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Meeting Minutes, November 29th, 1999, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Meeting called to order.; Minutes.; Treasurer's Report.; Membership Report.; Website.; OLD BUSINESS; Credit Card Membership.; Newsletter.; By Laws.; Mann Gulch.; NSA Office.;

Meeting Minutes, October 5th, 1999, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes of August 14, 1999 were accepted as amended.; Treasurer's Report.; Membership Report.; Newsletter Report.; OLD BUSINESS; Video Committee.; NEW BUSINESS; Credit Card purchases.; RTIF Format for E-mail documents.; The Life and Times of NSA's membership definition.; Corporate membership.; Books and Pictures.; Bill Moody request.; Director's responsibilities.; November meeting of the Executive Committee.; Adjourned the meeting.;

Meeting Minutes, August 14th, 1999, National Smokejumper Association Board Of Directors

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes of 15 June 1999 were accepted as amended.; Minutes of 2 July were accepted as read.; Treasurers Report.; OLD BUSINESS.; Newsletter report.; Membership.; Merchandise.; Trail Maintenance Report.; Mann Gulch Report.; Reunion report.; Website.; Missoula Office.; Base Liaison.; Video Marketing Plan.; NEW BUSINESS.; Meeting Date.; Membership Committee recommendations.; Redding reunion.; Website Minutes.; Newsletter.; Board Terms.; By Laws.; 1999 Spring Election.; Meeting adjourned.;

Meeting Minutes, July 2nd, 1999, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Called the meeting to order.; The minutes from the 15 June meeting were not read.; The Treasurer's report was dispensed with.; The membership report was dispensed with.; No old business was brought forth.; The purpose of the meeting was to facilitate the change in NSA webmasters.; Reviewed changes that would make the website more user friendly.; Wrote a personal check so that he could begin work immediately.; Each section of the current website was reviewed at length.; Meeting adjourned.;

Meeting Minutes, June 15th, 1999, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes:; Minutes of the executive committee meeting held ll May l999.; Treasurers Report:; $5000 from the video fund for Steve Smith to cover current expenses.; how profits from the sale of footage from the video should be spent.; Requests to allow more flexibility and independence in spending.; Membership Report: procedure limits report.; Old Business:; SA's plan to move to new quarters.; Adopt-A-Trail program.; Progress of the Redding reunion. New Business:; Move to new quarters.; Part time employee.; Progress report on the director's election.; Progress of the News Letter.; Ways to boost membership.; Mailing informing former jumpers about the Mann …

Meeting Minutes, May 11th, 1999, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes of the last executive committee meeting.; Since the meeting was devoted entirely to setting up an agenda for the annual directors meeting, no minutes were recorded.; Adopt-A-Hwy clean up.; Treasurer's Report: treasurer's report and cash flow report.; Membership Report: report.; Old Business:; Mann Gultch remembrance program.; Progress of the Redding reunion in the year 2000.; New Business:.; A better office location.; Hiring a part time worker.; Collecting and counting the ballots returned for the Director positions.; News letter costs and future content.; Adopt-A-Trail project.;

Ecology Of The Malay Civet (Viverra Tangalunga) In A Logged And An Unlogged Forest In Sabah, East Malaysia, Christina P. Colon

Publications and Research

Malay civets in a dipterocarp rain forest were studied from December, 1995, through June, 1997, in the Ulu Segama Forest Reserve in Sabah, East Malaysia. To investigate the basic ecology of this species and explore the potential impact of selective logging, data on home range, activity and diet were collected on study animals in an unlogged and a selectively logged forest, and comparisons made.

Density in the unlogged forest was 1/0.46 km² , and 1/1.07 km² in the logged forest. Mean home range size based on a 95% minimum convex polygon was 110 ha. and did not differ …

A Survey Of The General Public Assessing Public Attitudes Toward Animal Damage Control Management Policy, Douglas K. Reiter

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A mail survey of randomly selected stratified U.S. households assessed general attitudes toward wildlife and specific concerns about wildlife damage management and the federal Animal Damage Control program. Respondents strongly supported federal government's role in ensuring public safety, engaging in public education, and continuing research into nonlethal control methods. Weaker support was found for lethal control of predators and crop depredators, and financial compensation for losses due to wildlife activities was generally opposed. Lethal methods of control were generally considered to be inhumane and nonlethal methods humane. When asked to rank the importance of factors to be considered when selecting …

Forestland: A Good Investment April 9-10, 1999, Arthur Temple College Of Forestry And Agriculture

eBooks

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, April 10th, 1999, National Smokejumper Association Board Of Directors

