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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">The Plant Conservation Alliance would like to
thank Margaret O’Gorman for her inspiring presentation on </span><span style="font-size:16px">“Private Sector Involvement in Conservation Action”</span><span style="font-size:12pt">. </span></font><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">For those of you who were unable to attend
please feel free to email Leah Prescott (</span></font><a href="http://lists.plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/native-plants_lists.plantconservation.org" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">lprescott at blm.gov</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">) for a copy.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A few updates and announcements from the March
14^th meeting:<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mid
Atlantic Regional Seed Bank’s Survey, <i><a href="http://www.marsb.org/sosmemberinfo/survey-native-plant-and-seed-use-in-the-eastern-u-s/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">Native
Plant and Seed Use in the Eastern United States</a></i>, is now open! This
survey was developed through a cooperative effort between Seeds of Success East
and University of Maryland Extension. The survey will take approximately 15
minutes to complete. It is open to all professionals that use native plants
and/or seeds in the landscape in any state East of the Mississippi River.<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you are interested in presenting
at a PCA meeting, or would like to suggest future speakers, please send contact
information to Leah Prescott (</span><a href="mailto:lprescott@blm.gov" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">lprescott@blm.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) as we are continuously planning future meetings.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>

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Events:<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SYMPOSIUM:
The 3rd California Chaparral Symposium: Global Change and the Vulnerability of
Chaparral Ecosystems Date/location: Monday, May 14, 2018 8:30 AM  - Wednesday, May 16, 2018 5:30 PM Angeles
Training and Conference Center701 North Santa Anita Avenue Arcadia, CA, 91006. Free,
registration required <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-3rd-california-chaparral-symposium-global-change-and-the-vulnerability-of-chaparral-ecosystems-registration-43458375170" style="color:blue">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-3rd-california-chaparral-symposium-global-change-and-the-vulnerability-of-chaparral-ecosystems-registration-43458375170</a></span><br></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SYMPOSIUM:
Smithsonian Botanical Symposium: "Plants in the Past: Fossils and the
Future". May 18, 2018, National Museum of Natural History and the U.S.
Botanic Garden, Washington, DC. To register and for more information visit <a href="http://botany.si.edu/sbs/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">http://botany.si.edu/sbs/</a> <span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CONFERENCE:
Center for Plant Conservation National Meeting, May 3 – 5, 2018 at Botanical
Research Institute of Texas, 1700 University Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76107. For
more information and to register <a href="https://saveplants.org/events/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://saveplants.org/events/</a>
Early Bird pricing ends April 2^nd.<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We
encourage PCA cooperators to post meetings, webinars, and research on the PCA
listserv as we continue our collaborative mission to protect native plants by
ensuring that native plant populations and their communities are maintained,
enhanced, and restored. Listserv information can be found at <a href="https://pca.sites.usa.gov/get-involved/">https://pca.sites.usa.gov/get-involved/</a><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">***The
next Plant Conservation Alliance meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 11,
2018, our guest speaker will be Gary Krupnick, Head of the Plant Conservation
Unit, Department of Botany at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural
History</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">to
present “The Immense Value of Scientific Collections in Conservation Research”***<span></span></span></p>

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you!<span></span></span></p>





<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#0c343d" style="font-size:12.8px">Leah Prescott</font><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(12,52,61);font-size:12.8px">Bureau of Land Management</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(12,52,61);font-size:12.8px">Plant Conservation Program Data Coordinator</span><span style="color:rgb(12,52,61);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#0c343d">202-912-7232</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Plant Conservation Alliance</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-plant-and-seed-material-development/collection" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Seeds of Success</a></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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