Meeting 9/2/15

First Meeting of the Year!

Welcome to All: to one of the oldest student/faculty orginzations on campus!

Components of the Club:

The Club

Logging Sports

SAF student chapter

Int Forestry Student Assoc

• List Serve: we need your berkeley email to put you on the listserve, spread the word

Officers!! and Nominees

• Kevin will email out official canidate list. If you want to be put on or taken off, let him know by the end of the week!

Society of American Foresters: Convention this year! Expected to bring about 15 students to Baton rouge

• Funded by club, CAF, and Deans Office
• November 3rd-7th--Check your schedule to ensure you can go!
• You must join SAF ($40 for students) in order to attend
• SAF Diversity Scholership--6 people applied, its still open through the fourth!
• It is so fun and good for networking! Often live hiring
• Seniors and officers often get priority

Logging Sports:

• table for Calapalooza to recruit for Foretry and the team
• 2pm-7pm so drop on by to help out TODAY
• Rick has kindly taken the lead on organizing and setting this up
• precise table location hasnt be assigned
• Logging Sports: bucking, chopping, chainsaw, tree climb, and more--all expierence can help getting jobs. lots of competetions and shows and is super fun to! No expierence necessary

First Practice for Logging Sports this Sunday!! Email buckingbears@gmail.com for more information or check the website

• possibility of hosting a berkeley conclave--to get this done we need involvment from the whole club. Berkeley is one of the founding memebers of the association of logging sports team so its abotu time we host a conclabe again. Keep an eye out for more info on this.

Honors Progam: Have to have GPA of 3.6 or higher and you get to do research your senior year. For more information, talk to Alani