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Exhibit 18 Robert Boye Comment.pdfa August 23rd, 2008 To: Mike Clugston, Planner and Rob Chave, Planning Manager 4 t ti City of Edmonds' Regarding: 8 -Lot Plat and Shoreline Substantial Development Permit' File # P-0846/SM-08-47 Sirs; My remarks address the potential enviorranerital impacts of the proposal. My exhibit # 1 show with blue the high water line of January 1996 when the lake rose seven feet flooding homes along the south end of the lake with three and four feet of water. The house adjacent to Lot 8 had one foot of water in its front room. Last winter, and most winters, the high water mark is also shown on the exhibit_ My comment... A believe your rating of wetland and wetland buffer are accurate. My exhibits #2 and #3 address bottom land ownership, shoreland ownership, and potential dock placement on that part of lot 6 that has an extention down to the shoreland. When my wife and i purchased our house (24325 76th Ave. W) adjacent to the south of Lots 6,7, and 8 of the proposed plat in 1965, we were shown a map of Lake Ballinger that showed that riparian owners of Lake Ballinger owned bottom lands out to an imaginary line in the middle of the lake. I have tried to show a part of that map with Exhibit #i2. Because our property is part of the curving of the southwest corner of Lake Ballinger the line that indicates our ownership angles across the shorelands of Lots #7 and of that extension down to the lake of Lot #6. I`ve tried to show that intrusion with my Exhibit #3. My concerns.... folks purchasing Lot #f are going to want -access to the lake; and possibly build a dock out from their 14' access. Is that legal under the Shoreline Development Code? Having a dock immediately adjacent to our property line concerns tate. For the past thirty years I have released over a million chinook and coho salmon into the lake along our north boundary litre, and any enviromnental impact on the water habitat in that area that might affect the salmon fry concerns me. My request.... that the proposed environmental impact statement covering Lots 6, 7, and possibly 8 identify and require a joint dock ownership where the existing dock is identified. Thank you, Robert and Peggy Boye peggyboye@msn.com 24325 76th Ave. W. Edmonds, WA 98026 EXHIBIT 18 P-08-46 & SM -08-47 S.W. 1/4, S EC. 32, T. 27 N., f E. W. M. I"= 200' 114 sec cor. 1 r z3L,� I 07 o i gave 05 oil 03 r 03 LAK 3 2 r A LrN ER 4 237th.ST 5H M — � -a' 3-012 51 16 3 / x 0! � Grp �'-y'_ E.�� 3 - --vJ SNr•&E�Ae1n5 C3 SA JNGER ' I 2 ISL AND O¢ 0!02 _ G _ 03 8 02 T7 1 S-0 or s 04 i 03 1002 t I 1 1! r2 O L L INGER - 03 i 01 // 4� 02 I al j Q/2 0L E MCALEERI ter. I 15 ✓ ± ..€ m _ BA LJN ER SHORES 1 i 2 3 4 5 (6344) lr , 6 , 1 242nd. 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BY LYNN TtiON[PSON 2,000 -mile migration, not to mention art of hatching salmon eggs and grow - Times Snohomish County bureau urban hazards such as pollution and ing them into fry. EDMONDS -- For more than two freeway culverts, a 15 -pound male chi- His hatchery, in a shed behind his decades; retired teacher Bob Boye has nook salmon returned to Lake Ballin- house, has enabled him to support run a one -Than salmon hatchery from ger to die_ school projects by taking excess fer- his Lake Ballinger home. "1've been waiting for this day for tilized eggs and providing backup em - With pipes rigged to his garage 25 years," Boye said. "1 never thought bryos and fry when a classroom aquar- downspouts and castoff tanks, pumps one could mare it back." ium failed. He has worked with the and aerators, he has nurtured salmon Widely credited with being the fa- University of Washington and the 'eggs through their growth of eye ther of Washington's salmon -in -the- state Department of Fish and Wildlife, spots and lengthening tails to their classroom program, Boye, 72, wrote which issues permits for all hatchery emergence atop egg sacs and the the curriculum and the first grant re- operations, even those run by schools. even ual.. la when, ,off a goo¢�s�x?ng' :3RY- s..- '. questg�thatasipcci.978 hays enled'an} fn the .. .. .. __ rain, they swim free. estimated 125,000 schoolchildren in .._a.v Last month, defying the odds of a the Puget Sound region to Iearn the CONTINUED o N . 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[O O Y Qj cd Q o ° Y a MA. o v� Cr3�as�' vv�vv�ar 3.a� 3 Ncr cu O O p _O U-'.� N a) O Z O O O bo fn a fi o c^o . 0 o� Pv Z i 2 .. y A Classroom — Community Salmon Enhancement Story by Bob Boye, summer of 2004 e 2 .w e D c 0 e co / m 4-3 0 E44 @ .w � U / » w p & $4 q 7 c A / E -1c . ._ 0 ® x � o © f o © » m \ / �a4 / 7 / a « � 9 . > 0 q 0 » q44 ® T - o © - © . < k � � m m 1 2 / /2� y . 4-J . . q . o - e g o . @ m � q © m t ± / £ 2 m . / = w � 2 ? 2 } - q . 2� . g q > - m w e ® . 2 4J » . 