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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The proceedings from the UpS Symposium last year are now available. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Approximately 197 people, representing all stakeholder groups, attended this 3-day symposium in Morgantown,
West Virginia. The Proceedings include symposium papers on a wide range of agenda topics; a summary of questions, ideas or concerns </span><span style="font-size:11pt">on the issues of </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Conservation, Commerce, Policy/Management, and Cultivation as they pertain to forest botanicals; as well as key points in the </span><span style="font-size:11pt">Conservation Panel Discussion.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Direct link to the proceedings:  </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1619b37be4e72224?compose=161b64c408992917">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1619b37be4e72224?compose=161b64c408992917</a></span></font><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">If the above does not work, you can find the Proceedings on the UpS homepage: <a href="https://www.unitedplantsavers.org/">https://www.unitedplantsavers.org/</a></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">(on the righthand side of the page)</span><br></p>


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