MEETING MINUTES

 

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Meeting Held Through Email Due to Coronavirus Restrictions

 

Attendees:

                                                           

Gabrielle Oldham        Dori Murphy

Ron Anderson             Kathie Jarmon

Michael Morgan          Tom Frederick

John Bennett                                      

 

 

Treasurer’s Report:

 

Tom reported on current financial status for the CCFCDB.

 

 

Update on Big Tree Program:

 

John reported:

 

There was no activity related to big trees in Cecil County.  In Maryland volunteers measured or re-measured 32 trees, as follows:

 

7/2       Jim Bardsley                           Southern Red Oak      Talbot              364.     new

7/3       Joli, Geary Schwemmer          White Oak                   Carroll             352      re-m     CCC

7/3       ---------                                     Hinoki Cypress           Carroll             205      re-m     MSC

7/3       ---------                                     Am. Basswood           Carroll             255      re-m     CCC

7/3       ---------                                     Black Walnut              Carroll             194      new     CCC

7/3       ---------                                     Pin Oak                       Howard           300      re-m     HCC

7/3       ---------                                     Willow Oak                 Howard           299      new     HCC

7/4       Bennett, Sherring, Groff         Sugar Maple                Harford           251      new

7/4       ---------                                     Pignut Hickory            Harford           191      new    

7/4       ---------                                     Bur Oak                      Harford           269      new     HCC

7/4       ---------                                     Northern Catalpa        Harford           248      new                

7/9       McCathran, Howard               Japanese Maple           Montgomery   176      new     MCC

7/9       ----------                                    Black Gum                  Frederick         212      new     FCC

7/9       ----------                                    Am. Basswood           Frederick         221      new

7/10     Brian Stupak, DNR FS           Southern R. Oak         Calvert                        283      new

7/13     Celeste Maiorana                    Bigtooth Aspen           Washington     212      re-m     MSC

7/13     ----------                                    --------------------           Washington     196      re-m

7/14     Celeste Maiorana                    Bitternut Hickory        Washington     238      re-m     WCC

7/14     ----------                                    Cmn. Hackberry          Washington     255      re-m    

7/14     ----------                                    Black Gum                  Washington     259      re-m     WCC

7/14     ----------                                    Northern Catalpa        Washington     253      new     WCC

7/28     Celeste Maiorana                    Copper Beech             Washington     279      re-m     WCC

7/28     ----------                                    Ginkgo                        Washington     305      re-m     WCC

7/28     ----------                                    Sweetgum                   Washington     257      re-m     WCC

7/28     ----------                                    K. Coffeetree              Washington     277      re-m

7/30     Bennett, Bardsley                   Black Cherry               Talbot             231      new     TCC

7/30     ----------                                    Sweetgum                   Talbot              286      new     TCC

7/30     ----------                                    Sugar Maple                Talbot             243      new     TCC

7/30     ----------                                    Eastern Red Cedar      Talbot             191      new     TCC

7/30     Bennett, Owners                     Willow Oak                 QAnne’s         287      new                

7/30     Bennett, Owners                     Red Maple                  QAnne’s         227      new

7/30     Bennett                                   Am. Holly                   Kent               147      re-m     KCC

 

--Geary Schwemmer is a new volunteer living in Carroll County.

--The 3 trees on 7/4 excluding the sugar maple are located at the Steppingstone Museum around the old farmhouse.  We assume all have been planted.

--The s. red oak measured on 7/10 by Brian Stupak is located at a local winery.  It was not reported if the product was sampled during the measurement, but it was a hot day.

--Celeste reports that the 3 remaining green ash registered in Washington County are all dead.

 

Natural Resources Career Conference (NRCC) Update:

 

No updates at this time.

 

 

Website Update:

 

Ron reported that he:

 

Added July 2020 FB meeting minutes to website minutes page

Exchanged August 2020 meeting agenda for July

Updated Cecil Champion Tree pages

 

(Kathie created .pdf pages from Word files – THANK YOU KATHIE!)

 

1. Canadian Hemlock

2. Chinese Chestnut

3. Blue Atlas Cedar

4. Red Maple

5. Northern Pecan

6. (2) Hackberries

 

New Business:

 

Kathie reported:

 

Hope everyone got through the storm okay yesterday.  We lost one sickly spruce in the back and we lost another limb off the champion oak.  Lots of minor debris in the yard, a flooded basement, and no power for the near future apparently.  But all very minor compared to the damage in Delaware and elsewhere.

 

It has been our month for tree issues.  The champion had also dropped a large branch on the road at night a couple of weeks ago; that one hit the power wires on the way down, causing quite an explosive sound/light.  The county cleaned it up.  Just the week prior to that, we lost a very sizable branch out of the oak in the backyard; Michael came right out and took care of it right away for us.  His guys did a great job.  It was way too much of a hazard for Jim to tackle.

 

Dori reported:

 

We lost only 3 trees here. A nice sized Southern Red Oak fell onto a nice sized Chestnut Oak and they both came to rest on a small Black Gum. Location was between our driveway and our neighbors driveway. Nothing got damaged! Amazing! Lots of clean up and cutting for a cooler , less humid weekend.  Kathie and John. Do you remember the large white oak we measured before the ENSF Arboretum was built? It was uprooted in the storm. I’m sure we will hear of more tree losses, unfortunately. Hope all is well with everyone.

 

Gabrielle reported:

 

We lost no trees. Probably because we had Michael's crew remove several trees that were in bad shape. Especially the one that broke off about 30 feet from the ground and came to rest in the one next to it.
We did have some small damage in the garden. Some corn and sunflowers broke. We were VERY lucky. Galena had 2 tornado warnings. I kept expecting them to shift the warnings north to our area, they never did. VERY lucky.

 

Tom reported the Timber Harvest Planning and Inspection process will be starting on October1, 2020.  Exactly what that will consist of, isn’t really known yet.  We are scheduled to have 2 training days here in Cecil County for the Central Region on Aug 25 and 26.  Due to social distancing rules only half the region will be trained each day.

 

The logger may be getting started at Elk Neck State Park the week of August 10. He has delivered some equipment to the site.

 

For those that haven’t heard the State Fair has been cancelled.

 

Next Meeting:                        September 2, 2020