The Forestry Club meetings take place weekly in 103 Mulford Hall at noon on Wednesdays.
Here's what we talked about today:
Bean Feed tomorrow! 6:00 outside Mulford Hall.
Logging Sports Update:
>The people who went to the logging sports workshop held by Modesto JC had a great time and made new friends :)
>Logging Sports competition at CalPoly is coming up in two weeks.
>Dex got Big Game Rally t-shirts. We'll need help selling them on the 18th at the Logging Sports Rally on Sproul Plaza and also outside the Greek Theater at the Bonfire Rally on the 20th. Christmas Tree Cut/Sale:
>The plan: Leave Friday (whenever people are available to leave), arrive at Blodgett, have dinner and relax, wake up and go cut our beautiful Christmas trees! Have lunch, return to Berkeley and unload all of the trees outside of Mulford.
>We'll be selling the trees Dec 6th through Dec 11th. We'll need lots of volunteers to sell trees, make wreaths and bake cookies. FACT: "Selling Christmas trees is Fun."
>E-mail Matt (strausser@berkeley.edu) if you want to go to the Cut and weren't at the meeting. Tell him who you are, your contact info, vegetarian/carnivore, what time you can leave on Friday, and if you can drive/how many people you can take.
Stephanie has fliers for the Christmas Tree cut, be sure to post them all around! We'll send out a pdf. so you can print more.
Yule Ball: If you are interested in being on the planning committee, contact Ange (ahardlund@berkeley.edu).
No meeting next week due to Veterans Day.
See you all tomorrow at the Bean Feed!!
Hey Forestry Clubbers!
Here's what we talked about today:
CAF Banquet- The Cal Alumni Forester's Banquet will be held November 13th
at the Bancroft Hotel. Mike Jani will be give a lecture entitled: "Facing
Change in the Redwoods." Lecture will be followed by Happy Hour and the
Banquet. Cost for dinner: $5 for students. If you want to go, RSVP to Mary
(mmayeda@berkeley.edu).
Bean Feed- Bean Feed, next Thursday! It's starting to get cold, so don't
forget a jacket, or better yet... buy a CalForester's sweatshirt!!
Logging Sports- This weekend there is a weekend workshop hosted by
Modesto. There will be lots of workshops on technique and just-for-fun
competitions. If you'd like to go contact Allison
(acchambers@berkeley.edu) or Ricky (rickypsatomi@gmail.com) ASAP.
History- We want to bring back some of the Forestry Club traditions and
learn about our club's rich history. John Nicoles is going to come share
what he knows with the club. date: TBA.
Website- Carlin is starting to update and improve the club's website. She
will be sending out re-designed banner's for the top of the page, please
vote on which you like best. The Club Member Bios are also going to be
updated. If you have any ideas for a cool question to use in the Bios, let
Carlin know.
SAF- We will make plans for having a Bean Feed/Lecture next semester that
we can invite Bay Area Chapter SAF members to.
Big Game Logging Sports Rally- Nov 18th on Upper Sproul Plaza! Instead of
coming to club meeting, go and support logging sports! We'll need people
to bring merchandise and sell t-shirts.
Merchandise- There are plans in the works to bring back vintage t-shirt
designs. We'll order hats to sell at the CAF banquet.
Christmas tree cut- Don't forget! Keep the weekend of Dec 4th and 5th free!
That's all for now!
May the Forest be with you :)
>Tentative plans for a Camp-out/Work-day at Russel Research Station. This semester might not work (due to so many other events) but we'll look into having a little forestry-club adventure in spring.
>Forestry Club will be tabling on Sproul Plaza, to support the Climate Change awareness events, from 11:30 am until 2:30 pm on FRIDAY. Please come out to help support the club/major/minor if you are available!
>Big Game T-shirt.... we decided to use the same design as last year with a few adjustments. (Better tree, maybe add an axe).
>Scott Stephens talked to the club about
1. Plans for replacing the old log benches outside of Mulford.
2. Report on the the Boldgget Fire.
3. Zi Sigma Pi (Forestry Honor's society for Juniors and Seniors with a B or higher GPA).
4. Opportunities in his lab (URAP, honors thesis, etc). Go talk to him if you are interested! There's a lot you can do if you like fire!
