[PCA] Norton Brown Herbarium may close

[Becky Erickson]

Also try Crowd Funding or Kickstarter; open a new page on Facebook - explain 
the history, issue and ask for money.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Steve Erickson
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 8:39 PM
To: Sylvan Kaufman
Cc: native-plants at lists.plantconservation.org
Subject: Re: [PCA] Norton Brown Herbarium may close

Public pressure is your best bet, along with the press.

And reach out not just to the obvious (i.e. conservation groups,
including those that are not necessarily focused on veg). Make a
list of the obvious allies, from Natural Heritage to Audubon.
Pick up the phone. Ask friendlies if they know who are good
politicians and reporters to go to. Then expand the circle. Also
go for scientists that are not botanists and ecologists. Get
some cancer researchers to do a sign on letter and make sure it
goes to the press and friendly legislators.

Remember, the squeaky wheel gets the grease and the most
obnoxious annoying loudest wheel gets the most lubrication. This
isn’t science, its straight out politics. And don’t spare
the hyperbole. An herbarium is a library of nature. Surely they
wouldn’t burn a library or fail to repair a leaking library
roof? Finding other funding is not your goal. Your goal should
be to generate enough political heat so the university
administration does its job and finds the funding.



-Steve

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On 10/22/16 at 9:37 AM, sylvan.kaufman at gmail.com (Sylvan
Kaufman) wrote:

>I learned this week from the Director of the Norton Brown Herbarium at
>University of Maryland that it will close unless the Director can find
>$100,000 in operating expenses each year starting in 2017.  This herbarium
>is the state herbarium for Maryland .
>
>Does anyone have advice about how to either find outside funding or
>convince the University that they should fund the operating budget?  I have
>put the message out to several Maryland conservation-related listserves in
>the hopes that people will write letters of support to the Chair of the
>Plant Sciences department and Dean of the College of Agriculture and
>Natural Resources that house the herbarium.
>
>Thanks,
>Sylvan
>
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