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Meeting Minutes, December 16th, 1997, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Meeting To Order; 1. Minutes:; 2. Membership: Large Increase In The Database. Should Have Some Regular Procedure In Place To Update The Data Base Annually. Database Topics; 3. Treasurers Report; 4. Old Business; Next Reunion; Annual Board Of Directors Meeting; Which Board Members Have Terms Expiring; 5. New Business; Internal Operations And The News Letter; Life Membership Plaques, Caps, And Knives; Merchandise; Video Project; National Forest Service Museum Is Concerned About The Lack Of Nsa Representation At The Nfsm Meetings; Simplifying Payment For Postage And Office And Building Supplies; Newsletter Advertisement; Lowell Hanson's Resignation; New Treasurer Search; Meeting Concluded;

Competitive Interactions Among Symbiotic Fungi Of The Southern Pine Beetle, Kier D. Klepzig, Richard T. Wilkens

Dartmouth Scholarship

The southern pine beetle, a damaging pest of conifers, is intimately linked to three symbiotic fungi. Two fungi, Ceratocystiopsis ranaculosus and Entomocorticium sp. A, are transported within specialized structures (mycangia) in the beetle exoskeleton and are mutualists of the beetle. A third fungus, Ophiostoma minus, is transported externally on the beetle exoskeleton (phoretically) and is an antagonist of the beetle. This study examined competitive interactions among these three fungi. The results of de Wit replacement series and primary and secondary resource capture assays with these fungi provide strong evidence for differential competition between the phoretic and mycangial fungi. O. minus …

Forest Farming: An Agroforestry Practice, Mary Ellen Dix, Deborah B. Hill, Louise E. Buck, W. J. Rietveld

Agroforestry Notes (USDA-NAC)

Most public and private forest lands of North America have been modified to varying degrees from years of human activity. Certain high-value ‘non-timber forest products’ have been over-exploited and are difficult to find. Forest farming practices can be used by private enterprise to grow desirable non-timber forest products on private lands, to supplement family income, and to allow biodiversity to reestablish within forests.

The Biology Of Silvopastoralism, Steven H. Sharrow

Agroforestry Notes (USDA-NAC)

Forestry and livestock grazing are common competing uses for non-irrigated lands around the world. Forest grazing is a traditional practice in most of North America. Approximately 25 percent of all US forest land is grazed by livestock. Young forests and mature open-canopied forests can provide considerable amounts of forage for livestock. Prescription grazing makes beneficial use of ground vegetation that would otherwise compete with trees for soil moisture and nutrients, harbor gnawing rodents, and pose a fire hazard. Pasture grasses and legumes are sometimes seeded into newly harvested forest areas to reduce erosion, to provide high-quality food for deer and …

Biología Silvopastoril, Steven H. Sharrow

Agroforestry Notes (USDA-NAC)

La producción forestal y la ganadería son dos usos de tierras comunes en muchos lugares del mundo que no tienen riego. El pastoreo forestal es una práctica tradicional en la mayor parte de América del Norte. Aproximadamente 25% del total de las tierras de los EE. UU., son pastoreadas. Los bosques jovenes y los bosques maduros con una copa o dosel poco denso, pueden proveer una cantidad considerable de forraje al ganado. Un itinerario de pastoreo hará más beneficioso el uso de la vegetación que crece bajo la copa de los árboles. De no ser así la vegetación competirá con …

Silvopasture: An Agroforestry Practice, Ned B. Klopfenstein, W. J. Rietveld, Richard C. Carman, Terry R. Clason, Steven H. Sharrow, Gene Garrett, Bruce Anderson

Agroforestry Notes (USDA-NAC)

Although some form of silvopasture management has been practiced for centuries, silvopasture as an agroforestry practice is specifically designed and managed for the production of trees, tree products, forage, and livestock. Silvopasture results when forage crops are deliberately introduced or enhanced in a timber production system, or timber crops are deliberately introduced or enhanced in a forage production system. As a silvopasture, timber and pasture are managed as a single integrated system.

