<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Date/location: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">November 17, 2017; 8AM-5PM</span><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Roosevelt Hall (State
College)<span></span></font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">What will you learn?<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">As our natural resources and native habitats dwindle, and the
last of our available open spaces become developed, it is incumbent upon
landowners, businesses, municipalities, and the public to collectively provide
both the stewardship and the habitat that local native fauna require to improve
biodiversity, support local wildlife populations, and keep the native
ecosystems upon which we depend healthy and thriving. The production and
incorporation of ecotypic (genetically) native plants into our regional
landscape requires dedication to this progressive effort and many
partners.  The 4th LINPI Native Plant
Symposium, “Flora for Fauna” brings together top plant, restoration, and
wildlife professionals to share their vision, leadership and expertise at this
one day educational event, to encourage the use and stimulate a commercial
supply of ecotypic flora for the benefit of regional fauna.<span></span></font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Speakers: <span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mr. Arthur Haines
(Keynote), </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Director of the Delta Institute of Natural History, and
Author of the "New England Wildflower Society's Flora Novae Angliae: A
Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized Higher Vascular Plants
of New England<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mr. Rusty Schmidt, </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Landscape
Ecologist, Nelson Pope and Voorhis- Melville NY<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr. Susan Barton, </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Professor
and Extension Specialist in the Plant and Soil Sciences Department at the
University of Delaware, Newark, DE. <span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mr. Michael Butts, </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Foundation
& Bulk Seed Manager, Greenbelt Native Plant Center, NYC Parks Department,
Staten Island, NY.<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mr. Tod Winston, </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Program
Manager, Plants for Birds, National Audubon, New York, NY.<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dr. Anand Persad, </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Researcher/Lecturer
and Manager of Arboriculture and Plant Sciences, Davey Institute, Kent, OH.<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ms. Polly Weigand, </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Executive
Director, Long Island Native Plant Initiative Hampton Bays,
NY. Ecologist, Central Pine Barrens Joint Planning and Policy Commission,
Westhampton Beach, NY<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">General Admission $75,
along with several Sponsorship options</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></font></p>

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