creek country in 1938 to work for Raymond Johnson. Paul www.grmw.orgwww.grmw.org met and subsequently married Gladys Lathrop, Photo courtesy of the Yost family whose surname might be very familiar name to folks in the area, as the first of the Lathrops that I had growing up on a livestock and forage Adult salmon counts at the dams came to Wallowa County back in the 1880s. production operation as well as the rural Dave was raised by Gladys and Paul in lifestyle helped to focus my future goals. I knew Snake River Basin stream flows the Prairie Creek country, where family members when I went away to college that I wanted to ABOVE LEFT: When the stream was iced over, researchers drilled holes through the ice to gather data on the types of habitat used by the migrating juveniles. By still farm. After getting his degree in Agricultural some day come back to the Wallowa Valley Snow and precipitation reports identifying the stream reaches and types of habitat preferred by the fish, restoration activities can create more of these types of habitat. Education from Oregon State University (OSU) and live. My hope was to work in production in 1978, Dave taught at Lost River High School agriculture, but I found my way into agricultural Habitat enhancement projects in Klamath County for two years and since 1980 education, and it has been a good fit.” has been at Joseph High School (JHS), where Dave continued on to say that he has The average early migrant survival probability for Methods Results Meetings, activities, and events he teaches agriculture classes and is also the seen “a lot of changes over the 50-plus years of fish migrating through Catherine Creek between Ninety-eight juvenile Chinook were Of the 98 fish tagged, 15 tags were excluded Future Farmers of America Chapter Instructor. living in Wallowa County, from a large resource- Past issues of Ripples and more! 2004 and 2009 was 0.16, while upper Grande captured in the rotary trap and implanted with from analyses due to confirmed mortality (e.g., mink He has been a teacher at JHS for 23 years, with based economy that supplied numerous family- Ronde, Minam and Lostine river populations had radio transmitters (see article on page 3 for more and bird predation), tag expulsion, or fish leaving the exception of a six-year interruption to work wage jobs to today’s struggling times. One of a significantly higher aggregate mean survival information about the radio tag implantation surgery the study area; 83 (85%) fish were located regularly. on the family ranch. the consistent observations I have made is of probability of 0.25. technique). The researchers located each radio-tagged Biologists spent 650 hours tracking the fish, yielding Dave and Marianne, his wife of the people who still work and live in our valley Poor survival rates of Catherine Creek fish once a week through March 2010. Biologists approximately 700 fish locations. Weekly fish 26 years, have two daughters. Anna, 24, and their commitment to the community. I know juvenile salmon have prompted further efforts to tracked fish on foot, by boat, and by helicopter. locations revealed that most Catherine Creek early is pursuing a Master’s degree in Speech and help many families who make a living on Pathology at Portland State University after the land, and their commitment and passion to Grande Ronde identify causes of juvenile mortality. The ELH Geographic coordinates and microhabitat use migrants occupied a 3.7-mile reach downstream from variables, such as creek depth and velocity, were Union for overwintering. During fall, early migrants getting her Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural the work they do is a joy to see. Over the years, project has periodically attempted to identify Business through OSU. Megan, 22, is taking I have seen many production operators find Model Watershed collected for all fish locations. primarily occupied high-gradient reaches. overwinter rearing reaches used by Catherine Creek General Agriculture classes at Treasure Valley ways to adapt and progress in hard times.
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