Meeting Schedules from Prior Years

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2011 MEETING SCHEDULE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
DATE	SUBJECT / SPEAKER	LOCATION / TIME
Second Tuesday of Each Month	Snake River Chapter Breakfast Meetings	6:30am Elmer's Restaurant 1385 S. Capitol Blvd. Boise, Idaho
Wed-Thur, Jan 19-20 See Nov/Dec Newsletter.	Collaborative Forest Restoration in Idaho - Tools and Practices	Boise, Idaho
Wednesday, Jan. 26	Snake River Chapter Membership Drive and Social	5:30-7:00pm, Tablerock Brewpub, Boise, Idaho (free microbrew until 7)
Tuesday, February 8	Forestry Day at the Idaho Legislature	Noon to 1pm, Center on the Grove, Boise, Idaho
Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30 Details and Reservation	IMSAF 2011 Section Meeting, Hosted by USU Student Chapter: "How Climate Change Might Be Incorporated Into Forest Management"	Logan, Utah
Friday and Saturday, June 2-4 Details	Southern Utah Woody Biomass Field Days (co-sponsored by IMSAF and Utah Chapter SAF, et.al.)	Beaver, Utah
Date TBD	Ninth Annual Timber Harvest Tour (co-sponsored by Utah Chapter SAF and USU Forestry Extension)	Location TBD
Wednesday thru Sunday, November 2 - 6 Details	2011 National Convention International Year of Forests: Linking Global, Regional, and Local Solutions	Honolulu, Hawaii

2010 MEETING SCHEDULE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
DATE	SUBJECT / SPEAKER	LOCATION / TIME
Second Tuesday of Each Month	Snake River Chapter Breakfast Meetings	6:30am Elmer's Restaurant 1385 S. Capitol Blvd. Boise, Idaho
Tuesday, January 12 Details	Forestry Day at the Legislature	Noon to 1pm, Center on the Grove, Boise, Idaho
Wednesday, February 10 Details	Aboriginal Influences and the Original State of Nature	6pm, The City Club, Ogden, UT
Wednesday & Thursday, March 3-4, 2010 Details	Climate Change, Bioenergy and Sustaining the Forests of Idaho and Montana (this conference has been approved for 11 CFE credits, Category 1)	Boise, Idaho
Monday, April 12 Details	Genetics of Ponderosa Pine A West-Wide Study of Isolated Populations	Salt Lake City, Utah
Friday, April 23 Details	IMSAF 2010 Section Meeting Continuing Forestry Education and Research hosted by the USU Student Chapter	Logan, Utah
Friday Aug 27 and Saturday Aug 28 Details McMillan Info Sat. Travel Map	Resource Management in South Central Utah: Boulder Mountain and the Henry Mountains	Torrey, Utah
Thursday, September 9 Details	Ninth Annual Timber Harvest Tour	Kamas, UT
Monday, October 18 Details	Southern Utah Woody Biomass Field Day (co-sponsored by Utah Chapter SAF)	Beaver, UT
Wednesday, October 27 thru Sunday, October 31 Details	2010 National Convention Forests and People:  A Watershed Event	Albuquerque, New Mexico

CY 2009 MEETING SCHEDULE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
DATE	SUBJECT / SPEAKER	LOCATION / TIME
Second Tuesday of Each Month	Snake River Chapter Breakfast Meetings	Elmer's Restaurant 1385 S. Capitol Blvd. Boise, Idaho 6:30am
Tuesday, Feb. 17 Details	Climate Change, Dr. Daniel Bedford	Ogden, Utah; 6pm
Friday May 29 & Saturday May 30 Details	Bryce Canyon / Dixie National Forest Follow-up to May 2007 meeting (revisit landscape fire use across administrative boundaries, post treatment)	Bryce, Utah
June 22-26 Details	7th North American Forest Ecology Workshop	Logan, Utah
Friday, August 28 - Saturday, August 29 Details	Great Basin Fire History / Site visit to Juniper Pellet	Baker and Ely, Nevada
TBA: September	Evening meeting in association with USFS Regional Leadership Team Meetings	Ogden, Utah

CY 2008 MEETING SCHEDULE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
DATE	SUBJECT / SPEAKER	LOCATION / TIME
TBA (Winter)	Idaho Legislative Luncheon	Boise, Idaho
Friday-Saturday, February 1-2 Details	Carbon and Fire and Planning for the 2008 National Convention	Reno, Nevada
Tuesday, April 1 Details	Snake River Chapter Spring Meeting	Boise, Idaho
Wednesday, April 16 Details	Utah Carbon Reduction Initiative Biomass in the Renewable Energy Portfolio	Ogden, Utah
Friday, August 15 Details	A Day in the Woods with Dr. Jim Long	Logan, Utah
Thursday, September 4 Details	Seventh Annual Timber Harvest Tour	Richfield, Utah
Friday-Saturday, September 12-13 Details	FIRE ON THE NORTH RIM Site Visit and Review of the Warm Fire, Kaibab National Forest, and the Prescribed Fire Program on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park	Jacob Lake, Arizona
Wednesday-Saturday, November 5-8	Forestry in a Climate of Change, 2008 SAF National Convention	Reno, Nevada

