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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Native Plant Conservation Campaign News: <strong>Patriotic Gardening! – Native Plants Feed Native Wildlife</strong><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>July 4, 2017<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Celebrate the Fourth of July and help out your local wildlife by planting local native plants in your garden!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Development, roads and sprawl consume over 2 million new U.S. acres per year, eliminating the native plant communities that support native wildlife. We have replaced most of our wild places with lawns and gardens dominated by non-native plants.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If all plants were created equal, that would be fine. But they are not, as NPCC Advisor Professor Doug Tallamy reminds us. Native plants have long evolutionary and species-specific histories with local wildlife. The entire food web, from insects to top predators, depends on native plants.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Non-native plants simply don’t measure up.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Tallamy’s research has shown that non-native ornamental plants support 29 times less biodiversity than do native ornamentals. Even modest increases in native plant cover significantly increase the number and species of breeding birds, including birds of conservation concern.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As gardeners and stewards of our land, Tallamy says, we have never been so empowered to help save biodiversity from extinction, and the need to do so has never been so great. All we need to do is plant native plants!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Or as NPCC Affiliate the <a href="http://t.ymlp245.net/wbmadaebmmsazabqjalabm/click.php">Native Plant Society of Texas</a> puts it –<strong> Plant NICE! (Natives Instead of Common Exotics)</strong><o:p></o:p></p></div><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>See the <a href="http://t.ymlp245.net/wbjaxaebmmsatabqjaoabm/click.php">Fourth of July Plant Natives Story in the Tallahassee Democrat</a>.,<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>For more on Doug Tallamy’s research, see his <a href="http://t.ymlp245.net/wbbadaebmmsarabqjaiabm/click.php">Bringing Nature Home</a> website.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>You can also celebrate the Fourth by participating in our democracy. Register to vote. See the <a href="http://t.ymlp245.net/wbhacaebmmsaoabqjazabm/click.php">NPCC Get Out The Vote page</a> for more information. Your vote has never been more important.<o:p></o:p></li></ul><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The NPCC is your national voice for native plants. Please remember <strong><a href="http://t.ymlp245.net/wbwafaebmmsakabqjanabm/click.php">we need your support to protect the native flora of the US this fourth of July.</a></strong>.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>To find out more about gardening with native plants in your area, try your local native plant society or botanic garden.<strong> Go to the NPCC website to find your nearest <a href="http://t.ymlp245.net/wbqacaebmmsapabqjacabm/click.php">NPCC Affiliate</a>!</strong><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong>Please forward this e mail to interested individuals, organizations or networks</strong><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Emil<a href="http://plantsocieties.cnps.org/"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://img.ymlp245.net/09yp_NPCCLogo2017red.jpg"></span></a>y B. Roberson, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://plantsocieties.cnps.org/">Native Plant Conservation Campaign</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>415 531 4439<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:emilyr@plantsocieties.org">emilyr@</a><a href="mailto:emilyr@plantsocieties.org">plantsocieties.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><em>The mission of the Native Plant Conservation Campaign is to promote the conservation of native plants and their habitats through collaboration, research, education, and advocacy.</em><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><a href="http://signup.ymlp245.net/xghwwhjjgmgb">Sign up for NPCC News</a>! </b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/plantsocieties"><b>Like us on Facebook!</b></a> <b><a href="http://t.ymlp245.net/wbwafaebmmsakabqjanabm/click.php">Donate</a>!</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=1 width="50%" noshade style='color:black' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://ymlp245.net/ughwwhjjgsgbmgjsbqggubjwe"><span style='color:black'>Unsubscribe / Change Profile</span></a> <br><a href="http://ymlp245.net/m/"><span style='color:black'>Powered by YMLP</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=1 height=1 id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://t.ymlp245.net/gbmfihuyhskbwep/footer.gif" alt=" "><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>