February 28, 2018

Attendance at our pizza party Timber writing meeting was excellent. I'm certainly glad my menacing emails are working. I briefly entertained the thought that perhaps you had only come for the free pizza, but of course you clubbers would never be so base, right?

Right

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Tree of the Week

Timber

• • We spent 430 dollars on pint glasses

  • How much they will cost is unknown

  • Thanks for paying dues

  • Brought snacks

  • Thorsen party 90% forecasted in 2 weeks

  • Redwood regional in two weeks

  • Friday evening, leaving at 7:00 pm

  • Plumas job openings

  • Sasha will email about it, or you can just talk to her like the cave people once did

  • Wants to go camping with all you lovely clubbers

  • Does April 13th weekend work?

    • Maybe, this will be figured out later

    • Note that friday the 13th is, of course, unlucky, so your chances of returning from this trip are lower than usual

  • Going down south to camp over spring break.  

  • He’s got some space if you want to go

  • We’re gonna have another bean feed

  • 20th or 22nd?  Reaction is mixed

  • Ben

  • Redwood - sequoia sempervirens

  • They’re tall, the tallest is statue of liberty sized

  • The Humboldt ones are the biggest and best

    • So majestic

  • They’ve got huge branches

  • So huge, that they can have their own soil ecosystems due to all the detritus that gathers on them

  • Some beetle species have speciated after climbing up

    • Because they’re too dumb to climb back down

    • So species can be endemic to a single tree

  • Albino redwoods are white sprouts which grow from the base of parent trees

    • They just suck up resources from the parent but can’t photosynthesize

  • If you climb all the way up a redwood, there’s a nice flat spot on the upper foliage that you could sit in.  

    • Ben personally recommends you try scaling these 400 ft trees to see for yourself, preferably without safety equipment so you get as close to nature as possible

  • Contains thoughts as feelings

  • Julia is the editor, which does not mean she should write everything.  Instead, YOU should be writing everything.  Yes you

  • Who has ideas?

    • We need a cover

  • Superlatives

    • Naked cruising, most likely to be overserved, ect

  • Animals

  • Welcome Jodie

  • UCCE

  • All kinds of stuff

  • If you have any ideas just write them, Timber is a collaborative effort