Update on Clean-up Day

We have a big chipper coming up from Albuquerque. (Franks is handling 
this.)  It's supposed to be able to handle 6" material.  Kevin 
Buscher will be the "chipper director."  We should be ready to start 
feeding branches into it by 8:00 AM.  Chris Luster is making a dump 
truck available to us.  His suggestion is that we blow the chips into 
a few piles, and then he will load the piles.  We can dump the chips 
at any range locations that we want to reduce erosion.  The rest will 
be hauled off.

Jay Moore and Jim Jones (who mowed last fall) are bring a mower 
tractor which should take care of the weeds on the rifle range.

Kathryn Wright (volunteer coordinator) will be setting up a 
coordination table in front of the clubhouse.  As things develop 
during the first couple of hours, she can send the "new recruits" to 
where ever we think we need them.

Larry Baca had a great article printed in Tuesday's paper.  Thanks, 
Larry.  It'll be interesting to see if that brings out more volunteers.

Mary Luster and some 4-H juniors will be serving lunch and 
maintaining the cold drink chests.

I've talked with the Solid Waste Division, and we will get free 
dumping on Saturday.  Kei Davis has made up some placards that we 
will give to each driver taking loads to the landfill.

I think we will need to be flexible Saturday morning.  If we get an 
army of chain sawers and wood collectors, we'll probably do very well 
with our three fire mitigation areas, and we can assign some people 
to maintenance tasks relatively early in the day.  But, if things go 
slowly on the fuel collection and chipping front, then we should 
probably keep most of our volunteers focused on the fire mitigation.

I'm looking forward to Saturday.  The wind Wednesday at 11:00  AM was 
dry, and strong enough to cause problems if a fire started.  It'll be 
a great accomplishment for all of us if we get most of the down fuel 
off the fire lanes on Saturday.

Marv Alme
President, LASC