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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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

Ecological Evaluation For The West Ash Creek Potential Research Natural Area, Pine Ridge Ranger Unit, Nebraska National Forest, Steven B. Rolfsmeier

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: White Papers, Conference Presentations, and Manuscripts

The West Ash Creek Potential Research Natural Area is located within pastures 6, 7, and 11 of the Pine Ridge Unit of the Nebraska National Forest ca 18 mi. (30 km) southwest of Chadron, Nebraska. The area consists of ca 1020 acres of mostly successional pine forest burned in a 1985 wildfire, with unburned forest, some grassland, and riparian canyon bottoms. The area is within the Pine Ridge ecosystem of the White River watershed in northwestern Nebraska. The area has remained ungrazed nearly continuously since 1986.

This document was prepared to provide the Forest Service with information to determine the …

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 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

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 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 …

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

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 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 …

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.

The New Challenge Of Outdoor Recreation, Roz Mcclellan

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

5 pages.

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.

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.;

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.

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.