0 a 4 £ . 4 m e 2 � . 0 ! / � : ® - . . . . & © . £ e @ � £ . RETURN OF THE SALMON CHIEF On October 20th, 2003, a rare late autumn storm dumped four inches of rain onto the Lake Ballinger drainage basin of south Snohomish County. For a week following that October deluge, McAleer Creek rema€ aed unusually full from the drainage of Lake Ballinger_ Two weeks later, a fifteen -pound, male Chinook salmon was discovered floating alongside a dock at the south end of Lake Ballinger. What was unusual about this situation was that it was happening in late October, normally the end of the driest of the Pacific Northwest's seasons_ Chinook salmon, the largest of the salmonid species, spawn in deep rivers during September. McAleer Creek, a shallow creek flowing from Lake Ballinger five miles to Lake Washington, does not have enough water in it for any upstream salmon migration until the winter rains of November and December. For countless centuries, Coho, Chum, and Steelhead had migrated up McAleer Creek to the spawning beds of the Lake Ballinger drainage basin during the months of November, December and January when there is ample water_ However, because of the degradation of those spawning beds due to rural and urban development there has been no upstream migration of any salmon to the upper reaches of the Lake Ballinger drainage basin for the past seventy years_ Why was a salmon trying to move into McAleer Creek now; especially a Chinook salmon? TYEE (early Indian jargon for "thiel') TYEE, a robust fifteen -pound Chinook male, had been waiting impatiently at the entrance of McAleer Creek for the past two weeks_ Only the final part of his four-year odyssey was left to complete; to reach the place of his birth_ He knew by the smell of the water that he was in the right place; the flow of water was what bothered him. His ancestral memory told TYEE that the water flowing from this urban community was not deep enough for him to negotiate_ Yet the smell of the water was right. Why couldn't he get back? TYEE had been raised in a classroom aquarium located in the office area of an elementary school of the Shoreline School District. In mid-October, the school had received eggs and sperm from the University of Washington's School of Fisheries as part of its participation in Washington State's educational Salmon in the Classroom Program. TYEE had begun his life as an embryo in one of two -hundred eggs brought from a Chinook pair that had found its way back to the hatchery's holding pond located six miles up stream from the Ballard Locks. • � i �` 91 rfi _; TYEE survived the third-grade students mixing the sperm and green eggs and placing the fertilized eggs into the gravel of the school aquarium that was chilled to the temperature of a spring -fed stream and aerated to simulate the oxygen found in a healthy Northwest stream. Ffis -early recollections were those of wide-eyed youngsters constantly staring at him and his brethren while E*i ging the water, cleaning out the charcoal filters, suctioning "dead and rotting stuff' off talc bottom of the aquarium, and constantly pointing at "that" fish they considered their own. It had been a comfortable beginning. There was always plenty of food, the water temperature was to his liking and there was ample oxygen to siphon from the water. He grew rapidly and -it wasn't until early April, when a net had scooped him out of the aquarium and into a five -gallon bucket, that he experienced his first fear of humans_ The third-grade class had carried the fry --filled bucket to the nearby shores of Lake Ballinger and poured TYEE and his brethren into a different world_ For the first time in his life, TYEE had to actively search for his food. He had joined other salmon fry soon after entering the lake. His fear of other fish carie when a bass burst into the mass of salmon fry and swallowed three of his companions. Thereafter, he learned to avoid larger fish when their body language indicated a feeding mode. Whereas before he could rise to the surface of the aquarium for food, in the lake danger lurked at the surface from surface -feeding creatures. Amer several near misses, TYEE learned to avoid the surface. _ However, it was the warm temperature and lack of oxygen in the lake that bothered him the most_ Within a few months of entering Lake Ballinger it became uncomfortable for TYEE to swim close to the surface. He sought out the cooler water lower in the lake. He learned to eat insect larvae as it swam to the surface_ As the temperature of the lake increased during the summer and early fall, the algae that formed throughout the entire water column became so intense that TYEE found it difficult to breathe and to see well enough to feed. It was time to find a better environment. TYEE was now six inches long and very fat_ His favorite food were the