Have a wonderful autumn week! All the leaves are turning colors...so beautiful! :)
Next Saturday is Climate Change Awareness day. Forestry Club will table on Sproul next Thursday or Friday to support the effort and publicize theClub and Major. Stay tuned for more details.
>November 5th will be our next Bean Feed! Mark your calendars!
>Ange has been newly appointed our Forestry Club Event Coordinator!
>Speaking of events.... This winter we will hold a FORESTRY CLUB YULE BALL!! If you'd like to be involved with the planning let Ange know.
>Bring ideas for the Big Game T-shirt Rally to next week's meeting.
>SNAMP meeting next Tuesday in Sacramento. Talk to Nary for details
(mmayeda@berkeley.edu) if you want to go. >Next semester we want to hold a SAF Bay Area chapter bean feed :)
Have a wonderful week!
>Ange gave a little overview of SAF. If you have pictures from SAF, lets use them in Timber.
>There is a SNAMP (Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project) meeting October 20th. If you are interested and can get out of class you should go!
>Scott Stephens will be coming to the Club meeting next week to talk about research opportunities.
>Looks like we are going to be doing some Redwood planting up on Grizzly Peak sometime in December/January.
>The logging sports team is looking for T-Shirt designs for the Big Game Rally. If you have an idea, make a design and submit it by next club meeting. or email it to buckingbears@gmail.com
>We want to make a merchandise link on our website so alumni can see what we have... when this is organized we will need models! :)
>Christmas tree cut scheduled for DEC 5th. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
>Bring ideas for tabling for Climate Change Awareness Day next week.
See you at the Bean Feed! (Tomorrow 6:00 pm outside of Mulford Hall)
This week, we are having our first Forestry Seminar (Actually the first one is in 30 mins... sorry for the late notice) Meet in room 103 Mulford at 12:10, bring your lunch, and listen to Professors/Grad students and Guest speakers talk about what's going on in the wonderful world of Forestry.
This week's speaker, Kevin Ohara!
Our Christmas tree cut is Scheduled for the 4th-5th of December. And we will be selling trees on campus the following week. The Christmas tree sale is our primary source of income, so be sure to help out! Contact Strausser at strausser@berkeley.edu if you have questions.
Next bean feed is scheduled for Oct. 8th!
If you are interested in studying Forestry abroad, check out University of Goettingen in Germany through the EAP program.
Have a lovely week!
Thanks everyone for coming to the meeting today. If you missed it, here's what's up:
Bean Feed tomorrow (9/10) outside of Mulford Hall
Next week we will begin talking about our annual Christmas tree cut and sale!
Inventory report of merchandise in 3rd floor closet with Dex, Friday (9/11) at 10:00 AM. Come help if you are available.
CAF Outreach. We talked about helping out with the Cal Alumni Forester's outreach in community/junior colleges. Mary will contact the CAF president and keep us updated.
Trail Maintenance in Plumas County this Sunday, Sept 13th if anyone is interested.
If you didn't pay your Dues today, remember to bring $5 to the bean feed! See you there! :)
SAF INFO Congratulations to Ricky for winning the Diversity Scholarship! SAF will be held this year from Sept 30th to Oct 4th in Orlando Florida. If you are interested in going, you must contact Kevin (kohara@berkeley.edu) or Ange (ahardlund@berkeley.edu) ASAP!!!! Don't forget to renew your SAF membership (or sign up to be a member if you don't have one) if you are going.
Bean Feed Our first Bean Feed of the semester will be Thursday the 10th at 6:00 on the South side of Mulford hall.
Club Dues club dues.... $5 a semester to help with Bean Feeds and other ForClub events. Please pay Dex (or Mary or Kevin since Dex can't make it to meetings) by the 1st Bean Feed.
Logging Sports Practice tomorrow (Thursday) at 3:00 and Sunday at 2:00pm. Contact Allison or Rick for more information about how to get there/what to bring etc. (buckingbears@gmail.com)
If you have ideas of ways to make our club even more awesome, please talk to Mary, our new President!