[IOCA] IOCA News

[Christiaan Adams]

(Club Leaders, Please forward this to your members as you see fit.)

Hello IOCA clubs and members!


A few pieces of news this week:

1.  Update Your Gear Sale - Outing Club Special!
2.  New Outing Clubs
3.  Bear Canisters Followup
4.  Conservation News

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1. Update Your Gear Sale - Outing Club Special!

EMS is having a big "Update Your Gear Sale" this weekend (Oct 21-23), with 
20% off everything in the store.
But even better, there is a Outing Club Preview day, on Thursday, October 
20th, from 4pm to Closing, so bring your outing club membership card, and 
get first choice... before the crowds get it!!  (Sorry about the late notice.)

For a Sale Flier and a copy of the Outing Club Preview announcement (it's 
from the Niskayuna NY store, but should apply to most EMS stores), click 
here: http://www.ioca.org/temp/EMSSale.pdf

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2. New Outing Clubs

I would like to welcome the Lesley University Outing Club to  IOCA!

Jessie Park, at Lesley University (in Cambridge, MA) has been working for 
several months now, and has finally gotten their club established.  You can 
contact Jessie at <jpark07 at comcast.net>, or the club at 
<LOCBOS at yahoogroups.com>.  I'm sure they would appreciate any encouragement 
or advice other clubs might have for them.  Keep an eye on 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LOCBOS  for more details.

Several other schools have contacted me for information on starting a club, 
including:
- LInsdey Wilson College in Columbia, KY
- St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM
- Western Connecticut State University in Danbury Connecticut
- Arizona State University West
If any of these are in your neighborhood, let me know and I'll put you in 
touch with the folks working on it... I'm sure they would love to talk to 
other clubs in the area.

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3. Bear Canister Followup
Since the recent announcement that Bear Canisters are required in much of 
the Adirondacks (for details see: 
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/reg5/brcreg.html ), people have contact 
me for advice on bear canisters.  Does anyone have experience with various 
models?  Do the sharp corners on the Bear Vault model risk rodent 
chewing?  Send me any advice you have and I'll share it with everyone.

For general information on Region 5 Adirondack Trail info, see: 
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/reg5/r5adktrails.html

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4.  Conservation News
Our Conservation Chair has forwarded a few quick updates for those 
conservation minded folks out there:

Gaithersburg, MD --- Paul W. Hansen, executive director of the Izaak Walton 
League of America, has been tapped to participate in two high-profile 
panels that will address the key conservation issues of protecting national 
forest roadless areas and evaluating the how to better achieve the goals of 
the Endangered Species Act.

Hansen is the only conservation leader invited to participate in both groups.

Hansen will be one of 13 members selected by the assistant secretary of 
agriculture to serve on the Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory 
Committee. The committee will provide guidance and recommendations to the 
United Stated Forest Service on petitions from states that seek to either 
protect or open for logging USFS roadless areas in that state.

Hansen has also been named to the Keystone Endangered Species Act Working 
Group, being sponsored by The Keystone Center in Colorado. This ESA Working 
Group has been formed at the request of six United States Senators. The 
Group will review the ESA and develop consensus-based ideas intended to 
advance the goals of the act.

These appointments are a reflection of the League's long held commitment to 
common-sense alternatives and solutions to difficult conservation issues, 
said Tim Reid, national volunteer president of the IWLA.

This is the key to the League's unique position in conservation, he added. 
Also, it is the underlying quality of Pauls dedication to spending more 
time meeting with more diverse groups than anyone in conservation today, 
said Reid. We believe this is the most effective way to arrived at durable 
improvements in conservation policy, he concluded.

Hansen has been executive director for the IWLA since 1995 and spent 10 
years in the Leagues Minnesota regional office prior to that appointment. 
He received his B.A. in biology from Antioch University in 1975, and 
completed his M.A. in natural resources administration in 1979.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Data.

http://www.wilderness.org/OurIssues/Arctic/ArcticRealityCheck.cfm

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See you outside!
-Christiaan


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Christiaan Adams
Executive Secretary
Intercollegiate Outing Club Association

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