January 25th, 2017 Minutes

Agenda

LEX IS HERE!

Julia president

Devin with planting

Urban Forestry

Russel planting

Announcements

Topic 1 LEX IS HERE

• Lex was at the meeting
  
  • She recently graduated and knows a lot about forestry

Topic 2 New President

• Julia has been elected our new president
• Noam hands over the gavel making it official and the matriarchy begins again

Topic 3 Devin planting on tightwad hill

• They tested 8 species and the deer ate none of them
• Planning on getting 160-200 plants
• The planting will be spread out among 3 weekdays so there will be a doodle poll about which days and times will work best for people and then you go out and there is a truck and you grab a shovel and some trees and just start planting. There will be flags indicating where to plant.
• So they wanted to do a GoFundMe page but they don’t know how to do that so if someone from club can make the page they will promote the page and that would be good

Topic 4 Urban Forestry

• Jeremy and Sarah come in and give a presentation on their work in urban forestry
• We learn about their company which does tech, furniture and urban forestry
• Talk about:
  
  • Soil
  • Pruning
  • TGR ( tree growth regulator)
  • Fertilizer
  • Biocarbon
• They have an app for iphone called arborplus
  
  • Username: calforestry@berkeley.edu
  • Password: gobears
• They have internships if you want to look into that
• Ben Ross then asks some questions and Jeremy declares Ben the best student
• Kevin reminds us to take what we heard about their technology with a grain of salt

Topic 5 Russel planting

• This Sunday 1/29 Noam will send out email with more details that would be useful like what time it’s at

Topic 6 Announcements

• There is a career fair tomorrow (Thursday Jan 26^th ) from 11-4
  
  • Mendocino Redwood Company will be there so go check it out
  • Here is a link https://career.berkeley.edu/Fairs/Fairs for more info
• Kevin knows people are starting to get job offers and they want you to accept within like a day but he advises us to try to delay that because people will get a lot of job offers and we haven’t even had CalFire interviews.
• Also there are still branches from the Christmas tree cut left in front of Mulford so we need to clean that up
• Bean feed next Wednesday February 8 We need faculty so ask
  
  • Noam and Alegra are your new Bean Feed coordinators
• Logging Sports is on Sunday after the Russel planting so come on out its super fun and everyone on the team is really cool
  
  • Also reminder that the Sierra Cascades sign up is due Friday
• We will have to decide on officers next meeting so show up if you want to be a part of that

Topic 7 New Officers

• Julia is our new President!
• Hunter has retained the title of Vice President!
• Ben Ross will be our new Treasurer!
• Alegra will be our new secretary