Janurary 1999
Volume 10, No. 1
Executive Board Meeting
The Executive Board meeting will be on Tuesday, February 9, 1999 at 7:00 am at the Charburger in Hood River.
February Meeting
The February Chapter meeting will be on Thursday, February 18, 1999 at the China Gorge Restaurant. The restaurant is the first establishment on the east side of Hwy 35 as one travels south from I-84. Dinner is at 6:00 p.m. The meeting is at 6:30 pm. Dr David Shaw of the Wind River Canopy Crane Project will discuss on-going research at the crane facility and some of the interactions taking place in the canopy environment of the forest.
March Meeting
The March Chapter meeting will be on Thursday, March 18, 1999 at 7:00 pm at the Hood River Charburger. Our speaker will be Jason Spidero of SDS Lumber Co. He will speak about local timber industry economics.
Future Meetings
The executive board is considering inviting speakers from the National Marine Fisheries Service to speak about endangered species listings and asking someone from the PNW Experiment Station to talk about timber industry macroeconomics for the April and May meetings. We need your ideas for a June field trip.
Seedling Sale
We will coordinate a possible fund raising seedling sale on the third weekend of April at the February meeting.
Dennis M. Carlson
Editor
Notes From the Chair
I would like to welcome all Columbia Gorge Chapter members to another year of local SAF activities. Let me introduce the Chapter executive committee for 1999.
Chapter Chair John Forsberg
Chair-elect Richard Larson
Member-at-large Larry Hoffman
Treasurer Ole Helgerson
Newsletter Dennis Carlson
We normally have an election of officers in November. This past year we were late getting our ballot in the mail. Since we only had one candidate for each elected office, we went ahead and made officer appointments in order to meet the December deadline for the Joint Office. Feel free to contact any of the officers about ideas for chapter activities or meeting topics in 1999. Chapter meetings as usual will be on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Some will be at 6:00pm in the evening and some will be at noon. Our meetings are open to the public. As with last year, we will extend an invitation to the Mid Columbia Small Woodlands Association to attend our meetings. Look for the meeting announcements in the monthly Newsletter.
Executive planning meetings will be at 7:00am on the 2nd Tuesday each month at the Charburger in Hood River. These meetings are open to anyone who would like to participate in Chapter activity planning.
On January 8and 9, John Forsberg and Richard Larson attended the joint Oregon-Washington SAF Leadership Conference. It was convenient because it was held in Hood River. We met the State Officers and many of the Chapter officers. This year Bill Banzhaf, SAF Executive VP, attended and spoke about issues facing SAF at the national and state levels.
Did you know: The SAF consists of 33 state societies, 244 Chapters, and about 18,000 members?
The big event this year for the SAF in Oregon, Washington, and the Inland Empire will be the National meeting being held in Portland, September 9-15. They are already looking for volunteers to help on committees. Volunteer sign up sheets will be available at the next meeting. Members who volunteer at least 8 hours will receive a reduced fee on their convention registration. Sign up early to get your best choice of assignments.
John Forsberg
Chair