Silvopastoral systems are designed to produce a high-value timber component, while providing short-term cash flow from the livestock component. The interactions among timber, forage, and livestock are managed …

Project Report No. 59, Site Index Equations For Loblolly And Slash Pine Plantations In East Texas, Update: Fall 1997, Bryce Burke, Andy Burrow, Bob David, Jennifer Franke, John Hamilton, Jay Hein, Roger Hooper, Krissy Kimbro, Jeffrey Lester, Willie Newman, Doug Orms, Ann Pennell, Wiley Quarles, Joel Rudolph, Mike Sessions, Brandon White, Chris Wray

Informal Project Reports

Each published set of equations was developed from analyses of East Texas Pine Plantation Research Project (ETPPRP) data collected from the array of ETPPRP permanent research plots located throughout East Texas.

Meeting Minutes, October 14th, 1997, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Meeting Was Called To Order; Minutes; Membership; Treasurers Report; Old Business; Life Members, Plaques And Ruana Knives Have Been Received; Adopt-a-highway Program; New List Of Officers And Other Board Members; New Business; Problems That The Nsa Is Having In Getting The Detail Work Done; Soliciting Members To Consider The Nsa In Estate Planning And In Choosing Insurance Beneficiaries; 1. Linking Web Pages With The Web Pages From Other Smokejumper Bases And Other Forest Related Agencies; 2. Phone-a-thons To Increase Memberships; 3. Mini Reunions; 4. Adopt-a-trail Program In Which A Group Of Former Jumpers Would Take Over The Maintenance Of …

Analisis De La Fragmentacion De Los Espacios Naturales En El Sector Sur Del Area Urbana De Girona, Josep Pinta, Josep Vila, Joan M. Welch

Geography & Planning Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, September 9th, 1997, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes; Membership; Treasurers Report; National Forest Service Museum; Old Business; Life Members Plaques Are Ready; Ruana Knives Are Now Being Engraved; Ford Trimotor And Jumper Painting; Web Page Is Progressing Well; All Former And Present Smokejumper's Names, Status, Year And Base Trained, To Be Put On The Web Page; New Business; Office Work Load; Adopt-a-highway Cleanup; Need For Updating Our Computer Programs; Adjournment;

Project Report No. 57, Observed Growth Trends, Quadratic Mean Diameter, Loblolly And Slash Pine Plantations East Texas, J. David Lenhart, Jennifer Allen, Young-Jin Lee

Informal Project Reports

No abstract provided.

Project Report No. 56, Observed Growth Trends, Basal Area Per Acre In Square Feet, Loblolly And Slash Pine Plantations East Texas, J. David Lenhart, Jennifer Allen, Young-Jin Lee

Informal Project Reports

Observations fr9m the East Texas Pine Plantation Research Project were available for analysis in this study. We limdted the observations to site index classes 60. 70 and 80 feet. And age classes were set at three-year intervals.

Por each combination of site index and age class. an average observed basal area in square feet per acre was calculated.

Based on these values, HAl (mean annual increment) and CAl (current annual increment) were calculated.

The values are depicted in graphs on the next six pages.

Project Report No. 58, Observed Growth Trends, Average Total Height . . . Ten Tallest Trees, Loblolly And Slash Pine Plantations East Texas, J. David Lenhart, Jennifer Allen, Young-Jin Lee

Informal Project Reports

Observations from the East Texas Pine Plantation Research Project were available for analysis in this study. We limdted the observations to site index classes 60, 70 and 80 feet. And age classes were set at three-year intervals.

For each combination of site index and age class, an average observed total height of the ten tallest trees was calculated.

Based on these values, MAl (mean annual increment) and CAI (current annual increment) were calculated.

The values are depicted in graphs on the next six pages.

Project Report No. 54, Assessment Of Early Estimation Of Site Index, Loblolly Pine Plantations East Texas, J. David Lenhart, Jennifer Allen

Informal Project Reports

Observations from the Bast Texas Pine Plantation Research Project were available for analysis in this study.

In particular, observations are available that track the development of loblolly pine plantation parameters, such as age and height during 14, 15 and 16 year periods of time.

