Division 1 Colleagues: Announcing an *“Expert Workshop on Restoration and Adaptation of Mountain Forests in Central and Northeast Asia”* to be held 19-22 October 2015 at the City Hotel in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. This workshop is sponsored by IUFRO Unit 1.06.00 Restoration of Degraded Sites, Unit 1.01.05 Mountain Forest Management, and the Task Force Forest Adaptation and Restoration under Global Change. It provides a targeted follow-on to the workshop held in 2014 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and to the Keep Asia Green work supported by the ASEAN-Korea Environmental Cooperation Project (AKECOP) and the Special Programme for Development of Capacities (SPDC) of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). For more information contact Dr. John Stanturf, jstanturf(at)fs.fed.us. -- John Stanturf Center for Forest Disturbance Science US Forest Service Southern Research Station 320 Green Street Athens, GA 30602 USA + 706-559-4316 tel + 706-559-4317 fax + 706-202-8066 mobile website: http://sites.google.com/site/johnstanturf/ *“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”* ~ Colin Powell Views and Opinions expressed in this email are solely representative of the sender and do not represent those of the Forest Service or any other agency.