<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font size="4">Plant Conservation Alliance Meeting Summary</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font size="4">May 11, 2016</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">L. Peter Boice, Deputy Director of Natural Resources for the Department of Defense spoke on Plant & Pollinator Management including policy and some specific plant and pollinator related projects; a PDF of his presentation is attached.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Patricia De Angelis gave a brief update on CITES. Email <a href="mailto:patricia_deangelis@fws.gov" target="_blank">patricia_deangelis@fws.gov</a> for more information.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Seeds of Success Trainings are coming up.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-left:1in"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">o<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Next week, May 17 – 19 in Fort Collins, CO. Sign up via DOI Learn.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-left:1in"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">o<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">June 6, SOS East in NC</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-left:1in"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">o<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">June 13, Conservation & Land Management Interns in Chicago</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">NatureServe is working on a plant prioritization project for the North Atlantic LCC, updating global and national rankings and providing regional rankings for rare, endangered and sensitive species.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Institute for Applied Ecology will be hosting the National Native Seed Conference February 13 – 16, 2016 in Washington, DC. Updates will be posted to the website: <a href="http://nativeseed.info/" target="_blank">http://nativeseed.info/</a> Contact Rob Fiegener - </span><a href="mailto:rob@appliedeco.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">rob@appliedeco.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">for more information.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">US Fish and Wildlife Service is developing an endowment to protect the threatened and endangered native plants of Florida – over 500 species.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Center for Plant Conservation has moved its National Headquarters to Escondido, CA to partner with San Diego Zoo Global. Website: <a href="http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/" target="_blank">http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/</a></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The 2016 Natural Areas Conference will be in Davis California, October 18 – 21. Peggy Olwell will be hosting a session on Pollinators and is looking for speakers. If you would like to present, contact Lindsey Riibe - </span><a href="mailto:lriibe@blm.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">lriibe@blm.gov</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> for more information. Conference website: </span><a href="https://naturalareas.org/conference" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://naturalareas.org/conference</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Elizabeth Rieben is helping to develop a </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Communications Plan for the </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">National Seed Strategy. She plans to have it completed in June.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The IUCN World Conservation Congress will be held in Hawai’i September 1 – 10, 2016. This is the first time it will be held in the USA and will they be initiating a new IUCN Species Survival Commission Specialist Group: SEED CONSERVATION! More information: <a href="https://portals.iucn.org/congress/session/10327" target="_blank">https://portals.iucn.org/congress/session/10327</a></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-left:1in"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">o<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">There may be opportunities for poster presentations in the USA Pavilion. Submissions are due in July.</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-left:1in"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">o<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">BLM has a poster accepted on the youth and seed collecting program- Peggy Olwell and Betsy Wooster</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-left:1in"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">o<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Institute for Applied Ecology will have a poster with the International Society for Seed Science and will be promoting the National Seed Strategy – Rob Fiegener</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-left:1in"><br></p><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><u><font size="4"><b>Upcoming Plant Conservation Alliance Committee Meetings</b>: </font></u></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;text-align:-webkit-center">Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 2:00 - 4:00 PM<br>Main Interior Building, Washington, DC<br>TBD</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;text-align:-webkit-center">Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 2:00 - 4:00 PM<br>Main Interior Building, Washington, DC<br>Wesley M. Knapp, Ecologist/Botanist, Maryland Department of Natural Resources</p><p></p><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:12px">Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 2:00 - 4:00 PM</span></font></div><div style="text-align:center">Main Interior Building, Washington, DC</div><div style="text-align:center">Healy Hamilton, Chief Scientist & Vice President for Conservation Science, NatureServe</div><div class="" style="margin:2px 0px 0px"><div id=":nq" class="" tabindex="0"><img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">Lindsey Riibe</span><div style="font-size:small">Conservation and Land Management Intern</div><div style="font-size:small">Bureau of Land Management</div><div style="font-size:small">Washington Office, DC</div></div></div>
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