<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default">Since January of this year, our network of public and private organizations dedicated to protecting and restoring native plant communities has grown to 346 organizations and agencies, including botanic gardens, universities, educational groups, state agencies, businesses, professional societies, trade associations, native plant societies, and garden clubs. </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">The reach of our network spans nearly all 50 U.S. States and into Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and India. View all 346 Cooperators here: <a href="http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/cooperators" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>plantconservationalliance.org/<wbr>cooperators</a> </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><b>Please join us in welcoming our newest PCA Non-Federal Cooperators! </b><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><u>ARIZONA:</u></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://borderlandsrestoration.org/" target="_blank">Borderlands Restoration</a> began in 2010 as collaboration between Cuenca los Ojos (CLO) and the Biophilia Foundation. It has now grown to include the Hummingbird Monitoring Network, the Bureau of Land Management, the University of Arizona Southwest Borderlands Food and Water Security Program, the Friends of Sonoita Creek, and others. The initiative uses the best of the restoration practices acquired from our partners’ rich experience and seeks to apply these practices throughout the borderlands of southern Arizona and northern Sonora.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><u>CALIFORNIA:</u></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.ssseeds.com/" target="_blank">S&S Seeds</a>' extensive wildland collections of native plant seed and our production fields allow us to offer more than 1000 species including native grasses, wildflowers and shrubs. Our large inventory of collection site identified plant seeds can be utilized by planners to pick a species from a source that fits the specific needs of their project.<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.goldenhour.org/" target="_blank">Golden Hour Restoration Institute</a> is a gateway for learning about the conservation and restoration of nature in a fostering, inspiring, experiential manner. Our mission is to provide engaging science-based instruction and project leadership in order to conserve and restore native species and habitats. Our strategy is to bring small groups of people into the outdoors and complete projects with professional instruction seeded in sound science.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The mission of the <a href="http://www.parksconservancy.org/" target="_blank">Parks Conservancy</a> is to preserve the Golden Gate National Parks, enhance the park visitor experience, and build a community dedicated to conserving the parks for the future. </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We are a community-supported nonprofit organization transforming places—and people—through conservation and improvement of these remarkable national parks.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><u>COLORADO:</u></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For over thirty years <a href="http://www.southwestseed.com/" target="_blank">Southwest Seed</a> has been growing along with the environmental and reclamation movements in order to give our customers the very best in products, information and full service.</font><br></div></div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><u>FLORIDA:</u></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#1155cc" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Wildflower Seed and Plant Growers Association</u></font> A group of Florida wildflower producers, working in conjunction with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and the Florida Wildflower Foundation is developing strategies to increase Florida's native plant acreage and seed production to better meet the demand for native species.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><u>HAWAII:</u></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://laukahi.org/" target="_blank">Laukahi: the Hawai‘i Plant Conservation Network</a> is a recently formalized effort to collaboratively implement the Hawai‘i Strategy for Plant Conservation. Laukahi – translated as “single leaf” in the Hawaiian language - aims to strengthen collaboration among groups working to conserve Hawaiian plants.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><u>MAINE:</u></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://wildseedproject.net/" target="_blank">Wild Seed Project</a> works to increase the use of native plants in all landscape settings in order to conserve biodiversity, encourage plant adaption in the face of climate change, safeguard wildlife habitat, and create pollination and migration corridors for insects and birds. A nonprofit organization, we sell seeds of locally grown native plants and educate the public on seed sowing so that a wide range of citizens can participate in increasing native plant populations.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><u>MICHIGAN:</u><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://oakopenings.org/the-green-ribbon-initiative/" target="_blank">The Green Ribbon Initiative</a> is a shared vision of public and private organizations, landowners and individuals working to preserve enhance and restore critical natural areas in the Oak Openings Region of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><u>NEW MEXICO:</u></div><a href="http://www.curtisseed.com/index.cfm" target="_blank">Curtis & Curtis, Inc. </a>was established in 1956 to supply native grass seeds for a rapidly expanding market in the southwestern United States. CCI’s major emphasis continues to be on native grass seeds and legumes for various applications such as seeding irrigated pastures, range reseeding, mine reclamation and reclamation seeding for highway, pipeline and highline right-of-ways.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><u>NORTH CAROLINA:</u></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://gardens.duke.edu/" target="_blank">Sarah P. Duke Gardens</a> is a premier public garden. Our living collections promote knowledge of the vital connections between people and plants, fostering an appreciation of the natural world, environmental awareness and sustainable practices. It is an indispensable and lasting feature of life at Duke University, accessible to all, providing outreach and respite to a diverse and vibrant local community and visitors from around the world.</div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><u>ONTARIO, CANADA:</u><br></div></div><a href="http://fgca.net/about/" target="_blank">The Forest Gene Conservation Association</a> (FGCA) formed in 1994 and since 1997 has been a non profit, genetic resource management corporation, with individual and group members who are involved in southcentral Ontario forest conservation and management.<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">At </span><a href="http://www.forestsontario.ca/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">Forests Ontario</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">, we’re dedicated to making Ontario’s forests greener. Our ambitious tree planting initiatives, extensive education programs, and decades of community outreach have helped plant millions of trees in the province each year—and it’s through these efforts that we’re bringing our vision for healthier forests to a new generation of stewards, partners, teachers, and donors.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><u>RHODE ISLAND:</u></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://rinhs.org/who-we-are-what-we-do/programs-projects/rhody-native-home/about-2/" target="_blank">Rhody Native™</a> is a native plant initiative of the Rhode Island Natural History Survey (RINHS); in regular collaboration with other organizations, including the URI Outreach Center (URIOC) + the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society (RIWPS). By working directly with local nurseries + garden centers, Rhody Native™ aims to build the state’s capacity to produce genetically diverse + genetically local native plants for landscape design + restoration.<br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Lindsey Riibe</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Plant Conservation Program Assistant</span><br></font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Bureau of Land Management </font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-plant-and-seed-material-development/collection" target="_blank">Seeds of Success</a></div><div><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy" target="_blank">National Seed Strategy</a><br><a href="http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/fish__wildlife_and/plants/pca.htm" target="_blank">Plant Conservation Alliance</a></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life. - Vandana Shiva</font></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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