Future Forests partnership

 Sagehen is working hard to scale up the kind of forest treatments needed to return low intensity fire and restore health and resilience to our precious central Sierra forests.

But we can't move forward--and could never have gotten anywhere in the first place--without a broad and increasing range of excellent partners. We need a fundamental shift in our cultural relationship to fire and forestry, and to get there will involve 5 prongs: Art, Business, Policy, Management, and Science. In particular, art is how you change culture, so we need an artistic response at the scale of the management response.

Joining with the Nevada County Arts Council, Arts & Culture Eldorado, the Nevada Museum of Art - Center for Art + Environment and many socially-engaged artists and other supporters, we have initiated an effort called Future Forests. See the website to learn more about us, see what's already happening, and to get involved if our work meshes with yours. We always need more partners!

Listen to Jeff describe the pieces of the puzzle on WeatherBrains 724 (watch from 38:05-44:09):

STW updates

Saving The West (now Living Forests) continues to move forward with its goal of creating a small wood industry to restore ecological function to western forests. Some recent developments include:

• A new website is under construction.
• The Center for the Study of the Force Majeure was recruited this fall to submit a $100-million STW grant proposal to the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change program. The proposal passed administrative review, and the foundation will announce semi-finalists in mid-January. Newton Harrison is also in conversation with the Buckminster Fuller Institute about STW; in 2014, the organization awarded a Fuller Challenge honorable mention to the Harrison's art project at Sagehen.
• We are applying for grants to fund a LiDAR and Landsat analysis to determine the quantity and quality of woody material that would be removed should the STW demonstration area in central CA and western NV be treated to restore ecological function. This analysis applies the "8-Emphasis-Area" approach developed in the Sagehen Forest Project collaboration. Quantifying the available supply over the time spans required for investment capital repayment is traditionally the major stumbling block to moving forward with new markets. Due to the realities of implementation cost, the Forest Service currently designs projects around what they can sell on the current commodities market, which is not useful for making financial projections.
• The Sagehen Forest Project model is now being implemented in the Lake Tahoe West Shore collaborative project, a big scaling up of the concepts.
• We continue meeting with all kinds of people already working at the intersection of industry and forest management in CA and NV, creating synergies and opportunities. One interesting idea we are discussing with the Burning Man people is the use of Sagehen Project slash for the construction of structures like the Man or the Temple, as a way to spread these concepts to a global audience.

Saving The West

The Sagehen Forest Project has spun off several remarkable related projects.

Saving The West (STW), now Living Forests, is a policy document developed by the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure at UC Santa Cruz, including artist Newton Harrison and consultant Josh Harrison. STW is being developed as a rallying point to bring together a group of folks interested in addressing the glaring hole in the Sagehen Forest Project: the lack of a California market for raw wood product.



Going into the collaborative process, we all thought that getting environmentalists and loggers to agree would be the hard part. But, given a little time, that turned out to be relatively easy: everyone benefits from a healthy forest. Yet, now that we all agree on what needs to be done, we are stymied by the lack of someone to buy even the saw logs coming off the forest, much less the wood chip and small diameter wood. For the unit treatments around the station which are being funded by the National Forest Foundation (NFF) grant, we are just masticating everything into chip that will be burned on the ground. Or chopping and stacking logs into burn piles. This seems so wasteful: that material should be used, and continue to act as carbon storage.

The Center is working to put forestry issues onto the platform of the Democratic presidential nominee, as well as into the Governor's office. If these politicians start to hear about this need from both the scientists and the artists, it carries more weight and importance.

We have begun to bring Cathexis Architecture into the conversation. Cathexis has an impressive redevelopment project planned for a sizable chunk of downton Reno, NV, and they would like to build at least one wooden skyscraper. Binderholz, an Austrian company that manufactures engineered wood products, is planning to open a plant in the US. They are looking in the Pacific Northwest, but the NFF is reaching out to try to connect them with the Reno Dept. of Economic Development. If we could develop a market for wood product here, that reduces transportation costs to get material out of the forest.

The Proposal:

• STW Talking Points
• STW Proposal

Related info:

• What the West's Trees Tell Us
• Use of linear programming to optimize the social, environmental, and economic impacts of using woody feedstocks for pellet and torrefied pellet production
• CA Assembly Votes to Recognize Forests as Part of State’s Water System

Congressional Briefing at Sagehen on the #SagehenForestProject

Scott Conway presents on the Sagehen Forest Project
on Aug. 25, 2015.