snails he had learned to pick off the under side of lily pads; the pads providing protection from the herons and king fishers that seemed to be everywhere_ It was early fall and the rains had brought enough water into the lake for him to sense a current which led to the outflow of the lake_ He left Lake Ballinger with no regrets, drifting downstream with his mouth heading upstream into the oxygenated water. The camouflage markings on his sides were now almost gone, his body assimilating what salt it could from the water, and his total being demanding a dramatic change of environment. It was early December when TYEE entered Lake Washington_ The water of McAleer Creek had been heavily silted and he welcomed the clear, cold water of the lake_ He spent the winter months slowly following the lake currents toward the discharge of Lake Washington into Lake Union and eventually to the ocean. c mpresso aerator - LL�pump filter/pump _- cO�. cooing tr y o © O O fJ O o6 9 b '-0 or. oaLI probe egg° tray -a }} E rocks on bottom bubble tube m a a o 0 TYEE entered the ship canal leading from Lake Washington past the University of Washington's fisheries complex and into Lake Union in late spring. Already within his memory bank were the smells of the classroom aquarium, the waters of Lake Ballinger, the various sections of McAleer Creek, and of the many small creeks that flow into Lake Washington_ He would cl%f nue this remarkable storage process for the rest of his life_ It would become very useful-fgr his return to Lake Ballinger. As TYEE passed the University of Washington's School of Fisheries holding pond, the faint smell of the water flowing out of the pond triggered a momentary blip in his memory bank_ He was to experience many times this phenomenon of reacting to the genetic input from hundreds of years of olfactory memory as he made his way to the feeding grounds offered to him in Puget Sound, the coastal waters of Vancouver Island and Canada, the waters of southeast Alaska, past the entrance of Glacier Bay into northeast Alaska, the Bering Sea, along the Aleutian Chain, as far west to the coast of Japan, and back to Lake Ballinger. Passing through the waterway of the Ballard Locks proved to be one of the most dangerous parts of his journey to the sea. Normally young salmon spend a few weeks in an estuary before entering salt water. Here the water is a combination of fresh and salt. it allows the young fry a chance to acclimate to the extreme salinity of the ocean. The fresh water of Lake Washington drains directly into Puget Sound at the Locks with minimal chance of preparing the fry for the salinity change_ For several days, TYEE was not ready for the multitude of predators that seem to lurk behind and under every pilling, dock, and boat he passed on the way into Puget Sound_ His swimming was lethargic caused from an excess of nitrogen ingested from the super -oxygenated water of the spillway and the abrupt change into salt water_ Unable to swim vertically, the silver of his sides flashed, announcing to all potential predators that here was an easy dinner_ By this time it was middle May and the plankton growth was at its peak_ TYEE gorged himself on these tiny microorganisms and grew rapidly_ He would add a pound of weight for every two pounds of food consumed. TYEE quickly regained his rigorous behavior and along with thousands of other salmon fry moved through Puget Sound searching for larger and larger prey within the eelgrass that lies a few hundred feet off the shoreline. Once TYEE reached one pound in weight and fifteen inches in length he began to gorge on the smaller marine creatures that were all around him; even salmon fry that were arriving from the multitude of streams bordering Puget Sound. Herring, `candlefish, small squid and octopi, juvenile crustaceans and ocean fish -species that happened by, became part of his daily diet. Instinctively TYEE followed ocean currents out of Puget Sound, up Georgia Straits, and through the Inland Passage of Vancouver Island. The colder the water became, the more abundant were the masses of bio feed. As increasing numbers of salmon joined in the search for food, so did the fish predators_ Pods of Orcas followed them_ Orcas will eat a hundred pounds of salmon a day. The pod surrounds a school of Eg-g-taking Pond You'll be standing right here watching the fisheries students seine (net) all the salmon in the pond. The fish have entered the pond from that opening just behind the last student holding the net to the left. The Chinook average fifteen pounds and the coho about four. Three or four years ago these very salmon lived in this pond a�;'fry before being released into Portage Bay during the spring of their first year of life. 1 - You will see the students catch a salmon�- feel its belly. If the eggs feel loose the --- is placed in the "ready" pen; if not she is tossed - _-__back over the net into the pond to wait another day. _ —With the males they will bend them "backwards" to see if sperm comes out -,the vent hole The most important part -sof the egg -take operation is in determining correctly�- whether or not the eggs and_-_ sperm are ready. Premature y-�reggs and sperm will not - fertilize and you'll end> up picking many white eggs out of your tray back at the aquarildm. -- r - = ere will`b�- to a thousand fish" the net; and its - — -.