American Indian Seasonal Round

The board puts Malheur River salmon in the band's calendar, and for most of a century the upper river has had none. Warm Springs Dam closed it to them in 1919, the Agency Valley Dam blocked the North Fork in 1936, and the Snake River dams in Hells Canyon, built without fish ladders, finished the run. On May 25, 2016, the Burns Paiute Tribe released 127 Chinook at Malheur Ford in Logan Valley, and members waded in with spears, nets and baskets, the first salmon fishing there in 97 years. Most used spears and took about twenty fish.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Malheur National Wildlife Refuge — 5.5 mi
  A lake-and-marsh refuge set aside for its birds in 1908 that had to buy a river's water to keep them, and now fights the carp that have eaten away its marshes.
• Pete French Round Barn — 20 mi
  A round barn from the 1880s, built for breaking and training stock, the best-known relic of a cattle empire that ended when its owner was shot dead by a homesteader.

More markers nearby

• Homeland of the Burns Paiute — 24 mi
• The Terrible Trail — 24 mi
• Great Basin — 30 mi