CY 2007 MEETING SCHEDULE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
DATE	SUBJECT / SPEAKER	LOCATION / TIME
Thursday,  February 1	Idaho Legislative Luncheon	Noon to 1:15pm, Rose Room on Idaho Street, Boise, Idaho
Monday, February 26 Details	The Past and Future of Public Land Policy Robert Keiter - One of the pre-eminent legal scholars on Natural Resources and Public Lands Policy	Eccles Center - Ogden, Utah
Friday, April 13	Congressional Update on Natural Resource Issues, Congressman Chris Cannon	Provo, Utah
Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19 Details	Vegetation Management in Bryce Canyon National Park and Dixie National Forest Bruce Fields, Kristin Legg, Phil Eisenhauer	Bryce Canyon National Park / Dixie National Forest
Friday and Saturday, June 8 and 9 Details	Mountain Pine Beetle Mortality and Wildfire Risk in the Stanley Valley	Stanley, Idaho
Friday and Saturday, July 14 Details	Field Tour of T.W. Daniel Experimental Forest Dr. James N. Long, USU	Bear Lake, Utah
Tuesday, September 25 Details	6th Annual Timber Harvest Tour	Cedar City, Utah
Wednesday, October 3 Details	Governor Huntsman's Blue Ribbon Advisory Council on Climate Change Dr. Dianne R. Nielson, Governor Huntsman’s Energy Advisor	Ogden, Utah
Tuesday, December 5 Details	The Role of Forests and Foresters in Energy Independence and Climate Change Dave Atkins, USDA-FS State & Private Forestry	Ogden, Utah

CY 2006 MEETING SCHEDULE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
DATE	SUBJECT / SPEAKER	LOCATION / TIME
January 27-28, 2006 (Friday & Saturday) Details	Restoration Forestry – Policy Shift or Adaptive Management January 27: Morning: IMSAF / NORCAL SAF Committee Meetings; Afternoon: Joint Committee Meeting Evening Social and Awards Banquet January 28: General Session Student Poster Contest	Reno Hilton, Reno, Nevada
February 2	Idaho Legislative Luncheon	Rose Room, 718 W. Idaho St., Boise, Idaho, 11:30am – 1:30pm
December 12 details	Speaker:  Dr. Nat Frazer, Dean of the College of Natural Resources, Utah State University	Ogden, Utah

CY 2005 MEETING SCHEDULE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
DATE	SUBJECT / SPEAKER	LOCATION / TIME
January 26-27 details	Forest Taxation and Estate Planning Conference	Provo Marriot
February 1	Idaho Legislative Luncheon	State Capitol, Boise, Idaho
March 3 details	Aboriginal Influences and Original State of Nature Dr. Charles Kay, Utah State University	5:00 pm at Angell's Bar and Grill, Boise
April 23	Annual Wellsville Canyon Highway Cleanup with the USU Student Chapter SAF	Meet either @ 9am in the parking lot behind the NR Building on USU Campus, or @ 9:30am just east of Dry Lake at Sardine Summit.
May 11-13, 2005 registration / agenda / info.	Ecological Restoration of Southwest Ponderosa Pine and Pinyon-Juniper Ecosystems A joint meeting of the Southwest and Intermountain Societies	St. George, Utah and Mt. Trumbull, Arizona (more specifics to be posted as details are developed)
July 5 details	OAKS, ACORNS, CORK AND PIGS: Sustainable Woodland Management in Spain Dr. James N. Long Professor of Silviculture Utah State University	Cedar City, Utah
September 30 details	Fall Field Tour: Ponderosa Pine Restoration	Boise Basin Experimental Forest, Idaho City
October 19 details	Fourth Annual Utah Timber Harvest Tour	Meet at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 19, 2005, at the Scofield Store, in Scofield, Utah. The tour will conclude by 2:00 p.m. Lunch and beverages will be provided. Please RSVP Darren McAvoy by phone 435-797-0560 or e-mail darren.mcavoy@usu.edu.
December 1 details	FOREST MANAGEMENT IN ROADLESS AREAS Jim Caswell, Director of the Idaho Governor’s Office of Species Conservation	Angells, Boise, Idaho

