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The Newsletter of the International Oak Society Volume No. 5, Issue No. l Summer 2001

Oak Voted National Calendar of Events Tree in the U.S. AUG 22-SEPT 1, 2001 Chihuahuan Desert Region he people of the United States have have been prized for their shade, beauty, Oak Trip Tselected the oak as their choice for and lumber. Northern Mexico and New Mexico America's National Tree in a nationwide vote For additional information contact: hosted by the National Arbor Day Foundation. "Oak's amazing strength and longevity Michael Martin Melendrez email: [email protected] Results of the Vote for America's National have also made this tree a central part of Arboretum Tome & Trees That Please Tree were announced April 27 at a tree our history," he added, "with leaders as Nursery and Farm planting ceremony on the Capitol Grounds diverse as Abraham Lincoln, William Penn, 9 Gilcrease Lane in Washington, D.C. "The oak is a fine choice and Andrew Jackson being associated with Los Lunas, New Mexico 87031 to represent all of America's trees and to them. Another early 'hero' of American exemplifY the importance of trees in our lives," history, 'Old Ironsides,' or the USS Consti­ SEPT 9-12, 2001 stated John Rosenow, president of the Arbor tution, was famed for repelling British The Eighth Workshop on Seedling Day Foundation. "People of all ages and cannonballs thanks to its thick, live oak hull. Physiology and Growth Problems backgrounds responded enthusiastically to the The American people have chosen wisely in Oak Plantings vote, which was the first time that the entire in so honoring the oak." Hiawassee, Georgia, USA American public has been able to state their For additional information contact: pick for a national emblem." The official website of the National Arbor Linda Watson, US Forest Service Day Foundation, http://www.arborday.org/, 320 Green Street People were invited to vote for one of twenty­ offers an opportunity to learn more about Athens, Georgia 30602 one candidate trees, based on broad tree the candidate trees and the final vote tally FAX: (706) 559-4291 categories (genera) that included the state trees for each tree. The Arbor Day Foundation email: [email protected] of all 50 states and the District of Columbia, is a million-member, nonprofit education or to write in any other tree selection. There organization that helps people plant and OCT 22-25, 2001 were over 100,000 votes for the oak out of care for trees. Oaks in California's Changing nearly a half of a million votes that were Landscape submitted. The redwood, maple, pine, and dogwood rounded out the top five choices. An oak was planted the same afternoon at Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City, Nebraska-the birthplace of Arbor Day in 1872.

"We undertook this vote to remind Americans of just how vital trees are to us all, and to San Diego, California, USA emphasize the history and grandeur of our For additional information contact: trees," Rosenow said. "By any standard, oak Doug McCreary merits the distirrction of being named the 8279 Scott Forbes Road people's choice for America's National Tree." Browns Valley, CA 95948, USA email: ddmccrear:[email protected] Among the many strong attributes of oak, From the Editor· pt& • Rosenow cited its diversity, with more than M t. l . e WISh to thank the OCT 26-28, 2001 sixty species growing in the United States. al;o::a Arbor Da;~ Foundation for Oak Open Days gus lo nq.Jrmr portions o(th Spain and Portugal "This magnificent tree is significant in sheer announcement. wht It . . numbers alone," he said, "with oak trees being web site th t h apprured Of/ theli· For additional information contact: America's most widespread hardwoods. From ofthe Vot; fi a: e o~k •.vas the winner Francisco Vazquez or menca s Narivua/ 7'ree. email: frvazquez50@hotmail. com the earliest settlement of our country, oaks PAGEZ

The International Oak Society recently members with Internet access to visit the President's Message ... changed its Board of Directors, with several web site of the Society often to keep abreast positions filled by different but hardly "new" of developments and news of the approaching The new century is now well upon us, mostly faces from within the organization. Following conference. Dick Jensen manages the web devoid of the calamities forecast, but that the triennial general membership meeting, site at: http: //www.saintmarys.edu~rjensen / does not mean we should pay no attention to this new board is charged to continue the ios.html. new forecasts. When I ponder over what management of the quality and service of might lie ahead for a wide variety of things, the organization to its members. In retrospect of the Third International Oak it becomes clear that we have too many things Conference in North Carolina, it seemed all to ponder over, and the need for information As your newly elected President for three who attended had a memorable