MEETING MINUTES
Black Hill Ranger Station
Attendees:
Ron Anderson Kathie Jarmon
John Bennett Tom Frederick
Dori Murphy
Treasurer’s Report:
Submitted by Tom
Frederick.
Board members
discussed and approved treasury as presented.
Ron suggested
trying to get grants for the Board and NRCC.
He will check at some veteran groups.
Other sources may be the County, the Rocky Mtn Elk Foundation and the
sale of heritage trees or local “heritage” trees.
Big Tree Program
John reported that
it was a very busy summer for the state and local Big Tree Program.
John would like to
measure some County trees on a Sunday.
He visited and measured/identified some trees on the Mt. Harmon
property. There is a possible State
Champion Red Mulberry on the property.
Dori and Kathie
will help John measure the local trees.
John presented Big
Tree pictures from Mt Harmon, Jim Bardsley’s
residence and Baltimore City.
Ron will look at
getting forms signed for trees around his neighborhood.
Website Update:
The Board reviewed the local Big Tree List on the site and
saw some opportunities to locate some “unfilled” species on the list.
New Business:
Dori and John
commented on the success of planting milkweed and attracting Monarch
caterpillars and butterflies on each of their property.
Tom reminded the
Board of Wayne Merkel’s retirement and party at Rocks State Park.
He informed the
Board of Chris Smith’s (Harford County Ranger) pending transfer to the Urban
& Community Forestry Program in Annapolis.
Hopefully the Harford position can be filled fairly quickly.
Tom went over some
issues with the Critical Area Timber Harvest process and the County. The issues seem to have been worked out with
no substantial changes. He will go over
this at the next meeting also.