- f--� 'will take them close �`� • r to an hour to sort -_ --,-them all out. salmon forcing there into a corral -like mass and then several Orcas will swim underneath the salmon and rise through the school, flaying tails so as to stun some. The rest of the pod leisurely swim in amongst the stunned salmon eating at will_ Because of the numbers of salmon swimming with TYEE he managed to avoid that fate_ For three years TYEE follovvgthe massive quantities of bio feed abundant in the extreme cold of Alaskan waters_ He was joined by all the species of ocean feeding fish. His weight increased dramatically. One spring found him feeding off herring roe deposited on the eelgrass of Sitka Sound. 1Trs competitors for this delicacy rich in natural oil were hundreds of eagles, sea gulls, bears and occasional humans stripping the roe off the eelgrass for this once -a -year saltwater feast_ TYEE moved on, several pounds heavier once the hundreds of fishing boats moved in with their nets seeking out the adult herring. These boats and their nets continued to plague TYEE throughout his feeding journey in Alaskan waters. Some nets were designed to snag the gills of the fish as they attempted to push through, others were designed to encircle schools -of fish, and some were dragged along the bottom scooping any and everything in their path. Somehow, TYEE managed to elude them all. TYEE was a healthy twenty -pound, four-year-old when he first felt the urge to return to the waters of that classroom aquarium_ At the time he had just finished his annual herring roe feed. It began on a clear night as he was resting near the surface. Something indicated to hire that it was time to return to his very place of birth_ No one is really sure what triggers that impulse, some believing that it is the barometric pressure of an impending storm, others considering the possibility of celestial navigation, almost all agreeing that some ancient instinct programmed into all creatures simply "kicks in'' and the return migration begins. For TYEE it was a matter of reversing course_ He had ten thousand years of ancestral implanting to guide him. Ever since fresh water had poured into the oceans from the mountains of the Pacific Rim, his ancestors had etched into his memory bank the unique smells of each watershed. His homeward guide was eventually those smells he had stored along the way to the feeding grounds of Puget Sound, Canada and Alaska with the strongest smell saved for the trip up McAleer Creek to Lake Ballinger_ The trip home was timed so that TYEE entered the Ballard Locks the middle of September along with thousands of other Chinook salmon; most heading to the several hatcheries located within the Lake Washington watershed and some two hundred classroom aquariums placing Coho and Chinook salmon fry into the scores of streams discharging into that watershed_ He remained ocean -bright silver until entering the fresh waters of Lake Union. and Lake Washington; then his outer skin turned dark and his upper jaw began to protrude over the lower jaw displaying the large teeth of Chinook salmon_ Nutrients from all parts of his body were flowing into his reproductive organs. Eventually much of his body would be used up in the arduous drive to reach the spawning grounds of his birth. C THE LEDGEND OF THE SALMON CHIEF: The early Indians of the Pacific Northwest were subsistent hunters; their chief source of food was from the five species of salmon that plied the myriad of streams entering Puget Sound and the Columbia River watersheds nine months of the year_ Indians never killed the first salmon spotted in the local stream, that was the chief of the4: lmon people "checking out" the spawning grounds. If the spawning gravel was fie of silt and the water of the stream was clear and cold, the salmon chief would swim back to his tribe waiting at the head of the stream and lead them back to their ancestral spawning grounds. Special ceremonies were held to honor the first fish taken. Much of Indian totemic art reflects the honored position the salmon held within its culture_ The most honored act toward the salmon people was to place the skeleton of the fish back into the stream with its skull facing downstream toward the ocean; believing that the remains of the fish would swim back to the