Sopron conference day 1 | Message from the beetle

Sopron conference day 1 | Message from the beetle
Eckehard Brockerhoff (New Zealand Forest Research Institute, Rotorua, NZ) and Ferenc Lakatos (University of Western Hungary, Sopron) opened the bark beetle conference on behalf of IUFRO on Wednesday morning. The 75 delegates came from Greece, Canada, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Algeria, USA, Italy, Belgium, Slovakia, France, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Croatia, Australia, Germany, Wales, and South Korea. Sadly, the US Forest Service had no funds to send delegates.