April Events

At today's (March 23) meeting of the Forestry Club we decided on the following events:

• April 23 -- There will be an afternoon field trip to a hunting club property near King's Gap State Park followed by pizza!
• April 24 -- We will lead tree walks in the campus arboretum for children attending the Pediatric Fair.
• April 24 -- We will have an informational table for the Earth Day celebration at Caledonia State Park. This will only take two people.
• April 25 -- We will volunteer for tree shelter removal in the state forest plantation near Sand Rd.

Pancake Breakfast. Yum!

From Penn State Mont Alto Forestry Club

On Saturday February 27, forestry club members Tim Benedict, Sam Bond, Mike Trisket, Tyler Wakefield, and Seth Morris went to a pancake breakfast in Mount Hope. The event was to support the Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve. The members in attendance had a great time. After the breakfast we went to the Nature Preserve and hiked some of the nature trails.

Tubing

With the huge amounts of snow that have fallen in the last two weeks the students were eager to try out the snow tubing at White Tail again. This year's course has a higher raised ending to prevent crashes into the fence, but the course is still fast. Check out the videos.

Burning the Woodpile

From time to time the Woodsmen's Team needs to dispose of the accumulated scraps from practice. Also, students in arboriculture have pruned a lot of branches around campus. But it's important to burn the pile safely. It just so happens that this weekend the area is being hit by a huge snowstorm. No chance of the fire getting away! The team members will monitor it overnight, though.

Brush Pile Burn THIS WEEKEND!

The brush pile burn is now scheduled for this weekend; 5:00pm on Friday till 12:00pm on Saturday, February 5th and 6th. Sign up for time slots with Tim or Ricky.

- Alex Lamoreaux

Brush Pile Burn Postponed

I am sad to announce that due to predicted weather conditions, the brush pile burn set to occur this Thursday night into Friday has to be postponed. Please check back here for information as to when the new date for this event will be......

- Alex Lamoreaux

Meeting today....

Today was out first club meeting this semester and basically we made plans for some events for the spring semester. The meeting went well and it seems that everyone is excited for our upcoming events.

To recap, here are some events we planned out:

Brush pile burn : January 22nd and then overnight till the 23rd

snow tubing : February 9th leaving the campus at 6:00pm, we will tube from 7 till 9 pm

Audubon Society meeting (Vernal Ponds) : meet at bus at 6:30pm

Alleghany SAF meeting in WV : February 16th till the 17th

Fishing Derby : April 11th

Be sure to check back often as we will try to make this blog more active.

-Alex Lamoreaux