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2022 Pre-Conference Tour: Western Texas

By Philip Crim | October 13, 2022
Group at salt flats near Guadalupe Mountains National Park

San Antonio to Las Cruces: oaks and more

2022 Pre-Conference Tour: New Mexico

By Mark Coggeshall | October 12, 2022
Group under Mangas Mountain Gambel oak

Oaks and other attractions, from Albuquerque to Las Cruces.

2022 Post-Conference Tour: Arizona

By Wally Wilkins | October 12, 2022
Group at Tortilla Flat

Four days with the oaks of Arizona

Scouting for Quercus welshii

By Cindy Newlander | July 31, 2022
Quercus welshii on dunes site south of Kayenta, Ariz.

A threatened oak found in northern Arizona and southern Utah.

2018 Post-Conference Tour #1: San Francisco Bay Area

By Roderick Cameron | December 16, 2018
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Highlights of this tour included: University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, Long Ridge Open Space, Stanford oak woodland, and Apple Park.

2018 Post-Conference Tour #2: Central Coast

By Charles Snyers ... | December 11, 2018
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The second leg of the Post-Conference Tour: from Santa Cruz to Los Angeles

2018 Pre-Conference Tour #2: North Coast

By Mark Krautmann | December 10, 2018

Forty enthusiastic IOS members ventured from UC Davis through Sonoma wine country toward the north California coast. We visited sites of enormous habitat contrast that included many species of native oaks and the giant redwoods, unique in all the world.  

2018 Pre-Conference Tour #1: Sierra Nevada

By Dirk Giseburt | December 8, 2018
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Forty-one participants from nine countries gathered at Davis, California on October 15 for a four-day trek across the Sierra Nevada and back. Stunning was the diversity of landscapes we saw.

New Mexico 2017

By Charles Snyers ... | September 22, 2017
Quercus grisea - Greenlee County, AZ

This article is an account of the oak field trip organized by Michael Meléndrez in New Mexico (and a bit of Arizona) in August 2017. 

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Trip Reports

2022 Pre-Conference Tour: Western Texas

By Philip Crim | October 13, 2022
Group at salt flats near Guadalupe Mountains National Park

San Antonio to Las Cruces: oaks and more

2022 Pre-Conference Tour: New Mexico

By Mark Coggeshall | October 12, 2022
Group under Mangas Mountain Gambel oak

Oaks and other attractions, from Albuquerque to Las Cruces.

2022 Post-Conference Tour: Arizona

By Wally Wilkins | October 12, 2022
Group at Tortilla Flat

Four days with the oaks of Arizona

Scouting for Quercus welshii

By Cindy Newlander | July 31, 2022
Quercus welshii on dunes site south of Kayenta, Ariz.

A threatened oak found in northern Arizona and southern Utah.

2018 Post-Conference Tour #1: San Francisco Bay Area

By Roderick Cameron | December 16, 2018
img_20181026_102717.jpg

Highlights of this tour included: University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, Long Ridge Open Space, Stanford oak woodland, and Apple Park.

2018 Post-Conference Tour #2: Central Coast

By Charles Snyers ... | December 11, 2018
quercus_berberidifolia_600x450.jpg

The second leg of the Post-Conference Tour: from Santa Cruz to Los Angeles

2018 Pre-Conference Tour #2: North Coast

By Mark Krautmann | December 10, 2018

Forty enthusiastic IOS members ventured from UC Davis through Sonoma wine country toward the north California coast. We visited sites of enormous habitat contrast that included many species of native oaks and the giant redwoods, unique in all the world.  

2018 Pre-Conference Tour #1: Sierra Nevada

By Dirk Giseburt | December 8, 2018
img_3649.jpg

Forty-one participants from nine countries gathered at Davis, California on October 15 for a four-day trek across the Sierra Nevada and back. Stunning was the diversity of landscapes we saw.

New Mexico 2017

By Charles Snyers ... | September 22, 2017
Quercus grisea - Greenlee County, AZ

This article is an account of the oak field trip organized by Michael Meléndrez in New Mexico (and a bit of Arizona) in August 2017. 

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