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Approval Of Minutes.; Treasurer's Report.; Financial Health Of The Organization.; Membership And Data Base Report.; Website.; Draft Study, Project 2000.; Travel Allowance.; Base Liaison Directors.; Role In The Future Of Smokejumping.; Mission Statement.; Role In Mann Gulch Commemorative Activities.; Records Management.; Historical Preservation Committee.; Executive Committee Meetings Quarterly.; Elections.; Membership Committee.; Scholarship Fund For Children Of Jumpers Through The Nsa.; Logo.; Social Activities.; Director At Large.; Collect E-mail Addresses For Directors/Members.; Monitor Budget And Dues Structure.; Complete Nsa Brochure.; Survey Membership To Determine Talents Available For N Sa Work.; Review, Amend, And Adopt Position Descriptions.; Solicit Corporate Memberships. Upgrade …

Meeting Minutes, March 9th, 1999, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes: minutes of the Executive Committee meeting held 02/09/99.; Treasurer's Report: report March 9, 1999.; Two new accounts had been added.; Membership: figure for Jan and Feb was probably incorrect.; Old Business: Directors meeting discussed.; Rough draft of a NSA brochure.; Criticism of collecting bases info for Newsletter.; SJ video rough cut.; Video committee meeting.; IRS issues.; New Business: NSA stationery.; CPS reunion.; Reported on the 50th anniversary remembrance of the Mann Gulch Fire.; Dick Tracy health.; Next executive committee meeting for Apr 6 at 07:00 PM.;

Meeting Minutes, February 9th, 1999, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes: minutes of the executive committee meeting held 01/l2/99.; corrections were called for and made.; Treasurer's Report: for the month of January.; How multiple year memberships would be handled.; Membership: total count was not significantly.; Old business: Gidlund report tabled.; Drop the idea of inviting base managers to attend the April directors meeting.; Move the date of the annual meeting from the Friday, 9 April to Saturday 10 April. NSA brochure.; New Business: handed out document titled "The Death of Smokejumping".; Adopt-A-Highway obligation.; Newsletter cover other bases at NSA expense to collect information and pictures.; E-mail addresses and years …

Meeting Minutes, January 12th, 1999, National Smokejumper Association Executive Committee

National Smokejumper Association Meeting Minutes

Agenda: Minutes: minutes of the meeting held l2/08/98.; Treasurer's Report: treasurer's report for 01/12/99.; NSA tax issues form 1997.; Membership: report.; Old Business: discussed the Adopt-A-Trail project progress and responses to request for volunteers.; Family purchasing a life membership as a memorial.; Alternative methods of holding the forthcoming directors election to encourage a large enough turnout to meet the 20% requirement.; Estate planning in fund raising efforts.; Sale of smokejumper manufactured items.; New Business: Action taken by the executive committee in response to the director's letter of Nov3, l998.; A need to bring the written by-laws up to date.; Next …

Mr412: Wood Properties Of Red Pine, Takele Deresse, Robert K. Shepard

Miscellaneous Reports

This report describes important physical and mechanical properties of red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) and the factors that influence the variation in these properties. Some results from a recently completed study on red pine in Maine are presented to help illustrate and explain some of the more important concepts and relationships. In addition to studies specific to red pine, important findings on other conifers are presented for comparison with red pine and to provide a more comprehensive review of conifer wood properties. The studies on the other coniferous species help to highlight the sources of wood property variation. With …

Management Of Droughty Site: Typic Quartzipsamments, Ecological Considerations, David Kulhavy, W. G. Ross, L. Allen Smith, R. R. Cahal

Faculty Publications

Pine plantations on Typic Quartzipsamments in East Texas are difficult to establish. Forest management options following clearcutting are limited. A 12 year regeneration study of the growth and survival of loblolly, Pinus faeda, L. shortleaf, P. echinata Mill., slash, f. elliofii Engelm and longleaf pines P. pa/u&is Mill. was conducted to determine optimum tree species and treatments for reforestation. With successful regeneration also comes insects and pathogens. Impacts of the Nantucket pine tip moth, Rhyacionia frusfrana, (Comstock) and the Texas leaf-cutting ant, Affa texana, (Buckley) will be discussed in the context of droughty site management.

