...for investing in future healthy forests with your contribution to the Memorial Grove.  Your donations provide seedlings and allowed chapter members to gain extra experience with planting equipment, site preparation, and plantation management.  This funding also allowed us to promote other chapter activities, such as sending members to participate in, and assist at, the 2003 National SAF Convention and the NYSAF winter meetings.  In addition to the financial contributions listed below, we thank the Willow Biomass Project for their contribution of mulch, and Michael Farrell, Cornell University's Uihlein Forest for tree tubes.  We are grateful to those who generously shared their technical expertise, time, and energy:  Kathy Roberts, Dick Schwab, and Chuck Maynard, all of SUNY ESF; and Paul Ray, NRCS.  And we also appreciate the efforts of Dr. Bill Smith (WPE Faculty), who milled the maple, kiln dried it, glued and shaped it to make the base of the plaque that now hangs in Bray Hall; Connie Webb, who granted permission to hang it there; and the unnamed Physical Plant employee who safely secured it to the wall so that it can grow as the sponsors do.

Maple Leaf

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