February 18th, 2015

Forestry Club Meeting Minutes- February 18^th, 2015

Agenda

• SAF
• Edison
• Money
• Officer Announcements
• Kevin has some important thing to talk about
• Other Things

SAF (and Edison)

• Unfortunately, the SAF dude couldn’t come, but he might be here next week. This other guy from SPI might come too. Maybe next week?
• Suggestion: we should have more visitors talking about jobs during club meetings
• Renew your SAF membership before you graduate! Its $40 now compared to $100 after you graduate! Save your moooneys.

Q: Why? Why should I bother with SAF membership anyway?

A: Because! It’s a professional society for foresters, come on. If you want to go to the SAF convention, you have to be a member. Also, you get access to the SAF journal of forestry, and our field is super community oriented, so it helps to be involved in the forestry things.

Money

• We have less money than before because we reimbursed people who went to the SAF winter convention. But we still have a bunch of money, 10,000 something, almost 11,000…
• Robert (Rubeez?) sent us $200 dollars and a super sweet card J (He’s a Cal Alum, works with SFC certification now) 

Bean Feed

• Bean Feed Thursday (2/19) at 5pm! There’s going to be a bunch of yummy goodies. Invite yo professors and gsi(s). And don’t forget to bring your bowl and spoon! If you’re free, help set up in front of Mulford around 5pm.
• Luke has closet key (just FYI)
• We gonna have the bay area, SAF chapter bean feed on April 1^st. Mark your calendars.
• We also need to have the “Welcome New Campers!” bean feed
• Cooking at will be happening in Kingman around 8pm! Come if you wanna help!

Logging Sports

• Practice Sunday 10am, as usual
• AFC- if you want to come, email buckingbears@gmail.com 

Timber

• We have a new timber email address! Email all your pictures, stories, anything you want to include in timber!
• There’s a drawing contest for the cover of timber! Submit all your designs by April 15^th. Make sure you include “Cal Timber 2014- 15” somewhere
• Idea to have a little party for writing articles this Friday at noon (possibly a reoccurring thing). Chill outdoors with yummy snacks and get writing J
• We need pictures of everyone in the club, so send those in. And don’t download your pictures from facebook because it lowers the resolution.
• Cool new things in timber: under everybody’s picture we could list our favorite… something (we could go with the obvious option, tree)
• A list of articles that need to be written will be sent out soon

Kevin has a lot of things to talk about

• If you are a senior or junior and you want to join Xi Sigma Pi, the National Forest Honor Society (gpa at least 3.0), you need to crave a wooden ax and have everyone who is currently in the society sign it (mostly faculty and grad students right now)

Q: What is the National Forest Honor Society all about?

A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Sigma_Pi

• You can be creative with your design, but try to have it at least 10-11 inches. (Wood won’t be provided.)
• We are going to open up our new forestry camp website! forestrycamp@berkeley.edu
• SAF gives graduating seniors a *free ring. Kevin says it’s very attractive. If you are graduating this spring in the professional option and would like a very attractive ring, send Kevin your name, SAF ID, and ring size

*really $40 dollars if you don’t have SAF membership

Current Event

• NPR has this awesome article about Japanese balloon bombs in WW2. A forester recently found one near the U.S border.

Read up: http://www.npr.org/blogs/npr-history-dept/2015/01/20/375820191/beware-of-japanese-balloon-bombs

Other Things

• 2013 campers really need to get their t-shirts. DOYO design?
• Harrison found a super cool DBH tape at a yard sale
• Let’s apply for an SAF scholarship award ($500). The application process is fairly straight forward. We can split up the tasks and get it dooone.