Triangle Chapter

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Upcoming Chapter and State Events:

Triangle Chapter Holiday Gathering @ Camp New Hope
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Triangle Chapter Tour - Capital City Lumber
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• Mar 15th, 2012 - Croatan Chapter Meeting, Membership Drive, and Oyster Roast at Weyerhaeuser's Cool Prings Environmental Education Center
• Jun 21st, 2012 - Croatan Chapter Meeting, Location: TBA
• Sep 20th, 2012 - Croatan Chapter Meeting, Location: TBA
• Dec 6th, 2012 - Christmas Party/Croatan Chapter Meeting, Location: TBA

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Past Events

• Nov 5th, 2011 - Triangle Chapter Field Day and Service Project - Bennett Place Historic Site, 4409 Bennett Memorial Road, Durham, North Carolina 27705
• May 17th, 2011 - Triangle Chapter Meeting and Tour of NC Biofuels Center, hosted by Sam Brake and Jack Swanner. Meet at George's Oxford Villiage Pizza, 104 E. Industry Drive, Oxford, NC.
• April 7th, 2011 - Triangle Chapter and NC State Student Chapter Joint Meeting. Annual Mentoring Night with Student Presentations and Networking
• March 19th, 2011 - Triangle Chapter Seedling giveway at North Carolina State Univeristy Arbor Day, State Farmer's Market. News 14 Coverage
• The Triangle Chapter held it's first meeting of 2011 at Bennett Point Grill on February 28th. The meeting focused on the stewardship forest management plans being proposed by OWASA, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority. Speakers Pat Davis, OWASA and Dave Halley, True North Forestry, gave the attendees an overview of their organization, the property being managed, the management objectives and approaches to achieving their objectives. The management plans seem quite well defined and sustainable, however the recently mobilized local opposition to most forms of management has left OWASA's board stumped. SAF members, especially those in the Piedmont region of the state, are asked to consider how to support the efforts of OWASA to sustainably MANAGE the watershed to ensure water quality, biodiversity, and meet their fiscal responsibilities. For more information, please see the web site at: http://www.owasa.org/whatwedo/ForestManagementPlan.aspx
  
  (L-R) Greg Yavelak, Triangle Chapter Chair with speakers Patrick Davis, Sustainability Manager at the Orange Water & Sewer Authority, and consulting forester David Halley of True North Forest Management Services.
• April 12th, 2010 - Triangle Chapter/NC State Student Chapter - "Mentors Dinner": The NC State Student Chapter hosted the April meeting of the Triangle Chapter as they did in 2009. The students and professional members shared diner allowing the students to meet, get to know, and ask questions of the professionals about any aspect of their forestry careers. After dinner the newly elected student officers were introduced and student speakers made presentations. We were treated to a slide show of the student field trip associated with the national SAF meeting in Flordia and another slide show of recent Rolleo and Conclave completitions. Additional presentations were made by one student about his international education opportunities and another on student research projects on biomass.

• More picures at: 2010 NC State Student Chapter/Triangle Chapter - "Mentors Dinner"

• August 21, 2009 - Triangle Chapter exhibit at Loggin' Demo held at the State Fair grounds in Raleigh, NC. Members took shifts volunteering at the exhibit during the day. Triangle Chapter gave short announcement about SAF, the K.P Funderburke fund, and teamwork with the NC Association of Professional Loggers
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• April 8, 2009 - NCSU Student SAF hosted a Triangle Chapter meeting on campus in Jordan Hall Addition. Hearty buffet dinner was provided, followed by three excellent student research and events presentations. Triangle Chapter "passed the coffee can" for donations among the attendees to go toward the student chapter's national SAF convention travel fund.
• March 21, 2009 - Arbor Day Celebration hosted by NCSU College of Natural Resources. Event was hosted in the east parking lot of Jordan Hall Addition. NCSU Student Chapter held a seedling give-away, Triangle Chapter held a plant adoption clinic where members donated native forest plants and trees, and then offered them to the public (and lots of kids).
• January 23, 2009 - Rendez-vous at ApSAF Winter Meeting to discus the March 21st, 2009 native plant and tree giveaway and ask for members to start potting up their donations for the tent next to Jordan Hall Adition at NC STate campus. Plants will be "adopted" by local kids and teachers.
• December 2008 - The holiday gathering at the Dogwood Lodge in Camp New Hope is a long-standing tradition that brings together student and professional members one last time before the calendar flips to the New Year. It's a potluck affair that has the feel of a little family reunion. This year we had a couple of added attractions: a wreath-making workshop and live music!
• Chapter Meeting - May 7th, 2008, Garden Gate Cafe, 1411 Aversboro Rd, Garner, NC. Guest speaker Dennis Habel, Assistant Professor and Extension SPecialist, NC State University. Dennis has been leading the effort to research and promote the opportunity for NC forest landowners in the burgeoning bio-energy market. He will bring us up to date on his research and what recent state and federal energy policy will mean to forest management in NC.
• Triangle Chapter Seedling Giveaway: April 19th, 2008, Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 W. Jones St., Raleigh, NC. Weyerhauser Company donated 2000 seedlings for distribution to the public as part of the Museum's Earth Day celebration.

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• Counties in the Chapter: Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Durham, Granville, Orange, Person, Wake.