experience to ponder more efficiently seems to increase years, I will attempt to fill a position vacated and came away with new information, friends, exponentially. Even among comparatively by someone intrinsically known among oak or at least acorns. The unseasonably warm simple oak-affiliated concerns, we can always people since the beginning days of the Inter­ weather of late October 2000 in the Southern use new information to paint a clearer picture. national Oak Society. Guy Sternberg has been Appalachians provided an additional and So, my point here is to use your member­ your President since the first membership comfortable surprise, even to the natives ship to learn and correspond! Find out the meeting of 1994; indeed, he has been a of this region. The weather was especially details on oak mortality in California, oak partner in the instigation, promotion, and nice for the tours. The 112 total registered reforestation efforts in Turkey, Mexican oak governance of the organization across all of attendees of the conference originated from woodland ecology, and all the other topics its formative years. Guy has become perhaps 18 different nations, and 40% of the total was that parade through the newsletter, journal, as widely recognized as the figurehead of the from outside the U.S. Thanks to generous and internet connections of the International lOS as an acorn is recognized to represent donors, the conference concluded without Oak Society to better your worldly knowledge an oak! I will therefore fill his position in red ink, and over $2600 in scholarships was of oaks and of people who know them well. this organization until 2003, but expect not awarded. Look for details and published to fill his shoes (figuratively and especially presentations in your copy ofthe Proceedings Perhaps many of you in the U.S. have heard literally-if you have ever seen Guy, you of the Third International Oak Conference, of the vote for oak as the National Tree of the know why). As a member since 1992, I in the next edition of the International Oaks United States, and legislation to make it an express my own gratitude to the excellent journal. official symbol. If not, read details in the leadership that Guy has provided over the lead article in this Newsletter and consider years, and to his monumental efforts in the All members in good standing receive one contacting your Senators or Representatives development of the International Oak Society. free copy of the journal, as well as other and encouraging their support. I have written Now I can also extend recognition to him benefits, so if your membership has expired, the sponsors of the bill, Senator Ben Nelson on behalf of the Oak Society. Thank you, I urge you to renew or investigate your options and Congressman Bob Goodlatte, on behalf Guy, for your service and guidance of the with the membership director, Dick Jensen. ofthe International Oak Society commending International Oak Society, and for your Membership in the International Oak Society their efforts and offering the assistance of our patience (in advance) regarding the inevitable is still the same low fee as in previous years, Society. The public vote to select a National requests for advice that are to come your way a real bargain that hasn't changed amid fees Symbol is not commonly done, but interest­ over the next three years! changing nearly everywhere else. Hope you ingly it reflects an earlier poll back in 1991. enjoy this newsletter, a product of Doug In a National Survey conducted by the The Third International Oak Conference is McCreary's efforts from which we all continue International Society of Arboriculture that over, and now time rolls toward the Fourth to receive benefit. year, the Oak received over 75% of the vote, one in 2003. For the first time, we will gather among 53 genera considered. The National in a non-U.S. location for the International - Ron Lance, PRESIDENT Tree Bill never made it through the official Oa'k Society's triennial conference in 2003, an political channels that time, so let's hope exciting opportunity for the United Kingdom our politicians see the light this time and to show off its oaks and oak expertise to the give the oak the recognition it deserves! members that travel there. I encourage all In Memoriam Thierry Lamant sadly reported that member Dr. Friedrich (Fritz) Duhme Pr~ident: Ron Lance died this past year on OA\Jf( NJE\W§ NOTJE§ (& Vice President: Thierry Lamant September 24, 2000. Secretary: Dorothy Holley Fritz was a great lover The Newsletter of the International Oak Society Treasurer: Peter van der Linden 8279 Scott Forbes Road of oaks and widely Browns Valley, CA 95918 Editor: Doug McCreary recognized for his USA Send submissions to the address on the left. scientific work. He Telephone: 530-639-8807 had attended the Facsimile: 530-639-2419 last European Oak E-Mail: [email protected] Open Days meeting. PAGE3 Points of Contact Seeding the Future MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS OR rofessor Emeritus John Tucker of the financially. Things have changed in recent APPLICATIONS: PUniversity of California, Davis, recently years very much for the better. I just wanted Dickjensen, Membership Chairperson gave $500,000 to the campus herbarium to help things along." Department of Biology and arboretum. Dr. Tucker, who played a Saint Mary's College leading role in developing these facilities, Tucker joined the UC Davis faculty and Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA 219-284-4674, FAX: 219-284-4716 is helping to ensure the future health of began overseeing the Botany Herbarium in e-mail: [email protected] both facilities with the gift. 194 7 while completing research for his doctorate from UC Berkeley. When he started SUBMITTALS FOR THE JOURNAL The donation from the botany professor at the herbarium, the specimens numbered OR NEWSLETTER: emeritus will be divided equally between fewer than I 0,000. During his tenure, he Doug McCreary, Editorial Committee the campus's two vast collections-one started an exchange program and vastly ex­ Chairperson consisting of mounted and labeled dried panded collections of weeds and California University of California plants residing in Robbins Hall, and the flora, as well as oaks. By the time he retired in 8279 Scott Forbes Road other of living plants that grow along the 1986, the facility was renamed in his honor. Browns Valley, California 95918, USA e-mail: ddmccreary@ucdavis. edu Arboretum Waterway. The money will enable the herbarium and arboretum staffs, Hundreds of people a year visit the herbarium BUSINESS ISSUES: among other things, to maintain world-class to use its library, look at its specimens and Guy Sternberg collections of oak trees that have been the identify their own plant specimens. The Starhill Forest subject ofTucker's intellectual passion for majority of those visitors are UC Davis stud­ Route 1, Box 272 most of his life. ents, faculty members and staff employees; Petersburg, Illinois 62675, USA others include visiting university researchers, The arboretum's share will establish the government biologists, private consultants EUROPEAN CONTACT: John M. Tucker Oak Collection Endowed and members of the public. The herbarium Thierry Lamant, Vice President Office National des Forets Fund to maintain its oak trees, particularly staff also identifies plants as a public service, Conservatoire Genetique des Arbres those in the Peter J. Shields Oak Grove. most often identifying weeds for farm Forestiers The grove contains more than 80 kinds of advisers throughout the state or poisonous Avenue de Ia Pomme de Pin oaks, many grown from acorns collected plants for veterinarians trying to determine BP 20619 Ardon, 45166 Olivet cedex, for Tucker's research from throughout the what sickened or killed an animal. France United States and northern Mexico. Ellen Dean, the herbarium's director and CONFERENCE 2003: The portion for the herbarium is the first curator, said Tucker's gift is a demonstration Allen Coombes major gift towards construction of a two of his "vision for and a true belief in the Sir Harold Hillier Arboretum jeremy's Lane million dollar facility to house its more importance of the herbarium." than 200,000 dried plants. Many of those Ampfield, near Romsey - From Dateline, UC Davis Hampshire S051 OQA, United Kingdom specimens, including an extensive oak collection, were acquired during the 39 QUESTIONS FROM THE MEDIA: years Tucker directed the herbarium. Ron Lance, President The North Carolina Arboretum Tucker, who turned 85 earlier in the year, PO Box 6617 said he has been interested in these facilities ~pseL Asheville, North Carolina 28816, USA his entire career. 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Oak Open Days 2001 to be held in Spain and Portugal

his coming October, the annual Oak and vegetation types where oaks grow. We TENTATIVE ITINERARY: TOpen Days of the International Oak will also visit different management systems OAK OPEN DAYS 2001 Society will tour the oak forests of Spain and for oaks: forests of Quercus suber managed Portugal. These forests have a high level of for the extraction of the cork; woods with October 25 or earlier- Arrive in Spain or Portugal Those attending the Oak Open Days can fly into one of three biodiversity, with many endemic species of holm oak (Quercus ilex) that produce acorns airports: International Lisbon Airport, Portugal (200 kms, plants and animals, along with other species for consumption by domestic animals; mixed 2 hours, to Badajoz city), International Madrid Airport, Spain common to the Mediterranean region. The forests of pine and cork oak for both cork (400 kms, 4 hours, to Badajoz city), International Seville Airport, Spain (180 kms, 2.5 hours, to Badajoz city) primary trees of these ecosystems are oaks and wood production; forest of Pyrenean NOTE: Transportation from these airports to Badajoz is easy that