ocean, gather new flesh and return to feed the Indian people_ TYEE was soon to discover whether or not the non -Indian culture of the Lake Ballinger watershed would afford him a similar honored position_ - He should not have been there in first place. His species needed large quantities of water flowing cold, clear and clean over the spawning beds_ None of this existed in McAleer Creek at this time of the year. Warm from the summer heat, heavy with sift from building development and highway runoff, full of chemical contaminants from lawn fertilizers and carbon monoxide and dioxide from vehicle and household exhaust, and green from the introduction of the algae bloom of Lake Ballinger, the waters of McA.Ieer Creek provided TYEE an almost insurmountable obstacle. Then there were the culverts under several local roadways and the four culverts under the I-5 Freeway exchange. Over the years, water pouring from these culverts had eroded the streambed to the point where it required a four to five foot jump of an upstream migrating salmon to enter the culvert_ The insides of the culverts were coated with tar to reduce rusting; causing a negative chemical affect to the olfactory senses of migrating salmon. The culverts were long (one is four hundred feet) allowing little light to help guide migrating salmon. The culverts are round allowing no resting places; especially when the culverts are full with water from heavy rain. This negative watershed history had rightfully earned the Lake Ballinger watershed the reputation of being the least likely watershed to host the return of the salmon tribes_ However, for the past twenty-five years the Lake Ballinger watershed community has gone to great lengths to mitigate this reputation_ Beginning in the early eighties, twenty public, parochial and private schools surrounding Lake Ballinger embraced the Washington State Department of Fisheries Salmon in the Classroom Program and began a joint salmon restoration project with the Ulm i3TRiENTS " �\ AE READY PRESENT � � \\� I SOIL WATER—� .. _. �Q�pAYOR GAF gyp' r jiL-�•«,iae �a{�1 +r"' ��' -`s.e- YOUNG GAME FISN EG�� A �r cAE�'�� - �oroZ�. - s. zi�l 1 M__:f University of Washington's School of Fisheries. In the fall, thousands of school -aged students would arrive by bus to the holding pond to take eggs and sperm from Chinook and Coho salmon. Each school would place the green eggs and sperm into ice -filled containers to haul back to their chilled and aerated classroom aquariums to fertilize. For five months the school would atteingt- o culture and raise salmon; releasing theca into a local waterway sometime in the spririg7 This program used a hands-on approach to teach the "salmon story". Almost always, the scientific and educational conclusions of this classroom program were .... _ . the future for salmon returning to the waters of the Pacific Northwest would depend on watersheds that provided clean, cold, aerated water, allowing the salmonid species to propagate naturally_ Most of the eggs cultured in classroom aquariums of the two -hundred schools surrounding Lake Washington were those from Chinook, the main source of returning salmon at the University. Taking green eggs and sperm back to the classroom was the only way for students to buck and strip eggs and successfully fertilize those eggs away from the hatchery- Twenty-five atchery Twenty-five years ago, the Lake Ballinger watershed municipalities of Edmonds, Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace and Snohomish County, entered into an agreement with the Department of Ecology, the Department of Transportation, and Metro of King County in an attempt to solve the algae contamination of Lake Ballinger. Almost two million dollars were spent constructing a floating, underwater piping system that brought fresh water from Halls Creek deep into the north end of Lake Ballinger and siphoned dead water deep in the south end of the lake into McAleer Creek Later this algae removal concept was augmented with an introduction of an aluminum product to smother the algae growth on the bottom of the lake. Twenty years ago a group called McAleer Rescue placed barriers of large rocks forty feet downstream of the culverts of two local roadways in order to create higher levels of water so fish could enter the culverts with less of a jump. Fifteen years ago the Public Works Department of Snohomish County placed logs into various spots along the creek to create pools for salmon to rest in on their journey upstream. Ten years ago the Department of Transportation placed a series of baffles within two of the four culverts under the new freeway interchange_ These baffles were designed to allow resting places for upstream migrating salmon. Recently, water quality measures have been introduced to the Lake Ballinger Watershed by the myriad of