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Emergency regulations adopted
Emergency regulations for the John Day and Walla Walla rivers and Three Mile Creek have been adopted by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission. The move comes in an effort to protect depressed or declining populations of wild summer steelhead and redband trout.
New regulations in the John Day River allow anglers to keep only finclipped steelhead. Non-finclipped steelhead must not be removed from the water and must be released unharmed.
Because no hatchery steelhead are released into the John Day, the new regulation allows anglers to keep hatchery steelhead that stray into the river but allows wild steelhead to pass upriver to spawn.
The commission also adopted rules closing the Oregon portion of the Walla Walla River to all steelhead angling from Dec. 1 to March 31, 1996. The closure is needed to protect the remaining 300 to 400 adults. There are no hatchery steelhead in this portion of the Walla Walla River.
Three Mile Creek, between French Glen and Fields in the Catlow Valley of Harney County, has a small and declining population of redband trout. The Oregon commissioners adopted a total closure for all fishing in Three Mile Creek immediately with no plan to lift the closure in the near future.
Public comments wanted
Use is growing on the 38 miles of motorcycle trails in the Newport Ranger District near Cusick.
Mountain bikers and horse riders are joining the motorcyclists on the Forest Service Batey-Bould Trail, which connects to even more trails farther north developed by the State Department of Natural Resources.
With the trails in need of repair and reconstruction, the Forest Service is seeking comments at a public open house tonight , 6:30 p.m. at the Newport District office, 315 N. Warren Ave. Info: (509) 447-7300.
Dedication planned
The new Sullivan Lake Ranger Station will host a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) dedication celebration Saturday at 11 a.m.
Three murals entitled “The Saga of Sullivan Lake,” painted by Spokane artist Joe Guarisco in the style made famous by Mexican artist Diago Rivera and used by government-sponsored artists in the 1930s, will be unveiled and dedicated to Sullivan Lake CCCs.
CCC alumni from around the nation and their spouses are expected to attend the ceremonies, which will commemorate the many public works accomplished by the CCCs between 1933 and 1942.
The ranger station is about five miles east of Metaline Falls.
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