Fortunately. many of the tracks begin with initial measurements in plantations that were less than 5 years old.

These particular data were analyzed in this study. The results are depicted on the next 6 pages.

Meeting Minutes, August 19th, 1997, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Meeting To Order; Minutes-of Last Meeting; Membership Report; Treasurers Report; Video Report; Old Business; 2000 Reunion; Progress Of The Web Page; New Business; Mailing Copies Of The Minutes To Each Director; Notify The Executive Committee Of Meeting Dates; Meeting Time Changed; Utilize The Trimotor And Jumper Painting; Meeting Adjourned;

Meeting Minutes, July 15th, 1997, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Meeting To Order; Result Of The Director Election; Minutes Of The Executive Committee Meeting; 1. Membership Report; 2. Treasurers Report; 3. Video Report; 4. News Letter Report; 5. Other Business; Ruana Knives For The Next Reunion; How Temporary Service Works And How Much It Costs Nsa To Use Temporary Employees; 6. New Business; Nfsm, Mmf, And-nsa Booth At The Fair Booth.; Meeting Adjourned;

The Use Of Plot Surveys For The Study Of Ethnobotanical Knowledge: A Brunei Dusun Example, Jay H. Bernstein, Roy Ellen, Bantong Bin Antaran

Publications and Research

This paper describes a technique for using plot surveys to measure individual informants' ethnobotanical knowledge of forests, as applied to the Dusun community of Merimbun in Brunei. Two knowledgeable but non-literate Dusun informants enumerated marked plots of both recent and old secondary growth mixed dipterocarp forest near the village. They were able to provide names (other than life-forms or the most general basic and intermediate categories) for 86-97% of species growing in the plots. Between 152 and 170 plant names were elicited by the surveys. In all cases, about 88% of the names were at the basic naming level and …

Meeting Minutes, June 10th, 1997, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Approval Of Minutes; Finance Report: Treasurer; Membership; Action Taken By The Membership Committee; Computer Search For Former Jumpers For Whom We Have No Current Address; Skip Ahead To Those Agenda Topics Which Required Lon Dale's Presence. The Committee Agreed.; Board Of Directors Election:; Liability Insurance Coverage For People Visiting The Museum; Newsletter; Reconsideration Of Hiring An Independent Contractor; Use Of Advertisements In The Newsletter; Allocation Of Time For The Secretary/Clerk; Nfsm Would Like To Have A Member Of The Nsa Attend Each Monthly Meeting; Letter Regarding The Next Reunion Requesting Some Preliminary Information; Computer Costs; Sales And Orders For …

Communicating The Role Of Science In Managing Giant Sequoia Groves, Douglas D. Piirto, Robert R. Rogers, Mary C. Bethke

Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences

Management of giant sequoia groves has been and continues to be a hotly debated issue. The debate has reached Congress, with all parties seeking resolution as to what constitutes an ecologically and publicly acceptable management approach. Determining the correct management approach and communicating that approach to the general public is the crux of the problem. Emerging concepts and principles of forest ecosystem management may provide a mechanism to seek resolution of these management problems related to giant sequoia. The Memorandum of Understanding between the members of the recently formed Giant Sequoia Ecology Cooperative provided the impetus for the development of …

Meeting Minutes, May 13th, 1997, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes; Financial report; News Letter Report; Membership Report; Video Production Report; Organization of membership committee; Manning the NSA office as well as the Museum of Mountain Flying on weekends through the summer months; National Forest Service Museum meeting; Budget: ways of saving money. ; Impossible to discuss Niki's time allocation, as listed in the meeting agenda, without Jack Demmons attendance and input. ; Spring highway cleanup in the "Adopt A Highway" ; Life memberships and the amount budgeted for the NFS Museum; A letter from Jack Demmons; Meeting adjourned;

Meeting Minutes, April 8th, 1997, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Meeting to order; Meeting minutes; Health problems of Francis Lufkin and Marshall Sullivan; Finding missing people by using the internet; News Letter Report:; Certificates of Appreciation:; Smoke Jumper Video:; Copy Machine purchase:; Election of Board Members:; Acquisition of liability insurance for the museum area.; Fund Raising:; Suggested special meeting to address long range cuts in expense; Meeting adjourned;