generally grow slowly, but are intensively oak for the production of wood and acorns; by bus or rental car, with little traffic. managed. as well as other unmanaged systems. First Day (October 26) - Francisco M. Vazquez Pardo 6:30AM Leave for breakfast The structure in these forests is an upper 7:30 Depart for Portugal (Due to the time change, level with oaks, a middle level with scrubs clocks are set back an hour in Portugal) Approximate Cost of Tour ...... ~~~~ 8:00 Visit Q. lusitanica, Q. suber and Q. rotundifolia such as Cistus, Erica or Genista species, and The approximate cost of the trip will be $450 populations and their hybrids in Ponte do Sor a lower level with many herbs of the Poaceae, American for those (Alentejo region, Portugal) Asteracea and Fabaceae families. In many arriving and exiting from Visit an artificial forest of Q. suber (Alentejo region) Seville, and $500 for those Lunch and visit of Q. coccifera (close to Q. calliprinus), areas the middle level has been destroyed by connecting in Lisbon or Q. suber, Q. robur subsp. broteroana, and man for the exploitation of the grassland. Madrid. The actual costs Q. rotundifolia populations and some of their Commonly, the density of the trees has will be sent out in the second hybrids in Arrabida Natural Park of Setubal announcement which will be (Estremadura region, South Lisbon, Portugal) also been reduced from approximately 120 mailed in July-August 2001. 17:00 Visit the Institute of Agrarian Research (Badajoz trees/ha to 40 trees/ha. The name of this province, Spain): Plantations of Q. rotundifolia, forest system is the "Dehesa" (or "Montado" Taxa that we hope to see during Tour: Q. suber, Q. broteroi, Q. faginea, Q. coccifera and Q. robur and Nursery with seedlings from American in Portugal), and is the typical forest type of Q. canadensis Q. lusitanica x Q. canadensis and Iberian Quercus species the southern Iberian Peninsula. The forests Q. canariensis x Q. faginea Q. /usitanica x Q. coccifera 19:00 Finish Tour and return to hotel for dinner alpestds along rivers and in the coastal and middle­ Q. /usitanica x Q. rotundifolia 20:00 Exchange of seedlings and seeds in the hotel Q. canadensis x Q. faginea Q. lusitanica x Q. suber 21:00 Oak presentations at hotel high mountains have different oak species. broteroi Q. pyrenaica Q. canariensis x Q. rotundifolia Q robur subsp. broteroana These areas also have many micro-habitats Second Pay (October 27) Q, canariensis x Q, suber Q. rotundifolia and transition sites and are colonized by Q. coccifera Q. rotundifolia x Q. faginea 7:00AM Typical Spanish Breakfast 8:20 Visit "Dehesa" exploitation of Quercus rotundifolia large numbers of oak hybrids. Q. coccifera x Q faginea broteroi broteroi Q. rotundifolia x Q. suber in Valle Matamoros (South Badajoz province, Spain) Q. faginea subsp. alpestris Q. suber 10:00 Visit "Dehesa" exploitation of Quercus suberin Our tour will include a variety of sites in the Q. faginea subsp. broteroi Q. suber x Q coccifera Jerez de los Caballeros (South Badajoz province, Spain) Q. faginea subsp. faginea Q. suber x Q. faginea broteroi 12:00 Visit the most southern European forest of Quercus southern Iberian Peninsula and we will see a Q. lusitanica pyrenaica in Tentudia mountains (South Badajoz great diversity of habitats,, species, hybrids province, Spain) 14:00 Lunch and visit to wood production forest: Quercus rotundifolia, Q. suber, Q. faginea broteroi and Q. canadensis group in Santa Ana Ia Real (North REGISTRATION FOR OAK OPEN DAYS 2001 Huelva province, Spain) 17:00 Visit National Park "Donana" in Almonte (South Huelva province, Spain). Forest of cork oak in the LAST NAME: ______FIRST NAME: ------Atlantis coastal with Q. coccifera and specific and endemic scrubs of the South Iberian Peninsula INSTITUTION : 19:00 Dinner 20:30 Oak presentations in the hotel

ADDRESS: ------Third Day (October 28} 6:00AM Leave for Cadiz province 7:00 Breakfast 7:30 Continue on to Cadiz COUNTRY: ______8:45 Visit river forests of Q. canariensis in Alcala de los Gazules (Cadiz province, Spain) PHONE: ______FAX: 11 :00 Visit Atlantic coastal forests of Q. suber, Q. canariensis Q. /usitanica and their hybrids in Algeciras, southern­ most Europe (Cadiz province, Spain) E-MAILADDRESS: ------13:30 Lunch and tour of coastal Mediterranean habitats with different shrubs species in coastal Cadiz Please send this Registration form before July 15 by email to: [email protected] 16:30 Coffee and visit to forest of Q. pyrenaica, Q. suber, or by mail to: Francisco M. Vazquez, Department of Forest Production/SIDT-EXTREMADURA, P.O. Box 22, _Q. coccifera, Q. rotundifolia and Q. faginea broteroi and some hybrids in Monesterio (South extreme of E-06080, BADAJOZ (SPAIN) Badajoz province, Spain) Francisco can also be contacted at: (Phone) 34-924-288100, (FAX) 34-924-288101 18:30 Visit "maquis" forest (Q. coccifera) in Alconera (Badajoz province, Spain) L------~ 20:00 Arrive in Badajoz City-Dinner soon afterwards