Dear 'Tree Seed' Colleague: Since 1983, the seed research unit at Petawawa National Forestry Institute, (PNFI) has been supporting the Tree Seed Working Group of the Canadian Tree Improvement Association, in developing and maintaining a research/technology network among seed workers. The Working Group includes most of the people in Canada having tree seed interests as well as a few individuals in the USA, Africa, China, Finland, Sweden, India, and other countries. They are concerned with seed physiology, development, germination, production, pest control, or tree improvement research, with seed procurement, processing, storage, or testing technology, with seed orchard management, with seed certification and sales, or with seed utilization. The Working Group's networking activities currently involve arranging for tree seed to be a subject for discussion at workshops and professional meetings, twice yearly publishing a Newsbulletin (English), maintaining a directory of seed workers, and as individuals, voicing support for tree seed work and distributing research/technology information in all possible ways both within and outside the Group. The seed research unit at PNFI recognizes that the distribution of tree seed research/technology information can be further enhanced by the establishment of an email discussion group on the INTERNET and would willingly accepts the responsibility of managing such a facility. I am now pleased to announce that an international electronic mailing listserver discussion group for tree seed has been set up. This discussion group is a forum for rapid exchange of research/ technology information, ideas, and opinions related to topic tree seed and also welcomes announcements of meetings, calls for papers, help/employment wanted messages, and book reviews. Messages between members of the group are sent by electronic mail. All members are sent electronic copies of each piece of correspondence, keeping everyone informed of the ongoing electronic 'discussion'. There are two parts to the service: the discussion group, and an automated list server. The discussion group operates in a very simple manner. All mail received at the address 'TREESEED@PNFI.FORESTRY.CA' will be copied and sent automatically to all subscribers on the list. Subscriptions are managed automatically by the list server. To add your name to the subscription list send a message to 'LISTSERV@PNFI.FORESTRY.CA' with single line message of the form: SUBSCRIBE TREESEED FirstName LastName A message confirmating that your name has been added to the list will be sent to you. Membership in this group is open to everyone expressing an interest in tree seed. Please feel free to pass on this information sheet to any colleague that you think would be interested. Many of the articles submitted to the Canadian Tree Improvement Association - Tree Seed Newsbulletin will be copied to the discussion group mailing list, and vice-versa. The Newsbulletin provides a service to those without electronic mail access, but is only available in english. Requests for subscriptions to the Newbulletin may be addressed to me at PNFI. HUGH O. SCHOOLEY (Tree Seed Discussion Group Administrator and Editor CTIA_TSWG Newsbulletin) Petawawa National Forestry Institute Box 2000, Chalk River, Ontario K0J 1J0 CANADA - or - email your request to HSCHOOLEY@ZEKE.pnfi.forestry.ca
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