March 4th, 2015

AGENDA TOPICS

    SAFE + Anu

    Xi Sigma Pi (Forestry Honor Society)

    Field Trip Next Week- March 13^th

    Thank you card signing

    Officer and Member Announcements

    Anu Kramer (grad student in Scott Stephens lab) is here to give a short introduction to SAFE

    Meetings are twice a month. Discussions focus on recent developments in fire ecology, and there is a strong emphasis on outreach. Examples include teaching fourth graders about fire ecology, leading fire demonstration at Tilden (fire vortex demo?!), fire training, helping out with prescribe fires (Blodgett)

     Next meeting March 16^th Monday at 5pm in Scott Stephens Lab. There will be fooood!

    Any specific questions? Email anu.kramer@berkeley.edu

    For more info about their group, check out this neat-o website: http://nature.berkeley.edu/wfrg/

    Scott Stephens has pieces of wood for your ax! Hurry and pick one up from his office!

    If you need tools and other things to carve your ax, talk to Connor Williams

    Friday March 13^th at 1pm

    One option to get there: take the shuttle that runs from campus to the station OR setting up a ride share

    Were loaded so we can totally pay for ride

    Trip consists of: about 2 hour tour, a short talk, tension wood demonstration

    Come out! We can get out of this room and learn about wood things

    Card was passed around to sign and say thanks for supporting the club (he sent $200)

Bean Feed

    We are going to have two Bean Feeds in April: one for the new campers and one for SAF bay area 

    April 27^th we are having our Bean Feed for new campers. It’s really important that we come out and make the new campers feel welcome  

Logging Sports

    Logging Sports team is no longer going to Oregon

    Practice this Sunday as usual

    Does anybody want to lead practice? Justine won’t be able to make it.

Timber

    Submit your Timber cover designs to Calforestrytimber@gmail.com by April 15^th

    Who wants to write articles? Topics: Cal Forestry Centennial, tree chopping rally, Bean Feeds, recipe for chilly, Cal Day, field trips, logging sports practice, Cal conclave, Humbolt camping trip, Xi Sigma Pi (pictures of axes), class field trip

    Friday afternoons we can get together to write articles. Possible dates: March 13^th and 20^th, April 3^rd and 10^th

Other Things:

    We need to get new saws (10-20) Maddy and Rhianna have volunteered to get them

    After spring break, we are going to have a large logging sports gathering, wood splitting and barbeque- possibly camp the night before

    Ideas for publicity boards? A timber to display? Resources to guide the interested.

    Next week: Ryan from Edison is going to give a talk

    Allison has offered to send out hiring info from Davey Tree company