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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white;font-weight:normal'>Part of the Natural Areas Association’s 2018 Webinar Series – FREE to registrants.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white;font-weight:normal'>Register here: <a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_auI4sXPETw6tW9ja3hTUQw">https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_auI4sXPETw6tW9ja3hTUQw</a><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>Time:</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'> July 18, Noon Eastern</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>Talk:</span></strong><span style='background:white'> How to Use an Open Source Platform to Manage Multiple Cross-Agency Conservation Projects: Introduction to ProjectFirma</span><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>Speaker:</span></strong><span style='background:white'> Matt Deniston, </span></span><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>Founder & Managing Partner</span></em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white'>, Sitka Technology Group<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>This tool would be most useful to larger land management organizations, both public and private, who are managing multiple projects across multiple partner organizations. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The EIP Project Tracker website launched in 2014, designed for legislators seeking to learn about Environmental Improvement Program (EIP) projects. The platform has gone one to win awards, and has proved invaluable in improving data coordination, increasing transparency, and showcasing progress towards attaining compliance with environmental threshold standards.<br style='box-sizing: border-box;user-select: text'><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;user-select: text;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>In 2016, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) and Sitka Technology Group granted an open-source license for the platform, marketed as ProjectFirma™, so other natural areas organizations can leverage the system and prior investment to <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>enhance transparency, reporting, and analysis of their own cross-agency programs.</span></strong> Since issuing the open-source license, <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>19 California resource conservation districts, a coalition of Oregon watershed councils in Oregon, a water fund in Colorado’s Front Range, and the Idaho Soil and Water Conservation Commission</span></strong> have all joined the community.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Attendees of this webinar will:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Receive an overview of the ProjectFirma</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>™</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> platform.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Gain behind-the-scenes information about what it took to launch this online resource.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Learn how California Regional Conservation Districts (RCDs) and others are leveraging significant Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) and TRPA investment to benefit their multi-agency programs.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Experience a live demo of the online platform.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Understand how the open-source license can benefit your organization</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Register here: <a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_auI4sXPETw6tW9ja3hTUQw">https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_auI4sXPETw6tW9ja3hTUQw</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Kate Luce Angell <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Communications and Outreach Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="mailto:kangell@naturalareas.org"><span style='color:#0563C1'>kangell@naturalareas.org</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>412-925-2537<br><br></span><u><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#0563C1'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.naturalareas.org/"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=80 height=56 style='width:.8333in;height:.5833in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D412CD.EA063CE0" alt="Natural Areas-Assocation-COLOR_email"></span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Regitration is now open for the 2018 <br>Natural Areas Conference in Bloomington, IN<br>October 23-25, 2018. <br><a href="https://naturalareas.org/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://naturalareas.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>