municipalities and agencies that have jurisdiction over parts of the watershed_ Commercial, public, and private properties within the Lake Ballinger watershed abide by stringent ordinances that address the discharging of harmful wastes and sediment into the watershed_ Public works systems have been constructed to slow County STEPS Adopt A Stream Indian Tribal Council DepartmenI of -.,Donnevilie Power Administration r c L -j sh I Afe ,ice !r rek . the ry Fish and Wildlife ��, Local - Schoo l Districts Washington State Office of Environmental Education Bellevue Storm/ COMMUNITYSurface water Utility PARTNER 9 S Backyard University Community MANUALPartner of Washington Raising Salmon in the Classroom Yet, even with all the good intentions of a watershed community, it took a fluke of nature to allow TYEE to enter N1tleer Creek and begin his journey upstream. Ironically, the early -season influx of i4ter was all it took for him to purposefully head up stream. The water was heavy with silt and full of contaminants but it contained what he needed most; the smell of Lake Ballinger and deep water within which he could use the powerful muscles of his body to propel him forward. In less than a day he approached the culverts under I-5_ The first two culverts were negotiable. They are both one hundred feet long and contained the baffles-. The third culvert required many tries. It was four -hundred feet of tumultuous water_ When: TYEE entered the final culvert leading onto the Nle Temple. golf course he was at the end of his reserve strength; but the urge to reach the place of his birth was enough to get him through_ Arriving at Lake Ballinger was a let down. There was no discernable scent of his birthing grounds. He wandered around the lake searching for a scent that was not there_ Even more disconcerting-, there were no other of his kind in the lake. He nosed around the dock of a local citizen who raised salmon and where he and his classroom aquarium brethren had been placed into the lake four years before_ He even ventured up Halls Creek, the discharge from Halls Lake where two citizens have been raising Chinook and Coho salmon. He got no farther than half way when his life energies left him, boating down stream and back into Lake Ballinger. As the body of TYEE floated down stream it passed over numerous spawning beds of centuries past_ Had he been alive he would not have recognized them as a potential home for any eggs he might have fertilized, they were nothing but mud flats covering ancient gravel beds. Even if eggs had been strewn into the silt -encased rocks, oxygenated water could not have reached them and they would have quickly perished. Seemingly, all the mitigating efforts by the Lake Ballinger watershed community had failed the Chinook salmon tribe. In the sum and total of things, TYEE had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. "Bob, this is John Greenwold, your neighbor four lots over_ One of your salmon is floating alongside my dock. You might want to come over and take a look." I have been releasing Chinook and Coho salmon into Lake Ballinger for the past twenty-five years. These are from the excess eggs I bring home from the University of Washington, left over from the three hundred eggs given to each school that comes down to the School of Fisheries_ I ,/1'g Com`. Each fall, over a hundred schools and community partners visit the University's hatchery complex located along the Ship Canal. Members of the Fish Club give each school a tour of the hatchery and help students "strip and buck" a pair of salmon, eggs and sperm destined for their classrooalmon project_ My small hatchery along the shore of Lake Ballinger can handle about forty thousand eggs. By the time I cull out the non -fertilized eggs and deliver eggs to schools that have not been able to get to the University or for some reason have lost their eggs or yolk fry, I raise and release several thousand Chinook and Coho fry into Lake Ballinger each spring. Some of those fish stay in the lake as resident salmon, reaching a size of twelve or more inches_ Most migrate down McAleer Creek to Lake Washington and eventually to Puget Sound. I have never had an ocean-going salmon make it back to the lake until... __ "It must weigh about twelve to fifteen pounds", John exclaimed_ "It sure stinks". I countered. Sure enough, there floating in the water was a large, ocean going Chinook male salmon_ The adipose fin was not clipped so I was pretty sure that it had come originally from one of the schools releasing their salmon fry into the lake, from my hatchery or from one of the two hatcheries on Halls Lake_ It seemed only fitting that TWEE be given a title and the honor afforded the chief of a Chinook tribe; I buried him in my wife's garden.. -.his head facing toward the ocean. Bob Boye, summer of 2004