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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">If you did not get an email yet inviting you to vote. Check
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</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">to update your information. More information about the Fairchild Challenge art contest is in the email trail below.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:black; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; border-width:1pt; border-style:none; border-color:windowtext; padding:0in">As you may know, organizations, businesses, and local or state government divisions can become
a Plant Conservation Alliance Non-Federal Cooperator. This month we'll be looking to our non-federal cooperators to select an original artwork submitted by grade-school aged children to use on a commemorative</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">
coin celebrating 25 years of PCA (see more below). </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><span style="background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-attachment:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">The
link to the voting form will be sent directly to the primary contact person on file.
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:black; border-width:1pt; border-style:none; border-color:windowtext; padding:0in; line-height:normal">On behalf of the Chair of the PCA Nonfederal Committee, we encourage you to update
your contact information </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:black; border-width:1pt; border-style:none; border-color:windowtext; padding:0in"><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plantconservationalliance.org%2Fuser&data=05%7C01%7Cpatricia_deangelis%40fws.gov%7C121eb56f620a43425ee008da221bae6b%7C0693b5ba4b184d7b9341f32f400a5494%7C0%7C0%7C637859799556875637%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fCZzaA9m9SeVjs3xeShs8f%2FJIgu1sq%2BR4hjDpi18ekk%3D&reserved=0" data-auth="Verified" originalsrc="http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/user" shash="OuwdaSmn5MgvE/oZ4mbKtpePLweylDzwlSFAnS1/H6qPFFAsChvQXdWuOamjh5jvFlYCrlKG+pYCiKf1zng2Q6Ztr01WWfjQ8rZQxrGx6/UKv7KmuCo2YQCB2YGlqIfzr1Bm/rfkm1EIlBLlc99IfWs6Xc8JDb4WE1TWgQCUnR8=" title="Original URL: http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/user. Click or tap if you trust this link."><b><span style="background-image:initial; background-position:initial; background-size:initial; background-repeat:initial; background-attachment:initial; background-origin:initial; background-clip:initial; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">here</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:black; border-width:1pt; border-style:none; border-color:windowtext; padding:0in; line-height:normal">,
or i</span><strong style="font-size:11pt; font-style:inherit; font-variant-ligatures:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit; outline:0px"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></strong><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal"><strong style="font-style:inherit; font-variant-ligatures:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit; outline:0px; line-height:normal">f
your organization </strong></span><em style="font-size:11pt; font-variant-ligatures:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit; font-weight:inherit"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">is not yet</span></b></em><strong style="font-size:11pt; font-style:inherit; font-variant-ligatures:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit; outline:0px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">
a Cooperator</span></strong><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); line-height:normal">, the primary contact at your organization (usually a director or equivalent) can
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plantconservationalliance.org%2Fapply&data=05%7C01%7Cpatricia_deangelis%40fws.gov%7C121eb56f620a43425ee008da221bae6b%7C0693b5ba4b184d7b9341f32f400a5494%7C0%7C0%7C637859799556875637%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=1NO0OMEevHD0MR0lPoFId4AwXNa1jAtP4X1%2FOEEmSFo%3D&reserved=0" data-auth="Verified" originalsrc="http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/apply" shash="rHzv6xJJQXqF+PJPWHRY2h7OSNkic79+YqWkiFvuOuB53gru7vSZd+uJiGTMWJVDD1xDU3gIN1RL3GjMbNZOKrUcZLEiDTPO6yD/RibKOws2t9ivxrI3fh1f8eY/AAvh5i4zoBeJIX0IoOr35xLzCXxyzfQxKMPPzwKX3FvWnPg="><b><span style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal">apply
for Cooperator status by filling out this form</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); line-height:normal">. We look forward to your participation!</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:black"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal"> </span></span></span></p>
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ABOUT THE ART COMPETITION:</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:black; border-width:1pt; border-style:none; border-color:windowtext; padding:0in; line-height:normal"> In collaboration with the Fairchild Tropical
Botanic Garden, the Plant Conservation Alliance celebrates 25 years of advancing the conservation of native plants and their communities with a national art competition depicting iconic U.S. native plants.
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:black; border-width:1pt; border-style:none; border-color:windowtext; padding:0in; line-height:normal">This competition was launched as part of the
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</span><span style="background:white; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal"><i style="line-height:normal">Fairchild Challenge</i></span></a></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); line-height:normal">,
an award-winning, interdisciplinary, environmental science competition designed to engage students of diverse interests, abilities, talents, and backgrounds to explore the natural world. Representatives of the PCA Federal Committee selected
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</i></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); line-height:normal">champions from each of five regions (Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, West) and we will look to our PCA Non-Federal Cooperators
to select the national winner!</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:black"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal"> </span></span></p>
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