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Meeting Minutes, December 12th, 1995, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: The Minutes of the Oct. 10 and Nov. 14; Treasurer's report; membership report; Committee reports:; NSA cleanup day in the Adopt a Highway Program; the future of the NSA; researching the availability of land/ facilities; New Business:; 1. Earl Cooley's offer of office space free of charge, to the NSA; 2. electric typewriter; 3. computer-on-line operations, and its potential usefullness to the NSA; 4. NSA nomination form for review by NSA Executive Committe; meeting adjourned; next meeting is scheduled;

Meeting Minutes, November 14th, 1995, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: President Ed Courtney opened; Lyle Brown in Africa - no 10/10/95 minutes Swede Hanson in Helena - no financial report; Membership Report: 1,012 members; Election of Board members; Next BOD meeting; Adopt a Highway; Minuteman office space - Museum of Mtn; Newsletter; Video Production; Building (old garage) donate storage; Motion to Adjourn;

Remnant Vegetation And Natural Resources Of The Blackwood River Catchment An Atlas, Shaun B. Grein

Agriculture reports

The Blackwood River is one of the longest rivers in the South-West of Western Australia, stretching 300 km from Moordjarrup to August. The catchment covers more than 28,000 square kilometres (2.8 million ha) from the Shire of Kent to the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River. It incorporates 17 shires, more than 30,000 people, 18 Land Conservation District Committees (LCDCs) and 143 sub-catchment groups. Shires within the Blackwood Catchment cover 4.12 million hectares, over half of the total area of the shires that fall within the catchment boundary.

Parrot Damage To Bluegum Tree Crops : A Review Of The Problem And Possible Solutions, P Ritson

Resource management technical reports

Damage to Bluegum (Eucalyptus globulus) tree crops by the Twenty-eight Parrot (Barnardius zonarius) is emerging problem which could threaten the viability of the infant Bluegum industry in south-western Australia. The parrots strip bark from the lead shoot of the Bluegums causing the shoots to break off. Consequently lateral shoots develop resulting in deformed (bent or multi-stem) trees unsuited to harvest and utilisation.Indications that the reason Twenty-eight Parrots strip bark from Bluegum is to obta behaviour' and hence the damage may also develop in areas where it is absent or uncommon now. Currently the zone of worst damage includes around 20% …

Watershed Based Efforts: The Applegate Partnership Of Southwest Oregon, Jack Shipley

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

15 pages.

State Primacy, Federal Consistency Or Federal-State Consensus: Can Cooperative Federalism Models From Other Laws Save The Public Lands?, Hope M. Babcock

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

18 pages.

Contains references.

The Natural Resource Law Center Conference On “Challenging Federal Ownership And Management Public Lands And Public Benefits”, Frank H. Murkowski

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

8 pages.

Abdication Can Be Fun, Join The Orgy, Everyone: A Simpleton’S Perspective On Abdication Of Federal Land Management Responsibilities, George Cameron Coggins

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

14 pages.

Federal Lands And Watershed Based Management Approaches, Teresa Rice

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

12 pages.

Contains 1 footnote and 1 page of references.

Sharing Public Land Decision Making: The Quincy Library Group Experience [Includes First Three Items From Appendix A], Michael B. Jackson

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

25 pages (includes illustrations).

Contains 1 reference.

Includes first three items from Appendix A.

Back To The Future: Privatizing The Federal Estate, Terry L. Anderson

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

5 pages.

Contains references.

Reforming Public Land Management With New Incentives, Randal O'Toole

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

9 pages.

Contains references.

Thinking The Unthinkable: States As Public Land Managers, Sally K. Fairfax

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

27 pages.

Contains references.

Agenda: Challenging Federal Ownership And Management: Public Lands And Public Benefits, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

Conference organizers, speakers and/or moderators included University of Colorado School of Law professors David H. Getches, Michael A. Gheleta, Teresa Rice, Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Rieke and Charles F. Wilkinson.

In the face of numerous proposals for privatizing, marketing, and changing the management of public lands, the Natural Resources Law Center will hold its third annual fall public lands conference October 11-13, at the CU School of Law in Boulder.

A panel of public land users and neighbors, including timber, grazing, mining, recreation, and environmental interests, will address current discontent with public land policy and management. There will also be discussion …

Public Land Policy Is Ripe For Change, James L. Huffman

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

18 pages.

A History Of The Public Lands Debate, Patricia Nelson Limerick

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

22 pages.

The Benefits Of Professional Public Land Management, Elizabeth Estill

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

13 pages (includes illustration).

Contains references.

Faculty Addendum, Gregg Renkes

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

1 page.

Meeting Minutes, October 10th, 1995, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes Of 12 Sept. Meeting; Treasurer's Report; N.S.A. Charge Account At Kinko's; Office Space; N.S.A. Rosters; Advertising In The N.S.A. Newsletter; Membership Report; 3Rd Annual N.S.A. Newsletter; Committee Reports; Generate Funds By Selling Various Nostalgic Items To Members; N.S.A. Hall Of Fame; Beltsville Agricultural Center Interview; National Geographic Society Recent Video On Smokejumping; Sending Copies Of The Monthly Meetings To Each Of The Directors; Background Material For Conducting A Board Of Directors Election; Clean Up Day For The Adopt A Highway Program; Adjournment; Next Meeting Scheduled;

A Late Quaternary Pollen Record From Cedarburg Bog, Wisconsin, Glen G. Fredlund, James R. Brozowski, Jong Woo Oh

