[PCA] Room Change & No Webinar Access - PCA: Afternoon Bimonthly Meeting for January 8, 2014 (Washington, DC)

[Kwong, Olivia]

Hi everyone,

The Smithsonian is having technical difficulties with the new Q?rius
Theater, so our meeting will be taking place in the Executive Conference
Room instead. I am pasting the updated meeting announcement below with the
directions. There will also be signs at the Museum notifying people of the
room change.

Unfortunately we were unable to get webinar access for the meeting, but our
March meeting at the regular location at NatureServe will have webinar
access. The speaker for the March meeting will be Aviva Glaser of the
National Wildlife Federation who will talk about the Farm Bill's
Conservation Reserve Program and native plants.

*Olivia Kwong*

CPC/PCA

http://www.nps.gov/plants/

okwong at blm.gov

202-912-7232


The Plant Conservation Alliance (PCA) Bimonthly Meeting is an open forum
for anyone interested or working in plant conservation. The meeting is
held every other month in the Washington DC metropolitan area. There is
roundtable for attendees to share relevant events, as well as updates from
each of the PCA working groups and committees. Regular attendees include
representatives from the PCA Federal agencies and from Cooperating
organizations; however anyone is welcome to attend this meeting. Past
meeting summaries and selected presentations are available at
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/fish__wildlife_and/plants/pca/announce.html

Note: The website is undergoing a move to the BLM server and not all pages
have been updated & migrated.

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         PLANT CONSERVATION ALLIANCE GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

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                   Wednesday, January 8, 2014
                              2:00 - 4:00 PM

LOCATION: Executive Conference Room, Smithsonian’s National Museum of
Natural History
              1000 Constitution Ave. NW
              Washington, DC  20004

Take the Orange or Blue Line to the Smithsonian Metro Station. From the
Smithsonian Metro Station, walk across the National Mall to the building
with the round dome housing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural
History. The Executive Conference Room is on the 4th floor of the museum
(above the IMAX theater). To get to Executive Conference Room, you take the
elevators outside the public cafeteria to the 4th floor. There will be
signs posted about the room change as well. There is no public parking
facility at the Smithsonian on the National Mall; on-street parking is
limited and posted times are enforced. There are commercial parking lots
and garages located within several blocks of the museums.

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              AGENDA

              2:00 Introductions
              2:05 Announcements/Communications
              2:25 Updates on Activities
                   - Alien Plant Working Group
                   - Medicinal Plant Working Group
                   - Native Plant Materials Working Group & Seeds of Success
                   - Public Outreach Working Group
                   - Restoration Working Group
                   - MOU
                   - NGO Committee

              3:00 How Do Botanical Collections Advance Conservation Action?
                     Speakers: Peggy Olwell (Bureau of Land Management),
Gary
                     Krupnick (Smithsonian Institution), Megan Haidet
(Seeds of
                     Success), Tom Kaye (Institute for Applied Ecology)

              3:55 Closing Remarks
              4:00 Adjourn

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                          UPCOMING COMMITTEE MEETINGS
                      [2nd Wednesday of alternate months]

                - Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 2:00-4:00 PM
                  TBA - Aviva Glaser (National Wildlife Federation)
                  NatureServe Headquarters, Arlington, VA

                - Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 2:00-4:00 PM
                  TBA
                  NatureServe Headquarters, Arlington, VA

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