As a follow-up to a recent visit to Washington DC, Sagehen Creek Field Station and the UC Berkeley Office of Government Affairs hosted a "Sagehen Forest Project" Congressional briefing at the station on August 25, 2015. The guests were California and Nevada staffers from the offices of Senators Feinstein, Boxer, Reid and Heller, Representatives McClintock, Amodei and LaMalfa, and Assemblyman Dahle.

A broad spectrum of Sagehen Forest Project partners and others attended, including local and regional Forest Service representatives from both the management and the research sides, Sierra Forest Legacy, Sierra Pacific Industries, National Forest Foundation, Sierra Nevada Conservancy, Truckee River Watershed Council, Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board, Lake Tahoe Conservancy, California Forestry Association, Nevada County Board of Supervisors, Washoe County Air Quality Management Division, Center for Art + Environment - Nevada Museum of Art, US Geological Survey, Harrison Studio, the Washoe tribe, CalFire, California Rural Counties, and many others.

The forests of the Sierra Nevada (and the wider American west) are in trouble. Comstock-era clear-cutting, 100 years of fire-suppression in the regrowth, and a drying and warming climate has led to a tenuous situation in which our forests are overstocked and stressed, weakening their resistance to drought, disease, bark-beetle infestation, and wildfire. Before European intervention, regular low intensity fire cycled nutrients, introduced heterogeneity of species and structure, created small openings for wildlife, and cleaned out the duff layer and understory. Now, there is so much fuel built up that when fire does come in it often destroys the entire forest and sterilizes the seed bank. Forests experiencing this kind of fire will often not come back and look like they once did.

We need to remove that built-up fuel, so that low-intensity natural fire can reenter the system. But forest management practices of the past focused heavily on timber yields and fuel reduction, without sufficient attention to restoring ecological functions like wildlife habitat and water supply. This destroyed trust. The result is gridlock, where proposed forestry projects often end up in court.

From environmentalists to loggers, absolutely everyone is concerned about intense and destructive wildfire in our overgrown forests. Over a period of 18-months beginning in 2010, the Sagehen Forest Project partners came together to figure out a way to address everyone's concerns about forest health and management policy.

And we succeeded, creating new prescriptions and tools that are applicable (and being used) on much larger scales than just the Sagehen basin. See Scott Conway's presentation from the meeting to learn more:



Ironically, getting to agreement turned out to be the easy part. Now, with everyone in our community finally agreeing on how we should start managing our forests, there is not enough new biomass processing facility, small material technology, nor mill capacity left in California to provide a destination for the significant amounts of sawlogs and chip that need to come out in order to return to resiliency and ecological balance.

Hopefully, with the help of our State and Congressional representatives, our Federal and State agencies, local NGO's, private interests and citizen partners we can figure out how to move forward with the great forest plan we developed together.

We'll post more info on the project blog as it becomes available, and you can follow and contribute to the conversation on social media under the hashtag: #SagehenForestProject

Event photos from Sherri Eng.
Download PowerPoint presentations from the meeting:

• Jeff Brown: intro
• Lisa Wallace: the Sagehen Forest Project Collaborative Process
• Scott Conway: the Sagehen Forest Project Design Process

Contract awarded! Grant received!

From Joanne...

===============

I am very pleased to let you all know that the Tahoe National Forest was able to award our first contract implementing the decisions made for the Sagehen Project.  This is a wonderful and exciting step.  Everyone who participated has helped us get to this point.   We are also very pleased to announce that on March 12, 2014, the National Forest Foundation was awarded a $349,140 grant by the Sierra Nevada Conservancy that will allow implementation of the next phase of this project, as well.

I need to say that I am very proud of everyone who helped us get here.  This was truly a meeting of the minds. We started with a variety of ideas and through a great deal of good, hard work, came to an amazing place.  Everyone brought their passion but then took time to hear and understand everyone else.  I know there are still some different viewpoints, but this project is so much better today for the energy and effort that everyone put into the understanding that has developed. Thank you!

I need to say as proud as I am of everyone who participated, that I am particularly proud of the core team who put in so many hours and worked so hard to be sure we captured all the ideas and found ways to fit them together, who read and re-read the science until it could be incorporated into the design, who helped us craft a great project and then helped us explain it in the NEPA document.

I know that the implementation is our next opportunity and challenge but I welcome it and hope you do as well.  We have learned so much getting to this point, but I know that learning will continue.  Jeff Brown has told me so many times to get on with the implementation so the next group of scientists can watch us work, see the results and help us learn more.  Well, here we go….

Please accept my gratitude for your support.

