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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Dear Colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Missouri Botanical Garden in partnership with the Center for Plant Conservation is conducting a survey of conservation practitioners on their willingness to participate
in a collaborative research project on rare plant reintroductions. Your time and input would be greatly appreciated. More information on this research project is provided in the survey. Our survey is
<b><i>short</i></b>, consisting of 6 questions that can be completed in <b><i>three minutes or less</i></b>. We are interested in your rare plant reintroductions that were successful or did not work. We truly appreciate your time and participation, which will
help inform and shape the implementation of this project. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">There is a three week window to complete our three minute
</span><a href="http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2759266/Willingness-to-participate-in-research-study-on-identifying-the-correlates-of-success-and-failures-in-rare-plant-reintroductions"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">survey</span></a><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">,
as the survey link is open until June 30, 2016. To avoid running into issues, we recommend that you take the survey using the
<b><i>latest versions</i></b> of your preferred browser including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Safari. Internet explorer users using high security settings may encounter issues when taking our survey. Please consider another
browser if you encounter this issue. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Thank you for your participation!</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Matthew Albrecht and Oyomoare Osazuwa-Peters</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Missouri Botanical Garden<o:p></o:p></p>
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