Team,

We are CONFIRMED for our workday on Tuesday, February 3 at Camp Sumatanga, 3616 Sumatanga Road, Gallant, AL 35972.  We'll meet at the camp headquarters building at 8:30 am to receive our exact assignments.  (Please check the estimated time and driving distance from your starting point using Google Maps or MapQuest to assure your on time arrival.)  From my discussions with Mark Paris, our contact at camp for this workday, for those of you familiar with the camp layout the first group of trees we’ll be cutting will be on the road leading up the hill to the ropes course.  The second group of trees will be around the pool camp.  We will take direction from camp's maintenance staff as to what size we’ll be cutting the log into and where the logs we cut are to be moved elsewhere on the campus for splitting. 

11 team members (8 cutters, 2 cutters/skid steer drivers, 1 picker and 2 skid steers) have already confirmed and committed to participate in this deployment.  We should be able to work as at least two teams simultaneously but at different locations in the field and hopefully we’ll thereby complete all the work asked of us by quitting time (around 3 pm). 

Everyone on this Tuesday's team has worked on at least one CFC deployment in the past, so you're all aware of the requirements of working with us if you're going to operate a chainsaw: you’ll need full PPE (helmet, eye protection, ear protection, chaps and steel-toed boots; work gloves and an upper body protective vest are optional, but recommended; let me know if you’ll need to borrow any required piece (other than the boots!) from our loan locker so I can bring it with me for you); and your chainsaw must be US Forest Service compliant with a working chain brake and spark arrester.

As this will be our first outing of the year, our one piece of annual bureaucracy will need to be undertaken before you will be permitted to work: completion and filing of your Adult Volunteer Release and Waiver of Liability paperwork.  Your personal copy of the 4-page form is attached.  No alterations to this form are permitted.  Please (1.) print it out, (2.) print your name at the top of each page, (3.) sign the document in the appropriate spot and (4.) have your signature witnessed, (5.) make sure you’ve entered something in every blank and (6.) then bring it along with you to give to me on Tuesday morning.  Then you’ll be good to go for the entirety of 2015.

Bob