MEETING MINUTES
Black Hill Ranger Station
Attendees:
Ron Anderson Kathie Jarmon
John Bennett Tom Frederick
Dori Murphy
Treasurer’s Report:
Submitted by Tom Frederick.
The board discussed financial status.
Cecil/State Big Tree Program Update:
John and Dori looked at a tree in North East. ID is in question at this point. But John is trying to contact the landowner.
38 trees will need to be re-measured in
John will be working with Baltimore City Forestry Board to measure many trees in the future, including some on the John Hopkin’s campus.
The Maryland Big Tree Committee is requesting donations from the local Boards to create a $2000/$2000 matching grant with the Maryland Forestry Foundation to hire someone to transfer the State Big Tree website platform. This transfer is turning out to be much more complicated than originally thought. Currently certain displays on the website cannot be updated or changed. The Cecil Board agreed to donate $125.00.
Website Update:
Ron has added a Backyard Buffers advertisement on the
website. He has also updated the County
Big Tree List. A notation for inactive
trees was also added. This would include
trees that are beyond the 10 year measuring window. The photo is also removed in these
cases. He also reconciled the
Ron will continue to update and check some of the links. Some suggestions were given.
Gabrielle, John and Tom attended the meeting on Saturday, November 4th. John reported the following on different topics:
Don Van Hassent went over the Forest Service budget projections, personnel issues and upcoming legislative matters.
Gary Allen went over a new private landowner outreach training that will be put on by a contractual person, in which at least two members from each Board are encouraged to attend this Spring.
NRCC report from Gabrielle. Thanks given to Steve Resh,
Big Tree report from John and various volunteers.
Jim Bardsley on how to preserve and submit leaf & plant specimens for Herbaria or ID.
Dawn Balinski gave the Treasurer’s Report.
Glenn Ferenschak American chestnut/Scholarships report.
New Business:
John suggested
sending poster contest info to each Elementary School(17)
in Cecil. John will compile the
information, Dori will do the envelopes and Tom will print the packets and
provide postage.
John informed the
Board that his property was one of the properties submitted for Forest Legacy funds
to the US Forest Service this year.
John reiterated
the lookout for Spotted Lanternfly alert for