January 17th

Agenda

1. Advisor
2. Announcements
3. New officer nominations
4. Other positions
5. Logging Sports
6. SAF workday
7. Planting
8. Bean feed date
9. Merchandise
10. Introductions

Topic 1: Advisor

• We need a new faculty advisor for club. We discussed asking people but I have now been told that this is something that the department will be doing for us

Topic 2: Announcements

• Spencer talked about a project called branch out which plants redwood trees. For more information go to the websitebranchoutnow.org or ask Spencer about it.
• Kathie is trying to put together a female forestry discussion panel which people expressed interest in.
• Julia reminded everyone to write articles for timber

Topic 3: Officer Nominations

President: Amanda Ma, Ben R

VP: Katie, Spencer, Giselle

Treasurer: Camila

Secretary: Alegra, Ross

I will send out another email about officer nominations to collect additional nominations

Topic 4: Other positions

Been Feed coordinator

Webmaster

Merchandise

Publicity

Senior BBQ

These are volunteer positions and we will be taking volunteers next meeting

Topic 5: Logging Sports

• The logging sports team uses saws and axes to cut large pieces of wood into smaller pieces of wood in a competitive fashion. We also throw logs and run over logs. The captains of the team are Alegra Garcia, Jacob Levine and Lewis Campbell. We have 3 competitions coming up soon in February and March.
• Our practices are on Sunday mornings from 10-2 at our practice site at Russel research station. If you don’t have a car that’s fine we send out a ride sign-up sheet every week for people who can’t drive there themselves.
• For more information and to join our listserve where you will get emails about practices, rides and competitions emailbuckingbears@gmail.com
• We have a workday to clean up the site on January 27^th

Topic 6: SAF

• The local chapter of SAF is having a workday at the Russel field site on January 27^th so everybody should go to Russel on Saturday January 27^th to help out both SAF and Logging Sports team.

Topic 7: Planting              

• We have someone coming in next week to talk to us about planting native species on tightwad hill. We did a similar project last year and this will be an extension of that.

Topic 8: Bean Feed date

• The first bean feed will probably be in February while we are still working on getting a new faculty club advisor.

Topic 9: Merchandise

• We need more hats and more stickers and club approved the purchase of these items so we will order more

Topic 10: Introductions

• We all introduced ourselves