GOLD NUGGET REPUBLICAN WOMEN met August 20th at the Ostrom's residence in Sierra City. A tasty BBQ lunch was prepared by Mike Ostrom and friends. A nominating committee is Julie Herod, Annie Terrassas and Vicky Barney with Stacy Estrada as alternate. President Colicia Palmer stressed for members to hand in their volunteer hours which “shows legislators how important we are.”
Redistricting is a “hot topic,” stated with a need for districts to be redrawn but redrawn fairly. Members were warned to be careful on voting as it is “strictly a voter’s right issue.”
Guest speaker was Robert Ingram, retired Forester. From 1980-2015, he worked at Sierra Pacific Industries, along with six other foresters and one biologist, who managed 180,000 acres of private timberlands in Nevada and surrounding counties. In those 35 years, they harvested 13 billion board feet of timber; conducted 100s of biological, botanical and archaeological surveys; wrote 100s of environmental documents (Timber Harvest Plans); planted 7+ million native conifer seedlings on 30,000 acres; prescribed or underburned 33,000 acres; administered all green and salvage logging, road construction, land surveys, cone collection, site reparation, planting 9 million seedlings, herbicide applications, erosion control projects, plant disease and genetic studies and fought dozens of wildfires.
From 2016 – 2024, he was a FRST Forestry Consultant and administered logging, fuel reduction and planting projects and trained new employees. He was the “timber guy,” and talked of being a forester, growing and maintaining forests. He gave a brief history of the Spotted Owl of the 1990s, talked on the cedar and pine beetles and how they “love stressed trees.” His talk was followed by questions of his listeners.
Redistricting is a “hot topic,” stated with a need for districts to be redrawn but redrawn fairly. Members were warned to be careful on voting as it is “strictly a voter’s right issue.”
Guest speaker was Robert Ingram, retired Forester. From 1980-2015, he worked at Sierra Pacific Industries, along with six other foresters and one biologist, who managed 180,000 acres of private timberlands in Nevada and surrounding counties. In those 35 years, they harvested 13 billion board feet of timber; conducted 100s of biological, botanical and archaeological surveys; wrote 100s of environmental documents (Timber Harvest Plans); planted 7+ million native conifer seedlings on 30,000 acres; prescribed or underburned 33,000 acres; administered all green and salvage logging, road construction, land surveys, cone collection, site reparation, planting 9 million seedlings, herbicide applications, erosion control projects, plant disease and genetic studies and fought dozens of wildfires.
From 2016 – 2024, he was a FRST Forestry Consultant and administered logging, fuel reduction and planting projects and trained new employees. He was the “timber guy,” and talked of being a forester, growing and maintaining forests. He gave a brief history of the Spotted Owl of the 1990s, talked on the cedar and pine beetles and how they “love stressed trees.” His talk was followed by questions of his listeners.
BIG WINNER of the day was Stacey Estrada!
ANOTHER WINNER! Amanda Coates!