CY 2004 MEETING SCHEDULE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
DATE	SUBJECT / SPEAKER	LOCATION / TIME
January 15 details	An Evening with the Chief of the US Forest Service, Dale Bosworth	Plantation Country Club, Boise, Idaho Refreshments 5:30pm, Dinner 7pm, Speaker 7:45pm
February 11 details	Sustainable Woodland Management in Spain, Dr. James N. Long	Jeremiah’s Restaurant, Ogden, Utah Cash bar at 6:30pm, Dinner 7pm, Speaker follows meal.
April 8 details	Timber and Technology, Economics of a Changing Idaho Industry Jay O’Laughlin, University of Idaho Professor of Forest Policy and Policy Analysis Group Director	Plantation Country Club, Boise, Idaho Refreshments 5pm, Dinner 6pm, Speaker 7pm
April 21 details	IMSAF Annual Meeting Threats to Your National Forest Jack Troyer, USFS Regional Forester	Comfort Suites, Ogden, Utah Cash bar at 6pm, Dinner 6:30pm, Speaker follows meal.
July 10 details	Utah Extension Forestry Timber Harvest Tour	Timber Mountain, Uinta National Forest, east of Springville, Utah
September 21-23 details Brochure	Managing Aspen in Western Landscapes Conference Click Here for Proceedings of Conference	Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
November 10 and November 19 details	Drought-Related Forest Mortality in the West: How Bad Is It? Dr. John Shaw, Analyst, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Interior West Forest Inventory and Analysis	Wednesday, November 10, Ogden Friday, November 19, Cedar City
November 16 details	Tom Thompson and Gray Reynolds, speakers	Plantation Country Club, Boise, Idaho, 5-9:30pm.

CY 2003 MEETING SCHEDULE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
DATE	SUBJECT / SPEAKER	LOCATION / TIME
January 28-29 details	Forest Taxation and Estate Planning For more information call Darren McAvoy at darrenm@cnr.usu.edu or John Hayes at jhayes@cc.usu.edu.	Washington County Administration Building, St. George, Utah
January 30 details	Current National Forest Health and Streamlining Issues Dave Tenny, Deputy Undersecretary for Natural Resources, USDA Mark Madrid, Forest Supervisor, Payette National Forest Dick Smith, Forest Supervisor, Boise National Forest Ruth Monahan, Forest Supervisor, Sawtooth National Forest	Plantation Country Club 6515 West State, Boise, Idaho 5pm, no-host business & social 6pm, dinner 6:45pm, Program
February 17	Idaho Legislative Luncheon	Boise, Idaho
October 3 details	Mechanical Fuels Reduction Demonstration	Kamas, Utah
October 9 details	North Kennedy Cottonwood Stewardship Project	Emmett Ranger District, Boise NF
October 11 details	2nd Annual Landowner's Timber Harvest Tour	Electric Lake, Utah
November 1	Annual Wellsville Canyon Highway Cleanup	Meet either @ 9am in the parking lot behind the NR Building on USU Campus, or @ 9:30am just east of Dry Lake at Sardine Summit. Significant snow may necessitate a reschedule.

CY 2002 MEETING SCHEDULE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
DATE	SUBJECT / SPEAKER	LOCATION / TIME
February 18	Idaho Legislative Luncheon	Boise, Idaho
April 12 details	Environmental Impacts of the Olympics	A-zhan Bistro, 1720 W. 12th St, Ogden, Utah Social at 6pm, Dinner at 6:30
April 19 details	Timber Supply and Future Markets in Southwestern Idaho Keynote speaker:  Joe Hinson, followed by panel:  George Bacon, Operations Chief, South  IDL Bob Giles, Acting Forest Supervisor, PNF Norm Nass, Timber Specialist BNF	Plantation Country Club 6515 West State, Boise, Idaho   Presentation/Discussion 3:30pm Social and Dinner follows
June 27-28 details	IMSAF Annual Meeting New Directions in Silviculture and Watershed Management Dr. Jeffrey Kershner, USDA Forest Service research scientist,  USU Dept. of Aquatic, Watershed and Earth Resources Dr. Renzo Motta, professor of silviculture and forest ecology, University of Turin (Italy) Dr. James N. Long, professor of silviculture and forest ecology, USU Dept. of Forest, Range, and Wildlife Sciences	Utah State University's Bear Lake Training Center in Garden City.
September 13-14 details	Pine Beetle Epidemic on the Sawtooth National Forest	Stanley, Idaho Motel Information

