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<p class=MsoAutoSig align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Center
for Biological Diversity<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>**</span></font></b><i><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-style:
italic'>NATIVE PLANT CONSERVATION CAMPAIGN NEWS</span></font></i><b><font
size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:
bold'> **</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
color=black face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;
color:black'>ÏËÒËÏËÒËÏËÒËÏËÒËÏËÏËÒËÏËÒËÏËÒËÏËÒ</span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A National
Park Service ecologist was kind enough to send in a correction to the alert
regarding federal policies on use of native plants in revegetation projects. The
Forest Service is not the first federal agency to have a national native plant
policy. The National Park Service already has one. See below.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
Park Service guidance regarding “appropriate” plant materials for
reveg/rehabitation projects is very interesting and might make a useful part of
Forest Service definition of “genetically appropriate” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Forwarded
Correction: </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A
small correction on your statement that USFS is the first agency to have<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>a
native plant policy. It has been the nationwide policy of the National<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Park
Service to use native plants/ genetic material for many years.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>National
Park Service Management Policies (2001, the current policy) is<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>very
clear on this issue in many places, but the most concise reference is:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>4.4.2.4.....<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Landscape
revegetation efforts will use seeds, cuttings, or<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>transplants
representing species and gene pools native to the ecological<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>portion
of the park in which the restoration project is occurring".<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Other
places in the policies support this in discussions of management of<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>exotics,
cultural landscape restoration, and genetic resource management<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>principles.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>NOTE: NPCC welcomes corrections, comments
and criticisms of our positions and alerts. Thanks to all who have helped out
in this way! Keep them coming!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'>Emily<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'>____________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'>Emily B. Roberson,
Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'>Director<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'>Native Plant
Conservation Campaign<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'>A Program of the
Center for Biological Diversity<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'>PMB 151 (not p.o.b) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font
size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma;color:purple'>1459 18th St</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><font
color=purple face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=3
color=purple face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:purple'>San Francisco</span></font></st1:City><font color=purple
face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'>, <st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">94107</st1:PostalCode></span></font></st1:place><font
color=purple face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'>Phone: 415 970 0394 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'>Email: </span></font><a
href="eroberson@biologicaldiversity.org"><font face=Tahoma><span
style='font-family:Tahoma'>eroberson@biologicaldiversity.org</span></font></a><font
color=purple face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'>Web: </span></font><a
href="http://www.plantsocieties.org/"><font face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:
Tahoma'>http://www.plantsocieties.org </span></font></a><font color=purple
face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'> </span></font><a
href="www.biologicaldiversity.org"><font face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:
Tahoma'>www.biologicaldiversity.org</span></font></a><font color=purple
face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=purple face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:purple'>The mission of the
NPCC is to promote appreciation and conservation of native plant species and
communities through collaboration, education, law, policy, land use and
management.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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