2024 General Meetings

Agendas, minutes, supplemental materials and schedule
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General meeting, Wed., January 17, 2024, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in person at …

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s): Garrett Dickman, Yosemite National Forest

  • How Managing a Forest Impacts Wildfire Effects; Washburn Fire as a Case Study

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General meeting, Wed., February 14, 2024, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in person at Calaveras RD Offices, Hathaway Pines

Guest Speaker(s)/Topics: Shared Stewardship and FS Partnership Coordination Opportunities: Michelle Wolfgang, Zach Browning, Aaron James, Jason Smith

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General meeting, Wed., April 17, 2024, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and at the Calaveras RD Offices, Hathaway Pines

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s): Severity Patterns of the 2021 Dixie Fire and Need to Increase Low-Severity Fire Treatments in California’s Forests, Dr. Alan Taylor, Penn State University

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General meeting, Wed., May 15, 2024, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in person at Amador Ranger District office

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s):

  • ACCG Administrator Update: Interim Administration Team
  • Tentative consensus item: ACCG Forest Plan Amendment (FPP Phase 2) Ad Hoc’s draft California spotted owl territory recommendations, Sections 1-3, for UMRWA-USFS FPP Phase 2
  • Roundtable
  • Forest Project Plan Phase 1 and 2 update
  • Work Group updates

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General meeting, Wed., June 19, 2024, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Location: via Zoom

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s): 

  • ACCG Administration Update
  • ACCG 2024 Field Trip Update
  • July SCALE meeting: request for ACCG to provide update
  • Roundtable
  • Forest Project Plan Phase 1 and 2 update
  • Work Group Updates

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General meeting, Wed., July 17, 2024, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in person at the Amador Ranger District office

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s):

  • Gavin Jones, USFS, Research Ecologist, Rocky Mountain Research Station, “Megafire effects on spotted owls: elucidation of a growing threat and a response to Hanson, et al.”
  • Roundtable
  • Update: July SCALE meeting ACCG update
  • Update: Mokelumne Amador Calaveras Forest Health and Resilience Project (MAC) (formerly Forest Projects Plan, FPP, Phase 1 and 2)
  • Work Group Updates

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General meeting, Wed., August 21, 2024, 9am-12pm

Location: ONLINE ONLY via Microsoft Teams

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s): 

  • Eric Knapp, USFS, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Severity of the Antelope Fire; Brodie et al. 2024, Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather

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General meeting, Wed., September 18, 2024, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in person at the Amador Ranger District Office, 26820 Silver Dr, Pioneer

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s): 

  • Ellie Routt, Motherlode Land Trust, Executive Director, Motherlode Land Trust Overview & Update

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General meeting, Wed., October 16, 2024, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in person at the Calaveras RD office in Hathaway Pines

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s): 

  • Stephanie Coppeto, USDA FS Region 5 Broader-scale Monitoring Strategy

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General meeting, Wed., November 20, 2024, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in person at the Amador Ranger District Office, 26820 Silver Dr, Pioneer

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s): 

  • Brian Allen, UCCE, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties, Assistant Specialist; Targeted grazing and virtual fencing applications for fuel break maintenance and mixed conifer forest fuels treatments

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No December 2024 General meeting