Nature: beautiful & dignified tanoaks

Not much happening Wednesday at city council

Zack Cinek

Feb 5, 2023

Sunday, February 5, 2023

City gov’t: City Council meets Wednesday.
Nature: A visual study of tanoak trees.

City gov’t | Pre-meeting coverage

WHAT: City council meeting

WHEN: Wednesday at 6:30 PM

WHERE: City Hall, 111 East Commercial Street

The meeting Wednesday will be a light meeting by any standard.

A proclamation to acknowledge February as National Black History Month will be issued.

Public comment is always at the top of Willits’ meeting agendas. Plan for your remarks to fit into an allotted time of three minutes or less if you plan to speak.

No new policies, projects or reports in the meeting materials for Wednesday.

City Hall reported new business licenses for January:

Brooktrails | No meeting

No meeting in Brooktrails this week, though the board will be back-in-business again February 14.

Miscellaneous Brooktrails notes:

A win for the fish: It was mentioned previously that the Eel River Watershed Improvement Group won a grant to place wood in Brooktrails’ creek with the objective of creating slower and cooler waters.

Brooktrails is accepting applications for a Deputy Finance Officer.

BROOKTRAILS: Performs a variety of specialized and continuing financial, accounting, and office support duties of a responsible nature, including maintenance of the budgetary accounting system, preparation of payroll, maintenance of accounts payable system, and management of District funds, including investments; as Deputy Finance Officer prepares financial documents; assists General Manager with budget preparation and financial reporting.

These are the committees that directors serve on this year:

Nature

Tree lovers should know that tanoak is now Notholithocarpus densiflorus. It’s former scientific name was Lithocarpus densiflorus.

Water collects inside a scarred and fallen tanoak.

Frederica Bowcutt’s The Tanoak Tree: An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood is an excellent read on tanoaks and acorns. The library system has a copy.

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