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padding:0in">Please save the date for our next Plant Conservation Alliance general
meeting to be held remotely on Wednesday, July 8, 2020, from 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET.</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black">What will you learn?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:
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padding:0in">Based upon the nationally recognized success of the Georgia Plant Conservation
Alliance and the New England Plant Conservation Program, the Plant Conservation Alliance (PCA) model has now been adopted by other states, including Tennessee and Pennsylvania, to successfully implement at-risk plant conservation. A PCA is a network of private
and public entities that agree to work together to leverage expertise and resources for the common goal of conserving the state’s native plants and their habitats, using targeted conservation horticulture and habitat restoration. PCA’s emphasize an informal
structure and building of trust for efficient communication of diverse scientific data and institutional perspectives.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>A major strength of the PCA model, and founded upon trust, is the effective use of trained volunteers (Citizen Science) to perform conservation actions.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Calibri;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">Kristi Allen is the Program Coordinator for the newly formed, Pennsylvania Plant Conservation Network. She holds a Masters
Degree in conservation on social work from the University of Denver, with a Masters Certificate in Animal Assisted Social Work. Prior to joining the PPCN, she co-founded and ran a community garden in Baltimore, Maryland. She has extensive experience with community
organizing and program administration.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Calibri;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">David Lincicome is the Natural Heritage Program Manager with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation,
Division of Natural Areas. He has been involved in Natural Areas stewardship and rare plant conservation with the Natural Heritage Program for 22 years. David was a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Recovery Champion in 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Under David’s leadership, Tennessee Natural Heritage and Natural Areas Programs have played key roles in delisting endangered and threatened plants such as the Eggert’s sunflower and the Tennessee purple coneflower. Collaborating with academia to research
the life-history of 24 federally protected plant species, David has also monitored their populations, brought about the protection of several thousand acres of important plant habitat, and managed that habitat.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>David is also the current chair of the steering committee for the Tennessee Plant Conservation Alliance.</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:
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information about the presentation and accessing the meeting will be made available on our </span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://www.plantconservationalliance.org/meetings" title="https://www.plantconservationalliance.org/meetings"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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Meetings page</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
color:black;background:white">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
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PCA general meetings are open to everyone and follow </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:
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<i>- learn about and get engaged in <span>the</span> Plant Conservation Alliance</i></span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
color:black"></span></p>
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<i>– a topical presentation to explore any of <span>the</span> six focal areas identified in
<span>the</span> </i></span><span style="color:black;
mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/programs_natural-resources_native-plant-communities_national-seed-strategy_pca_Framework_6.11.2020.pdf" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
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National Framework for Progress</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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conservation; education; restoration; research and development; sustainability; and information sharing</span></i><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
color:black"></span></p>
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<i>- all participants are encouraged to share information on national native plant events and activities</i></span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">—This meeting is brought to you by the Plant Conservation Alliance Speaker Organizing Team—</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
font-variant:small-caps">Patricia De Angelis</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"> / U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service <>
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Anne Frances</span> / NatureServe <> <span style="font-variant:small-caps">
Gary Krupnick</span> / Smithsonian Institution <> <span style="font-variant:small-caps">
Ray Mims</span> / U.S. Botanic Garden <> <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Krissa Skogen</span> / Chicago Botanic Garden <>
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Michelle Turton</span> / U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service <> with special thanks to past members of the planning team,
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Megan Haidet</span> / USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service and
<span style="font-variant:
small-caps">Leah Prescott</span> / Chicago Botanic Garden.</span></p>
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