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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Environmental Concern is hosting the two following Plant ID courses this summer. Please pass this posting along to anyone that you think may be interested.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Update your plant knowledge! Join Environmental Concern in historic St. Michaels, Maryland for these upcoming courses:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <b><u><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Wetland Plant </span>Identification Basics</u></b><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>: </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>July 25-26 <span style='color:red'> **Registration deadline Friday, July 13<sup>th</sup>**</span> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Designed to improve wetland vegetation identification, this two-day field course will focus on both tidal and non-tidal wetland plant identification. Emphasis will be on key field characteristics of select vascular plant families. Instructor-led and group keying will teach the necessary skills for field ID of wetland indicator species.</span> <b>Leslie Hunter-Cario, Instructor Fee: $300</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:3.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'> <u>Grasses, Sedges and Rushes </u></span><u>Identification</u></b><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>: </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>August 13-16</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>A solid understanding of grasses, sedges, and rushes is useful for many wetland, surveying and field positions. This four-day course will focus on identification of these tricky members of the plant kingdom. Participants will leave with an understanding of the families, family subdivisions, and genera of the often confusing species of grasses, sedges, and rushes (wetland and upland).<b> William Sipple, Instructor Fee: $700 </b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Also open for registration – Hydric Soils August 29-30th and Wetland Delineation September 10-14th. </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>To<b> register</b> or gain more information – visit <a href="http://www.wetland.org">www.wetland.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#254061'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#254061'>Wishing you a great weekend,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#400040'>Sarah T. Hilderbrand<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";color:#400040'>Education Director &<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";color:#400040'>Schoolyard Habitat Specialist </span><b><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright","serif";color:#400040'>Environmental Concern Inc. </span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright","serif";color:#400040'>PO Box P</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright","serif";color:#400040'>St. Michaels, MD 21663</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright","serif";color:#400040'>410-745-9620 – office <b>ext. 226</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright","serif";color:#400040'>410-745-3517 - fax<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright","serif";color:#400040'><a href="mailto:dir.educate@wetland.org">dir.educate@wetland.org</a></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright","serif";color:#400040'><a href="http://www.wetland.org/">www.wetland.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Footlight MT Light","serif";color:#1F497D'>Celebrating 40 years of wetland stewardship!</span></b><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Footlight MT Light","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>