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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Lisa Tasker [mailto:</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>lisatasker@earthlink.net</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Wednesday,
September 29, 2004</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>11:04 AM</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'Sara Tangren'; 'Ed Guerrant'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b>
'native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [PCA] TV: David
Mizejewski on the Today Show</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sara,</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In case you have not
already come across this document put out by the Colorado Native Plant Society,
here is our attempt at addressing what is “native”. You can
find this document on the website as well <a href="http://www.conps.org/">www.conps.org</a>
. I thought this would be of interest.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Also, I would like to
suggest you contact Dr. Yan Linhart at the </span></font><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>University</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> of </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Colorado</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> as he has done studies
documenting genetic “pollution” from planting non-local natives
planted near their true native counterparts along a roadside in </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Rocky</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Mountain</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>National Park</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> and other studies.
I am going to be lazy and let you look on the U of C website under the EPO
biology department for his contact info. A second contact could be Randy
Kratz, the botanist with the Forest Service for the Rocky Mountain Region as he
is involved with a document addressing genetic issues with regards to
revegetating with native plants (coming out of </span></font><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>California</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>). I believe you
can find more info on this at this link <a
href="http://www.blm.gov/nhp/efoia/ca/Public/IMs/1997/CAIM97-005-P.html">http://www.blm.gov/nhp/efoia/ca/Public/IMs/1997/CAIM97-005-P.html</a>
</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am also very intrigued
with this discussion and always curious to see where it takes people. I
know the seed industry and the horticultural industry in our area (the majority)
are very distressed about all the talk about ecotypes and many lively
discussions have ensued between ecologists and individuals making a living from
selling seeds and plants.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I would be very
interested to see where your hunt for more information takes you. I am
out of time for the moment, but really wanted to make this connection.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks Sara,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Lisa Tasker</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Wearing the hat of the
Co-committee chair for the Colorado Native Plant Society’s Horticulture
and Restoration Committee.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org
[mailto:native-plants-bounces@lists.plantconservation.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Sara Tangren<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Tuesday,
September 28, 2004</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>4:59 PM</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Ed Guerrant<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b>
native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [PCA] TV: David
Mizejewski on the Today Show</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear
Colleagues,<br>
<br>
I am volunteering on a committee in the Chesapeake Watershed that is presently
writing guidelines for conservation landscaping. I would appreciate your input
between now and October 19th, at which time I will make my final
recommendations to the committee.<br>
<br>
People are going to garden. So many people are asking the question is there any
environmental benefit to gardening with natives? But the question we really
need to ask is would it be better for people to garden with natives than with
aliens? Here in the DC metro area the garden aliens have escaped into the parks
and along the roadsides and now even back into the furthermost recesses of our
farm lands, woods and wetlands. Everywhere we look we see old garden favorites
and fewer and fewer natives. Each year the situation is noticeably worse. Where
the damage is not directly due to garden escapes, it is due to diseases or
insects that were imported with alien garden plants. Now we are facing the very
real threat of losing the entire </span></font>Eastern Deciduous Forest to
sudden oak death. It seems to me that this hemorraghing could be slowed if
people were gardening with real, local, native plants. Then at least garden
escapes would not be the harbingers of new invasions.<br>
<br>
I do not understand the argument that if we garden with natives, then 20 years
from now some botanist will not be able to tell if a native plant population is
a garden escape or naturally occurring population. If we don't turn this
invasive plant situation around fast, our hypothetical botanist will have a
hard time finding a native plant population at all. Perhaps because I live in
the DC-Baltimore-Annapolis metro area, I see this as a three alarm fire. It's
past time to sound the alarm.<br>
<br>
One of the questions we face on the committee is in the definition of native
plant. To me the definition that seems most defendable is a plant that occurred
within the local region at the time the Europeans began to explore the Western
hemisphere. To me this is practical because it precedes species introductions
by European settlers, and it dates back to the first written botanical records.
Does anyone have an argument for or against this definition? If you argue that
the date should be the arrival of humans (Native Americans) as they immigrated
from the west, or the previous ice age, how do you propose we make
determinations of what is and isn't native based on that date, given that there
are no records? Why do you feel that date is more appropriate, or is it just
that it is not less appropriate than the date of the first European explorers?
