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The Sequoia – February 2020 TUOLUMNE GROUP NEWSLETTER - FEBRUARY 2020 JOIN OUR GROVELAND HIKING GROUP FOR A HIKE ANY THURSDAY >>>> Email Bob Asquith, Outings Leader: [email protected] Look for photos from recent INSIDE outings on our “Hiking the 120” BENEFITS OF PRESCRIBED BURNS Facebook page KEITH MARTIN TO RECEIVE OUTINGS LEADERSHIP AWARD NAT. GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHER Groveland Hiking Group Wants You! PHIL SCHERMEISTER SLATED FOR By Outings Leader Bob Asquith Ahead, some of our outings include the West- APRIL 22 PRESENTATION side RR Grade, Peoria Mountain (New Melones), The months ahead will feature weekly hikes the Red Hills, 6 Mile Road (near Murphys) with throughout Tuolumne County. By March, we a stop to enjoy more than 10,000 blooming bulbs will begin chasing wildflowers on nearby Table at Ironstone Vineyards, Yosemite Valley and Mountain and continue all the way up to Tioga Wapama Falls at Hetch Hetchy, the “waterslide” Pass in late summer. In 2019, the last Thursday at Tenaya Creek, and many destinations in the of August greeted us with a phenomenal array of Yosemite High Country. PS – A group that hikes wildflowers at an altitude of over 10,000 feet. It together must have ice cream together. Please was just turning spring there. come join us. If we ever get some decent snowfall, we will go Follow us via Facebook at – Hiking The 120. snowshoeing in Yosemite. And, in the past years, Join us any Thursday at 8am or 9am (until April) we have joined with other groups to plant trees in in Groveland. Contact our dynamic Outings Stanislaus National Forest burn areas. Leader, Bob Asquith at [email protected] “ Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” —John Muir Prescribed Fire: A Tool for Managing Forests By John Buckley hy do environmentalists endorse the use of intentional “prescribed” Wfire in local forests? Air quality definitely matters to the Sierra Club. Clean air is important – especially for the young, the elderly, and those with health risks. But the reality is that California and most of the West is natu- rally a fire-based ecosystem with highly flammable vegetation that simply will burn at some point. The only question is “when?” Accordingly, those who live in fire risk communities need to accept the reality that smoke will happen, one way or the other. At some point, forests, brush fields, and oak equipment is staged to deal with unexpected woodlands are all likely to burn in a potentially events. Additional fire lines are created within destructive wildfire. Both the Forest Service and the planned burn area so that the prescribed fire the Park Service agree that applying carefully can be stopped at those fire lines if conditions managed prescribed fire is an important tool to change or air quality limits are met. Increas- reduce the risk of an uncontrolled, high severity ingly, federal forest agencies actually have air wildfire. Some may wonder whether intentionally quality monitoring equipment on site to ensure lighting fires in wildland areas can ever be safe or that despite the smoke that is generated, no beneficial. The answer to both questions is “yes.” significant health thresholds are exceeded. Prescribed fires are lit and managed by For thousands of years lightning and Native trained fire crews and only when weather, fuel American-lit fires kept forests generally open moisture, and air quality conditions are within and park-like with scattered patches of forest a pre-planned “prescription.” The vast, over- thickets as well as scattered clearings. The chal- whelming majority of prescribed burns lit on lenge for forest managers today is to replicate public lands have been done safely and effective- natural fires in a safe and effective manner. Our ly, without getting out of control. Crews create Tuolumne Group consistently supports the use strategic fire lines prior to lighting the fire, and of prescribed fire in our local forests. n COURTESY USFS Tuolumne Group Outings Chair Honored Local Allies: by Angeles Chapter with Leadership Award Central Sierra Audubon Society HE CHESTER VERSTEEG OUTINGS PLAQUE is the highest outings Tleadership award conferred by the Angeles Chapter. It is awarded to a Sierra Club member who has provided long-term and outstanding leadership in furthering the enjoyment and safety of the outings program. Keith Martin has been a leader since 1991. Keith and Beth led a successful Thanksgiving He has an M rating. Keith estimates that he has weekend bus and lodge trip to the Grand Can- led nearly 1,000 outings for different Angeles yon that netted more than $1,000. Chapter entities, ranging from local condition- Keith and Beth moved to the town of Grov- ing hikes to multi-week international trips to eland in Tuolumne County, near Yosemite, in Mexico and Spain. These outings have included 2016. They are active with the Tuolumne Group; dayhikes; local weekend peak climbs; multi-day Keith is the group’s Outings Chair and is the Sierra backpacks; bus