February 7th, 2018

Where was everyone today?  Who knows.  Looks like there are more slackers in club once might have initially anticipated.  

Officer Announcements

• Katie

  • The San Jose Sharks are doing something?

  • You could watch hockey with her

  • Katie is also down to facilitate other fun events in general, if anyone has ideas

  • March 22 is the hockey game

  • The tickets are $32, so you’d need to really like hockey, or sharks

• Ben

  • Camila reminds us to pay our dues, despite her absence

  • $5 in cash or venmo Camila @ Camila-Quintana

• Alegra

  • Bean feed next wednesday

  • Cancel all your Valentine’s day plans and come.  Reminder: beans are incapable of infidelity

  • 5pm, or earlier if you’d like to help set up

  • The cooking party is TBA

  • Jodi will publicize amongst faculty

  • End of announcement

• Ben again

  • Mendocino Redwood company is coming next week to present, and to interview the next day

  • If you’re interested in a job, let ben know

• Senior BBQ

  • Graduation and commencement make scheduling challenging

    • Who knows how long commencement will drag on

  • The club chooses Saturday, May 12 at 1 pm.  

• Hunter/Alegra

  • Tree planting is next week, tue and thurs 12:30-3ish.  You do not have to stay the whole time

  • Meet at the foothill parking lot, the whole group will depart at once to avoid getting lost

• Ben or maybe hunter

  • We have plans for a cal day booth

  • No specifics

• Hunter again

  • 150th class of the university is called the sesquicentennial

  • Ben isn’t much of a spelling bee guy

  • The class of ‘68 wants to meet the class of 2018; that will be thrilling I’m sure

  • Sat March 10th is when all those old gentlefolk will be around the Free Speech Movement Cafe to talk to

• Andrew

  • Maybe Carol will help us get planting into the Daily Cal again

  • It happened last year, even with Alegra as publicity

  • Jodi wants to help

  • If you go to the planting, take pictures and upload them

• Amanda

  • Who wants to do the tree walk on Cal Day?

  • It’s gotta be someone who isn't leaving

  • Amanda will help

  • Cal day is April 21st, the walk is 1-2pm.  

  • If you like talking to dumb freshmen, you’ll love this

  • Also, the walk needs to be updated, since many of the featured trees have been removed

• Sarah

  • Saturday is the UCCE Love concert

  • Tell your faculty friends

  • Our ticket collectors will be: Andrew and Katie.  They might get in for free!

  • We also need an MC.  Sarah doesn’t want to do it, so help her avoid embarrassment

  • Or, if you have any love or forestry related puns or jokes (or a combo), that would be great.  

  • Email sarah

  • Here’s one for you: What’s it called when a tree falls in love?  

    • PINING

  • Jodie suggests that the MC describes where the proceeds are going, and why the partnership with the Forestry Club has occurred

  • It seems Ben may be in charge of this

  • Also, Andrew will put it on a flyer

  • Go To This Concert

• It’s a packed week next week, reminds Ben, so everyone get ready

Advisor Announcements

• Jodi now manages the listserve

  • Email her to get on it

  • jodi.axelson@berkeley.edu

• Rick Stafford (Or maybe Rick Stanford?), the legend, will be speaking at the Forestry Seminar next week, 12-1

• John Battles is the Forestry Academic Advisor, Ginnie is still here

• We hope to bring more faculty into our meetings

  • Thus, Scott Stevens is coming next week to talk about the Forestry Frat

• Ben can’t remember the last thing

John Helms Speaks

• Former SAF president

• He is very accomplished

• Why wouldn’t you want to be an SAF member, he asks?

• John’s keys to success

  • Get married to the right person

  • Be a UCB faculty member

  • And join SAF

• SAF

  • It’s good for networking

  • The internet just can’t replicate good old face to face communication

    • Although, I will point out that skype does allow for literal face to face communication

  • SAF is really like a big UCB Forestry Club, with dues that are higher proportionally

• Why’d John become SAF president

  • He suggests always saying YES, because who knows where it will lead.  You might become SAF president

  • Plus, he “needed to do it”

• SAF Core ideas

  • “Forests are damned important”

  • They must be sustained

  • Foresters are dedicated to sound management

  • Foresters serve landowners and society

    • Like forest doctors

• SAF has MONEY

  • If, someday, you’d like to embark on a forestry related project, SAF might just grant you some money

• More importantly, they can grant you leadership skills and satisfaction!

• www.eforester.org

• John’s career was forged by SAF

Tree of the Week

• Madeline brings us Abies Magnifica, the red fir

• Nothing bad can happen under them

• They are found through the Sierras and in the lower reaches of the Klamath

• It’s a high elevation tree

• 200 ft tall, 6.6 ft DBH

• They look like legos

• If you take a knife to them, they are red beneath their bark

  • If you find that hard to remember, just note that people are also red under their bark, so Red Firs are just like us

• They’ve got 600 birds in them, but just how that stacks up to other trees is unclear

BONUS ROUND

• Jodi will give you something if you know what disturbance factors damage Red Firs

• There’s a lot

  • Some bugs?

  • Root rot?

• Andrew gets it

Adjourned