Joanne

Joanne B Roubique
District Ranger
Truckee Ranger District
10811 Stockrest Springs
Truckee, Ca 96161
530-587-3558 x 232
jroubique@fs.fed.us

Sagehen Project Decision Notice signed!

Dear Sagehen Project Collaborators and Interested Parties,


The Sagehen Project Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact was signed by Alexander Friend (Director, Pacific Southwest Research Station) and Tom Quinn (Tahoe National Forest Supervisor) on May 6, 2013.

The Sagehen Project Environmental Assessment (EA) and supporting documents are available online at the Tahoe National Forest’s website.

The legal notice of the decision is expected to be published in Grass Valley’s The Union newspaper as soon as tomorrow. The date of the legal notice in The Union will establish the timeframe for the 45-day appeal filing period under 36 CFR 215.

Laurie Perrot
Environmental Coordinator
Tahoe National Forest
631 Coyote Street
Nevada City, CA 95959
lperrot@fs.fed.us
(530) 478-6244

• Decision Letter
• Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact
• Responses to Public Comments Received

Associated science in the basin

As part of the Sagehen 50-year art project, we thought it would be a good idea to consolidate in one post a list of all the science projects relating to the Sagehen Forest Project.

In addition to science done to determine the best treatment options, there is a lot going on in the basin to assess pre- and post-treatment conditions going forward into the manipulation phase of the larger project.

The idea of these studies is to actually monitor and evaluate the effects of the forest restructuring on wildlife, water quality, vegetation and people. 

• VEGETATION AND FUELS: the SPLAT project and Vaillant thesis gathered a massive dataset, including fuels and vegetation surveys, LiDAR imaging of the basin with and without vegetation, fire model runs, fire history, etc.
• BIRDS: Researcher Marty Raphael is revisiting bird survey plots begun in the 1960's within the Donner Burn study transects. The Forest Service monitors bird presence in the basin. Goshawk and Spotted Owl surveys occur annually. The Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) project runs annual banding stations at sites within the Sagehen basin. Vladimir Pravosudov's multi-decade chickadee memory research continues.
• SMALL MAMMALS: Calhoun line trapping transects begun in the 1950's are being revisited by PSW researcher Pat Manley.
• FISH SURVEYS: annual fish monitoring continues in various Sagehen Creek stretches.
• AMERICAN MARTEN: monitoring of this indicator species was recently revisited in anticipation of the treatments.
• HYDROLOGY: the USGS regularly samples Sagehen Creek stream water chemistry and remotely monitors flow through their Hydrologic Benchmark Network. Numerous modeling efforts continue. Terry Hogue is evaluating stream water yield. The Forest Service does annual stream condition surveys. Researcher Jim Kirchner is evaluating weather, groundwater and sap flow patterns.
• METEOROLOGY: National Atmospheric Deposition Program precipitation sampling is ongoing. Weather data is continuously collected at 12 towers within the basin.

Did I forget anything?

SFP Meetings.

Jeff expounds.

Barney shares his vision.

Tuesday was back to back meetings in the lower Sagehen Forest Project demo plot.

First was a meet-and-greet with our PSW liaison Rick Bottoms, Truckee District Ranger Joanne Roubique, and the new Deputy Regional Forester, Barney Gyant. It was great to meet and get a chance to catch Barney up on Sagehen plans and projects. We're definitely on the same page and we look forward to working with him in the future!

Next on the agenda was a tour of the lower Sagehen Forest project demo plot with Joanne and her Vegetation Management Officer, Scott Conway; the National Forest Foundation's California Program Director, Vance Russell; and the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit's Deputy Forest Supervisor Jeff Marsolais and Vegetation Management Officer, Rita Mustatia.

The meetings overlap!

Discussion of the treatment strategy and the process.

Scott, Joanne and Jeff discussed the treatment design and the collaborative process behind the Sagehen Forest Project. Jeff and Rita talked about the challenges in the Lake Tahoe basin, some of their plans for fire mitigation and forest health, and how the SFP might fit into those plans.

We're very excited about the wider scope possibilities of the SFP!

More photos.

NFF Meeting

Jeff and I, along with numerous Tahoe National Forest staff, attended a meeting held in Truckee by the National Forest Foundation in early February.

The NFF "Treasured Landscapes, Unforgettable Experiences" campaign is "working to restore our damaged forests and restore Americans connection to these public lands."

Conservation campaign work will take place on keystone sites, which NFF has carefully selected based on conservation need and values. A section of the Truckee River watershed beginning at Lake Tahoe has just been added to the list of keystone sites.

