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**HoitRubicon** · 03-01-09, 05:18 PM

USMC 0369,
My son and I attended the Supervisor training session yesterday with David. I am new to the area, but I found the information on the reforestation training here on MJR... I hear nothing but great things about the MJR crew and I look forward to hooking up for a ride after we get these trees planted!

See you on the mountain.

Andrew

**USMC 0369** · 03-02-09, 02:58 AM

[COLOR="Sienna"]That's awesome! I'm glad to hear MJR proved to be a source for giving back to the forest for you.

No better group of people on the trails, or the internet, than MJR.

Look forward to seeing you on the 7th then?[/COLOR]

**Roger** · 03-02-09, 06:59 AM

Nick,

I've been trying to contact David Tankersley regarding working during the weekdays which would be best for me. I have not heard back from him yet.

**USMC 0369** · 03-03-09, 09:42 AM

Originally posted by Roger View Post

Nick,

I've been trying to contact David Tankersley regarding working during the weekdays which would be best for me. I have not heard back from him yet.

[COLOR="Sienna"]I'll shoot him a note also. (Kurt seems to think I have a great working relationship with David) The seventh seems to be my only day in March I have off work. Except the vacation day I scheduled for the 28th.

I'll get back to you Roger.[/COLOR]

**USMC 0369** · 03-03-09, 11:42 AM

Nick,

I am working on making a calendar for all supervisors, so that they know what days we are planting during the week. For the month of March I know that we have the US Forest Service planting on Wednesday March 18th and [COLOR="Red"]REI staff (the bad people) [/COLOR]planting on Friday March 20th. We also have some schools about to sign up soon, I will try and get that out to everyone as soon as possible.

...

[COLOR="Sienna"]I've highlighted the bad people. But it seems they don't have a solid schedule for week-day events yet. I recall David saying that week-day events are "volunteer groups" and weekends are "volunteer events". Meaning, I assume, that it's open to random people to help with planting.

Does this answer the question Roger? I'll re-attack if you need more.[/COLOR]

**RAT** · 03-03-09, 09:53 PM

Originally posted by USMC 0369 View Post

[COLOR=sienna]I'll shoot him a note also. (Kurt seems to think I have a great working relationship with David) [/COLOR][COLOR=sienna].[/COLOR]

Nooooooo, What I said was "I think David has a thing for you"... Get it straight Nick!

David if you read this thread, it's only a joke...

**Roger** · 03-03-09, 10:02 PM

Say What?!? Geeze Rat, I can't believe you wrote that!

Nick, It would be interesting supervising REI. I could wait until the end of the day and let'em have it!! If it warmed up and I was able to take off my jacket to expose my MJR tee-shirt it would be a Kodak moment!

**USMC 0369** · 03-03-09, 10:41 PM

[COLOR="Sienna"]After I thought about it for a moment, I thought that would be an awesome "in your face" moment. To have OHV users supervising the REI staff in a reforestation project. [/COLOR]

Originally posted by Roger View Post

Say What?!? Geeze Rat, I can't believe you wrote that!

Nick, It would be interesting supervising REI. I could wait until the end of the day and let'em have it!! If it warmed up and I was able to take off my jacket to expose my MJR tee-shirt it would be a Kodak moment!

**HoitRubicon** · 03-04-09, 09:43 PM

I am dying to understand the history behind this underlying REI tension...

Is the weather going to be warm enough to plant on Saturday?

Andrew

**USMC 0369** · 03-04-09, 09:52 PM

Originally posted by HoitRubicon View Post

I am dying to understand the history behind this underlying REI tension...

Is the weather going to be warm enough to plant on Saturday?

Andrew

[COLOR="Sienna"]
See: http://www.myjeeprocks.com/about/index.php

The "Public Service Announcement", bottom of the page. Long story short, REI gives millions each year to organizations trying to make outdoor areas off limits to OHV. They have cool gear, but I'll stick with Coleman.[/COLOR]

**dirtman13** · 03-07-09, 10:42 PM

Today Doug, Nick, Kurt, Ryan, Cathy, Alycia, and I attended the first tree planting session. This was great day up in the mountains.
Coming up the mountain.

We meet at the Lake Arrowhead Elementary School at 7:45 am. After everyone showed up we made our way to the planting site for a debriefing then we headed to Rim of the World High School to meet the volunteers.

Nick, Alycia, and I ended up with the Key Club from an high school in Fontana.
Nick teaching the kids.

Our group ended up planting about 90 trees.

Nick hard at work.

Slave driver.

Found this guy wondering around lost.

Busted.

Nick showing his support for REI.

This was the group that Nick, Alycia, and I had.

MJR Representing.

The rest of my pics.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ing/?start=all

I noticed no one has signed up on Nick's roll calls and I just wanted to clarify that you do not have to be a Supervisor.

The volunteers from Tree People I believe were very surprised to see off roaders volunteering to help with this effort. This is a chance to show them that there are off roaders that do care and are not just irresponsible idiots trashing the forest.

I think each of us can handle one 5 hour day supporting this. It was actually pretty fun.

**RAT** · 03-08-09, 05:24 PM

This is a really good event and I'm proud to be part of it. It was suprising to see the diversity of people that showed up, and really suprising to see how hard everyone worked. No slackin going on here (except for me) :thumbs_up
Met some really cool people, found out that we can stand toe to toe with surfers, REI'ers, students, teachers and just about anyone else you can imagine and all see eye to eye on a single topic. I heard, more than once, what a suprise it was to see all the off roaders turn out to help. Having said that, we need more. Come on everyone, I keep reading threads herre on MJR about how much we all care. Come put your money where your keyboards are. It's a good day in the mountains with a bunch of friends and afterward, a trail run or a visit to the Cantina. Come on up! Check the threads for the next dates and times. And thanks in advance.
Kurt

**HoitRubicon** · 03-08-09, 08:38 PM

My son and I supervised a Latino Leadership group from Cal State San Bernardino today. It was a GREAT experience... they worked their butts off.

I was hoping to hook up with you guys (the MJR crew) on Saturday, but David (from Tree People) was short on supervisors for Sunday's session.

Still hope to hook up with you guys soon.

The Long Arm kit is sitting in the garage waiting for me to tear into the TJ.

Andrew

**USMC 0369** · 03-08-09, 08:49 PM

Originally posted by HoitRubicon View Post

My son and I supervised a Latino Leadership group from Cal State San Bernardino today. It was a GREAT experience... they worked their butts off.

I was hoping to hook up with you guys (the MJR crew) on Saturday, but David (from Tree People) was short on supervisors for Sunday's session.

Still hope to hook up with you guys soon.

The Long Arm kit is sitting in the garage waiting for me to tear into the TJ.

Andrew

[COLOR="Sienna"]Drew!
That's awesome. Yea, it would have been nice to have you and your son out there with the MJR crew, but being flexible and helping out where needed shows the offroad communities dedication to the forest. We will meet up some day soon, I'm sure of it.[/COLOR]

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