[PCA] Norton Brown Herbarium may close

[Shelly, Steve -FS]

To support the University of Montana Herbarium (MONTU), we formed the Friends of the Herbarium, which now has about 70 members and has been an excellent way to advocate for the importance and viability of the herbarium to the department and university administration.  We saw a need to have a formal organization to support the facility, which at one point was also at risk of being severely curtailed if not closed.  More information:  http://hs.umt.edu/herbarium/friends.php

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From: native-plants [mailto:native-plants-bounces at lists.plantconservation.org] On Behalf Of Sylvan Kaufman
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2016 10:38 AM
To: native-plants at lists.plantconservation.o <native-plants at lists.plantconservation.org>
Subject: [PCA] Norton Brown Herbarium may close

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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