There is a new District 3 (California and Hawaii) representative on the SAF Student Executive Committee. A hearty welcome from California SAF! My name is Emily Thyroff, I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, I currently live and work in South Kona on Hawaiʻi Island on the slopes of Maunaloa.… Read More New District 3 Rep on the SAF Student Executive Committee – Emily Thyroff
[Note from your webmaster – If you have never volunteered at the Forestry Center at the state fair, it makes for a great day. I have done it quite a few times over many years and always come away with good feelings after dealing with the public who walk through the site (and because of… Read More Volunteer at the California State Fair!
The following article was published on May 23, 2022 in the Sacramento Bee. A couple of California SAF members are quoted.
Today in conjunction with Earth Day, the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) released two documents: The final Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy to advance California’s commitment to building an equitable, resilient, and carbon-neutral future through climate-focused land management; and the final Pathways to 30×30: Accelerating Conservation of California’s Nature strategy to support the… Read More California Releases Final Pathways to 30×30: Accelerating Conservation of California’s Nature and Final Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy
These were approved at the CalSAF Executive Committee Meeting on March 17, 2022.
Bay Area Chapter member Tom Gaman recently wrote a letter to the editor of the Independent Journal, the Marin County daily newspaper. His letter was published March 15, 2022 and was in response to an opinion piece written by Rene Voss and Chad Hanson titled Catastrophic wildfire risk: Concerns about fuel reduction that was published… Read More Tom Gaman’s Letter to the Editor
Camp ’70 Foresters are a group of former forestry classmates who attended the University of California Forestry summer camp near Quincy, CA in 1970 and graduated with B.S. degrees in Forestry. Our team of former classmates and professional foresters has studied, met, and discussed the western wildfire problem and presents the attached position paper with… Read More Western Wildfire Position Paper – Camp ’70
This opinion piece was published March 1 in the San Jose Mercury News and East Bay Times. The author is Bill Keye, the current Cal SAF Communications Committee Chair and a past chair of NorCal SAF.
