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The IOS recently received an inquiry from Jim Conrad about a strange phenomenon he observed on a twig of a Quercus
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Posted Tue, 2023-06-20 19:51 in Website Editor's blog
A new oak-themed mural beautifies an old brick wall in downtown Woodland, California.
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Posted Wed, 2023-06-14 15:02 in Website Editor's blog
Shakespeare mentions oaks more than any other tree.
Falstaff at Hern's Oak
Posted Sun, 2023-04-23 15:56 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Hans-Cees Speel shares news of the website he created, which includes numerous photos of 64 oak taxa. 
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Posted Wed, 2023-04-19 11:10 in Hans-Cees Speel's blog
Tim Boland brought to our attention an interesting discussion of dispersal of acorns by Blue Jays (
Blue Jays and Oaks by Jay Wright
Posted Sun, 2023-04-16 13:56 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Maricela Rodríguez interviewed staff and owners at key oak collections in the UK. 
Propagating oaks by cuttings
Posted Sun, 2023-04-16 13:10 in Website Editor's blog
Angela Moskow shared some disturbing accounts of oak poisonings.
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Posted Sun, 2023-04-16 10:01 in Website Editor's blog
An encounter in Taiwan with a genus in Fagaceae I had never heard of.
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Posted Sat, 2023-04-15 11:44 in Roderick Cameron's blog
An article by Tim Boland and Matt Lobdell on why oaks are "ecological warhorses"
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Posted Wed, 2023-02-15 17:43 in Website Editor's blog
A proposal to conserve the name for Hungarian oak
Quercus frainetto
Posted Mon, 2023-02-13 16:11 in Roderick Cameron's blog
The Tree Conservation Biology lab at The Morton Arboretum contributed an article to the Kew Millennium Seed Bank Partnership newsletter, Samara.
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Posted Fri, 2023-02-10 21:38 in Sean Hoban's blog
IOS founding member and oak doyen Guy Sternberg was interviewed by Vanessa Ferguson for NPR Illinois.
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Posted Thu, 2022-12-15 15:47 in Website Editor's blog

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The IOS recently received an inquiry from Jim Conrad about a strange phenomenon he observed on a twig of a Quercus
q_rugos2.jpg
Posted Tue, 2023-06-20 19:51 in Website Editor's blog
A new oak-themed mural beautifies an old brick wall in downtown Woodland, California.
photo_4_0.jpg
Posted Wed, 2023-06-14 15:02 in Website Editor's blog
Shakespeare mentions oaks more than any other tree.
Falstaff at Hern's Oak
Posted Sun, 2023-04-23 15:56 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Hans-Cees Speel shares news of the website he created, which includes numerous photos of 64 oak taxa. 
quercus_affinis_mexican_laurelleaf_oak1l.jpg
Posted Wed, 2023-04-19 11:10 in Hans-Cees Speel's blog
Tim Boland brought to our attention an interesting discussion of dispersal of acorns by Blue Jays (
Blue Jays and Oaks by Jay Wright
Posted Sun, 2023-04-16 13:56 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Maricela Rodríguez interviewed staff and owners at key oak collections in the UK. 
Propagating oaks by cuttings
Posted Sun, 2023-04-16 13:10 in Website Editor's blog
Angela Moskow shared some disturbing accounts of oak poisonings.
how_to_kill_an_oak_page_1.jpg
Posted Sun, 2023-04-16 10:01 in Website Editor's blog
An encounter in Taiwan with a genus in Fagaceae I had never heard of.
castnopsis_uraiana_inat2.jpeg
Posted Sat, 2023-04-15 11:44 in Roderick Cameron's blog
An article by Tim Boland and Matt Lobdell on why oaks are "ecological warhorses"
tag-jf22-cover-768x1013.jpg
Posted Wed, 2023-02-15 17:43 in Website Editor's blog
A proposal to conserve the name for Hungarian oak
Quercus frainetto
Posted Mon, 2023-02-13 16:11 in Roderick Cameron's blog
The Tree Conservation Biology lab at The Morton Arboretum contributed an article to the Kew Millennium Seed Bank Partnership newsletter, Samara.
img_7986.jpg
Posted Fri, 2023-02-10 21:38 in Sean Hoban's blog
IOS founding member and oak doyen Guy Sternberg was interviewed by Vanessa Ferguson for NPR Illinois.
tacoleaves-rr.jpg
Posted Thu, 2022-12-15 15:47 in Website Editor's blog

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