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2019 Annual Membership Meeting All Are Invited to Attend Our Annual Membership Meeting! Wednesday, February 27Th at the Depot (611 R Ave) Doors Open at 6:45 Pm Volume 32 • Issue 1 • WINTER 2019 2019 Annual Membership Meeting All are invited to attend our Annual Membership Meeting! Wednesday, February 27th at the Depot (611 R Ave) Doors open at 6:45 pm. Meeting begins at 7:10 pm. This free event is a wonderful opportunity for members and non-members alike to get to know more about the Friends of the Forest and our work in service to the Anacortes Community Forest Lands. We will begin with a brief annual report and elec- tions** followed by a special presentation by Dr. Michael Medler, a professor at Huxley College of the Environment at WWU. Dr. Medler is an associate professor at Western Washington University in the Environmental Studies department. He is a past president of The Association for Fire Ecology, and the founding editor of the scientific journal Fire Ecology. In the 1980s he worked on fire crews in the Pacific Northwest and fought fires across the west including the 1988 fires in Yellowstone. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1997, where he researched improving methods for wildland fire mapping using satellite data. Since that time he has been a wildland fire researcher who has provided information and testimony for groups ranging from the United States Congress, to local homeowners organizations. His presentation at the annual meeting is titled: “The Changing Pyrogeography of Fires in the West” The last few summers have brought about a real reckoning about the “New Normal” we are seeing with wildland fire in the American West. Climate change, building practices, and a century of fire policies have combined to leave many of our forests explosive. Wildland firefighters, trained for work in the backcountry, are increasingly expected to protect homes and communities. Meanwhile, fire-suppression costs are going up even in moderate years, and many people are We are hoping to unveil our new comprehensive ACFL brochure, pressuring wildland agencies to vastly increase the acreage loaded with maps, trail info, and the history of the forest lands of fuel reduction programs. We are now facing a situation in on our island at the Annual Meeting. The Friends are excited which we must reevaluate our systematic responses to these to share this long-anticipated resource with our members and fires. Dr. Michael Medler will discuss many of the spatial the city. Please take a moment to meet and speak with our new considerations in this debate, presenting his findings about Forest Educator, Melissa Courtney, at the event as well. Dessert the spatial scale of some of the problems and the potential of and refreshments provided by Gere-a-Deli will follow. We can’t some of the solutions. wait to see you all there. Forest fires, exacerbated by new symptoms of climate change, **The Membership will vote on a proposed by-law amendment present an ever-growing threat to Fidalgo Island and the at the Annual Meeting. Please visit our website for details. ACFL. Our town and forest interface has never been more *Board Members up for reelection are: Charlie Collins, Ed dynamic; making this topic quite timely. You won’t want to Gastellum, Rob Skelton, and Lynne Jordan miss it! FOREST ADVISORY BOARD CITY OF ANACORTES ELECTED OFFICIALS The City Forest Advisory Board meets every first Thursday of the month at 6:00pm at Fidalgo Center and is open to the public. Meetings are Mondays, 6:00pm in Council Chambers. FOREST BOARD MEMBERS PARKS & FOREST LANDS NAME E-MAIL PHONE TERM ENDS Mayor Laurie Gere [email protected] 360-299-1950 12/31/21 Sandra Starbuck 360-901-9179 MANAGER W1 Ryan Walters www.ryanwalters.org 360-610-7770 12/31/19 Jonn Lunsford 360-299-1953 Brian Wetcher 360-293-7624 W2 Brad Adams [email protected] 360-293-3056 12/31/19 W3 Eric Johnson www.anacorteseric.org 360-840-5415 12/31/19 Marty Laumbattus 360-293-7940 ACFL RANGER P-4 Matt Miller [email protected] 360-588-9070 12/31/21 P-5 Bruce McDougall [email protected] 303-551-5554 12/31/21 Dave Oicles 360-399-3970 Carolyn Moulton 360-588-1676 P-6 Liz Lovelett [email protected] 360-588-8707 12/31/21 Aaron Ramussen 360-293-3018 P7 Anthony Young [email protected] 360-873-8407 12/31/21 WEBSITE ADDRESS Mayor, 4-year term, at large, salaried: 360-299-1950 www.friendsoftheacfl.org Council Members (7) 4-year terms - 3 from Wards, 4 at Large: 360-293-1900 FRIENDS OF THE FOREST OFFICERS BOARD MEMBERS Friends of the Forest Board Meetings are President Andy Stewart 360-299-9406 Andy Stewart 360-299-9406 Jan. 2020 [email protected] Vice President Monica Ochs 360-770-8617 at 7pm the second Lin Nichols 360-293-3826 Jan. 2020 [email protected] Wednesday of each Secretary Bill Dietrich 