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meeting of </span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:white"><span class="x_x_x_mark5dvvkdtoq" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">2021</span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">--
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to all -- on Wedne</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">sday,</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">September</span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">8</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">,</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">2021,
from 2:00 - 4:00 pm</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span><span class="x_x_x_mark0xo9dvckw" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">ET</span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">. Join
us in welcoming</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 0)"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">U.S.</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:white"><font color="#201f1e"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> Geological
Survey Wildlife Biologist</span></font></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:white"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">,
Sam Droege</span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">,</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:white"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">who
will discuss</span><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(111, 192, 64);background-color:white"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">“Replacing
lawns with native plant communities: the Native Bee Perspective."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)">***PLEASE RSVP TO ATTEND THIS MEETING – SEE BELOW***</span><b><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">What will you learn?</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Replacing lawn with native plants is common practice now. Many of these plants attract pollinators.
Thus pollinator gardens of sorts are generated. However, each flowering plant supports a different population of bee and wasp species. So much so that there is often no overlap in the insect groups using those plants species even within the same season,
same plot. We break down those different plant communities in different ways and talk about creating plantings that offer more complete support rather than simply attracting pollinators.</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 0)"><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">About our</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span><span class="x_x_x_markk33synyou" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Speaker: </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span class="x_x_x_markk33synyou" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Sam Droege grew up in Hyattsville, received
an undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland and a Master’s at the State University of New York – Syracuse. Most of his career has been spent at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. He has coordinated the North American Breeding Bird Survey
Program, developed the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program, the Bioblitz, Cricket Crawl, and FrogwatchUSA programs and worked on the design and evaluation of monitoring programs. Currently he is developing an inventory and monitoring program for native
bees, online identification guides for North American bees at www.discoverlife.org, and with Jessica Zelt reviving the North American Bird Phenology Program.</span></span><br>
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previous</span><span class="x_x_markbua2nxa0i" style="margin:0px"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pres</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">entations</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(111, 192, 64);background-color:white"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"> is</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white"><span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">availab</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white">le
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<span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span class="x_x_x_x_markrr4lrpiys" style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="x_x_x_markta2dqmoto" style="margin:0px"><span class="x_x_markbua2nxa0i" style="margin:0px">The</span></span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"> PCA general
meetings are open to everyone</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_x_markzm2krlx00" style="margin:0px">and</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)">follow </span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">this
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<span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-variant:small-caps;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">>Updates on PCA Activities</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><i>-
learn about</i></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><i><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_x_markzm2krlx00" style="margin:0px">and</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span></i></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><i>get
engaged in </i></span><i><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"><span class="x_x_x_x_markrr4lrpiys" style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="x_x_x_markta2dqmoto" style="margin:0px"><span class="x_x_markbua2nxa0i" style="margin:0px">the</span></span></span></span></i><i><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span class="x_x_x_marky6n93up2o" style="margin:0px">Plant</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_x_markhp56fllkm" style="margin:0px">Conservation</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_x_mark088hr0xtm" style="margin:0px">Alliance</span></span></i><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"> </span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-variant:small-caps;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-variant:small-caps;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span class="x_x_x_markt09l49lxb" style="margin:0px">Invited</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-variant:small-caps;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">Speaker</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><i>–
a topical presentation to explore any</i></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><i><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_x_markuudy2870g" style="margin:0px">of</span></i></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><i> </i></span><i><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"><span class="x_x_x_x_markrr4lrpiys" style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="x_x_x_markta2dqmoto" style="margin:0px"><span class="x_x_markbua2nxa0i" style="margin:0px">the</span></span></span></span></i><i><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"> six
focal areas identified in </span></i><i><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:black"><span class="x_x_x_x_markrr4lrpiys" style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="x_x_x_markta2dqmoto" style="margin:0px"><span class="x_x_markbua2nxa0i" style="margin:0px">the</span></span></span></span></i><i><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"> </span></i><span style="margin:0px;color:black"><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blm.gov%2Fsites%2Fblm.gov%2Ffiles%2Fprograms_natural-resources_native-plant-communities_national-seed-strategy_pca_Framework_6.11.2020.pdf&data=04%7C01%7Cmargaret_park%40fws.gov%7C1e44b0ea817a468ba9c608d95e7b2bf7%7C0693b5ba4b184d7b9341f32f400a5494%7C0%7C0%7C637644705376603343%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=HWvWlscNauieuFtXOjkT8Gc3KkUEF03G%2Fcb7zpGz7KE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="Verified" shash="bOnxknoejU1HlHu5cUcbf34rdNeQw1f/EytvUqkP6QMtyAwk71O3jNHZTqhZuhLCd991l4UtI9WmmE61soCnXJcTpQKPWauM4mtyHryhYfEKSyfHX1xkPO+HS/ZhMLyBCmgbqB3baoem89+faT9YbfPdhLEpeD2keII3aB7VljA=" title="Original URL: https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/programs_natural-resources_native-plant-communities_national-seed-strategy_pca_Framework_6.11.2020.pdf. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-linkindex="4" style="margin:0px"><i><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(5, 99, 193)">PCA National
Framework for Progress</span></i></a></span><i><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)">: collaborative</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_x_markhp56fllkm" style="margin:0px">conservation</span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)">;
education; restoration; research</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_x_markzm2krlx00" style="margin:0px">and</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)">development;
sustainability;</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_x_markzm2krlx00" style="margin:0px">and</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)">information
sharing</span></i><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"> </span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-variant:small-caps;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">>Native</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-variant:small-caps;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_x_marky6n93up2o" style="margin:0px">Plant</span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-variant:small-caps;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">s
Roundtable</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><i>-
all participants are encouraged to share information on national native</i></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><i><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_x_marky6n93up2o" style="margin:0px">plant</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span></i></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><i>events</i></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><i><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_x_markzm2krlx00" style="margin:0px">and</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span></i></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><i>activities</i></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"> </span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"> </span></p>
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</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)">— This meeting is brought to you by</span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span><span class="x_x_x_x_markrr4lrpiys" style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="x_x_x_markta2dqmoto" style="margin:0px"><span class="x_x_markbua2nxa0i" style="margin:0px">the</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span class="x_x_x_marky6n93up2o" style="margin:0px">Plant</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_x_markhp56fllkm" style="margin:0px">Conservation</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_x_x_mark088hr0xtm" style="margin:0px">Alliance</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)">Speaker
Organizing Team— Gary Krupnick (Smithsonian Institution) / Anne Frances (NatureServe) / Ray Mims (U.S. Botanic Garden) / Krissa Skogen (Chicago Botanic Garden) / Michelle Turton (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) / Maggie Park (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)"> </span></p>
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