The Foundation formed a Local Coordinating Council to advise them on how to proceed with the conservation work.

Local Coordinating Council Members 

• Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit – Jeff Marsolais 
• Sagehen / UC Berkeley – Jeff Brown
• Science community – Malcom North
• Sierra Business Council – TBD
• Sierra Nevada Conservancy – TBD, Kim Carr or Bob Kingman
• Tahoe RCD – Kim Gorman
• Tahoe Conservancy – Patrick Wright
• Tahoe National Forest – Joanne Roubique and Eli Ilano
• Trout Unlimited, Feather River Chapter – Bill Copren / Cindy Noble (alternate)
• Truckee Donner Land Trust – Perry Norris
• Truckee River Watershed Council – Lisa Wallace

It appears that the Sagehen Forest Project will feature prominently, with the Sagehen basin treatment model to be replicated at a number of additional locations within the keystone site, including parcels of both public and private land.

Download meeting notes (PDF-225K).

August 9, 2011 Meeting Announcement

We hope you can join us for the next stakeholder meeting:

Tuesday
August 9, 2011
9:00am – 4:00 pm
We will start and end promptly!
RSVP to: Lisa Wallace at lwallace@truckeeriverwc.org

Goal:
Kris Boatner and Scott Conway will lead a tour of several areas marked for treatment according to the Proposed Action and associated perscriptions. Stakeholders will be able to see how the prescriptions have been applied by the marking crews and provide feedback to Kris and Scott.

This is an unusual opportunity and we strongly encourage you to attend to experience the on-the-ground application of the prescriptions defined in the Sagehen Collaborative Process.

Location:
We will meet at the Sagehen Turnoff at Highway 89North (if you need detailed directions, please reply and I will send them). Please park on the Sagehen Road. We will gather here and arrange carpooling.

Logistics:
The meeting will take place no matter the weather. Sun or rain (or snow) – the meeting will not be cancelled.

Please be sure to bring:

Your own lunch. We’re not providing lunch and there is not anywhere to buy lunch
Water
Layered clothing for cool to warm weather
Clothing that can get dirty – we’ll be walking in and amongst the marked areas
Very sturdy footwear – we will be walking on uneven ground
Hats, sunblock and whatever else you need to be comfortable to be outside in fairly rough conditions all day

RSVP:
Please RSVP so we can plan the route based on the estimated number of vehicles and people.

Thanks!
/lisa wallace (facilitator)
*************
Lisa Wallace
Executive Director
Truckee River Watershed Council
P.O. Box 8568
Truckee, CA 96162
(530) 550-8760 (Phone)
(530) 725-4407 (fax)
www.truckeeriverwc.org
lwallace@truckeeriverwc.org

July 12 meeting announcement.

Hello all,

A quick reminder that the next Stakeholder Meeting is:

Tuesday
July 12, 2011
10:00am – 12:30pm
Truckee Ranger District
No conference calling available
We will not break for lunch, but will end promptly at 12:30pm

The agenda will be a detailed review of the final draft Proposed Action and Purpose and Need Statement.

We will send the documents via email on July 12; they will also be posted on the Sagehen Forest Blog (http://sagehenforest.blogspot.com/). Copies will be available at the meeting.

Comments, feedback and ideas will be welcome at the meeting and after until July 22, 2011.

**Please RSVP so we can plan for seating and copies.**

Thank-you!
/lisa wallace (facilitator)

*************
Lisa Wallace
Executive Director
Truckee River Watershed Council
P.O. Box 8568
Truckee, CA 96162
(530) 550-8760 (Phone)
(530) 725-4407 (fax)
www.truckeeriverwc.org
lwallace@truckeeriverwc.org

**Please send feedback by June 8, 2011**

**Please send feedback by June 8, 2011**

Hello All,

Thank you to the many folks who were able to attend yesterdays Stakeholder Meeting.

For you as well as for those who could not attend, attached are some notes from the group discussion and the documents we reviewed.

All three, plus a good map, are also posted on the Sagehen Forest Blog

Please review the documents and send feedback on:

• the sections and/or points that need to be kept in the documents
• points needing revision and suggestions for the revision
• points to be deleted and why
• points needing to be added with suggestions for the addition

You can send the feedback to me or directly to Kris Boatner. Please try to get comments in by June 8, 2011.

The next meeting is July 12, 2011 to review the Proposed Action and Purpose and Need that go to publication.

