Present: Matt Singer, Mike Pfanku, Russ Moody, Dan Bohlin, Odell Anderson, Ron Jervis

Meeting called to order by President Odell Anderson at 9:30 am.

Minutes of the 2-28-04 membership meeting passed out. Ron mentioned we should have better minutes. Larry Severeid taped that meeting. Odell will improve the existing minutes by viewing the video and updating the existing written minutes of that meeting.
Ron mentioned that we need minutes/report of the May 1st field day. Odell had written up a short summary of that field day that he submitted to National. Matt will look it over and try to add to it. John Oullette was taking some pictures that day, so Odell will contact John Oullette to get the pictures and incorporate those pictures into what Matt writes up.

Treasurer’s report submitted by Treasurer Russ Moody. On file.

Spring Field Day Report: about 55 attendees. Matt will write this up using Odell’s short report as a start.

Upcoming 6-11-04 field day and acrobasis research project in Grant county (co-hosted by WI-DNR, WI-SAF, and WWOA). Odell will try to get copies of printed materials and handouts regarding acrobasis on that day.

National meeting coming up July 25-28. Mike Pfanku, Dan Bohlin, Odell Anderson, Larry Severeid will be attending. Odell will give report covering WWC activities from March 5th, 2004 to July 24th. Odell will make sure to bring up the continuing problem of the membership list problem. The board said Odell should request that we have access to their Wisconsin Membership database, so we can make sure both National and our State databases are in sync.

Fall field day Sept 25, 2004 at Ed Soleska’s in Jefferson county. Russ made a motion that non-members accompanying a member be charged only $10.00 instead of $15.00. Otherwise, price for members and non-members alike to be $15.00, and $25.00 per couple. Ron 2nd, motion passed.
Discussion was held whether we should try to coordinate our fall field day with nearby WWOA field day. Mike will look into this.
We need to plan the annual membership meeting to be held that Saturday night, Sept. 25th. Mike Pfanku is in charge of planning.

Website and P.C technology: Ron wants to keep things up to date and may be receiving help from Wayne Zimmerman to maintain the website.
Ron is trying to develop a simple spreadsheet to track individual walnut trees that others could eventually use on their own land as well.
When making a mass-emailing to the general WWC members, we should use “BCC”, not “To” so everyone will not have access to everyone else’s e-mail addresses.

Membership Program: Dan Bohlin update the WWC membership form. Matt will make copies of this in the future on bright colored paper. We should work with DNR foresters to have them displayed at DNR forestry offices, and attempt to have the DNR foresters send out the application with new MFL plans. Dan will call Carol Nielsen (WI DNR Forestry Tax Law Section, Madison) to get MFL landowner list/labels for Grant county to send them all a WWC application.
The display board will be manned at Sinsinawa in March 2005 (by John Nielsen?), Matt will call and reserve a spot for the display. Dan brought it to the Lake States Sustainable Forestry meeting and his WWOA Open Woods field day. John and Dan will have it at the Wilson Nursery (Boscobel) open house on June 12th.

The WWC winter landowner meeting will no longer be held in conjunction with the Madison Area Woodland Owners Conference. We will have our own meeting at the American Family Insurance complex in Madison on Saturday, January 15th, 2005. Dan Bohlin is in charge. Larry Severeid has a list of potential speakers and topics. Breakfast cost is $5.25 and lunch cost is $8.95. The meeting room is free, there may be a staffing cost. We should use this as an opportunity to bring in non-members. We should open it up to the Illinois and Iowa WC chapters, we would need to get a list of names and addresses from National.
There will be a BOD meeting to be held on Friday afternoon or night, January 14th at the Marriot Hotel.

Marketing Committee (Mike Pfanku and Ken Witte) is meeting on Tuesday, June 29th at 1:30 pm at Culvers in Spring Green. Everyone is welcome to attend. Hopefully a list can be made by specialty products (stumps, crotches, nuts, etc.) for members to use.

Old Business: Ron said the National dropped the insurance coverage for the state BODs’. Do we need liability insurance? Odell will call National on this. Odell will look into this further at the National meeting in July.

No new business

Next meeting: Tuesday, August 3rd 9:30am-1pm at DNR south central region headquarters on Fish Hatchery Rd on the south side of Madison. Address: 3911 Fish Hatchery Rd, Fitchburg, WI 53711

Meeting adjourned 12:40