A message from Diane Dealey Neill, Coordinator of the California Forestry Challenge: The California Forestry Challenge is seeking volunteers for five events this fall: Shasta – September 27 to 30, Mountain Meadows Camp near Shingletown Sequoia – October 11 to 14, Quaker Meadow Camp east of Springville El Dorado – October 25 to 28, Leoni Meadows Camp near Grizzly Flats San…
Would you like to get free admission and parking for the 2016 California State Fair in Sacramento, while helping to promote your industry and meeting other resource professionals? Here is your chance: The Forest Foundation (TFF) and ACL need your help to make the Forest Center at the State Fair an amazing educational experience for…
In early July, ACL sent out its annual dues billing for 2017-2018. You should have received your dues billing by now. We know that this remains one of the most challenging economic periods in the modern history of logging, but your comparatively small investment in Associated California Loggers gives you your strongest line of defense…
UPDATE: FORM LETTER AVAILABLE ON RPF/LTO FROM ASSOCIATED CALIFORNIA LOGGERS: Associated California Loggers has prepared a “form letter” for you to send to the California Board of Forestry to let them know of your support for the proposal detailed below. Please contact the ACL office at 916-441-7940 or ecarleson@calog.com or jpardee@calog.com to get a copy of…
The State Responsibility Area Fire Prevention Fund (SRAFPF) offers grants for projects that remove dead and dying trees that pose a threat to public health and safety and for projects that reduce the wildfire threat to habitable structures within State Responsibility Areas (SRA). CALFIRE will be hosting 11 SRA Grant workshops statewide. These workshops are…
Click here to access the “public education” portion of the California Tree Mortality Task Force (TMTF) Here you will find additional links to each of the ten (10) counties which have been designated as having a “Tree Mortality” emergency in accord with Governor Brown’s 2015 statewide Emergency Proclamation on Tree Mortality, which is still in effect…
PLUMAS-SIERRA CHAPTER’S ANNUAL SPRING/SUMMER ROUND-UP RETURNS: FRIDAYEVENING, JUNE 2 All ACL members are invited to the RETURN of the annual “Spring/Summer Round-Up” hosted by the Plumas-Sierra Chapter of ACL. The event will take place at the scenic Greenhorn Creek Guest Ranch near Quincy. There will be an outdoor BBQ dinner, preceded by a…
As you know, a number of workers in California’s logging industry are Spanish-speaking. ACL Vice President Mike Albrecht and his wife Vicki, from the El Dorado-Mother Lode Chapter of ACL, wanted to alert you to a special First Aid/CPR class to be held in their area (Sonora) on Saturday June 3. The class will be…
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN ATTENDING A SPECIAL ASSOCIATED CALIFORNIA LOGGERS CLASS ON SATURDAY MAY 13 ? SUBJECT: “HOW TO SUCCEED IN THE WORLD OF US FOREST SERVICE CONTRACTING — “PURCHASING, STEWARDSHIP, IDIQ AND MORE” When Associated California Loggers sent its delegation to Washington DC several weeks ago, we took a meeting with members of a …
