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A mini-camp with major impact: California community college students are introduced to UC Berkeley’s Forestry Mini-Camp
The following article was written by Grace Dean and published on-line at https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=57861 on September 13th, 2023 in the UCANR Forest Research and Outreach Newsletter. Click on the link to see the accompanying photos. The window of summer is closed, and that ‘back to school' feeling everyone knows has settled in - the excitement, the nerves, the first 7AM breakfast you've had in the last few months. However, the magic of summer lingers, and is a bit more difficult to express in words alone. Rachelle Hedges, Project and Policy Analyst for Berkeley Forests, knows that magic all too well. She sees it every year on the faces of students who come to UC Berkeley's Forestry Field Camp and its new little sibling, Forestry Mini-Camp. Both summer camps take place at 100-year old Plumas National Forest site. Hedges sets the scene: “It's incredibly peaceful: no cars, and no lights. You see people fall in love with the forest and forestry, and the specialness of these people and this place.” While Forestry Field Camp is a summer school session for University of California undergraduates, Mini-Camp is a bit different. This one-week condensed version of the eight-week Field Camp serves as both an ...
“Nothingism” Has Wrecked the National Forests in California
By William Wade Keye (This article was excerpted from the July 2022 edition of SAF’s The Forestry Source (Volume 27, Number 7)) Keye-articleDownload ...
Burned acreage replanted at Mountain Home sequoia forest
The following article was published on May 23, 2022 in the Sacramento Bee. A couple of California SAF members are quoted. Burned-acreage-replanted-at-Mountain-Home-sequoia-forestDownload ...
Tom Gaman’s Letter to the Editor
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 in the same paper on March 5th. Tom's letter is included here ...
Western Wildfire Position Paper – Camp ’70
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 eight recommendations. Our discussion and advice will help the public understand the situation and actions to protect our forests from catastrophic wildfire. Please contact Camp ’70 Foresters for further information, comment, and discussion at camp70foresters@gmail.com. The core group of authors for this paper are: Vladimir Steblina; David C Stone; Chris Conrad; Jane Haggerty Laboa; Paul Stover; Tom Gaman; and, Ronald M. Cerruti. Camp70WWFposition-paperDownload ...