A Message from Danny Dructor, Executive Vice President of the American Loggers Council, of which California is a member state through Associated California Loggers: We are now taking responses to the 2020 version of the logger survey that was taken this time last year in 2019. We need your assistance in relaying the link to…
HELP ASSOCIATED CALIFORNIA LOGGERS PAY FOR CONTRACT CONSULTANTS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS USING THE “RESOURCE AVAILABILITY FUND” — YOUR DONATIONS ARE VOLUNTARY AND TAX DEDUCTIBLE (DETAILS BELOW) In 2016, the Associated California Loggers Board of Directors approved a special fund to be created so as to fund contract consultants and “special projects” outside of the ACL budget. Making the…
ASSOCIATED CALIFORNIA LOGGERS PARTNERS WITH THE FRESNO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD, REEDLEY COLLEGE AND OTHERS TO PROMOTE “THE CENTRAL VALLEY FORESTRY CORPS” – STATEWIDE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TRAINING FOR NEW LOGGERS – STATEWIDE SUBSIDIZED WORKERS FOR ACL MEMBER COMPANIES AND OTHERS There is a link at the bottom of this page to: A flyer promoting the “Central Valley…
https://youtu.be/zZSUY4sZGqY The link above is to “Youtube” and a video of the entire morning session (8:00 to 11:30 am) of the 2020 TuCARE Summit, held on Friday, October 30, in Sonora, Tuolumne County, California. If you aren’t interested in watching all three hours-plus of the video, we urge you to watch the opening ten minutes…
“It is with a heavy heart but in celebration of his life that Associated California Loggers informs you of the recent passing of Past President Robert “Bob” MacMullin. Bob passed away last week on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at the age of 67 after a lengthy battle with cancer. His family was with Bob when he…
AB 2257 of 2020 BECOMES LAW – “AB 5 FIX” BILL IMPROVES “BUSINESS TO BUSINESS EXEMPTION” FOR LTOS AND LOG TRUCKERS – AND FULLY EXEMPTS RPFS FROM DYNAMEX ABC TEST FOR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR STATUS The two-year 2019-2020 Legislative Session ended on August 31. One bill that made it to Governor’s desk was Assembly Bill 2257…
A MESSAGE FROM STEVE BRINK OF THE CALIFORNIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION: BEGIN: A new press release (see link below) is out from US Forest Service Regional Forester Randy Moore regarding “expanding the September 7 closures [on the National Forests] and outlines that we are closing all national forests in California due to current and predicted fire…
A MESSAGE FROM DIANE DEALEY NEILL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE CALIFORNIA FORESTRY CHALLENGE: BEGIN: Hello Friends of the Forestry Challenge, A lot of things have changed this year! Even though we won’t be able to conduct in-person events this fall, we have decided to conduct one statewide virtual Forestry Challenge event for the fall of…
Last month, ACL sent out its annual dues billing for 2020-2021. Many of you have sent your dues in. Thank you for renewing! But we still do not have all of our dues for the year in. If you haven’t done so yet, we would appreciate receiving your dues renewal as soon as you can.This…
Last week, with limited information and on short notice, Associated California Loggers put out information on the passing of Susan Emmerson and memorial services scheduled for the next day. We noted “we will have more information for you in the next week about Susan Emmerson and her life.” A week has passed and we wanted…