SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS SOUTHWESTERN SECTION SERVING FORESTS AND FORESTERS OF ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO |
In 2018, Southern Arizona Chapter hosted the annual meeting of the Southwestern Section SAF. The meeting web site: Safford 2018 A short video of our summer 2021 field trip to see forestry issues on Mt. Graham (6:54 min.): A short video of our summer 2022 field trip to see forestry issues in the wildland-urban interface on Mt. Lemmon (11:08 min.): Southern Arizona Chapter SAF participated in the 2022 Tucson Tree Fest, in September: The forestry talk at our April 2023 chapter meeting was on the story of the American elm. Shortly after that, Paul was in New York City and checked out the mature, healthy American elms located in Central Park. Trip video (7:20 min., best with headsets): A short video (10:00 min.) of our 2023 chapter field trip to Madera Canyon of the Santa Rita Mountains (best with headsets): Luncheon meeting of SWSAF
and Chihuahua Section of AMPF. All SWSAF chapters represented, in
addition to Section Executive Committee and a student chapter: | Upcoming events and news:
Save the dates: Fall 2024 Chapter meetings: Sep. 12 & Nov. 14, noon, place and speaker TBD SWSAF Biosketch: This concept, promoted by SoAZ Chapter member Russ Hudson, helps members share info with one another. Please participate in this Biosketch program. Click here |
A short video (7:14 min.) about the 2024 Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course of LTRR. Forest ecology taught here.
A travel video after visiting the Cradle of Forestry in America, in the Pisgah National Forest of southwestern North Carolina (10:00 min.): |
SoAZ Chapter forestry presentation for Sep. 2024, on the Cradle of Forestry, North Carolina, given by Paul. Longish (40 min.).
A sort (10:00 min.) video of our 2024 field trip to Sierra Vista to see riparian forestry on the San Pedro River and upland forestry at Ramsey Canyon. Best with headphones.
Dec. 2024: A newly dead Aleppo pine on campus of the UA. This tree was alive at the start of the semester, so it went fast, as has been seen in the die-off of other Aleppos throughout Tucson. See our 2022 SoAZ Chapter field trip video (linked above) for discussion of the Aleppo pines of Tucson.
A short video of Paul's trip to the 2024 National Convention of SAF, held in Colorado (10:00 min., best with headsets):