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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14px;color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left">This Earth Day,<span> </span><em style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14px">Scientific American</em><span> </span>is working with the Arbor Day Foundation to reforest the Mississippi River Valley region.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14px;color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14px;color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14px">THE PROJECT:</strong><br style="box-sizing:inherit">The Arbor Day Foundation is working with public and private partners to reforest areas of Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee. This bottomland hardwood ecosystem is one of the most important critical wetland resources on the North American continent.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14px;color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:center;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14px;color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left">The region is a vital habitat for migratory birds—40% of North America’s waterfowl and 60% of all bird species migrate along the Mississippi River—and numerous plant and animal species, but the wetlands’ original 25 million acres of forestland have been reduced to less than 5 million acres.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14px;color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14px;color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25);font-family:BentonSans-Regular,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacin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<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><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 & Restoration Program </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(12,52,61);font-size:12.8px">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></div></div>
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