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Mission

To further the study, sustainable management, preservation, appreciation, and dissemination of knowledge to the public about oaks (genus Quercus) and their ecosystems.

Goals

  • To advance the state of scientific knowledge regarding oaks and oakland ecology
  • To locate, preserve and catalog significant oak-related literature
  • To facilitate the location and distribution of living material for propagation of oaks
  • To foster communication among members via a journal, other mailings, and periodic meetings
  • To promote the study, development, naming, and distribution of superior cultivars and cultivar groups for horticultural use, and the study of oaks for the production of timber, mast, and other useful products
  • To sponsor the preservation, display, and interpretation of oak-related traditions, art, and lore; and encourage development and curation of appropriate and useful collections of oak-related pieces, such as wood samples, taxonomic specimens, or historic oak artifacts
  • To develop the capability and to serve as a registrar authority for oak cultivars, historic and champion oak trees, ancient oak groves, unusual or rare oak specimens, or objects of significance involving oaks
  • To provide information regarding the use, preservation, and appreciation of oaks, and successful techniques for oak culture and management
  • To encourage, recognize and honor outstanding achievements by individuals and organizations, members and non-members, in advancing these goals of the International Oak Society

    • Officers and Board Members

    All of these people may be contacted through the membership directory, accessible on the home page.

    Officers

    President : Béatrice Chassé
    Vice-President : Charles Snyers d’Attenhoven
    Secretary : Jim Hitz
    Treasurer : Bill Hess 


    Directors

    Membership Director : Rudy Light
    Development Director : Allen Coombes
    Tour Committee Director : Dirk Benoît
    Editor International Oaks : Guy Sternberg
    Editor Oak News & Notes : Allan Taylor

     

    Committees

     

    Finance : Bill Hess, Charles Snyers, Todd Lasseigne
    Editorial : Guy Sternberg, Ron Lance, Allen Coombes, Béatrice Chassé, Charles Snyers, Allan Taylor, Eike Jablonski
    Taxonomy and Oak Cultivars : Allen Coombes, Richard Jensen, Bill Hess, Eike Jablonski, Piers Trehane
    Tour : Dirk Benoît, Emily Griswold, Francisco Maria Vasquez Pardo, Tim Boland, Kunso Kim

     

     

    SOME OF THOSE WHO HAVE HELPED MAKE US WHAT WE ARE TODAY 

    Founder : Steven Roesch (USA) 
    First publication director : Nigel Wright (USA) 
     

    Special Service Award
    2009 Ron Lance, Matt Strong (USA) Thierry Lamant (France) Michel Timacheff, Antoine Le Hardÿ de Beaulieu (Belgium)

    2006 Richard Jensen (USA) Dan Keiser (USA) Christian Spinelli (Costa Rica)  
    2003 Diana Gardener (USA) Ed Holm (USA) Rudy Light (USA)

    Lifetime Service Award
     

    2000 J.R.P. van Hoey Smith (Holland) Stelian Radu (Romania)
    2003 Guy Sternberg (USA)
    2006 Nihat Gökyigit (Turkey) Hayrettin Karaca (Turkey) 

    Board of Directors
     

    2003-2006 Allen Coombes, William Hess, Dorothy Holley, Eike Jablonski, Richard Jensen, Thierry Lamant , Ron Lance, Ana Mendoza, Doug McCreary, Guy Sternberg 
    2000-2003 Allen Coombes, Dorothy Holley, Eike Jablonski, Richard Jensen, Thierry Lamant, Ron Lance, Peter van der Linden, Doug McCreary, Maricela Rodriguez-Acosta, Guy Sternberg
    1997-2000 Allen Coombes, Richard Jensen, Thierry Lamant, Ron Lance, Amy Larson, Peter van der Linden, Doug McCreary, Maricela Rodriguez-Acosta, Guy Sternberg 
    1994-1997 Allen Coombes, Amy Larson, Peter van der Linden, Guy Sternberg, Nigel Wright 

    Triennial Conferences 

    2009 - Benemérita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico (Chair, Maricela Rodriguez Acosta)
    2006 – Texas A&M University, Texas, USA (Chair, David Richardson)
    2003 – King Alfred College, Hampshire, England (Chair, Allen Coombes)
    2000 – The North Carolina Arboretum, North Carolina, USA (Chair, Ron Lance)
    1997 – The Huntington Botanical Garden, California, USA (Chair, Amy Larson)
    1994 – The Morton Arboretum, Illinois, USA (Chair, Guy Sternberg) 

