This project will be part of the Forestry Bark Beetle Survey.
The project will be 3 days, 9am to 5pm (note extended hours), mostly adults. 7 nights of camping, arrival on Saturday noon, check out on Saturday noon. Tuesday through Thursday will be the work days.
Our camp sites will be in Yellow Pines. We will work in all three Sequoia Groves (Mariposa, Tuolumne, and Merced), as well as Crane Flat and Hodgdon campgrounds. We will need to drive/to from Yellow Pines to some/all of the work areas.
Here is the blurb:Would you like to help Protect Sugar Pines from mortality and bark beetle attack? We've lost a significant amount of our big, beautiful sugar pines from drought, fire, WPB and bark beetles in recent years. Volunteers will need to be able to hike through untrailed, hilly terrain within assigned areas, be able to identify tree species (Sugar Pine and a few other conifers), use tools to measure trees, and use a tablet to record data, as well as apply a bark beetle deterrent paste with a calibrated caulking gun to tree trunks.
Due to the restrictions on attendance, please notify as early as possible if you are unable to attend so that others can benefit and the crew is not understaffed.