<div dir="ltr">I would just like to point out that this <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">US News & World Report mentions the work of the Chicago Botanic Garden (one of our Plant Conservation Alliance Cooperators) and the Conservation Land Management (CLM) internship program, which started in 2001 in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management and has led to partnerships with National Park Service, the US Forest Service, the US Geological Survey, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. These agencies are among the Federal Member Agencies of the Plant Conservation Alliance.</span><div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">More info on CLM: </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">CLM is "a mentoring program to train and employ science graduates from a wide variety of fields to assist land managers with their huge task of preserving and protecting biodiversity on our public lands." </span><a href="http://www.clminternship.org/history" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.clminternship.org/history</a></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.</div><div>Botanist, Division of Scientific Authority-US Fish & Wildlife Service-International Affairs</div><div>Chair, Medicinal Plant Working Group-Plant Conservation Alliance</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Kwong, Olivia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:okwong@blm.gov" target="_blank">okwong@blm.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/11/12/the-academic-decline-how-to-train-the-next-generation-of-botanists" target="_blank">http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/11/12/the-academic-decline-how-to-train-the-next-generation-of-botanists</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>The Academic Decline: How to Train the Next Generation of Botanists<br></div><div><div>Although federal agencies need educated botanists, only a handful of colleges still have botany programs</div>
<div>By ALLIE BIDWELL</div><div>November 12, 2013</div></div><div>U.S. News & World Report</div><div><br></div><div><div>Krissa Skogen is a conservation scientist at the Chicago Botanic Garden, where she spends her days researching a family of plants known as the evening primrose.</div>
<div><br></div><div>She and her colleagues study different features of more than 100 species of the sunny yellow flowers: How big are their petals? How much nectar do they produce? What combination of compounds in their fragrance attracts the most pollinators?</div>
<div><br></div><div>While it might seem like a particularly nuanced job for only a certain niche, Skogen says understanding the relationship between plants and their pollinators can have a large effect on other sectors.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>See the link above for the full article text.</div>
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