California is home to18 different oaks.
Click on the links to view articles on these subjects by Tom Gaman.
Oaks2040 The Status and Future of California Oaks October 2006 ...as distributed by the California Oak Foundation October 2006
The Goldman Foundation has funded us to complete the "2006 Oak Restoration Strategy"
Summary in Cooperation with the California Oak Foundation
The California Oak Priority Index--A County
Summary ...as printed by the California Oak Foundation in its Winter
2001 Newsletter
August 2003 Support SB 711 Help Preserve Oak Woodlands -- millions of oak trees!
Southern California Tree Mortality -- millions of dying trees!
Inventory of Oaks of California's National Forest Lands (November 2001) -- 433 million oak trees!
Sudden Oak Death Article by Tom Gaman (January 2001)
Sudden Oak Death Update (November 2006
California Oak photography high resolution (November 2006
Oak Issues 2002--an October 2002 talk by Tom Gaman
Oak Issues (Link to the California Oak Foundation)
The Political Tree Disease--Sudden Oak Death--Dec. 2003
This is a great Valley Oak at Pozo, San Luis Obispo County, California