Thank you,
/lisa (facilitator)

*************
Lisa Wallace
Executive Director
Truckee River Watershed Council
P.O. Box 8568
Truckee, CA 96162
(530) 550-8760 (Phone)
(530) 725-4407 (fax)
www.truckeeriverwc.org
lwallace@truckeeriverwc.org

May 3, 2011: Fire Model review

Hello all,

You are invited to attend a meeting to review the results of the FlamMap and FARSITE fire models:

Tuesday

May 3, 2011

9:00am – noon

Truckee Ranger District, Truckee

Or via webinar and conference call

Please RSVP so we can plan for seating/viewing of data/images and handouts.

If you want to attend via webinar, after you RSVP we will send sign-on instructions.

Thanks!

Lisa Wallace (Facilitator)

*************

Lisa Wallace

Executive Director

Truckee River Watershed Council

P.O. Box 8568

Truckee, CA 96162

(530) 550-8760 (Phone)

(530) 725-4407 (fax)

www.truckeeriverwc.org

lwallace@truckeeriverwc.org

Updated documents

Here are the latest versions of various documents and meeting materials for you to download:

• 12-3-10 Meeting PowerPoint presentation (PPTX - 9.5M).
• 3-4-10 Meeting PowerPoint presentation (PPTX - 5.3M).
• Sagehen Area Emphasis Map (PDF - 393K).
• List of Sagehen Project issues (PDF - 86K).
• List of progress on Sagehen Project issues (PDF - 86K).
• Sagehen Project objectives (PDF - 201K).
• Sagehen sub-unit prescription example (PDF - 90K).

Next meeting, November 16, 2010.

We hope you can join us for the next stakeholder meeting:

As this is the last likely opportunity to be in the field until late spring 2011, we will be in the Sagehen Basin all day.

We have had requests from many participants to tour the units in the Sagehen Basin which will receive treatment. We will visit representative sites in as many of the units as time, weather and roads allow.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010
9:00am – 4:00pm
We will start and end promptly!
RSVP to: Lisa Wallace at lwallace@truckeeriverwc.org so we can plan seating and copies

Meeting Location:
Highway 89N and Sagehen turnoff (respond if you need detailed directions)

Conference Calling:
We will be in the Sagehen Basin the entire day. No conference calling will be available.

Meeting Materials:
Meeting materials will not be posted prior to the meeting. We will have maps that will be distributed on 11/16 and these will be posted at http://sagehenforest.blogspot.com the following day.

Logistics:
The meeting will take place no matter the weather. Sun, rain or snow – the meeting will not be cancelled.

Please RSVP to Lisa Wallace at lwallace@truckeeriverwc.org so we can plan accordingly.

The meeting will be on-site in the Sagehen Basin. The forecast is for clear, but cold weather. Please be sure to bring:

Clothing for wet and cold weather;
Clothing that can get dirty – we’ll be walking in several sites in the Sagehen Basin;
Very sturdy footwear – we will be walking on uneven ground in the Test Plots;
Hats, sunblock and whatever else you need to be comfortable to be outside in fairly rough conditions for the entire day
Your own lunch. We’re not providing lunch and there isn’t a convenient place to buy lunch;
Water bottles. We will have water for re-fills, but we are not providing bottled water.

Please RSVP so we can plan for the tour.

Thanks!
/lisa
*************
Lisa Wallace
Executive Director
Truckee River Watershed Council
P.O. Box 8568
Truckee, CA 96162
(530) 550-8760 (Phone)
(530) 725-4407 (fax)
www.truckeeriverwc.org
lwallace@truckeeriverwc.org

Next meeting dates.

Hello Everyone,

The Meeting Planning Committee** has set the additional meeting dates. The next three meetings are as noted below. Additional meetings beyond January 2011 will be announced in January.

Information about the Sagehen Collaborative Project and these meetings is posted at http://sagehenforest.blogspot.com/

Tuesday
November 16, 2010
9:00am to 4:00pm
Sagehen Basin Field Visit

Friday
December 3, 2010
10:00am to 3:00pm
Truckee Ranger District offices

Thursday
January 20, 2011
10:00am to 3:00pm
Truckee Ranger District offices

A week before each meeting, I will publish an agenda and, as much as possible, include the meeting materials.

We hope you can join us for all meetings, but you are welcome to attend as many or few as your schedule allows.

Thank you for your interest and willingness to participate.

