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Group photos Texas OODs
Texas Oak Open Days - October 12–16, 2023
Five days of oaking in the Lone Star State.
Roderick Cameron | Oct 21, 2023
Tour Participants on Fiddler Peak
IOS Tour of Oregon, September 2023
An account of the Tour guided by Sean Hogan
Website Editor | Oct 19, 2023
Quercus pacifica
The Oak Collection at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
An collection specializing in native Californian oaks
Christina Varnava | Oct 18, 2023

Plant Focus

A small but mature Alabama sandstone oak producing acorns © Patrick Thompson
Species Spotlight: Quercus boyntonii
A Critically Endangered dwarf oak 
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IOS Tours

IOS Tour of Oregon

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This 7-day Tour will be led by renowned plantsman Sean Hogan of Cistus Nursery.

Post-Conference Tours

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Two sequential Post-Conference Tours to the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast region are being offered to allow for a range of schedules and budgets. Join us for an exploration of urban and wild oak landscapes along California's scenic coast.

Pre-Conference Tours

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Two sequential Pre-Conference Tours to the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade-Siskiyou Mountain region are being offered to allow for a range of schedules and budgets. Join us as we explore the magnificent scenery and oak diversity in the mountains of Northern California.

Tour of New Mexico and Arizona

Michael Meléndrez, long-time member of the IOS, will lead a ten-day filed trip in New Mexico from August 20 to 30, 2017.

IOS Tour of Southern New Mexico

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Staunch IOS member Mike Meléndrez is willing to share his encyclopaedic knowledge of the oaks of the U.S. Southwest with a double bill of tours, in 2016 and 2017. The first Tour will take place September 24-29, 2016. 

IOS Italian Tour 20 – 22 October 2014

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A tour of southern Italy led by Belgian nurserymen Christof van Hulle and Dirk Benoit.