February 25th, 2015

CAL FORESTRY CLUB |MINUTES

AGENDA TOPICS

    SAFE + Anu

    Richmond Field Station   

    Kevin J

    Officer and Members Announcements

    SPI Presentation: Joe and Matt

    Anu from SAFE (Student Association for Fire Ecology) is coming to talk at next week’s meeting

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

    Field trip to Richmond Field Station on March 13th at 1pm. Ricky will send out signups and agenda info soon.

    Representative from Edison (Ryan) will be coming next week. Edison is reviewing resumes now, so get them in ASAP!

    Finish your ax carving (signatures included!) for Xi Sigma Pi by March 13th

    There will be a forestry seminar every Monday at noon, 103 Mulford. Next Monday(March 2^nd), there will be a talk about Silviculture in Israel

Bean Feed

    Last week’s bean feed was awesome (we made 27 dollars!)

    We are still finalizing the dates for future bean feeds. We are going to have two in April: one for the new campers and one for SAF bay area  

    Thanks to all the bean feed coordinators and those who helped out. You guys are awesome ;) 

    Are we ever going to have a Friday bean feed? Probably not L because we need to get them professors to come  

Logging Sports

    Logging Sports team is no longer going to Oregon

    Practice this Sunday as usual  

    If you want to go to afuc let Justine know! Only two people signed up so far. Come even if you want to chill and meet new people. It’s okay if you aren’t competing

Timber

    Submit your Timber cover designs by April 15^th

Camping with Humbolt

    Keep the weekend of April 11th and 25^th free! Those are our two potential camping dates so far

Other Things

    Confused on where to get a block of wood to crave your ax out of? Nervous about the upcoming deadline (March 13^th)? The Logging Sports team can hook you up. Talk to Justine

    Jobs timeline is accelerated, so get those resumes in!

General

    SPI is a large company- second largest in the United States. Established in 1949 as a milling company with only eight employees. Today it has 4,600 employees—community orientated  

    Land spans from Nor Cal to Oregon totaling 1.6 Million acres, largest private land owner in the U.S

    Management: long term sustained yield plan

    Clear cutting: Habitat retention area- 17 acres in size, 2 percent of area in unmanaged state. Retain key wildlife structures (woody debris, rocky outcrops, etc.)

    Female pacific fisher using habitat retention areas

    Even-age harvesting- why? Managed for industrial purposes historically. Planting at an intense rate. Seeds taken from seed trees that show superior genetics (none of that GMO stuff)

    5-7 million trees planted in recent years because of large wildfires

    SFI Certification

Summer Employment Opportunity

    Entry level position, mostly timber cruising. APPLY BEFORE March 1^st

    Good chance you will be permanently hired after the summer

Tasks are focused of timber cursing, but there is opportunity to work on timber harvest plans or wildlife and botanical surve