2025 General Meetings

Agendas, minutes, supplemental materials and schedule
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General meeting, Wed., January 15, 2025, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in person at Calaveras Ranger Station, Hathaway Pines

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s):

  • Kristen Shive, UC Berkeley: Thinning and burning treatments effectively reduce Dixie Fire severity

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General meeting, Wed., February 19, 2025, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in person at Amador Ranger Station, Pioneer

Guest Speaker(s)/Topics: 

  • Dr. Scott Stephens, UC Berkley, Mass fire behavior created by extensive tree mortality and high tree density not predicted by operational fire behavior models in the southern Sierra Nevada

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General meeting, Wed., March 19, 2025, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and at the Calaveras Ranger Station, Hathaway Pines

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s): Craig Ostergaard, Lee Hazeltine: Goat grazing for forest fuels on SPI lands

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General meeting, Wed., April 16, 2025, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and at the Amador Ranger Station, Pioneer

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s):

  • (Tentative) Brian Allen, UCCE, Vegetation control on masticated fuel breaks study

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General meeting, Wed., May 21, 2025, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in person at Calaveras Ranger Station, Hathaway Pines

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s):

  • Dr. Jaime Kostelnik, Fire, Flood, and Mud: Post fire debris flow hazards in the western U.S.

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General meeting, Wed., June 18, 2025, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in person at Amador Ranger Station, Pioneer

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s): 

  • UMRWA-USFS MAC Project update

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General meeting, Wed., July 16, 2025, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in person at the Calaveras Ranger Station, Hathaway Pines

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s):

  • Derek Young, Becky Estes: Potential collaboration w/open forestry observatory (UC Davis) for drone-based treatment monitoring and planning

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General meeting, Wed., August 20, 2025, 9am-12pm

Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in person at the Amador Ranger Station, Pioneer

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s): 

  • Q&A with Congressman McClintock staff on Forest Service direction, budget and more

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ACCG Field Tour, Wed., September 17, 2025.

Location: Roadside Coffee House, 19999 Hwy 88, Pine Grove. We will meet in the parking lot at 9:00am.
(Please arrive EARLY if you plan to get coffee before our departure.)


Caravan/Carpooling: Please try to carpool as much as possible.

Trip Itinerary: Please see attached agenda and map. 

Things to bring: Water, lunch, lawn chair, and sunscreen. 

General meeting, Wed., October 15, 2025, 9am-12pm

Location: Online only

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s): 

  • Anne Calderwood, Ben Cook: Beaver Reintroduction.

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General meeting, Wed., November 19, 2025, 9am-12pm

Location: Online only

Guest Speaker(s)/Topic(s): 

  • UMRWA-USFS, ENF Aspen Restoration Project: Presentation and ask for consensus support of the Project
  • CSEDD project proposal for Prop 4 funding
  • Consensus Item: ACCG 2026 Annual Priorities
  • Consensus Item: ACCG Administration Funding Plan

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No December 2025 General meeting