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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px">As 2020 draws to a close, </span><span style="margin:0px">I would like to propose a toast </span><span style="margin:0px">to YOU, the </span><span style="margin:0px">Plant Conservation Alliance
collaborators, for </span><span style="margin:0px">your exciting and boundless efforts this year to address the needs of our native plants and their habitats. By challenging people to improve biodiversity in their own backyards, by conducting research so we
can better restore habitat, and by celebrating and appreciating the beauty and wonder of our native plant species, you have made a mark on 2020. Here is to a New Year filled with promise that will build on your efforts by continuing to </span><span style="margin:0px">work
together locally, regionally, and nationally to ensure the healthy persistence of the plant species and ecosystems we hold so dearly.</span><br>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Happy New Year and Best Wishes to You for a Healthy and Productive 2021!</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">Botanist, US Fish & Wildlife Service-Division of Scientific Authority</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">Chair, Plant Conservation Alliance <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; text-align:start; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Federal Committee</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">5275 Leesburg Pike, MS: IA</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Falls Church, VA 22041-3803</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">703-358-1708 x 1753</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">703-358-2276 (FAX)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">Let’s put the right seed, in the right place, at the right time! </span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">United States
</span><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1155CC">National Seed Strategy</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt">
</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#222222">for Rehabilitation and Restoration</span></p>
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