MEETING MINUTES
Black Hill Ranger Station
Attendees:
Gabrielle
Ron Anderson Kathie Jarmon
Michael Morgan Tom Frederick
John Bennett
Report on NRCC:
Gabrielle gave a
presentation with pictures of this year’s camp.
42 students were originally chosen to attend, however 4 declined to
attend at the last minute. Outdoors
Cecil/State Big Tree Program Update:
A couple large trees have been lost due to storms this
summer. One, a southern red oak from the
tornado on the eastern shore and second, a chestnut oak was struck by lightning
in
The southern red oak was just re-measured by John, Kathie and Dori approximately one month ago.
On this same measuring trip to the shore, an incident occurred on another property involving a landowner’s dogs. The landowner had several large, playful dogs. When Dori was carrying the tools to measure a tree, one of the dogs grabbed Dori’s arm (just playing), and opened a cut on Dori’s forearm. After attending to the cut and measuring trees, the group decided to call a friend with the Cecil Health Department and get advice. Dori needed to go to a doctor and get the cut cleaned properly. She also needed to get information on the dogs so they could be quarantined (State regulation). There seems to be no complications to this injury as Dori is doing fine. However it does show that forms/issues like volunteer sign in sheets, being an official Forestry Board member and landowner permission forms could have become important had there been complications.
Two new species were found, a live oak on the shore and a
John has made 2 trips to
John received a permission form for a loblolly pine in Colora that Ron had located the owner. John will need to get assistance to measure the tree.
Website Update:
Ron has requested more information on completed projects
in the past for the new format of the website. He will again start working on the new county
website after his recent family trip to
Also requested were some websites on insect/disease issues in the County. Tom will send some of these.
Most of the Big Tree Info is up to date.
Gabrielle will send photos of this year’s Camp students.
New Business:
John and Dorothy’s
pollinator garden is working well with many interesting observations on species
and effectiveness.
John is again
working the State Fair this year on Labor Day.
Michael has
reported some problems with River Birch.
If you see any river birch with problems, let him know. He would like to figure out what the issue
is.
Gabrielle will
work with the Harford Board to possibly set up a joint Board picnic.