The Regional HEP Team (RHT) and Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) Wildlife Program staff conducted a follow-up habitat evaluation procedures (HEP) analysis on the Wanaket Wildlife Management Area in June 2005. The 2005 HEP investigation generated 3,084.48 habitat units (HUs) for a net increase of 752.18 HUs above 1990/1995 baseline survey results. The HU to acre ratio also increased from 0.84:1.0 to 1.16:1.0. The largest increase in habitat units occurred in the shrubsteppe/grassland cover type (California quail and western meadowlark models), which increased from 1,544 HUs to 2,777 HUs (+43%), while agriculture cover type HUs were eliminated because agricultural lands (managed pasture) were converted to shrubsteppe/grassland. In addition to the agriculture cover type, major changes in habitat structure occurred in the shrubsteppe/grassland cover type due to the 2001 wildfire which removed the shrub component from well over 95% of its former range. The number of acres of all other cover types remained relatively stable; however, habitat quality improved in the riparian herb and riparian shrub cover types. The number and type of HEP species models used during the 2005 HEP analysis were identical to those used in the 1990/1995 baseline HEP surveys. The number of species models …

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Perfect timing is one of the reasons Enoch Walker of Bend, Ore., won saddle bronc riding championship last year. Here he rides the Ace of Sapes at the Pendleton, Ore., Roundup."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Speaking to a state meeting, Don Woodward of Pedleton, Ore., then proposed a federally regulated production control plan that would encourage farmers to participate with "at least a guaranteed return on cost of production."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Don Woodward, from Pendleton, Ore., told Oklahoma wheat growers that "crippling restrictions" placed on the sale of wheat to Soviet countries have "victimized" wheat farmers."

Abstract: "This is the preliminary report of a radiological-ecological survey of the invertebrate fauna that inhabit the Columbia River within the confines of Hanford Works and downstream to the site of McNary Dam. The survey was carried out during the period of October, 1948 through February, 1950. Materials and methods are discussed and the results of extensive radioassays, qualitative and quantitative biological determinations, and hydrographic studies are given and analyzed. Twelve figures and twenty-three tables are included. All aquatic invertebrates were found to be concentrating radioactivity from the river water. A maximum activity density of 4.4-10-(-3) μc/g wet weight was found in the larvae of midges (Hydrobaeninae) collected near Hanford during September, 1949. Radioactive wastes were not found to be causing any apparent deleterious effects to the natural invertebrate fauna. Existing population variations are caused by biological and hydrographic conditions."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Perfect timing is one of the reasons Enoch Walker of Bend, Ore., won saddle bronc riding championship last year. Here he rides the Ace of Sapes at the Pendleton, Ore., Roundup."

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James H. ""Herb"" Macia. He discusses being a navigator/bombardier on the 14th plane in the Doolittle Raid, including the training leading up to the raid, the trip on the USS Hornet, the raid itself, bailing out over China, the weeks spent there before making it out through India and Egypt and stories about other men in the Raiders. He also discusses meeting with Generalissimo and Madam Chiang Kai-Shek, seeing the Egyptian pyramids, crossing Africa then to Brazil before getting back to the US, landing in Miami, his later deployments in North Africa and Europe, his work after the war and reunions the Raiders have had since the war.

A photograph print showing Union Pacific (UP) 2122, 2-8-2, Umatilla, OR.

A photograph print showing Union Pacific (UP) 3504, 2-8-8-0, on freight train No.55, Meacham, OR. (Blue Mountains)

A photograph postcard showing Union Pacific (UP) 3936, 4-6-6-4, Reith, OR.