April 11, 2018

Today, we discovered who the truly faithful are.  

• Elena isn’t here, that’s no surprise

• But even Hunter, normally so dependable, has failed us.  

Announcements

• Logging sports got a check

• We have a special guest, David Bakke, the SAF Bay Area Chair

Julia

• Timber - do your stuff

• Submit headshots with major, name, camp year, ect

• I know you all saw her email since you’re such dedicated email readers

Alegra

• Bean feed tuesday 17th

• Alcohol

• 5-6

• We need a lot of cooks and help cause this is an important one

• Up to 30 randos from FC 18!

• Signup sheet coming soon

Spence

• We need an alcohol permit for BBQ

Andrew

• Thesis symposium saturday

• Sessions 2 and 3, the forestry related stuff, at midday ish

• Mulford, 11-4:30

• Maybe you all will come out and support forestry for once

Ben

• Connor Williams

• Is coming to talk to us about the Foresters’ Co-op

• Next week

• Will you come?

  • Gee i wonder

Heated Debates

• We need tablers

• Monday the 16th

• The aim is to depoliticize climate change

• Ben will table from 5-8, kathie from 5-6

• And no one else signed up!  Good job club

• It’s on Sproul and in the ballroom from 3-9

David Bakke and the Russel Tour

• Stop 1: christmas trees, intro, cows

• Stop 2: moon tree.  Seeds went to circle the moon on Apollo 14.

  • I would not expect you kids to remember apollo 14

  • This tree is a descendant of those moon seeds

• Stop 3: old stock pond

  • Important habitat

  • Red legged frogs

  • Kathie suggests connecting this to Bay area water sources

• Stop 4: common garden

  • Genetics

  • Redwood research

  • Do you all know what a common garden is?  Too bad I’m not gonna tell you. Shoulda come to meeting

• Stop 5: Redwood clone bank

  • Sprouting

  • Management

  • UCB has a class that works on this

• Stop 6: Tree planting area

  • Remember Hill planting?  It’s that

  • Disturbance ect

  • We could even talk about how successful Tightwad hill was!

• Stop 7: other side of the common garden

  • Thinning, silviculture, density

• Stop 8: PG&E clearing

  • Urban wood waste, growth patterns

  • Count all the tree rings

  • Offer the kids candy

  • Cleared for gaslines

• Stop 9: road

  • It’s a road

  • Natives and nonnatives

• Tree ID course

  • Looking set up, supposedly

  • Along the trail

• Julia says - talk about the neighbors?

  • Good idea

• Spencer says

  • They hate chainsaws because their expensive parties are ruined by noise pollution

  • Too bad

• Logging sports demo

  • We’ll have them

Cal Day

• We need to sign up soon for tabling spots

Tree of the Week

• Narra tree

• Philippine national tree

• Native to SE asia

• Looks cool, purple heartwood, rose scent

• Flower is good for honey, leaves for shampoo, you can eat them

• Permit required to cut them down so don’t get any ideas

Next meeting

• It’s a big one, I expect everyone to be in attendance

• The inner circle has been constantly here but we need everyone, for real.