CY 2001 MEETING SCHEDULE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
DATE	Sponsor	SUBJECT / SPEAKER	LOCATION / TIME
Tuesday, January 16, 2001	SR	Idaho Legislative Luncheon Held in conjunction with the annual Idaho Forestry Day	Statehouse Gold Room, Boise 11:30am - 1:30pm
January 24-25, 2001 click for details	USU Extension, Utah State Forestry	Forest Taxation and Estate Planning Conference	Comfort Suites Hotel  Ogden, Utah
Friday, April 6 2001 click for details	UT	Combined Chapter Organizational Meeting - Name the Chapter - Discuss Charter and Bylaws - Future Meeting Ideas - Solicit Volunteers for 2001 National Convention in Denver	Salt Lake City Executive Committee at 5:30pm Social at 6 pm Dinner and Discussion at 6:30pm
Tuesday, April 10, 2001 click for details	SR	National Interagency Fire Center Tour and Legislative Update from Senator Larry Craig's Office	Boise 1pm (tour) &  3:30pm (update)
June 21-22, 2001	UT	Joint Meeting with The Nature Conservancy Spruce Beetle Management on the Fishlake NF; Overview of the Conservation Easement between Bar-J Ranch and TNC	Gooseberry Guard Station,  Fishlake National Forest (near Richfield, Utah)
June 29, 2001	SR	Review of Trail Creek Fire and other Forest Management Issues (field day)	Meet at 7am at the Boise National Forest Supervisors Office.  Return by 5:30pm.
October 12, 2001 click for details	USU	Annual Utah State University Student Chapter Sponsored Meeting with Utah Chapter SAF	4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Highway89 Clean-up w/ Student Chapter 6:00 pm Social/Dinner @ USU Natural Resources Building Atrium
October 18-20, 2001	IM	Meeting Rescheduled for May 2002 "Wildland/Urban Interface:  Fire and Community Forestry"	Reno, Nevada
December 12, 2001 click for details	SR	Dale Bosworth, new Forest Service Chief, is scheduled to speak	Plantation Country Club, Boise, Idaho, 3pm

CY 2000 MEETING SCHEDULE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
DATE	SUBJECT / SPEAKER	LOCATION / TIME
Tuesday, January 18, 2000 click for details	Idaho Legislative Breakfast President Clinton's Roadless Protection Initiative: panel presentation and discussion	Statehouse Gold Room and Rotunda, Boise 8:00 to 10:00 am
Friday, January 21, 2000 click for details	The Wasatch-Cache National Forest ForestPlan Revision	Mansion House 2530 Adams Avenue, Ogden
Thursday & Friday, February 24 & 25,2000 click for details	Ecosystem Management in Southern Utah& Northern Arizona.	Sharwan Smith Center on the Southern UtahUniversity Campus, Cedar City
March 26, and April 15, 2000	Tree Planting As part of the SAF Centennial we will be assisting Tree Utah in planting trees and shrubs.  The two dates to the left have been targeted for SAF participation.	Salt Lake City
March and April, 2000	Arbor Day Celebrations	Elko and Carson, Nevada
Friday & Saturday April 7 & 8, 2000 click for details	Intermountain Section Meeting	Boise, Idaho
April 28, 2000	Arbor Day Celebration SAF will sponsor the planting of several trees on the grounds of the Statehouse.	State House Grounds Boise, Idaho
Friday, May 19, 2000 click for details	Kennecott Copper Mine Spoils Rehabilitation and Mine Visit Dr. Bill Adams, Kennecott Copper	Kennecott Copper, Visitor Center, 12:30 pm for a 4 to 5 hour tour
Thursday & Friday, June 29 & 30, 2000 click for details	Natural Resource Management Concerns .  Hosted by the Society for Range Management. Sponsored by SAF, SRM, and The Wildlife Society	Vernal, Utah and Diamond Mountain on the Ashley National Forest
Friday, August 11, 2000 click for details	Summer Tour of Bear Valley in coordination with the Society for Range Management and the Wildlife Society	Boise, Idaho
Friday, October 13, 2000	This is the final date for our annual meeting at USU hosted by the Student Chapter.  Highway 89 clean-up, dutch oven cookout, social.  Come meet the students and future forestry leaders.	Sardine Canyon, Mantua, Utah Clean-up:  4-6pm. Social & Dinner begin at 5:30pm at Box Elder Campground.
November 2 & 3, 2000 click for details	The Lynx -- Management Strategies and Implications	Big Piney, Wyoming
Friday, December 1, 2000 click for details	JJ Brown and Ron Dean, Natural Resource Staffers from Senator Hatch's Washington and Utah offices, will speak.  Focus will be on  what they see the new administration bringing to the natural resources table, the affect on federal land management, and natural resource legislation the new congress may propose.	Mansion House 2530 Adams Avenue Ogden, Utah
December 6, 2000 click for details	A Case for Abolishing the Forest Service Robert H. Nelson, University of Maryland	Plantation Country Club Boise, Idaho 3:30pm

August 1999, Ephraim, Utah:  Restoring Pinyon-Juniper, Aspen, and Tall Forb Communities; The Role of Fire and Effects of Invasive Plants (click for details)