Meeting Minutes, April 4th, 1997, National Smokejumper Association Board Of Directors

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Agenda discussed; Minutes of the annual meeting; Minutes of the Special Board meeting; NSA computer; Relationship between the museum of Mountain Flying and the National Smokejumper Association; Construct a common facility with proposed National Forest Service Museum; Treasurers report.; Ruana Knives; Increasing Niki Llewellyn's hours; Adjourn for lunch; Francis Lufkin failing health; Meting recalled to order; Special recognition to Jack Demmons and Lowell Hanson; Membership Report: Need to tap into the younger jumper group; Newsletter Report: Advertising in the newsletter; Fund Raising:; NSA purchase a membership in the "National Museum Association". ; Smokejumper Video:; Bylaw Review: ; Appointment of …

Factors Influencing Germination Of Six Wetland Cyperaceae, John L. Larson

Field Station Bulletins

In order to determine factors which may affect the differential seed germination of six members of the Cyperaceae which occur together in newly revegetated sedge meadow, seeds were tested for germ inability at three storage conditions. Seeds were also germinated at two alternating temperature regimes, 21/25° and 25/32°C. Germination of dry stored Carex hystericina and C. vulpinoidea was greater at the higher alternating temperature of 25/32°C while Scirpus atrovirens and S. cyperinus dry stored seed had a similar germination response at both alternating temperatures. Most of the moist-cool stored (stratified) seeds of the six species germinated well regardless of temperature. …

Wisconsin Freshwater Isopods (Asellidae), Joan Jass, Barbara Klausmeier

Field Station Bulletins

Four species of freshwater isopods in the family Asellidae were collected from Wisconsin. There is very little published information on the asellid isopods of Wisconsin. In this paper we provide descriptions of the size range, habitat characteristics, distribution, and life history traits of Wisconsin asellids based on data from our field work and information from the literature. We include a provisional key for identification of the male asellids which have been collected from Wisconsin.

Project Report No. 53, Slash Pine Plantations In East Texas, Comparison Of Two Harvest Schedules . . ., J. David Lenhart, Jennifer Allen

Informal Project Reports

Pine report discussing and treating various topics within the discipline.

Meeting Minutes, March 11th, 1997, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Approval of February minutes; Financial report; Newsletter report; Computer Net; N.S.A. Clerk; N.F.S. Museum Alliance; N.S.A. Officers; The meeting adjourned as 2050 hours.;

Project Report No. 51, Slash Pine Plantations In East Texas, Thinned And Unthinned - Total Wood Flow Comparison, A Simulation, J. David Lenhart, Jennifer Allen

Informal Project Reports

Report of a simulation model for the timing of thinning plantation management schedules.

Aboveground Production In Southeastern Floodplain Forests: A Test Of The Subsidy-Stress Hypothesis, William Conner, J Patrick Megonigal, Steven Kroeger, Rebecca R. Sharitz

Publications

It has been hypothesized that periodically flooded forests have higher rates of aboveground net primary production than upland forests and near-continuously flooded forests, but a competing hypothesis holds that the benefits of periodic inputs of nutrients and water may be diminished by stresses associated with anaerobic soils or drought. To test these hypotheses, we measured groundwater table depths and aboveground productivity in floodplain forests of South Carolina and Louisiana. We established paired plots on locally dry, intermediate, and wet topographic positions across three hydrologic transects in each state. These plots encompassed upland hardwood, bottomland hardwood, and cypress swamp forests. Measurements …

Project Report No. 52, Location, Loblolly Pine, J. David Lenhart, Jennifer Allen

Informal Project Reports

Discussion of location in respect to the Loblolly Pine.

Riparian Buffers For Agricultural Land, Michael Dosskey, Richard C. Schultz, Thomas M. Isenhart

Agroforestry Notes (USDA-NAC)

Purpose:

• Define what a riparian buffer is

• Describe what benefits a riparian buffer can provide in an agricultural landscape

• Identify situations where installing a riparian buffer should be considered