Jeff Stringer, outgoing KTSAF Chair, opened the meeting held at 8:30, January 25, 2002 in Pineville, KY. Approximately 47 people were in attendance.
The
Policy committee would like some assistance for developing a policy letter to
send to both forests regarding their plan revision process. If you are interested in helping, a form is
circulating that will allow you to join the taskforce to formulate this policy
letter. Jeff asks that you please fill
in your e-mail address on this form.
There
was also a questionnaire passed out dealing with the desirability of publishing
a KTSAF membership directory. There are
three options: publish a new one, use the list on the National SAF web site, or
develop a list for the KTSAF web site.
Tabulation of those filing out the questionnaire indicated that the
majority vote of the membership favored having a directory on the KTSAF web
site.
A questionnaire was passed out regarding publication of
the Journal of Forestry. The majority
vote was to continue publishing the journal at its planned rate of 8 issues per
year.
Jeff
announced that there is a handout going around the room that promotes professional
silviculture workshops to be held over the next couple of years. The workshops are a joint venture between UT
and UK extension.
The
2001 Winter Meeting Minutes and 2001 Summer Meeting Minutes were handed
out. Kerry Schell made a motion to
accept the winter minutes. Glen Smalley
seconded. Motion carried. Red Anderson made a motion to accept the
summer minutes. Jeff Piatt
seconded. Motion carried.
Red
Anderson handed out the proposed 2002 Budget and 2001 Budget Report. In the 2001 report note the differences in
expected meeting receipts and actual; dues projected and dues received; and
meeting expenses projected and actual meeting expenses.
Kerry
questioned as to where the Student Development Fund money was to be in the
budget. Jeff said the Student
Development Fund did not function this year, and that we needed to look at how
it is supposed to work and just do it.
This is a project to be undertaken by the incoming KTSAF officers.
2002
Budget is just an estimate. Red didn’t
feel constrained to present a balanced budget.
John Wood moved to accept the 2002 Budget. Pam Snyder seconded. The
motion to accept the 2002 budget was carried.
Richard
Evans, Jerry Crow, and Jeff Piatt conducted the audit of the treasurer and
found the books in good order.
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96
people registered
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~
$4000 received
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$750
raised from the silent auction
KTSAF
wants to recognize the people on the program committee who put together this
great meeting: Ron Taylor, Laurie Taylor Thomas, William Thomas, Doug McClaren,
Pat Cleary, Grant curry, Jeff Stringer, Rick Wilcox, and Cindy Wilcox. We also want to thank the sponsors of our
breaks and social: Trus Joist and International Lumber. The student chapters were also recognized for
their participation.
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The
Centennial Campaign raised $1.5 million.
This was over the original goal of $1 million, but under the revised $2
million goal.
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Tim
encourages us to nominate members for the Presidential Field Forester
Award.
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The
Journal of Forestry is cutting back from 12 to 8 issues. This will give the staff more time to spend
on current, more important issues. This
will save $50,000.
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Core
Values – the council wants to engage the membership in developing these values
common to all of us as professional foresters.
By defining these values, we recognize unity. The draft values will be listed in the Forestry Source. Please review them, discuss, edit and create
new ones. We need these core values to
share with policy makers.
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Certified
Forester- There will be a study guide and practice tests available. KTSAF past chair Dave Walters has been
appointed to the CF Review Board.
Jeff
asked for an indication of how many people use e-mail. Only one person at the business meeting
indicated that they did not.
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Policy
committee – (1) The UK/Robinson Forest Mining Policy needs to be dusted off and
updated. (2)The committee will be
creating a policy statement, hopefully a joint one, for the Daniel Boone and
Cherokee National Forest Plan Revisions.
The committee hopes to generate a draft this summer prior to the draft
of the Daniel Boon plan revision that is scheduled for release this fall. The committee has a copy of the National SAF
policy statement on harvesting on national forests that was finalized in
December. They will use this as a
starting point.
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Committee
Chairs – There is a chair in place for all committees except public
affairs. Gary Schneider had received a
nomination for this position and will be talking to that person. If you have someone to nominate for this
position, please see Gary.
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The
Summer Meeting will be July 24-26 near Paducah, KY. There will be a tour of MeadWestvaco’s fiber farm and intensive alluvial
cottonwood plantations. John Wood is
arranging the necessary paperwork that would permit those affected to travel
out of Kentucky (and into a portion of Missouri) to do so. This may be a
concern for some if there were to be an accident. Jeff Stringer suggested outlining exactly what we would be doing
at the meeting in the Meeting Announcement.
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The
Winter Meeting will be January 29-31, 2003.
SE TN will be hosting it in either Monteagle or Chattanooga. Diane Gennett will be the program committee chair.
Mark
Young did a demonstration of the KTSAF web site. The address is www.KTSAF.org. To access the member’s
only section, the username is ktsaf and the password is pinchot. The site contains such information as:
members of the executive committee, membership handbook, news stories,
involvement, upcoming meetings, links to forestry-related topics, and input
needed, which contains forms. Mark can
set up a form for issues of concern to members. This would provide a location to receive requested input. Once the form is completed, it can be
automatically routed to your e-mail address.
Doug McClaren commended Mark Young and John Rennie for what they are
doing with the web site and newsletter.
Red commended Mark for keeping the web site up to date.
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University of Tennessee – Twenty-five students attended this meeting. The USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis unit
has relocated its headquarters to the UT campus effective October 1, 2001. The Ph.D. program is now active in the Dept.
of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife.
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University of Kentucky- Don Graves will be stepping down as chair of the
forestry department. They are
undertaking a national search for department chair, hopefully completed by the
end of this calendar year. Don will
still be on faculty running a project on surface mining funded by the federal
government. Seven faculty positions are
vacant. The vacancies came at a time of
position freezes. They will only be able
to fill 2 of the positions now. The
remaining positions will be filled when the chair position is filled.
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University of the South – Two students attended this meeting. They currently have a low enrollment of
forestry students. Ken Smith and Joseph
Burckle will be presenting a paper at the National Convention.
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Kentucky Division of Forestry – They are finishing up a couple of grant projects
including a Walk through the Woods Video and a virtual reality program through
KET. Last fall was one of the worst
fires seasons on record. The division
has combined the entry level and senior forester (> 2yr) basically giving
the entry-level position a raise.
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Tennessee Division of Forestry – Ken Arney retired and became the head of State and
Private Forestry for the USFS, Region 8.
The division is currently without a director.
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Daniel Boone National Forest – The forest held public forest planning meeting
during October and November. The
comments from those meetings came back with the same issues as during the scoping
phase. The plan revision is supposed to
be out in draft by the end of October 2002.
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Cherokee National Forest – no report.
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Kentucky Forest Industries Association – They don’t see any
forestry legislation occurring this session.
KFIA has been supporting the Master Loggers program, which now has 400
master loggers.
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Tennessee Forestry Association – The legislature is dealing with the budget. The Dogwood Alliance has gotten someone to
put in a bill for a Forest Practices Act.
2002
KTSAF Officers
Chair
– Gary Schneider
Chair-elect
– Red Anderson
Treasurer
– Jerry Crow
Secretary
– Laurie Smith
Please
place your evaluations of the meeting on the desk outside the door.
Jeff
Stringer turned the gavel over to Gary Schneider.
Rick
Wilcox made a motion to adjourn the meeting.
Jeff Piatt seconded. The meeting
was adjourned.
/s/Laurie
Smith
Secretary