If anyone has a reference for a thought out discussion on this topic, please
pass it on.<br>
<br>
Another question is whether or not a cultivar obtained from a native species is
to be considered a native plant. My thoughts are that while a few cultivars are
really direct clones of wild species, most cultivars have been
"improved" in some way that separates them from the original species.
In either case, the cultivars are clones and do not have the same genetic
diversity that wild plants do. I would prefer to see gardeners start working
with direct descendants of local ecotype stock, so that even our gardens
contain some genetic diversity. The issue and the usual objection I encounter
is that local ecotype material is not commercially available. Anybody got any
thoughts or references on the cultivar topic?<br>
<br>
And this brings me to the next question, which is whether we should garden with
native species that are locally rare. I think not. I particularly hate to see
folks gardening with cultivars of species that are rare in our area. Some
plants that are rare to our area are so beautiful and so compelling that they
are hard to resist. Examples are red turtlehead, false blue indigo and wild
lupine. I think most of you will agree that we should not garden with locally
rare species, but I could use a reference or two of refereed research articles
that have documented damage to the genetic composition of wild populations as a
result of such activities. So pass them along if you have them...<br>
<br>
Thanks for your time.<br>
<br>
Sara<br>
<br>
Sara Tangren, Ph.D.<br>
Chesapeake Native Nursery <br>
Mailing Address Only: 326 Boyd Ave. #2, Takoma Park, MD 20912<br>
Phone 301 580 6237<br>
Fax 301 270 4534<br>
On Jul 19, 2004, at 6:29 PM, Ed Guerrant wrote:</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi All,<br>
Great conversation! The
devil (or angel?) is, of course, in the details. <br>
I'd like to take a step back
and think about what it means for something to have 'conservation' value.
The various points of view represented so far might not be as far apart as it
seems they might be. I see in this discussion at least two different
conservation values being expressed. One is more biological/ecological,
and has to do with whether the particular native plants in home gardens must
directly (and positively) contribute to the genetic continuity of the species
in question: if it doesn't reduce the extinction risk and/or enhance 'genetic
connectedness' of wild populations, it's not conservation. Another 'conservation
value' is more social, and thus contributes what is perhaps a more indirect
(but not necessarily any less real or valuable) benefit to the genetic
continuity of the species in question. Gardening with natives helps (in my
opinion) a wider public begin to see value in native species that is not found
in non native species or horticultural varieties. Ultimately, our success
in conserving wild species (and by extension the habitats on which they
ultimately depend) rests very much on the degree to which our society values
native species. If we as a society feel that it is important to conserve
biodiversity, I think we have a fighting chance. If society at large
doesn't value biodiversity, then there is precious little we as
conservationists can do to significantly slow the loss now underway.<br>
The gardening with natives
phenomenon is potentially of great value in getting more folks interested in
conserving wild diversity, thus moving society to allocate more resources
toward that end. Nevertheless, and getting back to details, gardening
with natives in inappropriate ways (what are they, and who gets to make the
call?) can have serious negative impacts on the genetic integrity of wild
populations.<br>
<br>
Cheers, Ed<br>
<br>
<br>
At </span></font>05:29 PM 7/16/2004 -0400, Bruce Sorrie wrote:<br>
<br>
Grinches all - I completely agree with Robert, and have thought the same way
for many years. Although backyard gardeners may make a small difference
with local wildlife populations (mostly suburban bird species, which are
common), I doubt that gardeners can significantly impact "wilder"
species. Additionally, there are particularly knotty problems with
planting native flora in backyards, as Robert has pointed to - how is a 22nd
century botanist to know that a woodlot population is naturally-occurring or
originally planted in a nearby yard? <br>
To those who suggest that planting additional pops of plants
or captive breeding of animals is a remedy for declining flora and fauna, I say
think carefully before you act. Don't misconstrue my message - I applaud
efforts to prevent the <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>extinction</span></b>
of species and of disjunct and peripheral populations. No one can say
that we'd be better off without them in the gene pool. But backyard
gardening and wildlife plantings are not comparable to preserving genetic
diversity of threatened species. <br>
My biggest knock against the practice is the notion that
"wildlife garden" plants and animals have equal value, or nearly
equal value, as truly wild ones. As any zoo animal or potted plant knows,
to be a real member of a species you must live in natural
habitat. <br>
<br>
Bruce A. Sorrie<br>
North Carolina<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Robert Dana wrote:<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Call me a
grinch, but I'm having a hard time understanding why</span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">anyone</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">thinks that gardening has much to do with
conservation. Most gardens</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">will last only so long as people keep them
going--without continuing</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">maintenance they will quickly be taken over by the
numerous exotic</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">"weeds" that are so comfortable in
human-dominated landscapes.</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">In their</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">often naive enthusiasm (abetted by commercial
vendors) folks are</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">planting "natives" helter skelter, even
well outside their</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">natural</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">ranges. This creates problems for us trying to
conserve the plants </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">where</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">they naturally occur as it becomes more difficult
to deal with the</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">challenge of demonstrating that the occurrence
is really natural</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">and</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">not a garden escape (or an intentional planting).
