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Meeting Minutes, December 8th, 1998, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes: minutes of the meeting held l7 Nov 98.; Treasurer's Report: NSA is within budget for the year.; Membership Report: corrections of duplication of names and removal of the names of associate members that are no longer active.; Removed the names of many pilots who were not also smokejumpers.; Old Business: the "Hall of Fame" proposal was brought up.; Hall of Fame proposal be dropped.; Work on a brochure.; Adopt A Trail project.; Complaints covered in the letter.; New Business: Wildland Firefighter Monument.; Report on base activities for the news letter.;

Meeting Minutes, November 17th, 1998, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes: minutes from 13 Oct 98.; Old Business: Mann Gulch 50th anniversary commemoration. Financing for the commemoration.; Treasurer's Report: contributions to the video fund.; A break down of merchandise sales.; People not getting their canceled checks back.; The very large increase in data base comes from data received from Redding.; Old Business: proceedings of a meeting of the Video committee.; Possibly getting more income through estate planning.; A memorial from the association. adopt a trail program returns.; New Business: expiration dates for various board of director positions.; The minutes of executive committee meetings distributed after each meeting.; Hall of …

Meeting Minutes, October 13th, 1998, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes: minutes of the 08 Sep 98 meeting.; Treasurer's Report: an accountant review the NSA accounts and that she was satisfied with their accuracy.; The NSA is over budget.; Another case of a Life Member not received his plaque.; Membership: increase in the data base came from a search of the old jump records at the Aerial Fire Depot in Missoula.; Old Business: control NSA has on the final video production in question.; Web Site is now getting 50 to 100 hits per day.; New Business: commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Mann Gulch fire.; Discussed the possibility …

Meeting Minutes, September 8th, 1998, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes: minutes of 18 Aug 98.; Treasurers Report: profits from sales of "Smokejumper" patch.; Establishing a checking account for merchandising.; Ownership of copyright on video.; Membership: review of numbers.; Old Business: volunteer trail maintenance program.; Target two crews for the summer of 1999.; Membership committee reported.; Ideas for increasing membership.; Converting 5 to 10 year memberships to a life membership.; Mission statement for the organization.; New Business: date for the 1999 annual meeting tentatively set.; An NSA contribution to the wild Land Fire Fighter Memorial.

Meeting Minutes, August 18th, 1998, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes: copies of 14 Jul 98 executive committee meeting.; Treasurers Report: Video fund in depth.; Measures taken to balance the record of money taken in with deposited to the Video Fund account.; Membership: large increase over last month's figure due to addition of 1998 rookies and over 100 of the Triple Nickel jumpers from 1945.; Old Business: proposals on membership.; Collecting money through affiliate memberships.; Delay in discussion of the minutes of the Annual Meeting.; NSA returned to the original provider.; Video Committee update.; Use of some government equipment without authorization.; New Business: expanding merchandise sales.; Discussion on obtaining …

Plans For Crash-Tested Wood Bridge Railings For Concrete Decks, Michael A. Ritter, Ronald K. Faller, Paula D. Hilbrich Lee, Barry Thomas Rosson, Sheila Rimal Duwadi

USDA Forest Service / UNL Faculty Publications

As part of a continuing cooperative research between the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF); the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (FPL); and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), several crashworthy wood bridge railings and approach railing transitions have been adapted for use on concrete bridge decks. These railings meet testing and evaluation criteria outlined in National Cooperative Research Program (NCHRP) Report 350, Recommended Procedures for the Safety Performance Evaluation of Highway Features, and include a glued-laminated timber (glulam) rail, with and without a curb, at Test Level- 2 (TL-2), a glulam rail with curb at TL-4, and a glulam …

Plans For Crash-Tested Bridge Railings For Longitudinal Wood Decks On Low-Volume Roads, Michael A. Ritter, Ronald K. Faller, David B. Bunnell, Paula D. Hilbrich Lee, Barry Thomas Rosson

USDA Forest Service / UNL Faculty Publications

The plans for crashworthy bridge railings for low-volume roads were developed through a cooperative research program involving the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (FPL); the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (MwRSF); and the Forest Service, National Forest System, Engineering. Three railings were developed and successfully tested in accordance with National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 350 Test Level-1 requirements. The fourth system was developed for a lower test level based on criteria developed by the Forest Service for single-lane bridges on very low-volume roads. For the convenience of the user, full drawing sets are provided in …