Four-Year Growth Results From 16 Year Old Intensively Managed Low Density Loblolly Pine Plantations, A. Gordon Holley, Leslie A. Dale, Gary D. Kronrad

Faculty Publications

In 1994 eighty four permanent research plots were established in two twelve year-old loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) plantations in East Texas. Plots differed in relation to: soil-site type, density of trees per acre, fertilization treatments, and competing vegetation control. Three levels of thinning treatments reduced the basal areas to 36,60, and 84 square feet of basal area (approximately 100,200, and 300 stems, respectively) per acre. All residual trees were pruned to a height of 25 feet. Plots were re-measured in 1995, 1996, and 1998. Significant differences in diameter and height growth rates were detected in 1996 and 1998. Average diameter …

Seedling Survival And Natural Regeneration For A Bottomland Hardwood Planting On Sites Differing In Site Preparation, Daniel T. Johns, Brett Williams, Hans M. Williams, Matthew Stroupe

Faculty Publications

In January 1998, three tracts in Hardin County, TX, were hand-planted with seven species of 1-0 bareroot bottomland hardwood seedlings. The tracts, managed by The Nature Conservancy of Texas, were previously 20-year-old pine plantations. The tracts are located within the floodplain of Village Creek. An objective for this conversion is the restoration of a bottomland hardwood wetland in order to meet Clean Water Act requirements. A pre-harvest plant inventory was conducted for each tract. The tracts were clearcut during the Winter and Spring of 1997. Following harvest, each tract was subjected to a different site preparation technique. One tract was …

Frost Heaving Of Container Hardwood Seedlings Planted In An Abandoned Agriculitural Field In Sharkey County, Mississippi, Matthew C. Stroupe, Hans M. Williams

Faculty Publications

The use of container hardwood seedlings is an alternative to bareroot planting stock. In January 1996, 1,485 container seedlings of Nuttall oak (Quercus nuttallii Palmer), willow oak (Q. phellos L.). overcup oak (Q. lyrata Walter), and water oak (Q. nigra L.) were planted in Sharkey clay on an abandoned agricultural field situated in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley. Beginning with the passage of a cold front on January 31, daily minimum temperatures dipped as low as 6 °F. For 5 days, dally high temperatures did not climb above 32 °F. This cold period caused 33.7 …

Interaction Of Soil Moisture And Seedling Shelters On Water Relations Of Baldcypress Seedlings, Ty Swirin, Hans Williams, Bob Keeland

Faculty Publications

Stomata1 conductance, transpiration, and leaf water potential were measured during the 1996 growing season on baldcypress (Taxodium disfichum (L.) Rich.) seedlings. Seedlings were hand-planted from 1-O bareroot stock in mesic and permanently Rooded soil conditions. One-half of all seedlings were fitted with 122-cm tall polyethylene tree shelters, Seedlings were planted 1 year before the initiation of plant water relation measurements. The study was located within the boundary of the Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant, Kamack, TX. The objective of the research was to study the feasibility of artificially regenerating baldcypress along the shores of Caddo Lake. Stomata1 conductance and transpiration …

Green Canyon Recreation Management Plant, Jesse Evans, Erin Haddock, Todd Tibbetts, Lindsey Topham

Green Canyon Environmental Research Area, Logan Utah

The purpose of this plan is to look at the way Green Canyon is currently being managed and make recommendations for management based on our findings. Prior to this document, a Landscape Assessment was conducted on Green Canyon. This plan incorporates that assessment but focuses on the recreation management of the canyon. We will discuss history, current management, social conditions, purpose and need, as well as methods we used to go about gathering information. The focus is to identify key issues and concerns within the canyon. Management recommendations will be made based on the issues and concerns identified.

Final Environmental Impact Statement: Wasatch Powderbird Guides Permit Renewal, U.S. Forest Service

Final environmental Impact Statements (UT)

Analysis of the proposed action and six alternatives considered for the proposed special use permit renewal for Wasatch Powderbird Guides (WPG). WPG operates a guided helicopter skiing concession on the Wasatch-Cache and Uinta National Forests near Salt Lake City, Utah.

Preliminary Analysis Of The Management Situation Summary, Wasatch-Cache National Forest, April 1999, United States Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service

Forestry

The National Forest Management Act (NFMA) of 1976 (NFMA P.L. 94-588) required each National Forest to develop National Forest Land and Resource Management Plans (Forest Plans), and to update or "revise" them when conditions have significantly changed or at least every 15 years. The Wasatch-Cache National Forest completed its current Forest Plan in 1985 (USDA Forest Service 1985). To comply with NFMA a revision needs to be completed by the end of 2000. In 1997, Congress prohibited expenditure of funds on formal Forest Plan revision. In 1998 prohibitions were lifted for 14 national forests nationwide. The Wasatch-Cache National Forest was …

Evaluation Of Three Types Of Forest Openings As Habitat For Wild Turkeys, Thomas A. Nelson

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.