ski trips to Mammoth; Group Representative to Yosemite Stanislaus bus lodge and backpacking trips to the Grand Solutions, a forest management advisory panel Canyon; telemark ski lesson trips with instruc- to the Forest Service. he Central Sierra Audubon tors at Big Bear and Mammoth; carcamping TSociety, which includes in Joshua Tree, Anza Borrego, Pinnacles and both Tuolumne and Calaveras Morro Bay; day trips to view petroglyphs in counties, supports the mission of Coso Canyon; hiking and ski/snowshoe cabin the National Audubon Society: trips to Yosemite; assisting with navigation to conserve and restore natural check-off weekends in Joshua Tree; week-long ecosystems, focusing on birds, volunteer shifts at LeConte Memorial Lodge in other wildlife and their habitats, Yosemite; leading Volunteer in Parks projects in for the benefit of humanity and Yosemite; and leading Natural Science outings the Earth’s biodiversity. to Yosemite, June Lakes and the White Moun- To promote the conservation of tains. Frequently, Keith devoted his time to wildlife and the preservation of leading or assisting with conditioning hikes to the natural environment, Central Henninger Flats and the Arroyo Seco. Many of Sierra Audubon sponsors a series the trips Keith has led have required imagina- of regular informative public tion and the management of complex logistics, programs and guided field trips such as his trip to Lassen National Park in 2002, Keith Martin on the trail. throughout the region. which involved flying from LAX to Sacramento, renting cars and then driving to stay in cabins Keith received an Angeles Chapter Outings Recent trips included birding out- near the park. Service Award in 1999 and a Special Service ings to Salt Springs Valley near Copperopolis and on the grounds Keith has been active with many chapter Award in 2004. The Palos Verdes South Bay of Indigeny Reserve near Sonora. entities: NSS (current outings chair), PVSB (past Group was also awarded a Special Service Award chair and outings chair), SMS (past chair and in 2004, while Keith was Group Chair. Scheduled public meetings and outings chair), SPS (past chair), OCSS (man- Keith is a licensed professional civil and struc- speaker presentations are held in agement committee) and WAS (management tural engineer. He is an Air Force Vietnam era both Tuolumne and Calaveras committee and assistant outings chair). Keith Veteran, serving as an officer and a pilot. Keith Counties. has been active on the chapter Outings Manage- was a Structural Specialist with the LA County One of the Society’s stated goals ment Committee. He has been the chapter inci- Fire Department’s Urban Search and Rescue is to empower members and the dent investigator for the Safety Committee since team, CATF2, and responded with the team public with the knowledge to be 2013. He has been a Navigation Examiner for to Hurricane Iniki in Hawaii, the Northridge effective environmental advocates the Navigation Committee for nearly 20 years. Earthquake, the Oklahoma Federal Building in order to bring about a “Culture Since 2010 Keith and his wife Beth have led bombing, Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in Hous- of Conservation”. 16 cabin trips for WAS to Wawona over Martin ton, and the Port au Prince, Haiti Earthquake. For more detailed information Luther King Weekend, Presidents Day Weekend We congratulate Keith for this much on upcoming outings and public and Memorial Day weekend. These trips have deserved award and for his many years of meetings, visit their website at netted WAS more than $8,000. In addition, outings leadership and service! n centralsierraaudubon.org n Non Profit Presrt U.S. Postage PAID Modesto, CA Permit #637 TUOLUMNE GROUP P.O. BOX 4440 • SONORA, CALIFORNIA 95370 Notes & Updates SAVE THE DATE APRIL 22 • EARTH DAY W/ PHIL SCHERMEISTER Join us at the Sonora Public Library on April 22nd at 7pm for a slideshow presentation by TUOLUMNE GROUP acclaimed photographer Phil Schermeister. Phil will share the stories behind the images he has shot for National Geographic and others. Not to be missed! More info next newsletter. Tuolumne Group Executive Committee meets monthly at the Tuolumne Utility District boardroom, 18885 Nugget Rd. get involved • take action in East Sonora. For information on attending our next Today, years of hard-fought environmental protections are under threat—and to influence governments and businesses, we need everyone to speak up and shout out. meeting, contact Elaine Hagen at the email listed below. Explore how you can get involved: go to www.sierraclub.org/take-action Chair Elaine Hagen, [email protected] CONNECT WITH YOUR SIERRA CLUB TUOLUMNE GROUP Secretary Want to get more involved with your local Sierra Club group? Interested in joining our Karen Swanson, [email protected] Executive Committee? Have a great idea for a local Sierra Club presentation? There Treasurer Kevin Rice, [email protected] are many ways to volunteer for whatever time you are able to share.
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