February 14th, 2018

There's nothing I love more than writing up every little detail - even the most tiny and trivial - of forestry club happenings, which is why I'm doing it on Valentine's Day, a very important holiday.

• UCCE concert is over, it was a success

• Thank you to all like 5 people who helped plant on Tuesday.  Club spirit has never been higher

Scott Stevens - Xi Sigma Pi

• A forestry honor society

• It’s been here since the twenties

• All you have to have to join is junior/senior standing, a 3.0, and be a forestry major in the professional track

• Get a wooden axe from scott and get 10 signatures of xi sigma pi members on it

• That must be complete by March 10

Maddy Green - Mendocino Redwood Company

• They need summer techs

• In Ukiah and Fort Bragg

• Also, if you’re graduating, maybe they have permanent jobs?

• What do they do?

  • Restore a lot of land that has been clearcut

  • They use herbicide?? for tanoaks

  • This apparently causes “tension”

  • Although I don’t see what’s controversial about flinging pure poison around what few ecosystems remain on this planet, really.

• What will you do?

  • THPs

  • Marking, flagging, admin, not cruising

  • You’ll learn a lot

  • Conditions are rugged, but at least it “builds character”

  • Also rent is high

    • NVM, Maddy has never seen berkeley rents

  • You get a truck to drive around

  • There's some company housing

    • Great for if you’re into the idea of your employer controlling your entire life like it's 1880

• Interviews are this afternoon, so if you’re reading this, it's probably too late.  

  • But you can send in your resume or email maddy

Announcements

• Pay dues to camila via venmo @Camila-Quintana

• She will “like” the payment.  If not, you should let her know

Alegra

• Do we want two different sticker sizes?  

  • Yes we do

• The bean feed is at 5 pm today

  • Cancel all your plans and come, if by some miracle you had any

• The beans will be warm

Alegra pt 2

• Planting is 12:30-3:30 tomorrow

• Meet at foothill parking lot to walk up to the cannon platform

• SHOW UP

Logging sports (Alegra pt 3)

• SCLC is done

• Good job entire team

  • But Alegra won both ax events

  • And Molly (?) placed in stock saw

• Practice is monday this week, time TBA

• There will be single bagel for Kathie only

• Redwood regional is in one month, on Fri-sat

Andrew

• If you’ve got pictures, send them to Andrew or Katie, they’ll post them on all the socials

• But remember that the internet never forgets

Jobs

• Axelson and Battles labs are hiring

Camp

• App is open, so apply you young folk

Jodi

• There’s a blank wall around, she’s trying to get us permission to put stuff on it

Ben

• There’s a show on friday

• The Motet is playing, and Lettuce is opening for them.  

• It’s highly funky music

• Your neck will hurt

• Its $30 or $40 online

Money

• How to get it to a charity?  We don’t know

Cal Day

• April 21st

• Tree tours

  • They’re outdated, someone fix them

  • We need tour guides

• We need people to table

• Andrew suggests making a video

  • Jac has video experience

• We will publicize both the club and major

• Restock merch?

• Maybe we’ll have a wheel

• Jodi has acquired the seedlings - Sugar pine, sequoia, and another one

• Can we do a logging sports demo?

• Conflict:  SAF day in the woods is the same day, so many people will be at Russell instead of Cal Day

  • Gotta make brochures

  • Logging sports will all be there

• Hunter and Julia will revamp the tree walk

• “Stump the forester”

  • Having the public interact with foresters can be a good way of communicating what forestry is about

  • It will be an intense competition to determine who the supreme forester really is

Tree of the Week

• Kathie is substituted for Amanda

• She discusses the love of her life, Jeffrey Pine

• Bluer foliage than ponderosa, also not pokey, larger cones

• “Gentle jeffrey”

• Often on serpentine soil, and drought resistant

• The resin once caused explosions in resin distilling operations because workers were unaware that Jeffrey is not the same as ponderosa.