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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Courier>Summer is gone and fall is here. I meet with the
Inland Empire SAF Executive on Sept. 8. Of special interest to the Palouse/Snake
River Chapter is that the $1500 loan we gave to IE for the Annual Meeting in May
will be paid back with $500 interest for a total payment of $2000. The Annual
meeting in Wallace was very successful. Some stated that it was the best
SAF meeting ever and I feel that way as well.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Courier> The 2011 annual meeting will be held
next May to recognize the 100 year anniversary of the Priest
River Research Station. It is the Palouse/Snake River turn to sponsor the
meeting but it was decided that all chapters will share the meeting
since Priest River is in the Selkirk Chapter and close to the Panorama
Chapter. It will be difficult to match the 2010 annual meeting in
attendance.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Courier>The next meeting of the Palouse/Snake River
Chapter is scheduled for September 30 at the Best Western. The program will
be Ned who will give a program on the 2010 flood of the South Fork of the
Salmon River and its relation to the 2007 Cascade Complex and East
Zone Fires. Ned is well qualified to talk about the South Fork of the Salmon
River since he was District Forest Ranger of the Krassel District from 1971 to
1976 when there was much concern over logging related sedimentation of the
river. Ned was the main author of the first Land Use Plan for the area that
was approved in 1975 and successfully appealed by the Sierra Club. Rob Keefe is
currently working on the meeting arrangements and more will be
announced.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Courier>Our November meeting program will be CNR Dean
Kurt Pregitzer who will follow up on the program last May by Dean William
McLaughlin. </FONT></DIV>
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