Dear Communications and Public Affairs Working Party Colleagues, The 125th IUFRO Congress will soon start on 18 September in Freiburg, Germany. I look forward to seeing those of you who will be able to attend. The working party is conducting a session Connecting People to Forest Science: Innovative Communication Approaches for Delivering Science on 20 September at 1800. Five presentations will be provided followed by a panel discussion. Several posters from the working party will be delivered at the poster session. The working party is also participating in a sub-plenary session organized by the UNECE-FAO Forest Communicator's Network and IUFRO called Communicating with Einstein-about forest facts, feelings and fake news on 20 September 1330 to 1500. I am attaching an agenda for the meeting that will take place on 20 September. I am also attaching a report that I provided the coordinator for our Information and Communication Working Group for reporting at our Division business meeting. For those attending the Congress, we will have a working party social to immediately follow the "Connecting People"... session with location to be determined and announced at the end of the session at 1930 on September 20. Kind regards, [Forest Service Shield] Cynthia Miner Assistant Station Director, Communication and Application Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station p: 503-808-2135 c: 503-701-4054 f: 503-808-2130 clminer@fs.fed.us<mailto:clminer@fs.fed.us> 1220 SW 3rd Avenue, Suite 1400 Portland, OR 97204 www.fs.fed.us<http://www.fs.fed.us/> [USDA Logo]<http://usda.gov/>[Forest Service Twitter]<https://twitter.com/forestservice>[USDA Facebook]<https://www.facebook.com/pages/US-Forest-Service/1431984283714… Caring for the land and serving people This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately.