1. Meetings of Interest (Updated 14 August 2008; NOTE LOCATION CORRECTION IN RED)

2. Membership Renewals (Updated 14 January 2008)

3. Newsletter (Updated 14 January 2008)

4. International Oaks, the IOS Journal (Updated 22 August 2007)

Oak Open Days (17-21 September 2008) - The first-ever Oak Open Days in Austria and Italy will be held this coming September. It will coincide with acorn drop so it will be an excellent opportunity to collect acorns from the numerous species we will see and visit. The tour will begin at the Vienna Airport 'Schwechat' on September 17 where we will meet and assemble. The next day we will embark on a two-day tour to native and planted oak forests in Leitha Gebirge, south of Vienna. Our guides will be Mr. DI Franz Starlinger and Mr. Dr. Georg Frank from the Austria State Forests, Department for Oaks and Native Forests. Species we will see will include Quercus petrea, Q. robur, Q. cerris, and Q. pubescens. On September 20 we will board a bus for a one-day trip to the area of Trieste in Italy where we will visit the Arboretum Miramare and view Q. cerris, Q. pubescens, Q. pubescens ssp. virgiliana, and Q. ilex. We will end the day with a tour dinner at the hotel. The following day, September 21, we will take a one-day trip to Osoppo Italy to see the most north-eastern habitat of shrubby Q. ilex and Q. pubescens.  Afterwards we will return to Austria and visit the young arboretum of our host and Lifetime International Oak Society member Max Schöeffmann, located next to the town of Villach, where we will conclude the tour. Participants can then spend another day before departing, or catch a train from Villach back to Vienna or travel a short distance to Klagenfurt where there is an airport. At present this schedule is tentative and there may be changes. Click HERE for the complete program. If you have any questions, please contact Max Shöeffmann at the mailing and email addresses listed below:
St. Andrae 4
9523 Landskron/Villach, Austria
Email address: max.schoeffmann@yahoo.de

Tree Seeds 2008 – Trees, Seeds and a Changing climate (22-25 September 2008, Millennium Seed Bank Project, Sussex, UK). Click here for more information.

Oaks:  Important Characteristics and Health Threats (Wednesday, 15 October 2008, 9 a.m.—4 p.m., Morris Arboretum. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). Click here for more information.

World Biodiversity Congress (20-22 November 2008, Chiang Mai, Thailand). Click here to open a PDF file for more information..

California Native Plant Society Conservation Conference ( 17 – 19 January 2009, Sacramento, CA, USA). Click here for more information.

Eurogard V: Botanic Gardens in the Age of Climate Change (June 8-12 2009, Helsinki, Finland). Click here for more information.

6th International Oak Conference (20-22 October 2009, Puebla, Mexico). Click here for more information.