360-202-2882 Monica Ochs 360-770-6817 Jan. 2020 [email protected] month. We meet in Treasurer Lin Nichols 360-299-3826 Bill Dietrich 360-202-2882 Jan. 2020 [email protected] the Depot Building, lo- FOREST EDUCATION: Charlie Collins 360-873-8873 Jan. 2019 [email protected] cated at 611 R Avenue, Melissa Courtney Ed Gastellum 360-293-7626 Jan. 2019 [email protected] Anacortes. Meetings DEVELOPMENT AND OUTREACH DIRECTOR Steve Williams 360-293-0830 Jan. 2020 [email protected] are open to the public. Jean Andrich 360-293-3725 Lynne Jordan 360-293-3725 Jan 2019 [email protected] Please come and COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: Rob Skelton 360-293-3725 Jan 2019 [email protected] get involved. Mackenzie Wilson Membership Ways to Give: notes: •Our regular office hours are Our work depends on a healthy mix of funding sources. All contributions to our group are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and tax deductible. Please consider the following options for financial contribution to our Thursdays from 10 am to 1 organization. pm & always by appointment. •Please renew or join today! 1. Active Membership We accept donations online. Dues are due in January! There are different categories of membership to suit your Visit our website and preference. Any contributions to our group above your membership level are greatly appre- go to contribute. ciated. See our membership form on the back page. •Confused about a hike 2. Individual Contributions location? Check out our web- We greatly appreciate any contributions to help support our education and outreach site for links to driving program. You are welcome to make these in honor or in memory. directions to each hike location. 3. Friends of the Forest Endowment Fund We have an endowment fund established with the Skagit Community Foundation. The •Need an ACFL trail map? purpose of this fund is to create an endowment that will eventually provide interest income We have an electronic version to our organization. This is an excellent option for sizeable donations to our group. available for download on our website, as well as a listing of 4. Planned Giving If you are making estate plans, please consider including our organization. where maps are available for sale. You may contact Jean Andrich (360-293-3725) at our office to discuss any of these options. www.friendsoftheacfl.org [email protected] WHY ARE THE TREES DYING? will be smaller during drought periods. Branch and/ By Ranger Dave Oicles or tree top die-off can be observed during drought conditions. But the overall belief from scholars and Earlier this year, I thought I was imaging things when I re- tree management professionals is that our trees are ally began to notice just how many Western Red Cedar dying from drought related conditions and warmer trees have died in the Anacortes Community Forest Lands weather patterns. These conditions weaken a tree’s (ACFL) in the last 6 months… to put it bluntly, 1000’s. I defense and allow for disease and pests to come invited Denise Crowe, ACFL Naturalist, on a walk down in and finish off the tree. Continued drought condi- trail 22 where the brown and orange needles of hundreds tions can create embolisms in a tree’s water ves- of dead and dying cedar trees could be easily observed. sels, preventing the tree’s vascular system from op- She too, had been noticing the decline in our forest health. erating effectively. The tree essentially dries out and We both concluded that the trees have succumbed to the dies. Some trees may appear green and healthy, four summers in a row of drought conditions and warmer but they are reaching their threshold to hold on, and weather and warmer winters. Last year, I noticed 100’s of certain tree species in the ACFL have tipped over Western Hemlock trees were dying as well in the ACFL. that threshold. I have observed recently Western Along with the forest lands, I have also been observing Hemlocks snapping in half midway up the tree, only trees dying in homeowners’ yards all around Anacortes to find the inside of the trunk dry and soft, unable to this year. So I began to wonder, is anyone else observing hold itself up anymore. And dead cedar trees can this? be observed along almost every trail in the ACFL. At first it was just the small 2-4” diameter trees, but recently I am seeing the 24” trees dead as well. What does the future hold for our trees? Maybe a new ecosystem of different, more tolerant tree spe- cies. Maybe we will get back to a more “normal” weather pattern, but experts say this is the new “nor- mal”. San Diego, Washington. At a recent tree seminar I attended called “Healthy Trees, Healthy Communities” I decided to present this question to the instructor Ben Thompson, Urban Forestry Special- ist with WA State Dept.
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