Field Station Bulletins

Late Quaternary (from the last glaciation to present) forest history is inferred from the Cedarburg Bog fossil pollen record. Analysis of fossil pollen samples extend over 4 meters of continuous core recovered from near the center of the bog. The deepest and oldest of the fossil pollen assemblages (ca. 12,000 years ago) suggest open spruce woodlands unlike any in the contemporary boreal ecosystem. Pollen from the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (11,000 years ago) is marked by a number of abrupt changes in forest composition related to rapid climate change, species immigration, and progressive soils and ecosystem maturation. By 9,000 years ago most …

Life Cycle Patterns In Wisconsin Spiders, Joan P. Jass

Field Station Bulletins

Five life cycle patterns in spiders are described and examples given. The most common pattern, maturation and mating in spring and early summer, is elaborated with a detailed description of the seasonal development of Philodromus cespitum. The four other patterns are exemplified by the following southeastern Wisconsin species: Argiope trifasciata--fall mating, Centromerus sylvaticus-- winter mating, Trochosa terricola--two mating seasons, and Pholcus phalangioides--year round mating.

Meeting Minutes, September 12th, 1995, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: The meeting was called to order; Earl Cooley a special recognition award (a plaque); minutes of the 8 Aug 1995 meeting; OLD BUSINESS:; A stipend for Jack Demmons; NSA Adopt a Highway project ; first year jumpers free membership in the NSA for one year; NEW BUSINESS:; Per diem for grad student Sally Cobau half day volunteer; treasurers report; contract with Minuteman Aviation on the hangar space currently being used by NSA; NSA Hall of Fame; land in the Missoula area to house the NSA offices; NSA phone credit; meeting adjourned; Next meeting;

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

USDA Forest Service / UNL Faculty Publications

In the past decade, bridge railing design criteria have moved away from static-load design and have focused on full-scale crash testing as a more appropriate and reliable means of evaluating bridge railings. The five bridge railing plans presented reflect the results of a cooperative research project between the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboraotry; and the Federal Highway Administration. The project objective was to develop and crash test bridge railings and approach railing transitions for longitudinal wood bridge decks. The bridge railings were completed in accordance with AASHTO Performance Levell, Performance Level …

Meeting Minutes, August 8th, 1995, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: held at the Museum of Mountain Flying facility; minutes of the Board of Directors meeting of 7 July 1995; Old Business: NSA 1995 budget; New Business: Membership; Treasurer's Report; SJ Profile form; The following tasks were outlined and will be addressed during subsequent meetings:; TASK I: Directors/Executive Committee meet and review Bylaws; TASK II: Contractual agreement w/Minuteman thru Museum of Mountain Flying; TASK lll: Kick off membership drive; TASK IV: Committee-Newsletter Review; TASK V. Form an historical committee; TASK VI. Fund Raising; TASK V. Adopt-A-Highway; Next meeting; Meeting was adjourned;

Geodemographic Approaches To Identifying U.S. Furniture Markets, Frank M. Howell, Larry Doolittle, Jarryl B. Ritchie, Melissa A. Barfield, Steven H. Bullard

Faculty Publications

Demand for household furniture is shaped by a multitude of dynamic forces, from the global economic situation to subtle changes in consumer preferences. Correspondingly, the academic disciplines employed to identify, analyze, and predict these forces range from macroeconomics to psychology, and include demography, sociology, geography, and several applied fields. The demographic characteristics of furniture consumers has been a particularly popular area of research, primarily because of the availability of secondary data from various public · agencies. Some of this research is reviewed in a subsequent section of this report.

Meeting Minutes, July 7th, 1995, National Smokejumper Association Board Of Directors

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Report on Election of Officers by Board members.; Establish term of directors, officers.; Reunion financial report.; Letters of commendation.; Administration structure.; Review & discussion of Bylaws and process to change them.; Membership report.; Treasurers report and Budget vote.; Motions and votes to assemble officers: board of directors and executive committee.;

Meeting Minutes, June 11th, 1995, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Meeting called to order; Treasurer's Report; Membership; Election of new members to the Board of Directors; Newsletter; Part time employee; Video: No report; Young Men and Fire; Trimotor and Trail; Reunion 2000; Attending;

Aspen Decline In The Inland Northwest: A Review Of Some Relevant Literature, M. Brown

Aspen Bibliography

This paper reviews recent scientific literature about the biology and management of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) and relates it to the current decline of aspen in Oregon and Washington.

Characterization Of Aspen Isoprene Synthase, An Enzyme Responsible For Leaf Isoprene Emission To The Atmosphere, Gary M. Silver, Ray Fall

Aspen Bibliography

Isoprene (2-methyl-1,3-butadiene) is a volatile hydrocarbon emitted from many plant species to the atmosphere, where it plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry. An enzyme extracted from aspen (Populus tremuloides) leaves was previously found to catalyze the Mg2+-dependent elimination of pyrophosphate from dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) to form isoprene (Silver, G. M., and Fall, R.(1991) Plant Physiol. 97, 1588-1591). This enzyme, isoprene synthase, has now been purified 4000-fold to near homogeneity. The enzyme had a native molecular mass of 98-137 kDa and isoelectric point of 4.7 and contained 58- and 62-kDa subunits, implying that it is a heterodimer. …

Project Report No. 38, Average Observed Fusiform Rust Transition Paths, O. Schabenberger, T. G. Greroire, J. David Lenhart

Informal Project Reports

fusiform rust ( Cronatrium quercuum [Berk. ] Miyabe ex Shirai f . sp . tusiforme L. ) is a devastating disease in loblolly ( Pinus taeda L. ) and slash ( Pinus elliottii Englem. ) pine plantations throughout the southern United States . Pine stems infected with fusiform rust are subject to hazards such as wind breakage, and if a pine stem with a gall on it does survive to harvest, utilization of the infected stem piece may be down-graded from possible lumber to probable pulpwood or maybe completely discarded .