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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">Please save the date for our second Plant Conservation Alliance general meeting for the year 2023! Held remotely and open to all -- on
Wednesday, March 8, 2023, from 2:00 - 4:00 pm ET. Join us in welcoming Dr. Tanisha Williams, Postdoctoral Fellow in Botany, Bucknell University</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted1">Presentation Topic: Protecting rare and endangered plants through university and governmental partnerships</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">About our Speaker:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">Tanisha M. Williams is the Richard E. and Yvonne Smith Postdoctoral Fellow in Botany at Bucknell University. Her dissertation research
examined the impacts of climate change on plant species throughout South Africa. Her postdoctoral research elucidates the role Aboriginal Peoples have on the movement and maintenance of plant species and understanding how biogeographic barriers impact species
distributions in Australia. She also uses genomics methods to update the conservation status of rare plants. Dr. Williams has extensive science communication and policy experience and is the founder of Black Botanists Week, a campaign to amplify diverse voices
in botany. Dr. Williams completed her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut in 2019.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">RSVP by COB Monday, March 6 to elizabeth_krone at fws.gov</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">The meeting login details will be shared with all respondents via email by Tuesday, March 7.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">This meeting will be hosted using Microsoft Teams. You will be able to join the meeting from the web or via the Microsoft Teams app</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">*** More information about the presentation will be available on our PCA Meetings page: https://www.plantconservationalliance.org/meetings</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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learn about and get engaged in the Plant Conservation Alliance</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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a topical presentation to explore any of the six focal areas identified in the </i></span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><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%7Cpatricia_deangelis%40fws.gov%7C3adb3da9016746c2a7c908d9cbc9b276%7C0693b5ba4b184d7b9341f32f400a5494%7C0%7C0%7C637764889401402915%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=d5xugq5JLxx%2FegXdnvbYBhlZMsYS5%2FqKwVJthEglx30%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" class="ContentPasted0"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#0563C1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">PCA National
Framework for Progress</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in" class="ContentPasted0">: collaborative
conservation; education; restoration; research and development; sustainability; and information sharing</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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all participants are encouraged to share information on national native plant events and activities</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" class="ContentPasted0">— This
meeting is brought to you by the Plant Conservation Alliance Speaker Organizing Team— Gary Krupnick (Smithsonian Institution) / Ray Mims (U.S. Botanic Garden) / Andrea Williams (California Native Plant Society) / David Lincicome (Tennessee Department of Environment
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