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Madrono, Vol. 59, No. 4, p. 235, 2012 EDITORS' REPORT FOR VOLUME 59 We are pleased to report the publication of Volume 59 Francisco Bay Area and beyond. We appreciate the of Madrofio by the California Botanical Society (CBS) in submission of a variety of different manuscripts across 2012. This year we were successful in bringing the the spectrum ofbotanical sciences and anticipate continued publication of Madrofio back on schedule and we submissions of novel and exciting work. We also hope to appreciate the efforts of our reviewers and contributors see the Points ofView become a regular feature presenting in this effort. The average turn-around time between initial insightful discussion of issues pertinent to botanists, submission and publication has been reduced to less than managers, and policy makers. eight months and we hope that Madrono continues to be The coming year will be a once in a century event as the viewed as the best outlet for western botanists to publish CBS celebrates our centennial year. The CBS is hosting the their work in a timely fashion, and reach an interested and Centennial Symposium ''Botanical Frontiers: Past and relevant audience. The Madrono page on the CBS web site Future'', at the University of California, Berkeley in April has instructions for online submission ofnew manuscripts, 2013. Please visit the CBS website (calbotsoc.org) for digital versions of recent issues through BioOne, and the details about upcoming centennial celebration events eighty-year index. including field trips to Mount Tamalpais and Mount The efforts of numerous individuals are critical to the Diablo, a symposium, banquet, and graduate student continued quahty and timeliness of the journal. Among meeting. We are hoping that issues 3 and 4 of the these, our Noteworthy Collections editor. Dieter Wilken; upcoming volume will feature papers generated from Steve Timbrook who has long provided the volume Index presentation given at the Centennial Symposium. and Table of Contents; Annielaurie Seifert at Allen Press; We also look forward to the second issue of the 60th — and the enthusiastic support of the CBS executive council. volume a special issue on tanoak (Notholithocarpus Finally, we are extremely grateful to our contributors for densiflonis). This issue will feature papers by a community their interesting and insightful manuscripts, and our ofresearchers studying the distribution, genetics, utihzation reviewers who take time from their busy schedules to and natural history oftanoak. The issue will be a synthesis assess the quality of submitted work. of work presented during a session at the 5th Sudden Oak This year we received 31 new manuscripts and 26 were Death Science Symposium in June 2012 called "What are accepted for publication. Several manuscripts were also we trying to save? Tanoak history, values and ecology". carried over from the previous year. The 59th volume As Editors, we have enjoyed our interactions with New includes 1 1 Articles (including Notes), six Species, contributors and reviewers this past year, and we look four Noteworthy Collections, two Book Reviews, and two forward to an exciting, productive, and momentous We Points of View. are also excited to present in this centennial year for western botany. volume the special issue Flora of the Carquinez Strait Region, Contra Costa and Solano Counties, California by Matt Ritter Dean G. Kelch and Andrew Murdock. This beautifully Richard Whitkus done flora will be useful for western botanists in the San December 2012