Meeting Minutes, July 14th, 1998, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes from 9 Jun 98.; Treasurer's Report: Missing checks from video fund.; Membership: addition of the Triple Nickel jumpers.; Old Business: delay editing of minutes from annual meeting to August.; A breakdown of the products sold at the McCall reunion.; Sale items on the web page.; NFSM request for NSA members list.; Problem of the Director election.; New Business: renaming of the Winthrop airport to honor Francis Lufkin.; The Hall of Fame proposal.; Beechcraft aircraft donated to MMF.; NSA changing Web Page providers.; Use of video from video project on website.; Upgrading to Windows 95 or 98.; News letter …

Wilderness And Civilization: Two Decades Of Wilderness Higher Education At The University Of Montana, Laurie Yung, Bob Yetter, Wayne A. Freimund, Perry J. Brown

Forest Management Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Outdoor Recreation And Water Development: The National Recreation Lakes Study, Bruce R. Brown

Outdoor Recreation: Promise and Peril in the New West (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

12 pages.

Recreation Management By The Blm: A Local Perspective, Ann Morgan

Outdoor Recreation: Promise and Peril in the New West (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

10 pages.

The New Challenge Of Outdoor Recreation, Roz Mcclellan

Outdoor Recreation: Promise and Peril in the New West (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

5 pages.

The User Fee Approach To Hunting And Fishing Finance: The “Teaming With Wildlife” Proposal, R. Max Peterson

Outdoor Recreation: Promise and Peril in the New West (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

18 pages (includes color illustrations).

Contains footnotes.

Conflict Resolution: A Field Perspective, Ev Elmendorf

Outdoor Recreation: Promise and Peril in the New West (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

6 pages.

A Mountain Bicycling Perspective On User Group Conflict, Martha Roskowski

Outdoor Recreation: Promise and Peril in the New West (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

11 pages.

Contains 1 page of references.

Field-Level Conflict Management In Outdoor Recreation, James B. Webb

Outdoor Recreation: Promise and Peril in the New West (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

7 pages.

The Limitations Of A Market-Based Outdoor Recreation Policy: Reasons For Caution, Scott Silver

Outdoor Recreation: Promise and Peril in the New West (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

13 pages (includes illustrations).

Contains references.

Field Level Conflict Management In Outdoor Recreation, Arden Anderson

Outdoor Recreation: Promise and Peril in the New West (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

16 pages.

Contains references.

Meeting Minutes, June 9th, 1998, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes.; Copies of the minutes of the 12 May meeting handed out.; Treasurers Report.; $3000.00 for Ruana knives for life members.; Extra knives had been ordered for future members.; Credit card machine on hol.; Old Business.; Renaming of the Winthrop Airport to honor Francis Lufkin.; Hall of Fame proposal.; Evergreen Aviation Trimotor for making Smokejumper Video.; Digital copy of the NSA logo.; McCall local reunion and the Redding national reunion.; New Business. profits from sales.; News Letter.; News letter was on schedule.; Other Business.; 31 life memberships.; Annual local picnic.; Progress of the director election.;

Outdoor Recreation And Natural Lands: The Gradual Unfolding Of Policy, Richard L. Knight

Outdoor Recreation: Promise and Peril in the New West (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

10 pages.

Contains 2 pages of references.

Legal Issues In Outdoor Recreation: Trends In Litigation, Ted Zukoski

Outdoor Recreation: Promise and Peril in the New West (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

17 pages.

Recreation As An Ally For Environmental Protection, Gary Sprung

Outdoor Recreation: Promise and Peril in the New West (Summer Conference, June 8-10)

10 pages.

Contains references.

Meeting Minutes, May 12th, 1998, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Treasurer's Report.; Copies of the report handed out.; Reduction of accounts.; Switch banking accounts.; Open a visa/mastercard account for payments.; Letter discussion dispersal of reunion funds sent to bases.; Combining permanent and lifetime memberships.; Membership.; Total membership and delinquent accounts.; List of region 4 jumpers.; Old Business.; No Trimotor jump at Lufkin memorial. Available for video.Renaming of Winthrop airport to honor Francis Lufkin.; Adopt-A-Highway clean up cancelled.; Executive committee to reconsider the Hall of Fame proposal.; Back orders and stock.; Payment to send Merchandiser to McCall reunion. Request for smokejumper emblem.; New-BuSiness.; Set next exec committee meeting date.; NSA …

Meeting Minutes, April 10th, 1998, National Smokejumper Association Board Of Directors

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Meeting to order.; Minutes from last session.; Legality of votes based on by-law concerns.; Exec Committee Meeting minutes review.; Agenda.; Treasury report, profit and loss, funds for reunion.; Base representation on board.; Call for annual financial reporting to membership.; Museum reports.; Cost estimates.; Use of membership roster.; Sharing space with NFSM.; Video Production Report.; Echo productions has been retained and production should be complete in Aug/Sept of 98.; Efforts to obtain Trimotor & equipment to film jumps. Short promo viewed.; Francis Lufkin memorial.; Org finance cost of NSA historical to be present.; Efforts to include a jump form a …

Meeting Minutes, April 7th, 1998, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: meeting called to order; primary purpose of this executive committee meeting was to develop a final agenda for the Annual Directors Meeting; to be held in three days. ; Forest Service has turned down the use of the Ford Trimotor; Minutes:; Finalization of Agenda for Annual Meeting:; modified agenda; Treasurers Report: ; profit and loss statement; Other Business:; Redding reunion; Adopt-A-Highway; National Smokejumper Association representative at the McCall reunion; need to improve NSA Logo for web use; meeting adjourned;

Meeting Minutes, February 10th, 1998, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: meeting called to order; I. Minutes:; II. Membership:; III. Treasurers Report:; proposed budget for the following month; Treasurers Report; Need for a member to takeover the ordering, mailing, and keeping track of inventory; advertising from outside the organization; IV. Old Business:; progress of the Redding reunion in the year 2000; efforts to remove the remains of the Ford Trimotor at Big Prairie; video project; the election of directors; V. New Business:; Adopt-A Highway clean up; VI. News Letter Report:; missing/uncashed checks; VII. Other Business:; next meeting of the executive committee; plan an agenda for the Directors Meeting; specific guidelines …

Meeting Minutes, January 13th, 1998, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: I. Minutes:; II. Membership:; III. Treasurers Report: due to Lowell Hanson's resignation, Jon McBride had accepted the position of Treasurer.; year- end audit. ; need for a petty cash fund f descrepency between the funds that have reportedly been received and that which has been deposited at the bank; IV. Video Fund:; V. Old Business:; 2000 reunion ; removal of the remains of the Ford Trimotor at Big Prairie; more lists of jumpers sorted by base and year trained; VI. Video Report:; VII. New Business:; four positions on the Board of Directors expiring; VIII. News Letter Report:; next meeting …

Management Of Red Squirrel Feeding Damage To Lodgepole Pine By Stand Density Manipulation And Diversionary Food, Thomas P. Sullivan

Proceedings of the Eighteenth Vertebrate Pest Conference (1998)

The red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) feeds on the vascular tissues of sapling lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) during spring periods in forests of interior British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. This damage may lead to mortality and reduced growth of crop trees in managed stands. Manipulation of stand density by pre-commercial thinning to densities < 1,000 stems/ha is an effective method to lower squirrel populations and feeding damage. Lowering stand density enhances the growth of crop trees, and understory herbs and shrubs as wildlife habitat, while protecting trees from squirrel feeding. This approach has been successful in several forest ecological zones. An alternative management tool is provision of diversionary food (sunflower seed) for those stands susceptible to feeding damage, and where stand thinning has already been completed. Diversionary food can be applied aerially and is very cost effective for protecting managed stands. These techniques may be used to maintain or even enhance species diversity of small mammal communities in those forest stands requiring protection.

Influence Of Planting Density On Diameter And Height In East Texas Pine Plantations, Young Jin Lee, J. David Lenhart

Faculty Publications

The response of diameter and height of unthinned planted stands ofloblolly (Pinus taeda L.) and slash (Pinus elliottii Eng elm.)pine in East Texas to different classes of planting densities were analyzed. After tracking the development ofdiameterand heightfor 15yron a setofpennanentplots representing a broad range of plantation parameters, average diameter and average height trends were observed. For both species, average diameter values were significantly larger with lower planting densities. 1n contrast, average height growth is insensitive to planting density at younger age classes for loblolly and at older age classes for slash pine plantations.

Population Dynamics, Impacts, And Integrated Management Of Forest Defoliating Insects, David Kulhavy, W. G. Ross, R. R. Cahal

Faculty Publications

Pine plantations on Typic Quartzipsamments in East Texas are difficult to establish. Forest management options following clearcutting are limited. An 8-year regeneration study of the growth and survival of loblolly, Pinus taeda, L. shortleaf, P. echinata Mill., slash, P. elliotii Engelm and longleaf pines P. palustris Mill. was conducted to determine optimum tree species and treatments for reforestation, and to recommend practical alternative land uses and management strategies for Typic Quartzipsamments. Successful regeneration provides new opportunities for insects and pathogens. Impacts of the Nantucket pine tip moth, R}iyacionia frustrana (Comstock), the Deodar weevil, Pissodes nemorensis, Germar, Annosus root rot, Heterobasidion …