/lisa

**Meeting Planning Committee

o Jeff Brown, UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station
o Kris Boatner, USFS Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District
o Scott Conway, USFS Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District
o Joanne Roubique, USFS Tahoe National Forest, Truckee Ranger District
o Peter Stine, USFS Pacific Southwest Research Station
o Craig Thomas, Sierra Forest Legacy
o Lisa Wallace, Truckee River Watershed Council


*************
Lisa Wallace
Executive Director
Truckee River Watershed Council
P.O. Box 8568
Truckee, CA 96162
(530) 550-8760 (Phone)
(530) 725-4407 (fax)
www.truckeeriverwc.org
lwallace@truckeeriverwc.org

10/14/2010 Stakeholder Meeting

Here are the preliminary notes from the 10-14-10 meeting.

Downloads:

• Get meeting notes as PDF [24K].
• Meeting Guidelines [PDF-9.4K]
• PowerPoint presentation from meeting [54M]. 
• Working prescription [PDF-2MB] - link updated 11/4/10.
• Pine Martin research references and presentations.

Next meeting...

We hope you can join us for the next stakeholder meeting:

Thursday
October 14, 2010
10:00am – 3:00 pm
We will start and end promptly!
RSVP to: Lisa Wallace at lwallace@truckeeriverwc.org

Meeting Locations:
USFS Truckee Ranger District office, front conference room
10811 Stockrest Springs Road
Truckee, CA 96161

Sagehen Creek Field Station (directions and carpooling will be sorted out at the meeting)

Conference Calling:
If you will be calling-in for the first part of the meeting, please RSVP as such and you will be emailed the phone number and confirmation code.

Logistics:

The meeting will take place no matter the weather. Sun, rain or snow – the meeting will not be cancelled.

The first part of the meeting will be held indoors at the Truckee Ranger District. Please RSVP to Lisa Wallace at lwallace@truckeeriverwc.org so we can plan seating and copies accordingly.

Lunch and the second part of the meeting will be on-site at Sagehen Creek Field Station. Please be sure to bring:

Your own lunch. We’re not providing lunch and there is not a convenient place to buy lunch;
Water bottles ~ we will have water for re-fills, but we are not providing bottled water;
Clothing for cool to very cold weather;
Clothing that can get dirty – we’ll be walking in and amongst the Test Plots;
Very sturdy footwear – we will be walking on uneven ground in the Test Plots;
Hats, sunblock and whatever else you need to be comfortable to be outside in fairly rough conditions for 2.5 hours.

Please RSVP so we can plan seating and copies.

Thanks!
/lisa
*************
Lisa Wallace
Executive Director
Truckee River Watershed Council
P.O. Box 8568
Truckee, CA 96162
(530) 550-8760 (Phone)
(530) 725-4407 (fax)
www.truckeeriverwc.org
lwallace@truckeeriverwc.org

Truckee Talks segment

The Sagehen Forest Project from F. Felix on Vimeo.
Jeff Brown, Malcolm North & Scott Conway talk to Maia Schneider about the Sagehen Forest Project underway in the Sagehen Experimental Forest.

More information on the project blog at http://sagehenforest.blogspot.com/

Announcement from our facilitator

Hello Everyone,

I am excited to be joining the Sagehen Collaborative Project.

The next three meetings will take place as noted below. Additional meetings will be scheduled in collaboration with all of you.

Thursday
October 14, 2010
10:00am to 3:00pm
Truckee Ranger District offices & Sagehen Field Visit

Friday
October 29, 2010
10:00am to 3:00pm
Truckee Ranger District offices & Sagehen Field Visit

Tuesday
November 16, 2010
10:00am to 3:00pm
Truckee Ranger District offices (& Sagehen Field Visit as needed and weather permitting)

A week before each meeting, I will publish an agenda and, as much as possible, include the meeting materials.

While a detailed agenda will be published for the October 14 meeting, I’d like to let you know we (Peter Stine, Joanne Roubique and other USFS staff) expect to review the goals of the Sagehen Collaborative Project, recruit a planning committee, receive a briefing on the two Demonstrations Plots and tour the Demonstration Plots.

The overall aim of the meetings is to devise a forest management strategy that incorporates the objectives of our collaborative group. We hope to have that completed by the spring of 2011 so we can proceed with NEPA.

We hope you can join us for all meetings, but you are welcome to attend as many or few as your schedule allows.

Thank you for your interest and willingness to participate.

/lisa

*************

Lisa Wallace
Executive Director
Truckee River Watershed Council
P.O. Box 8568
Truckee, CA 9
(530) 550-8760 (Phone)
(530) 725-4407 (fax)
www.truckeeriverwc.org
lwallace@truckeeriverwc.org