    Oak Open Days  

    2005 – England, Barry Denyer Green
    2004 – France, Thierry Lamant
    2002 – Turkey, Adil Güner, Habib, Güler, Aydin Borazon, Nihat Gökyigit
    2001 – Spain, Francisco Vasquez
    1999 – France, Thierry Lamant
    1998 – Germany, Eike Jablonski
    1995 – England, Allen Coombes, Dorothy Holley

     

    AUTHORS' GUIDELINES FOR INTERNATIONAL OAKS General Policies The International Oak Society will accept articles for International Oaks from members or non-members as long as the material presented is pertinent to the genus Quercus. Written contributions may be scientific/technical papers, historical, horticultural, instructional or general interest material (stories/articles of a particular tree, event, place, person, etc.) or letters to the editor; a mix of categories is accepted and encouraged. Material may be previously published or unpublished. The author's name, title, postal address, telephone and/or fax number, and e-mail (if available) should be provided and should include all information as intended for publication. Any contributions longer than 7500 words must be approved in advance by the editors.  

    Copyrights International Oaks is not copyrighted, but authors, photographers, and artists may claim copyrights on their work. Anyone wishing to use portions of International Oaks for other publications should secure permission from the author, photographer or artist, and include a credit line indicating International Oaks as the source of the material. All contributors submitting work thereby release their contribution for publication under the terms stated herein. Authors take full and sole responsibility for securing releases for use of material obtained from other sources, and agree to indemnify the International Oak Society against any claim of plagiarism involving their contribution. All contributors, by submitting material, unconditionally release their work for non-exclusive print and/or web publication, subsequent republication, or other non-commercial use by the International Oak Society.

    Format Contributions will be accepted in legible format in English only. Text should be restricted to a single, standard font, preferably Times New Roman. No more than two levels of subheadings should be used. Electronic files written in WordPerfect or Microsoft Word are preferred and generally should be accompanied by a paper copy. Text may be submitted via e-mail or on CDs or DVDs. Do not add page numbers, borders, headers, or footers. Use no indents or other margin or spacing shifts, and avoid bold type, custom margins, and other optional format codes. Authors submitting papers in other formats must pay $10 US per manuscript page, in advance, to help defray the additional costs of reformatting for publication. Style, citation methods, and abstracts are left to the reasonable discretion of the author. Refer to the current Council of Biological Editors (CBE) Style Manual for Biological Journals for general guidelines.  

    Illustrations, tables, and charts Illustrations and photographs should be sharp and compatible with monochromatic reproduction. They may be submitted via postal mail on CDs or DVDs (no zip disks or older disk formats please) in IBM-compatible TIFF or high-resolution JPEG format. Do not send GIF files downloaded from internet sources, as these do not provide sufficient quality for print reproduction. PowerPoint images also are not acceptable because of incompatibility for printing. The minimum size for images is 5 inches (13 cm) at no less than 300 DPI resolution for digital art. All artwork, tables, and charts should be submitted separately, not as part of the body of the work. Include full but concise captions and credit lines, exactly as they are intended to appear in publication. Drawings, slides, or photos may be mailed to be scanned, and these will be returned upon request if you provide a return label and postage. Tables and charts which are not submitted in camera-ready form (or in an electronic format approved in advance by the editors) may be rejected, or subjected to a minimum US$30 production fee. Patterns rather than colors should be used for purposes of clarity in monochromatic reproduction. All measurements should be expressed in metric units, or in metric followed (in parentheses) by English.

    Nomenclature  Scientific names, with authority or with reference to the treatment in a specified standard taxonomic manual, must be included for each taxon discussed in scholarly papers. In names of nothotaxa, the multiplication sign is inserted with no space between the symbol and the initial letter of the name of the epithet. A space is used on both sides of the symbol in cases of formula names. If the mathematical symbol is not available, a lower-case Arial "x" may be used, with the same space suggestions. The "x" is neither italicized nor underlined. Inclusion of synonyms, formula names, and trade names in parentheses is encouraged where confusion may result from their omission. Cultivar names are capitalized and placed in single quotes and are not set in italics. Trade names are to be identified as such by the applicable standard symbols.

    Review The editorial committee and editors reserve the right to edit all contributions for grammar, correct English translation, current nomenclature, generally accepted taxonomic concepts, scientific accuracy, appropriateness, length, and clarity, but assume no responsibility to do so. If such review results in significant disputes of factual material, the author will be contacted if possible for approval before final publication, or the paper may be rejected. Every effort will be made to retain the original intent of the author. Graphics may be reconstructed or edited for clarity in publication, without altering their intent.  

    Submissions Please send disks or hard copy material before 1 December of the year prior to publication to: Guy Sternberg, Starhill Forest Arboretum, 12000 Boy Scout Trail, Petersburg, IL 62675 USA Text files or graphics smaller than 1 MB may be e-mailed to guy@starhillforest.com  

     

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