Dear IUFRO RG1.09 colleagues, I hope you started the year in good shape. As We agreed in Sweden last June, we need to give more visibility to our group during this term. 1) For a start, I have received the attached questionnaire from a EU project in which they want to collect information (metadata) about close to nature silviculture in mixed forests. Feel free to fill the data, even if it is not complete, and send it. 2) If you have any project information or paper or news about mixed forests or mixed-species plantation you want to share in the RG1.09 IUFRO site/mailing list, please, let me know. Thanks in advance, Best regards Andrés Bravo-Oviedo, PhD RG1.09 coordinator -- Dr. Andrés Bravo-Oviedo Department of Biogeography and Global Change National Museum of Natural Sciences-Spanish National Research Council (MNCN-CSIC) Serrano 115 dpdo. 28006 Madrid (ES) www.mncn.csic.es --- piano, piano, si va lontano ---