There is also the</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">specious challenge that since we can plant things
why worry about</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">conserving natural habitats anyway. People rarely
have any idea what a</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">tiny fraction of the species richness of n</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">atural communities is present</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">in gardens (or "restorations"). In my
view, the whole wildlife</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">gardening</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">business just diverts energy from what we really
need to be doing for</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">conservation. </font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">I'll be interested to see whether these issues get
any discussion in</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">the book.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Oh, good luck, Dave!</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Robert</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">*************************************************************</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Robert Dana, Ph.D.</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">MN DNR</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Natural Heritage and Nongame Research Program</font></tt><br>
</span></font><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>500
Lafayette Rd, Box 25</span></font></tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
</span></font><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>St.
Paul</span></font></tt><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span></font></tt><tt><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>MN</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>55155</span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">651 297-2367</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Email:</font></tt><br>
<tt><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><font face="Courier New">robert.dana@dnr.state.mn.us</font><?/color></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">*************************************************************</font></tt><br>
<br>
</span></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Plant
Conservation</span></font></tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><font face="Courier New"><plant@plantconservation.org></font><?/color></tt><br>
</span></font><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>7/16/04</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> 10:40:07</span></font></tt><font
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</span></font><br>
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<br>
<tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>AM
>>></span></font></tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Just FYI.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">---------- Forwarded message ----------</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Date: </font></tt></span></font><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Fri, 16 Jul 2004</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></tt><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>11:39:55</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> -0400</span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">From: David Mizejewski <?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><mizejewski@nwf.org></font><?/color></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">To: David Mizejewski <?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><Mizejewski@nwf.org></font><?/color></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Subject: Today Show this weekend</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Dear Friends and Colleagues - I wanted to let you
know that I'm going</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">to</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">be making my debut on national television this weekend.
I'll be</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">appearing on the weekend edition of the Today Show
this Sunday (7/18)</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">between </font></tt></span></font><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>8:30-9 a.m.</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> to promote my book
and National Wildlife</span></font></tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Federation's Backyard Wildlife Habitat program.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">The book is called "Attracting Birds,
Butterflies and Other Backyard</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Wildlife." It's all about sustainable
gardening, native plants, and</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">of</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">course all of the cool critters (not just birds
and butterflies) that</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">can share your yard. Check it out on NWF's
bookstore at the URL below</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">(it's also available at Amazon and Barnes and
Noble).</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><font face="Courier New">https://m1.buysub.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10701&storeId=10701&productId=14713&langId=-1&parentCategoryId=10067&topCategoryId=10066</font><?/color></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">Wish me luck!</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">Dave</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">David Mizejewski</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">National Wildlife Federation</font></tt><br>
</span></font><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>11100
Wildlife Center Drive</span></font></tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
</span></font><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Reston</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>VA</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>20190</span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">(703) 438-6499</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">fax 703-438-6468</font></tt><br>
<tt><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><font face="Courier New">www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat<?/color>
</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">Bruce A. Sorrie</font></tt><br>
</span></font><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>North
Carolina</span></font></tt><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> Natural Heritage Program</span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
</span></font><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>3076
Niagara-Carthage Rd.</span></font></tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Whispering Pines, NC 28327</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">910-949-2625</font></tt><br>
<tt><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE><font face="Courier New">bsorrie@earthlink.net</font><?/color></tt><br>
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