A MESSAGE FROM CAL FIRE: New Look for CalTREES System Portal The CalTREES System portal (https://caltreesplans.resources.ca.gov/caltrees) will have a new look August 28, 2020. The purpose of this update is to make the site easier to navigate and help you to get to information quickly. The new interface has a new ‘Reports’ page that is…
A MESSAGE FROM ALLISON MELOTT, WITH VICTOR INSURANCE SERVICES — ASSOCIATED CALIFORNIA LOGGERS CONTRACT BROKER, REGARDING STATE FUND “COVID-19 GRANTS”: All State Fund policyholders recently received information from State Fund about grants that are available to help defray cost of safety measures for COVID19. I learned today that at least two of our clients received…
Markit! Forestry Management, LLC is here posting a job opening for “experienced forestry operators,” or “Environmental Forestry Heavy Equipment Operators.” LOCATION: Projects may be located throughout the State of California — and in surrounding states, including Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. JOB DESCRIPTION: As a member of Markit’s! environmental forestry team, you will…
Here is a link to the new actual CAL FIRE “schedule of classes,” with more detailed information(particularly about COVID-19 “protocols.”) about classes to be held in AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, and OCTOBER 2020 (including classes in Redding and in Roseville.) This information will be on the official CAL FIRE website soon, but Associated California Loggers is able…
BREAKING NEWS: After having to cancel LTO classes in 2020 starting in March, due to COVID-19 concerns, CAL FIRE has made an arrangement with Shasta College to put on 3 such classes in August. Registration is now open. Here are messages from two sources to help get students for these classes registered: FROM BECKY ROE,…
WANTED: “Experienced” mechanical thinning operator to log and/or cut 2.5 MMBF of combined pine and fir timber on 492 acres. Sale and located on the Sequoia NF and can be logged as soon as August 2020. For more info please contact: Darren Mahr Timber Manager Sierra Forest Products Terra Bella, CA (559)361-8727 mobile (559) 535-4893…
UPDATE: HOUSE PASSES, PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS: EXTENSION OF PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM(PPP) APPLICATION DEADLINE TO AUGUST 8, 2020: From news sources: BEGIN: “President Donald Trump on Saturday July 4 signed an extension of the small business Paycheck Protection Program into law, according to the White House.” “House lawmakers unanimously passed the extension less than a day…
Some of our members have signed up for the “Paycheck Protection Program” by which the federal government provides money to businesses to restore employee and payroll levels that had been reduced due to COVID-19. Since then, new “clean-up” legislation has been passed and signed, and positive changes have been made — crucially in the area…
The United States Bureau of Land Management(“BLM”) has issued two national press releases with regard to two proposed policy changes which, if enacted, will be of benefit to Associated California Loggers members and others in the California timber industry. The two policy proposals are: ONE: Timber Salvage Reform. “A proposal to establish a new Categorical…
A MESSAGE FROM THE AMERICAN LOGGERS COUNCIL, COMPOSED OF 34 LOGGING STATE ASSOCIATIONS, INCLUDING ASSOCIATED CALIFORNIA LOGGERS: “As more financial impacts are being felt around the country as both a direct and indirect result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the members of the American Loggers Council have coalesced around a proposal to members of Congress that…